CHAPTER I
COMMUNISM IS UN-CHRISTIAN, UN-AMERICAN
I believe in Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah, the
Saviour of all believers, whether they are Jew or Gentile, and in His divinely
authorized Church, the body of believers. I believe in America, her freedoms,
her ideals and in her traditions. To me, America is one of the greatest gifts
that God has ever given man, outside of the gift of His only begotten Son and
His divinely-inspired Bible. The spiritual traditions and ideals of freedom of
Americanism are, I believe, the greatest of any nation in history.
I believe in the Constitution of the
United States, and in the Constitutions of the fifty Republics that make up
these United States. I believe that Communism violates all of our freedoms that
we have enjoyed as Americans. I believe that Communism is opposed to our
American ideals, transgresses our traditions, is weakening our nation’s unity,
and is wrecking our American way of life. To me, it is an inevitable fact that
if Communism triumphs, Americanism will die.
My sole objective in writing this book on
the “Far Left” is to help save America from a godless, despotic dictatorship
which is based on bloodshed, barbarism, suppression, and slavery, all of which
are un-Christian, un-American and unpalatable to freedom-loving men. I am
convinced that every real American, if he but knew the truth, would strive to
defend his nation from Communists who, utilizing their weapons of intrigue and
infamy, are imposing upon our country their profane pattern of serfdom.
Jesus Christ said, “Ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make ye free.” It is my firm faith that the first
step in defense of American safety and the preservation of Constitutional
Government is to break the conspiracy of silence enveloping and endangering her.
What I will state in this book about Communism internally and its left-wing
allies is not known to me alone, nor is it news to many in high places and in
lesser positions. But most of those who know these facts speak them in fearful
whispers, dreading the intimidation of a powerful left-wing press. This “fear
hysteria” will not cure the creeping paralysis of inertia attacking America,
nor will it arouse Americans to the actual menace of Communism.
Up until the assassination of John F.
Kennedy on the streets of Dallas, Friday, November 22,
most Americans said of the threat of Communism, “It cannot happen
here.” Now, all Americans, with any loyalty and patriotism, know that it can
happen here and, indeed, it did happen here. Communism internally has been
responsible for the assassination of the President of the United States.
The power of Communism and/or fear of
Communism was so rampant in the land that, rather than a groundswell against
left-wing and pro-Communist men and movements in the United States, demanding
justice from the godless cause that took the life of the President of the United
States, there has instead been a vain attempt by men, motivated either by love
of Communism or by fear of Communism, to equate Communism with other so-called
“extremists” such as conservatives, outspoken anti-Communists, etc.
Furthermore, those who did not attempt to
equate Communism with anti-Communism sought to blame all Americans for
the death of the President. As former Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York
City, who was the Chairman of the first Congressional Committee ever to
investigate Communism in the United States, wrote after the assassination of
President Kennedy, “Why should patriotic Americans absorb the blame and the
stigma for the criminal act of a Communist? The American people, including the
citizens of Dallas, are no more responsible than the Mexican people were for the
murder of Trotsky by another Marxist Communist. Lenin once said, “Destroying
all opposition by invective, slander, smear and blackmail is one of the
techniques of Communism.” The top Commissars in the Kremlin must be laughing
up their sleeves watching professional “liberals” and political opportunists
smearing patriotic Americans for exposing and combating the Communist menace to
freedom everywhere, particularly in Latin America. Let us stop playing Russian
Roulette, or flirting with world Communism that seeks to destroy and bury us.
Let us unite in preventing Communist smear propaganda from dividing the American
people and undermining our prestige throughout the world.”
Robert Morris, former chief investigator
for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee investigating Communism and, more
recently, President of the University of Dallas, said in an editorial following
the assassination of President Kennedy: “Moscow, American Communists, and
their allies are waging a sustained campaign against the verdict that a
Communist shot the President. Communist pamphleteers are passing out leaflets in
New York City in a campaign that has no precedent, and taking the responsibility
for the assassination of the President to J. Edgar Hoover and other
anti-Communists. We have too often seen these campaigns succeed in the past.
