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...rumor planted by Hoover's aides lead to her death...
Seberg had angered the FBI'S autocratic director, J. Edgar Hoover, by helping raise money for the Black Panthers. According to documents that had been obtained three years ago by Seberg's lawyers and were released publicly last week by the FBI, an unnamed agent in Los Angeles proposed to Hoover that the actress, who was several months pregnant, be discredited with a rumor that her baby's father was a Black Panther leader. Said the agent in a memo, which was dated April 27,1970: "The possible publication of Seberg's plight could cause...
...dirty tricks -agents had been trying to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. by recording hotel room sounds of his alleged extramarital activities and sending the tapes to his wife. Hoover readily approved the plot against Seberg. Ordered Washington headquarters in a memo: "Jean Seberg has been a financial supporter of the B.P.P. [Black Panther Party] and should be neutralized." Headquarters had only one caveat: "It would be better to wait approximately two additional months until Seberg's pregnancy would be obvious to everyone...
George Marshall, that giant of the inchoate American empire, once said. "Never underestimate the American people." In 1976, the American people bounced Gerald Ford on his ear and elected a Bert Lance subsidiary named Jimmy Carter, making Ford the first incumbent to get the Golden Toe since Herbert Hoover. Even they could see the shallowness and stupidity written on Ford's big Labrador face. But Carter? Nixon? Johnson? Kennedy? Maybe they weren't so shrewd. Maybe Gerald Ford, the one they hadn't picked, was the best President that generation ever had. Read 'em and weep...
...cause. Andrei Amalrik told TIME last week that he was writing a book on Rasputin that would show the monk had a good influence on Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif. "He wanted equal rights for Jews, a separate peace with Germany in World War I and the redistribution of land to the peasants." Some historians will doubtless question Amalrik's contentions that the legendary monk was really as good as all that. Still...