Edward Hunter, an expert on Communist tactics, testified before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) on July 11, 1961. In his testimony, titled “The New Drive Against the Anti-Communist Program,” he outlined the Communists’ smearing of The JBS and other anti-Communist groups. Referring to the December 1960 “Statement of 81 Marxist-Leninist Parties,” he noted that:
For the first time, the world Communist network, in a basic policy and operational document, specifically referred to the anti-Communist movement in the United States, recognizing that it had reached proportions large enough to constitute a main — if not the main — danger to Communist progress in our country, outlining tactics to combat it, so as to regain the virtually unobstructed field it had once occupied in its American operations.
As Hunter’s testimony goes on to suggest that The JBS bore the brunt of these Communist attacks.