Richard Melon Scaife a CIA Asset?

[RazzleDazzle]

This was news to me, this background info for Kangas' unusual death on Scaife property:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm

According to researchers such as Steve Kangas, Angus Mackenzie and Alex Constantine, Operation Mockingbird was not closed down by the CIA in 1976. For example, in 1998 Kangas argued that CIA asset Richard Mellon Scaife ran "Forum World Features, a foreign news service used as a front to disseminate CIA propaganda around the world."

On 8th February, 1999, Kangas was found dead in the bathroom of the Pittsburgh offices of Richard Mellon Scaife. He had been shot in the head. Officially he had committed suicide but some people believe he was murdered. In an article in Salon Magazine, (19th March, 1999) Andrew Leonard asked: "Why did the police report say the gun wound was to the left of his head, while the autopsy reported a wound on the roof of his mouth? Why had the hard drive on his computer been erased shortly after his death? Why had Scaife assigned his No. 1 private detective, Rex Armistead, to look into Kangas' past?"

[formercia]

1. It would not surprise me

The Mellon name comes up often in files about the OSS during WWII.Dr. Vandever Bush, the head of OSS R&D had great praise for the name Mellon.
The same 'Ivy League' Mafia went on to found the CIA after the OSS was disbanded.

[scarletwoman]

2. Read "Origins of the Overclass" by Steve Kangas

http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/L-overclass.html

The wealthy have always used many methods to accumulate wealth, but it was not until the mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient machine. After 1975, it became greater than the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists, think tanks, conservative foundations, and PR firms that hurtled the richest 1 percent into the stratosphere.

The origins of this machine, interestingly enough, can be traced back to the CIA. This is not to say the machine is a formal CIA operation, complete with code name and signed documents. (Although such evidence may yet surface — and previously unthinkable domestic operations such as MK-ULTRA, CHAOS and MOCKINGBIRD show this to be a distinct possibility.) But what we do know already indicts the CIA strongly enough. Its principle creators were Irving Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare, William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller family, and more. Almost all the machine's creators had CIA backgrounds.

During the 1970s, these men would take the propaganda and operational techniques they had learned in the Cold War and apply them to the Class War. Therefore it is no surprise that the American version of the machine bears an uncanny resemblance to the foreign versions designed to fight communism. The CIA's expert and comprehensive organization of the business class would succeed beyond their wildest dreams. In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of America’s wealth. By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42 percent — the highest level of inequality in the 20th century.

How did this alliance start? The CIA has always recruited the nation’s elite: millionaire businessmen, Wall Street brokers, members of the national news media, and Ivy League scholars. During World War II, General "Wild Bill" Donovan became chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Donovan recruited so exclusively from the nation’s rich and powerful that members eventually came to joke that "OSS" stood for "Oh, so social!"

(much more at link)

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[RazzleDazzle]

5. Fascinating

Thanks

[OKthatsIT]

3. The CIA doesnt protect Americans..its protects business

and that can be a foreign corporation, as well. The CIA is essentially working for the elite. National security has been redefined to mean ...financial security of the elite. They rationalize that the security of the elite, or the status quo, effects the jobs of the lower classes, etc.

Scaife is a fascist. So, sure, Scaife is an asset.

[zbdent]

4. Why would someone travel all the way from Las Vegas just

to "commit suicide" in the bathroom of his "enemy's" building?