GUEST:SENATOR THOMAS KUCHEL (R., CALIFORNIA) MODERATOR: HARRY W. FLANNERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400430023-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: February 7, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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15 WEST 47TH STREET, NEW YORK 36. N. Y. COLUMBUS 5-76
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DATE February 7, 1965
CPYRGHT CITY Washington, D. C.
Guest: Senator Thomas Kuchel (R., California)
Moderator: Harry W. Flannery
Mr. Flannery interviewed Senator Kuchel, the MincSrity Wdhip,
on the extreme right and left, and the following was heard, in
part :
KUCHEL: "Every decent American loathes any kind of slavery.
He abominates Communism. I think he recognizes that the inter-
national Communistic conspiracy continues and endeavors to
strengthen itself and its goal continues to be engulfing and
destroying our kind of freedom. I think the average decent
American in this room and in this country equally abhors Facism,
and I suggest to you today that extremism of either the left or
the right is dangerous not only to the AFL-CIO, but also to the
cause of this country and the republic.
"You remember what a number of individuals from a notorious
organization said about Eisenhower, who has given his life, as he
has seen it, for the cause of free people. 'Ike is a Commie,'
they have said. But that's not all. Why just a few months ago,
in my own county in California, a professor, a national trustee of
pYV,(3Agbt-wing organization spoke to 1300 people who paid $1.50 to
listen to him and said not simply that General Eisenhower was a
Communist, but the late Jack Kennedy was a Communist agent and
that the CIA on orders from Moscow, undertook the assassination,
that monstrous act in Texas and that the Secretary of Defense --
and he named him, McNamara, had the Army of the United States
practicing for a funeral a week before the murder took place.
And those people applauded. I think I know something about the
abuse that public servants take by extremists, and I simply urge
you as one fellow citizen to another to stand up and fight them.
"And ladies and gentlemen, the other day I attended a
classified briefing by the head of the Central Intelligence Agency
and others and I must say it was a very sobering experience. I
think it is quite fair to say that this world in which we live is
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full of troubles. It presents us with a continuing opportunity
and a continuing challenge. I recall the last volume of Winston
Churchill's great work on the history of the Second World War --
it's entitled 'Triumph and Tragedy' -- and he describes the theme
of that volume as follows -- 'How the great democracies finally
emerged triumphant and so were able to resume the follies which
had so nearly cost them their life.''
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