Posted on 01/06/2013 6:13:47 AM PST by Sub-Driver
FBI reveals surveillance of 60 minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, who was accused of being a communist
The FBI files include an investigation of a threatening letter sent to Wallace by a World War II veteran titled 'Communist Control of the Press'
In the summer of 1970, Wallace and late '60 Minutes' creator Don Hewitt took a trip to Cuba, which the FBI kept tabs on
Wallace was not discovered to be a communist
By Damian Ghigliotty
PUBLISHED: 19:33 EST, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 20:26 EST, 5 January 2013
The U.S. Federal Investigation Bureau released records it was keeping on celebrated journalist and late ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Mike Wallace, who died on April 7, 2012, at the age of 93.
The files include a look into whether Wallace was involved in communist activities as well as an investigation of a threatening letter sent to him by an emotionally disturbed World War II veteran titled 'Communist Control of the Press.'
Wallace, late '60 Minutes' creator Don Hewitt and three others took a trip to Cuba in the summer of 1970 to document the country, according to the files.
The group departed from Mexico with 22 pieces of luggage weighing about 770 pounds and returned with 26 pieces of luggage weighing about 904 pounds. An educated guess would be Cuban cigars, other souvenirs or additional camera tape from the embargoed island.
Wallace, who was 52 at the time, was not discovered to be a communist member or sympathizer.
A separate investigation into a bizarre and threatening letter from April 4, 1977, identified the sender as Donald P. Hale -- a disabled World War II veteran and a former prisoner of war.
'I have solid proof that you are a pro-communist anti-American traitor,' the letter reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Was it Wallace the Elder who said be would not warn U.S. troops if he knew they were about to be ambushed?
If not a Commie, he certainly was a Traitor.
FBI.... Unable to find marxist sympathizers in CBS.... Boy thats a crack bunch of gumshoes we got there.....
There’s still the Socialist International. Respectable & mainstream, if you’re Bernie Sanders.
The comment that did it for me was when on FOX new chris wallace stated that it really didn’t matter if Petraeus testified about Benghazi or not. WOW
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