JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400030023-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: August 25, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

CHARLESTON, S. C.
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AU G 25 1964
Date:
iohn Birch Society'.,
X1'0 the Editor, Evening Post:
`0' How do you explain the: sui-
cide of the West? Is it stupid-'..
ity? _How did Communism con-r'
.,quer and fortify the Island o1
Cuba right beneath our noses??r
Do you know? If you don't'
"know, do you have a theory?
Robert Welch did when he
founded the John Birch Society
Ain 1958. It must have been a
pretty good theory, too, because
be out-guessed the entire CIA,,;
,be U. S. State Department,;
about Fidel Castro, Sukarno,'
Tito, and a few other interest
t "I
ing people who have taken our,
money and made' fools of Uncle'
Sag.
Do you want to sample that
theory-for yourself, first-hand?1
Do you have the patience to Hs- s,
r ten through three reels of film',.
1 while your mind busily ties to-,~
gether half-forgotten facts? Aft-3
terwards,?do you have the?curl-`
osity to fire questions at Bill`'',
L Highsmith,' major coordinator of:
the society, to straighten out;;
[the details?
r: If you do and are determined,,
t.to know "the other side" and
some truth, too, come to Mom-"
minger Auditorium on Thurs-1
day, Aug. 27 at 7:30 p.m: Listen,'
';ask, and . meet some local,mem-
hers of the society.
M, Pt LELO
CharleGtr?`'