How does a nice anti-Communist spy working for the U.S. Government get to hang out with socialists and communists like Joe Moore, Larry Suffredin, Harry Osterman and Jan Schakowsky? Is she still a spy?Lulkin, soon to be the former Executive Director of the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce in Chicago, infiltrated more than 80 left-wing organizations over the years. Yet there she is, at last Sunday's Obama Rally, yucking it up with people applauding anti-American speeches and supporting the Marxist Obama. Lulkin is a quite a figure, prominently mentioned in a book by the late Frank Donner, "Protectors of Privilege: Red Sqauds and Police Repression in Urban America."
Excerpt from an LA Times book review:
Police departments recruited both professional and civilian informers. The numbers are unknown, but may well have reached five figures. By the late 1060s there were over two thousand professional and amateur spies in Chicago alone. For regular police officers, undercover work was a rapid route to advancement. Some civilians enlisted for patriotic reasons, others were police groupies who hoped that working with the red squad might get them a job with the force. In Philadelphia policemen's wives became "pin money" spies. The activities of these informers varied. Some took on single assignments; others, like Chicago veteran Sheli Lulkin, who infiltrated eighty-eight separate organizations, made it a career. [Source]So, is Sheli Lulkin a patriot, or a police groupie? Does it matter?
The Maldon Institute reports:
There is ample evidence that the Red Squad was plugged into a private political intelligence network. For instance, George Elliott was not the only civilian spy utilized by the Red Squad. There was a string of paid and unpaid civilian spies including Sheli Lulkin, a Chicago school teacher, who was linked to spying on no fewer than 80 Chicago organizations.
Lulkin continued to keep in touch with some of the more right-wing former Red Squad agents, and shortly after being revealed as a civilian Red Squad spy, she received an award for her work from the Council Against Communist Aggression. Lulkin maintains she infiltrated community and labor groups in order to ferret out Communist influence and the "terrorist infrastructure." While in Washington to receive her award, Lulkin met with John and Sheila Louise Rees.
John Rees first turned up in Chicago on the occasion of the 1968 Democratic Convention. He promptly went undercover to ferret out subversives. The process of how information from Rees ended up as an item in Robert Wiedrich's Chicago Tribune Tower Ticker column is illustrative both of how private spies feed information to the police (who then pass it to scoop-hunting journalists) and of how the information is distorted with each little step it takes. [Source]
(I wonder what kind of file Lulkin put together on old hippy and SDS member Michael James?)
Do some of your own research on Sheli Lulkin. A recent News-Star article about her started with the sentence, "Ask Sheli Lulkin a question, and you'll always get an honest answer, whether you want to hear it or not." REALLY? The woman was a spy and an informer supreme. How honest was that?
