Re: Wright Doyle's Biography of Nee
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Originally Posted by Ohio
I recently watched a program about Joseph Stalin whose paranoia was legendary. He would assassinate his lieutenants just for becoming too popular with the people, though still absolutely loyal to him. His historians were constantly rewriting history to expunge all those who got bumped off, and then his photographers had to go back over all the photographs and carefully remove them from sight.
Lee was similarly paranoid, as was TC.
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Lee's history is punctuated by purges of his closest coworkers. In many cases, I don't think they were ever threats to him, but like you say, he was paranoid nonetheless. Maybe the current crop of blendeds would have suffered the same fate as others did had Lee lived longer.
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