'COLD WAR COLLEGE' TRAINS HUNDREDS

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By BRIAN KELLY ter four years ago purchased the tionaries is scheduled to be pub.
Star staff Writer estate
built by the late Texas lished next year
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BOSTON, Va - Generals newspaper publisher Charles Fisher' said that lack of money
dressed in subdued mufti, for- Marsh in 1934, for some $285.000.. and demands of such projects as
,mer Communists, student lead- " Another $200,000 wits spent for the revolutionary study have'
ers, a Cuban who taught Fidel refurbishments, including the kept the Cold War college from
Castro, educators, writers, in- ,fiioo,ooo conference room in getting, "as high off the ground
dustrialists, political figures - what used to be the garage. as we would like."
all have discussed revolution 1That facility seats 35 persons "But we're still headed in the
,and communist dreams of cm- at table-desks and more than 60 direction of a training center,"
.pire in a luxurious stone man- in auditorium fashion, and.
re in recent monthshs. ~ he said, with plans now under'
sfon A here plot? recent mont. cit-boasts an elaborate pr.?ojection,I way for a $12 million fund drive.
adel? A secret CIA sanctuary? room with tape recording equip- "The way things are going
Actually the Freedom Studies ment and audio-visual projectors now, there should be in five
,Center here is none of these. for visiting lecturers. years'^ a private version of the
Fanancial backers of the proj- Freedom At&aemy, as 4. eet
3 Years old out tq' do it. ,'
ect include many names well)
Now three years old and still known amog the nation's social
,offering only short seminars, the and corporate registres.
Freedom Center remains the More than 1,300'pcrsons at-
!base for what may be America's tended the center's dedication in'
"West Point" of the Cold War. IN'6, where they were addressed
It is operated in a 24-room ga-?l)y ome 30 speakers, including
bled and chimneyed fieldstone Sen. Harry F. Byrd r. D-Va.
' mansion in this gently, rolling Since that *time, nearly 1,000
countryside. persons have studied commu-
John M. Fisher, 47, a former nism and related subjects at the
FBI agent and World War 11 center in brief seminars, usually
bomber pilot who directs the of three days. ?
center, said it fills a critical
need.
"Political Warfare"
Fisher said the participants
come from all walks of life, but
the objective is tp?reach "those
some position of: responsi
with
,
Noting that the Communist I bility."
world has an estimated 0,000 din one of. the'seminars, he not-
litical warfare schools, he said, ?
l , We found that three of
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ave a
oo
we
to teach how to fight what we
call the Cold War. Nowhere do
we teach experts for what they
(the Communists) call political
warfare."
But to the extent that any such
program is being carried out in
the United States, he added,
"This is it."
Fisher, an Ohio native, is pres-
them (participants) previously
had been members of the Com-
munist party."
Lecturers have included mem-
bers of Congress; a civilian-clad
Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
Army chief of staff and former
U.S. commander in Vietnam;
and Professor Hermino Portell-
Vila, who flunked a history stu-
ident and chief executive officer dent named Fidel Castro at the
V for both the broad-based Ameri University of Havana some
can Security Council and the years ago.
more scholarly Institute for "We will not accept anyone
American Strategy. The insti-who's active in an extremist or-
tute operates the Freedom gani7ation," , Fisher said. "We
Studies Center. represent the middle 95 percent'
While the center is the closest in America."
approximation in the country to He noted the center has been
a "Cold War college." its foun- "blasted" . by both liberal and
ders still aspire to a full campus conservative spokesmen and
.'here with classrooms, a library added with obvious pride, it
in Moscow.
Currently, Fisher 'said, the
center is focusing its attention
on.>fevolutionai ' trends-in Aoaer~,
tiny village whose landmarks'
consist of a roadside marker and
a combined post office, general
store and filling station.,
and research building and dor-
mitories for some 400 graduate
students.
The center's present facilities
are concentrated in the mansion
which adorns a 083-acre estate,
nine miles west of Culpeper and
a short distance from Boston, a
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