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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 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 state exams to get into the state educational system, a school then called Lyceum Claude Debussy, now called Lyceum Jeanne d'Albret. He excelled and was made Head Boy. He qualified for the Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles. He accomplished his Khagne in the Lyceum Jules Ferry, one of the topmost. 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 insitut was founded by Denis de Rougemont, and had a federalist outlook. Later on he attended the doctoral seminars of Wlad Godzic in the University of Geneva.