Ernie Lazar FOIA FBI FILES AND DOCUMENTS
rev. 12/28/13
For more than 30 years I have been acquiring FBI (and other agency) files and documents via Freedom of Information Act requests. Of particular interest to me have been those persons and organizations who espouse a conspiracy explanation of current events and past historical developments---such as the John Birch Society.
As I learned more about the intellectual history of right-wing conspiracy arguments, I realized that I would need to pursue research on more than 2000 persons, organizations, publications, and controversies.
Altogether, I have received about 600,000 pages of documents and quite often I have been the first person to request and receive these files and documents. (In March 2007, the FBI informed me that I had submitted approximately 8900 FOIA requests during the preceding 28 years).
I also requested and received numerous files/documents pertaining to people and organizations associated with, or recommended by, the Birch Society in its literature. This includes documents/files on FBI informants within the CPUSA who later became paid speakers for the JBS.
In addition, I also have acquired numerous FBI files and documents pertaining to the Communist Party—USA, plus numerous organizations characterized by the Birch Society in very derogatory terms such as:
American Association for the United Nations, American Civil Liberties Union, Americans For Democratic Action, American Friends Service Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Council on Foreign Relations, CORE, Foreign Policy Association, Highlander Folk School, League of Women Voters, NAACP, National Committee For A Sane Nuclear Policy, National Council of Churches, National Education Association, National Student Association, National Urban League, United World Federalists, UNESCO, UNICEF.
During the past few years I have made a special effort to obtain the FBI’s CPUSA-related files (HQ and field offices) in order to determine whether or not the claims made by the John Birch Society regarding CPUSA interest in, or fear of, the JBS is justified by available evidence in FBI documents.
LINKS TO ALL MY REPORTS -- December 28, 2013
REPORT SUBJECT / DATE and PAGES | URL |
MY RESEARCH (Homepage) October 2013 / 10pp | |
ACADEMIC THESES & DISSERTATIONS ON RIGHT-WING October 2013 / 100pp |
https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/biblio-2 Also available for download here: |
ANTI-CFR, ANTI-ILLUMINATI, ANTI-ROCKEFELLER LITERATURE April 2010 / 28pp | |
ANTI-COMMUNISM FBI Concerns About Extremism and Ill-Informed Anti-Communists September 2012 / 8pp | |
ARCHIVES and PRIVATE PAPERS RE: RIGHT-WING August 2011 / 24pp | |
EDGAR BUNDY / CHURCH LEAGUE OF AMERICA August 2009 / 12pp | |
CONSPIRACY THEORIES: NATURE and PURPOSE OF August 2011 / 18pp | |
CPUSA [Communist Party USA and FBI Penetration of Party] October 2013 / 27pp | |
CPUSA—Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Charges [Claims made by M. Stanton Evans in his 2007 book, “Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against American’s Enemies”] September 2011 / 10pp | |
DOCUMENTS [Copies of scanned documents pertaining to extreme right individuals and groups] May 2011 / 13pp | |
DOOM [Extreme Right Doom Predictions] December 2009 / 10pp | |
FOIA REQUESTS = Alpha List of My Requests August 2013 / 84pp | |
ANATOLI GOLITSYN: A CONSPIRATORIAL DILEMMA [Conspiracy believers often propose we believe mutually exclusive “expert” sources] August 2008 / 17pp | |
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: chapters 1-4 Introduction – including discussion of controversy over Robert Welch’s 287-page “private letter” entitled The Politician and how the FBI first learned about Robert Welch and the Birch Society, -- then (1) FBI Evaluations of Robert Welch and the John Birch Society (2) FBI vs JBS on Internal Security Status of U.S. (3) FBI vs JBS on Communist Infiltration of Clergy and Religious Institutions (4) FBI vs JBS on Communists in the Department of Health, Education, Welfare March 2012 / 48pp | |
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: chapter 5 (5) FBI vs JBS on Harry A. Overstreet as an alleged “Communist sympathizer” or Dupe December 2013 / 8pp | |
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: chapter 6 (6) FBI vs JBS on Civil Rights Movement · “Negro Soviet Republic” as CPUSA Strategy · Alan Stang’s 1965 book published by JBS, It’s Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights · Highlander Folk School as an alleged “Communist Training School” · Gary Allen’s article in the JBS magazine, American Opinion, on the August 1965 Watts Riot, “The Plan To Burn Los Angeles” · The Birch Society’s Evaluation of African-American Labor and Civil Rights Leader, A. Philip Randolph September 2013 / 55pp (55pp for chapters 6 and 7 combined) | |
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: chapter 7 (7) FBI vs JBS on Persons JBS Claims To Be “Experts” on Communism [discusses Dan Smoot, W. Cleon Skousen, David Gumaer, Julia Brown, Lola Belle Holmes, Matt Cvetic, among others] September 2013 / 55pp (55pp for chapters 6 and 7 combined) | Same as above |
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: chapter 8 Conservative Critics of Robert Welch and/or the John Birch Society February 2012 / 17pp | |
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: chapter 9 Documentary History of the John Birch Society March 2012 / 70pp | |
MARTIN LUTHER KING and “THE COMMUNIST TRAINING SCHOOL” CONTROVERSY January 2012 / 19pp | |
EUSTACE MULLINS February 2010 / 21pp [New expanded edition anticipated circa 12/13] | |
W. CLEON SKOUSEN: Mythology About His FBI Career October 2012 / 51pp | |
DAN SMOOT: CONSPIRACY EXPERT? December 2011 / 23pp | |
JAMES W. VON BRUNN [June 2009 / 20pp |
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