This corruption has been with us for a long time. The troubling part is when it is not recognized as corruption, but expediency. That perception is a pathogen to the republic and a balm to the state.
From a recent book, and some select historical context:
HITLER IN LOS ANGELES
Steven J. Ross / 2017
page 321
On January 24, 1942, Joe Roos achieved one of his greatest personal triumphs: J. Edgar Hoover asked him to serve as an unofficial agent for the FBI. Explaining that Walter Winchell recommend he contact Roos, Hoover wanted the Viennese-born Jew to "help to (sic) us in our work by bringing to our attention any information you deem of value in connection with subversive activities." The Bureau, he explained, could not officially investigate someone without showing cause. But if private citizens, such as Roos and Lewis could "secure evidence," the FBI could then investigate and arrest suspects. Hoover asked Roos to send all information directly to him or his representative in Los Angeles, Richard Hood. Flattered by the signal achievement, Roos provided Hoover and Hood with updated weekly summaries of their master index containing the names of all German, Japanese, and American suspects."
page 328
Unwilling to retreat, Lewis and Roos turned to California attorney general Earl Warren that spring for help. Unlike Tenney, who would later reveal his strong anti-Semetic streak, Warren hoped to pave the way for his anticipated run for governor by attracting the support of the state's Jewish voters. Mutual friends asked Joe Roos "to come up with some idea which would fulfill that objective, but at the same time would lie in our interest." Roos suggested "that a number of local Nazis be prosecuted for failure to register as Nazi agents with the Secretary of State of California," particularly Noble, Frenz, and Jones. Warren agreed and instructed deputy attorney general Louis Drucker to work with Roos in developing a case against the men.
page 329
Government prosecutors were fighting a two-front campaign, state and federal, aimed at destroying the remnants of the Nazi and fifth-column movements. Before taking further action against Ferenz, Noble and Jones, Drucker and FBI special agent in charge Richard Hood spoke with U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle about coordinating state and federal court actions. Instructing them "to get tough with the subversive gang," Biddle approved their request to arrest the three men and charge them with sedition under California law. Wanting Drucker to be as prepared as possible, Lewis and Roos sent him 113 of their operatives' reports covering the activities of the three men. The spymasters also agreed to maintain their undercover operations and keep "our informants close to these people now under arrest. We could tip off the agencies of contemplated moves by these individuals."
[End book quotes]
In 1942, A.G. Biddle selected Thomas Dodd to prosecute a number of east-coast Nazis based on information developed by Roos and Lewis. Both Dodd and Biddle would later participate in the Nuremberg Trials - Dodd on the prosecution staff and Biddle as a Judge.
Here's Dodd getting soft balled by William F. Buckley Jr. ( I give the benefit of the doubt to Buckley in this interview for the white wash):
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. interviews (soon to be censured) Senator Thomas Dodd (D - Connecticut). Subject: Gen Julius Klein (48 minutes, 34 seconds)
That was a Julius Klein controlled private intelligence operation. Klein was activated by Col. George C. Marshall in 1933 to work in an unofficial capacity for Army Intelligence. Klein was recommended to F.D.R. to run the L.A. operation by James W. Gerard (former ambassador to Imperial Germany and close friend of Julius Klein's father, an "international banker" based in Berlin).
That's two future members of the Warren Commission, one future (to-be-censured) U.S. Senator, a future U.S. Secretary of State associated with the private spy network organized by Julius Klein and with whom Klein would maintain close personal and "professional" relationships. In other words, they never knew Klein was running them exactly the way he ran his private operatives in Los Angeles from 1934 through 1941.
Klein was also on a first name basis with Allen Dulles for years before the Warren commission was formed (goes back to Dulles' days in the OSS). That's a third member of the commission involved with Julius Klein, under secret investigation by the Kennedy White House and select members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, starting in September of 1962. That investigation lead to Klein testifying before the Foreign Affairs Committee on 20 November 1963, in hearings about the Foreign Agent Registration Act, that started on 19 November and ended on 21 November 1963. The investigation of Julius Klein ended with Kennedy's death on 22 November 1962.
