More information-dense, concise expository gold from DiEugenio.
This article should be on front pages and not buried in an obscure internet site no one reads along with its author.
Of course this eloquent, philosophical viewpoint is just the tip of an ugly iceberg that involves CIA terror and murder. It's what Bradlee's self-serving facade was designed to counter and cover-up. America is like a flimsy Hollywood set ready to blow over with the first winds of truth. When that facade collapses you'll see the tanks and storm troops it was concealing along with their ministers.
Holy crap!!! These two pieces start with a detailed summary of just how closely Bradlee and his Brahman relations were to the CIA, and end with a savage re-examination of the Post's real.. uh... let's say "focused" reporting on the Watergate scandal and the diminishing role of Main Stream Media in America. There are many important revelations between these themes.
The relations of Bradlee to the Pinchot Sisters and the facts about Mary's death are beautifully summarized. I had no idea that Angleton allegedly held Mary's diary for more than a decade and then returned it to Mrs. Bradlee who burned it. (It would be interesting to know if Jim Di believes this account.)
It was also a revelation to me that Bradlee actively sought to discredit the Veciana report that he (Veciana) saw "Lee Harvey Oswald" meeting with Maurice Bishop/David Phillips at Dallas's Southland building on Sept. 1, 1963. (If this observation is accurate, Veciana saw American-born Lee Oswald, who was probably getting instructions from Phillips on how to proceed with the frame-up of Russian-speaking Harvey Oswald, who at the time was still living with Marina in New Orleans. Harvey didn't leave New Orleans until Sept 25.)
This is a remarkable essay. Thanks again to James DiEugenio!
A Mr. Trowbridge Ford posted a comment on your story, saying you were too soft on Nixon, and that you had "accused" Trowbridge of leading the charge to oust Nixon. I realize that Trowbridge Ford himself accuses Nixon of having murdered LBJ. Perhaps you could elaborate, in another thread?
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
Thanks to all. Like I said, I am really proud of this two parter because no one ever did anything like this on Bradlee before.
And I am grateful to Bob Parry for printing it since I do not think anyone else, including Salon, would have done it.
As per Ford, I did not know he thought Nixon did away with LBJ. I mean what is the evidence for that? Sounds off the wall to me.
Ford used to post here but he got so obnoxious they banned him.
See, from my information, through Tatro and Marrs, it was Ford and David Truby who unearthed the famous Rubinstein memo, about Ruby working for Nixon. Back in the nineties, I though this was a forgery based upon Paul Hoch. I had not completely wised up to Hoch at the time. Today I am not sure if it is.
When I printed the fact that those two guys surfaced it, and it was a likely forgery, and they both had intel connections in Probe, Ford went nutty.
He demanded a retraction. So, to be fair, I went back to Marrs, and he actually had his notes from his phone call with Ford. Which confirmed everything I wrote.
BTW, I don't now what he means about me being soft on Nixon. That part of the essay analyzes only some of the faults in the Bradlee-Woodward-Bernstein version of Watergate. I could have gone on for many pages more as to all the things wrong with All The President's Men in light of what we know today. I have little or no sympathy for Nixon as politician or president, I mean, come on, the secret bombing of Cambodia? But what ATPM tries to insinuate about him and Watergate is simply wrong. Nixon never really knew what was happening to him. He just played it badly from the beginning. And then Redford went ahead and made it all even worse by glorifying Bradlee, Woodward and Bernstein. And consecrating their self serving mythology about Watergate.
The best book about Watergate is still Secret Agenda. But I did read three newer ones for the essay, Holland's Leak, Rosen's The Strong Man, and In Nixon's Web by Patrick and Ed Gray. I thought the last two were both good, especially the Gray book, which I would recommend to anyone. It proves that both Felt and Woodward were liars. And that Deep Throat, as I and others always suspected, was a composite. What Bradlee did in that case for Woodward, that is letting him keep a major source utterly secret, was unconscionable. Bradlee then tried to CYA it all by saying Deep Throat never fabricated.
HA HA HA. In the article, I showed he had and Woodward wrote it down in his book.
The article got too long. So I had to cut out a very interesting section. See, I think Bernstein was a fairly honest reporter. Especially compared to Woodward and Bradlee. I think Carl later understood what had happened. He had teamed up with a spook, in Woodward, and been supervised by a spook alumnus in Bradlee. He then quit the Post and was very instrumental in exposing Mockingbird in Rolling Stone. I think he did this to expiate his soul a bit for what he had been unwittingly a part of. In other words, he had been duped. But he had been well paid to be so.
Bernstein's long Rolling Stone piece Jim referred to above, imho, is the most important story Bernstein ever published. It never mentions Mockingbird, but it sure does explain how the CIA influenced Big Media. It was called:
[B]THE CIA AND THE MEDIA[/B] How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
Off-Topic: On the Anthony Bourdain show on CNN they let him describe the CIA overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran and installation of the Shah as well as the western oil interests that inspired it. Also the troubles that followed with the Embassy take over and US backing Saddam. Unusual for CNN.
Drew Phipps Wrote:A Mr. Trowbridge Ford posted a comment on your story, saying you were too soft on Nixon, and that you had "accused" Trowbridge of leading the charge to oust Nixon. I realize that Trowbridge Ford himself accuses Nixon of having murdered LBJ. Perhaps you could elaborate, in another thread?
Wasn't it TF that said Jim was trying to kill him?
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
But, you know, looking at Bernstein's article again, he still soft pedals the Post's relationship with the CIA.
He actually goes to Kate Graham and lets her deny she ever had any formal relationship with the Agency.
What do you call Walter Pincus then, or the Alsop brothers.
And don't forget Philip who went the same way as DeMohrenschildt.
Wikipedia:
Quote:Philip Graham dealt with alcoholism and mental illness throughout his marriage to Katharine. He had mood swings and often belittled her, calling her horrible names.[SUP][6][/SUP] On Christmas Eve in 1962, Katharine found out her husband was having an affair with Robin Webb, an Australian stringer for Newsweek. Philip declared that he would divorce his wife for Robin and he made motions to divide up the couple's assets.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Graham#cite_note-Felsenthal.2C_Carol_1993-6"][6]
[/URL][/SUP]At a newspaper conference in Phoenix, Arizona, Philip apparently had a nervous breakdown.[SUP][7][/SUP] Graham was sedated and flown back to Washington, where he would end up in the Chestnut Lodge psychiatric facility near Washington, D.C.[SUP][7][/SUP] During a weekend release from Chestnut Lodge on August 3, 1963, Philip Graham committed suicide with a 28-gauge shotgun at the couple's Glen Welby home.
