J. Edgar Hoover person
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Claims (22)
CIA spied_on
J. Edgar Hoover documented
“Hoover even suspected Dulles of secret communist leanings, a delusion as fantastic as any of McCarthy's wild claims. At least one high-ranking CIA official, Robert Amory, the agency's top intelligence analyst, was convinced that the FBI had…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 37:12
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Lee Harvey Oswald documented
“destroyed. But J. Edgar Hoover himself listened to them immediately after the assassination, and the FBI chief informed LBJ that the voice on the tapes was not Oswald's. Both men knew the stunning significance of fake audio tapes by the CIA…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24 @ 24:55
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Jorge Eduardo Galindez documented
“Dulles blandly replied that the CIA had no jurisdiction on American soil, so the congressman's inquiry about the case was better directed to the FBI. Galendez's case, in fact, was turning into a major source of friction between the two fede…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 33:46
J. Edgar Hoover exposed
John Frank documented
“Hoover was further enraged by the suspicious disappearance of Gerald Murphy and a new round of embarrassing political fallout from the case. To make matters worse, the FBI soon tied John Frank to the crimes. A man who was not only a former …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 34:15
J. Edgar Hoover exposed
Jorge Eduardo Galindez documented
“As was common when Hoover sought revenge in Washington's political wars, he leaked much of the Galendez story to the press. In late February, Life magazine ran a dramatic version of the affair under the headline, A Story of a Dark Internati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 34:41
J. Edgar Hoover exposed
George H.W. Bush book_quoted
“just before the November election. Quote, The Nation magazine, in its current issue, quotes a memo from November 29, 1963, from J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau's director at the time, to State Department about the assassination of JFK. In the m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 44:01
J. Edgar Hoover member_of
Freemasons host_asserted
“Most Masons are totally benign. But the founder of the FBI, of course, was J. Edgar Hoover, and he was a devout, very active member of the Scottish Rites Freemasons, as were the vast majority of the people he appointed early on. And I don't…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 1:09:16
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Allen Dulles documented
“Taking on McCarthy at the height of his power was a daunting task, even for the director of the CIA. Dulles knew that, despite J. Edgar Hoover's growing doubts about McCarthy, the FBI still fed him a stream of damaging information about his…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 36:45
J. Edgar Hoover member_of
Freemasons documented
“little bit of a prelude. Scottish Rites Freemasons are really interesting. Remember we was talking about you hide a secret society inside a secret society? The Scottish Rites people are very, very hardcore, very much into their Puritanism a…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 1:05:04
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Frank Wisner host_asserted
“He had turned up, Hoover had turned up old news that Beadle Smith had earlier checked out and found groundless. But it turned out that the information had been provided by Nicholas Malaxa. Oh, that's when they were in the FBI. So the FBI ke…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:02:49
J. Edgar Hoover covered_up
USAID book_quoted
“were the last to change. But change itself, at least orderly change, depended on the stability, and Washington was not prepared to underwrite what he had in mind. If Engel was not finding much support at the State Department, he didn't find…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 34:02
Roy Cohn covered_up
J. Edgar Hoover host_asserted
“And just looking to his mentor, Roy Cohn was. The Blue Room, the Plaza, who was, I mean, literally, Roy Cohn was involved in the Lansky group, the kosher-nostra blackmailing Hoover, who was a cross-dressing homosexual in the first place. Th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:29:00
J. Edgar Hoover covered_up
Joseph McCarthy host_asserted
“He once assaulted Drew Pearson in a cloakroom of an exclusive club, pinning the muckrakers' arms behind him and kneeing him in the balls. Vicious payback for all the columns Pearson had written about McCarthy's career. And yet, backed in th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 7:57
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Robert Amory Jr. host_asserted
“Hoover even suspected Dulles of secret communist leanings, a delusion as fantastic as any of McCarthy's wild claims. At least one high-ranking CIA official, Robert Amory, the agency's top intelligence analyst, was convinced that the FBI had…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 37:12
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
J. Edgar Hoover host_asserted
“James Angleton liked to say that any intelligence service that doesn't keep a close eye on its own government wasn't worth its own salt. Penetration begins at home, he said. The CIA counterintelligence chief was rumored to occasionally show…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 37:42
