Irving Kristol, Soviet Spy?

The American Conservative ^ | 12/03/2010 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

[speciallybland]

That’s what the FBI was asking itself in 1988. That year is not a typo. Gawker has scans of the FBI documents showing that the reputed Godfather of neo-conservatism was a person of interest in an ongoing investigation into a potential Soviet spy.

The FBI heavily redacted the documents—citing national security in many instances—so it’s difficult to make out exactly what happened. But it seems fairly clear that, sometime around May of 1988, the FBI’s counterintelligence division came to possess a notebook or address book belonging to a suspected Soviet agent. And Irving Kristol’s name was in it. That launched a five-month investigation into Kristol’s background, including criminal record checks, interviews with “assets” at the school where he taught, and eventually an interview with Kristol himself, conducted under a “pretext” so as to avoid letting him know the true nature of the investigation. This despite the fact that Kristol had already been subjected to an FBI background check in 1972, when he was considered for a job in the Nixon White House, and came up clean.

[rmlew]

People at the The American Dhimmi, whose first allegiance is to hatred of neoconservatives, dismiss thiss and you think its real?
What's in your water?

[jd777]

Your hero was a former marxist - deal with it,

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Almost a third of the Conservative Movement of the 1950’s were former communists, most notably Whittaker Chambers, author of ‘Witness’. Others included Frank Meyer, National Review’s first Book Editor. A large part of the Neo-Conservatives, who joined the conservative movement in the 1980’s including Irving Kristol and Norman Podhorest had Communist associates

[rmlew]

Your hero was a former marxist - deal with it,
Kristol is not my hero. I may be a NY Jew, but I am no neoconservative.
His former ideology is no secret. He has written about it. He was cleared by the FBI twice. Deal with it.