Walter Pincus person
also: Penka, Pincus, Surow
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Claims (5)
Walter Pincus covered_up
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“of what we're going to report. Pincus would later play an important role in helping to impede the Iran-Contra investigation, according to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. In his memoirs, Firewall, Walsh wrote that at a critical moment in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 47:07
Walter Pincus framed
Lawrence Walsh book_quoted
“of what we're going to report. Pincus would later play an important role in helping to impede the Iran-Contra investigation, according to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. In his memoirs, Firewall, Walsh wrote that at a critical moment in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 47:07
Walter Pincus covered_up
Philip Agee host_asserted
“In 1975, he had been the person at the New York Times selected to review ex-CIA officer Philip Agee's best-selling expose called CIA Diary. In an unfavorable review, Pincus strongly suggested that Agee was in the league with Cuban intellige…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 45:41
Walter Pincus spied_on
CIA book_quoted
“The author was none other than Walter Pincus in the Washington Post. After disclosure of CIA infiltration of American student associations had exploded that year, Pincus had written a long, smug confessional on how posing as an American stu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 43:51
Boynton Gray supplied_arms_to
Walter Pincus book_quoted
“and reduced Nancy Reagan to tears. Of all the sideswipes that we suffered during that period, the false report that we were considering indicting the nation's still-admired former president hurt us the most, Walsh wrote. It infuriated the c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 47:35
Mentions (15)
▶ 44:39
When asked to explain the conflict in light of its earlier announcement of Hoftar's appointment, said, quote, this is the position of the council today. The situation is fluid. The political viewpoints change frequently, unquote. Gotta love…
▶ 36:46
Evidence is lacking in the alleged plot, unquote. Gary Webb laughed and asked, what plot? The reporters, Walter Pincus and Roberto Cerno, people we've come across that are 100% mockingbird, wrote that their investigation does not support th…
▶ 37:45
The old tidal wave theory. Here it goes again. I wondered what available data Pincus and Surow had gathered from the 1982-83 error, the dawn of the LA crack market. Since the DEA and the National Database for Drugs had admitted a decade ear…
▶ 38:09
The story grudgingly and often backhandedly admitted that the basic facts presented in the series were all correct, and it buried key admissions deep inside, such as the fact that the CIA knew about some of these activities and did nothing …
▶ 41:03
I wrote, set post, a memo pointing out the holes in the post story. The pinkest piece I wrote, quote, is just silly. It's the kind of story you'd expect from someone who spent three weeks working on a story as opposed to 16 months, unquote.…
▶ 41:30
To his credit, Setpost fired off a blistering letter to the Post, pointing out the factual errors in the piece and calling Pincus' claim of racially charged allegations a complete and total mischaracterization. The most difficult issue, thi…
▶ 43:22
Shortly afterwards, I got an email message from a woman in Southern California. There was a story in the Mercury archives that I needed to see, she wrote, and provided a date and a page number. I sent it to our library and got a photocopy o…
▶ 43:51
The author was none other than Walter Pincus in the Washington Post. After disclosure of CIA infiltration of American student associations had exploded that year, Pincus had written a long, smug confessional on how posing as an American stu…
▶ 45:20
This was the man who was questioning my ethics for giving Alan Fenster questions to ask a government witness about Contras and drug operations? Jesus. I'd certainly never spied on American citizens. Looking into Penka's background further, …
▶ 45:41
In 1975, he had been the person at the New York Times selected to review ex-CIA officer Philip Agee's best-selling expose called CIA Diary. In an unfavorable review, Pincus strongly suggested that Agee was in the league with Cuban intellige…
▶ 46:09
He merely identified himself as a Washington journalist. When the Post found itself under rare criticism by the CIA in 1986 for allegedly printing classified information, Pincus went on McNeil-Lair NewsHour and stated his newspaper wasn't s…
▶ 46:37
and its readers' eyes from such things, Pincus asserted frequently in consultation with the government. We've been dealing with it for a long time, and I think we have withheld a great deal of information, Pincus said. It ought to be made c…
▶ 47:07
of what we're going to report. Pincus would later play an important role in helping to impede the Iran-Contra investigation, according to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. In his memoirs, Firewall, Walsh wrote that at a critical moment in…
▶ 48:04
senior, which of course would be CIA. Gray, Walsh wrote, had been known to float stories through persons close to the publishers at the Washington Post. Pincus had sometimes been asked to write these stories. I suspected Gray or someone els…
▶ 1:02:01
Let's run a story about Walter Pincus' CIA connections. Let's write about how the LA Times has been booting this story since 1987. I told them my discovery that the LA Times Washington Bureau had been sent a copy of notes found in Ron Liste…