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|description=Actor turned [[deep state functionary]]. Lots of black operations happened during his presidency.
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==Official narrative==
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For a hagiography, see pretty much any Western {{CCM}} outlet. The following has been compiled as an attempt to redress the balance somewhat, and put on record the things that you will either see no reference to, or which will be glossed over as minor blemishes on the record of a man who ''"only wanted to be liked and to do good in the world - and largely succeeded"''. The bulk of the article was sourced from [[William Blum]]'s Anti-Empire Report.
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'''Ronald Reagan''' was an [[actor]] turned [[US President]]. In 1981 he survived an [[Ronald Reagan/Assassination attempt|assassination attempt]], supposedly by [[lone nut]] ([[John Hinckley, Jr.]])
  
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==Assassination attempt==
 
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An assassination attempt was made against Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. The {{on}} is that a "[[lone nut]]", [[John Hinckley, Jr.]] carried it out in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster. Others have suggested that it was a plot to assume full political control of the presidency by his [[vice president]], [[George H W Bush]].<ref>[[Document:The_Political_Dominance_of_The_Cabal|The Political Dominance of The Cabal]]</ref>
 
  
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== Foreign Policy==
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===FBI informer===
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===Nicaragua===
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In the late 1940s, Hollywood shifted its attention away from [[the Mafia]]'s infiltration of the film industry to its infiltration by [[communists]].  Ronald Reagan, a young actor who was represented by [[Lew Wasserman]] and [[MCA]], was a star player during the investigation and hearings by the [[U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC), serving as both an informant for the [[FBI]] and a friendly witness for the committee.<ref name=Moldea>https://www.moldea.com/MCA.html</ref>
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For eight long years the people of [[Nicaragua]] were under attack by Ronald Reagan's proxy army, the Contras. It was all-out war from Washington, aiming to destroy the progressive social and economic programs of the Sandinista government — burning down schools and medical clinics, mining harbors, bombing and strafing, raping and torturing. These Contras were the charming gentlemen Reagan called "freedom fighters" and the "moral equivalent of our founding fathers".
 
  
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====Iran Contra Scandal====
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In October 1947, in the lead-up to the [[McCarthy]] era, the [[US Congress]] [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) subpoenaed a number of people working in the Hollywood film industry to testify at hearings. HUAC had declared its intention to investigate whether Communist agents and sympathisers had been planting propaganda in US films. The hearings opened with appearances by [[Walt Disney]] and Ronald Reagan, then president of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] and an [[FBI]] informer.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152574917408168&set=a.10150112821143168.298574.682163167&type=1&fref=nf "Good Night Betty Perske"]</ref> Disney testified that the threat of Communists in the film industry was a serious one. In his testimony before the HUAC, Reagan named several members of his union as communist sympathisers. (Later his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, stated in her biography with Joe Morella (1985) that Reagan's allegations against friends and colleagues led to tension in their marriage eventually resulting in their divorce.) In response, several leading Hollywood figures, including director John Huston and actors Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Danny Kaye, organised the Committee for the First Amendment to protest the government's targeting of the film industry.<ref>Ceplair and Englund (2003), pp. 275–79</ref>
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Reagan's long-drawn-out statements Iran Contra (the scandal involving the covert sale of weapons to Iran to enable Reaganites to continue financing the Contras in the war against the Nicaraguan government after the US Congress cut off funding for the Contras) can be summarized as follows:
 
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* I didn't know what was happening.
 
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* If I knew enough, I didn't know it in time.
 
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* If I knew it in time, it wasn't illegal.
 
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* If it was illegal, the law didn't apply to me.
 
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* If the law applied to me, I didn't know what was happening.
 
