Excellent article on “Hoover’s FBI and Anglo-American Dictatorship” by Anton Chaitkin.
The Wall Street/London coup which gave birth to J. Edgar Hoover and the modern Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) completed its first phase in 1901 with the assassination of President William McKinley. The murder of President McKinley would then lead to two disastrous future U.S. Presidencies—those of Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Each of these men was raised revering his family’s leadership role in the Southern Confederacy, and each was passionately attached to the British aristocracy that had sponsored Southern secession. Both men would be essential to shaping the FBI and the career of J. Edgar Hoover.
Shortly after assuming the Presidency, and with his man William Taft already in Manila, Roosevelt set about transforming the Philippines into America’s first colonial venture. Taft’s sponsors envisioned Philippine plantations with coolie labor, and Anglo-American imperial adventures on the Asian mainland. With Teddy in the White House, a regime of cruelty and despotism was imposed to crush Filipino resistance as Britain’s colonial police did in India and Ireland, and as Emperor Napoleon’s secret police had done.
In his history of this tyranny, historian Alfred McCoy told of “five separate secret services ... [with] spies and agents in a ceaseless surveillance of Filipino leaders and their private lives ... media monitoring, psychological profiling ... disinformation, penetration, manipulation ... assassination .... Armed resistance was met with mass slaughter [by] artillery and repeating rifles ....” If they “had something on you,” anything humiliating, it could be used to destroy you or turn you into their spy. Continue reading “Hoover’s FBI and Anglo-American Dictatorship.”
Bob Dobbs
The Wall Street/London coup which gave birth to J. Edgar Hoover and the modern Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) completed its first phase in 1901 with the assassination of President William McKinley. The murder of President McKinley would then lead to two disastrous future U.S. Presidencies—those of Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Each of these men was raised revering his family’s leadership role in the Southern Confederacy, and each was passionately attached to the British aristocracy that had sponsored Southern secession. Both men would be essential to shaping the FBI and the career of J. Edgar Hoover.
Shortly after assuming the Presidency, and with his man William Taft already in Manila, Roosevelt set about transforming the Philippines into America’s first colonial venture. Taft’s sponsors envisioned Philippine plantations with coolie labor, and Anglo-American imperial adventures on the Asian mainland. With Teddy in the White House, a regime of cruelty and despotism was imposed to crush Filipino resistance as Britain’s colonial police did in India and Ireland, and as Emperor Napoleon’s secret police had done.
In his history of this tyranny, historian Alfred McCoy told of “five separate secret services ... [with] spies and agents in a ceaseless surveillance of Filipino leaders and their private lives ... media monitoring, psychological profiling ... disinformation, penetration, manipulation ... assassination .... Armed resistance was met with mass slaughter [by] artillery and repeating rifles ....” If they “had something on you,” anything humiliating, it could be used to destroy you or turn you into their spy. Continue reading “Hoover’s FBI and Anglo-American Dictatorship.”
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