COLGR49: Kubitschek

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, this kind of snuck up on me, the novella itself
not immediately handy (for all the damn copies I've
gone through of it ... by the way, what ed.? let me
know), but do happen to have at hand, of all things,
Charles Hollander, "Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic
Eye Views of The Crying of Lot 49," Pynchon Notes
40-41 (Spring-Fall 1997), pp. 61-106.  Magic Eye-Ball
sez ...

"... Juscelino Kubitschek was a Brazilian social
reformer, president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961, who
was forced into exile when the CIA (an insitution
closely associated with the Dulles family, longtime
lawyers and administrators for the Rockefellers)
directed a military coup against the popular,
democratically elected Goulart regime (1961-1964). 
So, Pierce Inverarity evokes the Standard Oil team in
a multi-generational feud with J.P. Morgan, and his
law firm reminds us of the CIA's role in postwar
American foreign policy." (pp. 70-1)

I'll be back on the Standard Oil thing here, but do
note that J.P. Morgan's personal library served as the
foundation for the Pierpont Morgan Library ...

http://www.morganlibrary.org/about/html/index.html

... which recently came into possesion of Pynchon's
letters to a former agent ...

http://www.salon.com/media/1998/03/10media.html

Anyway, J. Kerry Who?  But what do I know, I'm just
...

--- Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net> wrote:
>  
> I, for one, associated Kubitschek immediately with
> the one friend Hitler had in Vienna previous to
> WW1.  August Kubizek wrote a booklet about their
> acquaintance 'Adolf Hitler - Mein Jugendfreund',
> 1953.

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