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In reply to the discussion: FOX News' Roger Ailes is a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)40. Teachers take money for teaching, yet they have integrity.
Artists create and are copied, and that is honorable.
Scientists make discoveries that have dual-use, and civilization advances.
Why anyone would follow a NAZI is another issue, one that I wish Congress had asked Allen Dulles, specifically, about.
Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. In the end, he had come to realize that they were never really interested in American ideals of "freedom" and "democracy." They really only wanted "absolute power."
Angleton told author Joseph Trento that the reason he had gotten the counterintelligence job in the first place was by agreeing not to submit "sixty of Allen Dulles' closest friends" to a polygraph test concerning their business deals with the Nazis. In his end-of-life despair, Angleton assumed that he would see all his old companions again "in hell."
-- Michael Hasty, "Paranoid Shift"
SOURCE (web archive of Online Journal article): https://web.archive.org/web/20040202191752/http://onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html
Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch represent just one aspect of the NAZI connection to the undemocratic arts of propaganda. The role of propaganda in service of the secret government is another aspect that receives near-zero mention in the press or history books, yet while we feel its impact 24/7, most cannot see its influence all around us.
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FOX News' Roger Ailes is a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker. [View all]
Octafish
Jan 2014
OP
She was a roundbreaking filmmaker whos art has stood the test of time and is still studied by film
kelly1mm
Jan 2014
#3
The Vulgar Pigboy enjoyed a meteoric rise to help America become more racist, bigoted and NAZI like.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#18
The recruitment of NAZIS by various agencies and organizations of The United States of America isn't
bobthedrummer
Jan 2014
#41