Sex & the Swastika

[Robert Pirani]

At 09:36 PM 1/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>What I'd like to know is, when this OSS psychoanalytic assessment of Hitler
>became broadly known outside intelligence and super-hepcat political
>circles. 

I think you've got the time pegged pretty well, again according to Rosenbaum
the 'Hitler Sourcebook file' stayed " ...under top-secret seal until the
late 1960's on spools of microfilm in the OSS section of the National
Archives..."


>As I understand it,
>however, most of the dirty truths about the U.S. intelligence community
>didn't surface until the 1970s as a result of the Church (?)  Committee
>hearings and some ground-breaking investigative journalism (McCoy's _The
>Politics of Heroin_, John Marks' _The Search for the Manchurian Candidate_,
>etc.).

I think this is accurate except maybe regarding "dirty truths" relating to
intelligence involvement in the cover-up (and more ??) of the Kennedy
assassination which was available in the late sixties in published work
(Farewell America by Hepburn and the Kennedy Conspiracy by Flammonde) as
well as the widely distributed "underground" ms. that was called the
Torbitt document. Some of this, especially Flammonde, was based on the
Garrison case, but quite a bit was investigative journalism like the works
you cite.

But I certainly had the same notion when reading GR at the heighth of the
Watergate scandal that TRP was pretty well informed about a lot that had
yet to reach the main-stream of political discourse.

Robert