"Angleton would come into Allen's office first thing in the morning and report what his bugs had picked up the night before. He used to delight Allen with stories of what happened at people's dinner parties.  One house he bugged was Mrs. Dwight Davis. Her husband had been Secretary of War in the Coolidge cabinet. In the early 1950s she was  a much-sought-after Washington hostess, a dowager lady who had senators and cabinet members to her table. Jim used to come into Allen's office and Allen would say, 'How's the fishing?' And Jim would say, 'Well, I got a few nibbles last night.' It was all done in the guise of fishing talk."

Molehunt -- The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA, by David Wise

Richard Farina:  Folk singer and novelist, a close friend of Thomas Pynchon. Married Mimi Baez, sister of Joan Baez - to the national security state born. Joan Baez wrote in her autobiography, And a Voice to Sing With (Signet, 1987), that when she was a young girl, "most of the bright young Stanford scientists went off to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was being developed. My father recognized the potential destructive power of the unleashed atom even in those early days. So he took a job as a research physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York." Cornell was the home base of the CIA's mind control experiments, and Joan Baez a self-described survivor of ritual child abuse, which employs a form of mind control, trauma-based programming. "Soon my father was invited to become Head of Operations Research at Cornell. Exactly what the job entailed was classified information, but he was offered a three-week cruise on an aircraft carrier as an introduction to the project and promised a huge salary. As it turned out, he would be overseeing Project Portrex, a vast amphibious exercise which among other things involved testing fighter jets, then a relatively new phenomenon. Millions of dollars would be poured into the project, about which he was to know little and say less." Farina, who had married into a national security family, was killed in a motorcycle crash.

Alex Constantine, CIA Killings of American and British Rock Musicians

"Joan Baez was born on Staten Island to a family of Mexican, English and Scottish descent. The family converted to Quakerism during her early childhood. Her father Albert Baez, a physicist (co-inventor of the x-ray microscope and author of one of the most widely used physics textbooks in the U.S.), refused to work on the "Manhattan Project" to build an atomic bomb at Los Alamos, a decision which had a profound effect on young Joan; he also refused lucrative defense industry jobs during the height of the Cold War.

The family was forced to move frequently because of Albert Baez's work, living in different towns across the United States, as well as in France, Switzerland, Italy, and the Middle East, including Iraq, where they stayed in 1951. Joan, at the time only ten years old, was deeply influenced by the poverty and inhumane treatment suffered by the local population in Baghdad. While there, she saw animals and people beaten to death, and legless children dragging themselves down filthy streets begging for money. She later wrote that she felt a certain affinity with the beggars in the streets, and that Baghdad and the suffering of its people became a "part" of her.

In 1956, Baez first heard a young Martin Luther King, Jr speak about nonviolence, civil rights and social change, and the speech brought tears to her eyes. Several years later, the two became friends, later marching and demonstrating together on numerous occasions. That same year, Baez also bought her first guitar and began entertaining her fellow students at school by singing and playing. It was her only means of making friends, as she was alienated both from the Mexican students because she did not speak Spanish, and from the white students on account of her darker skin and Mexican last name and heritage.

In 1957, at age 16, Joan committed her first act of civil disobedience by refusing to leave her Palo Alto Senior High School classroom in northern California for an air-raid drill. After the bells rang, students were to leave the school, make their way to their home air-raid shelters, and pretend they were surviving an atomic blast. Protesting what she believed to be misleading government propaganda, Baez refused to leave her seat when instructed and continued reading a book. For this act she was punished by school officials, and was ostracized by the local population for being a supposed "communist infiltrator".

That same year, for 50 dollars, Baez bought her first Gibson guitar. At her aunt's behest, Baez attended a concert by the "daddy of folk music," Pete Seeger and soon began practicing the songs of his repertoire and performing them publicly. She also began teaching herself the ukulele, and before long began singing for her classmates."

Joan Baez, Early Life & Political Influences, by Wikipedia