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Show A Stand The Paper That Dares To Take Page 10 Utah Independent' November 8, 1973 r-CM- Salter: Well, I might just as well make it official, because I'm recording this now. Admiral. Admiral: Good. S: Admiral Ira E. McMillian and do you mind giving us some rundown on what happened to you? A: Well, simply Sen. Strom Thurmond when I told him that was going to go ahead and do something to stop the war and bring the prisoners of war home, because 1 did not want my son to die in a rice paddy one Purple Heart was enough. Sen. Strom Thurmond said: IF you do this, Richard Nixon will not be reelected. I'm going to do everything I can to stop you." 1 went about my business, not realizing the On the 17th of implications. March, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. D. C.. at 2 oclock in the afternoon, I was kidnapped, forced into a car, incarcerated like a common criminal, and kept for 1 , , over a month. During my time 1 was told that I was nothing to forget about my being an admiral as far as I was concerned 1st was nothing the there Amendment, the 4th Amendment did not apply to me. I said, Look, 1 want to call a lawyer.' You cant call anybody. You have no rights. I'm going to keep you here incommunicado.Where's your We don't have a court order? court order. We don't need a court order. S: And for how' long did they intend to keep you? A: They said they were going to 1 was keep me indefinitely. But able to bribe a man to call an admiral friend of mine who did something about it. He went to Admiral Zumwalt, and then Kissinger, and then Nixon, and they decided maybe theyd better release me. Im lucky they didn't decide to kill me like they have a lot of people. I don't know how in the world just by the Grace of God and thats the story of my life. I put my life on the line for my country so many times, and I almost did it again. And why they let me get away 1 cannot fathom. But they did. and here 1 am still alive and I'm an undergraduate senior at the University of is my California. My room-ma- te son. now 21 years old, very much alive and not dead in a rice paddy in VietNam. S: What terrible secret did you have that they had to close your mouth? A: I had a personal friendship with not only l.e Duan, the Chairman of the Communist Party in North VietNam, but in Moscow, Leonid Brchnev himself. Now, 1 went to as a private Mr. Nixon saying I could not do w hat Ross citizen Kieralt and Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clarkdid.I wanted to do it I as his personal representative could go to Hanoi, I could go to Moscow. Now, I met Mr. Leonid Brehncv when he was very far down in the heirarchy through a very dear friend, Frol Kozlov, who was deputy to Kruschev and was going to take over as the Chairman of the Communist - Party: and unfortunately at the age of 42 or 43, as I was getting ready to go to Moscow to visit him, 1 got a telephone call saying he had just had a heart attack and died. He was 43 or 44. He was going to illian succeed Kruschev. Now Brezhnev w'as his closest friend, and Mr. Frol Kozlov introduced me to Brezhnev. And today, of course, Brezhnev has the job that Kozlov w'ould have gotten if he had lived. Those are the people I was going to do this with and I was positive that I could have stopped the war within a month, and all the prisoners of war would have been home by Christmas, 1970. Richard Nixon told me, Well stop the wrar in October, 1972, just before the election. And thats when he made the announcement: that peace is at when Mr., Dr. hand who doesn't even Kissinger really speak English properly. S: Admiral, do you think it's possible that the fact that Nixon knew this thing was going to end in then he must October of 1972 have had some verbal exchange between the Communists. They must have agreed to it. A: He had had no exchange with the Communists. He did nothing to go to Moscow' or to Hanoi. He got the idea from me. He stole the whole thing. They picked my brains completely, and then said to me: Well help you do this thing if you'll help raise S35 million for us in Texas. from my oil friends in Texas. And I said, All right. Ill do it if you're serious. Well, they toyed with me for six weeks to eight weeks and I finally after Sen. Strom Thurmond told me on the 15th of March, 1972, that he was going to do everything to stop me I sent a telegram to Nixon and I said was withdrawing all financial support. 