Posted on 12/12/2010 12:52:49 PM PST by americanophile
Did Ronald Reagan secretly give the FBI names of people he suspected were communists when he was a movie star and Hollywood labor chief in the 1940s?
This allegation resurfaced in the media just before Thanksgiving when the San Jose Mercury News, which published excerpts from Reagan's FBI file to great international acclaim in 1985, ran a column revisiting its original story about Reagan the snitch. It implies that Reagan was a shadowy operator in cahoots with the notorious FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, orchestrating their next Hollywood Red scare.
The answer? Maybe. But Reagan was hardly betraying friends and confidants. He told the bureau what he told others publicly about communist influences in the Hollywood he knew. He didn't seek out the FBI originally; agents came to him. Moreover, he had little to tell them that the bureau didn't already know. It's hardly the picture of a Red-baiting Judas.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
So far as I know no one has yet come up with evidence that the people identified as commies weren't commies.
Ferretting out Commie Hollywood libs is an act to be praised.
I would only be troubled if Reagan knew Hollywood Communists (the worst kind) and DIDN’T report them
“notorius FBI director, J.Edgar Hoover”-these days he wouldn’t be notorius-he would be normal
Ha Ha ha! The LAT attempting to smear Reagan. I wonder how long it will take the LAT to print an “expose” on how RFK used the FBI to spy on his and JFK’s “enemies” . . . . .
Present tense verb also works.
The communist club in Hollywood has been around for a long time - the film “Grapes of Wrath” is but one example of their propaganda.
One can only HOPE Reagan turned in the names of known Communists in Hollywood.
Today it would be easier to just name the Hollywood morons who ARE NOT Communists.
Yeah, like Martin Luther King.
Ronald Reagan resorted to carrying a pistol for his personal protection due to threats.
LOL most of the folks Reagan reported on were likely to the right of our current POTUS, Speaker, and senate Majority Leader.
If thus is true, it just verifies what I have always believed about Ronnie- he really did live this nation!
As another FR comment states QUITE correctly, there indeed WERE and still ARE Marxists and Communists in Hollywood. Leave it to our non-biased, patriotic “mainstream” media to portray actual Americans as snitches!!! Some SHOCK, huh??!! And relax, libs. You’ve tried to discredit the Gipper for decades, without success. He remains one of our best and most beloved presidents in spite of the work of media democrats.
If it were reversed and the country was socialist, and Ron had info about secret capitalists in the movie industry, the word “snitch” would instead be “comrade patriot”.
Such lib hypocrisy. So what if he did give the names of socialist actors to the government. They are Fricking socialist scum, they are ideologically opposed to this country as founded and want to see its democratic republic form of government destroyed and replaced with godless socialism. Our state department to this day is infested with the remnants and neo-socialists of these people today.
We’d be better off as a country if we had rounded up all the real socialists at the time, gave them one chance to leave, and if they didn’t, shot any who didn’t.
This didn’t strike me so much as a smear... though it will be taken that way by the Reagan-hating left.
The article clearly points out that Reagan didn’t give the FBI any “secrets” and that everything he said in opposition to commie groups in Hollywood he said publicly and often.
Reading this, though, made me think of the movie The Front, with Woody Allen. The most pretentious, self-absorbed, self-agonizing, self-pitying, self-congratulating movie ever made.
Worse than the commies who have infiltrated Hollywood from its earliest days are the PC types who find a movie like The Front “important”.
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