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An Improbable Molehunt
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Contributor | Tony82 |
Last Edited | Tony82 Aug 31, 2004 01:27am |
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News Date | Tuesday, August 31, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Must be something to do with the hurricanes and typhoons — or maybe it's the street demos in New York — but it took longer than usual for me to get in touch with my late friend, James Jesus Angleton. The ouija board kept giving me a "no service available" message, but finally I got through. There was a lot of static on the line.
ML: Lots to talk about, huh?
JJA: I'll say! I knew counterintelligence had been gutted, but I had no idea how bad it was.
ML: Don't you believe the stories about a mole hunt in the Pentagon?
JJA: Of course there are mole hunts. That's what CI people do. But they're supposed to be secret. Once you go public with the story, you've alerted your targets, and sabotaged your own investigation.
ML: So you're not impressed with all the news stories?
JJA: Look, as you've said, if the FBI has a real case, they don't go whispering to the press about it. They go to the grand jury. They don't leak, they indict and prosecute.
ML: Plus, they promised their media agents — I mean the journalists — that there would be arrests, and pronto. Nobody's been arrested, and some of the latest stories even quote the "sources" as saying that the Pentagon target — my pal Larry Franklin — may well be exonerated. That's quite a turnaround in a couple of days, isn't it?
JJA: It's embarrassing. At this point, given the state of the "news stories," you'd have to conclude that the CI folks in the bureau are either incompetent or McCarthyites. Either they leaked information that should have been kept secret — if there is indeed any case against Mr. Franklin or others — or they are trying to smear him and some of his friends and colleagues. Including you, I might point out. |
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