This is the framework for the struggle ahead. A powerful Communist-originated
campaign will be leveled now, with emotional cover, to equate all criticism and
dissent with ‘hatred that generates assassination’. The Communists and their
allies will now be working day and night to associate resistance to their
aggression with ‘hateful right-wing activity’. Let us hope that the new
religious spirit that prevails now across the land will help the American people
see through this sophistry.”
This, then, is the purpose of this book.
Not only will we attempt to expose Communists, the Communist fronts, and the
Communist conspiracy internally, but we will also focus a spotlight of truth
upon those organizations and men who have aided and abetted the cause of
Communism by word or deed, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
The entire left-wing movement is of the
devil. As Christians, the first way in which we can recognize the devil and his
presence is that he is a liar. He speaks lies, he uses lies, his conspiracy is
built on lies. Hear the words of Jesus and His controversy with the Jews: “Why
do you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my word. Ye are of
your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth
in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the
father of it, and because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.” What are
the lies that are confronting the American people today as a result of this
internal Communist conspiracy, and in connection with this murder of the
President of the United States?
The first lie is that there is no
conspiracy, that the Communist conspiracy does not exist, and there are not
thousands upon thousands of trained Communist agents in this country today, some
of them trained, as Lee Harvey Oswald obviously was, to be expert killers. The
murder of the President of the United States was one of the most skillful acts
of killing imaginable and could have been accomplished only by great training,
and now the facts show that Oswald received such training inside the Soviet
Union, while he lived there as a citizen.
It is a lie hatched in hell that the
so-called “right-wing extremists” are guilty of the murder of the President
of the United States. That lie was put out as official Communist Party
propaganda in the first flash of Tass News Agency in Moscow as reported in this
country within minutes after the President was killed. Tass, the Russian
Communist News Agency, said it was believed that “right-wing extremists”
were responsible for the murder of the President, and specifically branded
General Edwin A. Walker as being one of those guilty. (Tass was strangely quiet
in later days when the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that evidence
indicated that Lee Harvey Oswald also had tried to take the life of General
Edwin A. Walker in his Dallas home on the previous April 10.)
When you hear these lies of the
Communists, you know they are lies. You know, therefore, that the devil is at
work in the person who speaks them and you know that the Communist conspiracy is
operating in that person. You have no need to look any further. You have no need
to look for
a connection with the Communist Party, for a Communist Party card, or for an
organization which has been branded as a “Communist front” with which the
person might be affiliated, because the conspiracy is a spiritual frame of mind,
a satanically spiritual thing, and its presence is betrayed by its nature.
Not only does the devil, in his followers,
lie, but the devil is an accuser. In Revelations 12:10–11 we read of the
vision of John exiled on Patmos: “I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, Now
is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb,
and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the
death.”
The devil is an accuser and he will
appear, accusing you and accusing me. He will accuse good Americans of feeling
hate if they oppose Communism. And when we hear over and over again that
everybody who opposes Communism or evil is a monger of hatred, we begin to get
frightened, but we shouldn’t. As Christians, we know the reality and the power
of the satanic accuser.
We must live in love and it is because of
love that we take a stand for liberty and freedom throughout the Scriptures, we
are taught that love is the keeping of the law. “Love thy neighbor as
thyself” is the summary of the second table of God’s law. If you love God,
then you will keep His
Commandments. And to keep God’s law does not simply mean you obey it, it means
you enforce it. You are the keeper, you and I. To us, God has entrusted the
whole of His law and if we break it in one point, we break it in all.
How do we show our love of God? By a
silly, sentimental affection for murders and thieves and killers and
conspirators? Heaven forbid. We show it by an enforcement of God’s law and a
punishment of those who willfully and maliciously break God’s law and teach
the breaking of God’s law. That is love and no man can exercise it without a
heroic effort. One must love God to punish a criminal just as a man must love
his child in order to punish him.
Yes, it has happened here. Even the death
of the President of the United States at the hands of a Communist assassin has
not stirred the masses of the American people or the leadership of America
sufficiently to resist Communism internally and to enforce our laws against the
Communist conspiracy within.
