“Such an ironic story. Here you have someone who is so closely associated with the ( Civil Rights) movement; but as it turns out there’s also a hidden life, that he is essentially the FBI’s eyes and ears.” Marc Perrusquia on his new book – A Spy in Canaan – How the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the Civil Rights movement. ” …this hidden history that no one knew about….all this very corrosive and injurious investigating that they were doing, of American citizens who in many cases where doing nothing more than exercising their first amendment rights.”
It was a long drawn out process of finding this information and putting it together.
There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this we are less prone to hate our enemy.
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