From: f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Victor Marchetti (Was: Fletcher Prouty's New Zealand Story)
Date: 20 Aug 92 08:31:35 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <1992Aug19.203030.19569@cs.ucla.edu>, pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
> In article <1992Aug19.183300.27213@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:
> 
>>	I have no opinion on Marchetti and McGehee because I am not
>>	familiar with their corpus.  What I have seen of Marchetti's
>>	work seems to be sound.
> 
> Excerpted without permission from:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1991 by Chip Berlet. All rights reserved.
> 
> RIGHT WOOS LEFT:
> 
> Populist Party, LaRouchian, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To
> Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected
> 
> by Chip Berlet
> 
> Political Research Associates
> 
> ...
> 
> Liberty Lobby and the <Spotlight> took the Prouty thesis and combined
> it with its bigoted conspiracy theory about Jewish control of U.S.
> foreign policy. Since writing the book, Prouty has drifted far to
> the right, as has another CIA critic, Victor Marchetti, and both
> now have allied themselves with the Liberty Lobby network....

	[see original post for lengthy text]

> In 1974, Marchetti, a former executive assistant to the deputy
> director of the CIA, co-authored <The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence>,
> a well-received best-seller and the first book the CIA tried to
> suppress through court action....

	[txt deleted]

> Marchetti describes himself as a person whose "intelligence expertise
> and well-placed contacts have provided me with a unique insight
> into the subversion of our democratic process and foreign policy
> by those who would put the interests of Israel <above> those of
> America and Americans." Marchetti is also the publisher of a
> Japanese-language book <ADL and Zionism>, written by LaRouche
> followers Paul Goldstein and Jeffrey Steinberg.
> 
> Marchetti was co-publisher of the <Zionist Watch> newsletter when
> it was endorsed in direct mail appeals on Liberty Lobby stationery
> by the now deceased Lois Petersen, who for many years was the
> influential secretary of the Liberty Lobby board of directors. The
> October 5, 1987 <Spotlight> reported that Mark Lane had been named
> associate editor of <Zionist Watch>, which is housed in the same
> small converted Capitol Hill townhouse as Liberty Lobby/<Spotlight>.
> 
> While concern over Reagan Administration participation in joint
> intelligence operations with Mossad is legitimate, the use of
> anti-Zionism as a cover for conspiracist anti-Jewish bigotry can
> be seen in an article in the August 24, 1981 issue of <Spotlight>:
> 
> "A brazen attempt by influential "Israel-firsters" in the policy
> echelons of the Reagan administration to extend their control to
> the day-to-day espionage and covert-action operations of the CIA
> was the hidden source of the controversy and scandals that shook
> the U.S.  intelligence establishment this summer. "
> 
> "The dual loyalists, whose domination over the federal executive's
> high planning and strategy-making resources is now just about total,
> have long wanted to grab a hand in the on-the-spot "field control"
> of the CIA's worldwide clandestine services. They want this control,
> not just for themselves, but on behalf of the Mossad, Israel's
> terrorist secret police. "


	What point is it you are making with respect Marchetti?

	a) That his "Cult of Intelligence" is unreliable because
	   of his later political activity?

	b) That he is anti-jewish because he associates with Paul
	   Goldstein, Jeffrey Steinberg and Mark Lane...all Jews?

	c) That he is anti-jewish because he questions the policies
	   of the state of Israel?  Many people in Israel question
	   the policies of the state of Israel.

	As I recall from Mark Lane's book, Plausible Denial, Marchetti
made his mark by a gutsy article published in the Spotlight claiming
CIA agent Hunt was in Dallas at the time of or just prior to the
JFK assassination.  Hunt sued the Spotlight for libel and lost on
appeal when the Spotlight was defended by lane.  From what I understand
about the trial in Miami, poorly covered by the press, this trial
was the closest thing yet to courtroom success in establishing a
conspiracy wrt the assassination.







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