IS THE NEW LEFT IN THE PAY OF THE C.I.A.?
Stares, Janis
IS THE NEW LEFT IN THE PAY OF THE C. I. A.? by Janis Starcs "This is the Apocalypse, it really is," said a Pennsylvania coed recently. That statement typifies the recent attitude of the New...
...To the untrained eye he might appear as another alienated young man acting out his frustrations on the public stage...
...Finally, a third element — present now in every Southern state — will support Humphrey and the national Democratic ticket...
...The New Left admits that it cannot take over now, but it hopes to expose the "fascist" nature of our society, causing discontent to build up for an eventual takeover...
...All this is bad enough, but I have seen indications that the Conspiracy is international...
...Carrying a gun is an act or at least a threat of violence...
...What is not known is that the old fox seems to have turned reactionary in his old age and has sold out to The Establishment...
...How else could De Gaulle have won his last election so easily...
...I shall treat this subject more extensively in a forthcoming expose from Grove Press...
...Before sending students into the streets he makes them alienated from the educational process itself...
...The awful consequence reflects Humphrey carrying thirty to forty per cent of the electorate in the States across the South...
...Hayden, Rubin, Ramparts & Co...
...The ramifications of that should be too obvious to warrant explaining...
...It is an example of the paranoia now prevalent in the movement, and it prompts one to speculate what is causing it all...
...See Dick run...
...We are worried about the possibility of fatal violence on this campus...
...INCITES ry George Nathan Ever since the 1823 founding of the "Society for Distressed and Decayed Harbor Pilots," Americans have organized and participated in the most idiotic orders and clubs...
...Run, Dick, run...
...That statement typifies the recent attitude of the New Left in their newest and most destructive manifestation...
...In our own Bay County, Florida, for example, the 230 scientists and technicians working at the U. S. Navy Mine Defense Laboratory form a noticeably articulate segment of our community...
...After the violent confrontation at Columbia University and at the Democratic convention, the New Left looks like nothing so much as a clever Right Wing conspiracy to destroy the Left in this country, most particularly the student Left...
...Of course, all this goes double for Stokely Carmichael, who has recently joined the Black Panthers because the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee was becoming too tame...
...Amid all the paranoia, which is its stock-in-trade, and which alone should brand it for what it is, I see the sinister hand of Dan Smoot...
...A more insidious example of the Conspiracy is Jerry Rubin, leader of the Yippies...
...How such an evolution would improve our stay on this globe of travail...
...If he does not win this year he will be able to consolidate his hold on the frustrated and angry citizenry by 1972...
...It is even possible that Mayor Daley had a hand in the plot...
...Of course, a conspiracy as extensive as this could not have been organized by Wallace alone...
...Paranoid attacks on these groups by Ramparts and the others merely deflect attention from their real purpose, which is to preserve the status quo by destroying the opposition...
...The job was done clumsily, however, and I want to take this opportunity to blow their cover...
...Steadily, since 1941, Northerners have been appearing in growing encampments around the numerous military bases and newly-founded industrial complexes sprinkled throughout the Southland...
...Threats of violence provoke threats of violence...
...After being put down by the police, instead of doing something meaningful, they will be encouraged to drop out into a private dream world of LSD and pot...
...The roots of the conspiracy run so deep that I do not have space to do more than touch upon them here...
...If all this sounds implausible to you, dear reader, then think of the carnage in Chicago, which confirms my thesis...
...This refined case of double-dealing shows more political sophistication on the Right...
...Run...
...There are also the "Party" Democrats, today generally moderate on most issues, who will support the party ticket and Hubert Humphrey simply because they are accustomed to, and often depend on, the local monolithic Democratic Party structure...
...The Wallace candidacy, then, with its almost chimerical appeal to a long-frustrated middle-class citizenry, shall effectively enable the Minnesota Hustler to carry the bulk of the South...
...After journeying to your favorite pub for a cheap domestic pilsener, you would never again suffer the assaults of some slobbering barroom gargoyle intent on enlightening you to the cosmic significance of the Cubs, Norman Podhoretz or rabbit hunting...
...The sight of leering policemen clubbing idealistic young men and women in the streets was obviously calculated to give new energy to the flagging spirits of the New Left...