  
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===Libya===
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==Screen Actors Guild==
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[[File:Reagan_Thatcher.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Ronald Reagan and [[Margaret Thatcher]] "conspiring" in the White House library on 15 November 1988]]
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On 2 December 2010, in a video conference link to staff and students at the London School of Economics, [[Colonel Gaddafi]] alleged that the case against [[Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi]] had 'been fabricated and created by' Britain's former Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]] and former US President Ronald Reagan. He suggested that US [[CIA]] officials had been behind the 21 December 1988 [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]] in which 270 people were killed.
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:"These are the people who created this conspiracy" said Gaddafi, referring to the alleged role of Thatcher and Reagan in [[Megrahi]]'s conviction and life sentence over the attack on [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. "The charges directed towards Libya were based on unfounded evidence in an attempt to weaken the Libyan Revolution and limit its resources and abilities".<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/8178090/Lockerbie-bombers-family-preparing-to-sue-Britain-for-false-imprisonment.html "Lockerbie bomber's family preparing to sue Britain for false imprisonment"]</ref>
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After his performance in the war against communism-which included support for [[International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees|IATSE]], the Mafia-controlled union formerly run by [[Willi Bioff]] that was still run by his same executive board - Reagan was rewarded by being elected as president of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] (SAG), serving for five consecutive one-year terms.
  
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In making his allegation, Gaddafi did not include [[George H W Bush]] in this conspiracy. This may suggest that if Thatcher and Reagan had indeed 'fabricated and created' the Lockerbie bombing case against Libya, they would have done so in the interregnum between the 8 November 1988 US presidential election and President Bush taking over from Reagan on 20 January 1989.
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Author [[Dan Moldea]] researched the links between Reagan and the [[Chicago outfit|Chicago Mafia]] extensively.<ref name=Moldea/> In [[1952]], during his fifth term, Reagan engineered a "blanket waiver," exempting MCA from SAG rules prohibiting a talent agency from also engaging in film production. Reagan's second wife, actress [[Nancy Davis]], was also a member of the SAG board of directors at the time the MCA-SAG deal was made.  MCA was the only such firm to have been granted such a favored status, giving it the ground floor in television production.  It placed the company in a position where it could offer jobs to the actors it represented.  Other talent agencies complained that this situation gave MCA an unfair advantage.
  
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Gaddafi's alleged Lockerbie conspiracy could well have been hatched on 15 November 1988 when President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher were photographed in the White House library and would undoubtedly have discussed Iran's threat to retaliate massively for the shooting down of [[Iran Air Flight 655]] by USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988 with the loss of 290 civilian lives. The two leaders might then have decided to open secret negotiations with Iran and seek to limit the revenge attack to just one US aircraft. The US and UK would not have wanted to antagonise the Iranians further by blaming Iran for the retaliation, so would have selected 'mad dog' Gaddafi to be their whipping boy.
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Soon after Reagan's tenure as SAG president ended, he found himself in serious financial trouble.  With his film career on the skids, Reagan was saved by MCA with jobs in [[Las Vegas]] and on television. According to [[Justice Department]] documents, several government sources believed that the preferential treatment Reagan received from MCA was a payoff for services rendered while Reagan was the president of SAG.<ref name=Moldea/>
  
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Western Intelligence Agencies (including apartheid South Africa's [[National Intelligence Service (South Africa)|National Intelligence Service]]) would have been party to such negotiations and would have had a say in selecting the sacrificial aircraft. Thus on 22 December 1988 (the day after the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]]), President Reagan phoned Downing Street:<ref>[http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/109435 "Reagan phone call to Thatcher at Downing Street"]</ref>
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In [[1959]], the SAG membership reelected Reagan as president of SAG for a sixth term to lead an impending strike against the studios - despite the fact that Reagan had been producing episodes for MCA/Revue's General Electric Theater. According to SAG's by-laws, producers, even if they were primarily actors, are disqualified from serving on the SAG executive board. Previous board members faced with similar situations had resigned; Reagan refused to do so.<ref name=Moldea/>
  
