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also: Pearson, Washington's leading muckraker, columnist
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Drew Pearson exposed
Richard Nixon documented
“But on September 29th, Drew Pearson, Washington's leading muckraker, dropped a bombshell on Nixon, one of his favorite targets. That briefly threatened to end his political career. The story was part of a larger theme of corruption that rep…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 1:31
Drew Pearson member_of
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“400 tons of leaflets over the Soviet Union. I guess we didn't care about littering back then. C.D. Jackson becomes Radio Free Europe's president. Politician Harold Stassen, journalist Drew Pearson, all were part of this program. Creation of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 34:36
Drew Pearson exposed
Franklin D. Roosevelt documented
“Morgenthau's group appears to have cast the first stone. Pell told columnist Drew Pearson in mid-September about the sabotage of the War Crimes Commission. The following week, Pearson followed up with revelations of FDR's stunning criticism…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 32:28
Drew Pearson exposed
Walter Schreiber book_quoted
“It would not be until 1952, 1952, when a newspaper reporter, Drew Pearson, publicized the Nuremberg evidence and the true story behind Schreber's war record came to light. He was given a visa and escorted to Argentina. Nazi Siegfried Ruff, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3 @ 30:48
Drew Pearson exposed
Siegfried Ruff book_quoted
“when his wartime atrocities was exposed by Drew Pearson. In Benford's view, the Air Force lost a great man. That's your military colonel saying that. But these cases were the exception. The majority of them had no problem getting into the U…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3 @ 31:49
Drew Pearson exposed
Wernher von Braun host_asserted
“and bring them into the United States. That's been documented in several of the books that I've read. And that's how they get these people in. And of course, they sanitize their background, as we just saw demonstrated here, where they just …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3 @ 1:02:27
Mentions (18)
▶ 23:38
So C.W. Jackson and a politician by the name of Harold Stassen, S-T-A-S-S-E-N, and journalist Drew Pearson were all representatives of their plausible deniability radio stations. Another facet that Frank Wisner was involved in is the creati…
▶ 34:36
400 tons of leaflets over the Soviet Union. I guess we didn't care about littering back then. C.D. Jackson becomes Radio Free Europe's president. Politician Harold Stassen, journalist Drew Pearson, all were part of this program. Creation of…
▶ 7:57
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…
▶ 38:38
near Grand Central Station, as well as gay hideaways in Milwaukee. Drew Pearson got wind of stories, but was never able to get any proof to run them. But the less discriminating Hank Greenspun, editor and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, who…
▶ 25:26
That was their version of the Georgetown set. Senator Edward Kennedy, the president's baby brother, had emerged from his own swimming pool baptism at that place. The Kennedy Circle unrestrained merrymaking was now regarded as unseemly. They…
▶ 46:57
As it turned out, there was no intelligence files in Gowen's stolen bag, but the story wasn't over. In January 1948, and keep in mind, these are our own people doing this to our own people. In January 1948, when Gowen was still stationed in…
▶ 47:27
told Gowan that he was working on a hot scoop and that Gowan was at the center of it. Pearson was going to report that a fugitive from war crimes charges in Hungary, where he had worked as an anti-Semitic propagandist for a fascist Arrow Cr…
▶ 47:57
Pearson claimed he had proof, documents that showed Gowan had worked closely with this guy, Farik Fata, on various covert missions. As he listened to Pearson, Gowan was so flabbergasted that he didn't know what to say. Pearson's exclusive s…
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Hungary, all of those areas. That was Frank Wisner's area of expertise. But it was Gowan that was going to take the fall for the escapade. It did not take him long to figure out who was responsible for setting him up. Pearson had been fed t…
▶ 1:31
But on September 29th, Drew Pearson, Washington's leading muckraker, dropped a bombshell on Nixon, one of his favorite targets. That briefly threatened to end his political career. The story was part of a larger theme of corruption that rep…
▶ 1:59
Earlier in the race, Pearson had discovered Nixon's wealthy Southern California supporters had set up a slush fund for the Republicans' personal use, a revelation that nearly forced a VP candidate to resign as Eisenhower's running mate. It …
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Pearson was again on the verge of blowing up Nixon's career. Reporting in his widely syndicated Washington merry-go-round column, Pearson revealed that the VP candidate had left out something very important from his checker speech, namely h…
▶ 4:53
Melaxa's, let's see, where'd I go? Senator Nixon, who pulled strings on his behalf to allow him to continue living in the U.S. and procure a major tax break for him. Pearson knew that Nixon had performed these favors for Melaxa in return fo…
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Smith demanded that Mason immediately gather up every scrap of incriminating material against Nixon and bring it into his office. The story was cleaned from the books, said Mason. Wisner, too, had no doubt what was done with the evidence. B…
▶ 30:48
It would not be until 1952, 1952, when a newspaper reporter, Drew Pearson, publicized the Nuremberg evidence and the true story behind Schreber's war record came to light. He was given a visa and escorted to Argentina. Nazi Siegfried Ruff, …
▶ 31:49
when his wartime atrocities was exposed by Drew Pearson. In Benford's view, the Air Force lost a great man. That's your military colonel saying that. But these cases were the exception. The majority of them had no problem getting into the U…
▶ 1:02:27
and bring them into the United States. That's been documented in several of the books that I've read. And that's how they get these people in. And of course, they sanitize their background, as we just saw demonstrated here, where they just …
▶ 32:28
Morgenthau's group appears to have cast the first stone. Pell told columnist Drew Pearson in mid-September about the sabotage of the War Crimes Commission. The following week, Pearson followed up with revelations of FDR's stunning criticism…