COMMENTS OF MR-57

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00680R000100020093-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: February 24, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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24 Pelbrmry 19"
this a ppoexe to be aizeed at a t ,r type of aaudience, - that is, a
comparatively unsophisticated audienes. The article has little now
insight or eanclusion to Wit; it really is wassed-over VveriLlities.
This is a fund ntal mess for the Ws and one probably should
question the article's use. It would seem to have been better if the
author had provided an analysis in depth of a part or a feature of
the Finnish situation.
hE 1.
Poor first sentence. Being on Soviet periphery is not after&*
geogmphic but adverse stra J a location.
First paragraph is a bit of a Jumble.
EM 2.
Line one to two. Phrase about Finland reconciling itself is
a pointless diversion and should be eliminated.
Line 9. Instead of citing mountains wky not be specific about
the barrier effects?
Line 14. Has been maintained" should be "succeeded".
Footnote is ridiculous -eliminate.
Poor organisation shows up here.
Who says Porkkala may have lost "soars of" its military and
strategic value? If true, its "return" was mtiv tad by more complex
reasons than this.
Pate
First paragraph is wordy and repetitive and is a new tack which
is unconnected to foregoing matter by transition.
Page 5.
Top line. What population is referred to--wood industry or the
overall Finnish population?
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in. 13 and 14. This seems an unnecas o y detail.
Top line. It does not sow proper to relate "which upset its
ear", and drop the matter there.
Line U - 12. This is a type of sentence that is unworthy of
competent editors.
The , aragmph which follows does not seem to arrive anywhere
conclusive.
'age 9.
Line This states a possibility which, it would
already been realized and which the article accepts.
Bad organization shows up here again.
Page 10 - 11.
This could be more political geography and less political reporting
than it is.
LnAt Finns feel their charaes of surviving axe good? This is
not an acceptable general.isi.
Persian Gulf Petr?leeum
This seems alright. The first paragraph of page two would
seem to give too much attention to a tertiary point. Otherwise no
particular oamant.
Soviet Mona
fic criticism, article is the "Ge or t' sort of thing
found at the back of the Geographical yierw and is worthwhile as
reportin ;.
?olisb A!5"i:ng
by criticism, same cunt as for Soviet Monographs., but I felt this
was the better of the two.
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