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:"[[Margaret Thatcher|Margaret]], I understand you have just returned from the site of the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Pan Am crash]]. I want to thank you for your expression of sorrow on the [[Pan Am 103]] tragedy. On behalf of the American people, I also want to thank the rescue workers who responded so quickly and courageously. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this accident, both the passengers on the plane and the villagers in Scotland".
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Although MCA and a handful of smaller studios made an early, separate peace with SAG and continued production, the major motion picture companies held out, causing the strike to last six weeks.  In the end, according to the president of IATSE, Reagan's final settlement with the big studios came with the help of [[Sidney Korshak]]- with whom Reagan had allegedly been associated. The [[1960]] contract was so unsatisfactory to the SAG membership it has since been called "The Great Giveaway."  Reagan resigned in midterm soon after the strike.<ref name=Moldea/>
  
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On 28 December 1988, seven days after the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]], when there was as yet no evidence ostensibly pointing to Libyan culpability, Ronald Reagan in one of the last acts of his Presidency, extended sanctions against Libya and threatened renewed bombing raids.<ref>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/60771614/WolchoverPt2 "Exploding Lockerbie – Part 2"]</ref>
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After several abortive attempts to investigate MCA for antitrust violations, the federal government--upon the election of [[John Kennedy]] as president and the appointment of [[Robert Kennedy]] as attorney general - began a concentrated probe into MCA's business affairs.  The government had evidence that MCA had engaged in numerous civil and criminal violations of law and empaneled a federal grand jury to hear the specifics of its charges, which included restraint of trade, conspiracy with SAG to monopolize talent and film program productions, [[extortion]], discrimination, [[blacklisting]], and the use of predatory business practices. <ref name=Moldea/>
  
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Sure enough, the joint US/UK investigation into the bombing soon found 'evidence' pointing towards Libya for the sabotage of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. According to author and journalist, [[Ian Ferguson]], it was a case of 'reverse engineering' whereby Libya had been fitted up for the crime and the inculpatory evidence followed (see the 2009 documentary film [[Lockerbie Revisited]]).<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1660118217040&l=314e4520ce "Lockerbie conspiracy by Thatcher and Reagan"]</ref>
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Ronald Reagan was the preferred candidate of [[the Cabal]]. The [[Langemann Papers]] reveal that [[Le Cercle]] discussed how they could promote Ronald Reagan against [[Jimmy Carter]]. [[Spook]] [[Nicholas Elliott]] reported that in this context positive contact had been made with [[George H. W. Bush]].<ref>[[Document:The Pinay Circle]]</ref>  
  
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Salvador's dissidents tried to work within the system. But with US support, the government made that impossible, using repeated electoral fraud and murdering hundreds of protestors and strikers. When the dissidents took to the gun and civil war, the Carter administration and then even more so, the Reagan administration, responded with unlimited money, military aid, and training in support of the government and its death squads and torture, the latter with the help of [[CIA]] [[torture]] manuals. US military and CIA personnel played an active role on a continuous basis. The result was 75,000 civilian deaths; meaningful social change thwarted; a handful of the wealthy still owned the country; the poor remained as ever; dissidents still had to fear right-wing death squads; there was to be no profound social change in El Salvador while Ronnie sat in the White House with Nancy.
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Reagan's election was by facilitated by the [[October surprise conspiracy]], a secret deal with [[Iranian]] hostage takers to give them weapons in order to ''prevent'' the release of the US embassy hostages before the 1980 US presidential election. In the event, the hostages were released hours after Reagan was inaugurated, but the {{on}} still denies that this deal happened.
  
