ROTARY HEARS BIRCH OFFICER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200820020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: November 14, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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dent Kennedy the right to cut tar
that congress had no authority, un
`der the constitution, to gi.P Press
Elie concluded with the ahsertlort
,:h Society favors, most, news-,
ern are opposed to."
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r. a.. "recently, anything the Johr`
this talk with the
statement that the "John Birch
Society wants to tight ngainmt God
Less Comruuolsm."
In answering questions following
his talk, Kelly said that itobeet
Welch, founder of the society, inade;
his charge that former' Presiden14
Ei'.enhower Is a tool of the .Com-
;:.unists in a 19:,4 manuscript and,
that this had no connection with"
the society itself. He rapi-ed newst
tapers for what he aileg+?d was dish
sorted reporting of the ravial riot!
:!,a to connection with the Meredith
in -Mississippi and declared`
I!,e '~hn lurch Society Is sotety:
,:atlonat organization and a
wuct, doe:> not' engar;e in politics.
the ;;, ;,titan coordinator of the.
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zf :r t ar. of the local notary Cluh
a...; their luncheon meeting
:.t raking on th='- subject. "Prin.
ii'?es and !,,elirfs of the John Birch
lety," 1LA-**;,rd i