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Allen Dulles host_asserted
“I'm trying to tug on that thread for a little bit here and trying to figure out who in the world that might have been. FBI director. He had a very, very thick file on Allen Dulles. He had a file on both of the Dulles brothers, but the file …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 58:59
J. Edgar Hoover covered_up
John L. Lewis host_asserted
“for financial support. Lovestone also encountered problems with Joseph McCarthy in taking interest in his past and his conspiratorial work methods and had initiated an investigation. McCarthy was stopped by J. Edgar Hoover, who most likely …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 48:33
J. Edgar Hoover exposed
Robert Kennedy assassination documented
“J. Edgar Hoover tells LBJ the headline, which is, but our agents in Dallas who have spoken to Oswald at the interrogation and who have seen him have looked at the photos of this man and have listened to the tapes and it's not the same man. …”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:30:04
Murchison family member_of
J. Edgar Hoover host_asserted
“Okay. There's just so many connections here, you know, including, I mean, you even covered the grassy knoll with Kennedy. It's interesting how kind of in the background of all of this, there's the Murchison family who, if I recall correctly…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:00:08
J. Edgar Hoover member_of
Murchison family host_asserted
“Interesting. Yes, I thought it was when I ran across it and went, what the heck? Nobody's talking about the LBJ connections to the Murchison family as well as Hoover's connections. I searched the book Devil's Chessboard for it. The Murchiso…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:07:50
J. Edgar Hoover member_of
Republican Party host_asserted
“By 1953, McCarthy's anti-red witch hunt was in full blaze, torching the careers of distinguished senators, statesmen, and even beginning to flicker ominously outside the White House itself. The FBI's Hoover, long a powerful supporter, was g…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 5:27
J. Edgar Hoover member_of
Murchison family host_asserted
“And there were allegations that they threw a huge party the night before, you know, Kennedy was assassinated. Yes. And who was implicated? The mafia, the CIA, and the Cuban exiles. J. Edgar Hoover attended that party, allegedly. And, you kn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:08:03
Mentions (65)
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Sort of sound like there was someone who went over the Clintons recently in the last few years that was found deceased. Yeah, I think the Clintons got their pointers from LBJ. Yeah, because they got shot three times and then he hung himself…
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In May of 1962. I just can't understand how one can fire five shots at himself. I don't know how they can write that with a straight face. They didn't. They did it because they were paid to do it or blackmailed into doing it. All right. So …
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A phone call the day after the assassination from J. Edgar Hoover to Lyndon Johnson. Now, most of these phone calls were recorded. We've got some great recorded phone calls. But this particular phone call, the original recording of it has b…
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But the part that is transcribed is really interesting. And that is where Johnson asks Hoover, he goes, what about Mexico City? What do we know about Oswald's trip down to Mexico City? And he goes, well, it seems that Oswald was visiting th…
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talking to enemies and look, he's just killed Kennedy and he was talking to the Soviets. So it looks pretty bad. But then J. Edgar Hoover tells LBJ the headline, which is, but our agents in Dallas who have spoken to Oswald at the interrogat…
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in Mexico City. So in other words, Hoover tells LBJ, yeah, Oswald's meeting with the Soviets. It looks bad. Now it's not the real Oswald. So now LBJ then, and LBJ doesn't follow up on that question. He doesn't go, what do you mean it's not …
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which is, he goes, I'm going to tell you a little, he goes, he told me he wasn't going to serve. And then I brought up to him a little incident in Mexico City that Hoover told me about that we got to take this out of the arena of talking ab…
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So to me, that was so LBJ knows some stuff going on. Now, the counterpoint to that is that LBJ knew that that Hoover was wrong and Hoover was mistaken. Good luck making that argument. Hoover's got memo after memo of all these agents that we…
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And just looking to his mentor, Roy Cohn was. The Blue Room, the Plaza, who was, I mean, literally, Roy Cohn was involved in the Lansky group, the kosher-nostra blackmailing Hoover, who was a cross-dressing homosexual in the first place. Th…
▶ 1:00:28
Well, it's just, you know, what's also really disheartening is it seems like these honeypots or, you know, whatever. I mean, you even had mentioned in one of the ones about, you know, J. Edgar Hoover, you know, the government even had or th…
