[lbo-talk] Don't swallow the Deep Throat hype!

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 14:38:50 PDT 2005


Isn't it possible that Felt and Nixon were leaders of two competing gangs of "black baggers" and that Felt felt (sorry!) that Nixon's gang had gone too far, seeking gains for Nixon alone over what Felt perceived as for the Nation As A Whole (i.e., for Flag, Jedgar, etc.)?

On 6/1/05, Chip Berlet wrote: > W. Mark Felt is undoubtedly a nice grandfather, but he was a key FBI bureaucrat during the illegal COINTELPRO operations and later authorized illegal break ins of dissident's homes and offices. The claim that he only authorized covert break-ins (Black Bag jobs) of persons directly connected to the Weather Underground as part of legitimate foreign intelligence matters is a rewriting of history rejected by the the government officials who indicted, prosecuted, and convicted Felt of illegal activity.< -- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- K. Marx, paraphrasing Dante A.



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