Posted on 03/28/2004 5:55:37 AM PST by Sabertooth
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:04:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
He hasn't reviewed them, he doesn't know what was taken, but he sure knows it would cast a bad light on the Republicans. This would've worked under Nixon, Reagan, and Bush SR, but I doubt this kind of unsubstantiated, and uncorroborated evidence will work nowadays. But who knows, anything is possible with the Rats.
The San Diego Coup Richard Popkin, 1973
All of this proves nothing, of course, but it suggests that the Dirty Tricks operation may have been much more complex than we have been led to believe. Perhaps there was a plot to kill Nixon. In August 1973, [FBI informer Barry] Godfrey reportedly admitted to the San Diego Door that there was a real plot to kill Nixon. He blames the plan on his erstwhile cohort, Gary Lynn Davis. Then again Godfrey's plot may have been a further hoax aimed at discrediting the left and the Democratic Party. What did Segretti discuss with Godfrey, and why and how did he meet Godfrey in the first place? How did it happen that the FBI financed a threat on the life of a president (a crime which carries a penalty of up to five years in jail and a thousand-dollar fine)? In the past, the Secret Service has taken such threats very seriously. A check of the New York Times index shows that at least eleven people were arrested between January 1972 and May 1973 for doing much less than Godfrey. Most seem to have been psychopaths or drunks, with no positive plan--just verbal threats.
But then there are other instances: Arthur Bremer's Ottawa visit on April 13-14, 1972, for example, when he supposedly stalked Nixon. On May 30, three bombs demolished the tomb of the father of the Shah of Iran an hour before Nixon was scheduled to lay a wreath there. On August 11, a certain A. B. Topping was arrested in New York after paying an undercover agent a thousand dollars to kill Nixon. Topping, it developed, was well-to-do, of the American Nazi political persuasion, and interested in having the president killed the week after the payoff. No trial has been held. And then in late May 1973, one of Nixon's helicopters went down in the Bahamas. It subsequently came out that the president has three helicopters ready at all times and chooses which to use one minute before the flight.
From Neil Wilgus' ILLUMINOIDS and other sources
[tinfoil source but contains Topping's first name plus some other useful information--Fedora]
Mrs. Andrew Topping, wife of man alleged to be plotting assassination of Nixon during 1972 convention. . .Tackwood alleges that plans are made to disrupt Republican convention in San Diego, declare martial law, assassinate Nixon (or make false attempt).
From Neil Wilgus' ILLUMINOIDS and other sources
FBI informer William O'Neal infiltrates Chicago Black Panthers, becomes chief of security, Los Angeles police establish Criminal Conspiracy Section which employs Donald DeFreeze, Louis Tackwood, Ron Karenga, the Steiner brothers and other agents to infiltrate prison reform and black power groups.
Justice or Revenge: The SLA and the War on Terrorism
Although it is not my intention to delve into conspiracies here, it is worth mentioning that one such informer who had been on the payroll of these and other law enforcement agencies at different times throughout his adult life was the leader of the SLA, Donald DeFreeze. Furthermore, DeFreeze had documented contact with a Louis Tackwood, who was well known to the Los Angeles Black Panther chapter as an informer. After an unusual transfer from Soledad Prison to the Vacaville state prison and medical facility, DeFreeze first met the future SLA members in a state-sponsored program to promote literacy in California's prisons. His participation in the program was at the behest of prison officials.
The program, known as Unisight, had been infiltrated by many white radicals who were interested in the revolutionary potential of prisoners, especially those of color. This interest had been on the rise since the late 1960s and had created revolutionaries like the murdered Black Panther George Jackson and the men of the failed September 1971 rebellion at Attica Prison in New York. The Black Panthers did not trust the Unisight program and considered it a way for prison officials to keep tabs on outside radicals who were interested in prison organizing. The (mostly white) radicals from the outside were from the Venceremos group, which had developed out of the Bay Area Revolutionary Unions, which in turn had derived from the 1969 disintegration of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Venceremos had minimal training in the use of arms and spent much of their time proselytizing the uninitiated and arguing with other ultra-left sects in the Bay Area over various and often arcane aspects of Marxist-Leninist theory.
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Very few leftist groups supported the SLA, even when they were under heavy attack by the police. . .In fact, the only widely published statements of support came from the Weather Underground and Yippie activists Stew Alpert and his partner Judith Clavier Alpert. Both of these sources decried the Left's attempts to distance themselves from the SLA. The statements urged other movement people to "not do the work of the state" and to recognize the SLA as fellow fighters in the struggle, in spite of its terrorist tactics and curious origins. Ironically, the police and the system they protect did not acknowledge any difference between the SLA and other parts of the movement, preferring to place them all in the camp of the "terrorists." One support group did arise, calling itself the New World Liberation Front (NWLF). These individuals issued statements of support for the SLA and carried out actions to support them. It was the NWLF that claimed responsibility for other police car fire-bombings that occurred around the same time as the attempted ones that Olson is now serving time for.
Weissman,S. Big Brother and the Holding Company. 1974 (72)
Berkeley Barb 1976-04-22 (2)
Blumenthal,S. Yazijian,H. Government by Gunplay. 1976 (82-3)
Constantine,A. Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. 1995 (61, 171-2)
CounterSpy 1976-SP (29)
Covert Action Information Bulletin 1989-#31 (35-8)
Donner,F. Protectors of Privilege. 1990 (264-6)
Mother Jones 1977-04 (59)
NameBase NewsLine 1995-07 (11)
National Reporter 1988-F (19)
Tackwood,L. The Glass House Tapes. 1973
Weissman,S. Big Brother and the Holding Company. 1974 (44, 62, 71, 101-2, 161-2)
The name of the book is Home To War, not Home at War as the incompetent CNN states here.
Nicosia showed it to CNN earlier. Soon after he's burgled.
Thanks for the caution, which is well taken. I'm a patriotic, politically conservative Christian with a degree in history and I'm aware that some of the sites I've linked have problems with conspirational speculation, etc. I've tried to indicate periodically that I'm sometimes linking to a site I don't necessarily agree with for the sake of referencing a particular piece of information without endorsing the site as a whole (for instance in Post #43 I noted the "Neil Wilgus Illuminoids" site was tinfoil but it was the only site where I could find Topping's first name), and I'm assuming people will fact-check the information against other sources (which is why I provided several links on Topping in case anyone wanted to follow up on that by consulting printed sources). Sometimes sites like that have pieces of valid information that isn't readily referenced on the Internet otherwise, unfortunately. Hope that clarifies. Maybe next time I cite something like that I'll have to make sure to attach the footnote equivalent of a "barf alert" or something to make sure I'm not conveying the wrong impression.
Nixon was a "Republican"? Could have fooled me.
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