The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

A bug or a feature?



Tom Rob Smith’s novel Agent 6 describes extraordinarily vindictive and unconscionable FBI harassment under COINTELPRO of a famous American black singer popular mostly in the 30’s and 40’s.

Shameful, gratuitous cruelty, though it could supply a basis only for a transparently false “moral equivalence,” even between the “secret police” of the two powers, the USA and the USSR.

By the way, the trilogy is very good.

Interesting it’s written by a fellow far too young for the Cold War to be a personal memory.

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