[originally published on Patreon Dec 7, 2021]
Today's episode is nuts. I don't hear anyone referring to Salinger as a spy, and yet he was very much a spy. He served in the army's counterintelligence corps where, as it turns out, he saw some remarkable and horrific things.
Then possibly got brainwashed by Nazis? I'm legitimately not joking; he was at least in the position to be brainwashed. After that, he married a Nazi spy and brought her to the US. I discuss his spiritual dilettantism, and then I go over the Joyce Maynard affair, pulling out a few very curious details that rarely get addressed.
Then of course I talk about the curious role the Catcher in the Rye has played in various assassinations, and what might be in the novel that would catch the eye of an assassin. To wrap it up, I discuss the possibility that the novel contains Freemasonic themes and messages.
Songs:
"Catcher in the Rye" - Dandy Warhols
"fais moi mal Johnny" - Boris Vian
"Catcher in the Rye" - GRANT
"Everything is Gonna Be Alright" - John Hinckley Jr.
Programmed to Chill