SOVIET THOUGHT CENTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100070014-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: June 6, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

ApprovecL For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDA 0058 0100070014-8
CPYRGHT
The Washington Scene
Soviet Thought Centers
'By WILLIAM H. STfl1NGER, Chief, Washington Bureau, The Chrlottan`Se ence Monitor
6 . ,.
Asat'he gvlet~ leaders re- u' a g` f titrze is devo '. un, rn,an s desi&e for free'-
turn to Moscow from their to studying"" he Soviet Union `Glom must 'break any bonds
strange pilgrimage to Yugo- ?And,,,4"Jinds that Alien W.; that ~~can be placed around
Dulles,;?directgr of the?..CIA,I him. This, perhaps is a uni-I
slavia, and asthey indulge in in, a thbughtful speech. ate versal Maw, inexorably at
other antics unheard,; of, in Columbia[Tn versity, ha ,sug- work in the Soviet :Union
Stalinas
` estedhat mass educati o elsewhere. It is significant
,
s day',- uirin re- g g
m
' the Soviet "people will "hi th that 'a man in Mr. Dulless'
porter in sh` gtoil finds
long run? destroy the torn ;position at-the head of Amer
himself wort 6'rilsg "`ia' any- munIst system of government !can overs intelligence
thing really Fasid is happen- ? s sees evidence. that it is.
ing inside the Soviet stem. Flow. Mr. Dulles sees th
He, knows that l oscow Soi et educational ;syste In Britain; one of the
there is some red&ication of as . having two purposes problems facing the L bor
1. To turn out well -e Party, which is by no a
the police state.
to ' v knows ( du Marxist is that it has e
that a visa to sit the Gated members of the Cam pearl `run out of effective
U.S.S.R. is now easier to ob- munist state who are sari y
:- programs which are "popular
tam-and p?llchev
has ersona !~., d news , with the voters. In, the Soviet
ft.
merito risk thourney. A Union it may happen that, in
the absence of a-ruthless dic-
small number of.Soviet farm tator like Stalinand with the
ers are to visit Io ` o see Soviet peoples' 'V'vn dissatis-
how the tall corn aws; aril action with, their 'privations
a like` number of American nd lack of incentives - it
far a are;;to vt Soviet may be gradually discovered
coil ye fagns. that the Communist system
A hing si*gmfic abolIV
really doesn't deliver the
this? Any new tr s? goods.
Theinquiri g re rter to '
to the5,kvs, Wlio keep `
close watch. on their big Let's see, then, what vari-
neigb.bor; an. , ous impacts against the Com-
"Forced labor' nt elyleing`' munist "thoubht - control"
the returns it once yielded saneM /9 ' state can be' listed: The
in Russia, 11sc had td oueenr,uv growth of a managerial class,,
grant large entives '_no the growth of mass education,
only in agri the increasing access to the
It but d
dustry. In "eta day,~a - a outside world, the demand
dictator. he could force the Sk apers Everywhc -, for incentives, the passing of
Russians to build bricks with Stalin and the substitution of
tined and ; thought-controlled less-sure "committee rule" in :
out straw. S'uft~lis sucCbrs; against' having dangerously the Kremlin. And, one more,
no. There mu ~tj#be a carrgt as Independent thoughts;' (2) to the remarkable virility of the
well as a stick':"iI'arm and !ac-' tral capable 61 oper-
tor ity pattern *e' changing aljatig ag techn callya vanced' Wes coe qund system in
b
' ~. F, ciety. The Soviets-ha-- en munist forecast about its de-
coun?tered real difficulty in cline ?a#id depression.
Then th4P rifiq .iirini re- pui,iiing the two goals at the N~To~~body,xpects that Mos-
porter, is re d,ed~ by a..Brit- same,, time, Mr. Dulles de- cot ';':is gosh ? to become. a'
;ski calk? gate that Arthur Glares. democracy tomorrow morning
Toynbee, 4_ _ nt~British his- Some thoughtful Soviet -o that the Bolshoi Theater
g y, going to start
(torian, t, e:. gradual citi ens accordin ; to the CIA is dent
rise of a i agerial class in chief, ale begin mg to see sho ng "Oklahoma!"; nor is
the Soviet Union would one through their le ers' distor- the, Soviet Government going
day loosen dictator's grip. flops of history=indeed are to" fop building an impressive
This would' appet becap beginning to resent the whole ton range air force or a big
the factor" managers ~sysfem of thought
'th control nft or -'salt construction on
stS
neers, and . tural sc e 1 _ ere is no sudden dden mass f idabl intercontinental
of the nevi ss could n t be awakening in e .b guided issiles. Long before
kicked arou d as were t g- any means. Most peop hay Gomm sm and the Comin-
noran ? kul{ Theyw uid to levote their major ergieSi `fotm,y issia was an imperial- ,
want= olrie o he b t~t r~~itiings ? to keeping body andsoul' to- is `power;. moving into every
of life, and 'would be so gether. But there has laeji nIitical vacuum around its
invaluable so` . the Kremlin for instance, a dee~ti phasls 3~ jii'ders and scheming for
that their de Tres would have compulsory ideolog'i'cal `slant- power.
to be heede in part. That ing 'in biology and the, oo `vWhat these essures do
managerial class is slowly physical sciencesand ir1 e- mean,?,is*that