COMMUNIST 'RULES' FOR REVOLT VIEWED AS DURABLE FRAUD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
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• Publication Date: July 10, 1970
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plctcly spurious. tho German newspaper." headed for a gay evening were
"The extreme right wing in The only magazine called two representatives of the
By DONALD JANSON America also follows rules," Rising Tide that circulated in allied military intelligence.
Among a spate of broad- he said earlier in placing his the United States, according to "These men had traced a
sides, leaflets and ultraconserv- findings in The Congressional a check by librarians, was a wave of indiscipline, mutiny,
Record and one of these rules eriodical for boys and girls and murder among the troops
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Communist `Rules'
For Revolt Viewed
As Durable Fraud
ative books distributed at the is to make maximum use of of the Presbyterian Church of to the local headquarters of
New England Rally for God, false, misleading and fear. England,. published from 1880 a revolutionary organization
Family and Country, held in inspiring quotations." to 1937. ~ established in the town.
Boston, was a stack of flyers He checked with the Federal John H. George, political "Pretending to be drunk,
labeled Communist "rules for Bureau of Investigation, the , cience teacher at Central State, they brushed by the sentries
Central Intelligence Agency, th College in Edmund, Okla., who and arrested the ringleaders-
revolution." Library of Congress and the has made a study of misquota- a group of 13 men and women
The "rules" call for corrupt- Internal Security Subcommittee tions by extremists, called the seated at a long table. '
ing the young by stressing sex of the Senate Committee on the "rules" a forgery. "In the course of the raid
to the exclusion of moral vir- 'Judiciary and none could au Merle Fainsod of Harvard, the Allied officers emptied the
fomenting disorder and thenticate the "rules." specialist in political science contents of the safe.
tues, g Senator James 0. Eastland, and government of Eastern Eu- "One of the documents found
dissatisfaction with govern- Democrat, of Mississippi, the rope, said he had never en-, in it contained a specific out-
ment, legislating gun control subcommittee chairman, said. countered such a document. line of 'rules for bringing about
and seizing power. F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover Role of Prosecutor a revolution'
"Friend, do you reco nize an testified that no source could ? "It is reprinted here to show
y g y be found for the "document"I Reproduction of the rules the strategy of materialistic
of these things going on in our and "'therefore we can logically, accelerated after they were en- revolution, and how personal
world?" the Committee for speculate that the document is dorsed in 1954 as authentic by attitudes and habits of living
American Broadcasting asks af- spurious.'^~-^^ P---- George+A. Br utigln ~P Florida a affect the affairs of nations."
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ter usung zne --rules.-- Inc com- continue to receive copies of (Miami). .:.- .--
mittee is a project of Warren the "rules" from alarmecon- Sincthen, numerous ultra-i again with credit.to The New
B. Appleton, a John Birch Soci- constituents and continue to conservative publications have, World News.
y The Metcalf selection was
"
with the
ety leader in Brockton, Mass. insert them in ? The Congres- reproduced the "rules
nd his, from Western Voice Publishers
nt
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a
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Brautigam sta
sional Record as if they
The same list has been re- of Englewood, Colo., which also
1-rmmn awara of them for the cianntnra nnnnnded: The ReV. . _ _ - _
produced in right-wing publica-
tions, small-town newspaper ad-.I
vertisements and gun lobby
magazines for a quarter of a
century. Group Research, a'
.Washington organization, re-
'ports a spurt in recent months...
anti-Semitic ana racist puouca-
cover of Christian Crusade to.
s intended fol
h
ti
i
h
on, per
ap
es, uc
irt
'Completely Spurious' during the twenties and t
Metcalf, Demo- was translated into English in lend verisimilitude:
Senator Lee
~? v
crat of Montana, said in an Britain (and) I believe it was ""On a dark night in May,! i,,,,,yy
rirct ,ISr-d in the United States ',1919, two lorries rumbled
,search had proved the "rules lisfied about 1937, but Ican- town of Dusseldorf.
for revolution" to be "com- not find a copy to check this "Among the dozen rowdy,
it and do not know the name of singing Tommics apparently
e
.
first tim
Source in Doubt
Frequently, American Legion
posts, local Birch Society af-
filiates and others, in reproduc-
ing the "rules," simply credit
the last publication where they
saw it as their source.
