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Outsider Hoover Logic: Were J.Edgar and Herbert Super Commies?

JF Ptak Science Books   Quick Post

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There are so very many names and addresses and number and connections and plans and schemes and possibilities and roundabouts and subversions and plots and twists and turns in this document, so many possibilities and impossibilities that the sheer weight of them is enough to make this eight-page work weigh about 20 pounds.  It is an incredible piece of outsider-y thinking with so many moving and mis-directed/re-directed parts that it gives one a headache to think about unraveling its massive mess.  But the opening salvo, the questions about the dueling-but-partnered-Hoovers being special Communist agents is quite enough to get the point across about what the document is or isn’t about–in the end the secret and not-so-secret connections makes the thing about everything and so nothing.    

The end.

And the full first page (which is also the cover):

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