Jack Anderson, investigative journalist and Nixon nemesis, reveals J. Edgar Hoover’s paranoia—denying the mafia to avoid scrutiny while allegedly suppressing CIA warnings about the Kennedy assassination, including Raúl Castro’s 1963 threat and Lyndon Johnson’s nuclear risk gambit. He details Nixon’s multi-agency smear campaign (IRS, FBI, CIA) and Clinton’s military distractions, like the 1998 Belgrade embassy bombing amid Lewinsky chaos. Anderson warns modern media prioritizes political correctness over truth, fearing accountability in an era where honesty may not be electable—yet insists his legacy as a constitutional watchdog against elite manipulation remains vital. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening or good morning wherever you may be across this great land of ours, and there's a lot of it to be across.
From the Tahitian and Hawaiian Island chains out west eastward to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands, south into South America, and north all the way to the Pole.
This is Coast A.M., and I'm Art Bell.
Great to be here.
It's going to be a very, very interesting night.
An American legend is going to be here in the next hour.
Columnist Jack Anderson.
And I'm really, really, really looking forward to that interview.
His new book, Peace, War, and Politics, is going to be a winner.
I'm going to read a little bit of the introduction to it just before he comes on.
And then I'll give you some idea of the magnitude of the interview you're about to hear.
We had really big fights with J. Edgar Hoover and people in the Nixon administration.
Boydo, I have a lot of news for you, and most of it not being reported by any of the major media.
That's not wholly true, but this story has been buried.
We'll get to that in a moment about Great Britain.
But first, kind of an extension of what we did last night.
The sprint report that we found on a government website.
The sprint report outlining the failure in telephone communications in my community.
And according to what we have here, not just here, but a little part of Las Vegas, apparently, and military base area 51.
It says it right on the form.
And people were calling me last night saying, oh, it's got to be a hoax.
Wrong.
It's on a U.S. government site.
We've got a link to it on my website.
If you want to go check it out yourself, it's in PDF format on the government site.
And if you can decode from PDF, then you will have it.
Otherwise, for the rest of you, we have put the report up in a legible form.
But earlier today.
I called Sprint, one of the listed numbers, and I spoke to an apparently high-level technical official there.
And I asked him, I said, you know, I said, cause of incident, circuit breaker was turned off.
Now, it doesn't say tripped.
It says turned off.
And that caught my attention first, you know, right away.
And he said, well, whoever made out the report here must have misspoken.
And he meant tripped, because turned off, oh, that's an intentional human action, right?
A circuit breaker, as you know, trips into a middle position.
That's tripped.
Turned off is all the way down, as in off, you know, off, off, off.
But this one, this one was, it says turned off, and the gentleman I spoke to suggested that that was simply a slip-o-de-lip.
Then we get to the geographic area affected, and I said Las Vegas, Peromban, military base area 51.
And I said, why did he write that on there?
He said, I think we had no idea this was going to end up on a government site.
He said, we've been taking an awful lot of calls on this, and I chose not to further identify myself at that point.
He probably isn't real happy with me.
Damnedest thing, there it is on a government site, military base, Area 51, the one the government officially says doesn't even exist.
It's on one of their own sites.
Now, that shows you how our government does things, huh?
Anyway, my phones, I guess, are tied up with those phones at Area 51.
Now, that's something to contemplate, and I've been contemplating that.
Very, very, very, very interesting, this whole story, and it's still on the government site.
They didn't bring it down today.
I kind of thought there would be a redacted version, but I guess, you know, it's so public now they can't do it.
It was so cool we caught that.
All right, now.
This is not being reported.
Essentially, I haven't seen, I've been watching CNN and CNN headline news.
I don't know what the networks did.
We have a news section on our website.
Oh, I guess I ought to tell you about that.
A news section on my website.
And it's going to have something to do with Y2K failures.
As they are reported, we are going to put the reports of them, what ones we get, on the website.
I'll tell you about it as soon as the page gets to load here.
The headline of this one is, Y2K bug triggers credit card snafu.
Now, this was reported earlier.
I talked to a good friend of mine at the Intel Corporation earlier today.
He said, hey, hey, Art, did you hear that all the ATM machines in Britain failed today?
And I said, what?
He said, yeah, I heard it on CBS News, he said, radio news.
All right, now I can look.
Let's take a quick look here.
It's in the newest site editions, and it's simply going to be entitled, well, no, wait a minute.
Maybe it isn't there.
Oh, no, here it is.
Ongoing activities, just below that.
Entitled Y2K Problems and News Reports.
We will keep a running list of news reports of Y2K-related glitches on our related links page.
Check the above link to view them.
So as we get these, we're going to put them up for you.
And the first candidate just arrived.
You know, one person hearing a report and passing it on is not enough.
So I began calling friends.
And I've got friends who used to live in Britain and they did some checking.
They said, no, I've been listening to the BBC and there hasn't been a thing.
You know, he listened to a whole newscast on BBC and wasn't there.
But here it is.
My wife found it on the computer for me just before airtime.
Thank you, Han.
It is the Associated Press by Caroline Byrne.
