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November 21, 2005

The Spy Who Came In From The Bigtop

Just plain weird and disturbing story in the Washington Post.

Let me explain. No, there is not enough time. Let me sum up:

A magazine writer wrote a very uncharitable article about the father of a guy named Kenneth Feld, a CEO at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In anger, he hired a former CIA spymaster (somehow involved with Iran-Contra) to set up full surveillance on the writer, as well as run covert ops on her, including inserting a mole into her life-- a "false friend" who posed as a business partner, torpedoed her career, and attempted to steer her away from writing anything further about Feld's father. Including presenting her with book deals about other topics, to keep her busy with non-circus matters.

The expert spook hired a onetime journalist named Robert Eringer, whom he described as a "very close friend," to help carry out the Pottker operation. George paid him $1,500 a week.

According to Pottker's suit, Eringer's mission was to worm his way into her life, becoming her confidant, editor and book "packager." He steered her toward researching other famous and fractious families, including the Rockefellers, the Mars candy clan and the Hafts of Washington.

A Rockefeller book, Eringer predicted in an early memo, "will side-track Pottker for many months to come -- probably a couple of years -- and this will mean she must relegate any possible Ringling book project to a back burner."

Eventually Pottker published two books that Feld had a secret hand in: "Crisis in Candyland," an unauthorized look at the Mars chocolate family, in 1995; and "Celebrity Washington," a small guidebook to the homes of media and political figures, in 1996. A Feld company even paid for the $25,000 advance on "Crisis in Candyland." Both books had small publishers and limited print runs.

Well, that part doesn't sound so bad. I should let Mr. Feld know I'm at this moment researching his father's alleged homosexuality for an article I plan to call You Know What They Say About Guys With Big Floppy Red Feet, but that if he wants to toss some other projects my way, I can put it on the back-burner.

But they also collected all sorts of information on her and wrote it up in little, um, "intelligence memos" I guess:

"Pottker is driving to New York City this weekend with her husband and two daughters," one says. "She has an appointment with a top NYC hairdresser to highlight her hair (she had to book this appointment six weeks in advance -- and she is very excited.)"

Harry Reid just announced in a press conference that they'd "twisted the intelligence" about her hairstyling.

The writer and her husband are seeking $60 million, claiming invasion of privacy, fraud, and infliction of emotional distress.

Long but strange. Great reading if you're a member of the Tinfoil Hat Brigade and need some reassurance that hey, this crap really does happen.


posted by Ace at 12:40 AM
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Ace-- that former CIA spymaster, was he by any chance Dr. Phil?

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on November 21, 2005 12:47 AM

From the article. writing about somebody who is believed to be a former CIA employee:

Meanwhile he also runs a bar called Bedlam, which offers free dessert to customers who can prove they're insane or have spent time in an asylum. It also boasts of having a piece of Vincent van Gogh's severed ear on display.

Now, who would imagine that guys like this could get intelligence on Iraq wrong?

(Posting under an assumed name, so "they" don't find me.)

Posted by: sandy burger smith on November 21, 2005 01:01 AM

The CIA must have hired from the same pool of applicants as the United States Postal Service circa 1975.

Ex Viet Nam vet? You're hired.
Former POW in Viet Nam? When can you start?
Section 8 discharge? You're hired.

Posted by: Bart on November 21, 2005 01:15 AM

Page 5-- the "flamboyant" circus master dad got his start promoting teen rock stars like...Mr. Paul Anka.

I don't want life to get much weirder than this.

PS Dave, tell me that's a parody.

Posted by: See-Dubya on November 21, 2005 01:18 AM

Also from the article:

He was born into the entertainment business, the only son of Irvin Feld, who got his start in the 1930s selling elixirs at Maryland fairs, then opened a drugstore in the District and branched into record sales. He became a renowned promoter of live concerts and teen idol rock-and-roll acts, including Paul Anka, Chubby Checker, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Big Bopper. (Indeed, the elder Feld once claimed: "I really invented rock-and-roll. I made the market.")

Jan Pottker is in over her head. She needs to call on Vinny F'n Falcone for help.

Posted by: sandy burger jones on November 21, 2005 01:18 AM

Sorry, See-Dubya, I didn't see your post before I posted mine. Loose shit.

Posted by: sandy burger doe on November 21, 2005 01:20 AM

Yeah, that looks interesting..
Whatś more interesting is that you can find anything you want for Christmas here:

http://christmas.seavenue.net

Posted by: Andy on November 21, 2005 01:21 AM

Oooh, burned, Sandy! It's almost as if I knew what you were going to post and I posted it before you in a sinster creepy surveillance kinda way!

--See Dubya, aka Clair George

Posted by: See Dubya on November 21, 2005 01:21 AM

Some of you oddballs seem to think homosexuality has something to do with hating your father. (Whereas I suspect it has something to do with hormones, probably while in the womb.)

Now, this Ken Feld feller is obviously way too angry about suggestions that his dad is gay. So... does that mean that homophobia is caused by loving your dad too much?

