ARTHUR BREMER The Communist Plot To Kill George Wallace
Alan Stang is a former business editor for worker reveals that he comes from a Prentice-Hall, Inc., and a television writ- "broken home." And a psychiatrist ex- er, producer, and consultant. Mr. Stang plains that he may very well be schizoid, is an AMERICAN and that he did what he did because he is OPINION Contribu- a failure with girls. ting Editor and is au- The attempt on the life of Governor thor of the Western Wallace followed the usual script. As Islands bestsellers, usual, "there was no conspiracy." There It's Very Simple and never is. Arthur Herman Bremer was a The Actor. Author "lone fanatic." His mother gave him an Stang, who earned inferiority complex. He did what he did his B.A. at City College of New York and to become a Hollywood star. And as his Masters at Columbia, is also a witty usual there is a psychiatrist, in this case and dynamic speaker who lectures widely. Dr. David Abrahamsen, who has never ■ met Arthur Bremer, but compares him as ASSASSINATION is becoming as follows with the earlier assassins on the American as apple pie, to paraphrase front page of the New York Times soon H. Rap Brown. Every four years we after the attempt: "There is a fantastic have a Presidential election, and at almost similarity. This man Bremer seems to the same intervals the assassins burst from have had much the same background. the crowds and do their work. In 1963, Looking broadly at the political assassin President John F. Kennedy was mur- in our history, we see that he has always dered. In 1968, the victims were his been a personal failure, an isolated human brother Bobby and Martin Luther King. being, incapable of exhibiting genuine In 1972, an assassin has come within a human relationships and possessing extra- spinal cord of killing Governor George C. ordinary ambitions that were out of Wallace, and appears to have ended his proportion to his intellectual and emo- political career, at least for a time. In- tional assets." deed, assassination is becoming so routine In other words: He's all mixed up. that as the quadrennial national insanity Your correspondent has since gone approaches, one wonders who will be into the underground for the facts, with a murdered. special AMERICAN OPINION investigat- And, as we have seen, the events that ing team, and the facts point inescapably follow every assassination have been as to the following conclusions: The at- formalized as Japanese theatre. Before tempt to kill Governor George Wallace the echo of the shots has completely died was a conspiracy. It was a Communist away, before anything whatever is known conspiracy. It could well involve agents of about the assassin, the "Liberal" press is Communist China. And the Central Intel- screeching that he was a "lone fanatic." ligence Agency might have had something Somebody "in the know" says he was to do with it. Here are the facts. Judge involved in "no conspiracy." A social for yourself. OCTOBER, 1972 1 44, The Background that he was allied with 'left wing causes.' Arthur Herman Bremer was born in The evidence was mostly in handwritten Milwaukee on August 21, 1950. He at- notes scrawled on scraps of paper, the tended Kagel Elementary School, Walker source said?' And investigators found an Junior High, and on January 28, 1969, issue of the Black Panther in Bremer's was graduated from South Division High apartment. The Black Panther is pub- School. That fall he took photography lished by the openly Communist Black courses at Milwaukee Area Technical Col- Panther Party, and for years has recom- lege, but dropped out. For a time, he mended the murder of policemen. worked as a Milwaukee Journal newsboy. Where did Bremer get these ideas? On December 23, 1969, he went to work Conceivably during "Operation Jail- as a busboy at the Pieces of Eight break," when the Communist gang restaurant. A few weeks later, he did not known as Students for a 15emocratic show up. Beginning in March of 1969, he Society invaded Milwaukee high schools worked Sunday mornings, off and on, to propagandize and recruit. It is true, of also as a busboy, at the Milwaukee course, that hundreds of thousands of Athletic Club. And on September 1, other students share Bremer's beliefs, and 1970, he went to work at Story School as yet have not participated in any conspir- a part-time janitor's helper. acy. Unfortunately, however, there is What does Arthur Bremer think? His much more. boss at Story School was maintenance engineer Timothy Bums, with whom The Underground Bremer would talk from time to time. One day in late 1968, in a street Bremer wanted all property divided outside Marquette University, in Mil- equally, Bums recalls. Nobody should be waukee, a young man who unfortunately allowed to have more than anyone else, must remain nameless, stood watching Bremer said. "That's Socialism!" Bums one of the endless Communist demonstra- remembers telling him. Indeed, in his tions that plague the area. Suddenly, he living room some weeks after the shoot- was hit hard in the head, by whom or by ing, Bums told us of Bremer: "He was what he still does not know, and knocked some kind of Communist." to the ground. An automobile door Then there is Paul V. Peterson, who opened. A man picked him up, pulled taught Bremer in high school, and recalls him in and patched him up. The man was that he was strongly in favor of Socialism. from the Milwaukee Police Department Indeed, says Peterson, the only time and asked him to attend a Black Panther Bremer showed emotion was in defending meeting, to report on the other people Socialism. In March of 1972, Bremer who were there. The young man did. He wrote to Congressman Henry Reuss, ask- was asked to attend other Communist ing him to cut the "goddamned military meetings for the same purpose, and did spending" and "get rid of the generals." so. Then he began getting envelopes, In April of 1972, he paid $10 to join the containing money, in the mail. He had American Civil Liberties Union, founded become a professional undercover agent by the Communists for the original pur- for the Milwaukee Police Department. pose of protecting revolutionaries who Later, he did the same work for the fell afoul of the law. On May 16, 1972, Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Danger- the day after the assassination attempt, ous Drugs. . an Associated Press reporter filed a dis- Among his assignments for the Mil- patch which read in part: "A source close waukee Police Department was infiltra- to the investigation said F.B.I. agents tion of the openly Communist S.D.S. He found evidence in Bremer's apartment attended innumerable S.D.S. meetings as
