NIXON REPORTED SORRY HE APPOINTED OTEPKA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300460001-1
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 29, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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and JACK AK;) RSOV son and Thurmond are pushing theories similar to tno.a ex?
Washington --.White house] the right-win; plan to broaden p%stulated in Mein ? yamid? ? '?
?ides have acknowled;,ed to the powers of the-SACE,.' In all. there are lihera, Republican' senators The proposed Internal 'Se- mately 150 of these; letters,
curity Act of I N9, now Pend-. sore to -, black ?nationnlir? is
that President Nixon now r. al- ;soups,, as well an vitriolic
ing in.tlte .,mate, would set up
izes his appbiritment of Otto "central security agency for I;ate e, brpanizafio}-~s Along
Otepka to the Subversiv:: alt agencies of government, un- tpese letters, 'there are, nur.,er- I
Activities Control Board. was a der the; control of SACB," jous . clippings, pamphlets and
Thurmond has expiaint.d. '?tf;newsphp:rs all ? ? centering
mistake.
He can't withdraw it, how This legislation , passes, 1V I around the 'r't;cial question.
i Otepka will pnce :gain deal "From the enclose:di you see
ever, without arousing , theiwith security evaluation, not what I think to be an indicatior-?
,vrath of she rival winfi, which only for the:State, Department, of fraud, i,e.; the usa;e of Lib-
can he both vocal and vicious, but for the ' wattle of Soveri- city IoiMy by this may to ad-
lie also ? can't' afford to offend meet. vance his, own' theories, those
Otepka's two 'staunchest'. sup- Yet the man who' would ,of National ?? Socialism (Nazis;
11111,?orters in. .the Senate, Sen. guard. the nation against suti-,isrn)."
,Everett Dirksen of Illinois, theversives bas',indicated that ne; ?; ? sr
idoesn't know? the difference ~r?,-?Prq;,r,es aiiAiLl',
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rom ican leai,er, and Sen.i`tween a patriot and a Nazi.-,1n Subsequently, we got.holdof.
Strom Thurmond, a power in an?. interview, with 'World-'W'ide ?tl,r,se letters and :puhlisihcd .ex-
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the Republican party, ~.Features,r ?01opka called the cerpts?in October,:1965, In
Rather than face the abuse Liberty . Lobby "patriotic" and typical letter,- Carto e";.resaed?
.of the right wing, even such lib- the man who runs it, Willis his admiration for Adolf Hitler%
era) Democrats as Sens. Birch Cat-to,, &.-defender of ."the fine ?,rd desert bird 'iitlOr's defeat. n.
il.as "the defeat 0'f
traditions, of American World W.I.
of Indiana and Quentin World Wide's; ' Washiigtonl Europe and America."
Burdick of North Dakota desert-
. Edward M. Kenncdyibureau;chicf?Joe Trento, g?es- 'rHow could we'have been bra
ed Sen. lied?" wrote Carto: '?'T; c:
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it seisms, must he l,?tld
during the fight a ;ainst Otepka lye of ? Liberty' Lobby - as , lams.
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inside- the Senate Judiciary Co m. ,Nazi 'front, at the door, of the intgrnation-
mitee. Ire Jrhn Birch Society, "Liberty--Lobby is x respect- aI Jews." A
Liberty Lobby and , other ex-'able' organization --' patt;iotic,'' In recent wed's' we have ph-
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tremist groups have enough of replied Otepka.
a following io Indiana and, no 'Nazi." dozen ? leaders of ? the ,former
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North Dakota io mount a nas
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they are gen.
Aides have explained that them Significantly,: Liberty Lobhtj ties'. Like 101" ,
,President was really ' looking has 'led the campaign m, r,j,n? uire conservatives ? who corn-
atgurd for George' ~Vallr~ce tor'
. a safe place to put Otepka :state Otepka ever since he w,)y ? p
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Beard finaitciat ,'.control ,of their of-;
, whose name w ould im- documi ats tci' Sen. Thomas
nanization and -tried to. luro ,?
press the right wing but whose Dodd. The Liberty Lobby everr?, r?
power has been severely re- produced a movie, calle;l ." rhe? I'theni Into the Nazi movement.
?stricted hu the .Supreme Court; Otepka. Case,'" fcaturi,; ; Qtnli Tact affiddavits'?telf .of. attend
ka as the object of governmcnta ing meeting., arranged by Car-
was ideally suited n for Otepka. f n at ` which, Nazi marching
persecution, t
Wier ..C:rr,. 'The Liberty: Lobby has been , ss>r;;s were sung, .,Nazi trap
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plant, however, have otavee ;
~since IfCG when 'its correspond- ohowinr our. expoxcr.Carto's'
plans,for the SAC}3, 1>rey hav
now launched a drive to put all~Ing secretary; Jeremy Horne, Liberty Lobby came.,out in the,,
discovered its+ N'azi leanin operf and' ? began xronlotirig
thcurity ?nv.'sti;,.,tsoke epka In a rt port to F'BI Chief J: ""Imperium," -the' Metn ICarr,N!
the., SACK and to make Otepkal 'r
the Goveinmeht's 'anti-subver? Iidgar'' Iloover; dated August ? of the '0ew' -Nazi movement,.
["his is the organization.wl?.icH
24, IJGG Horne wrote:
,ive crag. ? , iptepka descriped + as ' , rm?
Dirksen savod the. SACB'? Approximately three weccs sp ectablble"and !'patriotic"
from bein;; alto; r,tlicr; ago, I was cleaning' out a hart N
by making a deal .vft:~ c'x-Pres?~ctartronm and cams across (CS'J r ~;., ?'
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