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                               Chapter 3
                        You Can Fool the People

One of the questions always asked by the beginning student of  America's
political assassinations is, "How is it possible that all of this  could
be  happening  in our country without our knowing about  it?"   The  "It
couldn't  happen here" belief has been extended to, "It couldn't  happen
here without our knowing about it."  This is usually buttressed by  such
arguments  as, "The Kennedys would have done something about it,  if  it
were  true",  or  "Such a giant conspiracy would have  been  exposed  by
someone within the conspiratorial group", or "The news media would  have
found out about it and told all of us by now."

The  fact that it is possible to fool a majority of the American  people
for  a  long  period of time and to cover-up  a  high  level  conspiracy
involving  many, many individuals, can easily be demonstrated  by  using
Watergate as an example.  In fact, some published articles[1] show  that
the entire truth about Watergate has yet to be revealed.

We  do know now about the cover-up of the original crimes  in  Watergate
and the cover-up of the cover-up.  We tend to forget the attitude of the
majority  of  the American people, the Congress and  the  media,  toward
Richard Nixon and the Nixon administration during the period between the
June  1972 Watergate break-in and the November 1972 election and  beyond
into  1973.   Long before Woodward and Bernstein and  others  began  the
Watergate   expose,  a  few  researchers  were  calling  the   Watergate
conspiracies  to the attention of a small portion of the public.[2]   It
was not until late 1973 that the research done by these researchers  and
their  hypotheses about high-level conspiracies were proven correct  and
were generally accepted.  How did it happen that for more than a year  a
majority  of the American people were not only fooled by Mr.  Nixon  and
his  friends,  but also re-elected him?  Some of  the  same  ingredients
present in that situation were like those used in the taking of America.
We can all learn a lot by observing what they were.

What  follows is a reproduction of an article by the  author.   (Because
the  article  was  written in l972, some of the material in  it  is  now
obsolete.  However, it is reproduced here without changes to  illustrate
the  situation and attitudes of the pre-Watergate revelation  era.)   It
was  originally written during the Watergate cover-up era  (late  1972),
after  Nixon  was  re-elected and before  Bernstein  and  Woodward  were
noticed  by  anyone.  It should be noted that even in  1976,  Mr.  Nixon
still  had  his vehement supporters who were blind  to  the  ingredients
required to fool the people.

                        You Can Fool the People

     You can fool all of the people some of the time
     You can fool some of the people all of the time
     But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
                                      Abraham Lincoln, 1864

    The  decade of 1963 to 1973 in the United State of America  will  go
    down  in history for many things.  In the long run it will be  known
    through  the  world  as the period which  demonstrated  that  it  is
    possible to fool most of the people all of the time.

    Adolph  Hitler  didn't  fool  very  many  people.   He  cowed  them,
    frightened  them, and killed them.  But most Germans knew  what  was
    happening even though they chose to do nothing about it until it was
    too late.

    The  exercise  of  power to control what  happens  and  to  restrict
    liberties is much more difficult in a Democracy or a Republic.   The
    United  States  is  always held up as the model case  in  which  the
    guaranteed  election of the president every four years and the  two-
    party system, will prevent the country from being run by  dictators.
    The  people  are  represented by the Congress  and  also  elect  the
    President.

    A person or a group planning a coup d'etat in the U.S.  would have a
    completely different job on their hands than Germany in the  1930's,
    South  American  or African countries in the twentieth  century,  or
    France in the 1890's or Russia in 1918.

    It would be necessary to fool a majority of the American people into
    believing  that  they were well represented, and  that  a  democracy
    still existed, while at the same time the coup group were in reality
    changing the country to suit their own tastes.

    It  is  the contention of the writer that this is exactly  what  has
    happened over a period of time following World War II.  The  methods
    used  to fool the American people, certainly since 1963 and to  some
    extent  also since the end of World War I, have varied  slightly  as
    administrations  changed.   The  main  thrust  however  has  been  a
    constant  erosion  of civil rights, and a swing of  government  away
    from  the  best interests of the people and  toward  big  companies,
    banks,  the military and rich individuals and families.   The  trend
    was slowed down only briefly between 1960 and 1963 when Jack Kennedy
    attempted  to alter the situation.  He was assassinated  because  he
    did so.