2 AMERICAN OPINION On May 15, 1972, Arthur Herman Brem- er (above) stepped cooly out of a crowd in a Maryland shopping center and fired a series of shots from a .38 revolver into the midsection of Presidential candidate George C. Wallace. Arthur Herman Bremer is a Communist. According to police information now in the hands of American Opinion, he attended radical Communist meetings with identified ter- rorists and met privately (using code names) with top revolutionaries. One of his accomplices in the attempted assassi- nation was a Maoist agent who was mur- dered in Canada shortly after being iden- tified by the special American Opinion investigation team headed by Alan Stang. Bremer bought the gun with which he shot George Wallace on the Same day Governor Wallace announced his candidacy for the Presidential nom- ination. Arthur Bremer practiced regu- larly at a local pistol range and than began to stalk the Governor. He spent large sums of money, well in excess of his total wages over the last two years, on such special equipment as three pis- tols, high-powered binoculars, and a police-band radio. He even followed Pres- ident Nixon to Canada to observe Secret Service procedures without arousing sus- picion — all the while maintaining contact with his key Communist accomplices. OCTOBER, 1972 3 ti
a member. And at "three or four" of Groppi, who lives in Milwaukee, and who, them he saw a young gentleman he did for instance, attended the 1968 Commu- not know at that time, but whom he now nist Tri-Continental Congress in Montreal identifies as Arthur Herman Bremer. The where he entertained girl friends. undercover agent, a professional police Cullen explains that his own radicaliza- observer, is "positive" of this. There is no tion began when he went to Mass at St. doubt whatsoever in his mind. Indeed, on Boniface Church, and heard Groppi "rap Page 7 you see a reproduction of his about injustice ... the poverty of the city original intelligence notes on one such and the racism in the schools." Groppi meeting, held in November of 1969, in and his pals apparently inspired Cullen to which Bremer is Number 15 among the take the lead in the "Milwaukee 14" plot. participants described. Observe that at the time the under- Among the others, as you see, there cover agent did not know who Bremer were such luminaries as Mike McHale, was. There was no reason why he should. who was responsible for security at the As you see, he wondered whether the meeting. McHale has been a student at new boy was a reporter from the Marquette and secretary of the Revolu- Mar- quette Tribune, or whether he was a tionary Youth Movement II, an S.D.S. "PCI" — a potential criminal informant. faction, and lived until recently at 2001 By the next day, Thursday, as you see, he West Michigan. His telephone number is is writing that "if unknown male is PCI," 342-9549. he is "being covered" by McHale. And by There was Art Heitzer, a well-known Saturday, he is writing that the "new kid local revolutionary who runs the Red not MU Trib. McHale still on trail. .. ." bookstore called "Rhubarb." There was So Arthur Bremer, the future "lone Peggy Anderson, president of the M.U. fanatic" — who never knew anybody nor campus chapter of S.D.S. There was a attended anything — was already getting gentleman identified only as Dennis, from the attention we are told he so craved. the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Notice also on the same page of the chapter of Weatherman, the other S.D.S. notes that someone seems to be making faction. There was Dismas Becker, a explosives with gas, kerosene, and Duz revolutionary Roman Catholic priest. detergent, and that the undercover agent And there was a gentleman named writes as follows: "200 to be sent ahead Mike Cullen. Michael D. Cullen is no with Crazy Dave to Chicago." doubt the best known of them all, since And along these lines it is interesting he was one of the "Milwaukee 14" to note that this same undercover agent, convicted of publicly burning draft rec- along with some Communist Party mem- ords in that city. He was born in Ireland, bers and Mike Cullen, attended an S.D.S. and has been fighting deportation for meeting late one night at which the years. He runs an indoctrination center participants were taught how to make known as the Casa Maria, also in the anti-personnel fire bombs, the chemical general Marquette University area. And content of which was designed to stick to he has powerful Communist Party con- the skin of police officers to ensure tacts. In a recently published book (A third-degree burns. Time To Dance: The Mike Cullen Story, Now let's move ahead to an evening in Messenger Press), Mike explains as fol- July of 1971, when a federal agent, who lows: "In our times, I see people like the also must remain unidentified, followed Father Berrigans and the Father Groppis this same Mike Cullen from Casa Maria to as real people who are making history, the Midget Tavern on West Wells. The who are shaping destiny." Berrigan, of agent later filed a four-page intelligence course, is a revolutionary priest. So is report. You see that report reproduced
AMERICAN OPINION on Page 11. As you see, Cullen entered "murdering the third world people in the tavern and immediately joined some- their racist war" or going to prison. one else, who was already seated at the Cullen replied that "if I must go to prison bar drinking beer. The other man "was it will be for trying to destroy Fascism in approximately 21 years of age, stood this country." He explained that "being 5 '7 ", 150 lbs., blond, and wearing dark arrested is nothing to fear but allowing framed glasses, a white short-sleeve pull- Fascism to -destroy the black and brown over shirt and dark blue cotton wash is something I fear greatly." pants ...." Cullen addressed him, using So Cullen was bragging about his own as a code name "The Don" or "The arrest record, in order to convince the Dawn." The other addressed Cullen as younger man that he should not worry "Mister Cullen." They began discussing about being arrested. the newspaper Cullen had brought from Apparently, they went on for about Casa Maria. Mike Cullen referred to