Good article from USA Today showing how the FBI lies, lies, lies and then when they get caught in a lie with hard evidence they finally tell the truth. What makes anyone think things are different today? I’m sure most ground level FBI agents have noble intentions, but unfortunately the FBI and the CIA are tools of murderers and thieves. In recent weeks, we have seen stories of FBI complicity with the mafia, CIA buffoonery, and now this story finally coming out despite the best attempts at killing the story.
This article also shows what an evil, contemptible piece of crap Ronald Reagan was. I would say IS but the man’s brain has long been swiss cheese. He probably can’t even wipe his own once evil ass:
The documents obtained by the Chronicle show just how extensive these activities were in California, how Kerr and others were targeted, and how eagerly Reagan worked to quash protests.
Gov. Reagan intended to mount a “psychological warfare campaign” against subversives, file tax evasion and other charges against them, and do anything else it could to restore moral order, Herbert Ellingwood, Reagan’s legal affairs secretary, told the FBI in a request for confidential information about people on campus.
The records show FBI director J. Edgar Hoover agreed to provide such information from the agency’s files.
“This has been done in the past,” the director said, “and has worked quite successfully.”
The Office of Ronald Reagan referred the Chronicle’s questions to Edwin Meese III, Reagan’s chief of staff as governor. Meese said the FBI, as far as he knew, gave Reagan no special political help, and that he did not remember planning any activities against “subversives.”
“There was never any concentrated strategy to do these things,” he said.
The documents also show that the FBI tried to protect Reagan from being implicated for lying about his own past as a member of several groups officially deemed subversive by altering his security clearance.
Reports that Reagan informed on his fellow actors at a time when the FBI was trying to root out suspected subversives have surfaced before, but were downplayed. In 1985, when the FBI released some documents about Reagan, a Reagan spokesman said he had only a “very minor” involvement with the bureau at a time when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild.
The records obtained by the Chronicle reveal who it was that Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, named during a 1947 meeting with FBI agents: Larry Parks (The Jolson Story), Howard Da Silva (The Lost Weekend) and Alexander Knox (Wilson). Each was later called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted in Hollywood.
The new documents also show Reagan’s contacts with the bureau were more extensive than he acknowledged or has been reported: Files show he repeatedly gave the FBI names of people he suspected of being communist over the years.
My favorite part is the justification for trying to destroy the lives of young americans:
In its unsuccessful battle to keep them secret, the agency had said its actions had been proper — that it had merely tried to protect civil order and national security during a time when the nation feared Communism and waged war in Vietnam.
What hubris.