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| The students of the IUEE (as above), sympathizing with many of the faculty in exile, organized two study tours of the ]. The fist one went to ] and ], the second to ] and ]. He attended both. The tour of the Ukraine gave him insight into the degree of hostility via-à-vis Moscow, and the signs of dissidence in the leadership of the ]. In Moscow, student from the highest school of politics and administration leaked the shape of the Army: suicides and an organizational incapacity. Moving on to ], the dissent was quite open, and Bain saw the opportunity of a break-apart of the Communist Block. In a meeting with the then dissident Professor ] the option of letting East Germans out of Hungary was discussed as a means of bringing the Wall down. Bain also met with ] leaders, and learned that recently NGOs in Hungary were allowed to be financed internationally, an open door for the West to finance dissident organizations. He went to ] to meet leaders of the democratic opposition, in an underground Café called "U Kafku" and further discussed the plan of letting East Germans through ] into Hungary. He was followed in Prague by the police, and in a jest of defiance took them on a 14 kilometer walk around ]. On his return to the Europa Hotel, the receptionist called him into the lift and explained that the police had been through his belongings. He had to leave. Bain escaped from Prague due to an ] pass, he was able to get into a train without buying a ticket (he would have been noticed at the ticket counter). On the train, stooges noticed him but it was too late the train had already crossed the border into Germany. In Munich, he was hidden by a friend for 5 days, while the German television showed pictures of him as accused of common crimes of murder in ]. He escaped from Munich thanks to former Hungarian exiles, in a freight compartment, then from ] to ] in a toilet compartment. On arriving in Geneva he went to the house of Professor . Here he discussed all the plans of the dissidence to bring down the Wall, and subsequently hid for a month in a flat in neighboring France, in Annemasse. His research report signed with the pseudonym "Orange" was shared with , Secretary General of the European Commission. It was also shared with the UK ] (FCO), as well as the US ] (CIA). It is said to be one of the key documents that alerted the West of changes in the East, and triggered of a change in their foreign policy towards the East and Central Europe. | The students of the IUEE (as above), sympathizing with many of the faculty in exile, organized two study tours of the ]. The fist one went to ] and ], the second to ] and ]. He attended both. The tour of the Ukraine gave him insight into the degree of hostility via-à-vis Moscow, and the signs of dissidence in the leadership of the ]. In Moscow, student from the highest school of politics and administration leaked the shape of the Army: suicides and an organizational incapacity. Moving on to ], the dissent was quite open, and Bain saw the opportunity of a break-apart of the Communist Block. In a meeting with the then dissident Professor ] the option of letting East Germans out of Hungary was discussed as a means of bringing the Wall down. Bain also met with ] leaders, and learned that recently NGOs in Hungary were allowed to be financed internationally, an open door for the West to finance dissident organizations. He went to ] to meet leaders of the democratic opposition, in an underground Café called "U Kafku" and further discussed the plan of letting East Germans through ] into Hungary. He was followed in Prague by the police, and in a jest of defiance took them on a 14 kilometer walk around ]. On his return to the Europa Hotel, the receptionist called him into the lift and explained that the police had been through his belongings. He had to leave. Bain escaped from Prague due to an ] pass, he was able to get into a train without buying a ticket (he would have been noticed at the ticket counter). On the train, stooges noticed him but it was too late the train had already crossed the border into Germany. In Munich, he was hidden by a friend for 5 days, while the German television showed pictures of him as accused of common crimes of murder in ]. He escaped from Munich thanks to former Hungarian exiles, in a freight compartment, then from ] to ] in a toilet compartment. On arriving in Geneva he went to the house of Professor . Here he discussed all the plans of the dissidence to bring down the Wall, and subsequently hid for a month in a flat in neighboring France, in Annemasse. His research report signed with the pseudonym "Orange" was shared with , Secretary General of the European Commission. It was also shared with the UK ] (FCO), as well as the US ] (CIA). It is said to be one of the key documents that alerted the West of changes in the East, and triggered of a change in their foreign policy towards the East and Central Europe. | ||
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| ⚫ | In the summer of 1991, Bain led a group of young European enthusiasts from different EU member states during a 2 day meeting in Romainmôtiers, Switzerland on the theme “An EU Constitution”. The same year he initiated a process in the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (Currently Corvinus University) that led to the attribution of a Doctorate Honoris Causa to the President of the EU Commission Jacques Delhors (attributed in 1994). He is a member of the UK European Movement and the French Mouvement Européen. He has taken part in the UK Liberal Democrats Brussels Chapter, and has been a close friend of UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in his European years. In 1993, as shadow director projects for FIDESZ, in the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, he revised the then refused Hungarian application for the EU. His draft was approved by both the EU Parliament and the EU Commission, paving the way for an accession to the EU for Hungary in the first round of enlargement of the EU. He has held several postings with the EU, including as a diplomat in New Delhi, India. | ||
| Dyslexia |
==Dyslexia== | ||
