FBI LINKS REDS TO VIET 'SIT-INS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160060-4
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: May 2, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK
JOURNAL AMERICAN
Approved For Release 2000/09/08 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100160060-4
MAY .2
CPYRGHT
D.C.. CURRENT:
CPYRGHT
Off Uidis .Reds
Vii .. sit-ifus'
By MARIANNE, MEANS-
come so flagrant and so troublesome that se'veral""
congressmen are planning speeches revealing in de- i.
tall the extent.of the leftist activity.
Combating the, Communist efforts to weaken
LBJ's stand In South Viet Nam is a touchy busine~s
for the Administration. As the President said at his
press conference last week, he welcomes "honest,
forthright discussion" of his Viet Nam policy and he
ects "diff
rences of vie
s
" Th
Pr
sident know
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exp
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s
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that such public debates are vital to a democracy ,j
ASHINGTON: The latest intelligence reports to'
reach the White'House indicate that Hanoi is
confident the U. S. will soon be so embroiled in angry
squabbling about Viet Nam that President Johnson
'. will bow to home front political pressure and pull'
the U. S. out of Southeast Asia.
The Communists, of. course, are
''much too wily to leave such an iffy
development to chance.
The Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation has compiled evidence."wihich
Indicates the Communists are. con=
ducting a highly organized cam-
`.. paign to discredit government policy
on Viet Nam here, at home. The
chief weapon thus far appears to
be the publicity generated by the
picketing, sit-ins, and other demon-
strations of students who are willing
MEANS
.:or unwitting tools.
Communist agitators have been directly linked
(',with a number of student groups' Involved In the-
'sit-ins" outside the White House fence and the.
marches on the roadside beyond'the President's LB;,
Ranch, FBI investigations have uncovered, Com
munist backgrounds 'as. welt- among: a nuber of
student . demonstrators at the. University, of Cali ;;
u? fornia;, the University of Wisconsin and, elsewhere.
, ;,~ y;,Th comet nis_ testa)1rs olnr c hil us s~ ha~v Abe j
and he does not want to revive the-old witch-hunting ,
days of Senator Joseph McCarthy, when anybody
who disagreed with the powers that be was lndis-,r;
criminately labeled a Communist. . ', 11
These appears to be little the President himself .can do to stop student protests prompted by~Com-
munist agitators, except to pass the word that their
aim Is hopeless. This, in his way, he is trying to do.
?~
Using.student demonstrations to influence gov-'
erhment policy against the U.S. is a long-standing
technique used successfully by the Communists in
other countries; CIA reports have Indicated jLfLa hey
Communists were behind The student riots in.lApa_n
in 1960 which caused the government to call off a
.projected trip by PresldentOsenhower, and the riots
in Latin Amgrlca the year, before when Vice Prest-
(dent Itichaxd Nixon ?was surrounded, ? jostled and?
insulted.
Not all the beatniks In beards and young girls in .w
madras are Marxists, of course. After all It is Spring
+tiine and students have always wanted to kick up.
their heels and protest, sop thing--any, old thing-.,
dn the Springtime.
But It Is the official view here that. those Who.
,are not' Communists , are helping the Communist
cause of discrediting U.? S, policy In+Viet'Nam and,
worse, ;they-, are interfering with, and' endangering
tmryee/~~nd legitimate debate on the President}'s foreign .
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