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yt "Asked about the FBI findings, that Douglas 5 edition, on page four, columns three and five, contained an article captioned, “The Anti-Liberal Sentiment: Fear of Being Different Exists", carrying the byline, "Kenneth McEldowney, Associate City Editor". This article is as follows: . Committee abolished, to weaken the FBI, to discredit Wachter, a University of California student, was a ‘Communist, the couple seemed to attach no significance to that fact, Wachter was one of the uncooperative witnesses. called by the House committee. The Cali- fornia student newspaper, in an inflammatory report of the ‘rally’ against the committee the day before the hearings started, made no mention of the FBI findings that the 19-year-old Wachter belonged to the Communist party as does his father, "**Operation Abolition’ is the name given by the Communist party to its attempts to have the House J. Edgar Hoover and to undermine the nation's security laws. The PTSA panel members took some of their material from Hoover's report ‘Communist Target-Youth,' in which the FBI director said, 'Channeled into proper outlets, this force (youth) can accomplish immeasurable good for a peace-loving world, Manipulated into destructive channels, this force can create chaos.'" The U of M "The Michigan Daily", January 20, 1961 "McCarthyism is not dead; there still exists in the minds of people an irrational fear of un-Americanisn, of Communism, It is still not accepted, or even safe, for one to speak out against the actions of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, or the House Un-American Activities Committee, If he dares fos he will be branded at best as a Communist GUpe >. Cat eg, “This was all brought to light quite , clearly on Tuesday night when I and a friend traveled to Battle Creek to speak out against the film "Operation Abolition’ which deals with the demonstrations against the May HUAC hearings in San Francisco. I wished to speak at the program being sponsored by the PTA,