    To  fool  the  American people is not  easy.   It  requires  immense
    capabilities, tricky, secret methods, hidden resources, great wealth
    and the equivalent of brainwashing or mind control on a grand scale.
    Yet  that  type of resource is precisely what has  accomplished  the
    deed.   It is probable that, like Germany, the American people  will
    awaken to what has been happening to them and to who has been  doing
    it.   It is also very likely, now that the Nixon administration  has
    been restored for four more years, that by 1976 it will be too late,
    in spite of Watergate.

    George  McGovern's speech on ABC Television, the evening of  October
    25, 1972, was a warning for those citizens who were awake, that  "it
    can happen here."  It's happening here, was his basic message.  Yet,
    unlike  Germany,  the people were silent, and fooled.   They  didn't
    believe him when he said, "Your liberties are being removed, one  by
    one."   The  Supreme  Court by 1976 will be  so  packed  with  Nixon
    appointees  that  we will never get our  liberties  back.   McGovern
    covered most of the areas in which the people have been fooled.  The
    major  area  he didn't cover was that of assassination.   This  tool
    represents only the end of the spectrum of techniques used by  those
    in  control to remain in control.  It has been used four times  very
    effectively,  on  both Kennedys, on Martin Luther King, and  in  the
    attempt  on George Wallace.  In the case of Wallace,  crippling  was
    sufficient to change the political outcome in 1972.

More  important than the use of assassinations has been the  ability  to
fool  the  American people into believing there were  four  lone  madmen
involved--and  no  conspiracies.   The techniques  involved  in  fooling
people  are  more complex and subtle than those involved  in  the  crime
itself.  In the Watergate case, the original crime was the use of  every
trick  and technique necessary to re-elect Nixon.  The people had to  be
fooled  into  believing that Nixon and the CIA had nothing  to  do  with
Watergate and the broader plan of which it was part.

That  the fooling part turned out to be so easy is due to a long  series
of conditioning steps taken with the American news media and the  people
over  the  preceding years.  The Pentagon Papers case  reveals  how  the
people  were fooled by several (successive CIA) administrations  over  a
long  period of time.  Efforts against Ellsberg and the press  continued
in order to prevent further decay of the fooling process.

How  is it possible in the 20th century USA--with TV and high levels  of
communication,  with  freedom of the press, freedom of  speech--to  fool
most  of  the  people all of the time?  Here is how it  is  done.   Five
ingredients are required.

INGREDIENT 1.  A PATRIOTIC ISSUE.  A fundamental issue permeating nearly
all  conditions of life in the U.S. is needed, around which the rest  of
the  fooling can be constructed.  The perfect issue since 1947 has  been
"The  Red  Menace,"  or  "Communism"  or  "The  Radical  Communist  Left
Conspiracy."   No  one is more adept at using this  issue  than  Richard
Nixon.

The people, to be fooled, have to really believe in the issue, from  the
heart,  from  the  gut.   In a democracy  this  is  the  most  essential
ingredient.  In the U.S. many, many people believe it.  Some believe  it
because  they  have  never  heard  or  read  anything  other  than  "The
Communists  are going to take over."  Others believe it because they  or
their parents or relatives came from Europe and "know what it's like  to
live under Naziism or Communism."  (They don't distinguish.)

Some believe because they are religious, and somehow religion is  always
linked to anti-communism.  Others aren't sure, but they think  "radical"
groups  might  be Communist controlled.  The flag waving,  the  national
anthem,  the  American Legion, our prisoners of war, the  draft  of  the
past--all  of  these  symbols  are  linked  to  the  one  big  issue  of
"Communism."

There  can  be  several  sub-issues  of  lesser  significance  than  the
fundamental  issue.  Some of these might be related to the  main  issue.
Others may be unrelated.  Some are used to appeal to certain segments of
the population.  They can be carefully exploited and added together with
the  main issue in a way which enhances it.  Some are useful  with  low-
intelligence-level  people.  Others appeal to bigots.  Some are  fearful
issues which people would rather avoid.  Others hit the individual right
in his pocketbook or his security.

If  played  one against the other, very carefully, many  of  these  sub-
issues  can  be blamed on Communism.  Archie Bunker, of the  TV  series,
"All  In  The  Family", was not exaggerating when he  blamed  his  white
niece's dancing with a black neighbor boy on "a Communist plot."

