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 Mar- Marquette and secretary of the Revolu- quette Tribune, or whether he was a tionary Youth Movement II, an S.D.S.