JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 12 JANUARY 1962

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 JACK MILLER
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January 11, 1962
PERSONAL - CONFIDENTIAL
John W. McCone, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. McCone:
The enclosed copy of an article has been
sent me by one of my constituents, demanding
a letter of explanation.
E.zecutive : z e'::;!
I would very much appreciate your giving
me the official position of CIA on this matter.
If there is some classified information which
would be helpful to me, I would like also to have
the benefit of this, with appropriate arrangements
to be made for me to see it or to talk with one of
your people about it. I am classified for top
secret as a Colonel in the Air Force Reserve,
incidentally.
Appreciating your earliest reply, I
remain,
Sincerely yours,
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pose to an attack upon the purposes of its enemy.
Communism will fade and fall by the way only when a
positive, creative Christianity goes about its own re-
demptive business, freshly addressing to each person,
to each new day and to every society or social grouping
its eternal truths. If Christianity makes the defeat of
communism its first business, it will turn as it has
several times before into a detour where it will he
assaulted by other enemies no less vicious and no less
powerful than communism. Only by being what it is
and doing what it was set in the world to do can Chris-
tianity hold off all its enemies and accomplish the
purpose committed to it by the Lord of history. The
Christian's duty, whatever face the enemy may wear
in any given age. is to be a Christian-a witness to the
sacrificial love God bestowed upon all men in his
Son Jesus Christ.
moral disapproval of the nazi attempt to engineer what
he termed "the systematic extermination of Slavism
and Jewry." He also testified that the man who had
been his superior officer, General Alfred Jodi, was a
"thoroughly decent man." jodl, convicted by the Nur-
emberg tribunal of monstrous
leaden in t the M larwas geltynsu
on October 16, 1946.
postwar campaign to get German war criminals
released from prison, Heusinger contended that West
Germany could not be an effective ally of the Western
powers without these men. One man he tried but
failed to rescue was Oswald Pohl, overseer of all the
concentration camps. Characterized by the American
prosecution at Nuremberg as a "professional mass
murderer," Pohl was hanged in June of tg,t.
Entrusted by Chancellor Adenauer with a major
role in achieving Germany's remilitarization, Heusing-
er apparently felt no need to disavow his devotion
to Hitler's ideals. In is S he said to a group of.sub-
ordinate officers: "We should remember our past....
Let us stick to the principles we used, to have." Hen-
ree with Hitler about one thing, how-
did disa
g
singer
HOW MUCH TRUTH is there in the Russian ever: in to 19.5o he
failing to ann hilat ltand hoccue
charge that the West German regime is dominated by Hitler
r nchists-neo-nazi types who are striving to re- England before tackling Russia.
R
us-
establish the Third Reich? Not so much as the
sians claim, but enough to give us pause. Let us con
sider a case in point. It concerns the present chairman
aw Such iseheeU Sni egi ono f Merit goner mend a coop-
, of NATO's military planning commission. or rebu General Adolf Heusinger has been a German
many's army. AndTsu h tisnthe man whotldn ~ lGer ast
itarist for 46 of his 6.1 years. Promoted at a
COmhas mss onf watit~offi eof NAT's s in W?hingeon military plan-
Hitler had dismissed all but the most loyal
chief of n ng Spring
his general staff, Heusinger in 194o became c Aden
auer operations of the Oberkommando der
of all nazi tuna- fluential NATO post,tgihe tLn ited tStagtes wentt along.
figured importantly in the planning
sions from then on. In 1942 he was made responsible Four NATO nations-Norway, Denmark, Italy and
for all action against partisans on the Eastern front; Greece-did object, but in response to high-powered
ds pressure
directives sent out from his office urging "the strongest
ve
American )ew sh grou~io ho they
under. the
measures of terror" led to the slaughter of thousands knuckled
protested Heusinger's appointment-and to Oregon's
of innocent civilians. Senator Wayne Morse-the state department has tried
I to depict Heusinger as a professional soldier who sim-
One of Hitler's most trusted generals, Heusinger ply carried out orders (where have we heard that ex-
was with the filhrer in Rastenberg, East Prussia, on cuse before?) and has argued that the U.S. must do
July 20, 1944, when a group of defecting generals nothing to displease West Germany or to jeopardize
made an unsuccessful attempt on the fiihrer's life. In NATO.
fact, Heusinger was in the process of briefing Hitler Yes, our memories are exceedingly short. So are
about the Russian front at the precise moment the those of the West Germans who are saying that the
planted bomb exploded. Shortly afterward in a radio only thing wrong with Hitler's scheme was that it
broadcast Hitler lamented the fact that some of his failed to win the war. As Senator Morse has said:
"true and loyal collaborators"-including Heusinger- This Nazi general unquestionably must bear his share of the
had been wounded in the incident; he later gave
Heusinger a special citation commemorating the bomb-
ing. The wounded Heusinger's zealous leadership in
I ties hunt for anti-Hitler plotters served to
n
h
e IV. e
t
hasten the execution of 7,000 (official Gestapo esti-
responsluuny wa .+
It is one thing to put him in retirement; it is another thing
to put him in a position of policy making. . . . It is up to
a free Germany to make perfectly clear to the Western world
has really been brought to an end in
lo
h
gy
o
that Nazi psyc
West Germany. It will never be very persuasive by elevating
mate). Nazi generals to high positions of military power.
