A SMEAR-JOHNSON BOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100890005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 20, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT WASHINGTON Prwr -1-nrn
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100890005-5
SEP 2 0 1964
LI3J Aitacked by Right-Wing Texans',
One Chapter Is in Congressional Record
By Jack Anderson .left the Army after trying to has stepped ?up spending on'i
! A W E AL THY TEXAS.' Indoctrinate his troops with ;';weapons development
rancher. with close ties ? to ' .. , :
John Birth' Society, litera- .' Reports- h a v e ' been re.;
'ture and being reprimanded.' ceived that the 'Russians
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the American Nazi Party', ? .?
helped gather the material ??
D ,e w e y would not s a y hate . tested new . missiles1
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for the smear biography "A. whether he had ? introduced. and satellites superior tol
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all the mud .Texan Looks 'at Lyndon,"
? Rockwell to Haley. ? ? ?' any ft in g in the :United '1
'which serves IlD ,
? ? Haley has been a Crusader ' States arsenal. Though thel
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, - for right-wing causes and reliability of these reports ;!
and muck against President 'once was quoted as advo- has been challenged, somel
Jo h n s o n in one literary eating the lynching of Chief experts believe they should
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compost pile. . ?
. Justice Earl Warren. Haley be taken seriously. t+
' This has become the 'book.' a 1 so, founded a vigilante One general told this col.
,of.the?anonth for right-wing group called Texans for umn that the reports Were/.
,groups, which have passed America to snoop out Red deliberately, downgraded in ;
out an estimated 3 million subversion in Texas text- order not to conflict with ..!
. copies. books. , ? ? Secretary of Defense Roberti'
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Some of the, research was California Rep. Bob Wil. -.McNamara's idea of United .,
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?done by rancher Thornton son, the GOP Congressional' States superiority. .
'Dewey. There is evidence campaign chairman, is try-' Defense officials are most ,/,
:that he contributed $1000 to ing to line up Republicans' worried about .Russia's crash'
'the American Nazi Party ? to insert Haley's smear book program to develop laser, al
!recently. Ile refuses to dis- in the Congressional Record, disintegration Tay, vih I c h..d
cuss that but says he has', a chapter at a time. This could be used tit pulverize
(entertained party leader will make the book an offi. onrushing missiles. If R'ussia'
? George Lincoln Rockwell on,. cial document and permit- should ever succeed In sur-1
. the Dewey ranch outside Republicans to m a ii 'it , rounding itself with an, in- _
,Canyon, Tex. around the country at tax.,. visible ? curtain of .1 as e r.1
l' "I dug up information for ? payers' expense. . beams, our entire -rnIssilee:l
it the book," Dewey told this ' Already, Ti ii n ol s Rep. .force. would?becowie ebso4t.c,1
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1'column, "but my 'late wife ?Robert Michel . has inserted 9-3.9.,Ti..01t"-:.4..-,%.0;i..,;;;1-1,;1,,.;,10,,4
was the chief researcher." ? one chapter. The -printing c
? She died shortly after the bill came to $563.50, The.!
? book went to press. cost of printing 'all 10 ?chap-
. They were neighbors of ters' will ,run , around $6000.
the f. the author, J.. Evetts Haley,' Far more expensive
., who owns a ranch 6 miles .. however, will be the massive't;
up in the . hills from the ?,(
dnailing Wilson has in mind.i
',Dewey spread. . :1
: Dewey said he and Haley' Khrushchev Bluffing? .. '.I
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would chase down rumors, ,
i for the book while Mrs., DESPITE OFFICIAL.I
Dewey stayed at the ranch,' s k e p t i c i sm. some intel-',
' sifting through the materialligence experts fear Nikita
: they sent back. ' , ' Khrushchev's talk about pos-.:-
Dewey said they 'had ex- sessmg a doomsday weapon,
0 7. pected to sell no more than % may
have some truth.
20,000 copies, 'but "we did It is known that Russia
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better than that 'the first h as plunged ahead w i t li
crash programs to develop!
.;? While Dewey was enter- , n e w W cap on s. Though
, taining the Nazi leader, Ha-, Khrushchev has. .ordered
*ley brought former Maj. Gen. cut b a c k s in manpower,'T,
' Edwin Walker to his ranch 'bombers, and, missiles, he isl,
to u'r g e - him . to run for Merely getting rid of obsO-','i I
, Governor of Texas. ? Walker lete : weapons.: and .actually. . ? .
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100890005-5