'SOLDIERS' OF THE FAR RIGHT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300540003-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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Tli . Counter-Insurgency Council, Collins-
ville, Ill., once was in Minutemen, but with-
By BERNARD GAVZER
Norborne, Mo.
L ODAY LN the United States there are,
hundreds of people-perliaps thousands
who say they are ready at a minute's no-:
tice to take up arms as guerrillas.
They aren't really worried about Ai; inva
aiaa but a Communist take-over from with
in, without a foreign soldier so much as;
setting a too on American soil. I
These people-grocers, mechanics, sales-,
mren, laborers, shop owners, housewives
are theoretically action-ready. At the pro-
p'sr signal., they supposedly would be able)
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-Round up potential enemies. They al
ready have secret lists of "subversives"-
a classification which might Include tho
most ordinary citizen if, for example, he
was publicly known to support the United
Nations.
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drew. It is headed by Richard Lauchli,
right, seen at maneuver's before he left.
-Go underground and bear arms. This
could mean going into the trenches against
an Invasion force, but most likely being a
soldier in a guerrilla force opposing a
Communist take-over. '
-Assassinate Communist leaders or any
powerful figures v.?oi?king with Commtt=.l operating in the Los Ar~5 'E" metropolitan
lists. urea; the National Stale. ltiights Party,
-Form it erretaicer government (if vie- ~, Birmingham, Ala.; the Pahl Revero Asso-
toriorrs. ag,lnst insurrections) or an under- ' elated Yeomen, Inc., New Orleans, and the
ground rovelnrnent (a sort of government- Counter' Insurgency Council, Collinsville, Ill.
in- exile) until a constitutional government All da5cribe themselves as patriot groups.
could reestablish the United States as a These organizations have been dismissed
constitutional republic. by their critics as havens for malcontents.
Soldiers Of Tha Right ~ But to their supporters, these citizens are
7':, be able to do those things, they now the spiritual heirs of the men at Lexington
go on field :nt.ueuv a. have regular target and Concord-the citizen militamen of the
practice, cr,ilcct atr :;:s of weapons and; American Revolution,
F ' I k'igures as to strength, details as to ef-
ammunition, watch neighbors and stran-, fectiveness, information as to activities
pers n; 1i got inshuctica in such techni. are, difficult to-come by and open to ar-
cians an karate. gument.
t" esr :'ro thr, self-styled soldier!; of the
parau lilt ary right. Paramilitary means
they profess to be nonmilitary but never-
theless have an underlying military pat-
tern.
Fitting this description arc such organiz-
ations as the Minutemen, n itr headquarters
in ,Norborne, Mo.; the Ca.'iiornia Ran; rs,
aJ PlrCConti-sued'
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^.~ Approved For Release 2007/01/23: CIA-RDP88-01315R000300540003-0