In America, the seeds of confusion and
disunion are spawning and spreading, and Communism is growing. In their efforts
to wean Americans from Americanism, Communists devilishly revile and defile
everyone whose opinions and convictions differ in any way from their own. Their
subtle, sinister schemings sway and mislead many Americans who in ignorance or
weakness yield or submit to Communism their previous loyalty to God, to country,
and to their fellow men. We have no right to give up our country to the
Communist conspiracy without a battle. We are the beneficiaries of the
sacrifices of countless American soldiers who, throughout our life as a
Republic, have fought for our God-given rights, our religious, industrial,
educational, and social freedoms, freedom of speech and of the press; and we,
their heirs, must never surrender them.
Hatred has no place in the heart of any
Christian, but love of country should be in every Christian’s heart to inspire
him to defend America against any system of government that would wrench our
rights from us and destroy our freedom.
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, tried to warn the American people in a speech entitled
“Communism Is A Menace” at the close of World War II, saying that Communists
were liars and that Communism was a system based on lies and deception, and that
no American citizen could believe in the promises, goals, or objectives of this
deceptive, satanic international conspiracy. Hoover was concerned over the
inroads that Communism was making in the United States immediately following
World War II, and said in his speech:
“During the past five years, American
Communists have made their deepest inroads upon our national life. In our
vaunted tolerance for all peoples, the Communists have found our Achilles’
heel. The godless, truthless way of life that American Communists would force
upon America can mean only tyranny and oppression if they succeed. When they
raise their false cry of unity, remember there can be no unity with the enemies
of our way of life who are attempting to undermine our democratic institutions.
The Fascist-minded tyrant whom we conquered on the battlefields is no different
from the American communistic corruptionist who now uses the tricks of the
confidence man until his forces are sufficiently strong to rise with arms in
revolt. When they preach unity, let us not forget that when we were struggling
to prepare for defense of the United States, the Communists preached pacifism
and fought American efforts to aid our allies and to build our common defenses.
For true Americans, there can be no unity with the enemy within and no
compromise with those who would destroy all that we fight for. When it comes to
governmental systems, we prefer our own American way, and we do not want the
Communists in this country attempting to undermine our democracy or any of our
institutions.
“Americanism is on trial. Its real test
lies in the ability of red-blooded Americans to meet and defeat the fifth column
of destruction. A knowledge of the lurking menace is necessary. We are rapidly
reaching the time when loyal Americans must be willing to stand up and be
counted. If we would protect America, we must determine that no group of
espionage agents or subverters, and no coalition of paid anti-American
propagandists shall sway us from our American way of life. To allow America to
become infected with the malignant growth of Communism is a breach of our trust
to those who gave their lives for American principles.”
The Communists themselves boast that for
every party member, there are ten others ready to do the party’s work. These
include their satellites, their fellow travelers, and their so-called
progressive and phony liberal allies.
In recent years, we have seen the growth
of a far-reaching patriotic movement of average Americans called
“conservatism.” These conservatives represent all classes
of American life, especially those of the middle class Americans who are
motivated by love of God and country and freedom, and are willing to risk
persecution in their local communities, misunderstanding, and, in some
instances, prosecution, because of their fearless stand for traditional American
concepts and Christian principles. As a result of the patriotic actions of these
people and their willingness to sacrifice for the cause that they believe in,
more and more Congressmen, Senators, and other elected officials reflect the
conservative philosophy.
There is no doubt in my mind that the
Communist assassin, Lee Oswald, intended to kill the President of the United
States and disappear in the confused crowd, thus letting the conservative,
anti-Communist element of Dallas take the blame. But it didn’t work. God is on
the throne. He saw to it that Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended by a courageous
Dallas policeman, Officer Tippit, who, in turn, gave his life for the cause of
freedom in attempting to arrest the Communist assassin of the President.
To understand Communism and its so-called
“sophisticated intellectual allies” in the United States, comprised of
left-wing or pro-Communist elements, we must understand that, by nature, these
groups are godless. Communism and most adherents of “liberal
intellectualism” have a common motivation, a defiance of God’s dominion over
mankind. However, the defiance of God and His supernatural word by the liberals
and Communists, is not new to mankind.
Long ago at the very dawn of the human
race, the divine rights of Heaven were called into question. In the Garden of
Eden, Adam and Eve violated God’s command. It was the first revolt of the
human race against Divine authority. It was the first attempt of frail humanity
to “grapple with the Lord God” and to “vanquish Him in His Heaven”. This
first revolt was a dismal failure as will be all similar revolts in history,
including the one inspired by Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev. From the very
moment of the first revolt of the human race against Divine authority, man
needed God to right the wrong brought by the sin of Adam and Eve; for God it was
who was offended and God alone it was who could forgive the offense. Man had
been destined for eternal life, but sin robbed him of that Divine inheritance.
Thus, in order to regain what he had lost, man felt his need of God and realized
that he was absolutely dependent upon God. Deep in the heart of all of God’s
creation was an eternal yearning to bow and worship before One whom he looked
upon as a Deity, One who would satisfy the eternal cry of the creature for the
Creator. When man turned away from the true God, we find him creating for
himself a false god to worship. One generation created the golden calf, others
bowed to false images of various descriptions; but their worship of these
lifeless, energyless creatures was hollow and vain.
Time and again, down through the
centuries, man has sought to put God out of his life, but whenever and wherever
he has done so, his very being has demanded that he worship some false deity.
Man’s very religious nature demands that he do so. Today the Communists
worship at the altar of atheism. Today the liberals worship at the altar of
blind internationalism and ever-failing socialism. The great need of this
hour is to forsake the false gods
created by vain men in their attempt to make a better world without the Prince
of Peace. Man need not dwell alone. God is at hand with all His help. Christ,
His Son, is our leader and companion-in-arms. Let the conflict be fierce. Man is
not alone. The promised Redeemer is at hand to save the human race and to wage
war against the powers of darkness. In the person of His Divine Son, the Eternal
Father has descended into the arena to take part in that struggle which began in
the Garden of Eden. The God-man has come to cross swords with the enemy of the
human race.
In every generation, the adversary of
Christ and His church has relentlessly fought God’s dominion over the earth.
The father of liars, Satan’s occupation is warfare, and faithful to that
pursuit, he battles ceaselessly against the Church of Jesus Christ. The strategy
of the Evil One appears to change with the succeeding centuries, but its
objective is always the same—the destruction of the Church of Jesus Christ.
The Apostle Peter, looking down through the centuries, prophesied, “Your
adversary, the devil, is a roaring lion going about seeking whom he may
devour.” Today we find Satan incarnate in international Communism, and in its
offshoots in the United States, the “Far Left”. These American adherents of
socialism in one form or another, blind to the fearful realities of godless,
despotic communism, consider the “orthodox” Church of Jesus Christ to be the
only international force that is capable of blocking the growth of world
Communism and socialism. With all the diabolical hatred that characterized
earlier persecutions against the body of Christ, communistic propaganda is at
present leaving nothing undone to uproot from the minds and hearts of the human
race a belief in the teachings and doctrines of Christ. Diabolical hatred is the
motivation and force behind communistic activities. Satan, clothed in Communist
garb, is waging bitter war against the Kingdom of Christ.
Let there be no doubt that this satanic
hatred which we see today aimed at the anti-Communist conservative ranks is
directed in reality against the Church of Jesus Christ. She is the only
organization strong enough to withstand the organized plans of Communism.
Communists themselves realize this fact.
History has a way of repeating itself, and
the 20th Century persecution of Christians behind the Iron Curtain is a
challenge to every loyal Bible-believing child of God to rally to the banner of
Christ; Leaders are needed who are imbued with courage and motivated by zeal for
Christ’s Kingdom, as were the apostles and the martyrs of centuries ago.
On November 16, 1963, just one week before
the assassination of the late President Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, head of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, identified these satanic Communist forces at
work in America as “hate mongers.” He said:
“These lethal influences are at work,
constantly undermining the sense of personal responsibility and self-discipline
so essential to our nation’s welfare. Who are these enemies of our Republic?