...In short and in sum, we see Wallace receiving thirty to thirty-five per cent of the vote, and Nixon accounting for a similar thirty to thirty-five per cent of the total...
...The international business interests here have teamed up with the German cartels and with De Gaulle to do the same to the students in Europe that they are doing here...
...Smoot, of course, has been attacking them for years, and much of the text of the article might have been taken from his book, The Invisible Government...
...POETRY One would never imagine which of the elements on campus distributed the following...
...Today their mania is for ridiculous committees, and here I offer gratis, possible names for committees and clubs as yet unborn — at least until now...
...By downgrading the "phone disciplines of the mind," he destroys the potential intellectual leaders of tomorrow's Left and reduces them to a mob of nihilists who will be impotent once Reaction sets in...
...Run...
...Who else could have engineered this fiasco but George Wallace...
...We think it is dangerous to live in a garrison university...
...this element is comprised of re-located Yankees...
...I was tempted to send these observations to Ramparts magazine for further investigation, but I fear that it, too, is infiltrated...
...A more reasonable explanation why this talented person is acting the way he is is that he is in the pay of the C. I. A. to destroy the radical student movement by leading it into futile conflicts with the authorities...
...Another example of these tactics is Ramparts' exposure of C. I. A. subsidies to the National Student Association, for years a target of the Right...
...We are worried about the atmosphere of violence on this campus...
...There is nothing better calculated to win votes for him than the sight of hairy anarchists and Marxists threatening to take over the streets of our great cities...
...That is carrying things a bit far, and I wonder at his recklessness in endangering one of his most valuable fronts...
...They would abjure from favoring Communism over sadism, Glenn Miller over the Beatles, caviar over peanut butter and jelly, or psychology over phrenology...
...For instance, what could possibly motivate the irrational behavior of Tom Hayden, S. D. S.' guiding light...
...The guns of the campus police are instruments of fatal violence...
...What it will do is put authoritarian demagogues on our necks for years to come, because the people could be driven to desperation by the violence loosed upon them...
...the old German Marxist, now in — Continued on Page 9 Page 8 CIA Continued from Page 8 San Diego, is the apostle of the New Left in Europe...
...Unless this plot is exposed, Wallace will probably be able to keep the violence brewing for at least four more years...
...As you know, Herbert Marcuse...
...The great body of these students will desert politics completely while their most dedicated leaders are put out of the way with long jail sentences...
...And never again would the fair democracy threaten contemplative man with the swineocracy of George Wallace — for it would no longer be a democracy...
...This leads me to the conclusion that he is in collusion with the Military-Industrial Complex and the C. I. A. Through the Principle of Reversal, as propounded by the John Birch Society, the attacks on these groups by the New Left are a decoy by the Conspiracy which is using the New Left for their own interests...
...It is well-known that students have tended to be more liberal than their parents, and what could be more natural than for the Right to neutralize the Left's political effect by alienating them completely from politics and by launching them on a self-destructive attack on The Establishment...
...Run...
...Violence provokes violence...
...Indeed they would admit themselves virginally inadequate of holding any opinion on anything, no matter how elementary...
...are leading the lambs to the slaughter, and whether the students know it or not, they are the most effective workers in Wallace's campaign...
...NOTES Continued from Page 3 ing, for example, in our county to approximately 25 per cent of the total vote...
...On page thirty of its June 15 issue, in the article on Columbia University, there is an attack on the "secret government" — the liberal internationalist businessmen based on the East Coast...
...THE NATIONAL MOBILIZATION FRONT TO IMMOBILIZE THE REPUBLIC STUDENT NON-VIOLENT GENOCIDAL COMMITTEE FRIENDS SOCIETY OF CICERO, ILLINOIS THE BOUND AND UNITED LEAGUE OF INDIVIDUALISTS NEW YORK CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Page 9...
...WALLACE Continued from Page 5 make any decision whatsoever binding on their fellows...
...To complete the political emasculation of the younger generation, Hayden tells them to give up electoral politics as futile...
...This was clearly a plot by the C. I. A. and the Right Wing to discredit liberal student movements, and now N. S. A. has been taken over completely by the extremists of the New Left...
...What could be more logical...
Vol. 2 • October 1968 • No. 2
