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  1. For interested parties, I have updated my webpage on FBI informants to include a link to a new academic article by Dr. John Earl Haynes and Dr. Harvey Klehr regarding FBI Informants inside the Communist Party. A considerable amount of the documentation used in their article comes from my collection of FBI files. My webpage is at: https://archive.org/details/informants_20220318_2138
  2. NARA has just released new documents re: JFK assassination records at: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2021 However, there are no documents that pertain to Harry Dean, Edwin Walker, the John Birch Society, Robert Welch, John Rousselot, the Minutemen, Loran Hall, or any of the other "usual suspects" in Education Forum conspiracy arguments.
  3. In case Forum members are not aware of this, I am sorry to report the recent passing of two people who were associated with the Forum KEVIN COOGAN Craig Fowlie created a Twitter thread to honor Kevin here: https://twitter.com/socscipublisher/status/1235894762034606080?s=20 and Craig also created a bibliography of Kevin's published work and some links to online tributes here: https://beyondthefringepolitics.com/2020/03/08/kevin-coogan-a-bibliography/ ROBERT HARPER Robert's wife asked me to pass the word along that her husband passed away in January.
  4. I posted all Harry's FBI and CIA files online years ago. I also posted the FBI personnel file on Wesley Grapp. As I previously pointed out, Harry Dean claims that he provided information to Wesley Grapp in Los Angeles during the summer of 1963 (September to be exact). However, Grapp was not even in California during 1963. He was Special Agent in Charge of the FBI-Miami field office until March 1964! ALSO: Grapp was in Washington DC for training classes during some of the periods when Harry Dean claims he was speaking to Grapp. In addition, NONE of the FBI files about the Birch Society (HQ or field office) mention Harry or anybody matching his description except the ONE reference in the Birch Society Los Angeles field file where an Assistant Director told a southern California newspaper editor that Harry's narrative was entirely false, i.e. Harry was never an FBI informant nor did he provide any service requested by the FBI. All Harry ever did is contact the FBI when HE thought he had some information that they might like to know -- just like hundreds of thousands of ordinary people do every year. All the FBI did with Harry's information (with one minor exception) is file it away without pursuing it further because they never considered Harry as a reliable source of information about much of anything. Harry Dean is NOT a credible witness to anything -- which explains why no reputable historian or academic publication has ever given his story any serious consideration. The Los Angeles FBI agent in charge of Cuban-related matters described Harry as a "mental case" - which also corresponds to a comment which Harry's wife made to one of their neighbors at one time. Incidentally, just FYI, after I obtained the FBI-Los Angeles and FBI-HQ files on Harry, I then used the "search slips" located in those files to make further FOIA requests. The FBI search slips list all references to a name which FBI "name check" employees could find in any FBI index. Altogether, I found about 30 cross-references on the field office and HQ search slips which referred to documents containing the name Harry Dean. Many of those documents turned out to be about some other person by the name of Harry Dean---including (for example) an attorney mentioned in some entirely different and unrelated file. The very few documents that were about Harry J. Dean merely repeated the information contained in the FBI-HQ and Los Angeles field files. In other words, they were duplicate references because (in most cases) a serial was placed in more than one file. Lastly, I also contacted about a dozen people who have well-known websites pertaining to the assassination of JFK. I asked the owners of those websites what THEY thought about Harry's story. Without exception, NONE of them believed Harry was credible and, in fact, when you check the books written about the JFK assassination during the past 15 years or so, nobody gives Harry's story any significant coverage---IF they mention him at all (which isn't often).
