Word: gilles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire affair, even the means by which it was unearthed, is rife with people playing sneaky. The Crimson obtained the letters that revealed Gill's role and threw the fantastic case wide open because someone else must have played sneaky...
Playing sneaky is fun for little kids, but it loses its humor in what is supposedly an open and free environment. Gill comes out of the affair looking fairly quixotic, but the FBI and possibly the CIA appear simultaneously sinister and bumbling...
...marvels at how the FBI projects its own image onto that of its enemies, assuming that because it plays sneaky, they must also. J. Edgar Hoover himself could have appeared at a Harvard SDS meeting and gleaned as much useful information as Gill obtained. Her work was probably at best a minor nuisance to SDS, probably not worth the $50 the FBI allegedly tossed her every now and then. They surely could have invested their money more wisely...
...Gill herself probably suffered most from the escapade. She probably contacted the FBI for a mixture of reasons: a sincere desire to counter what she was as the SDS threat to national security and an eagerness to enter the exciting world of espionage. The FBI callously used her, and seemingly gained nothing for its exploitation...
...former SDS leader provided perhaps the best assessment of Jessie Gill. "She was a lonely person who appeared to have no friends," he said. "She found a group of them...