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

and records of his education; business records; client files of taxation and civil liberties cases; speeches, news releases, correspondence, caucus notes, campaign materials, and subject files from his career in provincial politics; subject files; and newsclippings. Series 14, Doug Christie lawsuit, 1979-1988, concerns a defamation lawsuit brought against Chumir in 1987 by Doug Christie, a lawyer who defended anti-Jewish activists such as Jim Keegstra and Ernst Zündel. The suit apparently was dropped by Christie. This series contains correspondence and newsclippings related to the case, and collected newsletters and pamphlets of extreme right-wing organizations. Files on Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform, revisionist propaganda, ultra-conservatives Paul Fromm and Daryl Reside, Jim Keegstra, Duncan McKillop (an attorney for Keegstra), Western Canada Concept, and Ernst Zündel. Photocopies of issues of Aryan; Straight Talk!: Newsletter of the Western Guard, formerly the Edmund Burke Society, edited by Paul Fromm; Countdown (published by Paul Fromm); and David McCalden revisionist newsletter.

      Websites with information:

      http://glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/index.cfm

      http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/index.cfm

      Finding aid:

      http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/chumir.cfm

      [0551a] Frank Church Papers, 1941-1984, MSS 56

      Location: Special Collections and Archives, Boise State University Library, 1910 University Drive, Boise ID 83725

      Description: Frank Church (1924-1984) was a U.S. Senator from Idaho, 1956-1980. Senator Church was under constant attack by ultra-conservative letter writers who took issue with his public positions. The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, press releases, reports, studies, legislation, case files, campaign files, scrapbooks, photos, films, audiotapes, and other papers, relating chiefly to Church's career in the Senate. Series 6: Political affairs. [Subseries] Radical right, contains files on Barry M. Goldwater; None Dare Call It Treason; Free Enterprise; Carl McIntire; Ronald Reagan; Robert Shelton; Anti-Frank Church; Nuclear Test Ban; Cuba; United Nations; Civil Rights; Kennedy Assassination; J. Edgar Hoover; Federal Bureau of Investigation; John Birch Society; "Conspiracy-U.S.A.", Look, January 26, 1965; "Report On The Ku Klux Klan", Anti-Defamation League [online at https://ia800203.us.archive.org/28/­items/ReportOnTheKuKluxKlan_708/report2.pdf]; and Religion. Series 7: Public relations. [Subseries] Radical right, contains files on Ezra Taft Benson, Alan Stang, Gary Allen, John T. Flynn, John C. Stennis, Katanga, UNESCO, J. Edgar Hoover, John Birch Society, Robert Welch, "Operation Abolition," James O. Eastland, Karl E. Mundt, A. Willis Robertson, Freedom Academy, and "Communism On The Map."

      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