You are about to read a list of 45 goals that found their way to the halls of our

great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 45 + years later,

you should be shocked by the events that have played themselves out since then.
[Adapted from http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm.]

Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals 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 Cleon Skousen]

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, policy-making 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.