But Mark Mazzetti's article in Wednesday's Times about the three
weeks of ups and final down of Charles Freeman's appointment as chairman
of the National Intelligence Council is cool and accurate. Perhaps
not enough about Freeman's puppy fidelity to Saudi Arabia and
China. Still... these were there, too.
The fact is, however, that Freeman is haunted by the
Jews.They must trouble his sleep and disturb his waking hours.
Read it in the Times and in his brooding letter to his fans.
One of my respondents to a previous Spine in which I touched on the
paranoid obsessions about the Jews of Harry Truman's secretary of
defense, James Forrestal, who jumped to his death from a 16th floor
hospital window, asked for a scholarly reference to this strange
episode. I forgot to answer.
Here is the authoritative volume: Arnold A. Rogow, James Forrestal: A
Study of Personality, Politics and Policy.