Never heard of it until I read this here:
Not only Cronkite and Rather participated in this appalling exercise [to defend the Warren Commission], so too did Eric Sevareid, appearing at the end of the last show and saying that there are always those who believe in conspiracies, whether it be about Yalta, China or Pearl Harbor. He then poured it on by saying some people still think Hitler is alive and concluding that it would be impossible to cover up the assassination of a President.
The Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory is pretty well known, but what is the one about the Yalta Conference? Or China for that matter? This is circa 1975.
Thanks! The idea that there are communists in the US deep state is pretty unhinged. As I understand it, Stalin got along much better with FDR than Truman, who is responsible for starting the Cold War and dividing Germany and Korea, so framing it as the West betraying the Soviets makes some sense.
almost all US personnel who went to china in ww2 preferred the communists to the KMT. this was part good diplomacy on the reds' part, but also their conduct in the war was, to yankee eyes, much more successful. none of the US guys were actually communists, they just recognized which side was or could help them beat Japan better, and it wasn't the KMT.
its more ridiculous than that though, after WW2 the US still swept in and handed the KMT the japanese-occupied territory, people talk about 'soviets giving red china manchuria' but the US held the coast and capital (very populous and industrial regions) for the KMT. until 1947 they still gave the KMT weapons. if, after all that fucking help the KMT still lost, maybe the nationalists just weren't going to win