Examples of sub-issues used by those controlling Nixon administration to
fool the people include:

The black-white issue
The busing issue
The young radical issue
The law and order issue
The national security issue
The old-fashioned American work ethic versus poverty and welfare issue

INGREDIENT 2.  REACHING THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE.  To fool a majority  of
the  people  all of the time it is necessary to reach into  their  minds
over  a relatively long period of time.  Make an analysis of  what  you,
the reader, believe today or disbelieve, along with the mental condition
you  are  in when you enter a polling booth, or write a letter  to  your
Congressman.   After  some  thought  list  all  of  the  ways  in  which
information   might  reach  you  today.   You  will  list  all  of   the
environmental  factors,  self  images,  motivations,  ego  factors   and
acquired  beliefs that make you do what you do, and make you think  what
you think.

You  will  realize  that  your heritage,  your  schooling,  your  life's
experience, and the present bombardment of information have an impact on
how  you  vote.  If your father and grandfather before you  were  strong
Republicans  or Democrats, you may well vote the same "pull  one  lever"
way.   You might close your mind to any messages of  imminent  disaster,
and  think,  "I'm  better  off not  knowing  and  just  voting  straight
Republican." (In 1972)

You  might  have strong faith in the "American way of life" and  pay  no
attention to the people who go around claiming that John Kennedy, Martin
Luther  King  and  Robert Kennedy were all murdered by  elements  of  an
invisible  government  to  keep  the  U.S.  on  the  military,  wealthy,
conservative track.

You  might  ignore solid evidence regarding Lee Harvey  Osward's,  James
Earl  Ray's or Sirhan Sirhan's actions and instead rely on a  long-term,
well engineered faith that something like that "couldn't happen here."

Go back in time to 1935, if you are over 50, or go back to 1945, if  you
are over 40, or back to 1955, if you are over 30.  Examine your  general
overall attitudes, beliefs and prejudices as developed over that  period
of  time  between then and now.  You will discover that  your  political
beliefs  about the U.S., the Presidency, foreign policy, wage and  price
controls,  and  your own economic conditions, etc., have  been  strongly
influenced by the various news media.

INGREDIENT  3.   CONTROLLING THE NEWS MEDIA.  In Chapter 9,  the  author
proves  that  it has been possible for a very small group of  people  in
power to control or fool nearly all of the major news media in the  U.S.
about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and subsequent investigations
conducted by groups other than the sources of power (Warren  Commission,
FBI, Secret Service, CIA, Justice Department, the President).

According to polls taken between 1963 and 1970, 50% to 80% of the public
at  one  time  or  another  during this  period  believed  there  was  a
conspiracy.   Nevertheless,  the  major news  media  took  the  opposite
position.   A poll conducted today would, no doubt, show about  one-half
of  the people believing there was no conspiracy.  How did this  happen?
Is   it   conceivable  that  the  power  sources   of   two   succeeding
administrations (Johnson and Nixon) fooled or controlled the news  media
to that extent?

The  problem  is  not  so difficult as it  seems.   Only  sixteen  media
organizations  are  involved.   These sixteen provide each  of  us  with
nearly  all  of  the  news we either read, see  or  hear.   It  is  only
necessary to control the sixteen men at the very top and that is exactly
what happened.  The proof contained in Chapter 9 contains specific facts
about what happened inside of eleven of the sixteen organizations.

Some  of  them  maintained an editorial  position  oriented  toward  the
possibility  of conspiracy for several years.  The last ones to  convert
because  of high level command decisions (at the *owner* level--not  the
editorial  level)  did  not  do so until 1969, 5  1/2  years  after  the
assassination.   Several of the eleven conducted their  own  independent
investigations  and  discovered conspiracy evidence sufficient  to  take
that  stand.   Among these were CBS, Life Magazine, and  "The  New  York
Times."

The sixteen media organizations are:

 1. NBC-TV and Radio
 2. CBS-TV and Radio
 3. ABC-TV and Radio
 4. Associated Press
 5. United Press International
 6. Time-Life
 7. McGraw Hill - Business Week
 8. Newsweek
 9. U.S. News and World Report
10. New York Times and their news service
11. Washington Post and their news service
12. Metromedia News Network TV and Radio
13. Westinghouse Radio News Network
14. Capital City Broadcasting Radio Network
15. North American Newspaper Alliance
16. Gannett News Service


Controlling the news media to that extent in order to fool the people is
an extreme act.  It is a last resort in an extremely serious  situation.
Such a situation arose when it became obvious to those in power that Jim
Garrison was going to expose the truth about the assassination in court.
He had to be destroyed, and he was, by fooling the news media as well as
the people.

