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Date: 2008-05-16 06:24 pm (UTC)What the brief summary you've given here of this Secret Invasion sounds very much to me like the whole Cold War "the person sleeping next to you could be a secret Communist" paranoia that was translated into hundreds of SF plots from various versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters; the classic undisguised expression is of course the original version of The Manchurian Candidate.
It seems to me that since 9/11, this paranoia has been reworked to include the idea of secret sleeper cells of terrorists all over the US, and may be (in my opinion as an outside observer of the US) part of the reason for the astonishing strength of the canard that Barack Obama is a "secret Muslim" who would destry the US if elected.
Just a thought.