Thinking about the parallels between 1968 protests and 2024 protests led to an enticing “coincidence”.
The NSA web was started in 1968 by ARPA, founded by Bezos’s grandpa. The web’s first users were universities. The publicly announced first use was tracking academic research so NSA could coordinate and steal and manipulate.
Reminded me of a 1968 item that I ran into when wandering around the Henry Wallace rabbit hole. Deepstate not only wanted to track research, it wanted to track protests as well!
Wallace mentioned Edwin Pauley as one of the Errand Boys who slapped Truman into submission to Deepstate. I automatically linked the Wikipedia article on Pauley but didn’t automatically read it.
Now I’ve read it. Pauley was a lifelong Deepstate blackmail agent. He was an oil exec whose career was advanced by collaborating with Bush Senior (an oil exec before he headed CIA) and Howard Hughes (another strong CIA connection). Later Pauley served on the UC board of regents. As antiwar protests started to heat up, Lady Edgar and Calif Governor Reagan gave Pauley blackmail info on the other regents, and Pauley tried to “persuade” the regents to fire Clark Kerr, who was too easy on the protesters.
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On February 4, 1965, Grapp told Hoover that Pauley could be used as a source on internal University affairs, and could harass and remove suspected communists on the faculty and the Board of Regents. Hoover approved, and one week later Pauley was given confidential information on Coblentz, Roth and Heller. Pauley, Grapp reported to Hoover, was “most appreciative” of the information on his opponents. As Pauley saw it, according to Grapp’s report, UC would remain in turmoil “as long as the current officials were in power at the university.”
That fall, thousands of students joined the escalating protests. To Pauley and the FBI, it was further proof that Kerr had lost control of the university. Pauley confided to Grapp that two alumni were taking things into their own hands. They had recruited athletes to “beat up the demonstrators” and hired a barber to “forcibly ‘shear’ the students who need it”. Grapp continued to slip Pauley anonymous memos about students and faculty—at least two dozen more—that he could use in persuading the regents to fire Kerr. But in October, a frustrated Pauley told Grapp he was still “two votes short to fire Clark Kerr”. Kerr would remain in charge of the university, it seemed, as long as Brown remained governor.
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Sounds mighty familiar. Need some muscle over here!
A couple years later protests were cropping up everywhere. I was a student at Bowling Green. William Travers Jerome III, univ president, called in athletes from Phi Delta Theta to “break some heads”, and they did. Exactly the same technique. Obviously SOP for Lady Edgar.
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Later thought: After Nixon bought the war, the protests were Officially Approved by the party and the media. FBI started running the protests instead of banning them. It’s all about branding.
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