Control  of  the  press by the power group slipped  a  little  with  the
Pentagon  Papers,  the Mylai episode, the Green Berets, the FBI  use  of
spying, and the Watergate caper.  But effective control over the fooling
of  the  people nevertheless remains.  With  Watergate,  people  fooling
shifted  from  controlling  the news media, which  suddenly  awakened  a
little too late, to the control of the the legal system.

INGREDIENT 4.  CONTROLLING THE LEGAL SYSTEM.  Perhaps the most important
long-range  ingredient in fooling the people of America is  the  control
and  influence over the legal system.  The U.S. in the post-war era  has
reached  the stage where, in case of doubt on a major issue, the  people
will wait to see how it is resolved by the courts.  The American  people
in general have always had tremendous faith in their own legal system.

With the exception of the South taking issue with the Warren court  over
black rights, the American people tend to believe that the Supreme Court
will  eventually  right any wrongs.  The faith goes  much  further  than
adjudication  of  crimes or disputes.  People have come to rely  on  the
legal system to tell them where the truth lies on a major issue when two
sides  differ completely on the facts.  They believe that the  adversary
procedure and the perjury penalty system will ferret out the truth.

Thus, to fool the people, and make them believe lies, it is essential to
control the legal system.  The Nixon and Johnson administrations and the
Invisible  Government  lying  underneath  or off to  one  side  of  both
administrations  became very adept at controlling the legal system.   It
can  be  done,  and has been done in several ways.   Nixon,  of  course,
loaded  the Supreme Court.  That is important.  The complete control  of
the  Justice Department and the FBI is also obvious.  Not so obvious  is
the  need  to control Federal judges throughout the land.   Truth  might
leak  out in a trial at a local level, so U.S. courts in each area  must
be controlled.

The  Federal grand jury scheme worked out by Nixon, Mitchell and  Robert
Mardian  is  a  beautiful way to guide, direct  and  control  the  legal
system.   It more than proved its worth in fooling the people  in  cases
involving classified documents, the Black Panthers and other  situations
where the truth had to be obscured.

Control  over  the American Bar Association and individual  lawyers  and
district  attorneys  is another method used.  And finally, it  is  often
useful  to  control local and state police, either  individually  or  in
groups.

The  exercise of control is important.  It may be desirable to  suppress
truth in a court situation during a trial or hearings.  The judge can do
this  very effectively.  It may also be desirable to delay a trial or  a
hearing in which the truth might be exposed.  Judges and lawyers can  do
this quite easily.  It may be desirable to entirely shut off a trial  or
an  appeal where truth could be exposed.  Nixon was able to do  this  to
perfection.

Lies  and fake cases may be presented as truth in court while  truth  is
attacked as being falsehood.  This technique has been very successful.

All of this takes both money and power.  Judges and lawyers, must either
be  paid  a lot of money, or frightened about their career  and  health.
The CIA conduits used for espionage financing have been used extensively
in  controlling the legal system.  Power has been used to control  lower
courts and local police or district attorneys from the highest source of
power in America, the invisible government.

A few examples will suffice to demonstrate how the legal system is  used
to fool the people.

The 1972 election demonstrated that two-thirds of the people either  did
not  associate  Mr.  Nixon with the Watergate  affair  and  the  Chapin-
Segretti  sabotage project, or else they didn't know about it or  didn't
care.

Surely, you say, a traditional American patriot would not vote for a man
who  did  all  of the things the Watergate  7  and  Chapin-Segretti  and
company  did.  But wait!  The situation as of January 1973 had  not  yet
reached the courts.  Except for Bernard Barker's conviction for  falsely
using  his notary public seal to stamp a check from Kenneth Dahlberg  in
Florida, no court actions had taken place.

Wasn't  that lucky for the Republicans, you say.  It wasn't  luck.   The
Watergate  arrests took place in June 1972.  By successfully delaying  a
whole series of trials and court actions, Mr. Nixon, through control  of
the courts, kept the truth away from the people until after the election
on November 7.  Perhaps some of the people who voted for him had doubts,
but  if court cases had been conducted before November 7, and  conducted
fairly by uncontrolled judges, the truth would have been exposed in  all
of its glory.

Now  that he had a powerful mandate from the people, it was likely  that
other  forms  of control would be used to continue  fooling  the  people
about  Watergate.   Some of these were covered in  the  prior  chapters.
Executive privilege has been used to a major extent.

