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Ezra Pound

OTD May 11, 1987 Controversial #CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton died. 

OTD May 11, 1988 #Harold Adrian Russell Philby aka “Kim” Philby died. Notorious Soviet spy. Endlessly fascinating to Brits.

Fun Fact: Angleton was not only friends with Kim Philby, but in his college literary days also friends with Nazi propagandist poet Ezra Pound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
After a move to 417 Walnut Street in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, the family bought a six-bedroom house in 1893 at 166 Fernbrook Avenue, Wyncote.[5] Pound’s education began in dame schools: Miss Elliott’s school in Jenkintown in 1892 and the Heathcock family’s Chelten Hills School in Wyncote in 1893.[5] Known as “Ra” (pronounced “Ray”), he attended Wyncote Public School from September 1894.[12] His first publication was on 7 November 1896 in the Jenkintown Times-Chronicle (“by E. L. Pound, Wyncote, aged 11 years”), a limerick about William Jennings Bryan, who had just lost the 1896 presidential election.[b]

In 1897, aged 12, he transferred to Cheltenham Military Academy (CMA), where he wore an American Civil War-style uniform and was taught drilling and how to shoot.[14] The following year he made his first trip overseas, a three-month tour with his mother and Aunt Frank, who took him to England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Morocco.[15] He attended CMA until 1900, at times as a boarder, but it seems he did not graduate.[16][c]
Angered by the carnage of World War I, Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called “usury”.[3] He moved to Italy in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit, wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, embraced Benito Mussolini’s fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler. During World War II, Pound recorded hundreds of paid radio propaganda broadcasts for the fascist Italian government and its later incarnation as a German puppet state, in which he attacked the United States federal government, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Britain, international finance, munitions makers, arms dealers, Jews, and others, as abettors and prolongers of the war. He also praised both Eugenics and the Holocaust in Italy, while urging American GIs to throw down their rifles and surrender. In 1945, Pound was captured by the Italian Resistance and handed over to the U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence Corps, who held him pending extradition and prosecution based on an indictment for treason. He spent months in a U.S. military detention camp near Pisa, including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage.

Ruled mentally unfit to stand trial, Pound was incarcerated for over 12 years at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., whose doctors viewed Pound as a narcissist and a psychopath, but otherwise completely sane.

On Yom HaShoah, Biden Campaign Reminds Everyone, “Trump has praised neo-Nazis, dined with neo-Nazis, echoed the rhetoric of neo-Nazis, and reportedly praised the accomplishments of Adolf Hitler”
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