And it says, in part, a Y2K triggered failure in credit card swipe machines causing frustrating delays for thousands of retailers and customers trying to ring up purchases all across Britain on Wednesday.
The machines manufactured by RaCal, that's R-A-C-A-L electronics and supplied by HSBC, whatever that is, one of Britain's largest four banks, improperly rejected credit cards because of a failure, listen now, because of a failure to recognize the year 2000, said a bank's spokesperson.
The Y2 glitch appeared to be the most serious to come to light in the days leading up to the new century.
Retailers claimed they have lost, as a result, $5 million in sales so far due to the problem, and are reportedly getting this, threatening to bring a class action lawsuit against the bank.
Linda Stryker, public relations exec for HSBC here in the U.S., said the error should not hit any U.S. credit card swiping machines.
She said it was specific to software machines in Britain.
Now that's interesting, isn't it?
Now, what do we have here?
There's a U.S. branch, and they were absolutely sure at talking to the AP that it wouldn't happen to any of the machines here in the U.S. None of you would have any problem.
But wouldn't...
How could she know that so quickly unless she knew it beforehand?
Maybe they had somebody really quickly go into the code for the software used in Britain compared to the U.S. and, you know, came up with that answer that way.
I don't know.
But when people start making such sure statements like this on the heels of a massive failure, and that is a massive failure in Great Britain, you've got to wonder a little bit.
So it looks to me like we're going to have an awful lot of coverage of Y2K.
Certainly everybody in the world is.
All of the networks, as far as I can see, including CNN and CNN headline news and so forth and so on, all plan to have correspondence all around the world, beginning with an island in the Pacific at 1.30 in the morning, my time, on tomorrow night's show.
Probably not getting particularly meaningful until midnight arrives in Australia and then later Europe.
By the time I get on the air Friday evening, we will be two hours from the magic moment on the East Coast.
So we're going to be reporting to you as things occur.
Now, you might ask yourself, why would this massive bank failure in Britain occur this many days before Y2K?
I mean, it's not time yet, right?
Well, it might have something to do with something in the software system which I suppose relates to money totals after the first of the year, you know, as people were withdrawing, and I'm only guessing here, but, you know, something like that.
And it simply did not show up until now.
Now, you can consider this in one of two ways, an isolated pre-incident, which they're not really reporting.
An isolated pre-incident.
I like that phrase.
Or, you know, that's completely anomalous and it has no bearing on what's going to happen when midnight comes and especially the first business day back for everybody after Y2K.
But I'm telling you right now, a lot of businesses, we don't know how many, but a lot are going to not be able to properly operate after New Year's.
Their computer systems are going to be down.
It's as simple as that.
How many?
Aha ha.
That's the $64, well, million dollars wouldn't do it.
Maybe it's the $64 billion question.
You know, if it really gets serious, I guess it would go up into the billions, right?
So we are going to keep you informed right here.
That which others are not telling you, we will try and tell you here.
I've got more.
Well, I go through this big pitch to advertise the greatest radio in the world, every word of it true, and then I say the secret, and I don't give out the phone number.
That's really brilliant, huh?
Forget to give out the phone number.
If you want this greatest radio in the world, and it is call in the morning, beginning at 6.30 Pacific Time.
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That's 1-800-522-8863.
So much news, so little time.
The various airlines are saying that they're going to cut back anywhere between, it looks like about 15 and 35, 34, 35% on the number of flights on New Year's Eve.
They say because not enough people are flying.
Do I buy that?
Well, I don't know.
I don't think so.
Not fully.
In other words, do I think some of it is Y2K related?
And I also don't, you know, it may be true generally that people don't fly at the New Year.
That's what they're saying.
I'm not sure whether that is true or not.
I don't recall hearing it before because in Las Vegas, normally at the New Year's, you absolutely cannot get an airplane to Las Vegas.
And if you want to get a room, lots of luck.
But I'll tell you what I'm hearing.
And it's not just about Las Vegas, but the following is true in Las Vegas.
They were talking about 800,000 people going to Las Vegas.
800,000 is what they expected.
And that was a figure bandied about for the longest time.
You know, big celebration.
Well, now they are drastically revising downward the number of people they think are going to show up in Las Vegas to greet the new millennium.
As they are revising downward numbers all across the nation, turns out people want to stay home.
Now, what do you think it is people might sense that has them all staying home?
well they're just family types right I don't know.
We're going to have to sift through somehow if we can do it, the propaganda and the reality as the reports come in.
And there's black, there's going to be a lot to sort through.
You should see all the stuff people are sending me about suddenly worry about telephone systems being out.
Telephone companies talking about mission failures, the possibility of mission failures.
Now, what does a mission failure mean?
Well, in the military you have a mission, and you get that in orders, an objective, something you are to do, or a place you are to go, or whatever.
That's a mission.
I mean, it's a basic thing.
It's like secreting companies all's radios, right?
It is their mission.
And they could write up a mission statement.
So that's what a mission is, my friend.
And if your mission fails, then your main reason for existing in the world is failing.
