Bill Kingsbury
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 05:28:31 -0800
-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/dixon/index.html Psychic Jeane Dixon Was FBI Stooge Maligned Civil Rights Movement With Hoover's Approval By Joe Beaird Dec. 27, 1999 NEW YORK (APBnews.com) -- Soothsayer Jeane Dixon helped the FBI fight leftist campus agitators during the 1960s by secretly serving as the bureau's mouthpiece, according to her FBI file, which was obtained by APBnews.com. Dixon -- who vaulted to fame when credited with foretelling President John F. Kennedy's death in office -- was one of the nation's highest profile psychics when she died of a heart attack in 1997. Her FBI file, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, also documents a brazen extortion attempt against her, a cozy relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, and angry requests for the bureau to investigate her for her sometimes-inflammatory prophecies. But Dixon, the Wisconsin-born daughter of German immigrants who went on to advise first lady Nancy Reagan, had friends and support at the highest levels of the bureau. Personally approving her offer to help the FBI in 1966, Hoover hand wrote on her file: "OK. She is a very reputable person." Dixon speaks against civil rights movement After casually meeting an FBI special agent at a social function, Dixon asked him for materials to include in her speeches that would undermine support for left-wing groups, according to a bureau memo. She pledged to use the information in her speeches "in such a manner that it cannot be attributed to the FBI," the memo reads. "Thus, the 'left-wing' groups could not claim she was a mouthpiece for the FBI." The feds ultimately sent Dixon background information on groups orchestrating the Vietnam War and civil rights protests that the FBI deemed "campus turbulence." And Dixon, in turn, told the public that saw her as an oracle that the country's "real enemy is Russia." In a newspaper article included in her file, she is quoted as saying that the Russians were the masterminds behind the civil rights movement. Hoover comes aboard Dixon's good relations with the FBI continued through 1968, when Hoover agreed to serve as an honorary director to the psychic's Children to Children Inc., a foundation established to alleviate child suffering and disease. The foundation still exists today, although its fund raising has suffered since Dixon's death, according to Tony Tringale, the group's current vice president. Dixon lived off the family real estate business and donated her celebrity prophecy income to the charity, Tringale said. "She was a very dear lady," Tringale told APBnews.com. "Once you get away from The Star and the predictions, she had a very big heart." FBI raised an eyebrow at controversial statements But her life was never free of controversy. And she touched off a flurry of internal memos at the FBI with a 1969 National Enquirer article claiming that four Soviet leaders "instigated, financed, and controlled" student uprisings and race riots in the United States. "While we have no information as that referred to by Jeane Dixon," reads a bureau memo by C.D. Brennan, "we felt it necessary to note Communist participation in international peace groups including those from the Soviet Union, the U.S. and other nations." But in a handwritten note at the bottom of Brennan's memo, Hoover defends Dixon's basic conclusions. He stresses that Soviet financial support for the U.S. Communist Party is well-established, and that the party helped lead many student demonstrations. "I still think we are playing a game in semantics," Hoover wrote. "We know that the Soviet Govt. is financially supporting the U.S.C.P. [U.S. Communist Party] & we know U.S.C.P. has led many of the student uprisings and race riots." She asked for protection, but didn't get it But while Hoover appeared to look kindly on Dixon, the bureau denied her 1970 request for personal protection for a speech she was giving in Greenwood, Miss. Dixon had received a telegram telling her that her speech would be delivered to a "completely segregated" group, which she felt was an implied threat. Nevertheless, the bureau denied her request and referred her to the Greenwood Police Department for protection, if necessary. Life as a public oracle inspired at least one person to send a string of threats against Dixon, her file reveals. In 1977 alone, one extortionist -- whose name has been redacted from the FBI file -- sent her 10 threatening telegrams and letters. "I'm terribly hard pressed for money," one telegram reads. "Send me some financial help immediately or I'll take drastic action. Either you help me quick or it's going to be the worst." Another letter predicts the psychic's "total ruination." The Seattle FBI field office investigated the threats, but the results are not included in the file. Request that Dixon be investigated If Dixon was sometimes an extortion target, others saw her annual predictions -- which were widely syndicated in The Star tabloid and elsewhere - as such a threat that they sent them to the FBI with a request that their author be investigated. In a 1971 letter to Hoover and Sen. Hale Boggs, one disgruntled conspiracy theorist claims that Dixon, through partisan bloodlust, "has been permitted to mark all of our Democrat Leaders [sic] for bodily harm. She has marked Ted Kennedy for murder over and over again ... and has everybody thinking kill, kill, kill." "I am requesting an official investigation into the actions of Mrs. Jeane L. Dixon," the letter concludes. In 1971, after Dixon revealed that there was a spy highly placed in the U.S. government who reported directly to Russia, several government informants sent the article directly to Hoover. "Why don't you ask her who it is?" one alert citizen wrote Hoover. There is, in Dixon's file, no record of what action the FBI director took. Joe Beaird is an APBnews.com staff writer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). ©Copyright 2000 APB Multimedia Inc. All rights reserved. . <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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