For interested parties, I've just completed a new 26-page edition of my report on former FBI Special Agent Dan Smoot.

See:  http://ernie1241.googlepages.com/smoot

8 pages deal with Dan's misrepresentations regarding his relatively brief FBI career and his censure just prior to his resignation from the Bureau in 1951.

18 pages focus on the assertions made by Dan (and the John Birch Society) concerning our civil rights movement allegedly being created, controlled, and populated by "Communists".

I have incorporated a lot of new material from FBI files pertaining to the CPUSA (released for the first time).

In addition, I present commentary by Birch Society endorsers, speakers, and writers who refuted the standard civil rights dogma presented by both Smoot and the JBS.

This leads, once again, to my favorite question:  how do conspiracy believers decide whom and what to believe, i.e. what methodology do they employ to resolve conflicting or contradictory evidence especially when it comes from multiple sources that they usually trust and recommend?