To fight HUAC...
It was 1965, my final year at UW Madison. I had formed the “Contemporary Affairs Forum” to host speakers of a left and progressive bent. I had also been elected as the graduate student representative on the UW Student Council (less than a hundred of the many thousands of graduate students actually voted). I spoke at anti-war rallies and was permitted to write occasional commentaries for the student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal.
With the secret political police go-ahead, Robert Burris had arranged for me to do post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago with Dr. Lawrence Bogorad.
The FBI was letting me feel my oats. Only temporarily. The Gestapo had future plans for me.
Then Frank Wilkinson of anti-HUAC fame (see post 12 of this series) came to Madison to speak. I had not met him in San Francisco in 1960, but of course knew about him. After his talk, Frank approached me to say that he had learned about my interest in defeating HUAC. The National Committee to Abolish HUAC, of which he was Executive Director, was set to open an office in New England and Frank flattered me, saying that I was the only person for the job.
True, HUAC was no longer the force it had been a few years back. Senator Joe McCarthy was discredited and dead; the San Francisco police riot (see post 12) had damaged HUAC's reputation; and most importantly, with the rise of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements, anti-communism no longer had its earlier unquestioned hold on the country.
Frank Wilkinson...
The “official” US political police description* of Frank Wilkinson is impressive:
“Frank Wilkinson (August 16, 1914 – January 2, 2006) was an American civil liberties activist...
“Wilkinson was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) twice, once in 1956 in Los Angeles, and again in 1958 in Atlanta. Both times he chose to plead the First Amendment (rather than the Fifth). In Atlanta he was joined in pleading the First by Carl Braden, a civil rights activist. They both were cited for contempt of Congress in a vote of 435-0 for Frank and 434-1 for Carl. Their case went all the way up to the Supreme Court (see Wilkinson v. United States). In a 5-4 decision, the court upheld Wilkinson's conviction (they refused to hear Braden's case, so the effect was to uphold his conviction as well).
“While the case was wending its way through the courts, Wilkinson toured the country speaking out against HUAC and organizing in cities where HUAC held hearings. In 1960, he helped form the National Committee to Abolish HUAC, which evolved into the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation, the organization he led until his death.
“On May 1, 1961, Frank and Carl Braden entered federal prison. After his release, Wilkinson continued his work to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, traveling the country, speaking at campuses and meetings to build opposition to HUAC. During this time he continued to be closely monitored by the FBI.
“In 1986, with the help of attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union, Wilkinson sued for his FBI file. Eventually the FBI was forced to release 132,000 pages of files** which included Wilkinson's reports on his speaking engagements and travel, as well as an apparent plot to assassinate him.
“Because of his resistance to political repression, Wilkinson received the Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty; and the American Civil Liberties Union Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate Award, the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award, and the 1997 National Lawyers’ Guild Legal Worker of the Year. Wilkinson's story was featured in a special edition of Life (magazine) in 1991”... (Frank Wilkinson, Wikipedia)
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An impressive story. Which conveniently hides the fact that Frank Wilkinson himself was a foul FBI fake, another one of the army of phony “activists” in the United States who maliciously “substitute” for real progressive political movement.
According to Frank, he served about 9 months in federal prison; I have no reason to doubt the veracity of this claim. Nine months is not a long incarceration and it was a maneuver to falsely establish Wilkinson as a leftist “hero.”
From that point on, Frank lived well, even very well. He and his second wife Donna (also a FBI stooge) resided in an expensive, split-level home in Los Angeles. Frank never was short of money or alcohol (he constantly drank to excess); he traveled extensively; Wilkinson enjoyed his contrived status and easy life style.
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In 1965, I knew none of the above reality – about Wilkinson, about his Committee, about the massive reality of FBI-generated fake “movements.” I had long felt the urge to devote myself to political change, and becoming active in the National Committee to Abolish HUAC seemed the best way to become part of what I (naively) thought was a progressive movement in the United States of Dictatorial America.
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*Wikipedia and all its various language cousins are products of the American CIA.
** More fakery. In reality, no US court would ever “force” the FBI to release its bona fide records.
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