Roosevelt/Hitler/Disney EXPOSED

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 11:43:33 CST 2013


also in terms of reception theory:

at first well received by those for whom it was committed, then it was
not distributed to a wider public even though common knowledge
locally..., and then it reached that wider audience - in the same
year, 1979 - the subject of an account by KR himself and the raison
d'etre behind the Iran hostage kerfuffle - documents in the Embassy
the "students" found

Then, in 1999, the coup was eventually disavowed and regretted by
official representatives - "...the Secretary will disavow all
knowledge..."

narrative-wise it was a novel treatment to my admittedly amateur eyes



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