BIRCH ARTICLE ON KENNEDY HELD WORSE NOT BETTER THAN REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700180034-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: March 26, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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4'rch Article On, Kennedy Held
Worse, Not Bei*;ter, Than Report
To The Editor: cials around somewhere) that
In a recent letter I. IT. the Conspiracy controls a large
Schaumber accused The Daily part of our communications
Item of distorting and quoting n e t w o r k; that Earl Warren
out of content an article in ", ..spends his 'vacations with
American Opinion by R. P. Oli- Little Comrade Tito in Yugo-
ver. Instead of telling us what slavia or with Big Comrade
the article really said he juggles Khruschev in the Crimea...";
a few quotations of his own to that Kennedy installed McNa.
show that the article is not as mara in the Pentagon to demor-. .
bad as suggested by the Item. aline and subvert our armed
lie thinks )its version proves forces, and that the C.I.A. .was
that the Birch Society is not de- helped by the Soviet secret po-
faming anyone. lice to carry out murders in
Come on, now, Mr. S., you're South Vietnam,
not doing your homework, Why . Throughout the article no
leavOO it to us "dupes of con- proof is offered for any of the
racked" to tell what the article contentions. This is the essence
re illy said? of defamation: "The wrong in-
Could it be that you find it? juring of another's' reputation
just a little too ridiculous to de- "without: good reason or proof."
lent: without resorting to distor. Mr. Schaumber's bucket of
tions, abbreviated quotations whitewash would have to go a
and it general whitewash job? long way' to make this article
1 The article states that there into recognizable r'iitical com-
are only three explanations of mentary.
the assassination that are not Many' people take pains to
preposterous. p
1-"Kennedy was executed by ase just a patriotic anti-Con inu
the Comm . fist. conspiracy be- rust organi ation. A dip into. its
rNose ,,? w,ls planning to turn ",(,r literature will soon dispel that
1mc; lean. ~thiy comforting illusion. Their's is a strange, in-
.hypol hesis there is no evidence verted world where the a h iots
now known,' Welch 2-"Ithrushchev and Kennedy' are people like d the p envies
were planning to stage a fake a McCarthy and the enemies
revolt to unseat C a s t r 9-so a re re Warren, Kennedy and 11Tc
" .arranger! the assassination Namara.
of Jack in the hope of averting If a world like that ever come.
or at ]oast postponing his own," to be accepted in the U.S., one
3-"Tlit the Conspiracy or- may conceivably be forgiven if
tiered the assassination as part one is tempted to take a vacs.
of a systematic preparation for Lion with Earl Warren and per-
baps take a stroll dolt n the Cri
a domestic.. takeover." Kennedy
was not doing the work of the men with "Big Comrade Mims-.
Conspiracy fast enough. He was the . rather than ;Tali: gown;
becoming a liability because ]its the path of babbling Sl,iiety
popularity was beginning to slip tty with the John Birch `e eace.
and..."the vast cesspool in for there willibe.little wffe,?e
Washington was beginning to WILLIAM J. FASOLENO to
leak badly:" The Communists 252, Irenhyl Ave..)
t killed him because they felt he Port Chester,
was becoming useless to them.
This fantastic article also In thoredit oafs moll readers eLCtiets ,,'oust
forms us "boobs" (f-e., those Of be signed and bear the address.' of the
us who still innocently believe may, ~be omitted ~whenaDublished It rthe
that there are some non-Con writer so desires letters should l~o briar
munlst State Department offs and concern matters of aenero Inter
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