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Memo Smith to Sullivan RE: ADMIRLARLEIGHA.BUPKE ANDSEVEN DAYSIN MAY" ENTAL DETAILS: Seven Days in May" Disturbs Admiral Burke Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, U. S. Navy (Ret.), who is a good friend of the Bureau and is on our.Special Correspondents ist, has contacted Assistant Director William C. Sullivan concerning the recently released motion.picture,. "Seven Days in May," adapted from the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charos W. Bailey II, Burke stated that he had seen the film, which portrays every military and civilian leader in it as a man of great weakness, and he feels that the picrure is detrimental to the Nation. His appraisal of the picture has appeared in the press, and, as a result, he said, he has received several. letters. One correspondent, according to Admiral Burke, made the following charges concerning the principal members of the movie's cast: (1) Fredric March, together with his wife, Florence Eldridge, have been members of some 20 communist front organizations; (2) Burt Lancaster is a 'zealous Moscow staiwart" and was affiliated with several communist fronts; and (3) b6 b7C have been cited by a California Committee on Un-Ame:ican Activities. Another correspondent, NormanVan Amburgh, of Langhorne,.. Pennsylvania, indicated that two new books, "'The Passion of the Hawks,. by Tristram Coffin, and "The Military Establishment, " by John Swomley, as well as a new movie, "Dr. Strangelove or: How Iearned to Stop Worrying. and Love the Bomb," produced by Stanley Kubrick, also disparage the Pe.itagon.. Admiral Burke said that he was disturbed by the allegations concerning these individuals and woula like to know if they are true.. Theme of "Seven Days in May" "Seven Lays in May, " which has been reviewed by the Central Research. Unit, was first pubiished as a novel in l962 by Harper & Row, New York. The. leading characters are: (1) President Jordan Lyman, Democrat, one and a half years in the Presidency, whose popularity is at an all-time low mainly. because of a nuclear disarmament teaty he nas just concluded with the Sov Union; ENTIAL