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FBI FILES SHOW KERRY WAS JUST AS BORING THIRTY YEARS AGO
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NEW
YORK – As a spokesman for the group Vietnam
Veterans Against the War in the early 70's, John
Kerry caught the eye of then-FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover, who ordered his operatives to listen in
on Kerry's private conversations and track his every
movement.
Newly
declassified, Kerry's FBI file from this era paints
a picture of a young man who should have been knee-deep
in sex, drugs and rock n' roll, but who was already
in the words of one FBI analyst "boring to
the point of disbelief."
"He may look like a Kennedy and talk like a
Kennedy," wrote one agent in reference to former
White House Chief of Staff H.R. Halderman's observation.
"But he most certainly does not party like
a Kennedy."
"Why have you foresaken me, oh God?" lamented
another agent in his last report to FBI headquarters.
"My classmates are dropping acid and scoring
free love every night all in the name of infiltrating
the Berkley counter-culture, yet here I am staking
out a man who goes to bed early, sober and alone
night after night without end."
"I think my ass is falling asleep here,"
the agent's report concludes, "I'd give anything
to be undercover at one of George Bush's parties
right now."
"We assigned agents to cover Kerry strictly
as punishment," recalled John Dutton, one of
Edgar Hoover's personal assistants and pedicurists.
"If an agent fell behind at the Academy,
screwed up in the field, or questioned one of Hoover's
dress choices, he was doing around the clock surveillance
on Kerry before he knew what hit him."
While the Kerry campaign had no official comment
on the FBI files story, Kerry was overheard remarking
near an open microphone that Hoover's FBI was "the
most crooked, lying bunch" he had ever seen
"at least until the Bush Administration."
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