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Thread ID: 8663 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-08-01
2003-08-01 15:41 | User Profile
Dan Smoot--The Original FBI ''White Hat''-- Passes: A Eulogy
By Albert V. Burns (avburns@mindspring.com) July 31, 2003 EXCLUSIVE to SiaNews.com
A great American patriot died this past Thursday, July 24, 2003. Only the "gray hairs" among us will remember even his name, let alone the accomplishments in his life. But the United States is the poorer with his passing.
How many of you reading this remember the name: Dan Smoot? Dan was one of the earliest freedom fighters yet is virtually unknown today. Granted because of poor health and advanced age he has not been in the public eye for the past decade or so but we who knew him will miss his vast knowledge of those who were (and are) working diligently to destroy our Constitution, our sovereignty, our freedoms and those of the rest of the world...
Dan rose from the most un-auspicious beginnings. He was born in a log cabin in Missouri in 1913, the son of penniless sharecropper parents. By the age of SIX, out of necessity, he was already hoeing and picking cotton in the fields. Even though his father was poor, he nevertheless taught Dan to read the classics from an early age.
He was orphaned at the age of 11 and sent to live with an uncle who had little use for reading "and similar harmful influences." Dan finally ran away from home when he was 14 and had ten cents in his pocket. Having grown up in terrible rural poverty and near-starvation, he had few of the "social graces" although he was a physically tough teenager.
Dan "bummed" around the country for a few years, learning survival skills from transients in the "hobo jungles" of the depression years. He finally wound up in Dallas where he worked nights and attended school during the days, finally graduating from high school as salutatorian.
Because of his brilliant mind, he was able to earn scholarships which put him through Southern Methodist University. By then he had married his high school sweetheart when she was 16 and he was 20. Dan always credited his wife with patiently "civilizing" him and preparing him to move on to mingle with the highly educated leaders of this country.
After obtaining a master's degree he went on to a teaching fellowship at Harvard where he ultimately earned a Ph.D in American Civilization. He might have remained at Harvard or some other university except that suddenly, on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States was at war. Dan tried to enlist in all three services, the Army, Navy and Marines. Even though his was in great physical shape he was turned down by all three services because of flat feet. Unable to get into the armed forces, he wound up joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By the time he left the FBI some nine years later he had been exposed to the knowledge that there WAS a conspiracy, that the conspiracy controlled communism and he had a great deal of knowledge of just who the masterminds were. Since he had been working in the anti-communist section of the FBI he had witnessed the manner in which high government officials, including Presidents Roosevelt and Truman had sheltered and promoted communists in government even after their communist activities had been documented by careful investigation. He had seen how the Office of Strategic services had been used to overthrow capitalist governments in Africa and Asia and install communist governments in their places. When the OSS was converted to the Central Intelligence Agency, it hired precisely those applicants which had been identified as Marxist agitators and how those individuals later destroyed many governments which had been friendly to the United States.
Dan Smoot was determined to alert the American people to the threats facing them...
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2003-08-01 15:51 | User Profile
toddbrendanfahey,
Yes, Dan Smoot was a great American. I have read many of his articles and books such as the The Invisible Government. He at one time published the Dan Smoot Report. The United States is the poorer with his passing.
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2003-08-01 18:58 | User Profile
I've read all of Smoot's books, but had no idea he was still alive; he's been out of the spotlight for many years. When I read the word "Eulogy" in the subject header of Al Burns' e- to me this morning, I didn't know who had died; was stunned to learn that Dan Smoot had been alive, physically anyway, until July 24, 2003.
A long, valiant life. May we all be remembered for such a thing.
2003-08-01 22:31 | User Profile
Dan Smoot's The Business End of Government online, in its entirety here: [url=http://alanchapman.org/libertyvault/files/businessendofgovernment.html]http://alanchapman.org/libertyvault/files/...government.html[/url]