Nick Bryant

Not a single person was indicted for COINTELPRO when Stan Pottinger was the assistant attorney general.

And Richard Helms, the CIA had a program called Operation Chaos, where they were also doing domestic spying.

And Stan Poncher was gonna exact justice with that.

And Richard Helms testified before Congress that he hadn't, that no Americans had been spied on.

And then the church hearings found out that a lot of Americans had been spied on and their mail had been opened and other things.

And Stan Poncher was getting to the bottom of that.

And Richard Helms was charged with two misdemeanors and had to pay $2,000.

And it's kind of interesting, Stan Pottinger was also, he went out with Gloria Steinem for nine years.

Now, she wasn't a CIA asset also.

The founder of the American...

of Americans or women's liberation.

I mean, Steinem was getting money from the CIA.

Now, she said that she was getting money in 59 through 61.

But I found an article in a feminist magazine out of San Francisco that she was getting money from the CIA for the majority of the 60s.

So her and Stan Pottinger were a couple.

And CIA assets and love, what a wonderful story.

But when Stan Pottinger left the Department of Justice, then he became an outright criminal.

There was the October surprise, where the Iranians had taken a number of hostages.

And Carter was trying to get the hostages back.

And it was really making Carter look weak.