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SECRETSF 100-46832WEH: ay"The Militant", a weekly newspaper of theSocialist Workers Party (SWP), in its issue of January 24,1969, carried an article by PAUL MC KNIGHT entitled "Reportfrom Havana, Fidel's Speech on January 2." In this articlethe author described the celebration of the 10th anniversaryof the Cuban revolution which was held in Havana, CubaJanuary 2, 1969. In describing some of the people who werepresent, it was stated that ROBERT SCHEER of "Ramparts"was in attendance.The passenger manifest of Cuban Aviation Companyflight 465A from Mexico, D.F., Mexico, to Havana, Cuba, onDecember 31, 1968, listed Robert Scher as passenger #33.He was the bearer of United States passport -041550 witha Cuban tourist visa. He was destined to the Hotel HabanaLibre and carried one piece of luggage weighing 18 kilograms(39.6 pounds).SF T-80January 7, 1969The passenger manifest of Cuban Aviation Companyflight 464 from Havana, Cuba, to Mexico, D.F., Mexico, onJanuary 13, 1969, listed ROBERT SCHEER as passenger #109.He was the bearer of United States Passport 0-041559.SF T-80January 15, 1969ROBERT SCHEER reportedly made a speech at theHemispheric Conference to End the War in Vietnam held recentlyin Montreal, Canada.SF T-87February 13, 1969ROBERT SCHEER made appointment to have lunchwith JOSE VIERA LINARES at 2:00 p.m., March 12, 1969 atthe Delegates Dining Room, United Nations, New York City.SF T-77March 12, 1969ROBERT SCHEER visited the Cuban Mission to theUnited Nations, New York City, on March 20, 1969 in an effortto meet with JOSE VIERA LINARES. He is not believed to havebeen successful in meeting with VIERA.
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dp## IV. WRITINGS OF SUBJECTROBERT SCHEER is the author of a pamphlet written for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, which he later condensed into an article for "Ramparts" magazine entitled, "The Vietnam Lobby." The article purports to show how various Americans worked to misinform the public about Vietnam. The persons whom SCHEER holds responsible for misleading the American people are JOSEPH KENNEDY, Cardinal SPELLMAN, ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR., NORMAN THOMAS, J. BRACKEN LEE, General EDWARD LANSDALE, MARVIN LIEBMAN, and others.SF T-88 on 3/8/67A feature article datelined Cairo, July 31, 1967, entitled, "Egypt" which is described as "A Special Report from Managing Editor ROBERT SCHEER in Cairo", was published in the September 1967 issue of "Ramparts" magazine. In this article, SCHEER tried to explain the current situation in Egypt. He laid the blame for the Arabs losing the six-day war to the Israelis on "cowardly or traitorous officers" in the Arab Army.The article also stated that many in the NASSER Goverment say that most of the blame for starting the Arab-Israel war should be charged to the Syrians for having provided the Israelis with a pretext for attack. The article stated the Egyptian people were not at this time in a warlike mood and NASSER was doing his best to discourage his people from warlike aspirations and to encourage continuance of the Social revolution in Egypt.SCHEER concluded that NASSER must break with the rightists in the Arab world and make his primary commitment to the Arab social revolution in order to survive. He concluded also that NASSER's most dangerous enemy is the "Moslem Brotherhood" who could take control of Egypt and become embroiled in another war in as little as one year's time.
