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Fovenber 4, 1944 ZHE SMEAR OFFENSIVE = A REPORT +r This uneigned article, which fs apparently intended as a report to some undesignated individual or group, has as its stated intention the offering of proof that the publication of "Uncercover* by John Roy Carlson, is an "incident in an extensive......program® to exploit the war situation "in order to divide and confuse the American people to deepen and intensify the revolutionary elements present in the country", and "to silence all op- position to the foreign policy of the present adminfetration”. The method of the campaign, according to the author, is, by vil~ ification and slander, to destroy the reputatione of all persons oppoped to the policies of the agencies involved. He lists the following groups as collaborating in the program: - ‘ 1. The AmericanComrunist Party 2. The’ priends of Democracy, Incorporated } 3. The/ pet i-Defanation League nN £, Th on—Secterian Anti-Nazi Lea as Sh Se ee ee ee Ue gue 5 New Deal Agencies The entire article ia devoted to proving the above point and considerable apace is given to atterpting to show that "Undercover® was Com- wmunist inspired published under the auspices of the Friends of Democracy, - formed by Leon Birkhead. The career of Carlson, whose real name is Avedis Boghos Derounlan, is covered in detail in an effort to show his Comnunistic .,. background and influence. In discuseing warious allegedly Communist front - groups, the report returns consistently to "Undercover", referring to it as the *epitome" of the methods used by the "smearera". Under a subheading, “Method", the author states thet the entire plan is built around the worde "Fascism" and "Nazism"; anyone who disagrees with the “Crear Bund" is a Nazi or a Fasciet. If direct charges cannot be made against an individual he is associated, by innuende, with known subversives, thus transferring the stigna to the object of the attack. Several examples of this © technique are mentioned. The objective is stated to be to set the Protestant against the Catholic, the Catholic against the Protestant, both againet the Jens, white against Fegro, employer against employee, etc., thus creating disunity and opening the door for Communist control of the United States. The well-known Commmist infiltration sysjem ie cited and te exanples this are given. One of these is “The. testant”, edited by Kenneth Leslie, which is eaid to be controlled by the Cormuniets while osten- sibly acting as a medium for religious expression. Various articles in "The Protestant are said to be contributed by known Communists, including Hewlitt corps DESTROYED bla? 355 ~ Ao 4 R172 JUN 15 1961