Posted on 08/26/2004 2:47:43 PM PDT by stockpirate
It's normal procedure for FOIA files to redact the names of undercover agents. The Gainesville Eight's defense (led by William Kunstler's law center) tried to use the strategy of accusing FBI informants of "planting communistic propaganda in VVAW locations", etc. In point of fact, they didn't need to plant any propaganda--as one VVAW member at the Kansas City meeting put it when some VVAW members expressed concern that they might face persecution for associating with Communists, "if VVAW was afraid of a 'witch hunt', then they should never have set up the National Office next to the office of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice".
No tin hat comment here. I have been researching this stuff until the wee hours of the morning myself. I agree with you totally.
"Agree. However, I also believe there were some on the inside of the Nixon administration that assisted the liberals in taking Nixon down."
I agree--that's part of what I was alluding to when I suggested "high-level help". IMO Nixon's Democratic enemies were allied with liberal Republicans who had their own motives for removing Nixon.
Regarding "Witness", one thing Chambers alludes to there that he later considered writing a separate book about was the role of Felix Frankfurter and Dean Acheson in Hiss' promotion and Hiss' reluctance to answer questions Nixon asked him in this area.
See post 119 for more.
I will make sure to keep you posted.
I haven't made up my mind on Deep Throat, but Woodward had connections to an anti-Nixon faction in the military which had both right-leaning and left-leaning elements (Nixon had people on both sides who opposed him for different reasons), while his employer Graham had left-wing connections that extended into liberal elements within the Agency. It's a tangled web.
>>I haven't made up my mind on Deep Throat, but Woodward had connections...
Last night I came across Woodward and the supposed death-bed confession of William Casey while I was reading about Kerry's Nicaragua escapades. That guy gets around, doesn't he?
If there's a story to be invented, Woodward's there to tell it! :)
There is more on the demonstration on 4/9/72 at Nixon's compound in FBI Section 15, pages 14f, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37, and 59. VVAW was there, flying the flag upside down, carrying a man on a stretcher, and being the royal traitors they always have been.
Note that this was only 4 days after the FBI learned that the North Vietnamese leaders had phoned the anti-war movement about being "ready to take action" when the bombing escalation took place. (Section 15, page 24).
Nixon knew his enemy... and they weren't only in Vietnam.
page 114VVAW Leaflet (on VVAW letterhead), bottom of page 10:
ITEM: Commencing November 3, 1970 Jane Fonda, our Honorary National Coordinator, will be touring the country on a college speaking stint. Jan Crumb and Al Hubbard will accompany her. Our purpose for making the trip is to meet as many Vietnam veterans as possible, establish chapters, exchange ideas, and gather testimony for "Winter Soldier.
VVAW FBI Files - Section 34.pdf, page 36
The Paris report follows: This was given by [ redacted
continued redaction 1 line ]
VVAW sent 15 people to Paris June 25-28 [1972], to establish closer
contact with the people of Indo-China. It seems to have had
its most value in radicalizing further the people who went.
They each spoke of the trip as a very moving experience personally
although some questioned the need to send so many people as it
was an expensive proposition to finance the trip to to New York
for the fifteen. The French Communist Party picked up the
tab for their overseas flight and stay.
Brian Adams[*] recently returned from a Venceremos Brigade
to Cuba and spoke, relating what he saw in Cuba to the Paris
trip. He said, "It gives you the perspective of being in a
liberated zone, and of not just knowing, but of understanding
the hate directed against America as an imperialistic nation.
It gives you an understanding of our basic misunderstandings
with the communist nations."
*Brian Adams, member of VVAW Executive Committee
You folks are too good! How about my next post?
LOL, I know... you already have that one too, huh?
Thanks for doing the great job you're doin'! :-)
BUMP
Thanks!
So Kerry was a member of the anti-Jon Birch Society huh?
LOL!
I just checked out your list of research on your homepage, nice work.
Hope you have a nice holiday.
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