him- another hour, discussing the usual Marxist self in discussing it. After about an hour, jingoisms and, specifically .. . George C. a uniformed Milwaukee police officer Wallace. The younger man said he had entered the bar, and Cullen and his young been reading a great deal but was discour- friend went to the men's room in the aged, because he wanted "to lead in the rear, leaving the newspaper they had been action, not just read about it." Cullen discussing on a bar stool. The police replied that the Panthers are very active officer left, and the federal agent took a in the revolution, but they also know the look at the newspaper. It was a copy of importance of study and reading. the Daily World — official newspaper of So, what Cullen was doing, as we have the Communist Party — dated September seen, was to test his young companion's 10, 1968. ideology, to instruct him — and to pre- So professional revolutionary Mike pare him psychologically for some un- Cullen and his young friend were reading known "great deed." a Communist newspaper almost three And the young man he was preparing years old! was Arthur Herman Bremer. Notice that You see the front page of that news- Bremer was already using a code name, paper reproduced on Page 11. As you see, standard operating procedure in the Com- there is a picture of the "Milwaukee 14," munist underground. the most prominent convict among whom Intelligence collection is strange work. is the ubiquitous Mike Cullen. And there Things arrive in the mail with no return is a headline: "George Wallace — The address, and there is no way of knowing Tell-Tale Record." Indeed, the issue is who sent them. The telephone rings and filled with horror stories about Wallace. someone whispers information, but you Cullen and his young friend came back don't know who he is — and you don't from the men's room and continued to ask. An agent posing as a revolutionary talk. Cullen explained that "the Fascists reports on another revolutionary for are succeeding at their campaign to breed years, and then discovers that he, too, is fear and doubt and distrust among the an agent — and that they have been people," and that "Fascist war-mongers reporting each other. No one knows and hate-mongers like Humphrey and anyone else's real name. An agent works Wallace have plans for political prisoner with another for years, but doesn't know camps for the black people." At this the for which agency he works. Meetings are younger man apparently became excited arranged at night in dark places. and said very loudly, "These pigs force Late one night in July of 1972, we the laborers to work for pennies," and drove slowly into Whitnall Park, which force young people to choose between serves Milwaukee. It was dark. It was OCTOBER, 1972 5 quiet. Parked automobiles stood silently "What did they talk about?" I asked. here and there on the road shoulders. "Wallace," he said. "Fascism, oppres- We passed a parked automobile fa- sion — all that Leftwing s***." miliar to my guide. He told us to stop. He The expletive was incongruous, com- got out and walked back along the ing as it did from a "freak." shoulder to the waiting federal agent who had seen Bremer with Cullen. It was a The Preparation scene straight from The Godfather. Foot- In January of 1971, Bremer bought a steps returned, the doors opened and two .38-caliber revolver. On September 14, men got in. So dark was it that although 1971, soon after his meeting with Cullen the federal agent sat next to me I could at the Midget Tavern, he bought a blue, not identify him now. But I could see two-door, 1967 Rambler. Jerry Stone, a that he wore long hair and a head band, mechanic at a service station Bremer and appeared to be a typical "freak." All patronized, recalls that Arthur Bremer's of this — his appearance and the circum- tires were "always bald." Bremer came in stances of our meeting — was necessary in twice to change them, and was accom- order to protect his cover. panied by a man Stone estimates as age How a man keeps going in his line of twenty-four, standing 5'8" and weighing work, I don't know. He expressed disgust about 150, wearing a brown leather jack- for his "life style." He had just come et, a pony tail, and "looking like a freak." from a "pot party" and would have to On one occasion a girl was with them. return soon. He spends all his time in the Bremer's friend had a green, 1960 Ram- underground, and said he longs for the bler, says Stone, which matches the de- day he can quit. He maintains his sur- scription of a car Bremer's mother says veillances and files his reports — about she saw following him around. The car the revolutionaries who are trying to contained more than three young people, destroy our country — and the reports are the mother says. filed again and forgotten. In city after So Arthur Bremer, a certified "loner," city, and especially in Washington, D.C., apparently spent time with so many padlocked cabinets sag with the weight of people he had little chance to be alone. such files. But, as we all know, nothing On October 15, 1971, Bremer rented much is done. One wonders why such Apartment 9 at 2433 West Michigan, agents are still asked to risk their lives. within walking distance of the Midget He explained that inunediately after Tavern. On November 18, 1971, Officer the attempt to kill Wallace he had real- John Sworske of the Fox Point Police ized that Cullen's disciple at the Midget Department saw Bremer sitting in his car, Tavern had been Bremer. parked in a No Parking zone on a street in "How sure of that are you?" I asked. Fox Point, at 9:45 p.m. Officer Sworske "Quite sure," he said. investigated and saw two boxes of bullets I played defense attorney and tried to on the front seat, so he asked Bremer shake him, but could not. Maybe F. Lee whether he had a gun. Bremer said he Bailey can. But I doubt it. had, and that it was in his coat pocket; "Could somebody have put the idea in Sworske frisked him and found the .38 your mind?" I asked. revolver. Bremer said he had been target He chuckled. "I've been at this busi- practicing. Sworske arrested him on a ness a long time," he said. charge of carrying a concealed weapon, "How sure are you that the other man the charge was reduced to disorderly was Cullen?" conduct, and on December 8, 1971, The federal agent chuckled again and Arthur Bremer was convicted. The police replied: "One hundred percent!" kept his gun.
