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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00545A000100040033-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: December 18, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

W`- Dulles
enral:' Intell,gen'ce Agency
ngton,, D. C.
to a P6 SO, 4
> i iahed readisr Frith interests report in ..` A 7196V
0Stc~ on your various".,economic ri M7
t?ed Xt at ., n yo opinion ,there would be s oe taro cue es
max.
d1esatisfaction as more well; educe;ted ssians became dCea1 oue
,more freedom and? more of tile:; fruit of roductS a.: drthe
t at .they . (the.. Russians) are bound to, prod ce min :af eunbit on
wi~not be ' easily.. fooled.
not": too strong a word) so that conformity is so much 'a matter of
habit ,. at' an., early age. that there is little' thance.or departures.
.dual;, through a life so closely controlled snd policed (if that is'
the` Catholic, religion. I am not interested yin debiting the merits"
or demerits of the religion - that is not, the point. What is - it
seems; to-me is the similarity in the development 'of the indivi-
ment an training may be related to how well a man. will, or will
not, :;conform to his society or his authority? Y `sin deferring to
what analogous'situation at least as far as background develop=
any! heal s'g f o r themt I wonder i f you have ever cons"i"dered a some
The"ae are -,,interesting and hopeful speculations, b ca there be
ic~t1't" to re- 'channel.
im 3 strong a those which
pose ~`y luenc -a Catholic are not-:9
might ,at ra t a Russian, but training from birth lie certainly diff
of Soviet";so cial an economic principles has~rnore an accomplished
the `amei re ult. It may be that conflictirig:drive`e ihich might
ing iny`Yseae~?.. of questioning., that mlght.,ha e.? axis y=kIn' Rassl`
if rIhat we. read, is correct. the crd3e-tci ,e-gra a indoctrination
The Caitholi.c religion, with its demand for. segregated -,'schooling,
demand''for "'attendance, end d-ma7d f~_,r acceptance conformity
Pe pa it. is not entirely fair to compare ep:
ci l beliefs, even though both'
economic
an ao
n A
,
.
eloped through' long period3 of re stricted train
enforced. Still, both in a sense are ide;ol.sg'es
quite agree , that a nigh degree intelligence' 1n
will necessarily permeate the more ideoligical fi.e::ld6 of
an:d ao cology . What do you think?
FO IAb6
-beliefs with`
have been dev-
aril constantly-'.
afielda
1 1
economics
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