Right-Wing General Charges ACLU is “Moscow Controlled” – ACLU Demands Evidence
Gen. Peter E. Traub, former Chief of Staff of 77th Division of the U.S. Army charged that the ACLU was “Moscow-controlled,” and “the most radical organization in the country.”
The ACLU rebutted the charge on this day, demanded that Ge. Traub “produce evidence” to support it, and challenged him to a public debate.
The ACLU was founded on January 19, 1920, and has been consistently attacked as “un-American” by right-wing groups and individuals ever since for its defense of freedom of speech for political radicals and other civil liberties issues.
See General Traub’s similar attack on the ACLU the day before, October 12, 1926.
Read: Samuel Walker, In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU (1990)
Read the ACLU FBI File (not the complete file): http://vault.fbi.gov/ACLU
Learn more: Larry Ceplair, Anti-Communism in the Twentieth Century America: A Critical History (2011)
Learn about the ACLU today: www.aclu.org