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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.
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