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In 1954, a [[CIA]]-organized coup overthrew the democratically-elected and progressive government of Jacobo Arbenz, initiating 40 years of military-government death squads, torture, disappearances, mass executions, and unimaginable cruelty, totaling more than 200,000 victims — indisputably one of the most inhumane chapters of the 20th century. For eight of those years the Reagan administration played a major role.
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Ronald Reagan gave military dictator General [[Efraín Ríos Montt]] millions of dollars of military hardware and in December 1982 went to visit him. At a press conference of the two men, Ríos Montt was asked about the Guatemalan policy of scorched earth. He replied "We do not have a policy of scorched earth. We have a policy of scorched communists." After the meeting, referring to the allegations of extensive human-rights abuses, Reagan declared that Ríos Montt was getting "a bad deal" from the media. On December 4, Reagan declared:
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An assassination attempt was made against Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. The {{on}} is that a "[[lone nut]]", [[John Hinckley, Jr.]] carried it out in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster. Others have suggested that it was a plot to assume full political control of the presidency by his [[vice president]], [[George H W Bush]].<ref>[[Document:The_Political_Dominance_of_The_Cabal|The Political Dominance of The Cabal]]</ref>
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The murderous nature of General Montt's regime was widely understood at the time. He was known to have remarked: "If you are with us, we’ll feed you, if not, we’ll kill you".<ref>{{cite web|last=Kozloff|first=Nikolas|title=Rev. Pat Robertson and Gen. Rios Montt|url=http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/17/rev-pat-robertson-and-gen-rios-montt/|publisher=CounterPunch|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref>. On 10 May 2013, convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years imprisonment.<ref name="BBCmontt">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22490408 BBC News - Guatemala's Rios Montt found guilty of genocide]</ref>
 
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Reagan invaded this tiny country in October 1983, an invasion totally illegal and immoral, and surrounded by lies (such as "endangered" American medical students). The invasion put into power individuals more beholden to US foreign policy objectives.
 
  
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After the Carter administration provoked a [[Soviet]] invasion, Reagan came to power to support the Islamic fundamentalists in their war to eject the Soviets and the secular government, which honored women's rights. In the end, the United States and the fundamentalists "won", women's rights and the rest of Afghanistan lost. More than a million dead, three million disabled, five million refugees; in total about half the population. And many thousands of anti-American Islamic fundamentalists, trained and armed by the US, on the loose to terrorize the world, to this day.
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During the [[Cold War]], during a test run for a radio broadcast, Reagan tested the equipment with the following joke which was leaked and later played on TV live.
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{{QB|"To watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters battle modern arsenals with simple hand-held weapons is an inspiration to those who love freedom," declared Reagan. "Their courage teaches us a great lesson — that there are things in this world worth defending. To the Afghan people, I say on behalf of all Americans that we admire your heroism, your devotion to freedom, and your relentless struggle against your oppressors." {{ref|1}}
 
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As to Reagan's alleged role in ending the [[Cold War]] ... pure fiction. He prolonged it. Read the story in William Blum's Book, ''"Killing Hope"''. {{ref|2}}
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In October [[1982]], President Reagan had made similar remarks about the [[Poland]], a country revived after being wiped of the map twice in the [[1900s]]. As he prepared to announce his cancellation of Poland's most favoured nation status (in retaliation for suppression of the Polish trade union Solidarity), Reagan called the military government "a bunch of no-good, lousy bums."[4] This was later aired by the [[ABC]] and [[NBC]] News. Because of this leak, the White House Correspondents' Association agreed not to publish such off-the-record presidential remarks in the future.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ronald-reagan-bombing-russia-joke-archive-1984</ref>
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Reagan, in his famous 1964 speech, "''A Time for Choosing''", which lifted him to national political status:
 
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"Undermining health, safety and environmental regulation. Reagan decreed such rules must be subjected to regulatory impact analysis — corporate-biased cost-benefit analyses, carried out by the Office of Management and Budget. The result: countless positive regulations discarded or revised based on pseudo-scientific conclusions that the cost to corporations would be greater than the public benefit."<br/><br/>
 
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Kick-starting the era of structural adjustment. It was under Reagan administration influence that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank began widely imposing the policy package known as structural adjustment — featuring deregulation, privatization, emphasis on exports, cuts in social spending — that has plunged country after country in the developing world into economic destitution. The IMF chief at the time was honest about what was to come, saying in 1981 that, for low-income countries, 'adjustment is particularly costly in human terms'.<br/><br/>
 
