- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Congressional
Record
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- PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 88th CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION VOLUME 109-PART 1 JANUARY 9, 1963, TO JANUARY 30, 1963
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- UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, 1963
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- Current Communist Goals
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- EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG,
JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963
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- Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia
Nordman of De Land. Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism,
and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to
the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
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- At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include
in the Record, under unanimous consent, the following 'Current Communist
Goals' which she identifies as an excerpt from 'The Naked Communist,' by
Cleon Skousen:
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- (From 'The Naked Communist,' by Cleon
Skousen)
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- Current Communist Goals
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- 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as
the only alternative to atomic war.
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- 2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in
preference to engaging in atomic war.
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- 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament
by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
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- 4. Permit free trade between all nations
regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items
could be used for war.
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- 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia
and Soviet satellites.
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- 6. Provide American aid to all nations
regardless of Communist domination.
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- 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission
of Red China to the U.N.
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- 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate
states in spite of Khrushehev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question
by free election under supervision of the U.N.
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- 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic
tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as
negotiations are in progress.
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- 10. Allow all soviet satellites individual
representation in the U.N.
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- 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope
for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a
one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist
leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by
Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are
now doing in the Congo.)
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- 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the
Communist Party.
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- 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
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- 14. Continue giving Russia access to
the U.S. Patent Office.
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- 15. Capture one or both of the political
parties in the United States.
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- 16. Use technical decisions of the courts
to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate
civil rights.
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- 17. Get control of schools. Use them
as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda.
Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers, associations. Put the party
line in textbooks.
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- 18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
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- 19. Use student riots to foment public
protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
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- 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control
of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
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- 21. Gain control of key positions in
radio, TV, and motion pictures.
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- 22. Continue discrediting American culture
by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell
was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings,
substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
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- 23. Control art critics and directors
of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness,repulsive, meaningless
art."
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- 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity
by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and
free press.
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- 25. Break down cultural standards of
morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion
pictures, radio and TV.
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- 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy
and promiscuity, as "normal, natural, healthy."
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- 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace
repealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible
and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a
"religious crutch."
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- 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of
religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the
principle of "separation of church and state."
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- 29. Discredit the American Constitution
by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs,
a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
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- 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers.
Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common
man."
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- 31. Belittle all forms of American culture
and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was
only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to
Russian history since the Communists took over.
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- 32. Support any socialist movement to
give centralized control over any part of the culture-education, social
agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
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- 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures
which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
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- 34. Eliminate the House Committee on
Un-American Activities.
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- 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle
the FBI.
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- 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more
unions.
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- 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big
business.
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- 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest
from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric
disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.
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- 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession
and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over
those who oppose Communist goals.
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- 40. Discredit the family as an institution.
Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
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- 41. Emphasize the need to raise children
away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental
blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
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- 42. Create the impression that violence
and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition: that
students and special interest groups should rise up and use united force
to solve economic, political or social problems.
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- 43. Overthrow all colonial governments
before native populations are ready for self-government.
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- 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
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