Posted on 06/02/2005 6:39:54 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Thursday, June 2, 2005 1:37 p.m. EDT Nixon Horrified Jew Could Head FBI
Two months after the Watergate break-in, President Nixon already knew that FBI official W. Mark Felt was leaking information to reporters – because Nixon had his own spy at the FBI, an Oval Office tape reveals.
The tape also discloses that Nixon was shocked to learn Felt was Jewish and became horrified that a Jew could become head of the FBI.(Vanity Fair described Felt, whose ancestors were Irish, as claiming "no religious affiliation.")
In the conversation between Nixon and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, taped on Oct. 19, 1972, Haldeman mentions Felt by name and refers to Nixon’s spy as "our source.”
And when Haldeman discusses Felt’s ambition to head the FBI, Nixon says: "Christ, put a Jew in there?”
It’s not the only time Nixon was taped making an anti-Semitic remark.
On the tape of a February 1972 conversation with evangelist Billy Graham – made public in February 2002 – Nixon complained that a number of major news publications were "dominated” by Jews, and Graham responded: "The stranglehold has got to be broken, or the country’s going to go down the drain.”
Nixon said: "You believe that?”
Graham: "Yes sir.”
Nixon: "So do I. I can’t ever say that, but I believe it.”
Graham: "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something.”
Later on the tape, after Graham left, Nixon told Haldeman: "The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.”
The tape citing Felt as a leak mentions FBI Director L. Patrick Gray, whom Nixon had appointed after J. Edgar Hoover died – passing over Felt, who was expected to get the top job.
Here are excerpts from the tape:
Nixon: "Well, if they’ve got a leak down at the FBI, why the hell can’t Gray tell us what the hell is left . . . ?”
Haldeman: "We know what’s left, and we know who leaked it.”
Nixon: "Somebody in the FBI?”
Haldeman: "Yes, sir. Mark Felt. You can’t say anything about this because it will screw up our source and there’s a real concern. [Attorney General John] Mitchell is the only one who knows about this and he feels strongly that we better not do anything because . . .”
Nixon: "Do anything? Never.”
Haldeman: "If we move on him, he’ll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that’s to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything . . .”
Nixon: "You know what I’d do with him, the bastard? Well that’s all I want to hear about it.”
Haldeman: "I think he wants to be in the top spot.”
Nixon: "That’s a hell of a way for him to get to the top ... Is he Catholic?”
Haldeman: "Jewish.”
Nixon: "Christ, put a Jew in there?”
Haldeman: "Well, that could explain it, too.”
Before you nominate Nixon for sainthood, let's remember that prior to "saving Israel" the American government followed a policy of letting Israel bleed in the early days of the war and delaying any shipment of arms.
What about Henry Kissinger? He and Nixon worked closely and Nixon clearly trusted him. And he supported the nation of Israel, crucial support at time when they were under attack from a lot of outside enemies, encouraging a friendship between our nations. Those comments seem like just 'locker' talk and inappropriate at that. Nixon had his flaws but it doesn't seem that anti-Semitism was truly among them.
==Nixon saved Israel in 1973. Bashing him for being anti-Jew is missing the mark.
As far as I can tell, Nixon did everything he could NOT to save Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Kissinger, of course, was doing Nixon's bidding:
Henry Kissinger played the key role in furthering Soviet aims. Israeli journalist Matti Golan reported that, during the first few days of the Yom Kippur War, while the Communist governments of Yugoslavia, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, and the Soviet Union were resupplying Egypt and Syria,4 Kissinger had delayed the emergency shipment of U.S. arms to Israel. Then, once Israel had regained its military balance and scored decisive victories, he went behind the Israelis' backs and negotiated a ceasefire directly with the Soviets. Nor was this difficult for him; as Soviet ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin later revealed, the Soviets had quietly appointed Kissinger as their representative at the same time that he was representing the United States.5 Kissinger then pressured Israel into accepting the ceasefire, which returned portions of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt.
Link:
http://www.attacreport.com/ar_archives/art_iswr1_shadow.htm
Cheap shots, based on private conversations, are not appreciated by knowledgeable Jews. Charles Krauthammer, one of Israel's most ardent supporters in this country, has written eloquently and favourably about Nixon in discussing the subjects of Nixon, Jews and the White House Tapes in his syndicated columns. Just for the record, Haldeman did not say "Jewish". In the best rendering, he said, as best as can be deciphered, "...looks Jewish."
Haldeman's lawyers at the time of Watergate were virulently antiSemitic. On the other hand, Nixon's counsel, following John Dean, was a Jew, Len Garment, who knew Nixon at close range for many years. Garment's comments about Nixon's views of Jews and Israel [in full knowledge of what is said on the White House tapes about Jews] -- as described in his autobiography Crazy Rhythm -- are very flattering to Nixon. Garment found Nixon's attitude to Jews "better than most".
It is W. Mark Felt who is 'on trial' now, and I'll illustrate what I mean.
In relation to the Gipper having once said, in Bedtime For Bonzo, "I'm going to teach this monkey the difference between right and wrong", I think it is time for him to return and teach monkeys like Woodward, Redford, Clinton, Hal Holbrook, and their ilk, that their claims that Mark Felt did nothing illegal, ought to be seen in the following reflecting mirror.