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The St. Paul School in Concord, New Hampshire. Yeah. SPS. Here's a guy by the name of, tell me if you've heard it, Cord Meyer. Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me? CIA's own Cord Meyer. If I walk through why, you can jump in anywhere. I'll give…
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little bit of a prelude. Scottish Rites Freemasons are really interesting. Remember we was talking about you hide a secret society inside a secret society? The Scottish Rites people are very, very hardcore, very much into their Puritanism a…
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Let's say we invented the mugshot. We incorporated. That's all their history. They don't talk about any of the bad stuff. Yeah, they created the mugshot so they could start intelligence files on people. Yeah, that's very much so. This is ev…
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Blackmail on everybody, which is why you have the Diddy's and the Epstein's. They gather. They work for this syndicate. They gather the blackmail to control people. And then that's why you have NATO who set up the paramilitary operations of…
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Castro made it perfectly clear to Nixon that he wasn't going to be a CIA stooge, and that pissed them off. At the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover told Nixon that he agreed with his assessment of Castro. Eleven months later, President Eisenhower ordere…
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were the last to change. But change itself, at least orderly change, depended on the stability, and Washington was not prepared to underwrite what he had in mind. If Engel was not finding much support at the State Department, he didn't find…
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Okay. There's just so many connections here, you know, including, I mean, you even covered the grassy knoll with Kennedy. It's interesting how kind of in the background of all of this, there's the Murchison family who, if I recall correctly…
▶ 56:22
The Murchison family, you mentioned Clint Murchison briefly in this. The Murchisons were kind of the head of the Texas political machine back in the 60s and 70s. They were good friends with the Hoovers. There's a note in Haldeman's journals…
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And Hoover, LBJ, the Murchisons were good friends. And if you watch The Men Who Killed Kennedy, I can't endorse all the sourcing on this because LBJ was allegedly seen by the press that evening somewhere else in another hotel. But there wer…
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God, you said don't be ignorant. And here's a British person asking a ridiculous question. OK, three questions. First one. What do the FBI think of the CIA and how is the relationship changed over the years? I can't answer that. I mean, I'v…
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It was set up for that reason. There's a lot of information out there that J. Edgar Hoover was gay, that they had compromising pictures and information. There's an entire plethora of information about a thing called the Blue Suite at the ho…
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And also another comment about J. Edgar Hoover. It's a pretty well-known fact that he had a homosexual lover, Clyde Tolson, who was his second in command at the FBI. So the question that I have has to do with USAID. So there's like three pr…
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Most Masons are totally benign. But the founder of the FBI, of course, was J. Edgar Hoover, and he was a devout, very active member of the Scottish Rites Freemasons, as were the vast majority of the people he appointed early on. And I don't…
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He also had a working relationship with the infamous Ray Cohn, C-O-H-N, which of course is tied to Donald Trump, who acted as a mentor to him. Cohn came to prominence with the support of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1952, he became the chief counsel…
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By 1953, McCarthy's anti-red witch hunt was in full blaze, torching the careers of distinguished senators, statesmen, and even beginning to flicker ominously outside the White House itself. The FBI's Hoover, long a powerful supporter, was g…
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He once assaulted Drew Pearson in a cloakroom of an exclusive club, pinning the muckrakers' arms behind him and kneeing him in the balls. Vicious payback for all the columns Pearson had written about McCarthy's career. And yet, backed in th…
▶ 36:45
Taking on McCarthy at the height of his power was a daunting task, even for the director of the CIA. Dulles knew that, despite J. Edgar Hoover's growing doubts about McCarthy, the FBI still fed him a stream of damaging information about his…
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Hoover even suspected Dulles of secret communist leanings, a delusion as fantastic as any of McCarthy's wild claims. At least one high-ranking CIA official, Robert Amory, the agency's top intelligence analyst, was convinced that the FBI had…
