Transfer Amendment and Related Groups

Transfer Amendment and Related Groups re the Defense Budget

One tactic of the Left after the Vietnam War was to try to convince the American people that there was no threat to America from the Soviet Union, Red China, or worldwide communism in general. An approach they developed concerned a campaign to shift defense budget funds to domestic programs, a campaign which had many subgroupings to it but which ended up with what was known as the "Transfer Amendment" pushed by Communist Party sympathizer Rep. Parren Mitchel D-MD and avowed "socialist" marxist Rep. Ron Dellums D-CA in 1976.

The earlier CPUSA front, the National Center for a Drastic Cutback in Military Spending was one of the earlier organizations to promote this post-Vietnam disarmament line, thought it got its original idea from the Hanoi Lobby groups known as the Coalition to Stop Funding the War CSFW (1974-76) which then became the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy CNFMP(1976>).

An even earlier coalition aimed at cutting defense spending was the mixed liberal/marxist/communist/religious melange known as the Coalition for Budget Priorities in America, a group the illegally lobbied Congress despite its heavy church organizations membership and funding.