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Document date: 01/18/1964
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• REPORTER AND WHO HAS PROVED TO BE A MATURE, INTELLIGENT PERSON AND

AN ASTUTE OBSERVER. HIS OBSERVATIONS ARE BASED UPON NUMEROUS

CONVERSATIONS TO WHICH HE HAS BEEN PARTY.

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1. THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY SENATOR BARRY GOLDWATER THAT HE INTENDED

TO. SEEK THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNIED

STATES HAS TOUCHED OFF WIDESPREAD COMMENT IN SOVIET BLOC DIPLOMATIC

CIRCLES. NUMEROUS SOVIET BLOC DIPLOMATS INCLUDING

SPECIFICALLY SOVIET, CZECH AND HUNGARIAN DIPLOMATS, WHEN TALKING

AMONG THEMSELVES, HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR VIEWS IN WHICH THEY HAVE

CHARACTERIZED SENATOR GOLDWATER HAS BEING A "FASCIST", "LINKED WITH

THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY", AND "HYSTERICAL".

2. A HUNGARIAN CHIEF OF MISSION TO WHOM SOURCE SPOKE WAS THE

MOST OUTSPOKEN IN HIS VIEWS. HE EVOLVED AN ELABORATE THEORY IN

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WHICH HE COMPARED SENATOR GOLDWATER AND THE JOHN BIRCH SÓCIETY"-

TO HITLER AND NAZISM BUT STRESSED THAT THE FORMER WERE BETTER

ORGANIZED.. HE STATED THAT THERE WAS A SECRET ARMY OF THE RIGHT IN T

THE UNITED STATES WITH RAMIFICATIONS INTO THE PENTAGON: THAT WOULD

SEIZE POWER SOMEDAY: HE ATTRIBUTED THE ASSASSINATION 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

USSR WAS TO HAVE FOLLOWED ON THE HEELS OF THE ASSASSINATION BUT

HAD SOMEHOW BEEN FORESTALLED.

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

"FASCISM" IS 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..

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

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