FBI's List
Of 'Radical
Subversives'
The FBI has elaborate plans to deal with possible subversion during a
national disaster, Curtis O. Lynum, agent in charge of the San Francisco office,
revealed yesterday.
"We know who the more radical subversives are," Lynum said. We can
pick them up if we feel national security is threatened by them," he told
members of the California Civil Defense and Disaster Directors Association,
which opened a two-day meeting at the Towne House here.
He said as an example, that "thousands of possible saboteurs" were
rounded up after Pearl Harbor in 1941. "It must have been very
effective," Lynum speculated, "because there wasn't one instance of
foreign-inspired sabotage during World War II in this nation."
Lynum also told directors he hoped 1967 would be the "beginning of a new
era of respect for the law."
"America is demanding an end to this lawlessness which is growing among
us," Lynum said. "And when this country wants something badly enough,
it usually gets it."
[Communication Company commentary:]
All in all, dear friends, this promises to be an interesting summer. Our
government is clearly planning to invade North Viet Nam with an eye toward
knocking out Red China. Certainly, they expect this country to reach a state of
drastic emergency before fall. Probably a full-scale, formally declared war.
When this happens, the FBI is ready -- ready & eager -- to take care of
all radicals & subversives, right? Round them up & put them away, &
if anything unfortunate happens that's just unfortunate, ain't it.
You & I, dear brothers, all of us who smoke a little pot & dig a
little peace -- we are high among the radicals & subversives Curtis C. Lynum
is ready to pick up.
Because dope is political, & don't you forget it. Anything that
criticizes the Establishment & its asinine war & power games is
political -- subversive! -- and taking dope is an act of criticism.
Whether you mean it to be or not.
Motives don't matter. The act, not the reason.
All the heads & hippies, all the black power people, all the wild &
futile reds with their outmoded economic fantasies & incredibly lovely &
naive idealism -- you & I, dear oh my brothers -- we have all been planned
for. Everything is ready.
Have a good trip, but remember
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