I came across this nugget on page 225 of Felt's book The FBI Pyramid. Here, our 'noble hero' describes how [in the light of his confession that he is Deep Throat] he had flatly, deliberately and malevolently lied to his superior, the acting FBI Director, Patrick Gray, about his having never leaked anything to anybody, including Woodward and Bernstein.
I QUOTE FROM FELT'S 1979 BOOK:
Shortly after he returned from sick leave [January, 1973], Gray confided to me, "You know, Mark, Dick Kleindienst told me that I might have to get rid of you. He says White House staff members are convinced that you are the FBI source of leaks to Woodward and Bernstein" -- the Washington Post reporters who were writing up the Watergate story almost as fast as it was being investigated.
I said, "Pat, I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!"
"I believe you," Gray answered, "but the White House doesn't. Kleindienst has told me on three or four occasions to get rid of you but I refused. He didn't say this came from higher up but I am convinced that it did."
This disclosure came as an unpleasant surprise. My contacts with Kleindienst had been frequent and friendly -- there had never been the slightest indication that I was suspect. I could feel anger rising in me but I was very apppreciative of Gray's indication of support. Gray went on: "I told Kleindienst that you've worked with me in a very competent manner and I'm convinced that you are completely loyal. I told him I was not going to move you out. Kleindienst told me,'Pat, I love you for that.'"
I don't know if Gray and Kleindienst are alive, but if they are, they must be very aggrieved individuals. What I cannot understand is why W's Administration is not moving to prosecute Felt or those, most prominently Woodward, Bernstein and Bradley, who obstructed justice by protecting a 2IC at the FBI who broke the law, betrayed the organization to which he swore allegiance, was likely motivated by a sense of being passed over for the top job, was later indicted for arranging illegal breakins, then flatly lied for more than three decades about almost everything he did during the Nixon Administration. Is it possible that Woodward's White House visit to-day was an attempt to buy some capital for himself in this connection?
I think the Great Betrayal was more on Ford's watch than Nixon's.
Also see post #63
This is hilarious of the press to keep running with this. Especially, when they ignored the Clinton's "F'n Jew *astard" remarks. Henry Kissinger didn't seem to be too upset about it when Chrissie Matthews had him listen to it and tried to get him to be aghast. He wasn't which really puzzled Chrissie-Poo.
Also see post #63
In the US, communist spies have been disproportionately Jewish. Nixon himself is quoted on one of the tapes as pointing out that all but two of the communists that he investigated when he was on the HUAC were Jewish (the two who weren't were Whitaker Chambers and Alger Hiss; but according to Nixon all their compatriots in conspiracy were Jewish) Maybe it was this experience that soured Nixon on Leftist Jews --- I believe when he says, in the tapes, derisively, "Jews," he means "Leftists" -- because he also hired a number of Jews who weren't Leftist. It's just that most Jews are liberal to leftist. That's just a fact.
Someone just pinged me with the following link. Don't know if there's any truth to it, but it is certainly more in line with the W. Mark Felt I have read about--HUAC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1415516/posts
I'll look into that. Thanks for the sources.
There is nothing relevant to the subject in post 63.
"The bottom line to all this is that W. Mark Felt is a rat bastard who violated his own oath of office and federal laws by disclosing investigative data to two unauthorized parties (Woodward & Bernstein), and 91 years old or not, he ought to be prosecuted for it, unless that pardon he received from the Reagan Administration covers ALL offenses?"
Felt should be prosecuted as a spy and a traitor to our country, ala Pollard.
And pray tell us just one thing that I am not right about in my post? Your defense of this man's behaviour raises this question: do you approve of the sort of self-descriptions he gives in the passage I quoted from his book? If so, do you think any Administration could long survive if the 2IC of a sensitive investigative agency behaved as Felt did? In his own book, Felt makes it plain that earlier administrations, especially FDR's and JFK's, were far, far worse than Nixon's
You are welcome.
Who knows. But one can't help but wonder if it could be for the same reasons Nixon didn't. The man had access to a lot of info/files. Or as Nixon said, "everything". I don't quite know what the scope of that statement meant. One can only wonder.
At the time, in the summer of 1970, however, when "Israel complained to Washington that the Egyptians had breached the agreement, Ray Cline, the head of the State Department intelligence unit…told the White house that the Israeli complaint was baseless. When Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin told his military attache, General Eli Zeira, what had happened, Zeira immediately asked Tel Aviv to send him a photographic interpreter and a set of aerial photographs showing the Egyptian deployment. These duly arrived in Washington and Zeira was summoned to the White House, where he laid out the evidence before President Nixon. Nixon, angry with Cline, then ordered the Pentagon to remove its veto on several categories of weapons the Israelis had asked for during the preceding months."
Well now, his decision to raise the nation's defense levels to Defcon 3 when the Russians looked like they were going to intervene in the Yom Kippur war(because Israel had beaten back its attackers and would have been rolling into Syrian and Egypt proper) tells me more about Nixon's character than just a few words on a tape. Then again perhaps Israel shouldn't have been restrained by furious back room negotiations by Kissinger et al, judging from what has happened in the middle east of late!
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