They are the crime syndicates, the narcotics peddlers, the labor racketeers, the
unscrupulous businessmen, the corrupt politicians, and all others who blatantly
defy the laws of the land. They are the hate mongers and the false liberals who
would subvert our Constitution and undermine our democratic processes in
furtherance of their selfish aims. They are the Communists and other subversive
elements who wave false banners of legitimacy and patriotism while relentlessly,
plotting to destroy our heritage of freedom. Communism—and all its forms and
all its variations—is the avowed enemy of liberty and of justice and of God.
The Communists fear free and independent thought. They fear truth. They fear
God, even though they deny Him. They fear the inherent courage and dignity of
man created in His image.”
We are not so much concerned in this
volume with Communism internationally as we are Communism in the United States.
We leave to other authors a detailed analysis of Communism internationally
and” confine our major observations to Communist activities in the United
States and the support they are receiving from the “Far Left.”
Communist objectives widely publicized in
their own literature were briefly summarized by a Congressional Committee in
1931, which, I feel, is still the best short definition of Communism: “Hatred
of God and all forms of religion. Destruction of private property and
inheritance. Promotion of class hatred. Revolutionary propaganda through the
Communist International. Stirring up Communist activities in foreign countries
in order to cause strikes, riots, sabotage, bloodshed, and civil war.
Destruction of all forms of representative or democratic governments including
civil liberties, such as freedom, of speech, of the press, of assembly, and
trial by jury. The ultimate and final objective is by means of world revolution
to establish the dictatorship of the so-called proletariat into one world Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics with the capital at Moscow.” (This is from
report 2290, U. S. House of Representatives, by Fish Committee, 1931.)
The unfortunate thing is, as this volume
will prove, millions of Americans who would greatly resent being charged with
pronounced communistic leanings are actually promoting its apostolate through
membership in various organizations and other associations.
When you talk of Communism internally, one
of the first challenges from the liberals invariably is, “But the Communists
represent so few Americans. There are probably less than 25,000 of them.” We
must understand in dealing with Communism internally that the size of the
Communist Party itself is not important. It will never be large. Even in Soviet
Russia slightly more than one per cent of the people belong to it. Outside of
the Soviet Union, the Communist Party wants trained men who will seek to get
into every sort of organization, interest themselves in it and work themselves
toward the top so that they may steer it into the direction of Communist
sympathy. There are many such agents in the United States.
The present Communist strength in the
United States is not to be gauged by the small number of people that the party
leadership admits belongs to the Party. While our uninformed liberals insist
that Communism is not a threat internally, we must remind our readers that the
present Communist strength in the United States is not to be gauged, either, by
the small vote it polls during an election. If there are so few Communists, how is it that in San Francisco, California, in the 1959 City-County
elections, Archie Brown, number two Communist in California and one of the
ringleaders of the infamous riots at the 1960 San Francisco hearings of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities, while seeking a seat in the Board of
Supervisors, received 33,500 votes from the people in that county? The
Communists had every reason to be encouraged by this result.
In a headline article in the San
Francisco Examiner on Monday, September 25, 1961, entitled “U. S. Reds
Come Out In Open,” there was a news story saying that there were “Communists
from nineteen states in the largest open-party gathering since the Rosenberg
execution protests of almost ten years ago.” In a rally at the St. Nicholas
Arena in New York City, over 3,000 people heard the former professor of Union
Theological Seminary, retired Methodist clergyman, the Rev. Dr. Harry F. Ward,
pledge his support of Communist objectives.
If the present strength of the American
Communist Party is limited to less than 10,000, as the liberals insist, how can
they garner such a tremendous vote in San Francisco County and do so well in
their New York City rally?
Far from being on the decrease, American
Communism is on the increase. In the “Annual Report for the Year of 1961 of
the House Committee on Un-American Activities,” page five, the Committee
reported there are indications that, at the present time, the distribution and
readership of Communist literature is increasing rather than decreasing.
