If you knew the whole truth about Jack Anderson (and Drew Pearson and his boss Barnes), you'd puke.
Anderson was a lying SOB, and a draft-dodger during WW2.
He regularly published pure Communist/Soviet propaganda/disinformation, and refused to correct it when it was pointed out to him.
He totally lied about the true Marxist nature of the Sandinista factions during their fight against Somoza, characterizing two of the three factions as minor (both were hardcore Maoist oriented), while proclaiming that the Tereceristas of the Ortega brothers/Borge (the murderer) was NOT marxist. He was wrong all the way around.
Even a fool gets something right once in a while, but Anderson was an ego with a column and not interested in the welfare of America.
I'm crushed ... and to think a decade, no, two plus decades ago I used to look for his column to read. I guess it's true that people can change ... I've come a long way to become a full blooded conservative. I'm crushed, crushed.
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A 1945 FBI wiretap investigation of leaks from the Soviet ambassador to journalist Drew Pearson revealed that Frankfurter was colluding with Pearson. Follow-up wiretaps on Pearson and Brandeis-Frankfurter apparatus member Thomas Corcoran revealed that Corcoran and Rauh-Prichard-Graham Goon Squad member Laughlin Currie had conspired to protect State Department official John Stewart Service from being prosecuted in connection with the leaking of classified government documents to the pro-Communist publication Amerasia.11
Theoharis and Cox, 258-269, esp. 266; John Earl Haynes, Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996, 52-55; Romerstein and Breindel, 168
Anderson also had a close relationship with Johnny Rosselli and some other mob guys. What I've read leads me to believe they would leak him political dirt that he would use in his investigative reporting.