Now, again, I'm not, mind you, saying that that's going to be the case.
That there is going to be that kind of failure with phone systems, but they are suggesting now it is at the very least possible.
So, and then people out buying a lot of water and doing all the things they should have been doing a long time ago.
A lot of that going on now, too.
And I guess that kind of sums up the beginning.
Is it the beginning of just a few glitches or could it be the beginning of the end?
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The End You're listening to Arkbell somewhere in time on Premier Radio Networks.
Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from December 29, 1999.
Coast to Coast AM from December
29, 1999.
Coast to Coast AM from December 29, 1999.
Coast to Coast AM from December 29, 1999.
You're listening to Archbishop somewhere in time.
Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from December 29th, 1999.
When I was recording all the music I was going to play leading up to the millennium, this was a song that just came out of left field that I had never heard before, and I don't know why, but I had never heard it, and so it hit me like a new song, and I just fell in love with it.
So I play it until my ears bleed.
I'm that way about songs again and again, and the more the better, you know, until somehow you rid yourself of the bug that has been planted.
I guess I better not talk about bugs, huh?
In your brain.
Whatever it is that's planted in your brain that makes you listen to it again and again.
Well, the phone companies, plural, we now have many since the breakup of Ma Bell.
Bless her memory.
Boy, I miss Ma Bell.
Anyway, the phone companies, some of them, are now suggesting they may have a problem, and they're worried about everybody, all of you out there, picking up the telephone at the same time right at midnight.
And they say if everybody picks it up, well, they can't handle it.
And so maybe you won't get a dial tone or, you know, whatever.
Then in some cases, I'm getting stories here about various phone companies that aren't so sure they're going to be around.
One in Missouri here.
Here's an article entitled, Don't Call.
Don't Call Missouri after December 31st, 1999.
We probably won't answer.
And it's somebody, Richard, in Marshfield, Missouri, who did a little research in his area on how Y2K may affect him.
And he says, it doesn't look so good for the phone system there and probably the electric system.
And gives me a couple of references.
A check, he says, on Missouri's Y2K website found that telecommunications are likely to fail on New Year's Eve.
Maybe we'll get that up.
Maybe we'll get that link up.
A similar check of the public utilities webpage shows that out of 1,200 electric providers in Missouri, only 657 have responded to a survey sent out by the Public Service Commission.
Survey.
Are you ready?
Well, we're not answering.
It's up to us, I imagine, to imagine, try and imagine what that means that they're not answering the survey.
Could well be the CEO just said, hell, we're ready.
There's a lot of other people out there, and I'm not sure there's any cause for this, who connect the always annual flu outbreak, which we're right in the middle of right now, big time, to the spraying.
Well, I don't think I buy that.
We have a flu outbreak every year.
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Well, this has been very noticeable up and down the I-95 corridor in most of the states.
And also, I delivered a load of electrical test equipment to a certain power company.
I guess it will remain nameless.
The lady in the main office I know very well as a friend.
But the lady in the office, I was talking to her, and there was another lady that I didn't know that was like a temporary employee, and I asked her what the deal was.
She said, well, she's been here for the last six months working on Y2K stuff.
And I said, well, what do y'all think about this Y2K thing?
And I was in an office of about 20 people with open cubicles.
And it was just like the E.F. Hutton commercial.
When E.F. Hutton speaks, everyone listens.
Even the birds quit singing on the commercial.
Basically the atmosphere in the room for a good solid 10 seconds.
I've got everything you can imagine, you know, toys that you could want to have if you're into electronics.
And every one of them are no doubt threatened.
It would be the end of life as I know it.
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Well, the one thing I couldn't hardly stand would be now I wouldn't be able to watch the real-time video of you doing your thing there at the station, at the house.
I wouldn't be able to see that, I guess, without pedaling the generator a little bit.
And this is going to be a really, really, really interesting night.
Somebody in the Reagan administration conducted a survey, and they were asking about the credibility and trustworthiness of journalists.
And in that survey, Jack Anderson came out just ahead of Walter Cronkite.
Really, really trusted.
Not exactly loved by everybody, but trusted.
See what a few people have said.
J. Edgar Hoover said, Jack Anderson is lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures.
Geez, I've worried about the press I've had.
The regurgitated filth of vultures.
Ooh, from the FBI director.
New York Times said few reporters ever go from writing news to being news, and certainly no reporter has made the passage more conspicuously than Jack Anderson.
Newsweek said Jack Anderson has mercilessly catapulted half a dozen national figures to their ruin.
Time Magazine said no laws have been passed or policies change because of Jack Anderson's columns, but a number of former incumbents are now retired because of him.
And he's spread a not unhealthy apprehension throughout Washington.
George Bush said sometimes I'd get furious with him.
It was a strange thing.
We had a very pleasant personal relationship.
I think Jack was very much misunderstood because of the power of his inquiry.
And it goes on and on and on.
Bob Woodward, the Washington Post said Anderson, was frequently a target of White House efforts to discredit him and to locate his sources, according to information made public during the various Watergate investigations.
