tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post3126070601474897219..comments2024-03-28T21:34:40.656-07:00Comments on WILD ABOUT HARRY: Experts weigh-in on 'Secret Life' spy revelationJohn Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-33344759466328524372022-12-28T20:14:06.259-08:002022-12-28T20:14:06.259-08:00I think that J. Edgar Hoover contacted Houdini a f...I think that J. Edgar Hoover contacted Houdini a few years before Houdini passed away. I think they enlisted his "Spy" qualities for the USA in or around 1924. (Perhaps earlier) This was a precursor relationship prior to the Five Eyes development in the early 40's. Houdini would have been one of their greatest "Catches" had he survived.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-60899731333727961762020-05-27T17:37:35.315-07:002020-05-27T17:37:35.315-07:00It would be professional malpractice if Melville&#...It would be professional malpractice if Melville's MI5 Secret Service DIDNT strategically debrief Houdini while he was a legal traveler in denied areas. According to records on Ancestry.com Houdini and Melville took the same ship from US to England... plenty of time for M to assess, develop, recruit, and train Houdini as an observer. The quid quo pro? Houdini gets a new passport with a US Tim King!https://www.blogger.com/profile/15361784065330244928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-28593472397032686212020-05-16T07:53:37.846-07:002020-05-16T07:53:37.846-07:00It's been as quiet as a spy in the night. Mayb...It's been as quiet as a spy in the night. Maybe everyone went undercover. :)John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-83541949996408400752020-05-15T12:35:16.691-07:002020-05-15T12:35:16.691-07:00Have there been any articles, for or against, asse...Have there been any articles, for or against, assessing the evidence as laid out in ...Houdini Laid Bare, or any additional evidence for or against published elsewhere?Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18176561648732261182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-44636041590543510582014-09-07T08:59:01.492-07:002014-09-07T08:59:01.492-07:00I've said I think it might be possible Houdini...I've said I think it might be possible Houdini did communicate what he was seeing in Germany and Russia to William Melville. I think what people are rejecting is the larger assumptions put forth in the book and especially the miniseries that he was going on missions, stealing secret plans and such, and his magic career was only "cover for his spying." What we have at this point John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-86242260188315552802014-09-07T08:43:43.208-07:002014-09-07T08:43:43.208-07:00I'm not sure why anyone would completely discr...I'm not sure why anyone would completely discredit this - after all, Harpo Marx, in his autobiography, "Harpo Speaks" divulges that he was a spy for the US when he went back n forth to Europe in the 30's and 40's. Harpo gives the same reason that the Houdini biopic does - since he was an entertainer he wasn't seen as a threat and could access to the highest political Lokisfurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14223923724250995769noreply@blogger.com