This corruption has been with us for a long time. The troubling part is when it is not recognized as corruption, but expediency. That perception is a pathogen to the republic and a balm to the state.
From a recent book, and some select historical context:
HITLER IN LOS ANGELES
Steven J. Ross / 2017
page 321
On January 24, 1942, Joe Roos achieved one of his greatest personal triumphs: J. Edgar Hoover asked him to serve as an unofficial agent for the FBI. Explaining that Walter Winchell recommend he contact Roos, Hoover wanted the Viennese-born Jew to "help to (sic) us in our work by bringing to our attention any information you deem of value in connection with subversive activities." The Bureau, he explained, could not officially investigate someone without showing cause. But if private citizens, such as Roos and Lewis could "secure evidence," the FBI could then investigate and arrest suspects. Hoover asked Roos to send all information directly to him or his representative in Los Angeles, Richard Hood. Flattered by the signal achievement, Roos provided Hoover and Hood with updated weekly summaries of their master index containing the names of all German, Japanese, and American suspects."
page 328
Unwilling to retreat, Lewis and Roos turned to California attorney general Earl Warren that spring for help. Unlike Tenney, who would later reveal his strong anti-Semetic streak, Warren hoped to pave the way for his anticipated run for governor by attracting the support of the state's Jewish voters. Mutual friends asked Joe Roos "to come up with some idea which would fulfill that objective, but at the same time would lie in our interest." Roos suggested "that a number of local Nazis be prosecuted for failure to register as Nazi agents with the Secretary of State of California," particularly Noble, Frenz, and Jones. Warren agreed and instructed deputy attorney general Louis Drucker to work with Roos in developing a case against the men.
page 329
Government prosecutors were fighting a two-front campaign, state and federal, aimed at destroying the remnants of the Nazi and fifth-column movements. Before taking further action against Ferenz, Noble and Jones, Drucker and FBI special agent in charge Richard Hood spoke with U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle about coordinating state and federal court actions. Instructing them "to get tough with the subversive gang," Biddle approved their request to arrest the three men and charge them with sedition under California law. Wanting Drucker to be as prepared as possible, Lewis and Roos sent him 113 of their operatives' reports covering the activities of the three men. The spymasters also agreed to maintain their undercover operations and keep "our informants close to these people now under arrest. We could tip off the agencies of contemplated moves by these individuals."
[End book quotes]
In 1942, A.G. Biddle selected Thomas Dodd to prosecute a number of east-coast Nazis based on information developed by Roos and Lewis. Both Dodd and Biddle would later participate in the Nuremberg Trials - Dodd on the prosecution staff and Biddle as a Judge.
Here's Dodd getting soft balled by William F. Buckley Jr. ( I give the benefit of the doubt to Buckley in this interview for the white wash):
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. interviews (soon to be censured) Senator Thomas Dodd (D - Connecticut). Subject: Gen Julius Klein (48 minutes, 34 seconds)
https://youtu.be/mKNNxsg-aC0
133
Who are the puppet masters?
That was a Julius Klein controlled private intelligence operation. Klein was activated by Col. George C. Marshall in 1933 to work in an unofficial capacity for Army Intelligence. Klein was recommended to F.D.R. to run the L.A. operation by James W. Gerard (former ambassador to Imperial Germany and close friend of Julius Klein's father, an "international banker" based in Berlin).
That's two future members of the Warren Commission, one future (to-be-censured) U.S. Senator, a future U.S. Secretary of State associated with the private spy network organized by Julius Klein and with whom Klein would maintain close personal and "professional" relationships. In other words, they never knew Klein was running them exactly the way he ran his private operatives in Los Angeles from 1934 through 1941.
Klein was also on a first name basis with Allen Dulles for years before the Warren commission was formed (goes back to Dulles' days in the OSS). That's a third member of the commission involved with Julius Klein, under secret investigation by the Kennedy White House and select members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, starting in September of 1962. That investigation lead to Klein testifying before the Foreign Affairs Committee on 20 November 1963, in hearings about the Foreign Agent Registration Act, that started on 19 November and ended on 21 November 1963. The investigation of Julius Klein ended with Kennedy's death on 22 November 1962.