And of course, during one poignant moment in the Watergate investigations, Jack thought he was going to be the actual target of assassination for his reporting.
So he is a legend, and he'll be here in a moment.
The End Jack Anderson has been writing for the column Washington Merry-Go-Round since 1947.
In 1973, he won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing Richard Nixon's lies about the U.S. tilt in the India-Pakistan war.
His columns were syndicated by a thousand newspapers nationwide.
He had a national talk radio program, and on and on and on and on.
He's a legend, really.
He's old enough that he has become a legend in his own time.
And we were just sharing seats on an airplane, and he mentioned, we got on the subject of Uber, and he said Hoover has so much in his files on everybody that no one dares to criticize it.
And when I got back to the office from that flight, I called my staff together and I said, I understand that if we write anything derogatory about J. Edger Hoover, we'll be destroyed.
I think we're going to have to find out whether that's true, whether the top cop in America is that powerful.
And I said, the way we're going to do it, we're going to do a burlesque of an FBI investigation.
We're going to do an FBI investigation of J. Edgar Hoover.
So I had my reporters follow him wherever he went.
I had them interview his neighbors to find out what Kind of neighbor he was, and I did a garbage profile.
But this was, I don't remember, it was near the end of his term.
It was the beginning of the end for him because when I got away with criticizing, with condemning, with denouncing J. Druver, and I found out a number of other things, following him around, I discovered that he had,
for example, five bulletproof limousines, and that he would, in spite of the fact that he was riding in a bulletproof limousine, he would duck down and prop his hat up at the other end.
And I concluded that he was also like the Wizard of Oz.
Well, I believe people have written since I exposed the fact that there was a mafia.
And my stories were picked up by the late Estes Keithlov, a senator from Tennessee, who conducted a Senate hearing based upon he called me and said, can you prove This?
I said, no, but you can because you got the subpoena.
Why don't you do it?
And he did it, and he proved once and for all there was a mafia.
J. Edgar Hoover was caught with bubble gum all over his face.
He may have thought that, but the real problem was the Narcotics Bureau, that's what it was called in those days, was headed by a guy named Harry Anslinger.
He was more the bulldog that James Hoover pretended to be.
And his guys did infiltrate the mafia, some of them.
And he told me contemptuously, he said, Hoover's idea of sending the FBI into the mafia would be to take off their ties.
We found out because we were following him that Clyde Tolson lived in an apartment and J. Andrew Hoover lived in a home.
And they would alternately, every other night, they would spend, they would have dinner with each other at first the apartment, then the home, then the apartment, then the home.
They had lunch every day at 11.30 at the Mayflower Hotel.
Same place, same table, same food, basically.
They went on vacations together.
And this led to the rumors that there was a homosexual relationship between them.
He sent John Dean over to the FBI to ask Hoover for the file on Jack Anderson.
And Hoover said, and John Dean tells this story in his book, said Hoover responded, I'll be glad to give you the file on Jack Anderson because he is lower than dog crap.
In retrospect, boy, I'll tell you, I don't know whether I would have done that.
I mean, you had to worry that somebody in the middle of the night was going to show up and you were going to end up out of windows or something like that.
you I cannot resist this, and therefore I am going to read it.
It's in the prologue to Jack's book, which is called, by the way, Peace, War, and Politics, an Eyewitness Account.
I've got to read a little of this.
I just have to.
I looked up from my desk one day in December of 71 and was confronted by the ashened face of Jeb Stewart Magruder, special assistant to President Nixon.
It was not often that any of this president's men darkened my doorway.
This is Jack speaking.
Magruder fidgeted a moment and then in measured words explained his mission.
He'd come about a possible misunderstanding at the White House.
Gordon Liddy, now a talk show host, one of the notorious White House plumbers, might be under the mistaken impression that Richard Nixon wanted me, Doug Anderson, dead.
Magruder explained that he had complained at a staff meeting about some columns that I had written that were somewhat embarrassing to the president.
Unappreciative White House reviews were common enough in those days, but following this particular review session, Magruder had added, quote, listen to this now, the president sure would like to get rid of that guy, end quote.
Liddy, at that point, had abruptly stood up and walked out of the meeting.
Now, Magruder thought nothing of the characteristic Liddy exit.
No explanations, no goodbyes.
And that's Liddy, all right.
But moments later, his assistant, Bob Reisner, rushed breathlessly into the office with a look of humor on his face and said, did you tell Liddy to kill Jack Anderson?
Reisner blurted out, Liddy, Liddy just walked by my desk and said you told him to rub out Jack Anderson, rub out Jack Anderson.
My God, Magruder gasped.
Get him back in here.
So they stopped Liddy before he got out of the building, and Magruder told him that, quote, get rid of, had simply been a figure of speech.
The White House staff people had been ordered to keep away from me.
As you said, I was always in trouble.
At least I tried to be.
I worked at it and had some success at keeping in trouble.
And Magruder told me this story.
And I did, the way I protected myself, frankly, would be to go to another government agency that didn't like the White House and get them to conduct an investigation of the White House.
So I went up on the hill, and I got Frank Church, Democratic senator from Idaho, to conduct an investigation of G. Gordon Liddy.
