UNCOVERING A DANGER SPOT IN U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200150064-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: April 4, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON' APR- 4 1961
Approved., For, Release 20Q0/04/.1,3.:. CIA-0DP70-0005
RALPH Mcd I LL
Urcoverin.abahger.:Spot in U.
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Two Newspapers .Lauded for Exposing . aDliear irr the mall damning
John Birch Society as Fascist ,Threat democracy and'Isralatat 1"' .6
A substantial public service The two California news- This aioup. though riot,
was tendered ? the NS,t on 'by papex? one a ame11 dally in. ttWUel'1cafy large, seeks,',td
.the ..staunchly coneervatlve. SantaBarbsra, andtheother givl. the impression of many
Santa: St sbara. ' News~Press , + the hatiortsily knot n Los br making . a -lot of nolsel
John Birch Society, which its darigerdus as comttrdt'iem. doubt. They are. train, :1n
mall,os
with anti-oommuntsln.~ i has publicly lofted' In coo- or organisation with.
'
calls.
Tht orgiuuizer of this se''- .dernning the John'Birch 8o- telephone
cret moiety, Robert Welch, s'; : -'- e 'late. RueY Lo0>: ` ibadl
book so extreme his.'auli- This Birch group. In a appear In:anotbeir. guise. It. 1
porters have sought to with- number of communities, al- would come wrapped In th6 ")
draw all copies from circula- ready has carried put orders. flag claiming to be a
tton, that Dr. Milton Eisen- Its members have Infiltrated of democracy.
hower, the'Jate Secretary of a few local PTA's, civic clubs,' " The attorney -general of..
State Jahn Foster Dupes, end '.church boards of deaFons or, Carifornlsl, who is conducting
Allen Dulles, then 'ant-MOW vestriet, and other corn- . an iitveetigstion of .tho,jantt-'
head of the United States ? 'multity organizations, Ic? groups -of the right. who,
Central Intelligence Agency. Here and there across the of course .are as dangerous
were members of the Com u- couptry. Rotary, i#Iwanis MW as oommur}ism, gift six
nisi underground. Mr. Welch , Lions Clubs have been as. tests which will fnabte Amer-
..Also 'has ' denounced eyery tounded:.b,' some. articulate, "leans to determine whether
? President since Roosevelt, iii- aggressive persons who took an organization advocates ex-.
eluding :7wight D. Steen- over the mict%phono at. the tremist doctrfne.
hower slid John Kennedy.:' ?conclysion of meetings end ? 1. Does the -organization
as dupes of, or members of brunched into a somewhat attack.chUr'chps and schools.'
the Communist conspiracy. wild, extreme denunciatiop with blanket accusations?..
Others of ]lee, prgminence of -local 'leaders. 'as Com- ... ?. Does it attack, other tra
and undisputed loyaltii were monists pT 'fellow travelers. ditional 'American inatltu-
bons ith wildr Ppo
equally slandered. . PTA groups have been thrown The more' extreme tollpw into disorder and confusion ' g Does It label everybna
ors of the late Senator J4 by similar' tactics. Va3trlts with whom it diaaareesruoliti?_'
i ciety with new direction. It 'eurpnise4 by. pet'sons dngaged modern ,history . py. b htir~g
folloIa4v who 'had' the pre- the ministers or church lead- communi m, ?dWpn ? &nd.
potterous hook withdrawn. era. ? . ' .. other world fl}s
They hope, according to the This is according to the so- 5. Does It rceatt to e '
best infortnatlon, to. 'take ciety's secret plan, which is ' pressure tactics ,?WCl.
over th' existing secret cells to mace. Amc{icana fear, one ? anonymous Phone eau. anxi
? .~ groupapbear V re.
aEid
in the-size oft money,
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."Apply 'rheas "el#efsbta," . fie
;aid, "and ?yoo?wt 'avold s -
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.tar-it in'i memierships with'
such; groups as the American
Waal Party; the Communists,
the, u l1ux Klan, the John
BIr&' Society,` the Cinema
Education 0ui14, the Muslims
an4_ others oI that type."