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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 43
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
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[...continued...]
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One last item here that I'm gonna talk about (actually, review;
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we read this last week) concerns the curious associations of
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Geraldine Ferraro. Again, by way of taking a look at reactionary
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and intelligence infiltration of the women's movement and
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perhaps, at this point, control of the same. Research credit for
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this article goes to Ted Rubinstein, and it's from a Betty
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Beale(sp?) column. She's a society columnist. And it was
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carried in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on October 14th, 1984.
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It's featured by the News America Syndicate.
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Political Opponents Make Strange Playmates
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You'd never guess it, but ultra-liberal Geraldine Ferraro
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and super-conservative Roy Cohn are friends. In fact,
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Cohn, the brash young investigator of the Joe McCarthy
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days, may have been the first to plug Ferraro for the
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Democratic vice-presidential nomination.
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It happened at Cohn's birthday party last February at
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Regine's in the "Big Apple" [New York City]. It was "quite
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a do," says Victor Laskey(sp?), author of *It Didn't Start
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With Watergate*. "Our Ambassador to Austria, Helena von
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Dame(sp?) was there, as was prominent New Yorker hostess
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C.Z. Guest(sp?), Barbara Walters, the Rupert Murdochs, Andy
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Warhol, Bianca Jagger, the Charles Wickes(sp?), Baron and
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Baroness Ricky DePortnova(sp?), and Heaven knows who else,
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and the John Zacaros(sp?)." In fact, the Zacaros had been
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at previous Cohn birthday celebrations. [CN: As I
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recollect, Zacaro was/is Ferraro's husband.]
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It was at the last one, however, that the lawyer/host
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[Cohn] introduced Ferraro as the possible next
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vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.
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Playmates make strange politics.
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Now a couple of the interesting points about the Roy
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Cohn/Geraldine Ferraro association and the fact that Roy Cohn
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appears to have been the first person to promote Geraldine
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Ferraro as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate: Roy Cohn,
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although a luminary in New York society until his death, he was
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nominally a Democrat. But he was a loyal supporter of Ronald
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Reagan and obviously one of the guiding figures of the "far
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right" for a long time. Also, as we've looked at from the book
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*Farewell, America*, he himself was a participant in the
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assassination of President Kennedy.
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Now the fact that the Geraldine Ferraro financial scandals, as
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well as her husband's questionable deals with mafiosi possibly,
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and real estate manipulations, were a couple of the things that
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really damaged the Democratic campaign in 1984. It's
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questionable whether Walter Mondale would have been able to win
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at all. But when the Democratic campaign got off on such a low
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note, it was basically dead almost from the word go. Mondale
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never really had a chance, and Geraldine Ferraro is one of the
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reasons why.
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Now the reason, again, that I bring up the Roy Cohn association
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with Ferraro... And note, also, that Helena von Dame is a close
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friend of Roy Cohn's -- of course, her association not only with
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Ronald Reagan, but Nazi war criminal Otto von Bolsing(sp?) we've
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dealt with in Radio Free America show #3. Helena von Dame was
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Reagan's appointments secretary, drew up the lists of people from
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whom his gubernatorial appointments were made when he was
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Governor of California, and moved into the White House and became
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Special White House Executive Director for Personnel. She chose
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also, basically, the lists of people to be selected as cabinet
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appointees in this [Reagan's] administration.
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The question, I think, that has to be asked here is whether or
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not, perhaps, Geraldine Ferraro's alleged shady dealings and
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those of her husband were known to Roy Cohn. And again, the
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possibility of a Watergate-type counter-intelligence operation
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has to be thought of here.
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Now a couple of other interesting associations of Geraldine
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Ferraro, both of which can be gleaned from the major news media
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(I don't have them with me at this time, because we're sort of
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running out of time)... But Geraldine Ferraro first got her
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biggest boost as a congresswoman from a fellow named Joseph
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Califano. Joseph Califano was a former Pentagon official, a good
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friend of Alexander Haig, participant in the Bay of Pigs. And
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Califano was dismissed, basically, as Secretary of Health,
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Education and Welfare under Jimmy Carter, because of his sort of
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reactionary stands on abortion and other aspects of women's
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rights. The fact that when Geraldine Ferraro's badly
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under-financed congressional campaign took off, the fact that it
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took off with money secured for her by Joseph Califano from the
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Carter campaign is intriguing. (By the way, you can read about
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that in wire service accounts of the Ferraro rise in politics
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right about the time of her nomination as [candidate for]
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Vice-President.)