And he brought witnesses in, took four testimony, found that G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, these are the two guys who were in the White House basement.
They had a sign on their wall, my name on their wall, to inspire them on against the foe in their basement hideout.
And according to Frank Church's investigation, they had gone to a CIA doctor by the name of Edward Gunn.
They will determine in 48 hours that your returns are clear.
They're very simple.
I've taken good care of them.
Don't worry.
Six years later, they were still investigating me.
They were looking for dirt.
And believe this or not, they forged a tax return in my name.
I cannot prove that this was done by the top people.
It may have been done by anybody inside the IRS.
They forged a pony tax return and used that to crack down on my bank accounts, to start closing my bank accounts, to start putting me out of business.
Fortunately, I had a source inside of Internal Revenue.
He came up with the forged return, and I waved this under the noses of the Internal Revenue people, and they dropped their investigation in a big hurry.
They forged my signature and the top of my return on somebody else's corrupt return and used that forgery to crack down on me and try to put me out of business.
The FBI at one point subpoenaed all my telephone records.
I went to court.
I fought back.
I went to court.
John Sarika, the Watergate judge, was the judge in court.
Well, the director obviously didn't know about it because they're debating in an exchange of memos whether they should go ahead with the surveillance because they had just discovered that my luncheon date that day was going to be the head of the CGI.
This is unbelievable.
What I went through was, well, when I grew up, I was brought up to believe in the American system.
And I'm going to tell you something.
I still do.
I still believe that in spite of all that they did to me, in spite of the scandals that I've uncovered, in spite of the way they've resisted them, I don't see myself as an alienated critic.
I see myself as part of the process.
Because I've been in other countries, and I've seen how other governments work.
You know, if they traveled, If they went to some of these other countries, I've been around the world, I know you have, then they'd know.
I thought it would be a good investment for the government to buy a ticket, you know, round trip one time only for somebody who turns 21 years of age to some third world country somewhere, so they get a good look at the way it happens elsewhere.
And they begin to see things from the same perspective.
The people who cover Capitol Hill here you see them going up and down the corridors of the Capitol, flapping backs and shaking hands and behaving like congressmen.
They actually worked together to help build up J. Edgar Hoover during those days.
Drew finally turned against Hoover, not openly so much as I did, but after Drew died.
And Witchell stuck by Hoover to the end.
He praised Hoover to the end.
But during the Nazi, during World War II, the two of them joined in promoting Hoover and building him up and supporting him, and they were right in doing it.
Oh, I got started when I was 12 years old writing for I grew up in Utah.
And the Deseret News, which is a Salt Lake City paper, started a Boy Scout page.
I became the editor of it at age 12.
Then I went to work during the summer for a weekly newspaper south of Salt Lake City in a place called Murray, Utah.
I wrote for the Murray Eagle.
I was 12 years old.
I had learned through the Boy Scouts at the Desert News how to write a story.
And I peddled around on my bicycle, covering police and fire and other events in Murray, Utah.
And one day, on the road, Far Down Avenue it was called, the road I lived on, a narrow bridge, and a buddy of mine riding this bicycle hit the bridge at the same time that an automobile hit.
There wasn't room for both of them.
He was knocked over into the creek, badly injured.
And I wrote an indignant, scalding piece denouncing this bridge.
And I got a letter from the county commissioner saying, Dear Mr. Anderson, I was 12 years old.
That impressed me.
And he said in the letter, thank you for calling to our attention this hazardous bridge.
We will take care of it immediately.
They came and they enlarged the bridge, and I decided this is the work for me.
Well, Dateline, I guess they launched an investigation into this, and what they found was basically the only evidence that the United States had against a Sudan factory was a soil sample, which was taken about eight months ago outside the plant.
And this was when the plant was under a different ownership.
And they basically bombed the embassy on the strength of that.
And the allegation that Dayline was making was really that Clinton did this.
I'll tell you what, let's just ask Jack straight on.
Jack, what he's really asking is, would an American president, this one perhaps, in order to mask domestic difficulties, send our U.S. military to do something that would grab the news?
And, you know, I sort of cross-referenced it in my mind with, well, you did a repeat show the other night with a guest.
I can't remember what his name, but he was talking about Clinton's changing his stance on the nuclear policy where we would absorb a strike before retaliating.
You've got to, though, when you stand back, I do, I look at the way he operates and I have some twisted admiration for the way he's able to manipulate public opinion.
He is an absolute master at it.
It cannot be denied.
Whatever else you think of him, he can get in front of the camera and he can just, he can mesmerize people.
I hope, Art, I hope that we could elect somebody who told the truth and that it would be so refreshing that he would be re-elected and everybody after that would decide that they had to tell the truth.
We have developed in this country a politically elite.
And this is in this classless society of ours, we have a political elite high in their ivory towers that have set new political standards that threaten to change the character of our country.
They have defined what is politically correct, even though it may not be factually correct, even though it may not be morally correct.
But I would like to believe that I would do it all over again and that the Constitution.
I do not regret.