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You are looking at the notes of a professional ...... 4—.. A undercover agent of the Milwaukee Police Depart- -4- ment. Among his assignments was infiltration of „m...-/ , the openly Communist group known as Students x,../c,— .. --0,9 CI: for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.). He attended ..4-• r - / 4 S.D.S. meetings as a member, and at a number of them he saw a young man he did not know at the e/ e ,..A...... -4_, i. time, but whom he now positively identifies as , 0 ,ovi. ,,, Arthur Herman Bremer. Above, right, you see a page from the undercover agent's notes, made in ..ornag iv November of 1969, on a Communist S.D.S. meeting attended by Arthur Bremer (Number 15); Mike McHale of the Communist group . ne're, known as Revolutionary Youth Movement II 4W A/RG rc-- /,'.../ -77' (R.Y.M. II); a very important person known as ‘..t... .-i,.-cy /e, --.29.- 7,'' 1 Dennis, described as a member of the University ..-.1r• /fr I of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chapter of the Com- ,,e, dxwe 7 1'V ,i$,,- munists' Weatherman terrorists; Mike Cullen of .i- 92 -.3-79 41,-e-- .--_,--e. 3:2_ I the "Milwaukee 14," who has important Com- 71-4' ,,,,,,:r munist Party • connections; and, a handful of "..24.--A._...e ...-,- G‘ ..,..._ others. Note, right, that the undercover agent "l` 1 7,2,x was immediately aware that Comrade McHale -4 -* V was covering Bremer, and that three days later .5 • :,--- .---.-, Arthur Herman Bremer, described as the "new 7 /r ...:,.,.. ...//' kid," was important enough to Mike McHale that a the agent believed McHale to be "still on trail." 7 OCTOBER, 1972 Fox Point is a wealthy, northern sub- shortness of his barrel, and recommended urb of Milwaukee, a long drive from that he trade in his pistol for one better Bremer's apartment. Why was he simply suited to target shooting. The young man sitting there, with two boxes of bullets in said he would "hang on to it." view? Timothy Bums, Bremer's boss at Sarfaty says he was uneasy, because Story School, told us that Bremer was the unknown young man watched him so very calculating. "He told you only what intently. Brandt says the young man had he wanted you to know." And Mri. an "unusual, blank expression." Alfred Pemrich, the mother of a girl After the attempted assassination of Bremer dated, says the same thing in Governor Wallace, Maurice Sarfaty real- almost the same words. So we can be ized that the unknown young man was reasonably sure that the presence of two Arthur Herman Bremer. boxes of bullets in open view on Bremer's So Bremer, the "typically impulsive, front seat (in a No Parking zone) was no lone fanatic," had already been practicing accident; that for some reason he meant with his pistol for at least five months; at them to be in open view. least since his arrest on November 18, An undercover agent tells us that the 1971. By this time, he had also bought a incident may well have been a test — to nine-millimeter, fourteen-shot, semi-auto- determine whether Bremer was willing to matic Browning pistol at Flintrop's. be arrested. He also began to attend political rallies On January 13, 1972, George Wallace and to take extended trips. On March 1, announced his candidacy for the Demo- 1972, he was at a Wallace organizational crat nomination for President of the meeting at Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. On United States. On the same day, Arthur March 23, 1972, he was at a $25 a plate Bremer bought another .38. On February dinner at the Downtowner, and at a 1, 1972, he didn't show up for work at Wallace Rally at the Milwaukee Auditor- Story School or at the Milwaukee Ath- ium. On April 3, 1972, he was at a letic Club. Humphrey Rally at the Capitol Court In early April of 1972, Maurice Sar- shopping center in Milwaukee. On the faty, a Milwaukee automobile worker, next day, he was at a Wallace victory and the president of a local gun club, was party in the ballroom of the Holiday practicing as usual at the firing range in Inn-Midtown. the basement of Flintrop's, a gun and On April 7 and 8, 1972, Bremer was sporting-goods store. It had to be a registered at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Tuesday night, because that is the night New York. On Apri1.13 and 14, 1972, he Mr. Sarfaty goes there. On that particular was at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa. Tuesday night he was using lane one. His On the next three days, he was at the partner, William Brandt, was using lane Sheraton Motor Inn in New Carrollton, five. Sarfaty noticed an unknown young Maryland. On May 10, 1972, he was at a man watching him. He said Sarfaty shot Wallace Rally in Cadillac, Michigan. On very well. The unknown young man was the next day, write G.C. Thelen Jr. and holding a box of the sort a pistol comes Dick Barnes of the Associated Press (May in when you buy it. He also was holding 19, 1972), he was reportedly at a Wallace the pistol itself. It appeared to have a Rally in Landover, Maryland. On May 12 short barrel. With the young man's hand and 13,1972, he was at the Reid Hotel in around it, Sarfaty could not tell exactly Kalamazoo, Michigan, for another Wal- what type of handgun it was. He asked lace Rally. the young man how well he shot, and the The New York Times reports (May 29, reply was, "Not so good." Mr. Sarfaty 1972) that at the Rally in Cadillac, told him that the reason might be the Bremer "sat with a neatly dressed man of 8 AMERICAN OPINION about 40. Newsmen familiar with Cadillac "Do you believe this stuff?" Dr. Bleek- said that they did not recognize the er asked the girl. man." "You bet I do," she said. In Kalamazoo, Bremer waited all day "Are you a Communist?" in his car next to the armory where the "Yes, I am." Rally would take place. A policeman Her name - turns out to be Laurie questioned him, but Bremer explained McNally, she is indeed a Y.W.L.L. Com- that he was waiting for a good seat. This munist, and at last word she was in time, there were no telltale boxes of Florida, hunted by the F.B.I. Once again, bullets in view. When the doors opened, she is the only person at the Kalamazoo Bremer pushed his way in first, and took Rally to whom Bremer talked, which the aisle seat on the left in the front row makes 37,695 coincidences in a row. of the unreserved seats — where Wallace Because of the hecklers, security offi- would have to pass if he walked out the cials took Wallace out the back door. If front doors of the armory. Dr. and Mrs. they had not, it is possible that Bremer John A. Bleeker couldn't help noticing would have tried to kill him in Kalamazoo. him, especially since Bremer wore a red, Because of all this traveling, the matter white, and blue striped shirt, open at the of Bremer's income and expenses be- neck, with a red, white, and blue tie, comes crucial. In all of 1971, Arthur knotted to the Adam's Apple. On Brem- Bremer earned $3,016A4 at his two er's face was his usual, silly grin. Dr. part-time jobs. By way of withholding, Bleeker recalls that Bremer applauded the federal government takes $349.85 in only during the musical warm-up, and not income and F.I.C.A. taxes on that sum, at all during Governor Wallace's remarks. which would