SUPPORT OF LOCAL POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200190042-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: June 20, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 1999/09/07 :
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ROCKFORD, ILL.
e. 33,137
Front Edit I Wh.r
Page Pass Pogo
Date.- JUN t2 0 1964
Approved For
To the Editor: Commissioner Allen recent-~
ly tore from the wall of the Police Depart-
ment a pamphlet entitled "Support Your Lo-
cal Police". Witin a week, what is explained
in the pamphlet hit home. The cry of police`
brutality and two fine officers being sued.
Good people now cry brutality, because it is
the thing to do, not knowing we've been!
propagandized to the hilt.
Let me quote from testimony before the
enate IQiesnalrSc=ity Subcommittee, June;
13, 1961. Mr. Lyman B. Kirkpatrick Jr., in-'
pector general of the staff of the director of;
the CIA testified:
`Our police are among the foremost guar-,
fans of freedom and thus a major target ofr
he Communists. The better - the force, the
reater its efficiency, the higher its compe-
tence in preserving the peace, the, more vital)
it is for the Communists to destroy it."
Further he states: "The Communists will
exert every effort to prevent the development
f a strong police force. They will pose as'
uper-patriots and ruthlessly slander those
ho oppose. them."
Our police force in Rockford is one of the
finest any place around, that is why they are
Bing torn apart, hissed, booed. The fine peo-
le of Rockford should stand up for our po
ice force, urge the commissioners to do
ikewise. Then praise the commissioners when
they support our police force. Some ~Ieople
'
will say, well, he
s one of those supercoi
ative hate-mongers. I would suggest you
to a very good anti-Communist yet
Democratic senator, Thomas Dodd
,
hearings entitled, "A Communist P?Jo{
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