Yea, tell me about it. Geeze.
Well, as far as the Bill Franks CIA plant story/rumor.....I never bought it. Besides....He had been in the SO at that time over 2 DECADES....at least. How could the Cult have been so stupid, if he was a plant to not have found out sooner.....was my way of looking at it. It was a ridiculous rumor IMO.
Plus....his former wife, Jeanne Franks....was hailed at a big Event at the Shrine to have "opened" Japan to the Cult....and was running the new org there.
How could Bill have been a CIA plant....and Jeanne not known about it?
To me it was a foot bullet....thought I didn't know that term back then. The Cult in my estimation certainly shot themselves in the foot with that rumor. (but I continued in the Cult fog....)
EDITED: Another rumor I heard, years later, was that Franks was "selling used cars," somewhere in Northern Cali......
Of course...that fits right in to the story of him being a CIA agent plant....LOL LOL LOL