Oh, of course, there are some things you regret.
I made some mistakes.
I regret every mistake I ever made.
I regret every you sometimes harm the wrong people.
You know, politicians in particular have big egos.
And when you rip into them, it hurts them.
I can tell you that Bill Clinton suffers inwardly.
I talk to people who are close to him.
He suffers from these attacks on it.
Hillary suffers from these attacks.
All politicians suffer.
It's a cruel thing that I do.
And I tell my reporters, if you enjoy this too much, I'm not too sure I'm going to like you.
Political opposition is a public responsibility.
And our job is to report on political abuse.
And that's what we've got to do, but be sure you're right, because if you're wrong, some of these people would rather lose an arm and a leg than their...
Let's stay with the If Only I Was 30 again thing for just a second.
Jack, recently in our history, and now the reason for a lot of domestic terrorism are two things that People consider, many people consider to be atrocities, and they wave the flag when they commit some terrible act like blowing up a building or something.
Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Now, had you been 30 when these things occurred, what do you think you'd have done?
you have to have law and order but i am concerned the abuse by government we've got The American people are the sovereigns, and we've got to make the government conform to our will.
But we have to have order.
That comes first.
The first duty of government is to protect the citizens.
I'm saying that when groups resist, as they're all throughout the country, certain groups like the one at Waco, like the one at Ruby Ridge, that are divorcing themselves from the government, declaring that they no longer are part of it, no longer going to take orders from it.
I don't think our government has deteriorated that badly.
I don't think we've reached that point.
I think that that time could come, and when it comes, we'll have Revolutionary War II.
With regard to Watch UK, even with some of the stories I'm getting now about Great Britain, which I told you about earlier, I still think it's going to be more of a people problem than it's going to be a machine problem.
It's scripture by ancient prophets that's been found in the past 30, 40 years in the Holy Land.
Enoch is one of them, some other prophets.
And I put together bits and pieces from their writings, and it begins to make sense.
They believed that populated planets without number are linked in a vast celestial society complete with interplanetary communications, transportation, and operations.
But the reason that we here on Earth feel so alone, as we do on this little pinprick of an Earth, this pinprick of greenery is that we've been isolated.
We've been shut off from the interplanetary system.
Well, I add to that these ancient scriptures say that wickedness and violence are spiritual pollutions that can foul the delicate mechanisms that cause the universe to run so precisely as it does.
And this may be the reason that the Earth has been isolated.
I wasn't following it closely enough to be an authority on it, but I thought that they had some lucky breaks and that those lucky breaks were correct and that they nailed the correct people, don't you?
And it's hard to sum up in two minutes, but let me try.
Okay.
The United States, the CIA, was attempting to kill Vidal Castro, attempting to knock him off.
Vidal Castro, on September 7, 1963, called a press conference and said and accused the CIA of doing what it was doing.
And he went on to say, two can play at this game.
If you continue to try to kill Cuban leaders, then American leaders will not be safe.
It was his warning.
It was ignored by the press in Washington.
It appeared below the fold on page 7 or something like that because it was considered to be just more mouthings from Fidel Castro.
But the CIA regarded this as a direct warning.
And when Kennedy was killed, John McCone, Robert Kennedy, had been placed in charge of the CIA by Jack Kennedy.
He didn't have a formal title, but he was in charge.
Right after his brother was killed, John McCone came directly to Bob Kennedy's home, spent three hours with him.
Kennedy's pastor was turned away.
I called McCone and said, what were you doing there?
He said, routine CIA business.
Do you believe that?
Everybody in the world was talking, had only one subject on their mind, the killing of John F. Kennedy.
And you can't convince me that the head of the CIA went to see Bob Kennedy to discuss routine business right after that killing.
The next day, John McCone, the head of the CIA, went to the White House.
Only three people were there, Lyndon Johnson, John McCone, and George Bundy, the National Security Advisor.
I was not there.
I cannot tell you what was said, but I can tell you what John McCone told others that he said.
He told Lyndon Johnson, so he said, and I had sources that got this directly from McCone.
He told Lyndon Johnson that the Cuba Missile Crisis had happened just nine months earlier, and we had forced Khrushchev to take his pants down in public.
We had humiliated him.
He had backed down.
He was in great trouble.
In fact, he was ousted not long afterward.
He was in great trouble in the Kremlin.
And McComb warned the president, if you pin this on Fidel Castro, and it was Fidel Castro using the mafia, if you pin this on Fidel Castro, the Russians, Khrushchev, is reckless, he's impulsive.
Wrote me a letter thanking me for preventing them from being thrown out of the country.
The reason that Strom Thurman was wanting to do this was because he regarded the Beatles and John Lennon as subversive.
Ironically, at the same time, in Prague, John Lennon was the hero of the anti-communist movement there.
They had, in Prague, they had what they call the John Lennon Wall.
I've been there.
And this wall was used by the anti-communists to run Beatles songs, words from the Beatles that they used to inspire them against the communists.
Can you imagine the irony?
