Excellent article on “Hoover’s FBI and Anglo-American Dictatorship” by Anton Chaitkin.
The Wall Street/London coup which gave birth to J. Edgar Hoover and the modern Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) completed its first phase in 1901 with the
assassination of President William McKinley. The murder of President McKinley would then lead to two
disastrous future U.S. Presidencies—those of Theodore
(“Teddy”) Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Each of
these men was raised revering his family’s leadership
role in the Southern Confederacy, and each was passionately attached to the British aristocracy that had sponsored Southern secession. Both men would be essential
to shaping the FBI and the career of J. Edgar Hoover.
Shortly after assuming the Presidency, and with his
man William Taft already in Manila, Roosevelt set
about transforming the Philippines into America’s first
colonial venture. Taft’s sponsors envisioned Philippine
plantations with coolie labor, and Anglo-American imperial adventures on the Asian mainland. With Teddy in
the White House, a regime of cruelty and despotism
was imposed to crush Filipino resistance as Britain’s
colonial police did in India and Ireland, and as Emperor
Napoleon’s secret police had done.
In his history of this tyranny, historian Alfred McCoy
told of “five separate secret services … [with] spies and
agents in a ceaseless surveillance of Filipino leaders and
their private lives … media monitoring, psychological
profiling … disinformation, penetration, manipulation
… assassination …. Armed resistance was met with
mass slaughter [by] artillery and repeating rifles ….” If
they “had something on you,” anything humiliating, it
could be used to destroy you or turn you into their spy. Continue reading “Hoover’s FBI and Anglo-American Dictatorship.”
