CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100660008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 3, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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munist leaders of the Western Hemi- "Let us develop a consciousness that when what is actually taking place. Letlus quote
sphere. they touch one guerrilla, Lyndon Johnson, some more accurate press informations:
Here is a man who is openly boasting Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and Harold "Michigan: Negro outlaws engage federal
that he and his followers have engaged Wilson must pay the price," he said. "We are paratroopers, national guardsmen and police
to guerrilla warfare s United States, not waiting for them to kill us. We will move in guerrilla combat" .
to kill them first or rather, we are working ". . . an outbreak by roving bands of
and that he is even organizing more mil- towards that goal." Negro youths who spread destruction over
itallt guerrilla warriors throughout BANNED FROM BRITAIN Wide area of a business district and fanned
America. He presumably Included Wilson because out in residential areas. The rocktossing Ne-
Here is a man that openly and publicly the Home Office last week banned him from groes broke several hundred windows, set 11
announces that he and his followers will Britain. fires and looted several establishments"
organize a consciousness which would "One good thing about the Vietnam war (Grand Rapid, Mich.)
. 11
? ? a night of fire-bombing, looting, snip-
lead to the assassination of Lyndon B. is that the United States has taught its how
tug' and brick and bottle flinging
Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Robert Mc- to kill," Carmichael declared later. "Our to shot dear death . . . the
the city'sthat rg-
Namara. brothers returning from Vietnam are going est e gun n store tore was s broken Into looters s
to use that training well in the cities of the and looters
Mr. Speaker, If we are told by our
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seven shotguns and undeter-
United States."
Justice Department .that there are in- mined amount of ammunition" (Rochester,
sufficient grounds for the American au- Asked about the role of white people in N.Y.)
thorities to move effectively against the Negro struggle, Carmichael replied: "The ". . . Negroes burned two blocks of their
Stokely Carmichael, then I must Sa only whites we can use in our struggle are ghetto area, including homes, businesses, a
Y those who are ready to pick up guns with ? church and a school and exchanged gunfire
there is a sickening weakness in the legal us to destroy the capitalist 'system." with
structure of our great Republic. police" (Cambridge, Md.)
Asked about the possibility that he might "Roving bands of Negro youths stoned
I say this Nation should move against be assassinated, Carmichael said the U.S. cars and stores and burglarized some stores."
Stokely Carmichael and if he can, let him Central Igtelllgence Agency has interns- (Flint, Mich.)
exercise his American right of proper tional license to kill and If the CIA con- And now let us ask what all this has
defense. tinues to assassinate fighters and guerrillas, to do with the civil rights aspirations of
I am not at all persuaded by those who vengeance must be taken against Western the colored population.
would argue that to prosecute Car- leaders. The President stated quite explicitly In
inichael would be to make a martyr out "SOME WILL BE KILLED" his TV broadcast to the nation:
of him. "We are developing an International "Pillage, looting, murder and arson have
Such thinking is a total capitulation structure to combat the CIA," he said. nothing to do with civil rights. They are
"While developing that structure, some of criminal conduct
to treachery and perfidy, us will be killed, It is important for our "We will not tolerate lawlessness. We will
Nor, Mr. Speaker, am I persuaded by people around the world to know that if not endure violence. It matters not by whom
those who would argue that to try Car- we are killed, no matter what type of death, it is done or under what slogan or banner,
inichael would be to incite others to riot. the CIA has committed it, that the CIA 1 It will not be tolerated. This nation will
Such surrender of our responsibility responsible." do whatever is necessary to suppress and
under law and order is to capitulate to The State Department is making prepare punish those who engage in it."