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Silence on the AIDS epidemic. Reagan didn't mention AIDS publicly until 1987, by which point AIDS had killed 19,000 in the United States."<br/><br/>
 
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"Reagan's election changed the political reality. His agenda was rolling back the welfare state, and his budgets included a wide range of cuts for social programs. He was also very strategic about the process. One of his first targets was Legal Aid. This program, which provides legal services for low-income people, was staffed largely by progressive lawyers, many of whom used it as a base to win precedent-setting legal disputes against the government. Reagan drastically cut back the program's funding. He also explicitly prohibited the agency from taking on class-action suits against the government — law suits that had been used with considerable success to expand the rights of low- and moderate-income families."<br/><br/>
 
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The Reagan administration also made weakening the power of unions a top priority. The people he appointed to the National Labor Relations Board were qualitatively more pro-management than appointees by prior Democratic or Republican presidents. This allowed companies to ignore workers' rights with impunity. Reagan also made the firing of strikers an acceptable business practice when he fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981. Many large corporations quickly embraced the practice. ... The net effect of these policies was that union membership plummeted, going from nearly 20 percent of the private sector workforce in 1980 to just over 7 percent in 2006. "<br/><br/>
 
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"According to the nostrums of Reagan Age America, the current Chinese system — in equal measure capitalist and authoritarian — cannot actually exist. Capitalism spread democracy, we were told ad nauseam by a steady stream of conservative hacks, free-trade apologists, government officials and American companies doing business in China. Given enough Starbuckses and McDonald's, provided with sufficient consumer choice, China would surely become a democracy."<br/><br/>
 
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Throughout the early and mid-1980s, the Reagan administration declared that the Russians were spraying toxic chemicals over Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan — the so-called "yellow rain" — and had caused more than ten thousand deaths by 1982 alone, (including, in Afghanistan, 3,042 deaths attributed to 47 separate incidents between the summer of 1979 and the summer of 1981, so precise was the information). President Reagan himself denounced the Soviet Union thusly more than 15 times in documents and speeches. The "yellow rain", it turned out, was pollen-laden feces dropped by huge swarms of honeybees flying far overhead. {{ref|6}}
 
  
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In October 1971, a majority of the [[UN General Assembly]] voted (against the wishes of the [[US]]) to recognise the [[PRC]]. The next day Reagan commented to [[Richard Nixon]], in a recording which was withheld until after Reagan's death out of concern for his "[[privacy]]": “To see those, those monkeys from those [[African]] countries — damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!”  Nixon gave a huge laugh. Reagan was less blatently [[racist]] than [[Richard Nixon]], but still mounted a "passionate defense of the apartheid states of [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]]". <ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/</ref>
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In October 1947, in the lead-up to the McCarthy era, the House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed a number of people working in the Hollywood film industry to testify at hearings. It had declared its intention to investigate whether Communist agents and sympathizers had been planting propaganda in U.S. films. The hearings opened with appearances by Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors Guild and an [[FBI]] informer.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152574917408168&set=a.10150112821143168.298574.682163167&type=1&fref=nf "Good Night Betty Perske"]</ref> Disney testified that the threat of Communists in the film industry was a serious one. In his testimony before the HUAC, Reagan named several members of his union as communist sympathizers. (Later his first wife, actress Jane Wyman stated in her biography with Joe Morella (1985) that Reagan's allegations against friends and colleagues led to tension in their marriage eventually resulting in their divorce.) In response, several leading Hollywood figures, including director John Huston and actors Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Danny Kaye, organized the Committee for the First Amendment to protest the government's targeting of the film industry.<ref>Ceplair and Englund (2003), pp. 275–79</ref>
 
  
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#{{note|2}}. ISBN 1567512526 "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II", p.17-18. Also for the five countries listed above, see the respective chapters in this book, Some of which are also posted on [[:Category:William Blum|WikiSpooks]]
 