  5. Hi everyone: The following FBI files and documents have now been uploaded into my Internet Archive webpage: https://archive.org/details/@ernie1241 FBI TRAINING MONOGRAPHS PERTAINING TO COMMUNIST PARTY USA Communication Methods of the CPUSA (11/54, 136pp) CPUSA Summary of Activities, January-June 1953 (8/53, 104pp) CPUSA Summary of Activities, July-December 1956 (62pp) CPUSA Summary of Activities, January-June 1959 (11/59, 44pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 1: = Theory, Objectives, and Organization (11/56, 56pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 2: = Target Groups (05/57, 56pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 3: = Techniques (06/57, 52pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 4: = Demonstrations (07/57, 84pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 5: = Press and Publications (08/57, 79pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 6: = Organizations (03/58, 94pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 7: = Art, Entertainment and Miscellaneous (05/58, 82pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 8: = Campaigns (06/59, 102pp) CPUSA Propaganda in the U.S., Part 9: = External Propaganda Media (08/59, 90pp) Role of the CPUSA in Soviet Intelligence (02/53, 57pp) Soviet Intelligence Targets in the U.S. 1946-1953 (09/53, 71pp) The Communist Front Movement in the United States (03/55, 96pp) The Communist Party and American Labor (11/53, 65pp) The Educational Program of the CPUSA, Parts I and II (05/54 and 03/55, 114pp) The Menace of Communism in the United States Today (07/55, 88pp) Communist Strategy and Tactics, Part II, Current Strategy and Tactics (03/53, 72pp) OTHER FILES and DOCUMENTS 1963 March on Washington America First Committee Arizona Patriots BALDWIN, Roger Nash CHURCH, Frank DEATHERAGE, George Edward DEPUGH, Robert Bolivar DOUGLAS, Helen Gahagan FBI Annual Reports (1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969) FBI BOCOV Program (Border Coverage) FEENEY, Leonard Edward (Father) FELLERS, Bonner Frank German-American Bund GOLDWATER, Barry M. HEMMING, Gerald Patrick House Select Committee on Assassinations KNOTT, Walter M. LOEB, William NICHOLS, Louis B. (FBI Assistant Director) PEW, J. Howard POUND, Ezra Loomis REUTHER, Walter Phillip SCALIA, Antonin G. SHINE, Gerard David U.S. House of Representatives Impeachment Trial Memorandum White Knights of the KKK of Mississippi
  6. I forgot to mention Dan Smoot's 1962 book, "The Invisible Government" which also presents what amounts to a "Deep State" narrative. It was preceded by Mary M. Davison: "The Hidden Hand" and many other conspiratorial paradigms about how our government was "controlled" by subversive forces -- including multinational corporations and "elitist" organizations.
  7. I don't see much significant difference between references to the "Deep State" versus previous descriptions used by the extreme right for 75+ years. The John Birch Society used the term "Insiders" to refer (primarily) to the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and other "elitist" groups that the JBS believed controlled (and subverted) our government. [They preferred "Insiders" after they lost an historic precedent-setting defamation lawsuit which cost them $500,000 and changed American Libel Law (i.e. Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc.). Presumably, they thought using the more nebulous vague term "Insiders" prevented further libel actions.] The concept of a "secret government" or "hidden hand" has been omnipresent in extreme right literature since at least the 1920's. Years ago I created a webpage in which I attempted to capture the general narrative used by the extreme right. See: https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/biblio-1 In addition, a Master Conspiracy has been posited by many individuals and organizations which they describe in the context of The Bavarian Illuminati which (they claim) took over and used the Communist Conspiracy. At one point Robert Welch claimed that a "Zionist Conspiracy" pre-dated and was subsumed by the Communist Conspiracy.
  8. David: I added few acronyms since 2015 without changing the revision date at the top of the webpage. I have also come across new acronyms as I have reviewed my collection of FBI files but I've been too lazy to revise that webpage---primarily because I did not think there was much interest. Yes, there are many items that have been discarded since the 1960's-1970s.
