Agent Walt (NP but vVL)

[joeallonby]

on 9/27/03 3:36 PM, Mike Weaver at mikeweaver at gn.apc.org wrote:

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.”

>>....beloved by all Americans, except for a brief period after the release of
his film "Nazi Supermen are our Superiors".
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