'ARTISTS PROTEST' -- A FAMILIAR SOUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101360001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 6, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'By WILLIAM V. BUCKLEY JR.
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E ARE SEEING the. revival.; God help us.; of thet.
Communist front' type of organization, .that
:- sneaky deyice by Which the gullible were gulled dur- .;
lug 1930's .and the 1940't into lending. their influence j .
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to, help the Communists conceal a truth. : . , ...I .?
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,..; It was primarily through front organizations?thaq
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1:nocence of Stalin's purge trials, al-
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il the Marshall Plan, suggesting it was
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. t: 'the creation of warmongers; that
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they sought to destroy investigating
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? %.committees of Congress, denouncing
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them as instruments for, the harass-
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the publicity given during the 50's.
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.to the operation's of front groups
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would have Made wise men wary. j
' t.i Perhaps wise men ARE now wary?in Which case we 1
. i'. must deduce the-tuzysisdom ?of the poor preposterous
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v ads a wand ith'e7.ctrUntry, urging a. denunciation of,!.?...:,.
i President Johnson's foreign policy. .' ? ,
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1.? - i:definition, tlie job? is not easy. If. it were Instantly;
. ,, 'recognizable as such, the whole point of the thing' : ?
. - would be lost. By definition, a front desires respect-!; '.
r ability; desires to conceal the truth it is engaged in ?1
concealing by leeching on to the prestige of ,peoplel
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Apart from the obvious fact that the goals will be c
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I' to look for in political manifestoes that touch on't ;,.:.:?
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. [Points Of friction between East and West is any trace 1.dozen-odd who used to do the same kind of thing wayl,
./. of anti-communism. It is almost uniformly the case back in the 30's:presenting excuses for every act of' .
r?that no Communist front will criticize any word,!' Comniunist aggression. Finally, the fresh bunch of:
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t? . . :stance that of 'the critic Dwight Macdonald, who; ..1:??:':
"Artists Protest" did not begin its manifesto by ; wrote a book on tile Practices'of "the, Stalinoids",when':
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"saying: "There is no doubting that the peace of South- i he 'denounced the candidacy of Henry Wallace back.: ?
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.east Asia is primarily threatened by Communist Mir i in 1947; and falls into exactly the 'same ambush hos
i'perialism, and that unspeakable atrocities have been i useo to criticize others so scorchingly for falling into.3
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: t committed by Communist-armed and Communist- ,The organizing' secretary of the committee has been.,
1, guided guerrillas ? in South Viet Nam?however, the; identified under oath as a Communist. ? .
United States cannot fight a successful war in that., One' of the signers of this traVesty,. Mr. Victor;
part of the world ... ,1 etc., etc. . . .'Perlo, was, according to sworn testimony, the active:
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Not.a,,wordp-notk a single Word in the 'manifesto' leader, at one point in American history, of a Com inti.i; .,.
'of l)Ai.tists Protest" denouncing the foreign policy of 'rust espionage ring. Another, Professor Paul Sweezy, ? .
thelqarialtilarzLebut our' own foreign policy Is 'announced at a public debate a week or so ago that he
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- signets of the manifesto. My eye is by now unpracticed All in all?quite a gathering --;. of Communists,': ? ,? .:' ?`?
'. at remembering anything like the names of everyone dupes and eccentrics whose present activity is justimi
;identified after painful and exhaustive investigation, ;flably interpreted, both abroad and at home, as rep.; ? , ..
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