Paul Harvey in cahoots with J. Edgar Hoover?

[underpants]

Source: MSNBC

Previously confidential files show that Harvey, who died last February at 90, enjoyed a 20-year friendship with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, often submitting advance copies of his radio script for comment and approval. Harvey wrote Hoover and his deputies regularly. Hoover, in turn, helped Harvey with research, suggested changes in scripts and showered the broadcaster with effusive praise.

After wrapping up his television broadcast on the evening of Feb. 5, 1951, Harvey set out to prove his case — and make some career-enhancing headlines for himself.

But seconds after Harvey hit the ground, security officers spotted him, documents show. Harvey ran until, caught in a Jeep's headlights, he tripped and fell. As guards approached, Harvey sprang to his feet and waved.

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The search also revealed a four-page, typewritten script for an upcoming broadcast. Harvey, it turned out, had planned from the outset to feed the nation a bogus account of his escapade: "I hereby affirm the following is a true and accurate account," the script began. "My friend and I were driving a once-familiar road, when the car stalled. . . . We started to walk. . . . We made no effort to conceal our presence. . . .

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The author of this gets off the story to recount basically two parts of the story.

Harvey's prewritten tale seems to be the template for today's media

[babylonsister]

1. Where's the JEHoover connection? As r/w as Harvey was, JEH was

a strange person.

[AnnieBW]

2. Did they share makeup tips?

Shop for sales at the ladies' underwear counter together? :D

[itsrobert]

3. And now you know the rest of the story

n/t

[old mark]

4. I am happy that they are both dead. nt

[No Elephants]

5. ......

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;

[Octafish]

6. It IS the template for today's media.

Paul Harvey was only one shill working for Jedgar. Operation MOCKINGBIRD worked the CIA side. There probably are more spawn of Edgar Bernays.

Today, things are interactive. NSA hears, records and filters everything of anybody they want to monitor. Frank Church warned us.

Thank you for most fascinating news, underpants. Is it fascism, yet?

[merh]

7. Now you know … the rest of the story.

Good day.

[Onceuponalife]

9. And don't forget to buy some

Cit-ri-cal.

[Hugabear]

8. Didn't Elvis Pressley offer his services to Hoover as an informant?

I believe he offered to provide info against drug users and communists (this was the height of the "red scare" and McCarthyism).