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James Angleton liked to say that any intelligence service that doesn't keep a close eye on its own government wasn't worth its own salt. Penetration begins at home, he said. The CIA counterintelligence chief was rumored to occasionally show…
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was homosexual as well. Dulles' wisecracking mistress, Mary Bancroft, tried to call the FBI director, the Virgin Mary, in pants. Dulles compiled even more scandalous files on Joe McCarthy's sex life. The senator who relentlessly hunted down…
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It was his mother-in-law-to-be who had placed the notice in the newspaper. McCarthy's young bride was described in one gossip magazine as a bright, shrewd, and very ambitious young lady, an opportunist. One Hoover aide later denied the gay …
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led the discussion advising us on how to deal with the bear, his favorite term for the Soviet Union. J. Edgar Hoover was sitting next to me and kept murmuring, the bear, the bear, that's it, the bear. Galen liked to say that his view of the…
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of the anti-Franco resistance in the U.S. In May of 1951, the special agent in charge of the Bureau's New York FBI office told Hoover that Galenza was an invaluable informant whose reports were extremely detailed, accurate, and thorough. Th…
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Georgetown Law and getting hired as a field agent by the FBI, where he worked on sensitive national security cases during the war. But Mayhew was not content to stay on under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership. In 1954, he opened up his own secur…
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Dulles blandly replied that the CIA had no jurisdiction on American soil, so the congressman's inquiry about the case was better directed to the FBI. Galendez's case, in fact, was turning into a major source of friction between the two fede…
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Hoover was further enraged by the suspicious disappearance of Gerald Murphy and a new round of embarrassing political fallout from the case. To make matters worse, the FBI soon tied John Frank to the crimes. A man who was not only a former …
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As was common when Hoover sought revenge in Washington's political wars, he leaked much of the Galendez story to the press. In late February, Life magazine ran a dramatic version of the affair under the headline, A Story of a Dark Internati…
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And there were allegations that they threw a huge party the night before, you know, Kennedy was assassinated. Yes. And who was implicated? The mafia, the CIA, and the Cuban exiles. J. Edgar Hoover attended that party, allegedly. And, you kn…
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not John Ehrlichman, but John Haldeman's diary that said that when Nixon dined with Hoover, they would get steaks flown in for the Murchison Ranch. So this is a very connected family that apparently also has some interesting underworld ties…
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But Dulles insisted it had to be burnt, and he prevailed, of course. Donovan, who himself was a World War I combat hero and self-made Wall Street millionaire lawyer who had charmed FDR and outmaneuvered powerful rival J. Edgar Hoover to bui…
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I'm trying to tug on that thread for a little bit here and trying to figure out who in the world that might have been. FBI director. He had a very, very thick file on Allen Dulles. He had a file on both of the Dulles brothers, but the file …
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But obviously, the dynamic, and they go into it a little bit, between Alan Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover was one of the most intriguing ones for me, just because of the dirt that both of those people had access to. Stellar, go ahead. I'm just …
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Indiana town. Why is all these weirdos from Indiana? That's freaky. And had none of the cosmopolitan polish of his Ivy League bred CIA colleagues because he was a down in the dirt assassin, coup monger. Harvey had begun his intelligence car…
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Interesting. Yes, I thought it was when I ran across it and went, what the heck? Nobody's talking about the LBJ connections to the Murchison family as well as Hoover's connections. I searched the book Devil's Chessboard for it. The Murchiso…
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Buckley Jr., Mr. CIA himself. Crazy. Later, DeMorgan Shield proved adept at working his connections in the Dallas Petroleum Club. It was a hotbed of anti-Kennedy hatred, whose leading members, including Clint Merkinson, where's Illini? He's…
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destroyed. But J. Edgar Hoover himself listened to them immediately after the assassination, and the FBI chief informed LBJ that the voice on the tapes was not Oswald's. Both men knew the stunning significance of fake audio tapes by the CIA…
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As an assistant attorney general in Eisenhower's Justice Department, Olney had earned the wrath of the FBI Hoover for his aggressive prosecution of civil rights cases and was suspected as being hostile to the FBI. Instead of Warren's man, t…