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#{{note|3}}. June, 2004; Mokhiber is editor of Corporate Crime Reporter; Weissman, editor of the Multinational Monitor, both in Washington, DC
 
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Person.png Ronald Wilson Reagan   Cavdef C-SPAN IMDB Powerbase Sourcewatch Spartacus WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Actor, Politician, deep state functionary)
Ronald Reagan chesterfields.jpg
Ronald Reagan selling cigarettes
BornRonald Wilson Reagan
6 February 1911
Tampico, Illinois, U.S.
Died5 June 2004 (Age 93)
Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materEureka College
ReligionPresbyterianism
Parents • Jack Reagan
• Nelle Wilson Reagan
Children • 5
• including
• Maureen
• Michael
• Patricia
• Ronald
Member ofBohemian Grove, Hoover Institution/Fellows, Knights of Malta, Rockefeller Commission
Perpetrator ofThe secret war against Sweden
Interest ofSidney Korshak, Dan Moldea, Our Hidden History, The Bombers Affair (Luxembourg), Lew Wasserman
PartyRepublican
RelativesNeil Reagan
Subpage•Ronald Reagan/Assassination attempt
•Ronald Reagan/Presidency
Actor turned deep state functionary. Lots of black operations happened during his presidency.

Employment.png US President

In office
January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989
EmployerUS Government
DeputyGeorge H. W. Bush
Preceded byJimmy Carter
Succeeded byGeorge H. W. Bush
Front man for the US Deep State run by his VP, George H. W. Bush

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In office
January 2, 1967 - January 6, 1975
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In office
November 17, 1947 - November 9, 1952

Ronald Reagan was an actor turned US President. In 1981 he survived an assassination attempt, supposedly by lone nut (John Hinckley, Jr.)


FBI informer

In the late 1940s, Hollywood shifted its attention away from the Mafia's infiltration of the film industry to its infiltration by communists. Ronald Reagan, a young actor who was represented by Lew Wasserman and MCA, was a star player during the investigation and hearings by the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), serving as both an informant for the FBI and a friendly witness for the committee.[1]

In October 1947, in the lead-up to the McCarthy era, the US Congress House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) subpoenaed a number of people working in the Hollywood film industry to testify at hearings. HUAC had declared its intention to investigate whether Communist agents and sympathisers had been planting propaganda in US films. The hearings opened with appearances by Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors Guild and an FBI informer.[2] Disney testified that the threat of Communists in the film industry was a serious one. In his testimony before the HUAC, Reagan named several members of his union as communist sympathisers. (Later his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, stated in her biography with Joe Morella (1985) that Reagan's allegations against friends and colleagues led to tension in their marriage eventually resulting in their divorce.) In response, several leading Hollywood figures, including director John Huston and actors Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Danny Kaye, organised the Committee for the First Amendment to protest the government's targeting of the film industry.[3]

Screen Actors Guild

After his performance in the war against communism-which included support for IATSE, the Mafia-controlled union formerly run by Willi Bioff that was still run by his same executive board - Reagan was rewarded by being elected as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), serving for five consecutive one-year terms.

Author Dan Moldea researched the links between Reagan and the Chicago Mafia extensively.[1] In 1952, during his fifth term, Reagan engineered a "blanket waiver," exempting MCA from SAG rules prohibiting a talent agency from also engaging in film production. Reagan's second wife, actress Nancy Davis, was also a member of the SAG board of directors at the time the MCA-SAG deal was made. MCA was the only such firm to have been granted such a favored status, giving it the ground floor in television production. It placed the company in a position where it could offer jobs to the actors it represented. Other talent agencies complained that this situation gave MCA an unfair advantage.

