http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18927332/site/newsweek/page/0/
Arguing that Libby deserves jail time, Fitzgerald says Plame was a covert agent
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Moreover, while Libby denied ever knowing that Valerie Wilson was a covert agent (and prosecutors never introduced any evidence that he had) “other evidence obtained by the grand jury indicated that defendant learned that Ms. Wilson worked at the CIA from multiple government officials under circumstances that, at a bare minimum, warranted inquiry before the information was publicly disseminated.”
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One of Libby’s most ardent defenders, Richard Carlson, a former chief of the Voice of America who serves as a member of a defense trust set up for Libby, reacted harshly to Fitzgerald’s latest filings. “I think it’s certainly unseemly that he is kicking him while he’s down,” Carlson said. “For Fitzgerald, to get on his high horse, it’s disgusting and he should be ashamed of himself.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carlson
American movie actor Richard Carlson (April 29, 1912- November 21, 1977)...The 1950s proved a busy time for Carlson. He continued to direct, this time in television and documentary films. He also was the star of the television series I Led Three Lives from 1953-1956.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Led_Three_Lives
I Led Three Lives is a US television show which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs from 1953-56. It was loosely based on the life of Herbert Philbrick, a Boston advertising executive who infiltrated the US Communist Party on behalf of the FBI in the 1940s and wrote a bestselling book on the topic, I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist', Counterspy (1952). Philbrick narrated each episode and served as a technical consultant and all scripts were approved by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Despite this, the episodes often had very little to do with the actual events of Philbrick's life and gradually became more and more outlandish, with Philbrick journeying to Europe and South America and featuring such Communist plots as an attempt to convert vacuum cleaners into bomb launchers.
Philbrick was played by Richard Carlson. I Led Three Lives lasted 117 episodes. Interestingly, the show was a favorite of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was a teenager.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Philbrick
Herbert Arthur Philbrick (May 11, 1915 - August 16, 1993) was a Boston area advertising executive who, acting as a citizen volunteer, successfully infiltrated the Communist Party USA between 1940 and 1949. His involvement began when he joined a Communist front group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Cambridge Youth Council. His suspicions aroused by the strange power structure and positions taken by this group, Philbrick contacted the FBI and encouraged by them, began deepening his involvement in Communist activities, joining first the Young Communist League and later, as a secret member, the Communist Party itself.
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Philbrick's Party career came to its end when the Justice Department decided to use him as a witness in the Smith Act prosecutions of the leadership of the Communist Party, United States v. Foster, et. al. On April 6, 1949 he was called as a witness, testifing about his career and training as a Party activist. His testimony was perhaps most useful in that he demonstrated from the content of the training he had received the intent of the Communist Party to overthrow the government of the United States.
He went on to write a biographical book, I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist', Counterspy, which was made into a movie. A television series, I Led Three Lives, loosely based on his experiences ran for 3 years during the 1950s.
Later in life, Philbrick retired to the home of his youth, in the seacoast region of New Hampshire. He remained active in giving speeches and encouraging youth and adult citizens to exercise their political rights and power, admonishing his listeners to be ever-watchful against those who would undermine our democratic form of government. Toward the end of his life, he owned and ran a hardware store in North Hampton, NH. Shunning fame, he confided that he never stopped travelling under assumed names and watching for people following him.
