Agent Walt (NP but vVL)

[Mike Weaver]

Here's a nice little illustration of a conspiratorial cock up I found when 
looking for 50's material
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f301.html

"... some mid-level bureaucrat, unaware of Disney's status within the FBI, 
had turned up what he believed was information that linked Walt Disney to 
subversive Communist organizations and activities in the early forties. 
Even more astonishing, of the two 'incidents' cited, the first, the 
'Council for Pan-American Democracy' had been attended by Disney as an 
undercover spy for the FBI, either by his own initiative or at the Bureau's 
directive, after which he supplied a detailed report to his Los Angeles 
SAC. As for the 'tribute' to Art Young, Disney had never made a secret of 
his admiration for the renowned artist's work, and upon
Young's untimely death in an automobile accident, Walt attended a public 
memorial, made a small
donation to a memorial fund for Young's family, and filed a complete report 
about who else attended the
tribute to his SAC. Somehow, the FBI had construed from these two incidents 
that Walt's political
loyalties were questionable. They did so in spite of his official SAC 
status and long history of informing,
his anticommunist activities, his government contracts, his involvement 
with the Hollywood Alliance,
his friendly testimony before HUAC (which he had been instrumental In 
bringing to Hollywood), and
his active support of the blacklist."

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20030927/3be4e02d/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/03