have left him a total of There were fifty to seventy-five heck- $2,666.59. In 1972, as you will recall, he lers at the rally, banging chairs and worked for only four weeks. He earned shouting obscenities. One of them, a girl $315, or thereabouts, and the federal who was distributing leaflets, was the government would have left him in the only person Bremer spoke to at the Rally. neighborhood of $287.22. Which means They talked cozily for several minutes. that from January 1, 1971, until his Dr. Bleeker went to them to see what she arrest almost eighteen months later, his was handing out. It read in part: "George entire spendable income was $2,953.81. Wallace is the cutting-edge of the drive to Let us compare that figure with what turn America into a permanent military we know he spent in that time, and then state .... Wallace pitches his appeal to make some educated guesses. phony patriotism and racism as well as For instance, Arthur Bremer's rent on `against taxes' and the 'establishment: his apartment was $138.50 per month, Confederate flags with Nazi swastikas are plus $5.00 for the use of the parking lot his trademark. His friends include the Ku in the rear, or $143.50. He rented it for Klux Klan and the John Birch Society." seven months, so it cost him $1,004.50. Et cetera and so on. His automobile cost him $795, and he The leaflet explained that for further paid for it in cash. The automatic cost information the reader should write to him $114.50. Two .38s, at $80 each, the Young Workers' Liberation League, in comes to $160 even. The fine for his Grand Rapids. That one is the latest disorderly conduct conviction was version of the Young Communist League, $38.50. Avin Domnitz, his attorney in and is under the direct control of the the matter, says that the amount of his Communist Party. Its head is Jarvis Tyn- legal fee is privileged information, but he er, the Party's Vice Presidential candidate does agree that Bremer paid a fee. Timo- this year. thy Burns, Bremer's boss at Story School, OCTOBER, 1972 9 says Bremer told him after his arrest that up produces a sum of expenditures of legal fees would cost him from $200 to $3,16830. And, as you will recall, he had $250, and there is no reason in this case but $2,953.81 available to spend. to believe that Bremer was lying. Indeed, From January 1, 1971, to October 15, Burns expressed surprise when told what 1971, Arthur Bremer had no car and lived Bremer's rent was, because Bremer had at home with his parents. Let's assume told him he would never pay more than they fed him free, and therefore that his $80. So let us compromise and assume his only expenses during this period were for legal fee was $225. clothing, film, carfare to and from both In addition, Bremer made three trips his part-time jobs — and entertainment on the C. & 0. ferry across Lake Mich- such as his beer-drinking party with Mike igan, on at least one of which trips he Cullen. Which means that he paid for all rented a room — which cost altogether in this, and, from October 15, 1971, to May the neighborhood of $40. He flew to New 15, 1972, seven months, paid for cloth- York and back, which cost $120. He ing, beer, film, a date with Joan Pemrich, stayed for two nights at the Waldorf. pornographic magazines — and the gaso- Astoria, where the cheapest room is $28, line and oil necessary to drive his car which therefore cost him at least $56. At thousands of miles throughout the East the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, the and to Canada — when he had already cheapest room is $15, so his two-day stay spent $214.69 more than he had. there cost him another $30. Let's assume Let me be the first to suggest that that his three-day stay at the Sheraton in when Arthur Bremer is paroled, in fifteen New Carrollton, Maryland, cost in the years and nine months, he immediately neighborhood of another $45. His two- be appointed Secretary of the Treasury. day stay at the Reid Hotel in Kalamazoo In fact, we can't wait that long. There is probably cost another $20 or so. He paid nothing in the Constitution to prevent his $10 to join the American Civil Liberties appointment now.* Union. (It turned out to be wasted, Whom are the New York Times and its because after his arrest the A.C.L.U. satellites trying to kid? The facts of refused his request to defend him.) He Bremer's finances are good enough reason paid another $50 or so, when his car alone to assume that there was a conspir- stalled last winter. He paid at least $15 acy to assassinate George Wallace. for bullets, and about the same in electric bills. The Aftermath During the period we are examining, On May 15, 1972, "lone fanatic" Bremer also bought a tape recorder, a Arthur Herman Bremer stepped from a portable radio with a police band, a pair crowd in Laurel, Maryland, and ended of high-powered binoculars, and an un- Wallace's political career, at least tem- known number of expensive cameras. (As porarily. Early wire-service reports said I pressed my ear to her securely locked flatly that more than one suspect was front door, his mother shouted to me involved, and that Maryland and Penn- through it that Arthur has those cameras sylvania State Police had issued an all- in jail.) Let us assume conservatively that points bulletin for a 1971 light blue this technical hardware cost $150. Re- Cadillac, driven by a white male with member too that he had his own apart- light blond hair, about 6' 2", wearing ment for seven months or twenty-eight striped trousers, a light blue shirt, and a weeks: Let's assume, very conservatively yellow tie. The suspect was seen near as always, that he spent $10 a week for Savage, Maryland, across the Patuxent food or $280, which will probably cause *As I write, he still must be tried on federal you housewives to guffaw. Adding all this charges.
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■ from Laurel, changing Georgia for Mary- that for a conspiracy to be possible, an land plates on the car. There was no assassin must be president of his local conspiracy, of course. It is important to chamber of commerce and mental health keep that in mind. chapter, who attends church every Sun- Immediately after the atrocity, as you day with his wife and no more than two will recall, various experts in the press children, subject of course to the wish of discovered an amazing paradox: The at- the Supreme Court. tempted assassin wore a Wallace button. Indeed, there is evidence that Bremer For there to have been no paradox, is not as crazy as we are told. For Bremer presumably would have had to instance, Dr. Paul Purtell, the court step up to Wallace wearing a neon Com- psychiatrist who examined him after his munist Party card dangling on an electric arrest for carrying a gun, on November eel from his nose, and would have had to 18, 1971, found that Bremer, in his say: "Good afternoon, Governor Wallace. opinion, was sane. Needless to say, tele- I am a Communist assassin, here to vision interviewers in Milwaukee later assassinate you. That is why I am holding browbeat the doctor for it. But Timothy this .38! Please stand still." Burns says Bremer was definitely "not What else would you expect an assas- weird." Mrs. Pemrich says he is "definite- sin to wear at