Please advise.

Posted by: sandy burger rogers on November 21, 2005 01:26 AM

Can a man love his father too much?
I think not.

The definition of homophobia is the fear of homosexuals. I know the homos also like to use homophobia to label people they feel hate homosexuals.

Ken Feld is angry with his father for not being a good dad, but being a gay dad. Poor little Kenny had to live with the stigma of having a gay daddy. All the kids picked on Kenny.

Kenny is angry at his father but his anger is directed towards the CIA and not inward, towards himself. If Ken Feld wasn't angry with the CIA, then yes he would have a proclivity for homosexual acts. Therefore proving once again that homosexuals are punishing their fathers with gay acts.

Dammit, Sandy. Stop poking holes in my gayness theory.

Posted by: Bart on November 21, 2005 01:48 AM

I can't help but think that all this might have been avoided if we let Clair George amuse himself gaslighting foreigners on the CIA dime instead of throwing him in prison.

Posted by: Alex_fs on November 21, 2005 02:39 AM

Let me explain. No, there is not enough time. Let me sum up

I can't believe nobody has shouted out for the sweet-ass Princess Bride reference. Was it too obvious?

Posted by: gabriel malor on November 21, 2005 02:44 AM

What a bunch of mutants...

...crazed freaks the whole lot of them. This bar owner wouldn't by any chance know Chuckie Schumer would he?

Posted by: Purple Avenger on November 21, 2005 02:46 AM

Well, if one of your commenters suddenly goes into hiding after this post, you know what's been going on...

Posted by: someone on November 21, 2005 03:11 AM

Shoot, ya think that's an invasion of privacy? You've never lived in a condo in Florida. Our association president is a P.I. and a former credit bureau managerand detective for the sherrif. Brrrrr!

Posted by: Joan of ARgghh! on November 21, 2005 03:18 AM

Like I've always said, don't screw with circus people. They shoot themselves out of cannons, guys. Cannons. And they have those tiny little cars that they cram a dozen clowns into. You could be walking down the street, a Mini-Cooper pulls up, and the next thing you know your ass is being handed to you by a legion of floppy-shoed, kinky-rainbow-haired thugs.

Posted by: Sue Dohnim on November 21, 2005 08:42 AM

Weird think is, I have two friends (who don't know each other) who've worked for the guy. (Feld) I don't think either of them would be surprised by this story.

Posted by: Eric J on November 21, 2005 08:52 AM

Like the little signs say, you don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.

Posted by: Les Jones on November 21, 2005 09:35 AM

A human cannonball, I'll rise above it all
way above the high-wire I can fly,
oh shit I'm gonna die!
I am a circus worker I make two bucks
every hour I find out why
this job it really sucks.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on November 21, 2005 10:38 AM

Anyone else remember "A Cotton Candy Autopsy?"

Posted by: Knemon on November 21, 2005 11:31 AM

Just goes to show you can't trust carnies. Nomads, you know. Shifty eyes, small hands

Posted by: VRWC Agent on November 21, 2005 12:35 PM

in related news:

http://torontosun.canoe.ca/News/TorontoAndGTA/2005/11/21/1315976-sun.html

Chris Mathews believes that the "other side" isn't evil; they just have a different perspective.

On that, he is right. Burkas, beatings, beheadings...You know, the B's.

This guy really has a job doing anything, let alone a job that would lead people to want him to speak to large groups of people?

Andy the Squirrel

Posted by: on November 21, 2005 01:19 PM

VRWC: Austin Powers???

Posted by: Madfish Willie on November 21, 2005 04:24 PM

To the Ace of Spades: You're hired. We'd like a book about Tract 33, a parcel of land that abuts the backyard of a legendary DCI and can only be accessed by going over his fence or through a secret tunnel from Battery Kemble Park. Property taxes are paid by the obscure Momus Association from a PO Box in Intercourse, PA. The true assassins of JFK are buried six feet under, along with JFK's brain, and Jimmy Hoffa. So is the syringe used to inject Marilyn Monroe with pure nicotine. And the missing 18.5 minutes of Nixon's tape. And the real black box of TWA 800. And the alien corpses from Roswell, NM. JD Salinger visits every December 8th to commeorate the assassination of John Lennon, having programmed Mark David Chapman to do the dirty. And Jim Morrison cultivates black roses in time for Halloween, when the Illimunati's "Circle of Initiates" assemble to see Elvis perform. And I've heard the Holy Grail is there, too. Please don't tell anyone.

To Dave: Well, it wasn't difficult for "us" to find you. The question is, Who cares?

To Bart: Clair George was never in prison. He served at great risk to himself in foreign capitals while you were still soiling your nappies.

Invasion of privacy? Please. The biggest problem with Pottker is, once she got started talking about herself she wouldn't shut the hell up.

Like, any of this really matters when we've got flatulent cows polluting the environment?

Posted by: Robert Eringer on December 11, 2005 06:40 AM
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