NEW 'RIGHTIST' ORGANIZER

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000300300019-2
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RIPPUB
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1
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November 16, 2016
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March 30, 2000
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19
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March 28, 1962
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NSPR
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4 Approved Fthi elease 2000/05/05: CIA-RDP75-Qfll New 'Rightist' Organizer By Peter Lason nthat the li l' elnariona Mr. Hunter says e as g sional committees inveS utig income from ba o His te most tSerecent claim to;fa is nate Internal Securitytsub-cosmmittee last uly- consultant's feestis not sufficient to carry royalties, expels"O. cl which sparked the probe of muZsling military officers' Before the fast formal meeting of his con, mitt O. speeches by Pentagon and State Department censors. scheduled for Jude. he hoprs to har ady h tr1?'' He mo%c'd to this area several months ago, with some mates nt what it will cost to operale and roc'an.rn- misgivings. IIe says it is the first world crisis h, has not f,~. the sihpctxls ro be lr,ud a permanenr s- 111. After interviewing Ai r&fican prisoners of war released At the recent meeting here of 100 representatnes 1 1 by the Chinese comm1bAM in the Korean War he wrote rigl;ti organizations, Mr. Hunter was given the job of two books, "Brain-Wag in Red China" and "Brag- naming the new Committee for the Co-Ordination of Con- Washing: The Sto "` Men Who Defied Itt Ti servative Effort. He intends to select members from the revealed the Red for e f POWs and served as the basis top 200 out of the total of 2000 right-wing organizations and for indoctrination cour =to prepare American military leaders. He has no idea now how large his permanent personnel for commufstituelties under captivity. committee will be. After returning frotC 1last overseas stint in Afghan- His idea is that he will establish no office of his own, right like v ing intan three years ago, Hunter says sentiment shad taken other a change a his country. Antic i growing. Hedec decided to work- usethleafacilit eslloftsomeaof Chet 5011 or more would t with this s movement rootsovement a anand g became a gres groups that have their national headquarters or offices here. with to con? g 1 communism h h been iven no money with which ' e on psyc escr o odist. He ices fojgxuniler of C A Was a consultan t~ aI warfare du after the Korean War. Perhaps He married a White Russian refugee, the former Tatiana his greatest claim to `s that he put the term "brain- Pestrikoff, in 1932.. Their son served three years in the washing" into the Enl 1tJ language. Marines. fon ng THE man picked to organize the new right- covered at the front. But he has a fee wing Committee for the Co-Ordination of next "war" may be to save the United States from co~u- Conservative Effort is 1 and uner. He munism and that many of the battles will be fought here 0 o fnrmnr Now York.- NewaTIK!, Or- in Washington. f or- leans and Philadelphia newspaperman, eign correspondent. lecturer and author of half a dozen books on international commu- nism. -- tie Iles iieu ?v N.,.i.. ...... ........'a? -- --- . experience in American anti-communist organizations. He headed a national committee which cleaned the commies out of the -American Newspaper Guild. As a war corresponaent ne coveieu --, advance into the Rhineland, the Japanese Mr. Hunter is 60. of medium height and build, with a conquest '61' Manchuria, Spanish civil war, writer's rounded shoulders and quick movements. He speaks nest of Ethiopia. In World War with energy and dedication. He is a high school graduate, hZeth- on li , an c Ita he tegic Serf c described in Who's Who as self-educated. e is a II in the QJfice.p,. St a s himself as an old-fashioned liberal." h ib d t Approved For Release 2000/05/05 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000300300019-2