a political rally, but a ly not crazy." The world-famous incident button backing the candidate he is there in which Bremer shaved his head, she to kill? passes off as his attempt, typical of the And there is the matter of Bremer's juvenile he was, to prove he was crushed sanity. As usual, we are told that it does when her daughter told him not to call not exist, and therefore that there was no again. "Art loved to play games," says conspiracy. The idea seems to be that Mrs. Pemrich. insanity and conspiracy are mutually ex- It is also interesting to note that clusive. But psychotics and psychopaths according to intelligence tests Bremer was are capable of elaborate plots, and partic- above average. He got some A's in high ipate in them all the time. Indeed, their school, and was graduated in the upper insanity may well be the reason for their half of his class. Mechanic Jerry Stone participation, and doesn't necessarily ex- says, "He could be brilliant if he wanted. cuse it. In fact, their insanity may well be Bremer was definitely a leader, not a essential to their participation. Hitler, follower." Burns calls him "steady" and who murdered millions, was obviously "competent." In almost eighteen months deranged. So is Mao Tse-tung, who has at Story School he missed only two days murdered tens of millions. No sane man of work. "He could do whatever he set would do such a thing. The fact that they his mind to," says Bums. For instance, he conspired to enslave and murder millions spent hours reading in the Story School is proof of their derangement, which, library during work — exactly as Cullen once again, doesn't excuse them. had told him to. As we have seen, he told Yes, Arthur Bremer had an unhappy you only what he wanted you to know. childhood. His mother hit him. His toilet He was calculating. training would no doubt be disapproved Indeed, there is reason to believe that by Dr. Spock. There is no doubt that he the manufacture of his reputation as a is mentally disturbed. What other sort of crazy was a calculated part of the plan. person would the conspiracy pick for Burns recalls. Bremer telling him after his such a job? What other sort of person arrest on the gun charge that he "put the could they find? It is because Bremer is cops on." There was a knife on the table mentally disturbed that he was willing to when Bremer was being fingerprinted, do it. Instead, we are offered the theory and he asked the policemen present, 12 AMERICAN OPINION "Aren't you afraid I'll slash my wrists?" The Mystery Man And there is the curious tale of Mrs. What you have read so far has been Sharon Sampson, who is a woman of unavoidably incredible. But the reader is thirty. She relates that she and another hereby warned that what is coming now woman were hitchhiking in downtown dwarfs it. Milwaukee on April 19, 1972, and that Mr. Earl S-. Nunnery is boss of the Arthur Bremer picked them up. He also Milwaukee station of the Chesapeake & picked up two teenage girls and a young Ohio ferry which crosses Lake Michigan. man with long hair. There were so many Every day when he comes home from hitchhikers in the car there was almost no work he finds his wife watching soap room for Arthur. The car was a mess, says operas on the television set in the kitch- Mrs. Sampson. There was no internal en. And every day, in an understandable door handle on the passenger side. Arthur demonstration of male chauvinism, the had to open the passenger door from first thing he does is turn off the set. outside. It was scary. There was a "peace But on May 15, 1972, he hesitated. On symbol" inked on his right hand. And he the screen was a familiar face, the face talked funny. "What do you think is of a young man who had been at his stopping us from reaching the age of ferry station the month before. Later, Aquarius?" he asked. He answered his Nunnery learned that it belonged to own question: "Yes, it's fear and doubt." Arthur Bremer, who, as you will recall, As you will recall, those were the same used the ferry three times in his travels. words Mike Cullen used, when he and Earl Nunnery went with the facts to the Bremer were together reading the Com- authorities. munist press and damning Wallace in the It seems that on April 5, 6, or 7, 1972 Midget Tavern. — Nunnery remembers the date because it After ten minutes, all five hitchhikers was either on his daughter's birthday, managed to get out. "It was a short ride April sixth, or the day before or the day but long enough for us to know that he after — Bremer came into the station was disturbed," said Mrs. Sampson. "We waiting room. With him was an older man all walked away and agreed that this was over six feet tall, in the neighborhood of the Oswald type." 225 pounds, with thick black hair and a What amazing foresight and talent for wide, bushy moustache. He appeared to diagnosis! Her story appeared in the be Greek, or of some other Mediterranean Milwaukee Sentinel of May 25, 1972. type. He spoke with what Nunnery calls She knew how to arrange that, because "a Joisey brogue." He was well dressed. her husband James (who, like Arthur, And he seemed to be the boss of what- attended the Milwaukee Area Technical ever he and Bremer were involved in. College) is a district sales manager for the The mystery man talked volubly of Sentinel's sister paper, the Milwaukee some grandiose political campaign. Many Journal. So in only ten minutes' work, people were to be moved from Wisconsin Arthur had arranged for five "hitch- to Michigan, some across the lake on the hikers" to believe him to be crazy. ferry. The mystery man inquired of Nun- The jury, as you know, did not believe nery about reservations. But when they it. Could it be that the diary read them to got down to cases it turned out that only prove his insanity had been manufactured Bremer was to go, which he did, once by Arthur Bremer and others for that again, on April 9, 1972, after flying to purpose? Could it be that Arthur Bremer New York and back. Nunnery character- really went to Ottawa to trail Richard izes the mystery man as "a former athlete Nixon in order to compare Secret Service and political science teacher, who flopped techniques? at both." OCTOBER, 1972 13 Bremer, the "crazy, lone fanatic," was Venceremos Brigade. An F.B.I. agent perfectly self-assured, Nunnery recalls. He reports he is a member of the Com- was perfectly aware of what was going munist Progressive Labor Party, and that on. Indeed, he was noticeably annoyed his job has been to recruit trainees from with the mystery man. "I told you I the New Left. His job in S.D.S. was to know what to do," he said shortly, after weed out the "kicksters" from the real Nunnery gave them the necessary infor- Marxist-Leninists. On January 12, 1972, mation. His attitude, says Nunnery, was he was spotted at Mitchell Field, in that of somebody who must "humor the Milwaukee, buying a ticket on North boss." Central Airlines for New York. This time, During all the talk about politics, he used the name "Cassini," and in neither Bremer nor the mystery man had contrast to his accustomed proletarian ever mentioned their candidate, so when garb was well dressed. On the next day, as they left Nunnery looked out the window you will recall, Bremer bought a .38. to see whether there was a bumper sticker And Dennis Kushmann-Cuzman- on their car. There wasn't, but in the car Cousins-Cossini perfectly matches Nun- Nunnery saw the back and shoulders of a nery's description of the "boss" man with slightly built, long-haired person who whom Bremer met in the station of the could have been of either sex. And the C.