REVILO OLIVER, RIGHT-WINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600070008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 21, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Date::FED 2 :L 1934 `
Revilo Oliver
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paranoiac and so irresponsible that read-
ing something like the organization's
monthly magazine, "American Opinion,"
The February issue, however, is one
for the records. In it, Revile P. Oliver,
professor 'of classical languages at t h e
University of Illinois, writes about the
ship in Dallas," the article cones through
as, an attack on the late President Ken-
al Kenncdy, `"oe FBI, the 7usticeD'eart-
ment; and other such "Conig 1 I' oper-
'
ating in the Republic.
One of the explanations Oliver offers
jor the assassination is that it "was the
gnently occur within the management of.'
the Communist conspiracy, whose satraps
`:in-the Communist time-table fora donmes-
'tic take-over. Oliver goes on to' charge
subvert and sabotage the nation's defense;
Kennedy '11-cf-Castro to setup a fake in-
sination ,"may have been necessary as the
Right-Winger
ou e-
ferring national scandals so flagrant as to
shock the whole of our brainwashed and
hypnotized populace back to sanity . . ."
Oliver says more than this. Anyone who
can write this sort of drivel has to write
on and on until the demons are expunged.
But there is an interesting sidelight in
the case of Professor Oliver. Queried by'
reporters, other teachers at .Illinois said
Oliver was a remarkable scholar,' a first
rate teacher and one who never carried
his political opinions into a classroom. .
. . His fellow-teachers admit that his
quirk about commu ,ism in high places-
in the FBI and the CIA, for example=is
embarrassing, but if, certainly hasn't pre-
vented him from. being what a good
teacher is supposed to be.
So Professor 'Oliver-a virulent, slash-
ing right-winger when he. isn't teaching
Latin and classical Greek-joins a host of
other campus' 'eccentrics behind the pro- f
tective shield of the academic community.
We can argue with Oliver's ideas and his
way of expressing them, but not with the
right of his college to protect him.
In another society, even in liberal but
libel-conscious Great;` Britain, Professor
Oliver probably would have been silenced
a long time ago. In this nation, which he
believes is controlled by Communists and
populated with "brainwashed and hypno=
tined" people, he's a free agent.
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