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Abbie Hoffman — Part 37
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Abbott Howard Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman:
Tnia is unrehesarsed television.....
Jack Anderson:
I feel like an astronaut or....
Abbie Hoffman:
Well, welcome to New York and “Free Time" Jack.
You know one thing that's always intrigued me is every Sunday
hight I join perhaps 30, 40 million Americans and tuning on
the television set and watching a prime time hour propaganda
exploitation film done by Warner Brothers with the cooperation
. and consent of the FBI glorifying our secret police, I
commented to some Russians about this about a month ago and
they said not even in Russia does the NKVD get an hour prime
time. Is this an unusual thing about the American character
that we glorify an organization like the FBI? ,
Jack Anderson:
Well, this is the model for the nation, Alli FBI
agents look like Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and that's why they're
able to infiltrate the Mafia because you can't tell them when
they're coming you know. They-two FBI agents-short sideburns,
clean cut, they're always in disguise. You never know what....
as I say they all look like Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and wh...
&bbie Hoffman: “
How much is the character of the FBI agent in
particular and the agency in general molded by the leader of
the ship Mr. Hoover?
Jack Anderson:
They're all cast in the image that he wants. They
all dress alike. They all look elike. They all have to be
in bed by 2:00 ofclock., They..uh...if they get involved in
a shoot out, as one of them did over here at Kennedy
International not long ago, they better have their coats
on this way-if they take their coats off, as this fella did
when he shot the hijecker. Hoover saw the picture in the paper
the following morning reprimanded him for taking his coat off.
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