Soon after Reagan's tenure as SAG president ended, he found himself in serious financial trouble. With his film career on the skids, Reagan was saved by MCA with jobs in Las Vegas and on television. According to Justice Department documents, several government sources believed that the preferential treatment Reagan received from MCA was a payoff for services rendered while Reagan was the president of SAG.[1]

In 1959, the SAG membership reelected Reagan as president of SAG for a sixth term to lead an impending strike against the studios - despite the fact that Reagan had been producing episodes for MCA/Revue's General Electric Theater. According to SAG's by-laws, producers, even if they were primarily actors, are disqualified from serving on the SAG executive board. Previous board members faced with similar situations had resigned; Reagan refused to do so.[1]

Although MCA and a handful of smaller studios made an early, separate peace with SAG and continued production, the major motion picture companies held out, causing the strike to last six weeks. In the end, according to the president of IATSE, Reagan's final settlement with the big studios came with the help of Sidney Korshak- with whom Reagan had allegedly been associated. The 1960 contract was so unsatisfactory to the SAG membership it has since been called "The Great Giveaway." Reagan resigned in midterm soon after the strike.[1]

After several abortive attempts to investigate MCA for antitrust violations, the federal government--upon the election of John Kennedy as president and the appointment of Robert Kennedy as attorney general - began a concentrated probe into MCA's business affairs. The government had evidence that MCA had engaged in numerous civil and criminal violations of law and empaneled a federal grand jury to hear the specifics of its charges, which included restraint of trade, conspiracy with SAG to monopolize talent and film program productions, extortion, discrimination, blacklisting, and the use of predatory business practices. [1]

Election Campaign

Ronald Reagan was the preferred candidate of the Cabal. The Langemann Papers reveal that Le Cercle discussed how they could promote Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter. Spook Nicholas Elliott reported that in this context positive contact had been made with George H. W. Bush.[4]

October surprise conspiracy

Full article: October surprise conspiracy

Reagan's election was by facilitated by the October surprise conspiracy, a secret deal with Iranian hostage takers to give them weapons in order to prevent the release of the US embassy hostages before the 1980 US presidential election. In the event, the hostages were released hours after Reagan was inaugurated, but the official narrative still denies that this deal happened.

Assassination attempt

Full article: Ronald Reagan/Assassination attempt
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An assassination attempt was made against Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. The official narrative is that a "lone nut", John Hinckley, Jr. carried it out in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster. Others have suggested that it was a plot to assume full political control of the presidency by his vice president, George H W Bush.[5]

Opinions

During the Cold War, during a test run for a radio broadcast, Reagan tested the equipment with the following joke which was leaked and later played on TV live.

“My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
Ronald Reagan (1984)  [6]

In October 1982, President Reagan had made similar remarks about the Poland, a country revived after being wiped of the map twice in the 1900s. As he prepared to announce his cancellation of Poland's most favoured nation status (in retaliation for suppression of the Polish trade union Solidarity), Reagan called the military government "a bunch of no-good, lousy bums."[4] This was later aired by the ABC and NBC News. Because of this leak, the White House Correspondents' Association agreed not to publish such off-the-record presidential remarks in the future.[7]

In October 1971, a majority of the UN General Assembly voted (against the wishes of the US) to recognise the PRC. The next day Reagan commented to Richard Nixon, in a recording which was withheld until after Reagan's death out of concern for his "privacy": “To see those, those monkeys from those African countries — damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!” Nixon gave a huge laugh. Reagan was less blatently racist than Richard Nixon, but still mounted a "passionate defense of the apartheid states of Rhodesia and South Africa". [8]


 

An event carried out

EventLocationDescription
The secret war against SwedenSweden
Stockholm
Baltic Sea
Karlskrona
Hårsfjärden		A large number of "Soviet" submarine intrusions in Swedish waters in the 1980s, in reality committed by NATO under false flag. The intrusions were about deception and PSYOPs, to change the mindset of the Swedes, to make them adapt to US interests.

 

A Quote by Ronald Reagan

PageQuote
Washington Times“The American people know the truth,” [...] “You, my friends at The Washington Times, have told it to them. It wasn't always the popular thing to do. But you were a loud and powerful voice. Like me, you arrived in Washington at the beginning of the most momentous decade of the century. Together, we rolled up our sleeves and got to work.”