1 would not raise a dime and was going to do everything I could to get George McGovern, however unsatisfactory he might have been, he would have been better than Nixon. I was going to do anything to keep Nixon from getting to be President again. And thats when the fur started flying, S: Admiral, why hasn't the press picked this up? A: I tried. I went to Dallas, The Dallas Morning News, Mr. Joe Dealy had a nephew, Sam Dealy, who got the Medal of Honor, who died in the USS H , in We went the submarine war. submarine through school together. His father, Mr. George Dealy, way back, was a dear friend of mine. I went to Joe Dealy. Eeeeooo you cant be serious. People dont get kidnapped these days! One week later to the day, his daughter-in-law'as kidnapped 96 held for and hours, and Joe Dealy had to come up with S250 thousand over a Saturday night, a which he did. He called me shaken man! I went to the Ft. Worth Star Telegram. I have close connections in Ft. Worth. They refused to believe it. They said, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon are too smart, along with John Connolly. Theyd never stoop to do anything like this. We just dont w believe it. And I went to Mr. H. L. Hunt, the man who makes a million dollars a day. He says, I believe you, and Im going to back you 100. Were going to put this thing on the air on TV." Well, the Whitehouse got hold of him and said: Mr. II. L. Hunt, if you lift a finger for Admiral McMillan, were going to sec that the Libyan government takes all your property in Libya." Well, by golly, he backed off. But, anyway, the Libyans expropriated just the same. And he didnt win anything. I went to Mr. John Pugh of the famous oil family, the Sun Oil He Company of Philadelphia. happens to live in Dallas, 1 don't know why. I went to him. Im going to give you $33,000, my wifes going to give you $33,000 on a tax exempt gift tax thing $30,000 a year plus $3,000 a year from now' on to help you do this He went back to thing." Philadelphia over the week-encame back and said, I cant do a thing. My hands are tied. Thats the story of my life. 1 spent $6,000 of my own money, and it almost bankrupted me because I'm a naval officer Im not a rich I man. don't feed at the public trough, and Ive had a hell of a time. And only when Gary Allen he worked got into the picture six months. He checked it out he gave me a lie detector test, he worked for six months checking the thing out. Finally, he said, 1 believe you. Im going to run this story. And he did. S: Well, Im glad he did because thats why were running it. A: Well, I wrote a letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, Mr. Charles DeYoung I said, Thieriot, daring him You dont have the guts to print this. And I told the whole story about the thing being released in American Opinion in New York. Now the New York Times Mr. w of Clifton Daniel, Harry Truman, did not do I dared him also to anything. publish the thing in toto, and he backed off because of the New York Times. though there is a conspiracy. Ive had police A: protection from the University of California police and the City of Berkeley for the last two weeks before this thing came about. The President of the University, the Chancellor of the University, all 1 my professors know about this. If dont show up at a class, theres going to be hell to pay in this town. The FBI has been told that two federal judges in San Francisco are willing: to issue a restraining order if they interfere a particle w ith me. Im under the protection of the City of Berkeley and the formidable University of California police force. I feel free to just melt into the population of this University. Though I feel very safe. Ive been been Ive twice. kidnapped poisoned three or four times. Ive been intimidated. Ive had Ive had telephone calls everything happen to me except somebody shooting me in the which they center of the head may still try. S: Well, Im certainly concerned for your safety. Admiral. A: Mr. Ezra Taft Benson, a Eisenhower of the stalwart administration in Salt Lake City, called Belmont. Mass, and said to them. For Heavens sake, protect this man; but above all. protect these documents. Now, all these original documents signed by Kissinger and everybody else concerned are in a safe deposit box. son here, and tw o My or three other people, have access to that box if anything happens to me. There's no way in the world they can keep this story out. S: I see. 24-ho- ur d, son-in-la- went to Katharine Graham, way back in April 1972. Told her the story. She owns Newsweek I Magazine and the Washington Post. She said, I w ouldnt touch it with a ten-fopole. They couldnt be so stupid as to get involved with a thing like that. I have got to be patient. I have scores of letters, many of them signed by Alexander Haig and all the people involved in the thing ot Maurice Magruder. Olmstcud. Stans. Jeb General who owns Stuart George 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue where the Committee to Reelect had their headquarters, is a friend of mine, although he is a Republican. He tried to help. The Director of the United States Secret Service has been a friend of mine for 25 years. He was so alarmed that he assigned two men to me for three w'eeks. He came over one day and said he had orders from the Whitehouse to leave me