CIA, FBI 'Threaten Nation'
A Kansas City Times report of Mailer's 21 April speech at Wichita State University on the need for citizen intelligence agencies to counter an 'invisible government.'
“CIA, FBI ‘Threaten Nation,’” an unsigned article in the Kansas City Times (22 April 1975), reports Mailer’s 21 April speech at Wichita State University on the need to create intelligence agencies to counter the CIA and FBI: “What we are speaking about here is an invisible government that has powers that are huge, undefined and uncertain even to themselves.” See The Fifth Estate and 73.2, 73.10, 74.6, 75.4.
Related pages
- “The CIA vs. Democracy” (75.4) | The Fifth Estate | 1975
- The Morning After (73.10) | Mailer Headlines Counter-Spy Pitch (74.6)