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Beyond that, Geraldine Ferraro's first press secretary was the
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widow of Santo Barrio. Santo Barrio was a DEA agent who, like so
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many of the DEA agents, appears to have worked both sides of the
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narcotics question. Barrio, by the way, died, and appears to
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have been poisoned, in investigation of a case (or perhaps
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co-operation of a case) called, "The Company," that we're gonna
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be dealing with when we discuss the inter-relationship of
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organized crime, intelligence and narcotics.
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So again, none of those associations are conclusive in and of
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themselves. Together, it's an intriguing picture of some of the
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background of Geraldine Ferraro. And in light of Roy Cohn's
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devotion to Ronald Reagan, one has to ask whether perhaps the
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Reagan camp, and Cohn in particular, were aware of just what
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Geraldine Ferraro and John Zacaro had to hide. Perhaps that was
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the reason they manipulated them into that position in the first
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place. Again, bear in mind the whole Watergate scenario where
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dirty tricks were used to help deep-six the McGovern candidacy.
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That more or less winds things up for the prepared portion of the
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broadcast. I'm gonna review very briefly what we've looked at,
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because it's been a long section here.
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We began by taking a look at Gloria Steinem, her association with
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a CIA front called "The Independent Research Service," and
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efforts on the part of Steinem and associates to block
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publication of that information -- first of all by Random House
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in a book called *Feminist Revolution*, then by the Village
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Voice, and finally by the Heights and Valley News, a New York
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community newspaper.
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Then we took a look at further information confirming CIA
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association with the Independent Research Service, that from *The
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Espionage Establishment* by Wise and Ross.
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Then we next took a look at a more detailed account of the
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Independent Research Service's work in breaking up Socialist
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youth conferences abroad. And in particular, we took a look at
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the fact that Clay Felker, who played a key role in setting up
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Steinem at Ms. [magazine], was an associate of Steinem's with the
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Independent Research Service.
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We also looked at the fact that Katherine Graham was a principal
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figure in helping to get Ms. [magazine] started and also a major
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stockholder.
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We then looked at the fact that Gloria Steinem's paramour for the
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last 9 years, at least as of 1984, was a man named J. Stanley
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Pottinger, implicated in an arms smuggling scam and, more
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importantly, J. Stanley Pottinger helped block the investigations
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into the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Orlando
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Letelier.
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After that we took a look at the fact that Ms. [magazine's] first
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publisher, Elizabeth Forsling Harris, appears to have been a key
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figure involved in setting up the assassination of President
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Kennedy.
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After that, we took a look at the background of Katherine Graham,
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a principal figure in the whole Ms. axis. Katherine Graham,
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first of all, was part of an "old boy" intelligence network
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inextricably involved with the Washington Post. Her husband,
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Phillip Graham, had worked with CIA official Frank Wisner in
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setting up one of the first CIA/media operations, called
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"Operation Mockingbird."
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We then looked at how the Washington Post grew, largely as a
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result of assistance from the CIA.
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We took a look at the intelligence background of Washington Post
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editor Ben Bradlee, and in turn his associations with old chums
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Richard Helms, CIA Director at the time of Watergate, and also a
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guy named Cord Meyer, his brother-in-law and a key CIA
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counter-intelligence official himself.
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We then looked at the fact that Phillip Graham, just before his
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untimely death, became very disenchanted with the CIA's
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relationship to the news media -- perhaps more importantly, began
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vocalizing this disenchantment. We then took a look at the fact
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that this vocalizing didn't last too long because he blew his
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brains out in August of '63, three months before John Kennedy had
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*his* brains blown out.
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We also took a look at how [Phillip Graham's] attorney was key
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intelligence-related attorney Edward Bennett Williams, who
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himself has possible connections to the assassination of Kennedy.
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Following that, we took a look at the fact that Mary Meyer, the
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former wife of Bradlee brother-in-law Cord Meyer, who [Mary
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Pinchot Meyer] was Kennedy's lover, was murdered in the aftermath
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of the Kennedy assassination, and her diary was appropriated by
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James Angleton, CIA Chief of Counter-Intelligence.
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We then looked at the proposed scenario by Debra Davis that the
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CIA manipulated the Washington Post and used it as a vehicle for
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removing Richard Nixon because, basically, Nixon wanted to be too
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big for the system.
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And we then also took a look at the fact that "Deep Throat"
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appears to have been CIA counter-intelligence official Richard
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Ober, again, a long-standing friend of Ben Bradlee at the
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Washington Post.
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Finally, we took a look at the close political association
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between reactionary attorney Roy Cohn and unsuccessful Democratic
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vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro.
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[...to be continued...]
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