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Nixon vs. Hoover
Writer Anthony Summers suggests Nixon may have
ordered the notorious FBI director's assassination
Subject: Nixon vs. Hoover
From: cropdustersal@cs.com (Salvador Astucia)
Date: 11/16/04 1:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <20041116013000.21925.00000736@mb-m06.news.cs.com>
Contrary to popular belief, President Richard
M. Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover had become adversaries
in the last year of Hoover's life. Knowing Hoover's
ultra-right-wing political views, there can be
little doubt that the notorious FBI director did
not approve of Nixon's progressive foreign policy
ventures such as (a) opening relations with Communist
China, (b) signing the SALT I agreement with Soviet
leader Breshnev which eased Cold War tensions
dramatically, (c) withdrawing all American military
forces from Vietnam by early 1973, and (d) ending the
draft.
Some believe Nixon had something to do with John
Lennon's murder, but my research indicates little
animosity between the two men in the years following
Nixon's exile from political life.
The following Usenet exchanges provide detailed
information about Nixon and Lennon which differs
from the mainstream media's conventional wisdom
that they were blood enemies.
http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/Usenet/Lennon_Nixon.htm
On the other hand, Nixon and Hoover's relationship
was quite a different story.
In 1993, Anthony Summers published a biography
about Hoover which introduced the strong possibility
that Nixon may have ordered Hoover's murder because
Hoover intended to blackmail Nixon in order to keep
his position as FBI director. Nixon had been
trying to get Hoover to resign, but the Director
steadfastly refused.
The following is an excerpt from Summers book:
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Some believe Watergate was only the tip of the
iceberg. During the Nixon administration,
unidentified intruders invaded the homes and
offices of numerous people whom the
administration considered its "enemies"...
Edgar [J. Edgar Hoover], more than any other
potential target, had knowledge of a whole range
of sins, and an unknown quantity of documentary
proof.
A year after Watergate, Mark Frazier, a young
reporter working in Washington, was to pick up
an intriguing lead. Three sources, he learned,
had given affidavits to the Senate Watergate
Committee referring to two break-in operations
at Edgar's home in Rock Creek Park. They were
allegedly, "directed by Gordon Liddy."
In the welter of news arising from Watergate,
Frazier was unable to get the story published
in a Washington paper. Instead, it ran in a
university publication, "The Harvard Crimson."
The article drew on interviews with a source
on the Watergate Committee, with a "past
associate of Howard Hunt" and with Felipe
DeDiego, a Cuban who worked with Hunt and
Liddy on both the raid against Ellsberg's
psychiatrist and the first of the two
Watergate raids.
Edgar had been the target of two operations,
according to these sources. A first break-in
attempt, in "late winter of 1972," was
designed to retrieve documents that were
thought to be used as potential blackmail
against the White House." It failed, but
was followed by a second, successful break-
in. "This time," Frazier reported, "whether
through misunderstanding or design, a poison
of the thiophosphate genre was placed in
Hoover's personal toilet articles."
Thiophosphate is a compound used in
insecticides, highly toxic to human beings
if taken orally, inhaled or absorbed through
the pores of the skin. Ingestion can result
in a fatal heart seizure and can be detected
only if an autopsy is performed within
hours of death...
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(Anthony Summers, "Official and Confidential:
The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover," Copyright
1993, pp. 414-415)
Hoover died on May 2, 1972, only a month or
so after the thiophosphate incident. No autopsy
was performed, but Coroner James Luke ruled that
Hoover had died of "hypertensive cardiovascular
disease."
Salvador Astucia
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