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Get ready to be flooded about all this Kissinger (Original Post) pinebox Feb 2016 OP
Woot! Go Bernie!! Thanks for bringing up Hillary's fondness for Henry K.. Brilliant. nt 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #1
Good. It's about time we had a national conversation about that monster Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #2
Seymour M. Hersh Autumn Feb 2016 #3
Wow. I lived through all of this and yet it seems new again Autumn Feb 2016 #4
Ok. n/t zappaman Feb 2016 #5
Robert Grossman nailed it without saying a word. bvf Feb 2016 #6
Kissinger had a YUUUUGE google search spike after the debates! cui bono Feb 2016 #7
Kissinger should never be allowed on the stage Fairgo Feb 2016 #8
That article should start with Nixon and Special K catnhatnh Feb 2016 #9
Flooded with Kissinger PonyUp Feb 2016 #10
Ack! raouldukelives Feb 2016 #11

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
4. Wow. I lived through all of this and yet it seems new again
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 03:50 AM
Feb 2016
The envelope was from J. Edgar Hoover--for Kissinger's, "Eyes Only." "It was this long, detailed account of Martin Luther King's sex life," Morris says. "There were transcripts"--obviously from wiretaps--"and indications that photographs were available." Some of the women with Dr. King had apparently been FBI informants. Morris was appalled.

A few hours later--sometime after lunch--Morris was joined by Larry Eagleburger, and Morris quickly showed him the FBI documents. "I was speaking as an old friend and as a Foreign Service colleague and I said, 'This is absolutely scurrilous stuff.'"

"Larry just glanced at the first page or two, with the ho-hum attitude of an aide reading a telephone directory, and said, 'Oh, yeah, we get these all the time.'" Eagleburger then went to a nearby file cabinet, opened it, and pulled out Hoover files on members of the NSC staff, including Morton H. Halperin, who had worked in the Pentagon in the Johnson Administration. Files were being kept on Martin Luther King (who had been slain the previous year), Eagleburger told his distressed colleague, "to blunt the black anti-war movement." Morris was not reassured, but kept his peace.

catnhatnh

(8,976 posts)
9. That article should start with Nixon and Special K
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:48 AM
Feb 2016

committing treason to lengthen the war in Vietnam...

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