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Late Sen. Byrd's FBI Files Reveal CIA Leak Uproar
ABC News ^ | August 4, 2012 | By LAWRENCE MESSINA

Posted on 08/04/2012 7:28:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were leaked by the CIA and triggered an angry confrontation between the two agencies in the 1960s, according to newly released FBI records.

Byrd, who died in June 2010 at age 92, had sought the FBI intelligence while suspecting that communists and subversives were guiding the civil rights cause, the records show.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: cia; democrats; fbi; hate; kkk; kukluxklan; racism; racist; robertbyrd; senatorbyrd

1 posted on 08/04/2012 7:28:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were leaked by the CIA and triggered an angry confrontation between the two agencies in the 1960s, according to newly released FBI records.

2 posted on 08/04/2012 7:38:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He then spent the next 4 decades aiding and abetting those same communists and subversives at every turn.


3 posted on 08/04/2012 7:43:00 AM PDT by rhinohunter (DraftWalkerNow)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hmmmm....so what ABC wants us to take away from this is that questioning any communist infiltration in government is akin to racism. Got it. (eye roll). Yet more blocking for Obama from the main stream media. Go figure.


4 posted on 08/04/2012 7:52:31 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire
1. This type of racism was over decades ago.

2. It was done by Democrats.

5 posted on 08/04/2012 8:18:23 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: penelopesire

Yessiree!

And now, any use of the word “communism/ist” will be labeled racist code. Just ask any Monday you run into.


6 posted on 08/04/2012 8:23:51 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ABC seems very “incurious” regarding the evidence that communists and subversives were guiding the civil rights movement! It only concerns ABC that the evidence was leaked.


7 posted on 08/04/2012 9:14:08 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: sportutegrl

The true record of MacCarthy though, was that he was RIGHT....the communists had infiltrated the government, hollywood and the civil rights movement. It is all in the record and a FACT....not myth nor smear like the left would have us all believe. The communists (statists,socialists,Marxists) are still heavily imbedded in our government,media,hollywood and academia. It’s time once again to flush them out into the open for all of America to see. You probably know all this. Just wanted to post it for the record.


8 posted on 08/04/2012 9:23:28 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: Seizethecarp

Yet they have no concern about the leaks from Obama’s White House on national security. Go figure. Damn jackals.


9 posted on 08/04/2012 9:25:48 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t know about leading the civil rights movement, but there was sufficient evidence that they were supporting it at several levels. One piece of info I do recall is that two of MLK’s speech writers were open Communists.


10 posted on 08/04/2012 9:30:19 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isaiah 5:19-21

King James Version (KJV)

19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!


11 posted on 08/04/2012 9:31:48 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Byrd was a KKK Grand KLEAGLE!!!! He was a RACIST!! Like MOST of the Democrats were/are.


12 posted on 08/04/2012 9:36:50 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: penelopesire

Yup, and don’t be afraid to keep on posting it.


13 posted on 08/04/2012 10:14:44 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

My late mother (died sept. 11 last year) was a staunch Goldwater supporter and also worked tirelessly for the civil rights movement in the south....that is until she realized the communists had infiltrated the movement and were coming to the south from up north in droves to cause trouble and chaos. She told me about it years ago. The other big lie of the democrats is that they were instrumental in the civil rights movement. They were the klan where we lived and tried to intimidate my family for my mothers work. the dems did not get involved in the civil rights movement until many many years later. It was republicans who were on the forefront of the work to grant blacks equal rights. God rest her soul. Don’t worry, I will continue to post the truth...she taught me well.


14 posted on 08/04/2012 10:42:39 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire
It’s time once again to flush them out into the open for all of America to see

They're actually walking around out in the open for all to see, making no pretext of hiding who they are.

Nobody seems to care.

They even have a caucus in Congress, the CPC, allies with the DSA.

15 posted on 08/04/2012 10:48:29 AM PDT by Rome2000 (WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
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To: penelopesire

Yes, indeed, the revisionist history is sickening. To see Blacks end up back on the old Democrat plantation and singularly linked to the ideology of Stalinist enslavement is one of the most revolting developments in American history. That leftist ideology has done more damage, physically and psychologically, to the Black community than bondage in the fields and/or a Klansman’s wettest dream could possibly have done or imagined. Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass would be horrified.


16 posted on 08/04/2012 11:13:32 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I agree wholeheartedly. My mother didn’t put her family at risk to follow any politician or party though. She did it because she had the true heart of a conservative Christian. She did it because it was the right thing to do and it cost her much in the community. Standing up for what was right,as a white woman in the south, was not popular or welcomed in many quarters at the time. She was a young mother with three children and a husband trying to climb up the corporate ladder.
She risked it all, quite literally, to stand for freedom. We are called on today to do the same thing. To step out of our comfort zone and save this country from those that would destroy all that is good and great about our country and it’s people.

If we lose our bearings as conservatives now, between what is right and what is wrong, I fear our country will never recover. We are the only thing standing in the way of the evil of communism/socialism sweeping our great nation into the ash bin of history and into a living hell on earth for all.

All I can say is thank God for Free Republic and the Tea Party! We are coming together. The Sleeping Giant has awoken.

God Bless and keep us all.


17 posted on 08/04/2012 12:45:35 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire

Your mother sounded like a great lady and you are absolutely right. Thanks for your post.


18 posted on 08/04/2012 12:49:16 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: Rome2000

Don’t be fooled by the easy way with which they conduct themselves right now. The sleeping giant has awoken.. Have faith. People of all persuasions are waking up to the horror that lays at the root of the leftists’ agenda.


19 posted on 08/04/2012 12:50:40 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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