SPOOK-HUNTING IN THE BOSTON POLICE DEPT.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100200042-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: April 30, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Vin McLellan National Student Association in facets of American government,
A prove,) of uncertain origin
promises that if you go far the C)s, Kiley had accepted CIA all international organizations,
enough to tine political Lc?ft you money and allowed the NSA to the "notorious Boston Globe,,"
merge with the Right, and the be used as a front. After his the British government. "Boston
road hack is simply another loop tenure, he joined the CIA, and CIA radical rag, The Real
on the -rand circle. That managed the NSA infiltration Paper."
proposition is hooked for a rare project. After that was brought Boston Labor Committee
validation hearing at 10 a.m. out in a 1967 press expose, he spokesman Joe McDonough said
Tuesday in Boston City Council disappeared for a while, then re- the NCLC convinced Councilor
Chambers when Councilor emerged as special assistant to O'Neill to hold the hearing about
"Dapper" O'Neill opens a hear- CIA director Richard Helms. He a month and a half ago when
ing on CIA infiltration of the moved from that post to the they met him while they were
Boston Police, a probe into the Police Foundation and then to preaching their doctrines as a
backgrounds of key figures in the Boston City Hall. Dorchester anti-busing meeting.
new reform police administra- As in most new unions, the t,, "He heard us talking about
Lion. BPPA was as outspoken in its Kiley and the CIA connections
Booked for the premiere are politics as in its contract through the LEAA (Law En-
two of the oddest bedfellows ever squabbles. And Boston's unique forcement Assistance Ad-
to trill the same song. From the situation of having the majority ministration-the federal
Right, there will be the ultra- of the patrol officers nearing police funding program) and he
conservative Boston Police retirement (the oldest police came up and asked us what we
Patrolmen's Association (BPPA) roster in the nation) combined knew about Kiley, diGrazia and
who daliv with the John Birch with the profession's law-n-order all the rest of them."
Society vision of the "liberals" conservativism to produce an
Councilor O'Neill remembers
engineering a Commie takeover. unusually reactionary voice in diufncent] He said he had
And from the Left, there will the BPPA. Politics then blended it y
be the National Caucus of Labor with simple fear of the reformers already filed an order for the in
Committees (NCLC), a proto- to make White-Kiley-diGrazia vestigation when he was ap-
Marxist group which is trying to, and their agents in the depart- proached by the NCLC. "They
save the world (including meat the mortal enemies of he said, `W e see you re going to hold
Boston) from a Rockefeller-CIA BPPA. hearings.' I said, `What's it got to
putsch so that they can rule it The key civilian staff do with you?' And they said they
h know more about Kiley, Wasser-
t
of the blatant corruption. With the patrolmen and the immediate focal point of the
In fairness, the BPPA's superior officers having to bow most decisive battle in the
resistance may well be to the - and obey the Kiley-diGrazia history of North American
manner of reform as much as to civilians, with the 911-box cor- politics.,,
effect, but the fact is the' ruption drive, with the wholesale
patrolmen's group has been on demotions and forced NCLC New Solidarity
the defensive since the new Com- resignations of many middle and newspaper: "The Labor Party'
missioner was brought in from top echelon officers, "It's just not will give first and repeated
Missouri in Nov. 1972. And none the same old department," testimony in these crucially im-
of the diGrazia tactics has irked moans the councilor. "The portant hearings ...(NCLC) has
the BPPA more than the general morale is gone." the goods on the LEAA's ongoing
shake-up of the department Enter the National Caucus of takeover of Boston City Govern-
,hierarchy and the importation of Labor Committees-although ment and the CIA - and
civilian official., from outside the how is a matter of some dispute everyone else in Boston - knows
department. to oversee right now. The NCLC is a it...
operations. fringe radical group that has "In every city, aggressive
.
for the hearing three weeks ago ministration; an
as another sally in the guerrilla Wasserman (recruit training and hearing if they had something to .If they (the CIA) can effec-
war he and the BPPA have been in-service education). Marx contribute. tively control all major police
waging against Police Com- came with diGrazia from the NCLC Bulletin No. 11: "At departments, they will have a
the request of Boston City-Coun- national police department,"
missioner Robert diGrazia s suburban St. Louis County cilor Albert "Dapper" O'Neill. attempt to drag the department police department, but the representatives of' (NCLC: argued BPPA Chairman Chester
kicking and screaming into the others are all veterans of Kiley's Brodrick last week. "It will be
19th century and clean out some Police Foundation. will be the first scheduled the same thing, right? And one
witnesses in (hearing that are)
tand
hi
h
within "three to five years. reform department nerarc y, anyone else; background. And
O'Neill, who has been the are Garry Hayes (operations), they'd like to be heard." O'Neill
BPPA's leading spokesman in ci- Mark Furstenburg (planning said he told them any c
d R bert O'Neill
ty government, entered the order and research), Philip Marx (ad- could testify before a public
e
properly after their revolution assistants to d1Grazna,
11 h h man and the rest of them than
seeking a new police cons- devoted to it "Marxist messiah"
missioner, he imported Deputy who calls himself Lyn Marcus
Mayor Robert Riley from the (see Phoenix, Jan. 29) and with
Ford-Foundation- Police one of the truly all-inclusive con-
Foundat.ion to direct, the search. spirucy theories. Not only is the
Riley was a Mr. Clean as for its Rockefeller CIA behind Riley
flirty inanev, hut with _a?nd the Boston Police, they also
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recreate the mass public
awareness.. .which made the
Boston hearings possible. All
sections of Boston's working
class are aware and angry about
'i he CIA boys' around Riley and
Ahemm. Yes. Well, the NCLC
habitually sees its role writ large.
Councilor O'Neill said he realiz-
ed his "beliefs in government in
the country are far from theirs"
and made it clear to. them that
he was "not going to listen to
them rant and rave about their
goddman political feelings.
"They will not bring signs in
and they will not talk about
fascism and Hitler and that
stuff." O'Neill said he plans to
go down the list, one two, three,
ask what they know about who
and send them away. (There
seems to be a minor conflict of
will shaping up between the
Councilor and his star witness.)
It was months before the
NCLC drew attention even from
the rad-lib community that the
Boston Police Patrolmen's
Association was republishing
John Birch Society literature in
their monthly newspaper New
Centurion charging that high-
ranking Nixon administration
"liberals" and "the radical
leadership of the great tax-
-exempt foundations" were
engaged in a "well-coordinated
conspiracy working to convert
the United States into a dic-
tatorship
,
s country can not s
ing t
t
neither the public nor the
policemen, is a national police
force.
"If they put CIA men in as
police chiefs controlling all the
major metropolitan police
torces...they've got enough right
there. This is something serious.
I don't want to wake up and find
some morning that we're all in
the same group."
Brodrick pointed to the brie:
furor in Congress last year afte,
N.Y. Congressman Edwarc
Koch pressed for an investiga
Lion of a N.Y. Times report t!:.:
the C1:1 had trained N.Y. polio
in intelligence analysis techni
ques. Both the Houk Govern
meet Operations Committee alit
the Special Subcommittee
Intelligence, traditional dei~: