In the mid-1960s Anderson exposed the corruption of Senator Thomas J. Dodd and unearthed a memo by an ITT executive admitting the company made large donations to Richard Nixon’s campaign to so that Nixon would stymie anti-trust prosecution. His reporting on Nixon-ITT corruption earned him a place on the Master list of Nixon’s political opponents.19 Anderson collaborated with Pearson on The Case Against Congress, published in 1968.20
According to the Family Jewels Central Intelligence Agency documents, in 1971, during the Indo-Pakistani War, the director of the CIA, Richard Helms, had a wiretap put on Anderson’s phones.21
In 1972 Anderson was the target of an assassination plot conceived by senior White House staff. Two Nixon administration conspirators admitted under oath that they plotted to poison Anderson on orders from senior White House aide Charles Colson.24
White House “plumbers” G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt met with a CIA operative to discuss the possibilities, including drugging Anderson with LSD, poisoning his aspirin bottle, or staging a fatal mugging.25 The plot was aborted when the plotters were arrested for the Watergate break-in. Nixon had long been angry with Anderson. He blamed the fallout from Anderson’s election-eve story about a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon’s brother16 for Nixon’s loss of the 1960 presidential election.
Project Mudhen
Beginning in February 1972, Anderson was the subject of a CIA project called Project Mudhen (also referred to as Operation Mudhen) aiming to find the sources of his articles.262728 Over the course of three months, ending April 12, 1972, the CIA spied on Anderson, whose code name in the project was “Brandy”. The CIA ended Mudhen after being unsuccessful at finding his sources and believing that Anderson was beginning to suspect he was being spied on by the CIA, which was able to collect a large file on his personal movements.
When Nixon was going down the tube for rampant corruption, he complained he was being unfairly attacked by the press. (This strip is Wizard of Id supporting him.)
Just more proof that when a President says you can’t trust the press it means he has broken more laws than can easily be counted.
BigDaveGlass 6 months ago
With a name like that, JS would be courting lawsuits if he did contribute……
charliefarmrhere 6 months ago
He played it safe Rodney, and why he won the award.
danketaz Premium Member 6 months ago
He wrote plenty, it’s publishing that didn’t happen.
Radish the wordsmith 6 months ago
Another right wing strip from 1974.
In the mid-1960s Anderson exposed the corruption of Senator Thomas J. Dodd and unearthed a memo by an ITT executive admitting the company made large donations to Richard Nixon’s campaign to so that Nixon would stymie anti-trust prosecution. His reporting on Nixon-ITT corruption earned him a place on the Master list of Nixon’s political opponents.19 Anderson collaborated with Pearson on The Case Against Congress, published in 1968.20
According to the Family Jewels Central Intelligence Agency documents, in 1971, during the Indo-Pakistani War, the director of the CIA, Richard Helms, had a wiretap put on Anderson’s phones.21
In 1972 Anderson was the target of an assassination plot conceived by senior White House staff. Two Nixon administration conspirators admitted under oath that they plotted to poison Anderson on orders from senior White House aide Charles Colson.24
White House “plumbers” G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt met with a CIA operative to discuss the possibilities, including drugging Anderson with LSD, poisoning his aspirin bottle, or staging a fatal mugging.25 The plot was aborted when the plotters were arrested for the Watergate break-in. Nixon had long been angry with Anderson. He blamed the fallout from Anderson’s election-eve story about a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon’s brother16 for Nixon’s loss of the 1960 presidential election.
Project Mudhen
Beginning in February 1972, Anderson was the subject of a CIA project called Project Mudhen (also referred to as Operation Mudhen) aiming to find the sources of his articles.262728 Over the course of three months, ending April 12, 1972, the CIA spied on Anderson, whose code name in the project was “Brandy”. The CIA ended Mudhen after being unsuccessful at finding his sources and believing that Anderson was beginning to suspect he was being spied on by the CIA, which was able to collect a large file on his personal movements.
Larrycleve 6 months ago
Notice how the King(Fink) needs to stand on that step so his head is above the railing?
Ed The Red Premium Member 6 months ago
When Nixon was going down the tube for rampant corruption, he complained he was being unfairly attacked by the press. (This strip is Wizard of Id supporting him.)
Just more proof that when a President says you can’t trust the press it means he has broken more laws than can easily be counted.
brklnbern 6 months ago
This was a play on the name of the famous investigative journalist of the time, Jack Anderson.