By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A lot of secrecy still shrouds the FBI’s past obsession with former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. AllGov.com reports that the FBI has refused to disclose records detailing her trip to the Soviet Union in 1957 and 1958. Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover believed Roosevelt was a Communist sympathizer. Now a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Britain’s Winston Churchill urged the U.S. to drop a nuclear bomb on the Soviet Union in 1947, fearing the Kremlin would spread Communism and eventually have atomic weapons, according to FBI archives. International Business Times reports that the revelation is in a new book, “When Lions Road: The Churchills and The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fearing the Soviet Union was planning to attack Alaska in the 1950s, the FBI trained Alaskan residents so become informant behind enemy lines, according to declassified documents, reports RT.com. The initiative did not include women or native people, like the Native Americans. At the time, the FBI feared that the Soviet…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not everyone is welcoming of U.S. law enforcement authorities. At the Sochi Olympics, a restaurant billboard indicated, “We do not serve FBI and CIA agents,” Ground Report writes. Associated Press photographer Jae C. Hong spotted the wooden billboard outside an eatery in Sochi. Another sign read, “We remember the Cold War.” The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the U.S. remembers the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination Friday, there is no shortage of conspiracy theories. Depending on whom you ask, JFK was killed by the CIA, the mafia, Cuban exile groups, the FBI, southern segregationists or the Soviet Union. The way author and attorney Craig Zirbel sees…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com MI5, the British intelligence agency, cooperated with J Edgar Hoover’s FBI in tracking the actor Charlie Chaplin in the 1950s for alleged communist sympathies, reports the Guardian. Describing Chaplin as “Hollywood’s parlour Bolsheviks,” the FBI asked MI5 for cooperation in having him banned from the US. MI5 put together “extensive personal…
