OPERATION BRAINWASH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200770007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2000/04?T*`T ALR
by Ilton Lewis, J'r.
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This is 'about Operation Brainwash;
Sunday School children.
I have been'laboring. under the illu-
sion that Sunday School' is for the reli-
gious education and'instruction of our
youth. It was, when I was a youngster.
It was, when my children were growing up.
I'have at hand, however, a copy of
''Classmate," a weekly publication which
claim to be "prepared by the General
Board of Education of the Methodj.et
Church, through the 'Editorial Division,"
and another, entitled "Adult Student"
i'ro:m the same source. Both are current
:issues
VITRIOLICS TISTED
The former, directed to children,
features an article by one D. F. Fleming,
which is?.a twisted and vitriolic attack
on the late Senator Joe.McCarthy of Wis-
consin, accompanied by a newspaper car-
toon reprint portraying a dead dragon,
labelled "Extreme Reaction."
The World in the cartoon is asking
Uncle Sam, "Could we. put it down again,
should it rear its ugly head?"
The text says that while Senator Mc
Carthy is dead, his name will live long
in. American and world history, but only
because the cold war has created a national
hysteria which "he masterfully exploited."
It says our victory in World War II
was possible "only because of massive;
sustained comeback of the Russian armies
from Stalingrad." It says, also, that
the Russianms have continued to occupy the
Eastern European countries "to forestall
any future invaaions. frem the West."
VIOLENT'ENEMIES
Mr. Fleming quote,, authoritatively,
from Drew Pearson and Eric Sevareid,
probably tine two most violent enemies
NicC arthy had in the field of propaganda
"Never, at any time,* did M C. trtti.; ;LnC.rrp?
a Communist in the State i),par teen t, =,u {,
this fact was lost in the national hyster
The "hysteri ' cliche, a stand-lrti lime
of the anti-anti-Communists
, is dram.
It quotes the columnist Doris Fleeson
as making "the most penetrating comment
at the time of McCarthy's' death": "Men
.,and women will be judged for*a long time
by the oourage.and character they displayed
while McCarthyism seeped triumphant."
ARTICLE FCC ADULTS
This, you understand,. is in a Sunday
School magazine, distributed to children.
For those of more adult age, the same
author has an article in the other public,;-
tion, entitled "Why Peacemaking is Impera-
tive." You may be interested in the
following: ."Poland has gained a large
degree of real independence. Hungary,
tragically enough, has not, This was due
in part. to the false ' hopes, .planted in
Hungarian teenagers during years of broad--
casting by the Voice of America and Radio
Free Europe, particularly, the latter,l'
The fact is that Radio Free Europe is
playing the propaganda line that the way
to freedom is to adopt Tito-Communism.
Of Red China, he says: "It will pay us
well to speak to the Chinese before they
decide not to xec6gnize us -- even making
friends with the Soviet and Chinese
peoples is not enough. We are obliged to
go onto organize a?,functioning world
community with them."
ABOUT THE AUTHCR
What this has to do with Sunday School:
I fail to understand, but I have made some
inquiries about the author.
The magazines describe him as a
"leading political scientist" who'"anal?-
ysea recent trends in foreign relations
and comes tip with an answers wage peace.
before it is. too late."
The, fact is, he is' a research profet~-
eor of political bcience . at Vanderbilt.
University in'Naehvi.ll.e, Tench., Who 1,.i;.
been a liberal there for some 20 yoar
He fancies himself a great intelle^ t., ?i?L.i
his biography in W1,61 s Who is rep1 e `.e WL'
listings of Fie hI sc1 i of wt i.c:: lIe
was principal before he latched en'~c
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