WHY IS REP. WALTER AFRAID TO INVESTIGATE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200150062-5
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: April 4, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Why Is. Rep. Walter Afraid.
Investigate. John BiIh $ociety
f r IA no surprise to note that
Rep. Walter, ehuirman of the
}louse U'ti-Ameriewn Activities
Committee, has rejected a re-
quest from Rep. Henry Reuss of
Milwaukee to investigate the
John Birch Society '
Rep. Walter isn't i.oing to In-
vest 1; .11 a a, s; r u n p which hits
been a' htaluleh pillar of support
,ior the wretched kork of the
Committee he heads.
The HUAC chairman can't see
anything un-American about a
secret ho(lety headed by a man
who believes that democracy is
a ?'perenrital. Intuit" or that ex-
Presidrnt Eisenhower is a Coln-
muuLst..
his attitude is further evi-
dence Ili;lt the chief test uf?1111-
AIII el'tl'aiiisin for HLIAC.is
whet her one Is for or ngijinht the
Conlntittee.'
j 1?;DGAR HooVER. who
.J. praised the 1nt! Sen. Mc-
Carthy as it great. American and
more recently hiterv It'd in but
election to save ctitq at? MrL:ttr-
thy's sup ortel's1.$e Mundt of
fill not to :'ay alt Wi.1nA' sitical ?
of the' Birch cil 0,. Sen. Milton
Yunnh f R-N. D.: who has been
a tl:ett;i nt. fr Hoaxer as to
whether he ell c sl the group
purled.
rc?l,rrt? but lu? si( iCiu1Iiv re-
fl:olu?ct Iii iii rti~t ul:ytI InI
rrlitral of the } a:. beliefs
Sen. Eastland (S?blixa.), who
heads the Seimte Internal Se-
curity Sitbcommittee, says he
Ls "happy to state. thrit It seems
to be, from our records, a patri
otic organirattion." -Eastland, of '
course, would be greatly in sym-
pathy di,t.h' the cult's number.
one aim of impeaching C h I e f
Justice Warren of the U. S. Su-
preme Court.
. . ,
WHY should this group be
-protected? It It is a "pa'tri-
c+.tic" organization, as Sen. East-
land says, it may have some in-
formation about- ex-President
Eisenhower and his b r o t h e r
Milton that s,.li d u l d be made
.known to the public. It the C n-
tral Intellls e A 9 e n c y 1s
headed, 6_y a Communivt, the
public should know, about it.
Surely, theses people who sup-
port HUAC so;pussionatcly can-
not Ut utterly ?without respon-
sibilif$,-Among;its members are
ssociatton of Manufac-
two of 'them prominent
from. Wisconsin--
de. Milwaukee in-
id Cota Parker of
j Nerl.:ah.
Another member is T. Cole-
Man Andtews, former head. of
the _ Internal Revenue Service
tinder President Eisenhower and
a candidate for president on the
splinter group ticket in 195ti.
Another, Spruille ? Braden, Is
former ambassador to Argen-
tina.
When men like this give their
names to a mo'vcmhnt 'which
peddles the doctrine that a
president of the United States
for two terms is a Communist
they ought to be allowed to c?x-'
Plain what they are talking
about and to be questioned cunr
corning it.
Let them go under oath anti
prove their charges. '
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