FORMER AMERICAN FRST LEADER NOW COLD WAR PROMOTER WITH BIG BUSINESS, MILITARY TIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100270006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 21, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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)ter of? of a high sounding organization
tai in- ';can Stragety".. In March, 1955,
i tien t the Institute held its first public
sessions in CMcage.
In a three-day meeting co-
sponsored by the Society of
American Military, Engineers,
the Illinois Institute of Tech.
nology, the Chicago Association
of Commerce and Industry and
varied branches of the armed
forces. the first Military Industry
conference was born.
It has now. become an annual
E'cnt, sponsored and organized
,1y the Institute For American
Strateg .
But ~he ? timing of the birth
of the Institute. the personnel of
the board and the identity of sap.
porters have more than passhtg
interest. The ]LAS now steks to
pap itself off as a patriotic or-
ganization. and Is not too anxious
to have some of Its more sordid
connections brought: to light.
The Military-Industrial . con-
Ierenees and the American Se-
curity Council, reputed to 1)e
the nation's biggest' anti-labor
h,lackiist agency, were born with-
in mouths of each other. '
The top executive bodies of
i)nUh organizations read like a
in eilocking directorate. Among
1',e :up officers of the blacklist
:t ciiv who are on the boa
;,t the 'cold war Institute fo
tuncrican Strategy are!
Frank R. 'Barnett Of the
Richardson Foundation.'
!harry A. Bullis, formerly o
General Mills, Inc.
Jul of M. Fisher, Chief Secur
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ity officer of Sea:s Roebuch and
Chairman. of. the' Board of the
American Security Council.
Daniel teV Sullivan of Armour
Research Foundation.
General Robert E. Wood. re-
tired chairman of the Board of
Sears Roebuck.
GEN. WOOD'S ROLE
Mainspring for the formation
of both organizations was Gen.,-
Wood, who in his earlier years
.was the head of the isolationist
America First Committee. which,
had the'avowed support of anti-;
scmites, Nazi Bundists and self-,
proclaimed American Fascists. ;
After the America First fiasco;.
During which time Wood,. a for
mer - army quartermaster, be-?
came head-of of the -sears, Roe4
buick chain, little vas heardfrom hint for about a decade.
But ,le''did not rest on his red
actionary laurels. -.
Wood personally soliciiedt
membership: to the fledgling,
American Security Council. To'
run the affairs of this organiza-;
tion he `recruited much of Sears.
Roebuck's personnel. His chief;
of security,. former FBI agents'
the outfit. This has been docd
merited in past articles in The
Worker. - ? r;
NEW BUDDIES
Simu taneousll? the Institute' '
for Am rican Strategy was born.
But this time Wood would not
make the same mistake he made'
in the 1940s with the American
First Committee, it seemed. In.
stead of support from Gerald
L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin -
and others of this ilk, he sought
a new set of associat%s.
Military leaders, businen ty-
coons and, government omclals
were his new buddies. Gr1' tinge
were sent to the, confererl' es. by
President Eisenhower. erais-
such as Maxwell Tsy}or' !d to
speak there. Foreign ad-
dressed the gatherings.
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