&0. ferry. car was a two-tone American Motors AMERICAN OPINION began asking product, white on the bottom and dark questions. Hour after hour, day after day, on the top. There was a rust streak on it, we laboriously tried to find a picture of which Nunnery says is characteristic of the suspected mystery man. The F.B.I. the product, and is one of the reasons he had some, but these of course were is not an American Motors fan. unavailable. At last, however, our painful In other words, the car the three were page-turning was rewarded. In early No- using was not Bremer's blue Rambler. vember of 1969, there had been a typical, AMERICAN OPINION set out to find revolutionary demonstration on the cam- the mystery man. Undercover agents gave pus at Marquette, in front of Joan of Arc us several names of persons matching his chapel. The Milwaukee Journal was there description. For days we drove back and and took a picture, which appeared on forth across Milwaukee. the first page of the second section on Then somebody remembered the name November 5, 1969. And in it was Dennis of Dennis Kushmann. This was the Kuslunann-Cuzman-Cousins-Cossini, the Weatherman described only as "Dennis" Communist operative. The case was now in in the previously mentioned Milwaukee the hands of Mr. Nunnery. Police Department undercover agent's notes on the S.DS. meetingof November, The Hit 1969, which Dennis and Cullen both Whether or not the two things are attended — at which the agent spotted related, we don't know, but on July 6, Arthur Bremer. Dennis is a man of murky 1972, less than two weeks after we began background and connections. Apparently asking about him, Communist operative he provides security for the revolutionary Dennis Salvatore Cossini — apparently his movement, among other things. Under- real name — was found by police in a cover agents report he has always been parked car in Toronto, and he was very, able to deliver big money when needed. very dead. The cause of death was an He also uses the names "Cousins" and overdose of heroin, the interesting thing "Cuzman." He has attended most of the about which is that undercover agents meetings of both S.D.S. factions. He emphatically assure us that Cossini was went to Cuba as a member of the no junkie, and in fact did not use the 14 AMERICAN OPINION The photograph below is from the Milwaukee Journal of November 5, 1969. Blown up from it, at right, is a picture of Red Chinese agent Dennis Cossini, the Weatherman who was with Bremer, Mike Cullen, and Mike McHale at that Communist S.D.S. meeting in November of 1969, and who was positively identified from this photo as the "boss" with whom Bremer met at the C. & 0. ferry. Shortly after the American Opinion team began looking for him, Cossini was murdered in Toronto. On his body was a list of five telephone numbers, including those of Mike McHale of R.Y.M. II, and Lobel Bergman, a Communist who has lived in Red China and returned to found the Maoist Revolutionary Union ... reported by intelligence experts to specialize in assassination.
OCTOBER, 1972 15 stuff at all. In other words, Communist professionally as Tina, who lives in Apart- operative Dennis Cossini had been mur- ment 205 at 3005 South Boulevard. She dered. has been reported by intelligence sources "Somebody gave him a hot shot," says to associate with the Communist Black an agent. Panthers and to arrange disappearances It is interesting to note that his body for the Communist Party, and was was picked up by three Americans, who another of Cossini's contacts. We called according to the agent may be from the Tina in her professional capacity and she Central Intelligence Agency, which is so told us to come right over. super-secret that even Congressmen can There was (414) 342-9549, which is find out nothing about it. And so Com- listed to our old friend Mike McHale, at munist-riddled is it that, for instance, 2001 West Michigan in Milwaukee. Mike, when Colonel Michael Goleniewski, who as you will recall, is an S.D.S. enforcer. defected from the Polish secret police, And there was (201) 248-3167, which went there to expose the Communists in is listed to a gentleman named Leibel our government, one of the C.I.A. men Bergman (sometimes spelled Bergmann), who came in to debrief him was among who lives in Apartment 2E at 55 Osborne the Communist agents he was there to Terrace, in Newark, New Jersey. Berg- expose. man, fifty-seven, has been a Communist Some interesting things were found on for years. On July 13, 1960, he invoked Comrade Cossini's body. There was a the Fifth Amendment rather than answer draft card for each of his names. There questions put to him by the House was a phony Wisconsin driver's license. Committee on Un-American Activities. There was a hypodermic needle. There He has lived in Communist China. He is a was a .45-caliber automatic. And there suspected espionage agent. And he was a was a list of five telephone numbers founder, in California, of the Revolu- without area codes. tionary Union, a Maoist-Communist ter- Extensive tracing shows that (916) ror gang, which specializes in firearms, 487-2703 is listed to a John J. McCleary explosives — and assassination. Bergman's in Sacramento, California, who works at job is to organize R.U. collectives across V & T International, an export-import the country. You will remember that company in that city which Cossini tele- Cossini flew to New York on January phoned a lot. V & T is run by Robert Lee 12, 1972. Was it Leibel Bergman he Van Keuren, of 7810 Lorin Avenue in went to see? On the next day, Arthur Sacramento, who is also employed as a Bremer bought a gun. And on April 7, tote-bin operator by Procter & Gamble. 1972, as you will remember, he, too, Mr. Van Keuren is said to be exporting flew to New York. Did he, too, see water purification equipment to Austral- Leibel Bergman? ia. What all this means, if anything at all, Law enforcement authorities in Mil- we don't yet know. waukee have been asking about the Then there is (212) 9884834, which is whereabouts of Paris Richard Baldacci on listed to a John J. Dugan, of 500 East the day of Communist operative Cossini's 77th Street, in New York City. According murder. Baldacci, about thirty, comes to an F.B.I. agent, Cossini had a contact from Scranton, Pennsylvania, and now named Dugan, who is said to be a lives in Apartment 18 at 1333 North straight, "public relations type," who Franklin Place, in Milwaukee, where his recently moved from Milwaukee to New telephone number is (414) 276-3672. At York. It may mean nothing. one time he lived two doors away from In Dallas at (214) 426-6004, there is a Mike Cullen's Casa Maria. He is a member prostitute named Viola Edwards, known of R.Y.M. II, one of the factions of