Circulation of the official Communist Party newspaper, The Worker, has risen steadily since 1957.
It is not difficult to believe these
charges by the House Committee on Un-American Activities when you read the May
6, 1962, issue of the Sunday Worker, in
which the Communist boasted that “7,000 men, women, and youths attended the
Communist May Day Rally in New York City.” In The Worker of May 7, 1963, the Communists boasted, “5,000 people
braved forty-four degree weather and a brisk wind on Union Square to hear Gus
Hall, Scott Nearing, William L. Patterson, Joseph North, and other speakers
sound the May Day keynotes of ‘peace, civil rights, and job security.’”
In the annual report of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities for 1957, the Committee revealed that the
Kremlin “has succeeded in enlisting more than a million Americans into a
nation-wide campaign of political subversion. Their participation has ranged
from membership in the far-flung network of Communist-front organizations to the
signing of Communist-sponsored petitions and has included substantial financial
contributions.”
For someone to say that Communism
internally represents no threat in the
United States today, especially in the view of recent events when a Communist
assassin took the life of the President of the United States, is to show gross
ignorance and unconcern for truth and for America.
However, in all fairness, the thing that
should concern Americans most is not the number of Americans who vote for
Communist candidates in an election or who support the Communist Party or join
Communist fronts, but is the countless number of Americans who are
being influenced by the seed of Soviet philosophy which is sown by columnists of
the daily papers, by clever writers in magazine articles, by thousands of school
teachers in the classroom, by many a college and university professor, by
ultra-left clergymen, by the movies, by the television networks, by the radio
networks, and, more particularly, through organizations with high-sounding,
deceptive, and even appealing names. If it were not for the manner in which the
left-wing press has misled people, Communism would have no possible appeal
except perhaps to the destitute, to the indolent, to those who can be so easily
emotionally aroused against the rich. Having nothing to lose and being promised
much under the new order, such people readily listen to the Communist promoter.
But the cleverness of Comintern propaganda has made Communism look good even to
many men of wealth and to men of culture. As Senate Document No. 14 stated,
“The Bolshevik movement in the United States would have sapped its own
energies and disintegrated or have degenerated into pure anarchy if it had not
been for the support and assistance it has constantly received from the
so-called parlor Bolsheviks and pink revolutionists in America. They have served
the function of keeping it alive and on an active footing, when otherwise the
efforts of Lenin and the Communist international would have failed.”
The great American author, Howard E.
Kershner, in an address delivered at Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas, on April
7, 1961, gave a fitting illustration:
“At the close…(of my visit)…in
Moscow at the end of September, 1960, a top official of the Communist Government
said to me: ‘We’ll be over to finish the take-over of America sooner than
you think.’ Upon my return with these startling words still ringing in my
ears, I began to search to see if he was telling the truth. It took me some time
to comprehend the extent to which Communists and their sympathizers and dupes
have influenced the economic, fiscal, military, and foreign policy of our
government during the past twenty-five years. The official that I was referring
to presides over a whole floor of a large government building in Moscow. Three
hundred scholars work under his direction, studying all the important
newspapers, journals, and books published throughout the civilized world. They
work on projects he assigns to them and their reports become the basis of the
policies of the U.S.S.R. I saw there all the leading papers and periodicals
published in America and other advanced countries. At one point this man said to
me: ‘You know as well as I that a mixed economy is not permanent and you have
already mixed so much socialism with your formerly free economy that you cannot
now avoid complete socialization. We do not have to urge you or fight you. We
only have to sit here and wait until you voluntarily walk into our camp.’ I
have said as much on many occasions myself, but I was surprised to see this
Communist leader accept the rapid socialization of America as indicating beyond
doubt that we are headed toward Communism. He smiled at me self-assuredly as
though he was perfectly confident that we were already in the trap. When I
argued strongly for free enterprise and limited government, he would turn to a
bookcase behind his chair, take down a book written by some left-wing American
author, such as J. Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., or Alvin
Harvey Hansen, and from the mouths of many of my compatriots would prove his
socialist theories correct. It was shocking to me to learn that the closest
advisors of the President of the United States are also among the.