alone. He couldn't do anything more. was warned at the Army-Nav- y Club, on New' Years Eve, that this that thing was going to happen -they were going to shut me up that they were going to put me I I went to the away for good. Club. President of the Army-Nav- y I was a member a been Ive member for 25 years. I have had a hell of a time. If it werent for Gary Allen, this story would not be released because they were that afraid. Even now when everybody k nows that T ricky Dick ought to be behind bars along with Spiro Agncw. S: Admiral, it seems to me, from what you say - its coming so fast and furious here its almost as . A: What I want to do is have the New York Times and Newsweek Magazine publish this thing, and they don't dare to. I sent a letter to Katharine Graham, with a copy of my letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, daring her and Amon Carter, of the Ft. Worth Star Telegram in Ft. Worth, and Joe Dealy of the Dallas News in Dallas, along with the San Francisco I dared them all to Chronicle publish this American Opinion November issue in toto. If you could follow that up to Katharine Graham. Joe Dealy, and Amon Carter. Jr., and Charles DeYoung Thieriot, and Randolph Hearst, of the San Francisco Examiner, you would be striking a blow for liberty. It's about time somebody started doing it. 1 S: Well, 1 dont know. appreciate your being so candid and 1 might tell you that during your conversation we have been put off the air. A: Im not surprised. S: However, Admiral, I have been recording the whole thing, and I do have the tape and I will see that it's aired in toto. A: Why were you put off the air? S: don't know. Probably a mechanical failure of some kind. A: Well, I went to New York in October of 1972, just for the luncheon. The idea was that I was going to put on a TV program. I went to Elton R , President of ABC. Hes a very dear friend of mine from Hollywood. He has been proselyted Willard G Chairman of the Board of ABC. I went to four different advertising agencies. I went to NBC, I went to CBS, I went to William Buckley, Jr., John Chancellor, Walter Cron kite, all those people. Every 1 that if single one of them were told this they printed anything about forever. they w ould be olf the air I'm talking about ABC, CBS, and NBC. S: There must be some powerful faction somewhere. A: The Whitehouse. Is the Whitehouse that S: powerful? Yes. A: They control the communications media of this country. S: I know' that. A: Radio, TV, newspapers, and everything else. If the Whitehouse . Gene Autry, down calls up in Hollywood, used to be a dear Hes in the radio friend. broadcasting business. He tried to help me and they said, Were not going to renew your license. I used to know S: Yeah, work for him. A: Gene Autry is one of my closest friends. S: Yes. 1 A: And four years ago we were But he has been inseparable. proselyted by Richard Nixon. I saw a picture of him in the paper in Anaheim at a baseball game of the Los Angeles Angels, and the caption underneath was a smiling, grinning Richard M. Nixon with his pal. Gene Autry. S: Yeah?? I called Gene Autry, A: appalled. He has not returned my call, although four years ago he w as my closest friend on this earth. Now, I had 400 newspapers signed up saying that Tomorrow night (which was going to be November 5. 1972) were going to have a Raquei Welch, spectacular Burt Lancaster, Sammy Davis, Jr.. Flip Wilson. Pat Boone, and John Wayne with the MC, Harry Gorshin. the greatest imitator in the world. They were going to talk on the Sunday night and say, You're going to the polls Tuesday to elect a man who has done this. Now. we had three on the Nixon side and three on the Democratic side to kick things around about about things that arc going on crime in the streets, the bussing, heroin and marijuana, amnesty for the draft dodgers, telling an admiral in the U.S. Navy that the 1st Amendment (freedom of expression) and the 4th Amendment (freedom from seizure and search without a court order) do not apply to him. They were going to kick this around, live, from Ft. Worth, Texas. And the newspapers said, After you watch this program, send us your impression (and there was a box to check off). Send this to Hollywood, Ft. Worth, or New York, w hichever one is closest, and w e'll dump this on the front door of the Whitehouse. All 400 newspapers were told, If you print t his story, you arc going to be in the doghouse as far as the Whitehouse is concerned. Not one newspaper printed it, although we paid for it! We had the TV time. We paid $900,000 for the TV time. One hour, live, on the Sunday night, at 10 o'clock New York,' 9 oclock Icxas, and 7 o'clock California time. The Whitehouse stopped it all because they were afraid. S: Yes A: Its a hell of a situation. S: This is the most fantastic talc Ive ever heard. Some way or another I'll get this tape back on Continued on page 15 |