surface facts-they are either too lazy to do so, or afraid that, to do so, will only get them into trouble and, probably, cost them their jobs. In other words, as far as the so-called radio industry, by itself, is concerned, there is no crusading today unless it is for such safe issues as water safety or traffic safety or something of that character. And certainly, no one in the industry wishes to get into this area of Communist subversion and what it is doing to freedom and internal security and the American personality and attitude and outlook.

It was for these reasons that, in 1956, I turned my back on the so-called "security" of some corporate payroll in order to work as an "independent" newsman, with his own sponsors, staff, and facilities, coming to stations as a client rather than as an employee or as so-called "talent."

I stress that this is a rare position. It is a position which few people comprehend. It is a position which, in fact, is unique in the industry. It is all possible because of the incomparable prime sponsorship of the Allen-Bradley Co., of Milwaukee, and of the Falk Corp., of Milwaukee, neither of which has a consumer product to sell, and both of whom recognize that in order to continue to sell any product, we must have an America which continues to permit free enterprise and free competition.

It is, therefore, in this capacity, and in this manner that I have, perhaps, been "crusading," or engaging in "crusading journalism,' or, call it "digging journalism" if you will. I don't really care what you call it, sir, if it is understood that I am struggling, in conscience and within my capacity, to pursue the truth which, as Christ promised, shall make men free.

I am, therefore, not crusading against something, not even communism. Rather, I am crusading for something for truth, for God, for country, for freedom, for my wife, and our children, and our homefor all of the things which communism, by its own basic nature and admission, opposes and seeks to deny or destroy or enslave.

Communism, in short, sir, is against everything for which I, in conscience, believe and understand that God gave me.

Communism, at its outset, seeks to explain that there is no God, and, consequently, that there is no hereafter, no eternity, because it says there is no human soul-that, as Lenin put it, the only morality is that which serves the Communist revolution. As Lenin also said, that revolution is war, and must be conducted as such.

Lenin, and those, through today's Kremlin leaders, who have followed him to power, have made crystal clear that two of the most vital weapons in their arsenal of insidious revolution are agitation and propaganda. We see its effects everywhere about us in our world, today. Certainly, I have seen it, these past 10 months, on and about the campus of the University of Wisconsin.

Not the least of its effectiveness lies in its diabolical sophisticationa sophistication so subtle, yet so deadly, that it manages, tragically, to permeate the thinking of some of the nicest people in this very society in which communism is laboring, and not unsuccessfully, to destroy, and these nice people along with it.

It was Lenin who also said, as this subcommittee knows, there is no such thing as a no man's land. A no man's land, said Lenin, is a vacuum into which the Communist Party must move before the enemy does, and we who know the meaning of the Communist language know

that whether it is Lenin or Mao Tse-tung or Castro or Brezhnev or Khrushchev, whomever, when they say "the enemy" they mean the intended victim.

When you can create a condition of a vacuum, not basically by communism nor by socialism, but via agnosticism, with students told there is no God or there may be no God, you create a vacuum into which communism inevitably will, and must, and does move, whether it be a campus or merely in the mind of a single student on that campus. And this is the greatest problem.

If I crusade for anything, I crusade in the interests of the truth which, as Christ promised, shall make men free. Communism by its own definition and communism by its own pattern of performance over a half century of active implementation of the concepts of Marx and Lenin, is the antithesis of truth, and I, as a newsman, would be something less than that which I propose and espouse as a crusader for truth and justice under God and under the American concept of things which come from these godly concepts if I did not indeed crusade for truth, and truth must come through full disclosure if these students and these faculty members who are demonstrating against the President of the United States today, are to remain free. that respect, sir, I am the greatest friend that they have-though, indeed, they'll never know it.

In

That is a labored answer and, perhaps, a bit poetic, but I do want to set it straight.

Mr. LITTMAN. It is suggested that this would be a logical place to terminate.

Mr. SIEGRIST. Thank you, sir.

