Silent Coup is a new (to me) history with extensive details and documentation...many via taped interviews with the principals. The authors seem to be honest and without an ideological ax to grind. Their work is an outstanding piece of detective work. It was hard to put down but that might be because for those of us who lived thru this era found the media, even then, not worthy of trust. Their self created myths were too large to stomach and could not be credible. The authors do not discover any evidence to support my view that the search of the offices of the Democrat Party was prompted by rumors of foreign funding being raised and spent in unreported but large amounts. We know this has been done to influence American elections. I guess I was just ahead of my time. We know that it will be done in the current elections and in future ones.
Silent Coup has the ring of truth from my perspective as a very junior officer in the Navy in this period. The Navy, prior to the Vietnam Conflict was a small, well knit organization. A junior officer could, on just a signature, certify things that would travel unchecked throughout the Navy. I suspect that John Kerry's medals, for instance, came from recommendations for them signed by John Kerry. That may be why his service records have been sealed away from investigators. Covering up is a Washington, D.C. parlor game. The stonewall, as we all know, has been taken to new heights in the past few years.
But, Silent Coup is NOT the last word on this Watergate matter. The authors have made their materials available to scholars and they asked for further work in the area. One fruitful path, in my view, leads directly to the CIA. TIME Magazine, in particular, has long had a history of "cooperation" with the CIA. The CIA, for instance, placed their man in as Chief of Staff to Ike. The dampening of interest in Silent Coup led by TIME Magazine suggests to me that TIME may have been in their usual role as Cat's Paw for the CIA. Consider: what is one more book about Watergate.....unless it comes closer to truths long buried? TIME pushed pretty hard against an open door....too hard...is my guess.
Remember, "conspiracy theorist" is a CIA developed term of derision designed expressly to stop investigations...of the CIA (at least in the beginning). Yes, YALE did and probably still does provide many recruits to the CIA. And, would it not be a poorly run operation if it did not exert influence in its own interests? Does the CIA have other assets in people who seem to have no connection to the CIA? What do you think? Once again, it would be poorly run if it did not.
Reading Silent Coup one soon realizes that an enormous effort was made by the authors to uncover coverups not only of Watergate but of Bob Woodward and to expose him and WAPO for what they were and are. The authors soft pedal it but do suggest that there are further dots to be connected. My view is that success in covering up matters leads to a sort of expertise in covering up....sort of a standard procedure like Cover Up 101. The Church Committee looking into the CIA, Benghazi, the Warren Commission, the 9/11 Commission, the USS Liberty, TWA 800. Those familiar with congressional investigations have purposes other than finding truths and they are usually incompetent. The list above of coverups, in whole or in part, have not had the benefit of a Colodny/Gettlin examination.
Endless lying to a gullible public isn't new but Obamacare, Patriot Act, Iran Deal, suggest that it is standard procedure enjoying a tamed media, a co opted media, a failed media insofar as the public is concerned. The method of these authors is to be emulated. If offers quite a contrast to Gannett and other MSM hacks, in my opinion-it also destroys WAPO as a creditable source for anything. That the findings of the book are still being resisted means that there is more, much more, to be revealed. One guess is that Mordor is the CIA and the extent of its domestic operations long conducted illegally in America and the sordid history of same....but a reader can also make his own guess as to who or why the findings of this book are being resisted, spiked, ignored. Might be a better guesser than I am.
Think a bit harder about the current President and his policies?
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