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er 4 ie | OF B‘NAI B’RITH a ~ € y - oo . fo ; 315 Lexington Avenue fins! rac & % ¢ eel a New York, N.¥. 10016 wy \ MEMORANDUM FOR YOUR INFORMATION 2 To: ADL Regional Offices National Commission iat Civil Rights Committee Lee From: Pg bic CRCs and Federations x A Subject: Spiro T. Agnew b7c Former Vice-President Spiro Agnew, in an interview on the Today show carried over the NBC network on May 11, relieved himself of some deplorable statements about alleged "Zionist influences in America", He was invited to the program to promote his novel, "The Canfield Decision” which has been re- ceived rather poorly, both as a literary work and as an anti-Jewish statement. ora ar . || ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE Nes i a } Se cy Immediately following that telecast the Anti-Defamation League issued a public statement charging that the remarks made by the ex-Vice President were shocking and deplorable. We said: "The irresponsible anti-Semitic statements maligning American Jews and the American press made by Spiro Agnew this morning on the Today Show are shocking and deplorable and further discredit him. His parroting of the Arab propaganda line comes as no surprise in light of his activities in behalf of Arab petrodollar countries seeking to invest in the United States. The American public will reject this bigotry from a former public official who resigned in disgrace," The former Vice-President has now amplified and expanded his views about Jews and Israel in an interview by Washington Star staff writer William Delaney, published in the May 23 The Washington Star and carried as a news story in the national media. Clearly, Agnew's remarks are vulgarly anti-Jewish and include the hoary canards about Jewish control of the media. He imitates the gutter hate press of America by actually identifying certain media figures by name in an effort to prove his nonsense that the Jews control the news media. To get the full flavor of this bigot's remarks, we enclose a copy of The Washineton Star interview Note that Agnew singles cut the "pt nai B 'yith eemteg Ves LUO aU EV Vast SaaS ery Anti-Defamation League" for speaking out “at the first breath of anything that is legitimate criticism even, of the Jewish community, it's always bigotry." Obviously, ADL views the Agnew attack upon it as a compliment, considering the source, ADL's public reaction to the interview was verbalized as follows: "For the third time in a matter of weeks, the disgraced Spira Agnew, a convicted felon, has engaged in classical anti-Semitism of the Nazi variety. It is quite apparent thet Agnew’s business affil- lations with the Arabs have led him to became a propagandist of the most evil kind."