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...Agnew singled out CBS's recent documentary on "The Selling of the Pentagon" as "a subtle but vicious broadside against the nation's defense establishment...
...Agnew hesitated for a moment, then police guarding the podium rushed toward Smith and dragged him from the ballroom, as Agnew told the applauding audience to "see where the cameras are going...
Citing Federal Communications Commission and House subcommittee reports on two previous documentaries-"Hunger in America" and a never-released special in 1966 called "Project Nassau" on an aborted invasion of Haiti-Agnew criticized CBS for a double standard on "misinformation, distortion and propaganda...
...Agnew charged that a baby singled out as a victim of malnutrition in "Hunger in America" actually died of meningitis due to prematurity. He added that the FCC had found evidence that CBS had edited out moderate views on the Hunger problem as "too technical...
...case of the aborted "Project Nassau," Agnew quoted a subcommittee of the House Commerce Commission which reported "The filming of sham events, manipulated of sound tracks, and the like. Underlying the whole activity was the earnest endeavor by a group of dangerous individuals to subvert the laws of the United States...