RED CAMPAIGN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300410006-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 18, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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SUNDAY 195,648
Red Campaign
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"An insidious, Moscow-fed campaign to bleed
the life out of anti-communism in America is now
beginning to pay off, Within t vast year it has THE PRIMARY Red target, the author says, is
created such a climate of distrust arid . confusion the P e n t ago n. When it was revealed that
that scores of reputable anti-Communist authors- General Walker was a member of the Birch So-
ties find themselves tainted, suspect, under vicious `ciety, that provided their opening wedge. And it
attack." was "enough to set some of our most influential
4newspapers off on a chase to show, with slim
So begins an important article..-An the May pickings for proof, that numerous officers were
Reader's Digest, written by a former C Officer indoctrinating their commands and the civilian
who now is deputy director of the University of with Birch-type theories." In the midst
Pennsylvania's famed Foreign Policy Research population tar-
which often missed the main tar-
of the shooting
,
Institute. Instead of removing the cause of frus-tration on which the extreme movements in the get and strafed legitimate anti-Communists and
U.S. feed - frustration that arises from "years educational Seng J. William Fulbright dispatched
of confusion, contradiction and empty posturing association,. a ,,,P,,,,, to the Pentagon castigating the Seminar
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sm"-some of our hi`hest officials are attacking b st st V e en . "bout.-.0
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atements about communism and leading to can-
Sxperts on the Communss challenge. cellation of seminars on communism.
As a result, says Professor William Kintner, "a Unless the American people can realistically
deplorable set of double standards has developed, "
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Persons who voice anti-Communist thoughts are Kintner says, the Kremlin will watch its plan 'to
reprimanded, while those who plead accommoda- paralyze us succeed, as we divide into a bitter
r
tion are rarely rebuked.
civil war of words that will wreck national unit
'EXCEPT FOR a tendency to lump John Birch.
Society members -'as distinct from the more
4'idely quoted statements of its founder into the
extremist category (and thereby ignoring a report
to the Fund for. the Republic which said, "The;
John Birch Society chapters include respectable{
community leaders and solid citizens who feel
that the basic doctrines if not the fringe issues of
the right-wing coincide with ' ffieir own"), Kint-;
per's article is both accurate and revealing. Its
describes the 1960 meeting of- 81 Communist chief-
tains who, after huddling for almost a month, is-
sued a startling manifesto describing the anti
Communist movement as "the principal ideologi
cal weapon'." of Communist opponents, and called'
on Communists around the,. world ,to participate
in "exposing anti-communism,"
On Jan, 6, 1961, Kintner says,'1hrushchev sum
moned before him the communism's psy-
c'hological - warfare experts and told them the
rising anti-Communist movement had to be de-
stroyed,, and he stressed the "necessity of estab-
lishing contacts with those circles of the bour-
geoisie which gravitate toward' pacifism." As
defector 1V1V C 1,c}3mir -,Petrov and CIA ~yjq
agents testified, dossiers in Moscow's espionage
,_
pecting persons in t e who might do the
Kremlin's work fox _fitical` leaders of the 'ex
treme T6 t who ipig t or a^made-in=Moscow
line, for ultra-liberal, n e who would ;inno-
citly echo Red,.-inspire nter :relations. And
finally, the Kremlin experts on America screened
conservatives, singling 'out e*trenists whose
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