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Since some on ILE have been talking about Old Queens in government, ...

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suspect this feller is dave q's secret hero.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tadeusz
You caused me to choke on my ego !
Anyhow, there are reasons why the self hating looney did not go after the mafia
As well is there a greater honor as an artist to get a file started by him ( John Lennon, Aleen Ginsberg, Jaackson Pollok, Franz Kline, Bernstein, Dylan )

― anthony, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic for COINTELPRO and other acts of provocation. Otherwise I prefer the CIA, although G.Gordon Liddy made some cool contributions, not least in the fields of cookery and body modification.

― dave q, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fat fart in a bad dress

― Geoff, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That dress thing is almost completely made up. The only source for it is some woman who had never met JEH who saw someone in a dress at a party who she thought was JEH.

― DV, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twelve years pass...

1971 burglary of FBI office solved -- peace activists leaked documents to the WaPo:

Medsger's new book about the FBI investigation fills in some details. Hundreds of agents were dispatched to find the burglars. The FBI narrowed its search, building profiles of seven prime suspects. But they got almost all of the suspects wrong.

The burglars had been meticulous. They left no fingerprints, and they surreptitiously photocopied the files at the colleges where they taught. FBI agents did visit Raines, but he deflected their inquiries.

"With no physical evidence left from the burglary itself, they were faced with having to sort through a thousand or 2,000 suspects, and that was an overwhelming job, which of course did overwhelm them," John Raines says. "They never found us."

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/07/260302289/the-secret-burglary-that-exposed-j-edgar-hoovers-fbi

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:54 (twelve years ago)

yeah there was an NYT article yesterday too, total heroes

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:57 (twelve years ago)

yes I read that this morning, fascinating atory and "heroic" is OTM

― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:58 (twelve years ago)

*story*

― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:58 (twelve years ago)

I have read about how the FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into actually committing suicide any number of times and it shocks me every time I do, like wait, that wasn't in a movie?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 01:46 (twelve years ago)

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