| As soon as 1988 he realized to potential of IT for the dyslexic, in particular the possibility of correcting himself before printing. This enabled him to draft his seminar papers in Geneva University IUEE. Later on, in 1991-1992 he worked with Microsoft managers in Budapest to determine how to create grammar correctors in MS Word. The managers though that this would be impossible because of the infinity of meanings in the language, but Bain established the relationship between a database structure of language rules (encoded), and the scientific structural linguistic approach developed in Nanterre University. The matter was taken up as a research project in Harvard University, and finally when it came to be in MS Word, the grammar corrector logic enabled Microsoft to also improve the spelling correctors. Thereafter Bain has been a public opinion maker in Hungary, with a series of articles published in the Budapest Week, and the Budapest Sun. | As soon as 1988 he realized to potential of IT for the dyslexic, in particular the possibility of correcting himself before printing. This enabled him to draft his seminar papers in Geneva University IUEE. Later on, in 1991-1992 he worked with Microsoft managers in Budapest to determine how to create grammar correctors in MS Word. The managers though that this would be impossible because of the infinity of meanings in the language, but Bain established the relationship between a database structure of language rules (encoded), and the scientific structural linguistic approach developed in Nanterre University. The matter was taken up as a research project in Harvard University, and finally when it came to be in MS Word, the grammar corrector logic enabled Microsoft to also improve the spelling correctors. Thereafter Bain has been a public opinion maker in Hungary, with a series of articles published in the Budapest Week, and the Budapest Sun. | ||
| ⚫ | ==Pro European Militancy== | ||
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| ⚫ | In 1988, Bain took the French Ministry of Education to court for discrimination on the ground of nationality after his refusal to take the CAPES (secondary school teachers’ exam). He won his case in 1992, opening the secondary school exams to foreign European nationals in several countries of the EU. In 1991, he set up the trainee’s newsletter “Le Piston” (nepotism) in the European Commission, and denounced several scandals. For this, he was tortured by the French DST for more than two hours. In Budapest, he set up a Rugby club called the “Exiles RFC”. He is currently a fervent supporter of Femen. | ||
| ⚫ | In the summer of 1991, Bain led a group of young European enthusiasts from different EU member states during a 2 day meeting in Romainmôtiers, Switzerland on the theme “An EU Constitution”. The same year he initiated a process in the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (Currently Corvinus University) that led to the attribution of a Doctorate Honoris Causa to the President of the EU Commission Jacques Delhors (attributed in 1994). He is a member of the UK European Movement and the French Mouvement Européen. He has taken part in the UK Liberal Democrats Brussels Chapter, and has been a close friend of UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in his European years. In 1993, as shadow director projects for FIDESZ, in the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, he revised the then refused Hungarian application for the EU. His draft was approved by both the EU Parliament and the EU Commission, paving the way for an accession to the EU for Hungary in the first round of enlargement of the EU. He has held several postings with the EU, including as a diplomat in New Delhi, India. | ||
| ==Pro European militancy== | |||
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==Alternative activism== | ||
| ⚫ | In 1988, Bain took the French Ministry of Education to court for discrimination on the ground of nationality after his refusal to take the CAPES (secondary school teachers’ exam). He won his case in 1992, opening the secondary school exams to foreign European nationals in several countries of the EU. In 1991, he set up the trainee’s newsletter “Le Piston” (nepotism) in the European Commission, and denounced several scandals. For this, he was tortured by the French DST for more than two hours. In Budapest, he set up a Rugby club called the “Exiles RFC”. He is currently a fervent supporter of Femen. | ||
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Thomas Bain (Orange)
Thomas R. W. Bain was born in London in 1964. He is known for intelligence work done behind the Iron Curtain in 1988 under the pseudonym "Orange". He is currently Dean (education) at the International School of Project Management in New Delhi, India.
Early Life
Bain lived in Kingston upon Thames and near Southampton while attending prep school at Highfield School (Liphook, Hampshire). He suffered from Dyslexia, and made slow progress in the educational system. He was put back two full years in study when he moved to France, where his dyslexia was disregarded in a small town school in the South-West of France (Monsempron-Libos). Later in the suburbs of Paris he was put into the Saint Erambert School (which had collaborated with the Germans during the WWII) "to discipline him". He revolted and was expelled for listening to and discussing AC/DC. In 1982 he moved to Spain, and took up Hispanic Studies in a small private college in Salamanca. Upon return to France he passed the exams to get into the state educational system, a school then called Lyceé Claude Debussy, now called Lyceé Jeanne d'Albret. He excelled and was made Délégué. He qualified for the Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles. He accomplished his Khâgne in the Lyceé Jules Ferry, one of the topmost (Place Clichy, Paris). At the same time he accomplished his BA Humanities in the radical Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. Bain then migrated to Switzerland, where he accomplished his M. Phil in European Studies at the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Europeennes (IUEE), the institut was founded by Denis de Rougemont, and had a federalist outlook. Later on he attended the doctoral seminars of Wlad Godzich in the University of Geneva.
