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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 31
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 31
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
[...continued...]
Recently, in a television appearance, Pat Carbine, now
publisher of Ms. [magazine] and formerly editor of McCalls
[magazine] in 1971 when that magazine named Gloria Steinem
"Woman of the Year," declared that the Women's Movement was
currently in "Phase II." What that means here (the Red
Stockings go on to explain), "radicals were necessary for
getting the thing started," she conceded, "but the
moderates were now in control."
(And skipping down still further, the article closes here with an
interesting little blurb.)
Do not forget that Gloria Steinem dated Henry Kissinger at
one time. And think about this: "There is still the
assumption that a woman is not a complete human being by
herself. We have to consider the ways in which we are 'man
junkies.'"
(That from Gloria Steinem in a New York Times interview of August
11, 1974.)
Well the Kissinger association is not necessarily very
significant at all. However we *are* going to talk about a man
that she's been with for a very long time who appears to be a
very insidious individual indeed.
Perhaps none of the things in any of the material that we're
gonna present here, taken by themselves, would be too conclusive.
However the intersection of all of them is very intriguing
indeed.
Now reviewing some of the key points of this Berkeley Barb
article: The Independent Research Service, founded to a
considerable extent by Gloria Steinem and co-directed by her for
quite some time, was involved with basically breaking up
socialist youth conferences and disrupting them abroad, as well
as reporting on the affiliations of some of the people involved.
That is obviously the kind of activity CIA does engage in. And
one of the most interesting things is the role of Clay Felker in
boosting Steinem's career and helping to get Ms. started, because
Felker was an associate of Steinem's in the Independent Research
Service. Katherine Graham here played a key role in launching
Ms., and then a sort of symbiotic relationship between Ms.
[magazine] and Steinem and Newsweek followed from that.
We're gonna take a look at Katherine Graham -- her and the
Washington Post's long-standing affiliation with CIA as well as
role in Watergate -- a little later in the broadcast.
It's also worth noting that (as the article here points out) some
corporations which have sort of dubious policies, at least
abroad, have been very prominent Ms. advertisers. I think people
who would like to find out more about IT&T should take a look at
IT&T's role in the Chilean coup of 1973. And then examine some
of the Amnesty International reports on what happened to women
political prisoners under Pinochet's regime. One of the most
grotesque things that I recall reading in the Amnesty
International reports about the political repression and torture
under Pinochet immediately after the overthrow of Salvador
Allende in Chile, was that female political prisoners were often
subjected to torture by specially trained dogs who would first
rape them, and then sexually mutilate them. Although Ms.
[magazine] does not appear to have too much hesitation about
running ads by an organization that would help precipitate that
kind of activity, I suspect that if Gloria Steinem were tied down
onto a Chilean torture table getting the "once over" from "Fido,"
I expect her attitude would be somewhat less circumspect than it
was under the circumstances.
And last, but certainly not least, it's interesting to note that
she dated Henry Kissinger. Of course Kissinger was very much
involved in setting up that very same coup, as was Richard Helms
(part of the Washington Post orbit.) We're going to take a look
at another interesting fellow, though, that Gloria Steinem dated.
Again: one doesn't want to damn people by association. But when
you're examining intelligence connections, the people one
associates with intimately and over a long period of time are one
of the indicators of where one's real sympathies lie.
We're now going to play a short section of the "One Step Beyond"
show from June 17th, 1984. You're going to hear some material
here from Newsweek magazine, as well as some material from the
New York Times. And it's going to be talking about Gloria
Steinem's paramour for the past, what... It was nine years in
'84. I don't know whether they're still together, but that's a
long time to be with anybody in terms of a dating relationship.
Gloria Steinem's relationship with a man named J. Stanley
Pottinger, who J. Stanley Pottinger is, some of the things he has
been involved in, is the next thing we're going to take up in
relation to Gloria Steinem and the whole Ms. axis.
Playing now from "One Step Beyond," June 17th, 1984.
An interesting bit of information here concerning Gloria
Steinem. And again: this on the occasion of her 50th
birthday. This is from Newsweek, the issue of June 4th,
1984. There's an article on Gloria Steinem's 50th
birthday. It's very short. It's entitled, "Steinem at 50:
Gloria in Excelsis." (And I'm only going to read you one
sentence of this article.)
"In previous incarnations, Steinem dated Mike Nichols,
Rafer Johnson, and other notables. For the past nine years
she has been romantically involved with Washington attorney
Stanley Pottinger, a Republican and former Assistant
Attorney General for Civil Rights."
But he was Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
under the Nixon/Ford administration, from 1973 until 1977.
You'll all recall what Nixon's Justice Department was like:
both Mr. Kleindeist and John Mitchell were indicted --
Mitchell convicted and Kleindeist eventually... I don't
know whether he was convicted and received a suspended
sentence, or whether he eventually was acquitted. But half
the Nixon Justice Department wound up being indicted on one
charge or another, many of them acquitted, most in
connection with the Watergate affair. They also presided
over COINTELPRO and a number of other interesting things.
Surely the Nixon administration has never been regarded as
a great champion of civil rights. And a woman like Gloria
Steinem, who is at least nominally aligned with a civil
rights movement, the feminist movement... Well, her
association, her 9-year romantic involvement with Mr.
Pottinger, is really intriguing.
Now those of you who listen to Mae Brussell's "World
Watcher" series will recall Mae referring very briefly to
Mr. Pottinger's [alleged] involvement in an arms smuggling
scam. (Research credit for the following article, again,
goes to Mr. Ted Rubenstein.)
(By the way, that Newsweek article, if you'd like to look
it up, is from June 4th, 1984.)
Now, concerning Mr. Pottinger and his alleged involvement
in an arms smuggling scam, the following article (research
credit goes to Ted Rubenstein)... This is from the New
York Times of June 3rd, 1984. This is an article by Solwyn
Rabb, headlined "Iranian is Sought in Inquiry on Arms."
Subtitled: "Banker Wanted in Smuggling of Prohibited
Equipment."
"An Iranian banker in New York City who offered to help
seek the release of the American hostages in Iran in 1980
is under investigation for leading a group that purportedly
smuggled banned military equipment into Iran, according to
federal authorities. The investigation, which began four
years ago, resulted in the arrests in New York last month
of the brother of the banker and of a Huntington, Long
Island businessman on smuggling charges. According to
federal officials, a former United States Assistant
Attorney General, W. Stanley Pottinger, is also under
investigation. The 44-year-old Mr. Pottinger, who was in
charge of the Civil Rights Division in the Justice
Department from 1973 to 1977, recently testified before the
federal grand jury in Manhattan investigating the case. He
did not return telephone calls left at his Manhattan office
or his home."
[...to be continued...]
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