Tyson, James L. Target America: The Influence of Communist Propaganda on
U.S. Media. Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1981. 284 pages.
Tyson is a polemicist based in Darien, Connecticut, who even as late
as 1988 was writing to the Washington Times about how they should "be more
realistic regarding the menace of communist aggression and propaganda" --
as if the Moonie Times wasn't anti-communist enough! In this case, he didn't
like the "laudatory" articles the Times published on [Yale Skull and Bones,
ex-CIA] peace activist William Sloane Coffin. This qualifies Tyson as a
right-wing innocent who is incapable of a hidden establishment agenda.
In other words, Tyson's information on political elites -- in this case,
liberal-left elites -- is probably as interesting as anything Coffin, whom
I nevertheless admire from my days as a draft resister, might be willing
to publish.
Until "Covert Cadre" by S.Steven Powell appeared six years later,
this may have been the only book about the U.S. Liberal-Left Conspiracy
whose author had actually done some homework and used footnotes. Almost
half of the book comes out of the author's travels in southeast Asia. Of
the remainder, there are 30 pages on the "Far Left Lobby" that describe
various groups and foundations, and another 42 pages on the "War Against
the CIA" that name some people I know.
-- D.Brandt
ISBN 0-89526-671-7
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