Here, the same John Lennon, whose Lennon Wall was the inspiration for the anti-communist, was being ousted, or they wanted to oust him, Strom Thurman wanted to doust him because they considered him to be pro-communist and subversive.
Now, in modern America, for some reason, Jack, maybe it's always been true, I don't know, but fame is a real big two-edged sword.
And now in America, you can just be killed because you're famous, because somebody wants to make a name for themselves and be remembered as being, I guess, just be remembered, even if it's for killing somebody without motivation.
Well, you know, I have a theory about that, Jack, and my theory is that this is the way God planned it.
In other words, as you get older, as you get older, you finally get so disgusted with everything that's going on in the world, including the music, that by the time you're the age where you're kind of ready to go, you're ready to say, take me, Lord, get me out of here.
Now, going back to the Kennedy assassination, you said that Castro and the mob had Kennedy killed and that it couldn't be revealed because that would push the Soviet Union over the line.
The next day, after he was told this, that this could lead to World War III, could lead to 40 million American casualties, Lyndon Johnson called J. Edgar Hoover.
I did not listen to their conversation, but I knew both men.
They lived across the street from each other.
They were good friends.
They had spent 30 years living across the street from each other.
And I know them.
I can almost guess what was said.
Lyndon Johnson said, Edgar, I want you to save your country.
Hoover would have clicked his heels at the other end of the ball and said, yes, sir, Mr. President, what is it you want me to do?
And Lyndon Johnson would have said, if we involved Castro in the Kennedy assassination, it could lead to World War II and could cost his 40 million American lives.
I want you to keep that out of the investigation.
And Hoover would have agreed.
And he did agree.
I know that he did keep it out.
I know that Lyndon Johnson formed the Warring Commission.
But the Warren Commission never did its own investigation.
The FBI did the investigation.
And I know that Hoover and the FBI knew about Castro and his threat and his threat to retaliate against the CIA for trying to kill him.
And I know that Hoover kept that out.
I know Lyndon Johnson.
He would always have an ace up his sleeve.
The ace up his sleeve was the sixth man on the Warren Commission.
And the sixth man on the Warren Commission was Alan Dulles, the former head of the CIA who had planned the plot to kill Castro, who knew all about it.
And the transcripts of the Warren Commission reveal that it was Alan Dulles who told his fellow members, oh, these things have always been the work of one man, and I know this too,
that when Lyndon Johnson, who approved, who said a number of times, dozens of times, that he concurred with the Warren Commission report, he was interviewed by Harold Smith.
Remember the fellow that had kind of a bad eye, who was ABC anchor?
He told me that he was interviewing Lendon Johnson and that, among other things, he asked him about the Kennedy assassination, that Lendon Johnson blurted out, well, Kennedy tried to kill Castro,
but Castro responded and got Kennedy first.
Smith almost fell out of his chair.
He told me that he started, he said, what do you mean by this?
And Lyndon Johnson acted as if he didn't realize he had said it out loud.
I don't think that they have, well, they certainly don't have the kind of control that they used to have.
I suspect that they are present in the same way.
What happened is that some of the younger, the children of the mob leaders went to Harvard and other schools, and they learned how to do it the American way.
And they're doing it the American way.
But they do not openly control anything in Las Vegas today that I know of.
There's some, I think, genuine muckrakers like Noam Chomsky and Michael Parenti and some former CIA officers around the magazine Cobra Action magazine who have these are real muckrakers, and I don't think they'd ever be on your program, but they consider Jack Anderson to be an absolute fraud and a kind of a sewer disinformation pipeline for some of the most vicious slanders of the shadow government, the CIA.
Whether he's been on one faction or another for his own advantage or jumping ship from one to another, overall he has represented throughout his career some of the worst slanders of everyone who's been on the military-industrial complex, CIA, shadow government hit list and just been brainwashing American public for hostilities or attacks against whether it's Castro, whether it's the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, or whatever.
And I think one of the most vicious lies was his lie about the Kennedy assassination.
The book, Unreliable Sources, points out that he was working in a kind of a COINTELPRO way for J. Edgar Hoover before he decided to apparently jump ship on a secret mission to interview Jim Garrison about the assassination to find out what he knew.
He came back and reported to Hoover that Garrison made a very strong case that the CIA, the CIA, not Castro did it, but in all of his public appearances, he said exactly the opposite, exactly the CIA line, exactly the FBI line.
And this whole attempt, I think, to frame up Castro is right in line with that.
The mob was working for the Central Intelligence Agency.
They hated Castro's guts.
Kennedy was making moves towards normalizing relations with Castro weeks before or months before he was assassinated.
The Central Intelligence Agency, he said he was going to destroy and cast to the wind in 10,000 pieces.
all right well slow down i think it was slow down i don't think include that there and i want to my problem is that there are He's got somebody else because the things that he is saying have nothing to do with me.
I have not done the things that he says that I have done.
I did go see Garrison during my investigation of the Kennedy assassination.
I was met at the airport by two big strapping guys.
I did not know who they were.
They took me to Garrison's office, and Garrison finally said, why did these two guys, I guess he got worried that I might know who they were, he said, why did two Carlos Marcelo's thugs bring you into my office?
