The Communist Attack on U.S. Police

On June 13, 1961, the Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee heard the testimony of Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr., Inspector General on the staff of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. At this hearing Mr. Kirkpatrick testified concerning a captured handbook which was an instruction manual for scientific mob-making. It was discovered that this handbook had been distributed to Soviet agents and Communist Party activists throughout the free world.

This captured manual outlined in detail the procedure to be followed in leading a mob against the police. Numerous charts demonstrated how a police blockade could be smashed, how a milling crowd of unorganized marchers or protestors could be mobilized into an overwhelming force of organized violence, how the thin line of police protection in any given area could be overrun or out-maneuvered by a few well-trained agitators directing the movements of a crowd.

Whenever these Communist techniques had been applied in the riots of the turbulent 1960s, the mobs invariably accomplished their objectives before the police could mobilize enough strength to disperse them. In the process, the police always had to work under tremendous handicaps and suffered heavy losses before the violence could be stopped.

In this book, W. Cleon Skousen reviews these Communist mob techniques, and encourages police officers to be vigilent and aware of these strategies so that they would not be overcome by the mobs or riots in their area of jurisdiction. He also describes those areas where the police are being politically handicapped in their ability to perform their jobs, and encourages citizens to support their local police officers.

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