LIBERAL BRAINWASHING OUTFIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300180021-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 30, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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HUMAN EVENTS, 30 APRIL 1966
Liberal Brainwashing Outfit
A semi-secretive, highly liberal organization is con-
ducting brainwashing sessions for congressional as-
sistants close by Capitol Hill. Going under the title
of thu'_Institutc for Policy Stttdies,''the group is a tax-
cxeinpOlhsTiCut(,, which began operations in Washington
in 1963. Its headquarters arc located at 1900 Florida
Ave., N.W., where furtive meetings arc held at night
for the purpose of "educating" congressional aides.
The type of education they might receive is indicated
by the IPS bulletin board which is decorated witl
Women Strike for Peace literature and a campaign
poster for Robert Scheer, the foreign affairs editor
.,f the radical Ramnarts magazine who is running fora
Congress in California. Scheer's poster reads: "The
.United States should never have gone into- Viet Nam,
should not have stayed there and should now get out."
The IPS runs on an annual budget of approxi-
mately $200,000 which it receives from universi-
ties and such organizations as the Ford Founda-
tion, which set up the left-wing Fund for the
Republic.
While the institute's language indicates the seminars
will be non-partisan and scholarly, 'the speakers
sponsored by the HIS are nearly all from the radical
left-wing fringe. Among the disarmament "experts"
to be heard: ,...
? Marcus G. Raskin. A co-director of th;- -in-
stitute, he was so liberal that even White House, i,
aide McGeorge Bundy couldn't get along with Raskin
when Raskin was a staff member of the Nationi+.
Security Council. Raskin was a key speaker a." tf.
anti-Viet Nam teach-in held in the Sheraton Park
Hotel last May. He was also a consultant to They
Liberal Papers. a notorious handbook' ~of appease-
ment which contained essays counseling recognition
of Red China and unilateral disarmament.
Reporters are not welcome at IPS meetings and
are sometimes even refused its literature, A secretary,)
Joyce Schroeder, told a Human Events reporter over
the telephone that he could have some of the printed
material but when he arrived to pick it up she refused
to hand it over to him. She wouldn't give it out {
until he had first talked to the co-director who wasn't
in and is often away from the office.
IPS is engaged in many operations, including bring-
ing university scholars to the Capital to researchH
problems of public policy, but this tax-exempt in-
stitute is presently concentrating its energies on mold-
ing the minds of congressional assistants; It has al-
ready started it seminar for aides on ptoblems of
the South, in which such radical political operators
like CORE director Floyd McKissick and the AFL-
CIO's Southern organizer, James Pierce, tell the aides
what must be done to improve conditions. Conserva-
tive or even moderate speakers cannot. be. discovered
on the seminar syllabus.
An even more flagrantly biased seminar on dis-
armament will begin on April. 26. An. IPS invita-
tion say.,; (;,at t z3?olrroximately 20 congressional as-
-
? Arthur Waskow. A "resident fellow" of the
institute, Waskow is an author of an essay in They,
Liberal Papers and once put together a study for
the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
which contained an article claiming that world peace
was benefited by the Soviet occupation of Eastern
and Central Europe.
? Seymour Melman, A unilateral disarmament
champion, he is a member of SANE, has picketed
against Civil Defense in New Yotk and has had
his works on unilateral disarmament lauded by Victor
Tcrlo in the Worker, the official paper of the Com-
munist Party, U.S.A.
.- u Jerome Wiesner. Another "peace champion,"
he has criticized our disarmament negotiators for
being overly cautious with the Soviets, has approved
plans to cut our defenses unilaterally and is in favor
of appeasing the Soviets on a broad scale in order
to achieve some sort of disarmament pact with them.
sistants s, "i Ii f at 7 p.m. at the institute once a 'Such is the nature of an organization now trying
week t%,, !(t,.w cks.usiveThe seminar, notes the invitation, to get its radical views across to Congress by "brief-
is rese d . "exclly for congressional ttssistantsy' 1 iiig" congressional aides.
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and w
explore various views of national defense.,
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