How an ADL spy operation helped bring down the far-right John Birch Society - Kotaku In Action 2

How an ADL spy operation helped bring down the far-right John Birch Society (www.timesofisrael.com)

posted 169 days ago by BollocksToBolsheviks 169 days ago by BollocksToBolsheviks +64 / -1

How an ADL spy operation helped bring down the far-right John Birch Society

Researching his new book 'Birchers,' Matthew Dallek discovers paperwork documenting a successful espionage effort to thwart an anti-Civil Rights group deemed a threat by some Jews

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– BollocksToBolsheviks [S] 12 points 169 days ago +12 / -0

I'm headed down a rabbit hole in regards to Tom Braden, the guy sitting across from Pat Buchanan. I was not familiar with him. It seems he was a CIA man through and through, and even wiki includes the fact he used company money to influence American politics. In line with the congressman's claims in the CNN Crossfire interview, he was funding "anti-Soviet' leftists, ie moving the US more gently to the left. This was probably not public in '83 when this interview was done. Of course, his 'journalistic' career after leaving the agency was obviously not a retirement from his previous work.

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– ZeroPercentCamoIndex 10 points 169 days ago +10 / -0

Which proves that he knew everything McDonald was saying was on the money, all the while feigning his absurd scepticism larp and trying to undermine what was being said in the minds of the viewing audience.