I said, they met me at the airport and you're the only one who knew I was coming.
He was tied in with Carlos Marcelo.
There was no question that he was tied in with Carlos Marcelo.
He ran his investigation in order to divert attention from Marcelo.
You see, Marcelo was the godfather of New Orleans, but Dallas was under his jurisdiction, and the mob has their own protocol, and they had to deal with Carlos Marcelo.
And believe me, I have spent 20 years investigating this.
The closest that any official group has come was by the House Assassination Committee.
They went into it much deeper than anyone else.
The guy who ran the investigation told me privately that he agreed with me, but that members of Congress would not go along with it.
Well, I have been threatened a number of times, including by Mo Dalitz.
Mo Dalitz used to own the outright own the Desert Inn there in Las Vegas, where you're from.
I got a message that he didn't like what I was writing and he was going to do me in.
I don't mean to sound bravado because I knew that the mafia was worried about going after newsmen for fear that the newsmen would cause them more trouble than what they could solve.
Listen, I have a fax here, unverified, of course, from a fellow Ham in the Midwest who supplies me with his call letters and telephone number and ICQ number and so forth.
And I'll just read it to you and you can absorb it for what it's worth.
Art today at about 7.15 p.m. on 6.96 megahertz lower side band, I overheard a conversation between Arecibo, that's in Puerto Rico, the big telescope, radio telescope in Arecibo, and an unknown station.
They were discussing the reception of a signal from two light years out.
The signal consisted of low-order numbers, the repeat of a signal previously sent to space by Arecibo.
The unknown station said they had verified the signal with other sites.
It was not from a military satellite.
They repeated numerous times that it was not a test.
If necessary, I can be contacted and he gives me the information here.
I've interviewed the head of SETI several times, and they've had a few things that they're unable to explain, but as you point out, they've always gone away too quickly.
All right, here we go.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Jack Anderson.
Where are you, please?
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Yes, I'm calling from Westchester County, New York.
It's been a very long and a very interesting night.
Mr. Anderson, you are aware of the former CIA agent Victor Marchetti, who wrote a book back in the early 1970s about what he referred to as the MKUltra program within the federal government.
One of the things that did shock me, I used to not be a believer in these conspiracy theories that people have cherished so long.
But you know, when Hazel O'Leary, the energy secretary, walked in front of the country and said that we had fed plutonium to children and pregnant women and stuff like that, I lost something.
It's like I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe it.
When I grew up, Jack, and I'm younger than you are, by 20 years at least, and when the FBI would come out and they'd have a press conference, you know, about the latest person they've caught or whatever, I mean, you could take that to the bank.
It was like solid gold.
Now, in modern America, when the FBI comes out and has a press conference, people almost automatically disbelieve them.
World War II was a different era, a different kind of war.
Yes, they had security.
Yes, they used censorship, but it was considered to be in the national interest to do so.
What happened after the war is that they had gotten used to the military had gotten used to having the right to classify whatever they wanted to classify.
They didn't have any censorship stamps in Washington, but they had a lot of secret stamps in Washington.
So when they had something they wanted to censor, they stamped it secret, top secret, instead.
That still goes on.
And I don't recognize a secrecy stamp anymore.
I have.
I'm the worst security violator in Washington because if it's something that the American people are entitled to know, I don't care what stamp is on it because the proper stamp should be censored.
I have talked to people who are close to them, and the people who are close to them tell me that Hillary is outraged at her husband's conduct, that she had a showdown with him after he got the nomination for president and said to him, and this is secondhand, because I didn't get it from Hillary.
Not too long ago, during the Lewinsky affair, a very good source of mine told me that she was visiting with Hillary in Hillary's office, and the president came in and started saying, how's my favorite lady?
How's my girlfriend?
How's my sweetheart?
And she let the glasses slide down the end of her nose, looked up at him, and said, is there something I can do for you?
i guess not the beginning of the end but near the end of the line Let me hasten to say, Art, that none of this was confirmed directly with Bill or Hillary.
I was just wondering, because of your unique perspective and knowledge of Washington politics, do you think there's any practical and workable plan to get soft money out of politics and possibly develop some kind of public financing of our candidates in Congress so we can get some honesty and real legislating out of them?
Well, the worst scandal in Washington is the way we finance politics.
We've got to do something.
But I don't see them doing it.
I don't either.
As I said to you a little earlier, Art, they've been so turned off on politics that they don't turn out.
This has caused a vicious circle that I described.
People are turning away from politics, and the politicians are turning more and more to the special interests that are willing to finance their campaigns.
And the people who finance their campaigns want a return on their investment.
The government, how do you feel about this great growing thing called the Internet, Which the government actually began and now, to some degree, is its nemesis.
They're scared to death of it because the internet is going to make it possible for people to vote.
And I'm a little afraid of it.
One of the realities is that our founding fathers were trying to protect the minority from the abuse of the majority.
And the ultimate minority is the individual.
And the individual is going to be swamped by a lot of people who don't know what they're doing, who will vote without knowing who the candidates really are and what they really stand for.