I figured the Active Measures conspiracy would've been an old one in the CIA at that point, and I mentioned Angleton because he was notoriously paranoid to the point of making up these insane conspiracy theories. I definitely don't know that much about the inner politics of the CIA of the 1980s lol.
But yeah this dude is obviously being paid to scare Americans into loving the CIA and fearing anything left wing.
The accusations been around since the beginning, the Birchers in the 1950s were accusing Civil Rights organizers of being Communist plants under Soviet control and even accused Eisenhower of being a Soviet mole. Its just standard for anyone who thinks they're absolutely right, cant comprehend disagreement, cant handle they're not in the majority, and jumps to the conclusion it is all a big plot.
Ironically some of that shit is true. Communists were a huge force in civil rights organizing before WWII and I imagine a lot of the people working on it in the postwar era were Communists who left the party (which was most of them).
There idea of Eisenhower as a soviet mole is funny as fuck though.
I figured the Active Measures conspiracy would've been an old one in the CIA at that point, and I mentioned Angleton because he was notoriously paranoid to the point of making up these insane conspiracy theories. I definitely don't know that much about the inner politics of the CIA of the 1980s lol.
But yeah this dude is obviously being paid to scare Americans into loving the CIA and fearing anything left wing.
The accusations been around since the beginning, the Birchers in the 1950s were accusing Civil Rights organizers of being Communist plants under Soviet control and even accused Eisenhower of being a Soviet mole. Its just standard for anyone who thinks they're absolutely right, cant comprehend disagreement, cant handle they're not in the majority, and jumps to the conclusion it is all a big plot.
Ironically some of that shit is true. Communists were a huge force in civil rights organizing before WWII and I imagine a lot of the people working on it in the postwar era were Communists who left the party (which was most of them).
There idea of Eisenhower as a soviet mole is funny as fuck though.
communist =/= taking orders from moscow to dilute our precious bodily fluids