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How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by aebtebeten »

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers.

If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you!

(but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by zozbot234 »

aebtebeten wrote: post #2

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers. If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you! (but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

I'm pretty sure that "... there must be some kind of conspiracy" is the literal definition of a Conspiracy Theory. Nice to see that even the FBI is into that fun stuff.

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by pstuart »

zozbot234 wrote: post #3
aebtebeten wrote: post #2

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers. If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you! (but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

I'm pretty sure that " ... there must be some kind of conspiracy " is the literal definition of a Conspiracy Theory. Nice to see that even the FBI is into that fun stuff.

The FBI has a checkered history. We do need federal level policing but, like all policing, it needs to be buttressed by accountability and oversight.

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by neovialogistics »

aebtebeten wrote: post #2

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers. If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you! (but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

At what point in history did the FBI first begin to require aptitude tests to become an agent?

Re: How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)

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Post by throwaway8877 »

aebtebeten wrote: post #2

> ... there must be some kind of conspiracy between communists, blacks, poets and French philosophers. If you can connect these dots, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game) might be for you! (but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U... )

There is necessarily no cross-links between all of them, but there is a link. If you can't imagine that a state that is obsessively dreaming about the world revolution and has a wide spy network and large group of naive sympathisers doesn't try to infiltrate all the possible influential counter cultures then you are a little too naive.
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