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Documentary Central ^ | 17/11/24 | Chauncey Marvin Holt

[Eleutheria5]

Interviewed just days before his death, CIA contract agent and underworld figure Chauncey Marvin Holt chronicles his career in the twilight world of bootlegging, bookmaking, gunrunning, money laundering, espionage, and assassinations.

Transcript linked below video.

[Eleutheria5]

Very long. The transcript does not have a linked index. I found it absorbing while doing something else. It covered a lot of inside information from the Mafia, the CIA, and their incestuous relationship. Up to you if you want to hear the whole thing. But I recommend it fwiw.

[Openurmind]

THANK YOU!

[montag813]

Sounds like fun, but not sure it served America’s interest in the end, given our broad failures in foreign entanglements during his tenure.

[Albion Wilde]

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[WhattheDickens?]

Ping

[Glad2bnuts]

Thanks for the link, I loved it. The FedGov has long been about serving themselves, not a common cause.

[GOPJ]

bump for later

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, right.

[snip] In 1992, journalist Mary La Fontaine discovered November 22, 1963 arrest records the Dallas Police Department had released in 1989, which named the three men as Gus W. Abrams, Harold Doyle, and John F. Gedney. According to the arrest reports, the three men were “taken off a boxcar in the railroad yards right after President Kennedy was shot”, detained as “investigative prisoners”, described as unemployed and passing through Dallas, then released four days later. [/snip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_tramps#Historical_explanation:_Gus_Abrams,_Harold_Doyle,_and_John_Gedney

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKholt.htm

[ChessExpert]

Perhaps you won’t see this as relevant. However, imagine children saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. Imagine Government employees reciting it in unison at some hour of the workday.

Perhaps it would change the way individuals think and organizations operate.

[Eleutheria5]

I used to say the Pledge in class every morning. Ideologically, it didn’t alter anything. Back when I was eleven, after reading most of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I pointedly refused to stand for the star spangled banner, outraging my classmates and teachers. My father, back then already very left wing, managed to talk me out of it with a more penetrating interpretation of the last stanza “oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave,” as being a call for moral introspection, whether or not America was still “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” and after considering his insight, I relented. But the experience of being in the minority and refusing to conform based on (half-baked) principals did more for developing my personal courage than mere conformity ever would have.

[Eleutheria5]

Two years later, I went to a hippy-dippy artsy-fartsy school, and started wearing a yarmulke and blessing my food in Hebrew before eating it, etc., and that rocked the boat much more, but I stood my ground again. Had I not been a rebellious little commie when I was younger, I would not have become an orthodox Jewish man. The hippy-dippy lures of free sex and drugs in that school would have totally destroyed me. But I learned to push back against a tyrannical majority in first one setting, and then in another. So, yes, saying the Pledge every morning was a good thing, because it have taught my adolescent self how to march to a different drummer, and to conform only when it made sense to do so, thanks to my father’s words of wisdom, not to rebel just for its own sake.