Although Heusinger's name appeared on the first Although Heusinger's second year in the high
his reap-
list of war criminals released by the United Nations,
it was mysteriouslybsent fir in subsequent lists. Never NATO post is not due to begin until April, Any dp-
brought to trial hirFf~erlQv t~sq>ri gl~ Q ~ /Qt11t2 : ciVMPoBOV6781~80y80$1~68~'
Nuremberg trials, and in his teVtimony_he-shower{ no now. We hope that Washington-- he state depart-
Henchman Heusinger
 ment, the White House, both houses of Congress-
will recognize what a liability this man is to the dem-
ocratic cause and drop him.
Pressure Mounts
For Bomb Tests
+ IMMEDIATELY on his arrival in this country for
a state visit, Prime Minister Nehru was confronted by
the formidable interrogators of "Meet the Press."
Lawrence E. Spivak of the N.B.C. program, with in-
credible lack of diplomatic courtesy, opened proceed-
ings with prosecuting-attorney vigor by demanding to
know whether India's leader agreed with his repre-
sentative at the United Nations in -blaming the U.S.
equally with the U.S.S.R. for the renewal of nuclear
tests. Mr. Nehru said that obviously Russia had started
testing but that all such explosions are "evil things"
and that he hoped they could be stopped. The Indian
resolution in the United Nations calls for such cessa-
tion, whether on an inspected or a noninspected basis.
President Kennedy seemed to be preparing the public
mind for a renewal of tests by the U.S. in the at-
mosphere in his statement, made a few days before
Mr. Nehru landed, that the U.S. might discover that it
had to renew atmospheric tests. Behind his words un-
doubtedly stood the powerful pressure of the Atomic
Energy Commission and the Pentagon. Behind the
A.E.C. and the military is the massive influence of
industries and probably of labor unions which partici-
pate most gainfully in war contracts. Meanwhile the
people of the country find difficulty in finding channels
for expression of their deep dismay over intensification
of the arms race. The astonishing lack of clear leader-
ship from the churches in :, its crisis, the sheep-like
docility of the politicians and the silence of much of
the 'n ticm's press makes one wonder what kind of
crisis would be required to compel the conscience of
America to find its voice. Surely this is not the "peace
race" to which the President: challenged the commu-
nist world in his address to'`che United Nationsl
Cuba Problem Can
Be Negotiated
+ BRAZIL, Mexico and Argentina, acting in the long-
standing Pan-American tradition, have separately of-
fered on several occasions to mediate the differences
between Cuba and the United States. These friendly
nations, representing half the population of Latin
America, remind its of the 1929 Convention of Con-
ciliation which binds all signers-including the United
States and Cuba-to submit to mediation "all contro-
versies of any kind which have arisen or may arise be-
tween them for any reason and which it may not have
been possible to settle through diplomatic channels."
This agreement was entered into for just such a re-
lationship as has now developed between Cuba and
while there ripens in Cuba the possibility of a bloody
civil war which would be ruinous for the Cuban people
and which would disgrace the United States in the
eyes of friendly Latin American nations for years to
come. Compensation for properties seized by the Cas-
tro government and the ending of economic sanctions
imposed by our government are negotiable matters.
Since the normal diplomatic channels are now clogged,
the services of a third party friendly to both sides could
return the United States and Cuba to a more normal
and less perilous relationship. President Kennedy has
said: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us
never fear to negotiate." If this was more than a clever
turn of words, if he meant what he said, why has his
maxim not been applied to Cuba? The American
Friends Service Committee raises this question in an
open letter to President Kennedy. It is a proper ques-
tion deserving a prompt answer.
Injustice Rules
In Tennessee
+ ON OCTOBER 22 Maurice McCrackin, the pacifist
minister whose nonconformity has given the United
Presbyterian, U.S.A., presbytery of Cincinnati so many
headaches, went to Fayette and Haywood counties,
Tennessee. His purpose was to help some Negro
families collect crop loans and to plan the resettlement
of others who had been evicted. He also sought to
encourage whites to help evicted Negroes. In the
evening of October 29 he was arrested while standing
near his automobile in a Brownsville, Tennessee,
street. According to the Cincinnati Post & Times-Star,
McCrackin was held in jail without charge for three
days. Finally he was charged with "loitering with in-
tention of peeping and spying." At the trial on Novem-
ber i a Mrs. Verna Harwell brought charges that
McCrackin "stood there, turning his head like, watch-
ing and looking." McCrackin was found guilty by
Judge Sam Lewis of the general sessions court and
fined $50 plus $20 costs. He refused to pay and was
sent to the Brownsville workhouse to work off this
amount at $2 a day. He also refused legal aid and
would not cooperate in any way with the court or the
sheriff. The Cincinnati branch of the National Associ-
ation for the Advancement of Colored People con-
demned McCrackin's arrest and trial as a "definite act
of intimidation" and requested Attorney General Ken-
nedy to conduct an immediate investigation. In court
McCrackin said: "I cannot cooperate in any way with
something I think is wrong. It is not that I hold the
court in disrespect. I am only pleading for justice in
Africa, India, Cincinnati, Brownsville and every-
where." As this is written he is still in jail and still
fasting. The racial situation in Fayette and Haywood
counties is still unremedied. Communication between
the races is almost nonexistent. The United States
court of appeals for the sixth circuit in Cincinnati
the United States. It was not abrogated by the estab- sometime ago issued a temporary injunction against
lishment ob4ljpa-dJe j iimntitoleaf sfl ?tf/23atClAWDIbSoB gy6pfobl!r~~b?lby voting had defied local
the United States waits for collective action by the custom in the Tennessee counties. The court has not
Cuba. it- nay 'wait. in vain. Mean- yet returned ' float derision on the cases of the Negroes
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