‘authorities’ that are diligently consulted and cited by the leaders of the
U.S.S.R.”
One of the greatest patriots it has ever
been my privilege to meet was Matt Cvetic, former counterspy for the FBI. Mr.
Cvetic died on January 26, 1962. However, before his death he wrote an editorial
for our Christian Crusade magazine entitled “One Communist.” Mr. Cvetic’s
article should be a challenge to every American
today to get into this fight against Communism internally:
“Why worry about the Communists? Why
worry about a few Red crackpots? What possible harm can one Communist do? There
are only 25,000 Communists in the United States; they wouldn’t have a chance
against us…or would they?
“These and many similar questions have
been asked me many times since I left my post as a Communist for the FBI in 1950
to testify in Washington.
“Many clergymen, educators, business
men, bankers, political leaders, diplomats and others try to delude themselves
into believing that ‘Killer’ Khrushchev really doesn’t mean it when he
repeats over and over again his threat to communize America and bury us.
Frankly, for nine years, while posing as a Communist, I sat in hundreds of
secret Communist meetings where the overthrow of our country was plotted;
meetings in which the mass murder or enslavement of many of the above mentioned
Americans was discussed.
“Contrary to what many think, the
numerical strength of the Communist Party is relatively unimportant in their
plot to conquer the world. What is important to the Reds is getting their
agents, sympathizers and dupes into strategic posts in all sections of American
society as well as in our government.
“The numerical strength of the Communist
conspiracy in the country is not actually known. It can only be approximated
from available intelligence sources and Congressional reports. These sources
place the number of Soviet Agents operating in the United States at some 15,000
at any given time. They operate with immunity, thanks to our gullibility in
extending diplomatic recognition to Soviet Russia in 1933, and later to her
satellite co-conspirators. While posing as a Communist for the FBI, every Soviet
agent I met operated from the Red embassies and consulates; the Red-organized
United Nations; through cultural exchanges; in the trade, travel and agriculture
missions; and in Scientific and Educational expeditions from the Soviet Union
and the satellite countries. In addition, literally hundreds of other Soviet
agents find haven in Communist front organizations, many of which have had the
support of such American personalities as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Nobel Prize
Winner, Chemist Linus Pauling.
“As for the number of Red quislings in
the American Communist Party, they number some 25,000 hard-core and dedicated
conspirators. On top of this, the Communists have been able to count some
quarter of a million fronters, sympathizers, defenders, and dupes in our
churches, educational institutions, political bodies, unions, social, civic and
welfare groups to aid and abet them in their plot against our country.
“Let me illustrate by my experience as a
Communist for the FBI how dangerous one Communist
can be.
“In 1941 the FBI requested me to
infiltrate the Communist Party for the purpose of securing intelligence
information for our government. At that time I was employed by the United States
Employment Service in Pittsburgh. My job was placing men and women in government
employment and basic industries. As soon as I led the Reds to believe I was
sympathetic to their cause, they began sending their Communist agents to me to
put to work in government and industry. Remember, at this stage of my ‘Red
masquerade,’ I was supposedly only a sympathizer, not a full-fledged
Communist. True, I reported every move of the Reds to the FBI, but assume the
harm I could have done, were I really a Red sympathizer being used by the
Communists.
“After being recruited into the
Communist Party, my first Party assignment was in the Professional Branch. My
co-conspirators in this branch numbered some 200 Reds in various professions.
Their Party assignment was to infiltrate our government, our educational system,
the motion picture industry, communications, chemical laboratories, the legal
profession, engineering, and any other place into which they could weasel their
way. Once on the inside, needless to say, the Communist was to use his position
to further the Communist conspiracy.
“From the Professional Branch I was
assigned to the Clergical commission of the Communist Party. The objective of
this Red unit was, and still is, the infiltration of church organizations for
the purpose of promoting the Communist line in our Churches.
“My next post in the Communist Party was
on their Finance Committee. My job on this committee was to raise finances from
dupes, fronters, sympathizers and Party members to keep the Red machinery moving
in high gear.
