YOUTH STILL IS RED TARGET, CIA AID TELLS CONFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200200024-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: April 13, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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auth Still Is Red Target,
CIA Aid Tells Conference
dents in high schools and colleges I not
have been prime targets for Com-
munist propaganda for more than
25 years, a meeting was told
here Wednesday, according to ,a
hica o Dail Tribt~n ppws story.
L, `mt i".. a rck in-
y $ Centratln-
ll~e envy (ICA) in
'l'ush- statement in ad-
dressing the national military, in-
dustrial and educational confer-
ence.
The newspaper
to say:
Communists have been adept
in twisting naturally liberal lean-
ings of teachers to their own
ends, i is said. He called
the ''t-erican col-
leges part of a world conspiracy
to shackle young minds and use
the normal "radicalism of youth"
as a Communist weapon.
Youth First Target
or, as in some instances,
aliciously carried o{zt.
the principal targets of Commu-
nist pressures and manipula-
tions."
"Every kind of study-political,
historical, economic and social-
is used to direct Communist prop-
aganda against the United
States," Kirkpatrick "'These
studies a in Soviet
controlled countries and by many
teachers in the United States al-
most wholly from the viewpoint
of the so-called class war."
He said many so-called interna-
tional unions of teachers " and un-
ions -of students, world, federa-
tions of "democratic -youth" and
world youth festivals are Commu-
nist front organizations. Among
these he listed is Friendship uni-
versity, which is seeking to at-
tract American students.'; for five-
; year, fully paid courses,
"Let there be no illusion that
the Communist efforts in the
schools will be confined to the
areas of the Red bloc," he con- t
tinued. "Throughout the world
there is. ample evidence that the
Communists are determined to
win the youth as the first step in
winning the world."
lark atrick, sai that Commu- isi o scools has been!
watched closely by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and quot-
ed J. Edgar Hoover, FBI direc-
tor, as saying: "Successful Com-
munist exploitation and manipu- {
lotion of youth and student groups
throughout the world represent
a major challenge which must
Gus Hall, general secretary of
the Communist party in the Unit-
ed States, was quoted as saying
on Jan. 20: "There is a mush-
rooming of Marxist and,S,ialist-
oriented groups on the campuses
in all parts of the? country. .
The party must give much high-
er priority for the work among,
youth in all fields of endeavor."
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