Thanks for the clarification...I was going on recollections of things I had been told or had read a long time ago.
BTW, when the FBI opened a preliminary inquiry into the JBS (in 1959-1960), it contacted former FBI informant Herbert Philbrick (of “I Led Three Lives” fame) to inquire about Robert Welch and the JBS because Philbrick knew Welch and, in fact, at that time, Philbrick was a Home Chapter member of the JBS.
The FBI also asked Philbrick whether or not he had given Revilo Oliver information about Communists in the Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare (as Oliver claimed he did).
Philbrick told the FBI that Oliver was lying and, furthermore, based upon his personal contacts with Oliver in 1959 (!) he (Philbrick) considered Oliver to be “an extremist in anticommunist feelings and violently anti-Semitic.” [FBI-HQ file 65-45027, serial #29, 2/1/61 memo from F.J. Baumgardner to FBI Assistant Director Alan H. Belmont, page 2, which is in the FBI HQ file on Revilo P. Oliver; also in FBI-HQ file 62-104401 on JBS, serial #unrecorded, but just after serial #621].
So...that begs the question: How could Robert Welch NOT know about Oliver’s bigotry (anti-Semitism and racism) until 1966 when Oliver resigned?