Clay  Shaw  was actually defended and Garrison, in effect,  was  put  on
trial, through CIA money and CIA lawyers.  Garrison's attempts to  bring
Shaw  to trial for perjury were successfully blocked by  Federal  courts
and judges.

Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the murder of Robert Kennedy was controlled by
the  Nixon  administration in order to hide the truth from  the  people.
The  case  involved  controlling the judge at the  trial,  the  district
attorney,  the lawyers for Sirhan, the Los Angeles police, the FBI,  and
some of the officials of the state of California.  The control exercised
has continued to prevent Sirhan from receiving a new trial based on  new
evidence of what happened in the assassination.

THE FIVE BIG EVENTS.  The five events since World War II about which the
power control group must continue to fool the American people about  are
the  assassinations  of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and  Martin  Luther
King;  the attempted assassination of George Wallace;  and the Watergate
episode.   (In 1973, the truth about Chappaquiddick and its  importance,
together  with  the threats against Jackie Kennedy, Ethel  Kennedy,  Ted
Kennedy  and  all  of  the  Kennedy  children,  had  not  been  exposed.
Chappaquiddick is the sixth big event.)

All other things this group has done since 1947 fade into insignificance
compared  to  these five.  The reason is that the  American  people  may
accept such things as the Pueblo incident, the Gulf of Tonkin fake,  the
Mylai incident, the Pentagon Papers, the Kent State killings, the frame-
ups of the Black Panthers and their murders, and even the whole Viet Nam
war,  but they would rise up in wrath if the truth about any one or  all
of those five events were exposed.

Thus,  Mr.  Hanson for Sirhan, Mr. Fensterwald for James Earl  Ray,  Mr.
Lawrence O'Brien and the Watergate suit--anyone opposing the findings of
the  Warren Commission with national prominence and success--and  anyone
who  begins to pry too much into George Wallace's brush with death  will
be opposed with all the power those in control can muster.  Each will be
dealt with if he comes too close, just as Jim Garrison was dealt with by
both  the Johnson and Nixon administrations.  Garrison managed  to  beat
out  the  Nixon-controlled  Justice  Department  in  his  own  trial  in
September 1973.  The jury in New Orleans found him innocent in spite  of
the  fact  that the prosecuting attorney, the judge,  the  key  witness,
Pershing  Gervais, and the news media were all controlled by  Nixon  and
Mitchell.  By late 1973 it was becoming a little more difficult to  fool
the people.

INGREDIENT  5.  PAID COLUMNISTS OR LACKEYS.  Control of the  news  media
includes   controlling   or   hiring   selected   columnists,   newsmen,
commentators, and lackeys.  Sometimes these people are called "spokesmen
for  the  administration."   Many of them  are  supposedly  independent.
Their  importance in the process of fooling the people has increased  as
the number of independent news media organizations has decreased and the
number  of organizations relying on syndicated, national  columnists  or
commentators has increased.

The  Nixon administration managed to corral a great many more  of  these
types  than did the administrations of Johnson, Kennedy, or  Eisenhower.
In the newspaper field, there were four to five times as many columnists
writing  "fool the people" type news for Nixon as against Nixon.   Alsop
was  at one extreme.  More subtle were writers like C.L.  Sulzberger  in
the "New York Times" and Gary Wills in various conservative papers.   On
radio,  the Westinghouse network used four commentators who appeared  to
be  liberal at first glance, but who adhered to the party line when  the
time  came  to  get at the truth about the  five  key  events  mentioned
earlier.  These four were Peter Lisagor, Rod McCleish, Simeon Booker and
Irwin Cannon.

William  Safire, Evans and Novak, Mary McCarthy, and  occasionally  Jack
Anderson  also  fall into the "fool the people" column.  The  impact  of
these  columnists on the American people has not really  been  measured.
Alsop's  and Evans and Novak's columns appear in Republican  and  right-
wing  newspapers all across the U.S.  The election poll  that  indicated
over  700  newspapers  supported Nixon while  fewer  than  50  supported
McGovern  provides  some estimate of how influential  these  papers  and
columnists  can be.  With the exception of two or three stories by  Jack
Anderson  about Robert Kennedy and plots to assassinate Castro, none  of
the  evidence about the truth pertaining to the assassinations has  ever
appeared  in any of these columns.  Yet the American people  read  these
columns more faithfully than they read the front page.

