Text 11724, 53 rader
Skriven 2005-08-26 23:07:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RAYMOND YATES
Ärende: Communism
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-=> Quoting Raymond Yates to Frank Scheidt <=-
 
 BF>>    As a side note: I read not so long ago, that in the mid 1950s
 BF>> the FBI had more than 400 agents assigned to "the Communist
 BF>> Issue" but only five that worked with Organized Crime (the
 BF>> Mafia).
 
 RY>> That's probably tryefor that time as J.Edgar Hoover (head often
 RY>> FBI for ages) stated that the Mafia did not exist. He held that
 RY>> opinion for dacades, despite evidence to the contrary.. and he
 RY>> was rabid about communism..
 
 FS> J. Edgar Hoover was taking the *easy* way out.  If you deny an
 FS> organization exists you needn't put any effort into fighting it.
 FS> If the FBI didn't fight the Mafia they couldn't *fail* in what
 FS> would certainly have been a most difficult battle.  Communism, as
 FS> it existed in the U.S., a very weak organization, was *easy* to
 FS> fight.  Catch a Commie.  Lock him up.  Get *loads* of favorable
 FS> publicity.  *These* days J. Edgar would be looking for
 FS> terrorists.  We can be certain many a "terrorist", caught by the
 FS> FBI would be shot and killed "while trying to escape" ... heh heh
 FS> heh ...

 RY> No bet there..
 
 BF>>    I can't help wondering, what would have happened if it had
 BF>> been the other way around. Maybe the Kennedy brothers would have
 BF>> lived long enough to prevent the Vietnam disaster to happen...?
 
 RY>> Hard to tell. We were alrady well into Vietnam before Kennedy was
 RY>> elected.
 
 FS> Kennedy, like his distant-future successor, Bill Clinton, was
 FS> more interested in broads than in anything else ... I doubt he'd
 FS> have expanded the Vietnam thing as LBJ did ... of course some of
 FS> those Vietnamese chicks are quite attractive ...

 RY> HOwever, Kennedy did increas the US involvement in Vietnam from the
 RY> levels Eisenhower had startd.. and changed the role of the "advisers" ,
 RY> too. too bd it all came out the way it did, had they gone with the
 RY> oroginalplan, it would have worked out a lot better and cheaper, which
 RY> of course would not have been nearly as good for Big Business.

Kennedy certainly *did* change the nature of our involvement from 
that of Eisenhower but *nothing* like what LBJ did later.  BTW, 
was the Vietnam War especially good for Big Business?  I don't 
think I've ever heard that before.

... Déj… Boo:  Scared to death in a past life.

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