General Edwin "Ted" Walker

[Magda Hassan]

An interesting excerpt from an article about Gen. Walker:

...."Readers also need to keep in mind that Ted Walker was involved with the recruiting and training of the Special Forces. When Max Taylor, with Jack Kennedy's okay, officially recognized the Green Berets as a unit, the ceremony commenced with the passing of the colors of the First Special Services Force to the newly formed Green Berets, God only knows how Walker felt being passed over for that command, and then adding insult to injury, being accused of being too anti-communist, which in Walker's mind must have felt like being told he was too damn patriotic.

Well before Korea and even before WWII, the story of Walker's meteoric rise in rank is intriguing in that it doesn't fit quite right with a traditional military career. Rather, his rapid advances are more indicative of a man rewarded for his leadership skills in clandestine activities, counter intelligence work and covert operations. Imagine for a moment the humiliation he must have also felt over the order from the "control apparatus" for his arrest on the four federal charges? (concerning anti-segregationalist activity in Georgia) First insubordination, then insurrection, whatever regrets Walker might have had about his career choices was nothing compared to a new emotion for him, rage. Rage over being removed from command and forced into retirement by the Kennedy administration.

A decade or so later, Harry J. Dean, an FBI informant whod infiltrated Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr's John Birch Society reported that by 1962 an "arrogant and explosive" Walker had recruited loyal "extremist veteran rifle men" who'd served under him in Europe to JBS membership.".....

here is the article https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/...dO1CnOnK6g

Harry Dean is a member here and posts sometimes. If he spots this he may care to comment?