Speech #840099260

Congress has little choice today but to attach significance to some of these nameless communications because the executive branches of the Government refuse to deal candidly with our proper and pertinent inquiries. and because of the censorship which has been clamped upon even the most plebeian activities of the civil departments and agencies of the Government. It is of one such anonymous communication that I am about to speak. Addressed to the chairman of the Subcommittee on Legal and Monetary Affairs. the charges it makes regarding secret plans and activities being conducted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service are. I am sure you will agree. far too serious to be disregarded. The Immigration Service has been given an opportunity to refute these charges. The fact that it has refused to deny them forces but one conclusionthat the shocking revelations in this communication are. indeed. founded upon fact. Consequently. I feel that there is no other recourse open save to make its content public as a thoroughly disquieting example of what happens when we permit the militaristic mind to dominate the operations and functions of civil government. It begins as follows. and I quote: It Is suggested that you obtain a copy of plan A which is a communication labeled "Secret" and recently sent out to Immigration Border Patrol sector headquarters from the Immigration central office. Washington. D. C. The communication is over the signature of Frank H. Partridge. special assistant to the Commissioner. and contains instructions for the establishment of a military setup within the Immigration Border Patrol. A brief outline as follows provides for the recruiting of about 8.000 volunteer patrol inspectors to be under the supervision of the local patrol officers In case of emergency (emergency presumed to mean invasion) and. in such case. to be placed on the payroll as patrol Inspectors: The purchase of jeeps. trucks. airplanes. rifles. revolvers. submachineguns. ammunition. roadblock signs. flares. etc. A reserve stockpile of gasoline is to be set up. additional radio communication systems established. used telephone poles and railroad ties to be placed In boundary line road crossings for use in setting up roadblocks. to persuade county commissioners adjacent to International boundary to dig deep ditches along the line to hamper crossings. oral instruction to local officers to alert demolition or promote demolition squads to be prepared to blow bridges across roads leading from the international boundary. to persuade the State highway patrol and the National Guard to participate in the plan.