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posted by martyb on Saturday July 23 2016, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-were-they-trying-to-hide? dept.

Tom Secker at SpyCulture.com:

Recently released documents on former White House consultant and MPAA [Motion Picture Association of America] capo Jack Valenti strongly suggest that his appointment as president of the MPAA in some way involved the CIA. The new documents on Valenti come from the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and the State Department. Though they are tiny fragments in themselves the details they do contain are eye-opening. Valenti was a State Department consultant with a Top Secret clearance in the early months of taking over at the MPAA. At the same the CIA were interested in Valenti 'in connection with certain sensitive matters'. [...]

The files of the Office of Security (SY) Department of State, reviewed by Special Agent (redacted) on October 11, 1974, disclose that on 5/5/66 the appointee was under consideration for appointment as a Consultant to the Secretary of State; SY in May 1966 reviewed his personnel and security files at the White House and utilized a previous full field investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

SY granted him Final Clearance for Top Secret on 5/25/66 as a Consultant, valid for 180 days only, unless appointed in the meantime: SY again granted him Final Clearance for Top Secret on 5/31/67 as a Member of the Board of Foreign Scholarships.

It was announced in April 1966 that Valenti would be leaving his White House position to take up the vacant job as head of the MPAA, so why was he simultaneously being granted a Top Secret security clearance? Valenti began his new job in June so he was a consultant to the State Department in the early months of his new job at the MPAA.

While this was going on the CIA's Office of Personnel Security sent a memo to Marvin Watson, a special assistant to President Johnson. [...]

Subject is of interest to this Division. He is not being considered for staff employment but rather is of interest in connection with certain sensitive matters in which the Agency is involved.

Naturally, this could mean anything. But the date is significant – after Valenti's new job at the MPAA had been announced but before he took up the role. This cannot be related to his role at the State Department because they had reviewed the FBI's investigation for themselves.

Related: Eric Johnston and the CIA


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:56PM (#379176)

    We've always suspected that the CIA and mafia were in cahoots.
    Turns out it was actually the CIA and the MAFIAA! [mafiaa.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 24 2016, @02:19PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday July 24 2016, @02:19PM (#379406) Journal

    The mafia may resent your comments. Associating its clean image of heartless assassins, pimps and blackmailers with the CIA and the MPAA is clearly unfair.

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