This book is very narrowly focused on a few whistleblowers in various 
Federal Agencies and it goes into a lot of detail about their cases. I 
was not really that interested in any particular whistleblower, but I am
 intested on one of them--Ottto Otepka. Mollenhoff is one of the rare 
places to read and gain perspective on Otto Otepka. Otepka was a 
security employee at the US State Department who was investigating Lee 
Harvey Oswald for some reason not yet known. Otepka has a whole chapter 
in Despoilers of Democracy. Also, Mollenhoff was a personal friend and 
advisor to Robert F. Kennedy. Review by Paul Hite 









 
 
 
 Like the other reviewer, I bought this book only for the Otto Otepka 
case. But with me it was personal. My father is Haary Hite who is 
mentioned on page 263 as one of the men punished for supporting Otepka. 
 I didn't realize what my father was enduring while was was raising a 
family, but I did meet most of the principals in this case. It was very
 interesting reading.

Despoilers of democracy; the real story of what Washington propagandists, arrogant bureaucrats, mismanagers, influence peddlers, and outright corrupters are doing to our Federal Government

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