Mr. LITTMAN. Senator, I would suggest that we enter in the appendixes the broadcasts or "radio columns" of the witness as follows: Bob Siegrist and the News, February 11, March 10, 1965; March 11, 1965, and May 13, 1965. The latter, May 13, contains a 4-minute recording by one Al Davis, an assistant to the witness in his professional capacity; the highlights have been covered by Mr. Siegrist, both in his testimony and in the newscasts, so I would assume that that portion may be eliminated.

Senator DODD. The broadcasts themselves may go in the record at the point of appendix, but it is not necessary to include the transcription you mentioned.

Mr. LITTMAN. Permit me, sir, to thank the witness for

Senator DODD. Yes; the subcommittee adds its thanks, it is manifest, Mr. Siegrist, that you have devoted much time, industry, and perseverance to the task you assigned yourself-to get at the truth. You are to be commended for your dedicated spirit.

The committee will stand in recess, subject to the call of the Chair. Thank you.

(Whereupon, at 4:30 p.m., the subcommittee was adjourned.)

APPENDIX I

BOB SIEGRIST AND THE NEWS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1965

On orders of President Johnson, United States and South Vietnamese planes have hit Communist North Vietnamese military installations with the third-and the most powerful-retaliatory bombing since Sunday.

Specifically, nearly 150 United States and South Vietnamese planes both carrier- and ground-based, have hit (1) a headquarters of a Red North Vietnamese division deeply involved in training and infiltration of Communist guerrillas into the south, and (2) a regimental headquarters for the same activity; the first, at Chan Hoa; the second, at Chap Le.

The U.S. Navy says it lost three planes, but that two of the pilots were rescued.

The Communists claim 12 U.S. planes were shot down by ground fire and that one American pilot was taken prisoner. They identify him as Robert Schumaker, a Navy lieutenant commander from New Castle, Pa.

The Red North Vietnamese regime calls the raid a "new, most serious war act."

Red China backs up the claim.

Red Russia which, like Red China, had already warned that it would not stand by in event of further U.S. raids, warns the United States that another raid will bring a "resolute rebuff."

Red North Korea's premier, Kim Il Sung, playing host to Red Russia's premier, Aleksei Kosygin, has tonight urged that all countries of the socialist camp unite closely and deliver a resolute counterblow to the machinations of the U.S.-led imperialists.

Kosygin, who came to North Korea by way of North Vietnam and Red China, replied with a vague statement of agreement that socialist unity was important.

Meanwhile the White House says President Johnson ordered this latest raid because of continued "aggressions and outrages" by the Communists against U.S. forces in South Vietnam.

The latest came last night when obviously well-trained and disciplined Communist suicide squads blew up a four-story U.S. army billet in Qui Nhon 275 miles northeast of Saigon.

As many as 28 Americans were feared killed in the destruction of the building. Search crews searching through the rubble found 2 dead and 18 injured Americans. Twenty-three still were missing. At least 11 Vietnamese also died in the bombing.

Two new acts of Communist terrorism were reported today. American sources said the bodies of four American soldiers recovered from the district town of Duc Phong, 100 miles north of

Saigon, bore signs indicating the men were beaten to death. The Communists overran Duc Phong yesterday but it was recaptured by Government forces today.

Two hand grenades were thrown in downtown Saigon tonight near the capital's student headquarters, wounding two Vietnamese. No Americans were involved.

The new Communist terrorist campaign coincided with a stepped-up Vietcong military offensive, including an attempted amphibious assault against Qui Nhon early today.

Military sources said the Vietcong, using civilians as a shield, tried to storm ashore from 50 armed junks less than 200 yards from the Viet Cuong (CQ) (strong Vietnam) Hotel which the terrorists had blasted into rubble last night.

The Communists were driven back by attacks from U.S. helicopters and a Vietnamese artillery barrage. Fighting was reported continuing tonight in the mangrove swamps on the outskirts of the city.

Qui Nhon, sixth largest city in South Vietnam, with a population of 50,000, was an armed camp. Rooftops bristled with machineguns and American soldiers threw up barbed wire barricades to prevent further Communist incursions.

The sound of gunfire could be heard from outside the city as Vietnamese troops and their American advisers sought to track down the Vietcong amphibious assault force. Helicopters whirled overhead.