16 AMERICAN OPINION S.D.S. He is one of a group of white his kitchen table, as we presented the people close to James Groppi. An under- photograph we had worked so hard to get cover agent recalls that he once bought a for his verdict. His judgment could well "clean" shotgun for transmission to the have made irrelevant the last few pages Black Panthers. He, too, has called the you have read. He leaned forward slightly number listed to McCleary in Sacramen- and studied the picture. to. And he was very close to Cossini. "There is a tremendous, striking re- Baldacci is a graduate student and semblance," said Nunnery. "This picture lecturer in the Department of Theology is by far the closest to the mystery man at Marquette. His faculty advisor is Quen- of any I've been shown." Indeed, Nun- tin Quesnell, S.J., who is Chairman of the nery covered the highlights on Cossini's Department and campus advisor of S.D.S. collar with his forefingers to study the Exactly what it means, we don't yet face further, and found the resemblance know, but an S.D.S. member tells us that to be even closer. two of Groppi's NA A.C.P. Commandos So there it is. Communist operative have recently been staying very close to Cossini, who was at the S.D.S. meeting Baldacci, conceivably either to watch or Bremer attended in November of 1969, to protect him. was the man who appeared with him at During the last year or so, Baldacci has the C. & 0. ferry station in April of 1972 - spent much time with Cullen, McHale, and three months later was found mur- and John Dolphin. Mr. Dolphin is said to dered in Canada. be a "head" sympathetic to S.D.S. and Is it possible that all of this is a lives on the fourth floor at 2445 West coincidence? Yes, it is possible. And if Wisconsin, which is a block away from you believe it, please get in touch with Bremer's apartment and is a building he me. I can get you a good deal on the used to visit. On the same floor for a time Brooklyn Bridge. lived a gentleman named Mark Simos, Once again, the facts indicate that who answers the description of a friend there was a conspiracy to assassinate who helped Bremer change tires. George Wallace; that it was a On July 26, 1972, we knocked at the Communist conspiracy — and that in some way it door of Earl Nunnery's home. He opened may involve Communist China and the it, listened, and shut the door in our face Central Intelligence Agency. — the same thing he sensibly had done to the New York Time. We went to a The Motive telephone, called him and told him who Why would the Conspiracy decide to we were, and that we had a picture we liquidate George Wallace? Obviously be- wanted him to look at. Later, he ex- cause he does not fit the script they have plained that the press had given the written for the elections of 1972. In purser on one of his boats "the works." 1968, Wallace said that there wasn't "a The Associated Press had sent its "hench- dime's worth of difference between the men" around, from the Journal and the two major parties." Today, after four Sentinel. The press had put words in his years of Nixon inflation, there is less than mouth. two cents' worth. This year, as usual, "I don't want to put words in your Socialist Party A confronts Socialist Party mouth," I said. B, a fact of which more and more of the "You won't." taxpayers who work in, and vote for, Mr. Nunnery is a man of strong opin- those parties are becoming aware. Wallace ion, who makes up his own mind and would have rewritten the script by giving sticks to it. The reader may well imagine the voters a real choice, which of course the tension with which we flanked him at is something the conspirators who are OCTOBER, 1972 17 • trying to enslave us are afraid to permit. porters Ronald Koziol and John O'Brien, And the results of the various Democrat who went to Bremer's apartment in primaries made it realistic to speculate search of clues, and according to an that Wallace might have won. So some- editorial of May 25, 1972, "found that body, somewhere, in some smoke-filled Federal Bureau of Investigation agents back room, gave the order. had come and gone, leaving the place Some observers have said that Brem- unguarded. er's attempt was amateurish, and that a "As a consequence, the apartment professional would have used a high-- resembled a circus. Newsmen, neighbors, powered, sniperscope rifle. But, as we curiosity-seekers, and college students have seen, it was professional enough to fresh from a nearby beer party had been prevent the Governor from running in rummaging thru the place, overturning 1972, and has provided fuel for the latest furniture, pawing thru clothes, pocketing attempt to ban handguns. It is important bullets and other souvenirs, and generally to remember that every Communist Party tracking up the entire scene with their act is designed to serve more than one fingerprints and footprints. Bremer's purpose. notebook, which might have provided It is interesting to take note of the some immediate and vital leads in the official response to the shooting. For case, was taken away by a wire service instance, the Special Assignment Squad reporter .... of the Milwaukee Police Department be- "The FBI agents returned a few hours gan looking for possible subversive ties to later, and only then began putting evi- Bremer, but the investigation was stopped dence into boxes. At no time did they by higher-ups. A Milwaukee Police De- attempt to seal off the apartment and partment intelligence officer says that the there was no indication that they ever Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division made an effort to dust the place for of the Treasury Department sealed the fmgerprints. Squad's files and took them away. The "Had this been the fault of the local Squad was told to concentrate instead on police authorities, it would have been bad possible subversion stemming from Mil- enough, but for so professional an organ- waukee at the forthcoming national con- ization as the FBI to have been so ventions in Miami Beach. negligent is doubly inexcusable ... ." Earl Nunnery reports that the F.B.I. The consensus seems to be that the told him they didn't believe him — that F.B.I. is composed of some very courte- he was lying — and that they also ous gentlemen, but that in this case for disbelieved two others who claimed to some reason they had been told not to have seen Cossini. The F.B.I. went to find the facts. Nunnery's neighbors, he says, and tried to And it is interesting to note that the create the impression that he and his wife agent who remembers seeing Bremer at are "drunks, who have illusions." that S.D.S. meeting in November of Then there is Mary Beth Carlson, a 1969, has recently been fired by the secretary at Marquette, whose address Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous and apartment number were found on a Drugs. Apparently his revelation was not piece of paper in Arthur Bremer's apart- in the script either. ment. Miss Carlson has no idea how this It will be interesting to see what happened, but offered to look at the note happens now. And bear in mind that your in an attempt to identify the handwriting. intrepid correspondent has no immediate The Bureau nevertheless refused to show plans to leap in front of a truck or from a it to her. window, or to have a fatal "heart attack" And there are Chicago Tribune re- or a lobotomy. ■ ■ 18 AMERICAN OPINION