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Line 59: − + − − [[Chip Berlet]] had built a career writing in various far-left [[revolution]]ary publications, including ‘’[[Guardian]],’’ founded by [[KGB]] agent [[Cedric Belfrage]], and whose writers included [[Wilfred Burchett]] who introduce [[Ho Chi Minh]] to American readers and had assisted in extracting confessions from [[Korean War]] [[POW]]s, and spread [[disinformation]] in its pages about American use of [[germ warfare]] which Soviet Archives now conclusively have shown was a lie manufactured in the [[Kremlin]]. Berlet had at one time served on Daniel Brandt’s Public Information Research board of advisers, but Berlet extreme leftism demands ideological purity from its followers, and Berlet demanded removal of Fletcher Prouty from the Board. Prouty, a former Air Force colonel, was allegorically portrayed as “Man X” in the [[Oliver Stone]’’s film [[JFK]], and Berlet considered him a [[fascist]]. +
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==Brandt/Berlet feud==
==Brandt/Berlet feud==
An ugly sectarian dispute between two far leftist writers reared its head in Wikipedia in 2005. The feud had been dormant, yet unresolved, until the necessity to elevate a “controversial expert” above the level of “partisan” and “extremist” which would have precluded using the so-called “expert” as a source for “anything other than himself,” as the Wikipedia ever fluid policies dictate.
An ugly sectarian dispute between two far leftist writers reared its head in Wikipedia in 2005. The feud had been dormant, yet unresolved, until the necessity to elevate a “controversial expert” above the level of “partisan and extreme,” which would have precluded using the so-called “expert” as "a source for anything other than himself,” as Wikipedia'sw ever fluid policies dictate.
[[Chip Berlet]] built a career writing in various far-left [[revolution]]ary publications, including ''[[Guardian]],'' founded by [[KGB]] agent [[Cedric Belfrage]], and whose writers included [[Wilfred Burchett]] who introduce [[Ho Chi Minh]] to American readers, assisted in extracting confessions from [[Korean War]] [[POW]]s, spread [[disinformation]] in its pages about American use of [[germ warfare]] which Soviet Archives now conclusively have shown was a lie manufactured in the [[Kremlin]]. Berlet at one time served on Daniel Brandt’s Public Information Research board of advisers, but Berlet's extreme leftism demands ideological purity from its followers, and Berlet demanded removal of Fletcher Prouty from the Board. Prouty, a former Air Force colonel, was allegorically portrayed as “Man X” in the [[Oliver Stone]]s film [[JFK]], and Berlet considered him a [[fascist]].
==Essjay Scandal==
==Essjay Scandal==