  9. FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED, below is a new comprehensive list of all my online Reports -- most of which are based upon material appearing in FBI investigative files. This list also appears on my Internet Archive webpage at: https://archive.org/details/linkstoallmyreportsnov2019 MY RESEARCH HOMEPAGE WITH LINKS TO ALL MY REPORTS https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/home ACADEMIC THESES/DISSERTATIONS ON RIGHT-WING https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/biblio-2 ANTI-CFR, ILLUMINATI, ROCKEFELLER LITERATURE https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/biblio-1 ANTI-COMMUNISM STATEMENTS BY FBI OFFICIALS https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/anti-communism2 ARCHIVES AND PRIVATE PAPERS REGARDING CONSERVATIVE/EXTREME RIGHT MOVEMENT IN U.S. https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/archives BUNDY, EDGAR and CHURCH LEAGUE OF AMERICA https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/bundy-1 COMMUNIST PARTY, USA https://sites.google.com/site/xrt013/cpusa1 CONSPIRACY THEORIES—NATURE AND PURPOSE OF https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/ct-1 DEAN, HARRY and HIS JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY PLOT NARRATIVE https://sites.google.com/site/xrt013/harrydean DENNIS, DELMAR (FBI INFORMANT INSIDE WHITE KNIGHTS OF KKK OF MISSISSIPPI) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/dennis DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO RIGHT-WING/JBS/ROBERT WELCH https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/documents DOOM STATEMENTS BY EXTREME RIGHT https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/doom FBI ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS, TERMINOLOGY https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/foia/fbi-info FBI INFORMANTS INSIDE CPUSA https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/cpusa/informants FOIA REQUESTS—ALPHA LIST OF MY REQUESTS SINCE 1980 https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/foia GOLITSYN, ANATOLI https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/golitsyn HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL – EXTREME RIGHT ATTACKS UPON https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/hfs-1 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Chapters 1 thru 4 (FBI Evaluations) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-1 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Chapter 5 (Harry Overstreet) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-2 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Chapter 6 (Civil Rights Movement and JBS “Experts”) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-3 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Chapter 7 (Right-Wing Critics) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-4 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 1 https://sites.google.com/site/ernie1241/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 2 https://sites.google.com/site/ernie1241a/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 3 https://sites.google.com/site/ernie1241b/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 4 https://sites.google.com/site/jbs9004/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 5 https://sites.google.com/site/jbs9005a/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – American Opinion Speakers Bureau https://sites.google.com/site/xrt013/home/jbs JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Racism and the JBS – part 1 https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Racism and the JBS – part 2 https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/home/racism-and-john-birch-society-2 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Racism and the JBS – part 3 (includes Chronology) https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/home/jbs-racism3 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Efficiency Research Bureau “Investigation” https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/home/erb JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY FALSEHOODS ABOUT “THE POLITICIAN” BY ROBERT WELCH https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/home/tp JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/jbs-members MCCARTHY, JOSEPH R. (SENATOR) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/cpusa/mccarthy MULLINS, EUSTACE https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/mullins SKOUSEN, WILLARD CLEON (FORMER FBI SPECIAL AGENT) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/skousen SMOOT, DAN (FORMER FBI SPECIAL AGENT) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/smoot VON BRUNN, JAMES W. https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/vonbrunn
  10. FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED, below is a new comprehensive list of all my online Reports -- most of which are based upon material appearing in FBI investigative files. This list also appears on my Internet Archive webpage at: https://archive.org/details/linkstoallmyreportsnov2019 MY RESEARCH HOMEPAGE WITH LINKS TO ALL MY REPORTS https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/home ACADEMIC THESES/DISSERTATIONS ON RIGHT-WING https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/biblio-2 ANTI-CFR, ILLUMINATI, ROCKEFELLER LITERATURE https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/biblio-1 ANTI-COMMUNISM STATEMENTS BY FBI OFFICIALS https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/anti-communism2 ARCHIVES AND PRIVATE PAPERS REGARDING CONSERVATIVE/EXTREME RIGHT MOVEMENT IN U.S. https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/archives BUNDY, EDGAR and CHURCH LEAGUE OF AMERICA https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/bundy-1 COMMUNIST PARTY, USA https://sites.google.com/site/xrt013/cpusa1 CONSPIRACY THEORIES—NATURE AND PURPOSE OF https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/ct-1 DEAN, HARRY and HIS JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY PLOT NARRATIVE https://sites.google.com/site/xrt013/harrydean DENNIS, DELMAR (FBI INFORMANT INSIDE WHITE KNIGHTS OF KKK OF MISSISSIPPI) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/dennis DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO RIGHT-WING/JBS/ROBERT WELCH https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/documents DOOM STATEMENTS BY EXTREME RIGHT https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/doom FBI ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS, TERMINOLOGY