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dpThe November 1967 issue of "Ramparts" magazine contains a 13-page article entitled, "A NASSER Thesis" by ROBERT SCHEEP. In this article, SCHEER analyzes the Middle East situation from 1952 to the present, giving his recital of the relationship of the various countries to each other, the rise to power by GAMAL ABDUL NASSER, the Suez war in the middle 1950's, and the six-day Arab-Israel war in June, 1967.The article lays great stress on NASSER being unsuccessful in some of his ventures because while he nationalized many businesses and industries and distributed the proceeds to the poor, he allowed the Army to remain an elite, privileged class which was not loyal to either NASSER or Egypt. SCHEER also blamed NASSER's failure to develop a political party with its own aims set forth for his lack of success in communicating with his people and obtaining their full support.# SECRET132482Copy 1 of 3 CopiesPage 82 of 134 PagesNW 88613Docld:34517445 Page 83
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SF 100-46832WEH·ay# SECRETThe January, 1968 issue of "Ramparts" Magazine contains an article entitled "Oil and the Arabs (The Nasser Thesis: Part 2)" This article states "Researchers for this article and Part I ("Ramparts", November, 1967) include BOB AVAKIAN, JIM HAWLEY, DAVID KOLODNEY and JOHN SPITZER."The article states the thesis that the Middle East is "of paramount strategic importance to this Country" because the Persian Gulf produces 27% of the world's petroleum and has proved global reserves of 60%. In addition the Mideast is the trade crossroads between Asia and Europe and an important cultural bridge between Africa and Asia and the center of the Islam world.The article explains that 27% of the oil used throughout the world comes from the Middle East and, since oil is indispensable to industrial and military potential it is no wonder that continued control of this resource is a major focus of the Western powers. It adds that if control of this oil is important to the West it is absolutely critical to the Arabs, since it is the only source of the cash needed to break out of the cycle of underdevelopment and poverty in which their countries are trapped. It pointed out that the profits from the oil go to the "wrong" states, those with the least population (12% of the Arab population) and therefore the least need. The article stated the Arabs could repay the total investment of Western powers of $5 billion in two years with the oil removed from Arab wells except for the fact that Western Countries are in a position to force the Arabs to deal with them or to have no market whatever for this oil. The article cited how Iranian Prime Minister MOSSADEGH nationalized his country's oil production May 1, 1951 and the U. S. proceeded to crush him so totally that the example has served as a chilling model for other would-be nationalists - no major oil producing country in the Mideast has dared to repeat MOSSADEGH'S attempt." The Western Powers were said to have accomplished this by imposing a total boycott of Iranian oil.The article explained that the Baghdad Pact was an integral part of a global containment policy which was put' into effect by the U.S. in the early 1950s but NASSER refused to align himself with it. NASSER was said to be a threat to the Western powers by being consciously and arrogantly expansionist,NW 88613Docld:34517445 Page 84132583# SECRETCopy ......... of 3 CopiesPage 83 of 134 Pages
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH:ayand by holding the position that oil in the underpopulated oil producing countries must be the basis of the development of the entire region. It stated that the U.S. response to NASSER was principally by propping up the economy and military machines of the monarchies while alternately mollifying through grants or the withholding of grants to the more leftist tendencies as they appear- ed in Egypt and other Arab regimes. The article added "Intensive CIA operations even involved founding the American Friends of the Middle East - a pro-Arab Organization in the U.S. - as well as widespread meddling in internal Arab politics."The article continued that Soviet support of the Arabs began in 1955, which caused the U. S. to be more careful not to cause an anti-Western Arab union to be formed that might topple America's right-wing Arab allies. NASSER was said to have steered clear of any major direct confrontation with the U.S. and "the U.S. has never attempted to really clamp down on him." Thus the Arab revolutionary impulse, fearful of challenging the West, turned to "challenging Israel as a Western tool" and condemned "Israeli im- perialism." This hostility to Israel provided a kind of anti- imperialism that was able to appeal to both progressive leftists and traditional monarchies in the Arab world. In 1956 Israel joined the British and French attempt to reestablish by force Western control over the Suez Canal after NASSER nationalized it, and Israel also supported the French in the Algerian war. To the Arabs it seemed that Israel had aligned herself