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Far Right Stuntwoman Laura Loomer Announces Run for Congress

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)8/02/2019 6:39:27 pm PDT

re: #49 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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Cooked intel is a deeply embedded far right tradition
Major General Charles A. Willoughby (1892-1972) was MacArthur’s chief of intelligence through most of World War II and Korea. He has been called the most incompetent and destructive American general officer of the twentieth century.

Willoughby was a great admirer of Francisco Franco even before the Spanish Civil War. After Willoughby’s forced retirement in 1952, he worked as a lobbyist for Franco and also worked closely with Phyllis Schlafly’s mentor H.L. Hunt. and fascist preacher Billy Hargis. He was a founding member of the John Birch Society and a major figure on the far right until his death in 1972.
In the mid-50s, Willoughby publicly revealed the existence and success of of the Soviets’ Richard Sorge spy ring in Tokyo during World War II. Of course, this also revealed that the US knew about the ring, something many operatives had hoped to conceal from the Soviets. The lapse may have cost one or more assets in the Soviet Union their lives. Willoughby claimed, though, that Sorge (executed by the Japanese in 1944) was still alive and operating in the United States at that time. He had also been the chief advocate for pardoning and even rewarding bio-weapons monster Shirō Ishii in exchange for data Ishii had collected at his infamous Unit 731, where Chinese and allied PoWs, including some Americans, were used as experimental subjects in lethal and inhumanly cruel experiments

Wow had never heard of him. Never was a MacArthur fan. My mom’s father l, a Korean War vet told me he was relieved when Truman canned Dougie.