“From this ‘exalted office’ I was
placed on the Reds’ Educational Commission. As a member of this conspiratorial
group, my job was to plot the infiltration of American universities, colleges
and high schools. Ironically one of the more than 400 Reds I named in my sworn
testimony, when I unmasked as an FBI undercover agent in 1950, was an English
professor in an Eastern university where one of my sons, Matt, Junior, was
studying for his Master’s degree. This Red professor’s last act, before the
university fired him as a result of my sworn testimony, was to flunk my son in
English as retaliation for my exposure of his Communist connections.
“Another of my Communist posts was on
the Political Commission of the Party. This is the outfit which set up the
ill-fated Progressive Party in the late 40’s. Currently it is actively
infiltrating both major political parties.
“Along with all these assignments, I was
appointed to the Yugoslav Bureau of the Communist Party, where I worked with
Tito’s Red Agents in America. Later as a member of the Communist’s Trade
Union Commission, I helped direct the infiltration of many unions in steel, coal
and electrical industries, and sat in on strategy meetings of Reds which
directed the infiltration of the unions in the Rocky Mountain States and the
Farm Organization in the Midwest and on the West Coast.
“As one ‘Communist’, even tho’ a
pseudo one, I had many other Party assignments in those nine years. I have
listed some of the most outstanding to prove to the reader by my own experiences
how dangerous one sympathizer, fronter or Communist in the wrong spot can be.
“Bear one thing in mind. THERE ARE NO
HARMLESS COMMUNISTS, FRONTERS OR SYMPATHIZERS. It takes only one ‘harmless’
Red to blow up a dam, waterworks or a plant. It takes only one Communist,
fronter, sympathizer or Red dupe in our universities, colleges or high schools
to poison the minds of many of our children. It takes only one dedicated
Communist in a strategic position in our church organization to mislead many
into supporting Communist causes and objectives. Yes, ONE COMMUNIST IS
DANGEROUS!
“Remember…hateful Karl Marx was only
one Red, and he founded the devilish Communist scheme for World Slavery.
“Ostensibly, I too was one Red, but
thank heaven my allegiance was to God and my country which I was trying in my
small way to serve.”
Mr. Cvetic’s words were a prophecy. Had
they been heeded and had the Justice Department enforced the laws that are on
the books against Communism internally, John F. Kennedy would probably be alive
today.
No longer can we say, “Can it happen
here?” It is happening here. Only an
aroused, alert citizenry, motivated by love of God, can save this country now.
Dr. Charles Malik, the great Lebanese
leader and former President General of the United Nations General Assembly, has
said, “The civilization which has been blessed and transformed by Christ needs
only a mighty hand to shake it out of its slumber, and once shaken, once really
awakened to its world responsibilities which it and it alone can shoulder, there
is nothing it cannot bear and do.”
Surely the assassination of the President
of the United States by Communists would be enough to shake America “out of
its slumber.” As my good friend, Ezra Taft Benson, said, “God and our
children will judge us for what we do with our land and our liberties. With
God’s help, the light of high-resolve in the eyes of the American people must
never be dimmed. Our freedom must—and will be preserved. May God give us the
wisdom to recognize the threat to our freedom and the strength to meet this
danger courageously. We should all remember that we have the best government
under the best Constitution in the world, therefore let us preserve them in
their present form by combating every un-American influence in our midst,
especially that which, based on pure materialism, is calculated to rob our
nation of its attachment to religion and eternal spiritual values, of its faith
in God and its trust in man.”
In this struggle, we are not alone; for
the battle is but a renewal of ancient hostilities between the Kingdom of Jesus
Christ and the Kingdom of Satan. In the 20th Century, as in the first century,
Christ is still our Leader and Captain, even as He said, “I am with you
always, even to the consummation of the world.” He prophesied that persecution
would pursue the church; but He also promised that the gates of hell would not
prevail against Her. And so today, loyal followers of Jesus Christ who make up
the Church of Christ have every reason to believe that they are not alone as
atheistic Communism launches its bitter attack against the Church, Christ, and
God Himself.