[Marxism] FBI "Confidential Informant" [snitch] T-10

["Craven, Jim" <JCraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some refer to him as "Dutch", others as "The Gipper", and some refer to
just plain "Reagan". I have usually referred to him as just plain "T-10"
or "FBI Confidential Informant [read snitch] number T-10".
 
I am of the age, and also raised by politically-conscious parents, to
vividly remember T-10 back in the days of HUAC, Joe Mc Carthy and SAG
and the "Hollywood 10" when this creature was running around and
gleefully and even openly (as well as covertly) ruining the lives of so
many innocents. He was a malignant narcissist, whose career was winding
down after the war, who sought the leadership of the Screen Actors
Guild, snitching and pimping for virulent anti-communists to attempt to
revive his failing career.
And it wasn't simply a matter of responding to FBI inquiries as a SAG
president. Anthony Summers, in his book " Official and Confidential: The
Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover", documents thoroughly that T-10 was an
active snitch, often calling up the FBI to come over to his place under
the cover of dark to get new info on those T-10 "suspected" as
communists or "maybe" are communists or "might be" communists, thus
adding to their extensive lists others even they had no prior suspicions
of. 
 
In addition to being a malignant narcissist, T-10 was a calculating and
predatory megalomaniac and a pimp for the rich he sought to become a
part of but never really became a part of even as nouveau riche. As a
pitchman (which is really all he ever was--a mouth and
cue-card/teleprompter reader) for General Electric, he basically went
around not only preaching anti-communism (for very lucrative speaking
fees), but also was a pitchman/pimp for unbridled/unregulated
capitalism, social darwinism, racism, U.S. global jingoism/hegemony and
other forms of social pathology and U.S. imperial hubris.  
 
As an Indian child, instructed by a very informed Blackfoot mother, I
was exposed to his virulent anti-Indian racism when he was a pitchman
for "Death Valley Days" (brought to you by 20 Mule Team Borax) which
preached historical revisionism, White-Settler-Triumphalism and naked
racism that was over-the-top even for the times.
 
I did not live in California, but I heard and read plenty about his
fascist reprisals against the Free Speech movement and other dissidents
in California as well as about his draconian socioeconomic policies that
targeted the weakest and most vulnerable, threw thousands of
mentally-ill patients on to the streets, tax-cuts-for-the-rich that
ran-up monstrous state deficits and left fiscal and social messes that
have still not been cleaned up.
 
In 1980, T-10 and his cohorts, pulled their own "October Surprise" when
they sabotaged U.S.-Iranian negotiations for the release of U.S.
hostages and  cut a private deal with elements in Iran to keep U.S.
hostages until after the 1980 election to help ensure Carter's loss. And
during the 1980s it was T-10 who set the policy to help to start, fuel
and prolong the seven-and-a-half-year Iraq-Iran War that cost over
one-and-a-half million lives and casualties by selectively sending arms
and intelligence to both sides at moments guaranteed to ensure that
neither side would win and both would be savaged.
 
T-10, a consummate jingoist and virulent anti-communist/U.S. hegemonist
was instrumental in the world coming to near total extinction in 1983.
In 1983, as a result of his "Evil Empire" and other jingoistic stuff,
both the U.S. and USSR were on high-alert status when Soviet computers
gave the alert that first a single--then later multiple--missle launch
from the U.S. has taken place. Because T-10's regime has refused to
renounce "First Strike" options, and because they had openly talked
about the possiblilty of "winnable nuclear war", the soviets had every
reason to believe an attack had been launched. And both the US and USSR
had a "launch-on-warning" instead of "launch-in response" policy in the
use of nuclear weapons (no waiting for a nuclear attack being
accomplished before responding). One man, Colonel Stanislav Petrov
(later villified and removed from his position as a Colonel in the
Soviet nuclear forces protecting Moscow region), who had been sent in to
evaluate the computer systems and was in charge of the nuclear wepaons
units protecting Moscow, decided that the U.S. would not launch just one
missle initially anddecided to wait for further verification. Later
further warning came that more missles had been launched, but still he
waited thus violating Soviet policy. It turned out that the Soviet
satellites had read reflected glare of the sun off of cloud formations
as the signature of a missle flame and launch and were incorrect. T-10's
mouth helped to bring the world to the edge of nuclear armageddon, while
a single Soviet Colonel saved the world through his critical thinking
and courageous act.
 
T-10 was instrumental in a lot of death and destruction brought upon the
Peoples of Latin and Central America--and otehr regions of the world as
well--through death squads armed and trained by the U.S., a host of
covert operations, several coups and other machinations of U.S.
imperialism that T-10 help to initiate, fund, give cover for and
cover-up.
 
Karl Menninger once noted that "the neurotic is one who builds castles
in the sky and the psychotic is the one who moves in--and the shrink
collects the rent." T-10 was definitely a psychotic and pathological
liar according to this definition. Priot o his trip to Bitburg cemetary,
and comments that the buried SS troops there were "every bit" as much
victims of the Holocaust as the Jewish victims (made to Elie Wiesel and
other representatives of Jewish organizations), T-10 said to Wiesel, and
later on three other occasions to other groups, that he had seen the
atrocities of the concentration camps as he was in a Signal Corps unit
that filmed the liberations of the camps. Well he never left Hollywood,
the Signal Corps unit that filmed the liberation of the camps was simply
a part of a larger unit of which his own film-making unit was also a
part, and that was turned into his personally being present and
witnessing the liberations of the concentration camps. Later there is
evidence he often "moved into" the theoretical and propagandistic
castles he built in the sky.
 
A lot more could be said about T-10. The earth is better off for his
leaving and would have been much better off if he had never been born.
But then again, U.S. imperialism would have simply found another
"amiable dunce", malignant narcissist, pitchman/pimp, pathological liar,
calculating and predatory megalomaniac and sinister opportunist.
 
James M. Craven
Blackfoot Name: Omahkohkiaayo-i'poyi
Professor/Consultant,Economics;Business Division Chair
Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd.
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