#99 - ML-ULTRA: Crazy Tom Mosher, Stanford SDS, and the FBI’s MindWar on the New Left
Added 2022-01-03 00:14:44 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid explore the subversive career of Stanford SDS radical/FBI COINTELRPO informant “Crazy Tom” Mosher, including: his lumpen origins on the mean streets of Uptown Chicago, getting mentored by Chicago insurance tycoon W. Clement "Positive Mental Attitude" Stone, traveling to Cuba with a 1968 SDS delegation, becoming an FBI informant while setting fires on the Stanford campus, using his “crazy” white working class reputation to deflect suspicions, “taxing the dope trade” at gunpoint to alienate hippies from the radical left, cozying up to Bobby Seale and the Black Panther leadership, giving C4 explosives training at “Guevara Ranch” outside Santa Cruz, possibly firebombing SRI’s Behavioral Science laboratory, testifying to the Senate about the Tricontinental Communist Terrorist Conspiracy being run out of Havana, spreading lies in Reader’s Digest with his “Inside The Revolutionary Left” exposé article, and how Crazy Tom’s activities helped lead to political neutralization of the New Left’s most radical currents by the early 1970s.
Steve Weissman’s 2011 article on Crazy Tom Mosher:
https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/8619-occupy-this-crazy-tom-the-fbi-provocateur
