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WALT DISNEY

posted 17 years ago by bpmct
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What did Hearst have on Disney I couldn't hear that part well, and after research I couldn't find anything...anyone know???

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[–] PACman66 17 years ago

Disney was in J. Edgar Hoover's hip pocket.. Disney was Hoover's puppet. I'm not too sure what the whole story is behind that...

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[–] B_Movie_Blues 13 years ago

No, not really.

The shot at Disney was the obligatory shot at the right by TimeWarner/HBO, which is very tedious.

[–] thatguy_78757 17 years ago

that he was very right wing, very anti union, and I think, anti WW1

[–] bj_arni 16 years ago

Being in Hoover's pocket also explains the WW2 Propaganda films Disney produced, which he didn't want to do in the first place.

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[–] CaptainClaudius9 14 years ago

If you're interested there is a book, albeit not always factual, that does detail Disney's relationship with the FBI. Hoover asked Disney to clandestinely report anyone in Hollywood who may be a potential communist and Disney did so, the extent of which will never be known as any files that Hoover had on Disney were destroyed after Hoover's death.

For further reading, which goes into detail about Disney's FBI activities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney:_Hollywood%27s_Dark_Prince