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13-00000 CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS» ; IN BH89 SECRET - a | TDCS YWhen Filled In} a ~ PAGE? 4, oo ee, wt WHICH HE COMPARED SENATOR GOLDWATER AND THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY TO HITLER AND. NAZISM BUT STRESSED: THAT THF FORMER WERE BETTER oo ORGANIZED, HE STATED THAT THERE WAS A SECRET ARMY OF THE RIGHT IN oo 7 THE UNITED STATES WITH RAMIFICATIONS INTO THE PENTAGON : THAT-WOULD-- SEIZE POWER SOMEDAY. HE ATTRIBUTED THE ASSASSINAT HON OF PRESIDENT. - KENNEDY TO THE. BIRCH SOCIETY .BUT STATED THAT SOMETHING MUST HAVE ~ GONE WRONG AT. THE LAST MOMENT. HE SPECULATED THAT AN ATTACK ON THE me USSR WAS TO, HAVE FOLLOWED ON THE HEELS OF THE ASSASSINATION BUT ’ -HAD SOMEHOW BEEN FORESTALLED. 7 3. -OTHER BLOC: COMMENT HAS TENDED TO BE MORE RESTRAINED THAN THAT OF THE HUNGARIAN CHIEF OF MISSION BUT THE VILIFICATION OF SENATOR | GOLDWATER AND .THE CHARACTERIZATION OF HIM AS CONNECTED WITH 3 HES "FASCISM" 1S GENERAL. SEVERAL SOVIET OFFICIALS TO WHOM SOURCE | ‘TALKED APPEARED NOT TO TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY WILDER REMARKS SUCH AS + ‘THOSE THAT HAD BEEN MADE BY THE HUNGARIAN CHIEF OF MISSION BUT NEVERTHELESS, SEEMED GENUINELY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THE ROLE OF ~ SENATOR GOLDWATER AS A FORCE ON THE US SCENE MIGHT PORTEND FOR THE SOVIET UNION. x . 4, THE APPOINTMENT OF THOMAS MANN AS ASSISTANT FOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS HAS BEEN WIDELY COMMENTED UPON IN BLOC DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES, PARTICULARLY BY SOVIET OFFICIALS. IT HAS BEEN CITED AS AN INDICATION CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET ©. | FORM. 9096 MFG. 6-63 (15-20-44-47) -. . , ITINUATION OF TDCS INFORMATION REP:
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