Sunday, April 30, 2006

Why did the FBI search Jack Anderson's files?

According to the official story, the FBI went "fishing" through the late Jack Anderson's files to ferret out information on the AIPAC case. Wayne Madsen -- yes, I know, but stay with me a bit -- thinks they had another reason: "That explanation by the FBI did not hold any water since Jack Anderson had not been active in pursuing that particular story -- he had suffered from Parkinson's Disease since 1986." Madsen, citing his usual anonymous "inside" sources, thinks that the feds really went looking for info concerning "Poppy" Bush and the JFK assassination.

Well...maybe. But Anderson maintained his column until July, 2004, and he relied upon "scoops" from a small cadre of field reporters -- Baker Street Irregulars, as it were. (Incidentally, that cadre once included Brit Hume -- and if you're the paranoid sort, you may suspect that he worked for more than one master.) So AIPAC data may well have found its way into the Anderson files.

If Jack Anderson had information linking Bush to the assassination, he never mentioned it in his column. In the mid-1960s, Anderson revealed CIA-mafia collusion to kill Castro. Later, the columnist promulgated a particularly ludicrous disinformation story, in which Castro supposedly captured some mobster assassins and "brainwashed" them into killing JFK. In 1989, Anderson hosted a laff-a-minute TV "documentary" promoting this theory.

Did he really believe that theory? I doubt it; no sane man could fall for such guff. What were his actual views on the assassination? Wish I knew!

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