April 1988
The students of the IUEE (as above), sympathizing with many of the faculty in exile, organized two study tours of the Soviet Union. The fist one went to Kiev and Moscow, the second to Budapest and Prague. He attended both. The tour of the Ukraine gave him insight into the degree of hostility via-à-vis Moscow, and the signs of dissidence in the leadership of the Komsomol. In Moscow, student from the highest school of politics and administration leaked the shape of the Army: suicides and an organizational incapacity. Moving on to Budapest, the dissent was quite open, and Bain saw the opportunity of a break-apart of the Communist Block. In a meeting with the then dissident Professor Géza Jeszenszky the option of letting East Germans out of Hungary was discussed as a means of bringing the Wall down. Bain also met with FIDESZ leaders, and learned that recently NGOs in Hungary were allowed to be financed internationally, an open door for the West to finance dissident organizations. He went to Prague to meet leaders of the democratic opposition, in an underground Café called "U Kafku" and further discussed the plan of letting East Germans through Czechoslovakia into Hungary. He was followed in Prague by the police, and in a jest of defiance took them on a 14 kilometer walk around Prague. On his return to the Europa Hotel, the receptionist called him into the lift and explained that the police had been through his belongings. He had to leave. Bain escaped from Prague due to an InterRail pass, he was able to get into a train without buying a ticket (he would have been noticed at the ticket counter). On the train, stooges noticed him but it was too late the train had already crossed the border into Germany. In Munich, he was hidden by a friend for 5 days, while the German television showed pictures of him as accused of common crimes of murder in Czechoslovakia. He escaped from Munich thanks to former Hungarian exiles, in a freight compartment, then from Zurich to Geneva in a toilet compartment. On arriving in Geneva he went to the house of Professor Dusan Sidjanski. Here he discussed all the plans of the dissidence to bring down the Wall, and subsequently hid for a month in a flat in neighboring France, in Annemasse. His research report signed with the pseudonym "Orange" was shared with Emile Noel, Secretary General of the European Commission. It was also shared with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), as well as the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It is said to be one of the key documents that alerted the West of changes in the East, and triggered of a change in their foreign policy towards the East and Central Europe.
Dyslexia
As soon as 1988 he realized to potential of IT for the dyslexic, in particular the possibility of correcting himself before printing. This enabled him to draft his seminar papers in Geneva University IUEE. Later on, in 1991-1992 he worked with Microsoft managers in Budapest to determine how to create grammar correctors in MS Word. The managers though that this would be impossible because of the infinity of meanings in the language, but Bain established the relationship between a database structure of language rules (encoded), and the scientific structural linguistic approach developed in Nanterre University. The matter was taken up as a research project in Harvard University, and finally when it came to be in MS Word, the grammar corrector logic enabled Microsoft to also improve the spelling correctors. Thereafter Bain has been a public opinion maker in Hungary, with a series of articles published in the Budapest Week, and the Budapest Sun.
Pro European Militancy
In the summer of 1991, Bain led a group of young European enthusiasts from different EU member states during a 2 day meeting in Romainmôtiers, Switzerland on the theme “An EU Constitution”. The same year he initiated a process in the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (Currently Corvinus University) that led to the attribution of a Doctorate Honoris Causa to the President of the EU Commission Jacques Delhors (attributed in 1994). He is a member of the UK European Movement and the French Mouvement Européen. He has taken part in the UK Liberal Democrats Brussels Chapter, and has been a close friend of UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in his European years. In 1993, as shadow director projects for FIDESZ, in the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, he revised the then refused Hungarian application for the EU. His draft was approved by both the EU Parliament and the EU Commission, paving the way for an accession to the EU for Hungary in the first round of enlargement of the EU. He has held several postings with the EU, including as a diplomat in New Delhi, India.
Alternative activism
In 1988, Bain took the French Ministry of Education to court for discrimination on the ground of nationality after his refusal to take the CAPES (secondary school teachers’ exam). He won his case in 1992, opening the secondary school exams to foreign European nationals in several countries of the EU. In 1991, he set up the trainee’s newsletter “Le Piston” (nepotism) in the European Commission, and denounced several scandals. For this, he was tortured by the French DST for more than two hours. In Budapest, he set up a Rugby club called the “Exiles RFC”. He is currently a fervent supporter of Femen.