Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

Reference:

The Frank Church Papers: A Summary Guide, including the papers of Bethine C. Church and Carl Burke, by Ralph W. Hansen and Deborah J. Roberts, assisted by Ellen Koger and David Kennedy (Boise: Boise State University Library, Special Collections Department, 1998).

Finding aid:

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv50912

[0552] The Church League of America Collection of the Research Files of Counterattack, the Wackenhut Corporation, and Karl Baarslag, 1928-1973 (bulk, 1945-1973), TAM.148

Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Description: The research files of this collection were obtained by the right-wing Church League of America from several prominent anti-Communist organizations and individuals: American Business Consultants, Inc. (publishers of Counterattack), Karl Baarslag, and the Wackenhut Corporation. All of these organizations and individuals had connections to the intelligence agencies of the United States government, kept detailed research files on individuals and organizations as part of their organizational or professional activities, and were a part of a right-wing research and information network that monitored Communists and other perceived threats to their interpretation of the American way of life. The research files contain newspaper and magazine clippings, reports, flyers, internal and external correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, circulars, and government publications. Series I: Counterattack Research Files, 1928-1967, contains files on "The Tablet" Editorials [Catholic Weekly Newspaper]; Foundations, 1942-1966; Alger Hiss; American Coalition of Patriotic Societies; American Legion; American Friends of the Captive Nations; Anti-Communist Legislation; Canadian Intelligence Service; Christian Anti-Communism Crusade; Circuit Riders; Bildenberg Group conferences; Council Against Communist Aggression; Council Against Communist Aggression and Alexis de Tocqueville Society; Dr. Fred C. Schwarz [Christian Anti-Communism Crusade]; Fascism; Fluoridation; Foreign Policy Association; Fund for the Republic; Gordon Hall; Harry Elmer Barnes; Hate Groups; Highlander Folk School; Hilaire du Berrier; Alger Hiss Trial; HUAC; Immigration; Circuit Riders, Inc.; Congress of Freedom, Inc.; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI; Joseph P. Kamp; Fulton Lewis, Jr.; Liberty Book Club; Louis Budenz; Mental Health [Dr. Fred Schwarz and Christian Anti-Communism Crusade]; Owen Lattimore; Paul Crouch; Plain Talk; Reference Material on Compulsory Sickness Insurance - Issued by the National Physicians Committee for the Extension of Medical Service; Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) United Nations Educational; Sen. William F. Knowland; The John Birch Society; and World Court. Series II: Wackenhut Corporation Research Files, Bulk, 1955-1973 1931-1973, contains files on American Nazi Party; Common Sense; Group Research, Inc.; Highlander Folk School; John Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan; Life Line; Reverend Carl McIntire; The Minutemen; Moral Re-Armament; National Indignation Committee; National States Rights Party; On Target - Minutemen publication; The Reuther Memorandum [online at http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/08/reuther-memorandum-1961.html]; Major General Edwin Walker; and Washington Observer / American Mercury. Series III: Karl Baarslag Research Files, 1930-1968, contains files on "For America" [ The Dan Smoot Report]; Amerasia [The Amerasia Case]; American Committee to Free Cuba; American Nazi Party; American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters; American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, Inc.; Americans for Constitutional Action; Bilderberg Group (Bilderbergers) [1957 St. Simon Island Conference]; Brainwashing [by Communists]; Bricker Amendment; Captive Nations Week; Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation [Includes the Mindszenty Report]; Citizens Foreign Relations Committee; Citizens Councils; Citizens Foreign Aid Committee; Committee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations; Committee for Pillion Resolution; Committee for the Monroe Doctrine; Fluoridation; Forced Repatriation; Ford Foundation and Adjuncts; Foreign Policy Association; Foundations [and Relationship to Communism]; Fund for the Republic; Genocide Treaty; Group Research, Inc. [Index of the "Non-left"]; Hate Groups; Highlander Folk School; The Independent (formerly Exposé); Institute of Pacific Relations; John Birch Society; Koinonia Foundation; Ku Klux Klan; Liberty Lobby; Lifeline Foundation, Inc.; Loyalty Oath; Mental Health; National Renaissance Party [Neo-Nazi Group]; National States Rights Party (The Thunderbolt); National Indignation Convention; National Right to Work Committee; and The Northern League.

References:

Meyer Peter Filardo, "The Counterattack research files on American Communism, Tamiment Institute Library, New York University - weekly anti-Communism newsletter published by American Business Consultants, Inc., 1947-1968," Labor History, May, 1998; Keith Call, "Edgar C. Bundy," December 12, 2011, http://recollections.liblog.wheaton.edu/2011/12/12/edgar-c-bundy/, Ernie Lazar, "Edgar C. Bundy and Church League of America...rev. March 2013," https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/bundy-1; Matthew Glazebrook, How to Be an American: Community Anticommunism and the Grassroots Right, 1948-1956 (Ph.D., University of Sussex, 2013), http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/45257/1/Glazebrook,_Matthew.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html

http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/otherArchives.html

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/476988874

http://www.worldcat.org/title/counterattack-research-files-1932-1968/oclc/476988874

Finding aids:

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_148/

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_148/tam_148.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_148/dscref2581.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/counter.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/counter_content.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/counter.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body

[0553] John V. Ciceu papers, 1962-1965, Coll. 142

Location: Nevada Historical Society, 1650 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89503

Description: Records and other papers (correspondence, reports, office files, and account books) relating to Ciceu's activities as chapter leader of the John Birch Society in Reno, Nev., and his work in other organizations, including Nevada Anti-Communist Freedom Forum, Nevada Educational Foundation, and American Independent Party of Nevada. Correspondents include John Hensley DeTar, Everett M. Dirksen, Thruston B. Morton, James B. Utt, Robert Welch, and Dan Smoot.

References:

See A Guide to the Manuscript Collections at the Nevada Historical Society (1975)

Websites with information:

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/612365840

http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-v-ciceu-papers-1962-1965/oclc/612365840

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

http://quest.grainger.uiuc.edu/RussianManuscripts/Guide/Collection/350

http://www.museums.nevadaculture.org/resources/1/Nevada%20Historical%20Society_mastermslist.pdf

[0554] Cincinnati, Ohio-- American Jewish Committee Records, 1966-1991, MS-703

Location: Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220

Description: The American Jewish Committee (AJC) was founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Jews and to alleviate the consequences of persecution or disaster affecting them at home or abroad. The AJC Cincinnati Chapter, founded in 1944, combats bigotry and works to promote tolerance and mutual respect. Series A. Correspondence and Subject Files, 1966-1990. Subseries 1. General Files, contains files on Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitism and Extremism Task Force, Farm Crisis and Extremism, Holocaust materials, Martin Luther, Nazism, New Right, Scientific Creationism, Skinhead Recruitment, and Skinheads/Neo-Nazis.