HOW  THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FOOLED. Now that the ingredients  for  fooling
the  people have been discussed, let's examine the net results over  the
past twenty-five years.  Between 1957 and 1972, there was a  culmination
in  the use of these ingredients, many of which were developed with  the
end of World War II.

Through a succession of presidencies and political party administrations
from  Truman  to  Nixon a mixture of  wealthy,  military  and  espionage
individuals developed a power base and used the five ingredients to fool
the people.  Except for John Kennedy, none of the presidents tried  very
hard  to  resist  this power.  The book  "Farewell  America"  (by  James
Hepburn--a  pseudonym--Frontiers  Press), which has  been  reprinted  in
sections in "Computers and Automation" (1973) shows clearly what kind of
power JFK tried to resist and how it resulted in his death.

The  American people aren't familiar with this book any more  than  they
are familiar with a movie made from the book, with the same title.   And
as long as the group remains in power, the book and movie will be banned
from the United States, just as "Z" was banned in Greece.

The  people of America were fooled into believing each of the  following
untruths:

Kent State:

    The  National  Guard fired under intense pressure and  attack  by  a
    bunch  of  hoodlums  at Kent State University.   The  various  grand
    juries  have  vindicated  the  Guard.   There  was  no  White  House
    influence involved in the killings, or in the aftermath.

Mylai:

    Calley  was  justified in shooting the civilians  at  Mylai  because
    those  were  his orders.  You can't tell a "gook" from a  Viet  Cong
    and, after all, war is war.

Communism:

    The  greatest  threat  to American freedom is still  a  world-  wide
    Communist  take-over.  The domino theory may or may not be  correct,
    but we must never give up a fight.  "Peace with honor" was essential
    in Viet Nam.

Pentagon Papers:

    Few people have taken the time to read the Pentagon Papers and  have
    understood their significance.  The two-thirds majority who  elected
    Nixon  in 1972 may have been puzzled by the papers or they  may  not
    have cared.  No doubt, most of them believed Ellsberg a traitor  and
    worthy  of  jail.  It is very unlikely they will ever  believe  they
    were  duped  by Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and  Nixon  and
    most particularly by the CIA and allies in matters pertaining to the
    cold war and Communism.  The fundamental, gut issue of the Communist
    conspiracy overrides any other revelation in this field.

Assassinations:

    In  spite of polls and uneasy feelings, at least half and perhaps  a
    majority  of  the American people still believe that  John  Kennedy,
    Robert  Kennedy  and  Martin Luther King were  assassinated  by  Lee
    Harvey  Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray, respectively,  and
    that  the assassination attempt on George Wallace was solely  Arthur
    Bremer's  doing.  They believe these men acted alone and  that  they
    were madmen. (This statement pertains to the period of 1972-73.)

Watergate:

    Prior  to the election in November 1972, a majority of the  American
    people believed that Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Maurice Stans and
    everyone  else  of importance in the White House had nothing  to  do
    with  the Watergate affair or the activities of Donald Segretti  and
    others  prior to the election.  Almost no one believed that the  CIA
    was  involved in setting up Nixon so as to capture and  control  the
    executive to an even greater degree.

Democracy and Freedom:

    By  the  end of 1973 a relatively large percentage of  the  American
    people  still  did  not relate any of  the  foregoing  incidents  or
    situations  to  their  own  individual  liberties.   They   believed
    patriotically  in America;  they believed we still had a  democracy;
    they believed that President Nixon, with his wise ways and  business
    experience would pull us out of whatever problems we had.  From  the
    time  he  nailed  Alger Hiss and the day he won  the  great  kitchen
    debate with Kruschev, Nixon was believed to be the leader who  would
    secure  our eventual victory over Communism.  The people  refuse  to
    consider  the  possibility that unknown forces have  seized  control
    over the U.S. for the last fifteen years and that our liberties  and
    democracy are fading away.
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 [1] "Nixon and the Mafia" -- Jeff Gerth, "Sundance Magazine,"  December
     1972.   Charles  Colson  Interview,  by  Dick  Russell  -   "Argosy
     Magazine," March 1976

 [2] "Why  Was  Martha  Mitchell  Kidnapped?"  --  Mae  Brussell,   "The
     Realist," August 1972

     "The June 1972 Raid on Democratic Party Headquarters -- Part 1"  --
     R.E. Sprague, "Computers & Automation," August 1972

     "The  Raid  on  Democratic  Party  Headquarters  --  The  Watergate
     Incident -- Part 2", Ibid.