WILL COMMUNISM PLAY ROLE IN CAMPAIGN?

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130057-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: September 6, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

BUTTE MONTANA S E F 6 1956
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presidential campaign. But several
things have happened which may
bring the subject up for debate.
One of the mostsignificant develop-
ments seems to be the warning of Al-
len W. Dulles, director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, that the' Com-
munists, r by subversion and cajolery,
seek to do everything that they can
to see to it that free governments
shall perish from the face of the earth
and that they have already made con-
siderable progress in this direction,
chiefly in Italy, France and Indonesia.
The questions naturally Will be
asked: what ate the Communists doing
n' the United States and , what is the
nited'. States doing to' thwart the
arxists? The Reds would like noth-
ng better than to be left;, alone so
hey could proceed with: their under-
round activities unmolested.
There has been recent activity on
he security front, but it has hot been
idely publicized.
For one thing, President Eisenhower
ppointed Mrs. Dorothy McCullough
,ee, former mayor of Portland, Ore.,
o be a member of the Subversive
ctivities Control Board, replacing
airy P. Cain, farmer Republican
enator from Washington who was
harply critical of the administration's
mploye security program.
Mr. Cain concluded his active serv-
e as a member of the board by hand-
g down a. recommendation that the
ACB require the Washington Pension
pion to register as' a Communist
ont organization. Thy Washington
enaion union has beeh under scru-
ny for almost ten years and it is said
at its 'influence toddy is almost nil.
o the ruling may be said to have
me too late.
CPYRGHT
The board presently has under con-
sideration the case of the Communist
se . e .ommums party was
directed to register with the Attorney
General in a decision handed down in
the case to the courts and last April
won a Supreme Court decision direct-
ing the SACB to reappraise the testi-
mony of three government witnesses
who had been accused of perjury. Re-
cently the board made public its de-
cision to expunge from the record
the challenged testimony, but denied
the Communist party's motion' to re-
open the hearings for the taking of
additional evidence.
The record is under review at pres-
ent to determine if the board's initial
finding is justified by the remaining
evidence.
There are''ll other Commuinst front
cases before the Subversive Activities
Control Board, one of the keystones
in the Communist control act of 1954.
On another front Attorney General
Herbert Brownell Jr., is said to have
under intensive study possible new
presidential orders to bolster the se-
eurity_pfogram following the Supreme
Court's ruling that"the security pro-
ram could not cover non-sensiti*
government jobs.
A number of bills were introduced
in the rrcerat session of congress to
reverse the decision, but none of them
achieved passage.
There is the c ge that under pres-
ent conditio,s tl government is re-
ri wired to hire C mmunists. This situ-
ation does nqs sit well in the minds of
nenple who know that the Commu-
nists are bent on destroying free
governments wherever they may be.
A well known fundamental of free-
dom as quoted by Rep. Francis E.
Valter, chaitnan of the House calm-
:ittee oh 'dun-American activities,
.fight well to recalled by all Amerl-
ins. It is that liberty cannot embrace
isloyalty and still endure.
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