FRATERNIZATION WITH RUSSIANS DANGEROUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130082-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: July 14, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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Those who oppose visits of high -American
officials to Russia pnd her satellites, and vice
versa, make good cause of the "bread and free-
dom" riots at Poznan.
The disturbance in Poland, says "Human
Events," caught American intelligence unawares,
as well as newsmen. The prevailing idea at the
time of the riots was that resistance movements
in the Communist countries were so' weak and
insignificant, the publication states.
The riots brought as awakening, "human
Events" continues. It is sow thought by some
observers that the underground behind the from
Curtain is stronger tad afore determined
than even the melt optimistic thought.
Further, it Is noted that the Poznan up-
heaval was brought about by both middle class-
inen and workers and that its participants in-
cluded younger persons who have spent their
:adult lives under Communist Indoctrination.
Visits of American leaders to Russia would
infer U.S. sanction and recognition of com-
munist regime as the unassailable tnuttr of the
subjugated nations, it Is reasoned. Thtk,'fra-
ternization works against the mptivating hope
of the underground-that of eventually regaining
freedom with the moral and material support '
of free men everywhere.
"Human Events" reports that talk around'
the State Department has it that Allen Dulles
and his Central Intelligence Agency had ar?
ranged a visit to satellite countries for Vice
President Nixon to be made at the end of his
present world tour. After the Poznan riots, it
is said. Secretary of State John Foster Dulleb
found out about the plans and cancelled them.
The difficulty of accurately assessing the
power and determination of the underground
movements is obvious. But the Poznan] riots
do give cause for doubting the wisdom of
playing "footsy" with the Russians under
the banquet table
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