To be clear, it's Ezra Taft Benson we're talking about here:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50349153-78/benson-hoover-fbi-society.html.csp

"Benson ... was attempting to convince Hoover that the John Birch Society was a clear-thinking anti-communist group. So he wrote how it had convinced him that a friend of theirs had been a tool of the worldwide communist conspiracy.

"That friend was none other than former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, for whom Benson had served as secretary of Agriculture from beginning to end of his eight-year presidency."



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I have gone through each FBI document (i.e., those made available through the FOI Act). I found them informative but, likewise, do not regard them as all that surprising (I will be posting specifically about the FBI file content later, quoting directly from the file materials themselves).

Some of what my Uncle Reed (ETB's oldest child) and his wife May are noted as matter-of-fact saying in the Trib article in question were matters that ETB told me about directly and personally, either face-to-face or in letters which he wrote to me--particularly as they related to Communism, the John Birch Society and my grandfather's nutty Birch-inspired notion that Eisenhower himself was either a Communist or at least a duped tool of a worldwide Communist conspiracy to destroy America.



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