Washington Expose

Washington DC: Public Affairs Press. Hardcover. vi, [2], 487, [1] pages. Index. Inscribed by author on fep. Rear board has weakness and restrengthened with glue. Edge soiling. Jack Anderson (October 19, 1922 – December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist, considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Anderson had a national radio show, acted as Washington bureau chief of Parade magazine, and was a commentator on ABC-TV's Good Morning America. Among his exposés was reporting the Nixon's investigation and harassment of John Lennon during its fight to deport Lennon, the continuing activities of fugitive Nazi officials in South America, and the savings and loan crisis. He revealed the history of a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, and was credited for breaking the story of the Iran–Contra affair under President Reagan. "Jam-packed with hard facts and forthright comments," about Washington, D.C.'s "foibles and frustrations, its cupidities and stupidities, its high-flown phrases and tawdry compromises." In 1972 Anderson was the target of an assassination plot conceived by White House senior staff. Two Nixon administration conspirators admitted under oath that they plotted to poison Anderson on orders from senior White House aide Charles Colson. White House "plumbers" G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt met with a CIA operative to discuss the possibilities, including drugging Anderson with LSD, poisoning his aspirin bottle, or staging a fatal mugging. The plot was aborted when the plotters were arrested for the Watergate break-in. Nixon had long been angry with Anderson. He blamed the fallout from Anderson's election-eve story about a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon's brother for Nixon's loss of the 1960 presidential election. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Bobby Baker, Central Intelligence, CIA, John Birch Society, Thomas Dodd, Internal Revenue Service, Jacqueline Kennedy, Thorne Patch, Drew Pearson, Privacy, Vietnam War, Robert Welch, Wiretapping, Cover up, First Ladies, Intimidation, Spies, Torture

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