mob rule. tions to revoke the passport of Carmichael It would not be. enough to state the facts
who came to Havana for the Communist about the latest disturbances and it would
? I believe that every legal means must dominated congress of the Organization o be also insufficient to condemn the insti-
be used to stop Carmichael and put him Latin American Solidarity. The Justice De gators and their followers. There is an urgent
him out of existence before we witness partment is also investigating the activitle need for the re-evaluation of the moral and
another major tragedy such as we saw in of the 26-year-old militant, a native o ethical standards of the people who are
Dallas in 1963. Trinidad who was raised in New York's Har- creating these unwarranted and senseless
Stokely Carmichael has committed all lem and the Bronx and is a naturalized U.S. conditions In our cities, damaging not only
of those acts which in the eyes of the citizen. the image of the country and at the same
law make him subject to a trial for tree- time undermining their own cause but they
son. The courage of this Republic will are also disregarding the rights and privileges
of other citizens.
be tested by the degree to which we will Frank Commentary on Causes and Cures The Republican opposition in Congress
move against this traitor, for Riots unfortunately undertook efforts to gain some
An Associated Press dispatch appear- political advantages of the existing chaos
ing in yesterday's Washington Star is EXTENSION OF REMARKS in big cities which might result in a dis-tortio
nce but one of a whole series of dispatched erallyn called the "hot esmmeaof what is gen-
which have come out of Havana quoting OF
There a "hot place' for any Carmichael as spreading his seeds of HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI pruring tis crisis both po apt-
treason. OF ILLINOIS ical parties have the same public respon-
The article follows: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sibility. If the Republican Coordinating
JOHNSON, AIDES THREATENED BY CARMICHAEL Committee charges that "the President has
HAVANA (AP),-Stokely Carmichael ca led Thursday, August 3, 1967 totally failed to recognize the problem" then
yesterday for Negro guerrilla uprisings in U.S. Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, much it should be stressed that numerous ab-
cities and made threats against President has been said and will be said about the ministration nj Co did e not Also one should
Johnson, British Prime Minister Harold Wil- causes and cures for the riots sweeping not support in Congress. Also one on
son and other high U.S. officials. ot forget that the radial situation did not
Declaring that black power advocates "are the country. Too many of the comments suddenly become the problem under the
moving into urban guerrilla warfare In the I have read were not the frank and blunt Democratic President but that. It existed
United States," the militant Negro agitator commentary I believe is needed and during previous administration under the
told a three-hour news conference: would be appreciated by the public. Republican President, although It did not
"We have no alternative but to use aggres- Avery frank commentary, however, gain the urgent proportion of national crises.
sive armed violence in order to own the land,
po-
appeared in a column in the Polish When ponents, it might accusing d as the
houses
houses and stores Inside our communities, litical opponents, it might be judged as the
to conts the politics of those coin, American, written by its editor, Joseph opening salvo of the next year's presidential
Ind to c Bialasiewicz, who incidentally Is also ac- campaign, on the other hand, the Democrats
U.S. REPORTERS BARRED live in the Democrat Party's nationals- are answering correctly, as speaker McCor-
ties campaigns in Cook County, ill. mack commented, that "those who today
U.S. reporters were barred from the news While I do not concur with all of the speak piously of anarchy in the streets have
conference, but Carmichael's remarks were not hesitated to strike down some of the
quoted by Havana Radio, George Ware of the points expressed in this column I believe most progressive laws aimed at these prob-
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit- It to be one of the most direct and prat- isms."
tee, and Felix Greene, a British citizen re- tical articles that has come to my atten- The urgency of the Negro problem in this
porting for the San Francisco Chronicle, tion. The article follows: country calls for action based on realities
Carmichael declared that Negro guerrillas Press reports concerning the latest racial and not on political maneuvering. Emotional
"must develop a consciousness so that when outbreaks in various sections of the country approaches should be avoided because the
people who are struggling get killed, the re- contain some odd and curious linguistic futility of emotionalism, so much In evidence
taliation will be against the leaders of the terms-"uprising", "revolution", "upheaval" among the Negroes, brought about enough
West." -which do not reflect the true meaning of destructive and evil consequences.
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