with the exploiters. This signalled the Russians to begin helping the Arabs to get as many friends as possible among the non-aligned countries even while local communists in Egypt, Algeria and Syria were being jailed. Russia felt that the Arabs were moving to the left to justify Fuscian support.The article said the social changesin Algeria and Egypt were significant but also inadequate because they destroyed the power of the traditional upper class without in any significant sense passing power on to that very broad base of the Arab pyramid. The reforms in Syria and Egypt came about as a result of military coups d'etat which placed men in power who were willing to introduce re- forms.The article continued by stating "The identification of Israel-rather than the oil companies and their monarchies-as the serious extension of imperialism has allowed Arab progressives to play at revolution, through periodic anti-Israel tirades, withoutNW 88613DocId:34517445 Page 85SECRET84Copy.........of.........CopiesPage 84 of 134 Pages
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SF 100-46832WEH·ay# SECRETtaking essential revolutionary action." In reference to thesix day Arab-Israel war the article stated "the Soviets were clearlyunprepared to assess its implications," in reference to with-drawal of UN troops from Gaza and Aqoba. It added "The Sovietscontinuously underestimated the emotional depth and politicalintensity of the Arab-Israeli conflict." It added that Russiabegan immediately to rearm Eghpt and Syria after the defeat,specifying only that their weapons be better used.The article stated "The Central Thesis of this essayis that the Great Powers cannot be expected to be concerned, on anyconsistent basis, with the interests and needs of the Arabs andJews who live in the Mideast," but are preoccupied with theirown prestige and security needs. It added that both the Arabs andthe Jews identify their opposition with the nation of imperialismsupported by the American oil companies.The article added that "The Arab denial of legitimateJewish nationhood as the basis of Israel is the subject of deservedridicule. But that the mainstream of Zionism has, in like fashion,denied the existence of a legitimate Arab quest for nationhood isnot commonly admitted. This factor has been of great significancein the formation and sustaining of Arab hostility towards Israel.The Arabs will never be able to turn their energies from opposingIsrael to the development of an Arab nation so long as the Israelishold the existence of an Arab nation to be a threat." The Israelisviewed the drive toward Arab unity and independence as a threatto them. ABBA EBAN conferred upon Israel the very nationhood thatIsrael denied to the Arabs. The Arabs find this position mostdifficult to accept when the Jews deny them the same po position.The article stated that "sraelis must come to accept the fact thatnationhood is an aspiration which some Arabs hold without beingconned into it by NASSER; and that an Arab State - if it became areality (as a confederation or a nation) - is not necessarily athreat to Israel."The article concluded that "The Arab Nation and theJewish Nation are both legitimate concepts which can survive to-gether only if they exist as part of the same social revolutionto meet the needs of the people of the Mideast."NW 88613Docld:34517445 Page 86SECRET85
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SECRETOSF 100-46832WEH:menThe April - May, 1968, issue of "Ramparts" Magazine, lists ROBERT SCHEER as Editor in Chief and carried a two page article entitled "The 'peace' Candidates by ROBERT SCHEER. In this article, SCHEER discussed the Vietnam War and Democratic presidential candidates ROBERT F. KENNEDY (now deceased) and EUGENE McCARTHY. SCHEER was critical of each of these candidates because they were not among the original protestors against U.S. participation in the Vietnam War.The June 15, 1968, issue of "Remparts Magazine stated that this issue marked the beginning of "Ramparts as a fortnightly nagazine which will appear in the same format as it has previously appeared. It stated that features alanned for the first few editions include (in part) several articles on the problems of today's Cuba including an interview with FIDEL CASTRO by ROBERT SCHEER."The August 10, 1968, issue of "Ramparts" carried a two-page article entitled, "The Night BOBBY Died," by ROBERT SCHEER. In this article, SCHEER stated he was present at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California with ROBERT F. KENNEDY on the evening of Primary Election Day, June 4, 1968, in the Royal Suite, while the KENNEDY campaign workers were waiting for the returns to come in. He wrote that he was also in the Empire Ballroom while ROBERT KENNEDY was giving his victory speech and while KENNEDY was shot about 12:29 Α.Μ.The September 28, 1968, issue of "Ramparts" carried a feature-length article dealing with the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which was described as "a Ramparts special report" by staff members and it named 23 persons including ROBERT SCHEER as responsible for this report.
