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People (3)

  • Dan Smoot FBI agent from 1942 to 1951 who became the voice of H.L. Hunt's Facts Forum and then an independent broadcaster, and whose resignation, described to the public as voluntary, followed censure, probation, and transfer.
  • James Eastland Mississippi senator from 1941 to 1978 and Delta planter who chaired the Internal Security Subcommittee and the Judiciary Committee, buried over a hundred civil rights bills, and drew 100,000 dollars a year in farm subsidies.
  • Nelson Bunker Hunt Dallas oilman who lost the Sarir field to Libya, was indicted for wiretapping his father's aides, was found liable for conspiring to corner silver in 1980, and gave 475,000 dollars to Oliver North's Contra fundraisers.

Organizations (1)

  • John Birch Society Anticommunist membership society founded by the candy manufacturer Robert Welch at Indianapolis in December 1958, whose first council included Fred Koch and the Wackenhut director Ralph E. Davis, and which circulated Senator Eastland's speeches.