NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON BY JOHN A. STORMER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 13, 1964
• Content Type: MF

MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director/ Comptroller
SUBJECT
None Dare Call It Treason by
John A. Stormer
1. This memorandum is for your information only and serves
to call to your attention a book called None Dare Call It Treason by
John A. Stormer (Florissant. Missouri: Liberty Bell Press, 1964).
2. This is a 75d paperback which appears to be circulated
by the John Birch group. It is a far right publication which reflects
a great deal of Congressional testimony (House Committee on Un-
American Activities and Senate Internal Security Subcommittee).
The publications cited in the book's list of recommended reading
(p. 254) are those usually available in right-win; anti-Communist
bookstores. If the figures in the 12th printing of this book are correct,
1, 800, 000 copies have been printed.
3. A reading of the data about the author contained in the book
indicates that he is a johnny-come-lately in the study of Communism,
having commenced about four years ago. He was the editor of an
electrical magazine before resigning to devote full time to conserva-
tive anti-Communist activities. Stormer was in the Air Force during
Korea as a historian. He is chairman of the Missouri Federation of
Young Republicans and a member of the Republican State Committee
of Missouri.
4. None Dare Call It Treason contains. few references to CIA.
At pages 57 to 60 there is a brief discussion of the Cuban. invasion of
1961; absence of air cover is one of the cited factors in the failure of
the invasion. Stormer then quotes two articles by newspaper 'columnist,,
Edith Roosevelt, to the effect that CIA created a "near impossible,
supply problem" by supplying invasion forces with weapons requiring
over 30 different types of ammunition; and that the CIA supplied the
wrong ammunition for some of the weapons (p. 53). The St. Louis
Post Dispatch is quoted to the affect that Radio SWAN, "the CIA's
mysterious short wave broadcast's tation which blankets the Caribbean"
failed to broadcast pro-arranged signals with the underground (p. 59).
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