https://www.scribd.com/document/156116014/IPA-Retrospective-By-Eleanor-H-Whitehead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Anderson_(columnist)
"Among his exposés was reporting the Nixon administration's investigation and harassment of John Lennon during its fight to deport Lennon, the Israeli search for fugitive ex-Nazi officials in South America, and the savings and loan crisis. He revealed the history of a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro,[2] and was credited for breaking the story of the Iran–Contra affair under President Reagan. "
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Anderson feuded with FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover in the 1950s, when he exposed the scope of the Mafia, a threat that Hoover had long downplayed. Hoover's retaliation and continual harassment lasted into the 1970s.[6] Hoover once described Anderson as "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures."[7]
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"Anderson told his staff, "Let's do to Hoover what he does to others."[8] Anderson had his people go through Hoover's garbage, a tactic that the FBI used in its surveillance of political dissidents. Anderson's revelations about Hoover tipped the attitudes of the public and the press toward the FBI director"
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