Communist Goals as listed in the US Congressional Record January 10, 1963

At the end of Chapter 2 of Mel K’s book, “Americans Anonymous: Restoring Power to the People One Citizen at a Time,” lists 45 Goals of Communists for America from the book, “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen. This list is in the US Congressional Record of January 10, 1963. I, Publius Jr, noticed Rep A.S. Herlong Jr, from Florida, a Conservative Democrat submitted this into the Congressional Record had actually added this to his extended remarks. Communist aggression was still on the forefront of many minds because it was just 3 months after President John F Kennedy had ordered a US Navy Blockade of Communist Cuba because U2 Spy Planes had photographed Soviet Nuclear Missile launch sites being constructed around the island of Cuba.

The result of the blockade, which is an act of war at sea, was the Cubans pretended to dismantle the launch sites in exchange for the Muslim country of Turkey, a NATO partner removing the Nuclear Missiles from their soil. I bet the Cubans never removed the missiles, but just hid them better. Then submarine launched ballistic missiles were perfected and it didn’t matter where nuclear missiles were stored on land.

President Kennedy had already escalated the US Military’s involvement in Vietnam by increasing the number of troops there from the 200 of Eisenhower’s Administration, to 16,000 troops.

The following is not only at the end of Chapter 2 of Mel K’s book mentioned above but from the US Congressional Record of January 10, 1963.


Extension of Remarks of Hon. A. S. Herlong Jr of Florida

In the House of Representatives

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. Herlong.  Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman  of De Land Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting  the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From “The Naked Communist,” by Clean Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike


A note about the link above with the Congressional Record, there are a lot of things in the Record for Thursday, January 10th, 1963 which was the 1st or 2nd week of the new Congress that year as Congress gets elected in the even years and takes office in the odd years. There are many things discussed:

  • A Maritime Strike that affected shipyards
  • a $7 Billion budget deficit (seems nothing changes except for the amounts)
  • US Postal Performance and the struggles of delivering Christmas mail, plus catalogs (yeah before the internet, JC Penney, Sears, and other companies sent out catalogs that weighed a couple of pounds each. Parents & kids “shopped” the pages of these. And at one time in this country one could order Thompson Submachine guns out of the Sears catalog).
  • The Crime Situation in the District of Columbia (like I wrote above, nothing seems to change)
  • A lament over the loss of Poultry exports to the European Common Market (pre-cursor to the, European Economic Community which was the pre-cursor to the European Union, and rumored that Martin Bormann, Hitler’s financial guy, had helped to put together the European Economical Community with money stolen during WW2, then laundered in this entity). Apparently a variable tariff affected American Poultry being sold in Europe. Did not expect Tariff talk back then.
  • Obscene materials like pornography and Communist propaganda had been sent to people across the country from some place in the State of New York. So in the pre-internet age there was a problem with porn being sent to people who didn’t ask for it. It is suggestive that this porn apparently accompanied Communist information. (Seems like nothing changes. I spend about 10 minutes cleaning up the porn bots on my X account that may have come from Eastern Europe or Russia (they aren’t communists anymore)).

There’s other information that makes for interesting reading from 62 yrs ago.


This post was for future reference when referring to the Americans Anonymous book that Mel K wrote. I’m writing a review of her book. I am not being compensated to post this. ~~ Publius Jr.

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