11-01-2011, 11:32 AM
In the immediate aftermath of the take-down of Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, an agreement was made between the US and Yeltsin - probably a combination of cash and vodka having changed hands in a Swiss vault - the US were authorized to enter the secret archives of the KGB and winnow out any material they wished - the idea being, I believe, to make sure that ay material embarrassing to the US would be retrieved, so that it couldn't be sold, or released, to their embarrassment.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14