PROJECT ALERT AT LUBBOCK, TEXAS OUTLINE OF ADDRESS AT LUBBOCK MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM, APRIL 9, 1959 BY ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Publication Date: April 9, 1950
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PROJECT ALERT AT LUBBOCK, TEXAS
OUTLINE OF ADDRESS AT LUBBOCK MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM,
APRIL 9, 1959
BY
ALLEN W. DULLES
"ALERT TO THE COMMUNIST CHALLENGE"
1. Tribute to George Mahon. As Chairman of Appropriations
Sub-committee on Military Affairs has vital influence in determining
scale and emphasis of our military effort in these crucial times.
2. Congratulation to Lubbock for initiating alert to
Communism and to Admiral Schindler, Commandant 8th Naval District,
for suggesting pilot program.
3. Significant that Lubbock, almost equally distant from two
oceans and relatively secure from direct contact with heart of
Communist plotting, should have started the Alert Against Communism.
An example to others in the United States.
A Challenge to our complacency.
4. Story about Communist party as "smallest thing" in Texas.
But fact that small here - no reason delude ourself that it small
everywhere.
5. Proud at my selection to help you start "Alert." I have
served under seven Presidents beginning with Woodrow Wilson. Have
taken present job because it is a key position from which to work
against communism.
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Communist menace issue on which no partisanship differences
the only differences among loyal Americans come from ignorance of
our peril. With knowledge of the danger we would be united in purpose
and performance, hence need for alertness.
6. Duties of Central Intelligence Agency--main function to ferret
out Communist intrigue, Soviet agents and plotters, and to find means
of countering Communist menace in all its forms.
C.I.A. works outside United States and I shall discuss this
threat.
7. With our relatively high living standards, insulation by two
great oceans from direct contact with Communist world and, finally,
effective action in unmasking Communist practice hare through F.B.I. --
J. Edgar Hoover -- our greatest danger is not subversion in the United
States though we must be keenly alive to this. Of course they do have
their spies here.
Our danger lies in Communist policy of encirclement. Nbscow
does not expect, now, to take over United States by internal
penetration. Our system is too strong.
They expect to subvert the remaining free world outside of
the U.S. beginning with the weakest; leave us isolated and alone.
Since 1917 International Communism has taken over areas whose population
is almost a billion people (many not real converts but controlled).
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Even in this hemisphere there is cause for concern. In
Mexico and Argentina, recently, Soviet &busy personnel caught red-
handed in fomenting strikes (a favorite technique). And we do not
forget what the Communists tried to do to our Vice President in
Venezuela.
8. Suicide for us to wait till Communism drives freedom back
to our own shores. We cannot safely see Communism drive forward in
Europe, penetrate the Middle East and the American Continent to the
South of us and Africa.
We must work with freedom loving people through the world to
meet the menace wherever it appears and on a world-vide basis. A
defeat in Berlin or in Iraq concerns you.
Your alert must have these broad horizons. (Add a description
of Iraq developments which follows Soviet pattern of "take over
9. What is Communist program? Communist leaders have frankly
told us -- all we need do is to read what Lenin has said -- what Stalin
has said and what Kbrushchev is now saying.
(Mere than thirty years ago, Hitler told us in "Mein Kampf"
what he intended to do. We paid no attention -- he did it.)
We had best pay close attention to that Communists are saying.
Communist program is to take over and Communize the entire
world -- it is not a limited aim, is not merely to meet Russian
nationalistic ambitions. They propose to start with weakest areas;
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planning thereby to immobilize and deter United States from effective
action.
Purpose of today's Berlin action is to protect their flank;
their ill-gotten gains -- Hungary and Eastern satellites -- while
they penetrate the soft "under belly" of the Asian mainland in the
Near East and South and Southeast Asia.
10. What are the methods of Moscow, abetted by Peiping? Will it
be by military conquest? -- Not if we stay militarily strong.
Over past decade, particularly under Stalin, they have tried
limited wars and wars by proxy, in Greece and Malaya; then more
recently in Korea, in Vietnam and the Formosa Straits.
On balance, these techniques failed but they did help to
alert the free world to the danger in this type of action. Furthermore,
even limited wars, would today, increasingly involve the risk of
nuclear war and mutual nuclear destruction.
While Soviets maybe emboldened by their increasing nuclear
power and growing potential with ballistic missiles, the Kremlin
bosses realize that they cannot use their nuclear might without
inviting their nuclear destruction. Our deterrent is strong and ready.
Furthermore, they know their people -- the Russian people
don't want war -- just as the American people reject it unless it is
forced upon them. Hence we feel that the methods of the Communist
leaders will be subtle.
