DEAR MR. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000500030087-3
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: May 18, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE ARMCO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
E.A.EMERSON
DIRECTOR
MIDDLETOWN, OHIO
U. S. A.
May 18, 1959
Mr. Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D,. C.
Dear Mr. Dulles:
Having served in World War I and lost an only son in World War II I
have, since 1946, been working with various civilian groups to try
to find and support a way of counter-attacking and stopping our
Kremlin enemy by means short of another all-out war.
I believe that our continuing defeats in the political war constitute
the most immediate and grave threat to our American future, and one
that is very much under-estimated in our country.
I agree with the statement of Mr. Selwyn Lloyd as quoted: "The nature
of this strange war is such that we can lose it without being aware of
it until some years after it has been lost - irretrievably." I do not
believe that we can win it unless we find a way to successfully counter-
attack on the political front.
We are the leader and the hope of those who fight for freedom the world
over, but we had to stand by in impotence when those who believe in us
were humiliated,, murdered, and defeated in Budapest, Caracas, Bagdad.
We continue helpless before the technique of our communist enemy in
arousing and directing street mobs to change national policies to
destroy our friends and strengthen our enemies.
I have read and heard millions of wards, and have contributed some, on
what should be clone, but no single step of action to meet the above
type of threat has been visible until HR3880 and 51689 were recently
introduced in the House and Senate.
These bills can start to develop, in public, a force that can become
increasingly useful to the cause of freedom in this political warfare.
At a minimum they can direct action-producing thought and attention to
the subject.
I am keenly interested in these proposals for action, and hope so much
that you also find them good. I will greatly appreciate any thought on
this subject which you can give me.
Sincerely and cordially yours,
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