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Despite the chronic tension between the CIA and the FBI, Hoover proved a useful partner during the JFK inquiry. The FBI chief knew that his organization had its own secrets to hide related to the assassination, including its contact with Os…
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Angry Hoover would later mete out punishment for errors such as this, quietly disciplining 17 agents. But the FBI director was desperate to avoid public censure, and he fully supported the commission's lone gunman story. Angleton, who had a…
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Warren was very upset by the news report, which suggested that the commission had rushed to judgment before hearing all the evidence. The leak was clearly intended to counter the publicity being generated by Lane and Buchanan. While the com…
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J. Edgar Hoover, another bitter opponent, no longer bothered returning his phone calls. Meanwhile, RFK's antagonists such as Hoover and Dulles were in control of the official murder investigation. I can't even imagine. He knows the CIA was …
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J. Edgar Hoover wackiness with cross-dressing. And then I thought of, I don't know if everyone here has heard of Kay Griggs and her story that she shared. I think it was in the end of the 90s. But she spoke of her husband who was a Marine C…
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Republicans like Richard Nixon, whom Loftus called Alan Dulles' mouthpiece in Congress, made sure that the Dulles Circle would never have to answer for their wartime actions. By the time Harry Dexter White walked into the packed hearing roo…
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knew that their case against White was weak. Earlier in the year, the former Treasury official had already made a successful appearance before a grand jury in New York that was investigating government subversion. The jury, which would late…
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acknowledged that there was simply not enough proof to label him a Soviet spy and warned the FBI officials that they were making a grave mistake in using that phraseology. In his appearance before the committee, White conducted himself with…
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Let me see what else they said. He's in here three different times. I don't know why I even have this book sitting here, but that's hilarious that I do. Let me see if I can find it quickly where he's talking about him here. There it is. So …
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He had turned up, Hoover had turned up old news that Beadle Smith had earlier checked out and found groundless. But it turned out that the information had been provided by Nicholas Malaxa. Oh, that's when they were in the FBI. So the FBI ke…
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intelligence reports on CIA agents that he leaked to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and other people that didn't like the CIA. Dahlman kept in contact with American intelligence after the war. Grombach wrote in a con…
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for financial support. Lovestone also encountered problems with Joseph McCarthy in taking interest in his past and his conspiratorial work methods and had initiated an investigation. McCarthy was stopped by J. Edgar Hoover, who most likely …
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A couple of things are notable about the FBI memo. Bush identifies his location at the time of the assassination as being Tyler, rather than Dallas. And what's remarkable is that in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, he calls the…
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just before the November election. Quote, The Nation magazine, in its current issue, quotes a memo from November 29, 1963, from J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau's director at the time, to State Department about the assassination of JFK. In the m…
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is they picked him for director of the CIA. How in the hell was he appointed the head of the CIA without any experience or knowledge? Hoover's memo explains something to me that I've always wondered about. It does make sense to have a train…
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Many have questioned why the FBI, under its legacy founder J. Edgar Hoover, never went out. Some claim it was because the mob had a compromising picture of Hoover in a dress or possessed blackmail information over him being a homosexual. Pe…
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for ordering FBI agents to search the homes of the Weather Underground members and other groups without a warrant. He was found guilty in 1980 and pardoned by Reagan in 81, which I don't know if anybody knew that until I read this book. I d…
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as far as checking it out and which meant Angleton had it. Um, because again, Angleton is the one common denominator of all the moving parts of the JFK assassination, him and Harvey, his boss. They are like the belly button of the whole thi…