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SF 100-46832WEH/dpThe San Francisco Chronicle daily newspaperpublished in San Francisco, California, in its issue ofMarch 3, 1969, carried the column of WILLIAM HOGAN entitled,"World of Books: Eldridge Cleaver, Written on the Run."In this article HOGAN discussed a new book "Eldridge Cleaver:Post-Prison Writings and Speeches," which was edited byROBERT SCHEER published by the book publishing branch ofRamparts magazine. The article continued by stating thatSCHEER compiled this book from pieces that appeared previouslyin Ramparts magazine and from speeches delivered by CLEAVERat various times. The article concluded by stating that abook entitled "Berkeley On 0 Dollars a Day," by ROBERT SCHEERand his Ramparts colleague PETER COLLIER is presently undernegotiation with publishers.V. SPEECHES AND TELEVISION APPEARANCES OF THE SUBJECTJuly 17, 1966A protest rally for persons jailed as a result ofAuto Row and Sheraton-Palace Hotel sit-in demonstrationswas held at San Francisco City Hall plaza July 17, 1966. Thecrowd at the rally was estimated at from 400 to 1,000 people.ROBERT SCHEER was one of the speakers and said that ifGovernor BROWN had not freed these sit-in demonstrators byelection day, SCHEER would tell the people to march to thejail housing these demonstrators, rather than going to thepolls.SF T-35 on 7/20/66Observation by SA of FBIAugust 6, 1966The August 6-9 Committee sponsored the Third Inter-national Days of Protest, August 6-9, 1966, at San FranciscoCivic Center Plaza, San Francisco. This demonstration numberedabout 2,500 people on August 6, 1966. One of the speakers wasROBERT SCHEER, who stated that the demonstrators should not getdiscouraged, but should continue their picketing and demonstrating.Observations by SAs ofFBISF T-35 on 8/8/66Copy 1 of 3 CopiesPage 87 of 134 PagesNW 88613Docld:34517445 Page 88
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SF 100-46832WEH/dpSeptember 7, 1966# SECRETThe "Stockton Record" newspaper, Stockton, California, issue of September 8, 1966, carried a news article headlined, "Editor Attacks U. S. Policy in Vietnam; Sees National Peril." In this article it was stated that ROBERT SCHEER had delivered a speech at the Raymond College High Table, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, on September 7, 1966. SCHEER maintained that the concept of an international communist conspiracy was false and the U. S. is mistaken in considering it a unified, ever-growing force that can only be contained by force. He stated that the communist conspiracy is a movement that does not hold together because of nationalistic interests. He cited the Sino-Soviet dispute and the international squabbling between satellite countries and the major communist powers. He said the Vietnam conflict began as an internal dispute and if the U. S. withdrew from the conflict this withdrawal would reaffirm the communists' confidence in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.He concluded that if anyone is genuinely concerned about American security, he is going to have to work to reverse American foreign policy.October 18, 1966"The Guardsman," weekly student newspaper at City College of San Francisco, in its issue of October 19, 1966, carried a news article headlined, "Scheer Lectures on Involvement in Southeast Asia." The article stated ROBERT SCHEER spoke at the College Theater to a capacity audience. He was reported to have reviewed the historical changes in Vietnam, the French role in Vietnam affairs, and the limited policy set by President KENNEDY of only sending 30,000 advisors as "technical aid only for a limited period of time to prevent a colonial posture." The article stated further, "In a summary conclusion SCHEER said that if there is an international communist movement, it should cease to exist, that there are hardly two communist countries that coexist, that communism is in truth a form of nationalism and that practically speaking, 'it does not exist.'"NW 88613Docld:34517445 Page 891330 SECRET Copy 1 of 3 CopiesPage 88 of 134 Pages88
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dpDecember 2, 1966Discussion Unlimited, Incorporated (DU), sponsored a meeting December 2, 1966, in the auditorium of Los Angeles Trade College, 700 block, Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles, with from 1,000 to 1,500 people in attendance. The topic of the discussion was "What Will the New Development on the Left Be?" ROBERT SCHEER from "Ramparts" magazine, EUGENE GENOVESE from Rutgers College in New Jersey, and DOROTHY HEALEY from Southern California District CP were the speakers. HEALEY spoke first, stating that the most important things for the groups on the left to do today were to unite on common grounds and to be critical on grounds where they cannot agree, as well as to give allegiance to