Charges that the John Birch Society was anti-Semitic, fascist and subversive were rejected today by the California Senate’s un-American Activities Subcommittee in a lengthy report.
The 200-page report summed up the findings of an inquiry extending over two years on political and semi-political activities in the state, a center for a wide variety of such movements all along the political spectrum.
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