1/22/2005
from the PaleoLibertarian campTodd Brendan Fahey began his political involvement in 1985, as a sophomore at Arizona State University, when he founded "Students for the John Birch Society at ASU." The event gained him immediate national media attention--though often not favorably.
He went on to serve as an Intelligence asset while at University of London - Union College to the late Lt. General Daniel O. Graham (former Defense Intelligence Agency chief and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and architect of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative). Throughout the years, Fahey has served as aide to U.S. Congressmen, American Governors and military Generals.
A rare-breed of "right-winger," Fahey is also unapologetically opposed to the "War On [some] Drugs." An avid experimenter of LSD, Fahey has written dozens of articles concerning the value of "the visionary experience" (as author Aldous Huxley termed it). This disparity has caused a rift between standard-brand Republicans and Fahey's Right/libertarian ideology.
Fahey is author of Wisdom's Maw (Far Gone Books, 1996), a controversial novel which "factionalizes" the CIA's MK-Ultra LSD/psychedelics experiments on U.S. military and domestic citizenry during the 1950s-early 1970s.
He is currently a Professor of English and "strategic writer" in South Korea.
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During his anti-Communist career, Robert Welch (founder of the John Birch Society) frequently made bold assertions containing numerical statements or percentages about "Communist influence and control” within agencies, organizations, or the U.S. as a whole – but he routinely inflated the numbers provided by his original sources of information OR, more commonly, the numbers he used were just abstract inventions with no coherent meaning other than to illustrate his grim view of our internal security status.
For example, in July 1961 Welch observed:
“…we believe that there are not more than 300,000 to 500,000 Communists in our country (or about ¼ of 1% of our population) and not more than a million allies, dupes, and sympathizers whom they can count on for any conscious support…” [JBS Bulletin, July 1961, page 14]
Thus, in total, Welch thought there were about 1.3 to 1.5 million Communists, Communist dupes, Communist sympathizers and Communist allies in the United States as of July 1961.
By contrast, see FBI HQ file 62-85557, serial #1703 (2/11/60 FBI memo from M.A. Jones to DeLoach) which contains a notation correcting an erroneous statement appearing in an Air Force pamphlet that estimated the number of Communist Party (CP) members in the U.S.
According to the notation, the actual number of CP members in the United States as of February 1960 was 5600 (i.e. nothing remotely close to Welch’s perception of 300,000-500,000!)
More significantly, the FBI’s Security Index was designed to track all persons considered actually or potentially dangerous to U.S. internal security. It included known and suspected Communist Party members plus Communist sympathizers and anyone whom the Bureau concluded should be considered for detention during a time of national emergency.
At the time Welch made his statement in July 1961, the FBI’s July 1961 Security Index report listed a total of 11,833 persons. Of that total, 9899 were in the “Communist” category--which included CPUSA members and sympathizers. [See HQ 100-358086, #2939].
Thus, while Welch perceived more than a million Communist operatives or sympathizers, the FBI concluded that only 9899 Americans were a potential security concern. Furthermore, of that number, only 26 worked for the U.S. Government in some capacity.
By contrast, here is Robert Welch's description of our internal security status which he presented at the first meeting of the Birch Society National Council in January 1960:
“Today, gentlemen, I can assure you, without the slightest doubt in my own mind, that the takeover at the top is, for all practical purposes, virtually complete. Whether you like it or not, or whether you believe it or not, our Federal Government is already, literally in the hands of the Communists."
"In our two states with the largest population, New York and California...already the two present Governors are almost certainly actual Communists...Our Congress now contains a number of men like Adam Clayton Powell of New York and Charles Porter of Oregon, who are certainly actual Communists, and plenty more who are sympathetic to Communist purposes for either ideological or opportunistic reasons."
[Note: the reference to Governors refers to Edmund G. Brown of California and Nelson Rockefeller of New York.]
"In the Senate, there are men like Stephen Young of Ohio, and Wayne Morse of Oregon, McNamara of Michigan, and Clifford Case of New Jersey and Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, whom it is utter folly to think of as just liberals. Every one of those men is either an actual Communist or so completely a Communist sympathizer or agent that it makes no practical difference..."
"Our State Department is loaded with Communists from top to bottom, to the extent that our roll call of Ambassadors almost sounds like a list somebody has put together to start a Communist front."
"It is estimated from many reliable sources that from 70% to 90% of the responsible personnel in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare are Communists."
"Our Central Intelligence Agency under Allen Dulles is nothing more or less than an agency to promote Communism throughout the world...Almost all the other Departments are loaded with Communists and Communist sympathizers. And this generalization most specifically does include our whole Defense Department."
Additional information about FBI judgments concerning the Birch Society and its accusations may be found in a 35-page Report at the following link:
http://birchers.blogspot.com/2005/02/fbi-documents-on-birch-society.html
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