the other 14 socialist countries in the world. She described these countries as the hope of the future. ROBERT SCHEER attacked her bitterly, his main contention being that he felt he could not even say he was a socialist because of all the crimes that are committed in the name of socialism. He said he could not align himself with other countries in the socialist world because of the barbaric deeds committed by some of these countries.He led a vicious attack against the Soviet Union, against the STALIN era, against the crimes that were committed in the Soviet Union against Jewish people and Jewish culture, and against other religious people and intellectuals in the Soviet Union. He made reference to the two writers who had been recently jailed in Russia. In a rebuttal and question and answer period the attack went back and forth, mainly between GENOVESE and HEALEY against SCHEER for his anti-Soviet Union position. SCHEER constantly brought up Hungary, stating that the oppression that went on in Hungary is no different than the oppression of the United States in Vietnam. He also said the Soviet Union is a sick society just as the U. S. is a sick society, and he is quite sure that the workers in each society are not much aware of or care about the relative difference of the sickness.SF T-30, on 12/9/66SF T-31, on 12/13/66NW 88613Docld:34517445 Page 90SECRET89Copy 1 of 3 CopiesPage 89 of/34 Pages
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SF 100-46832WEH/dpSECRETThe PW issue of December 10, 1966, and December 24, 1966, also carried news articles on the above-described forum. SCHEER's remarks are reported in the December 10, 1966 issue as follows:"Scheer, who ran as a peace candidate in the Democratic primary in the Seventh Congressional District, winning nearly 45% of the vote, spoke of the kind of revolution he would like to see. 'Revolution is better than rebellion,' he said, 'but I am interested in what a revolution will lead to....Soviet society is vicious....I want a revolution that means the right of a man to control his own life.'"Referring to Marxism, Scheer said, 'The theories don't work. The working class is not getting poorer and poorer."'It is true,' he said, 'that the 'New Left' has no ideology, (but because of that) it does not follow that it should accept the old ones...Why is there a New Left?"'The old Left was tired, cynical, frightened... LSD is more important than (considered by the 'Old Left')...The young people who have looked at the American Dream and said it isn't so great have made a statement more profound than anything the Old Left has ever made'."A characterization of DU is contained in the appendix.February 9, 1967"The Daily Cardinal," student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, in its issue of February 10, 1967, carried an article headlined, "Scheer Hits 'Mythology' of U.S. Anti-Communism." This article stated as follows:SECRET901332Copy 1 of 3 CopiesPage 90 of 134 PagesNW 88613Docld:34517445 Page 91
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SF 100-46832WEH: kah# SECRET"Anti-Communism is what holds the American people together, not the Judaeo-Christian ethic, radical author Robert Scheer told 500 people in the Social Science building Thursday."He argued that the United States is attempting to impose on the Southeast Asian crisis the 'myth' of a monolithic Communism and the policy of 'contain- ment' that developed out of the post-World War II Eastern European situation 20 years ago."He said that America has become 'so imbued with the anti-Communist mythology' that it has become the over-riding criteria for all, and especially foreign policy decision-making."He cited the investigations of philosopher Bertrand Russell's Vietnam 'War Crimes Tribunal' which purports to show American use of 'fragmentation bombs' that are not effective militarily, but which demoralize the population. 'And these bombs are designed not so much to kill as to torture.'"'What is frighteningly horrible about this whole policy,' he said, 'is that it works. It succeeds militarily even where it fails politically.'"He urged his listeners to 'support the Vietcong, or National Liberation Front...given the fact that they are the only ones standing up to the American 'intrusion' over there.'"He said that it is not the North Vietnamese who have shown 'bad faith' in efforts to negotiate, 'but us.' They have already offered concessions, he said, 'even though it is we who are bombing them.'"Russian and Chinese foreign policies, before and after the death of Stalin, he said, 'have been essentially conservative, and not aggressive.' He cited as evidence the Trotsky-Stalin conflict and Mao Tse-tung's early differences with the regular Chinese Communist Party apparatus over this issue."# SECRET91Copy.........of........CopiesPage 91 of 134 PagesNW 88613DocId:34517445 Page 92