grgr4 Crutchfield or Crouchfield the westwardman (was Re: GR

calbert at pop.tiac.net calbert at pop.tiac.net
Sun Jun 20 05:03:20 CDT 1999


> > > > And paranoid --
> > > > "FDR's little asshole buddies" 68.18 are the CIA/FBI, right? and "Red"
> > > > here takes on overtones of communism as well as of indians, 
> > > 
> > > Minor point but "FDR's little asshole buddies" would be the communists
> > > rather than the CIA/FBI. He was accused by the Republicans of being in bed
> > > with them.
> > 
> > Commies, labor leaders - a lot of jews.

CIA/Roosevelt? Impossible. The CIA was constructed from the remnants 
of the OSS and other intelligence services AFTER the war, and 
therfore AFTER the death of FDR.

THough I am not intimate with the history of their association, I 
also recall there being considerable friction twixt Franklin and 
Hoover.

love,
cfa 



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