HUACED BY REAGAN :

FBI Tried for Years to Stifle Dissent, Records Show (Associated Press, June 9, 2002)

The FBI, working covertly with the CIA and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, spent years unlawfully trying to quash the voices and careers of students and faculty members deemed subversive at the University of California, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. [...]

Reagan intended to mount a "psychological warfare campaign" against subversives, file tax evasion and other charges against them, and do anything else the state could to restore moral order, Herbert Ellingwood, Reagan's legal affairs secretary, told the FBI in a request for confidential information about people on campus. [...]

In 1985, when the FBI released some documents about Reagan, a Reagan spokesman said he had only a "very minor" involvement with the bureau when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild. But the records obtained by the Chronicle reveal who it was that Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, named during a 1947 meeting with FBI agents: Larry Parks ("The Jolson Story"), Howard Da Silva ("The Lost Weekend") and Alexander Knox ("Wilson"). Each was later called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted in Hollywood.

Cripes, even Reagan's spokesmen think they need to deny he was a whistleblower? Posted by Orrin Judd at June 9, 2002 6:16 AM