Restaurant at Sochi Olympics Bans FBI, CIA Agents in Anger Over Cold War

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not everyone is welcoming of U.S. law enforcement authorities. At the Sochi Olympics, a restaurant billboard indicated, “We do not serve FBI and CIA agents,” Ground Report writes. Associated Press photographer Jae C. Hong spotted the wooden billboard outside an eatery in Sochi. Another sign read, “We remember the Cold War.” The…

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British Intelligence Assisted FBI in Tracking Charlie Chaplin

By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com MI5, the British intelligence agency, cooperated with J Edgar Hoover’s FBI in tracking the actor Charlie Chaplin in the 1950s for alleged communist sympathies, reports the Guardian. Describing Chaplin as “Hollywood’s parlour Bolsheviks,” the FBI asked MI5 for cooperation in having him banned from the US. MI5 put together “extensive personal…

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