OBSCURE DISARMAMENT GROUP IS MADE POLITICAL ISSUE IN WEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200270001-6
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 26, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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OCT 2 '6 19E4
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? By Julius Duscha
Stiff Reporter
!" 'SALT' LAKE 'CITY, Oct. 251'
.An obscure organization'
'founded by one of the world's:
greatest nuclear physicists is
playing a controversial politi-
teal. role in 'four Western
states.
sarm.lme t ro
olitical Issue in -.est
Dirty Word In Campaigns
Despite the overwhelming'
acceptance of the 1963 test.-.:
ban treaty in the West, as else-
where in, the country, disarma-
inent.is a a-ay wOrd-rtnniliti:
cal campaigns.
The .word disarmament means jobs in the Mountain.
seems to have become the States, In Utah, Sen. Moss .is
1964 successor in the lexicon being hurt by a putback In
of the political right to the: missile production that re-'
"soft-on-communism" charges
suited in the, loss of 6000 jobs
of ? the McCarthy era of a
decade or more ago. in the last two years. In
In a statement 'inserted in! Wyoming .Sen. Medee con-
the Congressional Record ear-; stantly refers to the missile
her this month Sen. Milwar& base he claims to have
L. Simpson (R-Wyo.) called
the Council for a Livable, brought to the state's capital
World "a secret political or-: city of Cheyenne.
ganization with a satchel full Members Are Scholars
of money."
Most of the members of the
The Simpson statement
charged that the Council ad_ Council are "' scientists,. edu-,
vocatea "unilateral disarma- eators 'and scholars. Szilard,
ment, stripping the United., a Hungarian who lived in Ger-
States of its muscle, turning Imany, ? came to the United
this country into a fourth-rate States after the Nazi.dictator-'
power at the mercy of the in- ship assumed, power in Ger%
ternational wolfpack." many in the 1930s. . He was'
The statement also said one of the pioneer nuclear
that the, Council is deliberate- physicists who' persuaded Al..
partucuuarlY true in the?after-
math of the recent changes in
the leadership of the Soviet
Union and the explosion of a
nuclear device by Communist,
China.
AndA
the defense programl
The organization Is called
the Council for a Livable
World. It was started?in 1962
by 'physicist Leo Szllard who
died last June.
Szilard conceived of the
Council, which claims a mem.
bership of 2500, as a political
Wee to help bring about
"worldwide disarmament.
He decided that the way to
do this was to help elect Sena-
tors who would work for the
Council's disarmament goals.
Two years ago the members
of the Council contributed
funds to seven senatorial can-
didates.
McGovern Aided
Their greatest sucess in 1962
Was in South Dakota where
ly coneentratin
g its efforts in bert Einstein to write his
let-:
1 i
Democratic Sen. George Mc- thinly populated states "where', ter to President Roosevelt
Govern received $22,000 from a political buck packs a big-; urging the United States to:
the?CO-uncil?a fourth of his ger punch."' ;try to develop an atomic
bomb..
total campaign funds. McGov-, Council Denies Charge ? . William Doering, professor
ern won by only 597 votes.. He
Despite words? of praise
Is a critic of waste in defense, the "i Cmincil by President
spending and an advocate ofiJohnson'.and denials by Coun-
planning for disarmament. cil officials that it backs uni-
of chemistry and director of
the Division of Science at
Yale University, is' now chair-
man of the Council for?a
This year the Council has.
lateral disarmament, charges able World's board of diree-
asked its members to concern tors,:
.rsuch :as those. made in Sen. ?
trate on the campaigns of Sen.! Simpson's statement are hurt-
Frank E. Moss in Utah ancl; ing the Western Democrats:
being ? supported be the Colin;
Gale W. McGee in Wyoming,t
senatorial candidate Joseph irs?
members. ' ?
M
ontoya in New MeXico ,and -Political contributions to
Rep. Ralph R. Harding In
candid:ilea of both parties
.
Idaho. All are Democrats. i frequently cross state lines,
? The Council is interested tibut it:is always a good issue:
n
Harding's reelection to the to charge, particularly in the
House because 'of his plans to insular Mountain States, that
run for the Senate in 1966. !a man's campaign is being
\f'' Council' from' back East. .
Sen. Quentin Burdick /financed . by .the bad guys
N. D.) was on the Counc
original;list for help this year., The Mountain States are
But after the. Council came also quite conservative?there
-under sharp
criticism from has ,been much activity by',-
conservatives, 'Burdick re- right-wing extremists in these!
awned to the Council $14,00.0 states?and suggestions for,
contributed' to his _campaign any kind of disarmament are{
by its members.. ,. .generally _suspect. Ili's' Is!
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