I have gotten a copy of Stalin's Secret Agents. It is a reprise, but also a reinterpretation of earlier disclosures regarding Soviet penetration.
Especially interesting re the back and forth w DK re Trump's Real Analog post comments.
One even has to distinguish between mere communist fellow travellers, of whom there were the most, from spies who usually doubled as agents of influence in official positions, of whom there were dozens everywhere which formed a strategic corp really.
These are more important distinctions than one might think.
The Soviets actually took down our State Department block by block from within our own government regarding anti Soviet views there. See Evans, Romerstein, Ch 19. Kennan complained bitterly about it in his Memoirs. They cite to his remarks there.
There is a note, a footnote, in Ch 19 re Drew Pearson's aggressive crusades in these pro soviet initiatives.
Professor Kaiser has lavishly praised Pearson, a pro Soviet journalist, on his blog.
Pearson took down Patton, probably on orders through David Karr. Does it not raise a question?
There is a great irony here, re Trump's pathetic and ostensibly impeacheable efforts to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor ostensibly adverse to Moscow.
How paltry and pathetic by comparison with what was done to us, from within, by the Soviets for most of the 20th Century.
Professor Kaiser has lavishly praised Pearson, a pro Soviet journalist, on his blog.
Pearson took down Patton, probably on orders through David Karr. Does it not raise a question?
There is a great irony here, re Trump's pathetic and ostensibly impeacheable efforts to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor ostensibly adverse to Moscow.
How paltry and pathetic by comparison with what was done to us, from within, by the Soviets for most of the 20th Century.
Monday, December 10, 2018
SEE VENONA DAVID KARR DREW PEARSON WALTER LIPPMANN MARY PRICE
Haynes, Ch 8 re journalists, p 240 and following, re Karr and the Pearsons.
Karr was Pearson's chief aide, and a Soviet agent. How do you have a close aide like that and not be a secret communist?
Certainly the Soviets believed he was firmly on their side, probably long before he hired Karr.
If Pearson wasn't a communist, he certainly put on a good act, masquerading, time after time, from a communist perspective and against anti communist targets, in his columns.
He ruined Patton, drove Forrestal to suicide, as his own partner Anderson admitted, and besmirched countless others.
Joe McCarthy had his number as, at the very least, a sympathetic and willing chump stooge of Stalin, although he wasn't believed at the time. Haynes, Venona, p. 245.
Drew Pearson Fallacy
Karr was Pearson's chief aide, and a Soviet agent. How do you have a close aide like that and not be a secret communist?
Certainly the Soviets believed he was firmly on their side, probably long before he hired Karr.
If Pearson wasn't a communist, he certainly put on a good act, masquerading, time after time, from a communist perspective and against anti communist targets, in his columns.
He ruined Patton, drove Forrestal to suicide, as his own partner Anderson admitted, and besmirched countless others.
Joe McCarthy had his number as, at the very least, a sympathetic and willing chump stooge of Stalin, although he wasn't believed at the time. Haynes, Venona, p. 245.
Drew Pearson Fallacy
Saturday, November 11, 2017
RE WHO WAS MORE DERANGED PATTON OR EISENHOWER
It has come out, over the years that the OSS, at the highest level, collaborated with Russia to remove and then to kill Patton.
The Americans themselves seem to have carried out this murder, although the details are shrouded in almost as much confusion as the JFK assassination.
The explanation given to Bazata by Donovan was that he was dangerous and deranged.
Drew Pearson was the slut patsy chosen by the OSS to convey this false story, couched appealingly in the Jewish private slapping story, (who was ill but nobody knew that or cared) to the eager libertarian American public.
One obvious question: Who was more dangerous and deranged? Patton or Eisenhower?
Patton had begged Eisenhower to take Berlin, and other Eastern European capitols. So, it seems, had Montgomery to his superiors.
Eisenhower saw no use in taking Berlin, or any other place over there.
So, was Montgomery deranged too?
What has any of that, really, frankly, to do with slapping an ill Jewish, yellow belly, Army, Drew Pearson bait, buck private?
Let's change tack, for a moment. Call it a pivot!
Why would you collaborate with the Soviets re Europe, killing Patton, giving Eastern Europe to them, when they had just, just rammed Japan all the way up your ass in the Pacific, resulting in a terrible life and death struggle in Asia?
What rational person would do that?
Let's change tack: whom do you, only now, believe less:
The NYT in 1964 re Kitty Genovese?
or
Drew Pearson in say 1944, re Patton?
Pearson was no more, and no less, self centered and unscrupulous, in 1944, and it would be really hard to ever be more self centered or unscrupulous than he, than the NYT had been in 1937, or 1964, or 2016.
Jefferson, also, re self centered and unscrupulous, had talked a good talk, Declaration of Independence, etc.
But he had kept his own slaves to the end, baby!
Terms search: pivot
Monday, March 12, 2018
LEONHARDT THE PUNDIT FALLACY
Leonhardt defines his and Iglesias' fallacy, 'The tendency to confuse one's own policy wishes with good political advice' much much too narrowly.
He is talking only about the fallacies the pundit himself makes!
Matthew Iglesias: The Pundity Fallacy: “The pundit’s fallacy is that belief that what a politician needs to do to improve his or her political standing is do what the pundit wants substantively.”
My own definition of The Pundit Fallacy really includes the whole American political system:
The Pundit Fallacy is
The American Political System Fallacy, in many ways.
Americans tend to believe their pundits, regardless of which side they seem on, on any issue at all, at any one time, and to rely on them, and especially on their flawed evanescent, blinkered, myopic but kaleidoscopic pundit reasoning, for the correction and maintenance of their weak and palsied political system.