https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/foia/fbi-info FBI INFORMANTS INSIDE CPUSA https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/cpusa/informants FOIA REQUESTS—ALPHA LIST OF MY REQUESTS SINCE 1980 https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/foia GOLITSYN, ANATOLI https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/golitsyn HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL – EXTREME RIGHT ATTACKS UPON https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/hfs-1 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Chapters 1 thru 4 (FBI Evaluations) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-1 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Chapter 5 (Harry Overstreet) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-2 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Chapter 6 (Civil Rights Movement and JBS “Experts”) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-3 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Chapter 7 (Right-Wing Critics) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-4 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 1 https://sites.google.com/site/ernie1241/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 2 https://sites.google.com/site/ernie1241a/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 3 https://sites.google.com/site/ernie1241b/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 4 https://sites.google.com/site/jbs9004/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Documentary History – part 5 https://sites.google.com/site/jbs9005a/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – American Opinion Speakers Bureau https://sites.google.com/site/xrt013/home/jbs JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Racism and the JBS – part 1 https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/ JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Racism and the JBS – part 2 https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/home/racism-and-john-birch-society-2 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Racism and the JBS – part 3 (includes Chronology) https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/home/jbs-racism3 JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY – Efficiency Research Bureau “Investigation” https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/home/erb JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY FALSEHOODS ABOUT “THE POLITICIAN” BY ROBERT WELCH https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/home/tp JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/jbs-members MCCARTHY, JOSEPH R. (SENATOR) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/cpusa/mccarthy MULLINS, EUSTACE https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/mullins SKOUSEN, WILLARD CLEON (FORMER FBI SPECIAL AGENT) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/skousen SMOOT, DAN (FORMER FBI SPECIAL AGENT) https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/smoot VON BRUNN, JAMES W. https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/vonbrunn
  11. A newly revised edition of Chapter 14 of my online Report on the JBS is now available. This Chapter is devoted to presenting what is probably the best available information concerning JBS membership. https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/jbs-members The first section concerns the number of JBS members. The second section lists some of the more prominent members/endorsers of the Society The third section is devoted to summarizing demographic information about JBS members. The last section provides miscellaneous information about the JBS. More info: ernie1241@aol.com MY RESEARCH: https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/home
  12. A newly revised edition of Chapter 14 of my online Report on the JBS is now available. This Chapter is devoted to presenting what is probably the best available information concerning JBS membership. https://sites.google.com/site/aboutxr/jbs-members The first section concerns the number of JBS members. The second section lists some of the more prominent members/endorsers of the Society The third section is devoted to summarizing demographic information about JBS members. The last section provides miscellaneous information about the JBS. More info: ernie1241@aol.com MY RESEARCH: https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/home
  13. The Building Democracy webpage no longer exists. All my Dean-related files are still on Internet Archive (links provided in previous message reply to Michael Clark)
  14. Which links are you referring to? You can see a summary of Harry's FBI files here: https://sites.google.com/site/xrt013/harrydean OR The actual relevant FBI files are on my Internet Archive webpage FBI HQ FILE FOIA: Dean, Harry HQ 1 CIA FILE FOIA: Dean, Harry CIA 1 FBI-LOS ANGELES FILE FOIA: Dean, Harry Los Angeles 1 FBI-HQ ROUSSELOT FILE (contains serial re: Harry) FOIA: Rousselot, John H. HQ 1
  15. Thanks Robert. One of the reasons why JBS members and supporters often seem to win online debates is because very few people have detailed FACTUAL knowledge about JBS history. As a result, cartoon caricatures about the JBS and its positions often are substituted for rational and factual debate. Because much of their actual history is opaque, Birchers often get away with the most incredible falsehoods about their own history as well as denying the numerous associations or links between the JBS and very toxic and disreputable individuals and organizations. My chapter on "Racism and the John Birch Society" is a 3-part discussion (totaling 189 pages) which includes a very detailed chronology of those links and associations. That appears in the third (and final) section of that chapter -- and I don't think anybody has ever been able to compile such an extensive database. And I only scratched the surface! I hope that my FBI files collection which has now been accessed by over one million people will help future scholars, students, researchers, and journalists document our history. I am currently working on a new Report which is entitled "Trumpism is NOT New" -- which will summarize the arguments used by the extreme right and white nationalists and assorted bigots during the 1940's thru 1980's which mimic the current statements and themes associated with Donald Trump. Thanks again for your support! [BTW--the next batch of FBI files to be uploaded into my Internet Archive webpage should be available in late in March or early April.]
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