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1960s & early 1970s : (BROCKPORT, NY : SUNY : THE FUTURE US MILITARY CHAPLAIN ABDUL RASHEED MUHAMMAD IS DRAWN TO 'ISLAM' THROUGH THE INFLUENCE OF "ELIJAH MUHAMMED," LEADER OF THE "NATION OF ISLAM" MOVEMENT) [Future US Military chaplain Abdul-Rasheed] Muhammad was born to Baptist parents in Buffalo, N.Y. Like many black students on campus in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he came to Islam, at the State University of New York at Brockport, through the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam movement in America. He graduated with a degree in anthropology and later earned master's degrees in counseling education from San Diego State University and social work from the University of Michigan. In subsequent jobs he dealt with a steady stream of juvenile offenders and troubled adults. Although he enjoyed the healing aspect of his work, Muhammad soon came to realize that his counseling lacked an element so essential to his own life: spirituality. "Working with alcoholics and drug addicts for many years, I became disenchanted with not being able to integrate the spiritual dimension in treatment and in intervention," he says.
"Chaplains have permission to do that. In fact, when people come in my office, whether they're an alcoholic or a wife abuser or a child abuser or whatever, they expect to walk out of here with me telling them something about what God says about that."
--------- By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Staff Writer, NANDO.com via AMAF and VAC (American Muslim Armed Forces & Veteran's Affairs Council web site), Original Article: http://search.nando.net/newsroom/nao/nc/082596/nct_6108.html

"Chaplains have permission to do that. In fact, when people come in my office, whether they're an alcoholic or a wife abuser or a child abuser or whatever, they expect to walk out of here with me telling them something about what God says about that."

A big part of intelligence work is being able to find people who can be compromised: blackmailable incidents in the person's past, burdensome debts, marriage problems that would make the person vulnerable to seduction by an agent.

What better intelligence collection post by an enemy agent than "chaplain"?