That is what I mean by The Pundit Fallacy.
Punditocracy: A society that believes its pundits.
One really good example: The Patton Slapping Story that Pearson 'broke'. Pearson was not a hero, but rather a corrupt self aggrandizing slut. The story was fed to him by Bolshevik loving FDR administration operatives under the sway of Stalin.
Looked at this way, Pearson was nothing more than a hapless Stalin stooge, much as Trump, by his own efforts, plus the media he hates, seems now to be getting painted into a Putin stooge box.
Our media however, by the way, is no less a group of stooges now, as back then.
The Kitty Genovese Story, another media fiasco leaving egg on countless faces, including Bobbitt's. Yet the author of the Genovese Story retired from the NYT, after a long and successful career, and died, a hero. The verdict of history!
One really good example: The Patton Slapping Story that Pearson 'broke'. Pearson was not a hero, but rather a corrupt self aggrandizing slut. The story was fed to him by Bolshevik loving FDR administration operatives under the sway of Stalin.
Looked at this way, Pearson was nothing more than a hapless Stalin stooge, much as Trump, by his own efforts, plus the media he hates, seems now to be getting painted into a Putin stooge box.
Our media however, by the way, is no less a group of stooges now, as back then.
The Kitty Genovese Story, another media fiasco leaving egg on countless faces, including Bobbitt's. Yet the author of the Genovese Story retired from the NYT, after a long and successful career, and died, a hero. The verdict of history!
Terms seearch: punditocracy, Drew Pearson fallacy, Fallows Fallacy, Brooks Fallacy, mutton busting, etc
Friday, November 9, 2018
THE VENONA PAPERS AND VENONA DECODING SOVIET ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA TERMS SEARCH
Drew Pearson, David Karr
Pearson was, at best, an eager stooge of the Soviets, at worst, a Soviet agent himself along with his source. His relationship with Karr certainly must have been a close one.
That was certainly the role he played in getting Patton relieved of battlefield command, and then killed. Terms search: Target Patton, Drew Pearson fallacy
The hot, fetid, breath of closer scrutiny.......
Pearson was, at best, an eager stooge of the Soviets, at worst, a Soviet agent himself along with his source. His relationship with Karr certainly must have been a close one.
That was certainly the role he played in getting Patton relieved of battlefield command, and then killed. Terms search: Target Patton, Drew Pearson fallacy
The hot, fetid, breath of closer scrutiny.......
Friday, July 25, 2014
RE GAME OVER SIMILAR POINT MONTGOMERY LATER MADE PATTON PATTERSON EISENHOWER
See the discussion between Patton and Under Secretary of War Patterson, May 7 1945, The Patton Papers 1940-1945, p. 697.
If you happen to read this passage, then ask yourself: 'Whom do I believe, Patterson or Patton?'
See prior post, re whether to take Berlin, Patton Eisenhower.
See also: Drew Pearson
My favorite, so far, is Jack Anderson (Pearson's partner), on Pearson, on Forrestal's death.
See also especially Soviet Japanese Neutrality Pact 1941.
If you happen to read this passage, then ask yourself: 'Whom do I believe, Patterson or Patton?'
See prior post, re whether to take Berlin, Patton Eisenhower.
See also: Drew Pearson
My favorite, so far, is Jack Anderson (Pearson's partner), on Pearson, on Forrestal's death.
See also especially Soviet Japanese Neutrality Pact 1941.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
RE LITVINENKO BBC DREW PEARSON FALLACY
Couple of things jump out at you. I have not followed this matter really.
He definitely was a spy.
He was killed, moreover, more or less publicly, in England, in a way which simultaneously uncovered him to have been a spy.
In a sense, then, he was outed, as he was killed.
It seems to me therefore that someone was sending a message by his death to others.
What other conclusions could one reach?
It would have been easy to have killed him privately, but that was not done.
Patton, not a spy, you know, was privately killed, by 'truck', or rather, finished off secretly in hospital, after truck.
No one, on either side, say three sides or more, then or later, wanted his death to be thought anything other than an unfortunate accident, except perhaps, only much later, Douglas Bazata, whose conscience bothered him, if one believes Target Patton. Question: what indicia of reliability should one attach to such an account, Wilcox's, especially re Bazata ? Such indicia are well known. They have been used in biblical scholarship, and elsewhere, for decades. Maybe someone more well versed than myself in these historical corroboration matters can address such questions. Re The Drew Pearson Fallacy in this connection, see Wikipedia Drew Pearson.
Here was Bazata's obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/world/douglas-dewitt-bazata-artist-and-oss-officer-dies-at-88.html
He definitely was a spy.
He was killed, moreover, more or less publicly, in England, in a way which simultaneously uncovered him to have been a spy.
In a sense, then, he was outed, as he was killed.
It seems to me therefore that someone was sending a message by his death to others.
What other conclusions could one reach?
It would have been easy to have killed him privately, but that was not done.
Patton, not a spy, you know, was privately killed, by 'truck', or rather, finished off secretly in hospital, after truck.
No one, on either side, say three sides or more, then or later, wanted his death to be thought anything other than an unfortunate accident, except perhaps, only much later, Douglas Bazata, whose conscience bothered him, if one believes Target Patton. Question: what indicia of reliability should one attach to such an account, Wilcox's, especially re Bazata ? Such indicia are well known. They have been used in biblical scholarship, and elsewhere, for decades. Maybe someone more well versed than myself in these historical corroboration matters can address such questions. Re The Drew Pearson Fallacy in this connection, see Wikipedia Drew Pearson.
Here was Bazata's obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/world/douglas-dewitt-bazata-artist-and-oss-officer-dies-at-88.html
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