[Fiji Hill]

Welch mentioned his membership in the LID in one of his writings--I believe it was The Blue Book of the John Birch Society (sl., sn., 1959). A 1961 article in the Toledo Blade also mentions this.

Welch wrote that he joined the LID so as to keep tabs on what they were up to.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Thanks for the link and follow up.

In searching for/in The Blue Book, I don’t see an obvious reference. I trust that it’s in there, you’ve already demonstrated you have knowledge of the topic.

http://archive.org/details/TheBlueBook

Could you point me to the relevant portion?

Also, surely you can see how this is entirely different than the implication of your first post. A counter-revolutionary(or something similar) who goes in looking for information has almost quite literally nothing in common with a faithful member who actively advances the group’s cause.

To put it another way, Dewey wasn’t the LID’s president because he wanted to funnel information out and undermine them. Their cause was his cause.