 

Appointments by Ronald Reagan

AppointeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Charles BowsherComptroller General of the United States19811996
William CaseyCampaign Director19804 November 1980Appointed during the republican primaries.<a href="#cite_note-fof-1">[1]</a>
Barber ConablePresident of the World Bank1 July 19861 September 1991Quill and Dagger
Robert ConnAssistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller)May 198115 December 1988
Carol E. DinkinsUS/Deputy Attorney General19831984
Marlin FitzwaterWhite House/Press secretary1 February 198720 January 1989Acting
Henry GrunwaldUS/Ambassador to Austria23 December 19871 January 1990
Philip HabibSpecial Envoy to the Philippines19861986Arranged for the dumping of President Ferdinand Marcos.
J. Daniel HowardAssistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public AffairsFebruary 1988May 1989
Fred C. IkléUS/Under Secretary of Defense for Policy2 April 198119 February 1988Under Reagan
Lawrence KorbAssistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness4 May 19815 July 1985
Frank LavinWhite House Director of Political Affairs16 March 198720 January 1989
James LilleyUS/Ambassador/South Korea26 November 19863 January 1989
John LouisUS/Ambassador/UK27 May 19817 November 1983
Preston MartinVice Chair of the Federal Reserve31 March 198230 April 1986
Ronald SpiersUS/Ambassador/Pakistan19811983
Ronald SpiersDirector of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research28 January 19804 October 1981
Bing WestAssistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs4 April 19811 April 1983
William WilsonUnited States Ambassador/Holy See19841986
Frank Edward YoungFDA/Commissioner15 July 198417 December 1989

 

Related Quotations

PageQuoteAuthor
George Carlin“(in New York) I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took the group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan Administration. Two-hundred and twenty-five of 'em, so far! 225 different people in the Ronald Reagan administration have either quit, been fired, arrested, indicted, or convicted of either breaking the law or violating the ethics code! These are the same people who were elected with the help of the moral majority. Elected with the help of the moral majority and the Teamsters union. That's a good combination! Organized religion and organized crime working together to help build a better America.”George Carlin
Hunter S. Thompson“Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the military-industrial complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency. Richard Nixon comes quickly to mind, along with Ronald Reagan and his ridiculous “trickle-down” theory of U.S. economic policy. If the Rich get Richer, the theory goes, before long their pots will overflow and somehow “trickle down” to the poor, who would rather eat scraps off the Bush family plates than eat nothing at all. Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will. It goes back to preindustrial America, when only white male property owners could vote.”Hunter S. Thompson

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Maggie's Guilty SecretarticleDecember 2013John Hughes-WilsonA brief resume of the Arms-to-Iraq affair by a former colonel on NATO's international political staff in Brussels. It revisits the abortive rescue of US diplomatic staff held hostage by Iran under President Carter, paving the way for the UK to supply arms to both sides in the soon-to-follow Iran-Iraq war in covert defiance of UN sanctions. The UK establishment has been engaged in a monumental cover-up ever since.
Document:Reagan - Killer, Coward, Con-manobituary17 March 2011Greg Palast
Document:The great con that ruined BritainArticle3 April 2016Peter HitchensPeter Hitchens, the repentant Thatcherite, has second thoughts about privatisation: if it’s all been so beneficial, why do so many of the containers that arrive in British ports, full of expensive imports, leave this country empty?
Who Killed Congressman Larry McDonaldarticleFebruary 1984Larry Flynt
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References

  1. ↑ a b c d e f https://www.moldea.com/MCA.html
  2. ↑ "Good Night Betty Perske"
  3. ↑ Ceplair and Englund (2003), pp. 275–79
  4. ↑ Document:The Pinay Circle
  5. ↑ The Political Dominance of The Cabal
  6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ReaganBeginsBombingRussia.ogg Wikipedia
  7. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ronald-reagan-bombing-russia-joke-archive-1984
  8. ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/
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