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U. Their general program, as we see it, will probably include:
a. The building up of their military power, particularly
the ballistic threat as a blackmailing weapon against
us; to try to soften us on. the Berlin issue, in Iraq
and Iran and elsewhere. (Remember how they rattled
the ballistic missiles at time of Suez.)
b. Development of their industrial base and heavy industry
largely for military purposes while trying to keep their
people hard and tough through denying them the consumer's
goods and the major increase in the standard of living.
They are producing one automobile to our 50 or 60. Last
year the people of Russia had available for purchase
barely one-third of the total goods and services available
to Americans. We stress consumer satisfaction and
building high living standards. They stress industriali-
zation for military purposes. (Maybe we have been softened
too much.) With less than half of our gross National
Product thir military effort equal to our own.)
c. Third item on their program -- Resort to subversion and
economic penetration against the exposed, under developed
newly independent countries of the world.
12. It vas by combination of military force and subversion that
they took over Eastern European satellites. A little more than ten
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years ago they seized power in Czechoslovakia without firing a shot.
Trickery and subversion, plus revolution, played a great role in their
taking over China. Tibet is threatened by Communist armies, Iraq by Soviet
arms deliveries, promise of economic aid and maybe by Kurdish volunteers.
13. Apart from the Commtmist military and economic assets for
world conquest, here are some of the more subtle instruments for their
campaign of subversion.
Use of Communist parties on a world-wide basis. These include
the hard core and the fellow-travellers. At 21st Communist Party
Congress just recently held in Moscow, sixty Communist parties including
Arderi can Consmanist party represented and. received. Moscow's directives
and indoctrination.
The World Federation of Trade Unions, (refer to their
position in France, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, etc.)
They have their own Communist Youth, Student, Veteran,
Teachers and other like organizations. Refer to Moscow Youth Festival
and now Vienna.
The so-called World Peace Conference and trade on the magic
word of "Peace."
We estimate Moscow and Teiping spend approximately two
billion dollars a year in supporting foreign Communist parties and
these Communist Front Organizations, plus their over-all subversive
mechanism, (in addition, of course, to what they put into espionage.)
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14. In support of these subversive techniques, they use economic
penetration of the Free World and hold out to the under developed
nations the beguiling theme that it is communism which has brought
the Soviet Union in thirty years from being an underdeveloped country
to being the second greatest industrial and military power in the world.
Many countries realize they cannot hope to aspire to our
high economic and living standards but think that possibly they can
reach something like that of the Soviet Union.
They concentrate on those countries where this appeal will
be the strongest -- such as the emerging countries of Asia and Africa,
India, Indonesia.
Also, they do not hesitate to send in their obsolescent arms
wherever they will cause the most irouble -- Egypt and Syria,
Indonesia, and even to Black Africa.
15. These subversive assets are supplemented by the most
virulent radio campaign the world has ever .seen.
Both Moscow and Peiping fill the airwaves of the East with
their venom.
They distribute by the millions cheap books (many of them in
&dish) and pamphlets with Comonniist indoctrination and attacks on the
Free World.
They exaggerate Communist successes; misrepresent the
achievements of the Free World.
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At the same time the Soviet Union and Communist China have built
up a physical and an intellectual iron curtaingeventing their
people (except a chosen few) from learning about the West or visiting
the West. They abuse the freedoms of the Free World for espionage,
propaganda and subversion.
CONCLUSION:
Over the pastien years and more have been alerted to the
Communist program and techniques, by events in Greece, the Berlin
blockade and the attack on South Korea, and the take over of China,
Czechoslovakia, etc.
In recent years, especially since Khrushchev denounced Stalinist
tactics and adopted the more subtle theme of co-existence to mask his
purposes, we have tended to relax our vigilance.
TOo many of our pegAs have readily bought this theme of
co-existence.
We have failed to distinguish between the ruthless objectives
of the Kremlin leaders and the friendly attitude of the Russian peoples,
themselves, when we meet them indirectly. We forget that the latter
have a negligible role in determining the Soviet policy.
All this time the Russian people are being forced to work harder
and to devote their energies to developing the military and industrial
strength of their country while receiving, themselves, only a small
fraction of national production in the form of consumer's goods and
increase living standards.
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It is well that we should revew our alert to the danger.
We cannot afford to see the frontiers of freedom &kink.
It is for us who are strong to help the weak resist the Communist
inroads.
We must understand the challenge. If we do, have no doubt as to
the nature of the response.
For we will have no assured peace until there are governments
in Moscow and Peiping which are responsible to their People, not to
the ruthless tenets of International Communism.
Your alert will set an example to the whole country.
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