5.2 GEORGE BELL'S OPPONENTS LIST
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SUBJECT: OPPONENT PRIORITY ACTIVITY
Having studied the attached material and evaluated the recommendations for the discussed action, I believe you will find my list worthwhile for go status. It is in priority order.
| 1. | PICKER, ARNOLD M. United Artists Corporation |
Top Muskie fundraiser. Success here could be both debilitating and very embarrassing to the Muskie machine. If effort looks promising, both Ruth and David Picker should be programmed and then a follow-through with United Artists.
| 2. | BARKAN, ALEXANDER E. National director of A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s Committee on Political Education |
Without a doubt the most powerful political force programmed against us in 1968. ($10 million dollars, 4.6 million votes, 115 million pamphlets, 176,000 workers — all programmed by Barkan’s C.O.P.E. — so says Teddy White in The Making of the President 1968). We can expect the same effort this time.
| 3. | GUTHMAN, ED Managing Editor L. A. Times |
Guthman, former Kennedy aide, was a highly sophisticated hatchetman against us in '68. It is obvious he is the prime mover behind the current Key Biscayne effort. It is time to give him the message.
| 4. | DANE, MAXWELL Doyle, Dane and Bernbach |
The top Democratic advertising firm — they destroyed Goldwater in ’64. They should be hit hard starting with Dane.
| 5. | CHARLES DYSON Dyson-Kissner Corporation New York |
Dyson and Larry O’Brien were close business associates after ’68. Dyson has huge business holdings and is presently deeply involved in the Businessmen’s Educational Fund which bankrolls a national radio network of five-minute programs, anti-Nixon in character.
