55 years ago today - Apr 20, 1965

A Birch student-spy had been involved in the 1965 monitoring of BYU Professor Richard Poll, had publicly accused Poll of having a Communist subversive speak to his classes.

[E. Eugene Bryce, "Campus Speaker Affiliated With Subversive Groupings," Provo Daily Herald, 20 Apr. 1965, 10. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]

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