27-03-2010, 09:07 PM
r Moves
This paragraph is from H. P. Albarelli Jr's unputdownable A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments:
David Kairys says prior to meeting with Colby, he his partner David
Rudovsky, and the three Olsons met with Mitchell Rogovin. Just a
few days earlier, Rogovin had been appointed special counsel for the
beleaguered CIA director Colby. Rogovin was a highly regarded civil
liberties attorney who, as noted earlier, and once served as general
counsel for the leftist Institute for Policy Studies. Prior to that, in 1963,
Rogovin had caused a minor national stir when, as advisor to the
Internal Revenue Service, he helped draw up a target list of tax-
exempt "right wing groups" for investigation at the request of
Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Rogovin, perhaps unknown to
Kennedy at the time was the CIA's Secret liason to the IRS
Commissioner, also handled numerous administrative matters related
to the Warren Commission's investigation of JFK's assassination.
(p.510-511)
How interesting that Rogovin should have been so deeply connected to the CIA! Probably this is not news to many others. But the connections to Colby are interesting, especially given its immediate context of the CIA's forced reaction to new 1975 revelations -- which only started with the Rockefeller Commission revelations-- about CIA involvement in the death of Frank Olson.
Earlier I had come across this IRS investigation of tax exemptions of "right wing groups" like AEI in another context. After learning on another forum of Sterling Seagraves very interesting comments about WaPost reporter Larry Stern-- who Seagraves believes was possibly murdered by the CIA in 1980-- I wen to research Sterns old articles at the Washington Post. The investigation of the Tax exempt status for AEI was one the things that Stern was reporting on for the Washington Post. When I get a chance I want to follow up on these tax exempt investigations. Interestingly AEI gets and got a tremendous amount of money from big oil and defense contractors. Today it is the most important think tank in Washington.
Also maybe interesting is the fact that many of Larry Stern's other articles for the WaPost in 1962 1963 dealt with conflicts between state and national govs over oil policy. THE JFK admin was fighting for greater national control. If I recall Udal, the Interior Sec. was at the center of several of Sterns 1963 articles,and seemed to be under pressure from both big oil and RFK... in very different directions.
This paragraph is from H. P. Albarelli Jr's unputdownable A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments:
David Kairys says prior to meeting with Colby, he his partner David
Rudovsky, and the three Olsons met with Mitchell Rogovin. Just a
few days earlier, Rogovin had been appointed special counsel for the
beleaguered CIA director Colby. Rogovin was a highly regarded civil
liberties attorney who, as noted earlier, and once served as general
counsel for the leftist Institute for Policy Studies. Prior to that, in 1963,
Rogovin had caused a minor national stir when, as advisor to the
Internal Revenue Service, he helped draw up a target list of tax-
exempt "right wing groups" for investigation at the request of
Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Rogovin, perhaps unknown to
Kennedy at the time was the CIA's Secret liason to the IRS
Commissioner, also handled numerous administrative matters related
to the Warren Commission's investigation of JFK's assassination.
(p.510-511)
How interesting that Rogovin should have been so deeply connected to the CIA! Probably this is not news to many others. But the connections to Colby are interesting, especially given its immediate context of the CIA's forced reaction to new 1975 revelations -- which only started with the Rockefeller Commission revelations-- about CIA involvement in the death of Frank Olson.
Earlier I had come across this IRS investigation of tax exemptions of "right wing groups" like AEI in another context. After learning on another forum of Sterling Seagraves very interesting comments about WaPost reporter Larry Stern-- who Seagraves believes was possibly murdered by the CIA in 1980-- I wen to research Sterns old articles at the Washington Post. The investigation of the Tax exempt status for AEI was one the things that Stern was reporting on for the Washington Post. When I get a chance I want to follow up on these tax exempt investigations. Interestingly AEI gets and got a tremendous amount of money from big oil and defense contractors. Today it is the most important think tank in Washington.
Also maybe interesting is the fact that many of Larry Stern's other articles for the WaPost in 1962 1963 dealt with conflicts between state and national govs over oil policy. THE JFK admin was fighting for greater national control. If I recall Udal, the Interior Sec. was at the center of several of Sterns 1963 articles,and seemed to be under pressure from both big oil and RFK... in very different directions.