07-05-2010, 11:43 AM
Phil Dragoo Wrote:Allan
Fascinating tale. I have Horne V and see the cautionary tale pp. 1777-1796. On page 1794 Horne writes:
If Deep Throat was not who he said he was--a former ONI investigator who had kept current his ties within his former service--then he could only have such knowledge if he was a current member of the intelligence community, perhaps even an employee of ONI itself.
On page 1795 Horne writes:
Why It Was Done
The U.S. government's most effective technique in discrediting news stories and books that it finds unfavorable, or undesirable, has always been the use of ridicule.
Horne posits the government intended to ridicule him should he have accepted Deep Throat by having a stooge out DT as a fraud, or in the alternative, rattle Horne with the realization that he was the target of an op. He states such intent was based on misreading him as he neither accepted DT nor was put off his game by the op.
Allan, you offer a parallax view, a stereopticon of the government's game. I see much more than the usual marketing ploy of greedy publisher here. Rather, the hubris of the Navy spooks.
Which is enormous. Witness their complete ineptness in the incident contained in Moscow Station. More recently in their stomping on the midshipmen in overzealous pursuit of a handle on the electrical engineering scandal at the Naval Academy.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/13/us/an-...wanted=all
They began the JFK chapter with the defector program, selecting Marine Oswald as candidate. They now botch the extant op with too many Deep Throats. They protest too much: so eager, so desperate to get the story out, but in no rush to answer any questions. Which of course gives away their game.
Phil:
What do you mean by "too many Deep Throats?"