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OK Fedora (you named after the hat or the Opera?) the FBI Agents were often hermetically sealed from one another so that they didn't know who was the fuzz and who was the commie. I watched that show faithfully as a child on our 10-inch B&W TV, so I know.

I shall take your meticulous research under advisement. Now, can you or someone tell me the story with Stanley Ann, or Stanley, or Ma Dunham? The whole family's weird saga is making me itch ... a sure sign that an intelligence op is underway. As far as the WH recumbent goes, his whole lightweight Marxist shtick is starting to remind me of the wise-ass HS sophomore "communists" of my careless youth, except he seems to have many fewer IQ points and looks to me like a jerk who failed geometry and blamed it on racism.

Is it just remotely possible that ole Stanley was working an intelligence beat keeping an eye on FMD?

Named after an FBI informant who was codenamed after a hat, so I guess the answer is still hat. I Led Three Lives was a good show, closer to the original case in the early episodes than later when it took more liberty adding dramatic devices. Hermetic sealing might occur in the field, but back in the field office and in Washington the pieces were put back together, and the perspective of the field office is what is reflected in the files on Davis. Cliff Kincaid did an FOIA to get Stanley Armour Dunham's FBI files and was told they had been destroyed in 1997 (five years after his death, so it was evidently at someone else's initiative). This indicates there was a file on him, but does not tell us what it contained.