In our last night's broadcast, we noted that it was announced, here in Madison, yesterday, that one Richard Criley would speak, at 4 this afternoon, at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union.

We noted that the announcement said the subject of his talk would be "Jerris Leonard and the Smear Tactics of HUAC," and that Criley was "a close associate of Frank Wilkinson."

We noted that our files contained information from the House Committee on Un-American Activities on a "Richard L. Criley," and that we were trying to ascertain whether this was the same man. Shortly after last night's broadcast, we confirmed that he was. Helping to punctuate that confirmation was an announcement in last night's Madison Capital Times which described the speaker as "Richard L. Criley, secretary of the Chicago Committee To Defend the Bill of Rights, chief Midwest organization for the abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee."

That announcement added: "He will discuss the recent controversy over the Daily Cardinal, University of Wisconsin student publication, and the relation of these attacks to the operation of HUAC and similar bodies."

Today's Cardinal carried an announcement which identified the speaker as, "Richard L. Criley, secretary of the 'Chicago Committee To Defend the Bill of Rights,' and as 'a close associate of Frank Wilkinson, chairman of the National Committee To Abolish HUAC.'" The Cardinal announcement added this: "The meeting is sponsored by the Socialist Club and the Contemporary Affairs Committee."

In the interest of further understanding, we offer the following: Frank Wilkinson is something of a perennial favorite with the left-oriented faculty and student elements on both the Madison and the Milwaukee campuses of the University of Wisconsin.

His anti-HUAC propaganda line, and his related lines, have varied little since his service of a Federal prison sentence for contempt of

the Congress for insisting, in 1958, upon basing his refusal to answer questions by the House Committee on Un-American Activities on the first amendment rather than on the Committee-permitted fifth amendment.

Wilkinson was identified, in sworn testimony, before that committee, as a Communist both before he went to prison and after he was released from prison.

The faculty adviser for the Socialist Club is Maurice Zeitlin, assistant professor of sociology. Today's Cardinal listed Zeitlin as one who would participate, in a roundtable discussion, at the Memorial Union, tonight, on the subject of "Vietnam."

On Tuesday, Zeitlin delivered the windup speech before the socalled ad hoc student committee's demonstration, on the steps of the State Capitol building, in protest against the U.S. retaliatory bombings over Communist North Vietnamese military installations.

Zeitlin's speech was the loudest, the roughest, and the most emotional of all of the speeches delivered at the rally.

The Communist Party publication, the Worker, of December 8, carried a page 1 story which said:

"Nine peace organizations and other groups have announced they will urge nationwide and international activities on December 19 which will call upon President Johnson to declare an immediate ceasefire on the part of American forces in South Vietnam, followed by their earliest possible withdrawal."

The Worker story listed "the Socialist Party" as one of "the organizations urging their constitutuents to support this call."

The Worker added:

"Activities will include demonstrations in cities across the United States, visits to Congressmen, and letterwriting campaigns."

The December 12 Cardinal carried a front page, two-column story which said:

A request has been sent to all faculty members asking for signatures on Jan enclosed letter to President Johnson urging an end to the war in Vietnam. It added:

The letter has since been signed by 117 faculty members, according to Prof. Maurice Zeitlin, sociology, who formed the faculty committee signing the request. The letter to the President opposes escalation of the war and urges a cease-fire, negotiations, and eventual U.S. withdrawal ***.

The Cardinal column next to that contained a story by Managing Editor John Gruber, which reported that Zeitlin, the following day, would address a Madison campus "sympathy rally" in support of the free speech movement at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. As the Cardinal story also stated, the rally would be addressed by Berkeley Campus Free Speech Movement Leader Bettina Aptheker. It was only after the rally that the Cardinal admitted that her "father, Herbert Aptheker," was "considered to be the foremost intellectual spokesman for the American Communist Party."

That Cardinal also carried a page 1 report that—

Frank Wilkinson, executive director of the National Committee to Abolish HUAC

Said that the House committee would

soon begin an investigation of the free speech movement in the San Francisco area.