SLAIN RIGHTS WORKERS CALLED 'COCKROACHES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600070004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 25, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Date:
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AUG 251064
By ERIC CAVALIERO
'[he three civil rights wor
rs killed in the Deep South thi
ummer were "cockroaches wh
rawled into the State of Mis
issippi to incite violence," D
evilo P. Oliver said here las
ight.
The professor of. classics a
he University of Illinois and n
tonal council member of th
Tohn Birch Society told a Tue
on Press Club forum:
"Pm truly astonished at th
mount of excitement this ha
ecasioned. I noticed 'in Wash
ntton a white woman was rape.
bile praying in her horn
.porch, but t don't hear on
eep of indignation from th
iherals.
"Pm: not , sure who kille
.hose people _'in Mississippi," h
idded. "I strongly suspect tha
the murder may have followe
r coinnion Communist' patter
hey either do the work the
elves or get someone else to d
t for them.
"THOSE PEOPLE are no
ntitled to one-tenth of the con
ideration or sympathy the
rave a roused."
He described the John Bire
society as "a patriotic organs
ration whose principal funct.iu
s to educate the American pe
le , . . we are trying to dis
ribute information that is no
etting out in other channels.
"We are trying to call peo
de's attention to significan
vents of which they have neve
heard," he added, "as well a -
hose they have heard but for
otten." I
Oliver quoted a newspaper r
CPYRGHT
FOIAb3b
Day. Revilo OLiver
port which suggested that Dal-
las police were ready to arrest
Lee Haivey Oswald and Jack
Ruby at the time.- that an as-
sassination attempt was made
on Mai. Gen. Edwin Walker.
. "THE STORY says they did
not carry it out, as they had
been told by a high official in
the Justice Department they
must not do so because it was
a matter of national interest,"
orkers
roaches' CPYRGH,
this official in such a way that
it could only be Bobby Sox Ken-
nedy."
. In a talk last night at Doolen
Junior High School, Oliver sug-
gested that if Communist plans
had not gone astray, we would
have had "a national Saturnalia
of legalized violence under cov-
er of which the -international
conspiracy could have gained
control of the whole nation."
-He received a standing ova-
tion from a near-capacity
crowd as he added:
"You may owe your life or
at least your liberty to the vigi-
la"rce and sagacity of . Officer
.1. D. Tippit, the policeman who
stopped Lee 'Harvey Oswald on
the street and was murdered by
the conspiracy's well-trained
but not infallible agent.
"It's easy to see what could
have happened had everything
;one smoothly in Dallas," he
;+dded. ';There could have been.
it complete breakdown of law
,urd order everywhere.
"The numerous vermin that
have been living for years in
ill-concealed anticipation of the
glorious day when they will be
able to hack Americans to
pieces could have started loot-
ing, burning and murdering."
OLIVER SAID Oswald had
been trained in Moscow and
assigned to Dallas. He would
have made his-escape after the
Perry Mason in "the television
series. He was able to recite
quite convincingly the lines writ-
ten by Salinger, Schlesinger and
other word twisters whom the.
taxpayers hire to confuse them.'.
"At times he sounded Ameri
can and made sense, and her.
seemed entirely credible untill
you realized how his achieve
ments differed from his an-
nounced intentions."
He said Kennedy's "well-re-
hearsed" funeral was "up to. the
technical standards of Cleopatra
and Ben Hur."
Oliver said a "Kennedy cult"
has grown up since the `assassi-
nation.
"I've received ? letters from
people who wanted to know how
it was possible for anyone to be
so debased as to criticize the
greatest man who ever lived,"
he said.
.He quoted a letter from a
man who called Oliver a "hate-
monger" and then threatened to
squash his eyes out. "That one's,
from a love monger," Oliver
said.
"The adoration of a semi-di-~
vine leader is an example of;
the socialist mentality," het
added.
"L I B E R A L intellectuals
stand on their heads 'and tell
you that the world is -upside]
down," he said. "Not one of
tkletl ever proposed or approved'
assassination, but for T.ippit'i anything that would bring $1 of
'
"adoration" for the late' Presi-
dent, Oliver said: "Jack Ken-
+' He cited the Central Intelli-
i.gence Agency as "a body
t'frfik`"!1dn' the_work of_ the So-
viet secret police for years."
Oliver's appearance here was)
sponsored by the American.,
b.Qpiuion Bookstore, 1695 N. Mag-
noli"R R - r
-- - -- 3 savage to wor`tt."
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profit to the American
people..
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too stupid, too lazy or too