The "loyal Americans" who
advertised in the Port Washing-
ton News, for example, called
it a reprint from the Waterville
(N.Y.) Advance. There is no
Waterville (N.Y.) Advance. They
The "rules" appear to be one.
of the more durable frauds
popular among far right and
anti-Communist Organizations,;
similar in purpose to misquo-'
Stali
nd
i
f L
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t i
en
n,
n a
ons o
a
meant the Water-
apparently
Khrushchev by ultraconserva-
tives and of Hitler by the radi- ville (Minn) Advance, which
cal left. printed the rules in 1968 with
The Port Washington (L.I.), the comment that it did not
News carried a full-page ad last see how any thinking person
month reprinting the "rules" 'can truthfully say that the
and asking: "How many of Communists do not have any
these rules are being carried part in the chaos that is upset-
out in this nation today? Or is ting our nation."
it just a coincidence?" , The earliest, publication of
Frequently the ads are print- 'the "rules" turned up in a
ed without imprimatur. The ad search was in The New Worl?
in the Port Washington paper News of February, 1946. Many
says only that it was "placed who reproduce
defuncte biweekly
by a group of loyal Americans.
Each reproduction of the newsletter of Moral Re-Arena.
"rules" says they were captured ment Inc., as their source.
ky, in a book
Morris
f
I5
-
from Communists by allied o
ficers In May, 1919, in Dussel- called "The he Idoaxers," to be
dorf, Germany. published soon by Brandon
Never are names or addresses Press of Boston, quotes H.
given. The National Archives, Mead Twitchell Jr? until re-
the Library of Congress and the cently an. employe of the now
closed Los Angeles office of
'
cop
o
e
ru
es
or
s univer-
libraries of the nation
sities have no copy or trace of Moral Re-Armament, as saying revolution" entered in The Con-
eared in
les a
"
th
h
ru
e
at
_vr
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the "document"
Approved asea2 A-9/mdp4 C &
this combination a decade
later.
The Brautigam statement
said "the above rules for revo.
lution were secured by the state
attorney's office from a known
member of the Communist
party, who acknowledged it to
be still a part of the Commu-
nist program for overthrowing
our government."
Mr. Brautigam died In 1957.
Those who have listed the
"rules" in The Congressional
Record this year include Repre-
sentatives John J. Duncan of
Tennessee, Joe Skubitz of Kan-
sas and Louis C. Wyman of
New Hampshire.
"To Protect Our Country'
Mr. Duncan commented, in
doing so, that "I became
alarmed as I reviewed these
His successor, Richard E. Ger-land realized how effective they
stein, said in a telephone inter-,are right now in this great
view that people have been country of ours."
asking him ever since, more "We -see the results taking
frequently in the last year or place in our society," he said,
two; what basis Mr. Brautigam "and it is our duty' to warn
had for the statement. our constituency and to protect
Mr. Gerstein said he had been our country."
able to find none. He noted' Police stations in the Boston
th t his predecessor made the area have tacked up on bul-
atement during the course ofletin boards flyers bearing the
Brautigam investigation of "rules." The "document" has
several persons indicated on been widely distributed by the
charges of contempt for invok- Network of Patriotic Letter
ing the Fifth Amendment and Writers, Pasadena, Calif., and
'remaining silent when ques- the Association to Preserve Our
tioned. Right to Keep and Bear Arms,
Miami newspapers later Medford, Ore.
branded the investigation a Last year American Opinion,
"witch-hunt," Mr. Gerstein said. the Birch Society magazine,,
None of those' indicated ever linked the country's sexual
went to jail. revolution to the "rules." This,
A Coioriul Introduction summer Arthur C. Pruden of~
Flora, Miss., like hundreds of
y
f th
A
"
l
!iothers, typed them out and sent
f
them to his Congressman, not-
pq,,4,l t,ii"t11e considered them
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