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@jeffryhouse @pauloCanning Even a narrow authority would have covered W.E.B. Du Bois, awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959.
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@jeffryhouse @pauloCanning A slightly broader authority, pressed forward by the FBI, identified Martin Luther King as "the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of Communism, the Negro and national security."
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@jeffryhouse @pauloCanning It's not that foreign government influence is per se benign, but rather that the truly dangerous meetings with foreign powers usually involve security clearances, not peace activists.
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@jeffryhouse @pauloCanning As we now know, the guy on the left enabled chemical warfare: foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/ And the one on the right did an end-run around American law. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boland_Amendment