THESE SATELLITES! GREMLINS IN THE KREMLIN!

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100140128-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 128
• Publication Date: October 26, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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Across the Presidium Table
hese Satellites! Gremlins in the Kremlin! CPYRGI
By Chalmers M. Roberts
S i n c e American officials
spent most of yesterday at
meetings with each other on
what goes on in Poland and
printed in the.
newspa p e r s!
-let's pretend.
we've w i r e
tapped M o s-
cow's Kremlin
and can catch
t h e conversa- Roberts
tion across the -1
residium taple.
There's nb guarantee that
he tap is genuine, but maybe
he argument went something
ike this:
Molotov: "N i kit a Sergeye-
ich, you've really botched this
usiness in the People's Democ-
acies (translation: satellites)
with all your kow-towing to
that Tito. I told you nothing
ood would come of it, but you
wouldn't listen. Now you and
and Mikoyan and Kagano-
ich have seen the result with
ur own eyes in Warsaw. That
omulka! Such insolence! He's
brown out Rokossovsky, he's
hreatening to turn the Polish
rmy on our troops if we even
ove them. It was never like
his when Stalin was alive.
e've got to do what he would
ave done-put on the screws,
se force, throw out that Go-
to restrict Soviet troops to,proves Communism rests on
Bulganin: "Any more busi-
fless?"
At this point a messenger
brings in 'a report that Imre
Nagy has l?een made Hungarian
Premier, that rioting is out of
hand in Budapest and that
Nagy has had to call out Soviet
troops and planes. Bulganin
reads the dispatch.
Molotov: "Now who's been
right? Are- we going to stand
for this? Next it will be the
Czechs and the Romanians
or even that fellow in Al-
bania. This Tito has been
pushing them all to defy us
and you let him do it, Nikita
Sergeyevich-you and t h e
others here you persuaded.
Why these Hungarians are even
shouting 'Out with the Rus
force alone."
Molotov: "You've got it
backwards. We never should
have let Nagy come to power
-or Gomulka.either. And it
wouldn't have happened if
you hadn't insisted on making
up with Tito. Now they'll all
be trying to play the Amer-
icans off against us the way
he does and Eisenhower al-
ready is hinting about giving
aid."
Khrushchev: "Well, If this
is true about Hungary, if they
really are trying to drive out
our troops and destroy the
People's Democracy, why I'm
in favor of -"
ecans.' And this Nagy can't
even control his own people !
despite 365,000 troops and i
secret police of his own. Let's
crack down hard, send in re-
inforcements and teach the
Hungarians a lesson-and
show all others who's boss,
just as Stalin used to do."
Khrushchev: "I can't believe,
these dispatches. How can the.
workers in a People Democ-'
racy be acting this way? It
Must be American provoca-
tion. T,l A11ua_UuU.es.a ain! I
Of course, we can't Ie1: teem
throw Nagy out, too. W e
ould have let him take over
s boner the way Gomulka did,
ulka and put in our own let's hold our tempers and re' did this wouldn't have hap-
an. Of course
if you want to
,
member thi isllti
s a coecve Soviet forces against Hunga-
n have a hunting accident. leadership. And let's have nolrians going to do to our posi-
talk, either, of changing jobs,tton all,around the wrld? Thej
ut he's got to ego.' around here. That's what the
Khrushchev: Now just a Americans will be saying it!
American press keeps predict
inute Vyacheslav Mikhailo- ing, you know.. We've got to,
ich, I'll admit Gomulka is a hang together and work this`
uch-and-such and you heard out, somehow."
e tell him off in Warsaw. But Khrushchev: "Well, Gomulka
ont' be a fool. If we use force is demanding to talk to me on
,o throw him out, all hell will I
reak loose." the phone. I move that we put
Molotov: "It's already broken the best face possible on the[
oose. Haven't you read the 'business and remind every-i
ecret police report that the body that he has sworn etern 1;
offish Army is against us. solidarity with the Soviet U-
We've got to use our own pow- ion and our party. Zhukov says
r. And strike hard." he's satisfied that as long as wei
Khrushchev: "What would it retain our forces in East Ger
ain? True, we would be sure many and the Warsaw pact
f holding Eastern Europe, bases in the. other People's
yen that slippery East Ger- Democracies there is no threat
any. But at what price? Aft- to our security. Besides, didi
r all the main idea in making you notice that the American
p to Tito has paid off." Secretary of State said the'
Molotov: "How?" other day the Warsaw Pact was1
Khrushchev: "It's convinced a good legal basis for our keep-
11 those Asians that things ing our troops, there? Let's;
ave really' changed here at vote and get this over."
some since Stalin. Ask ,Bul- Thereupon, with grumbling'
aniri he had so many flowers and some "nyet" votes (num
ossed at him in India and!ber could not be ascertained)
urma he wanted to open a l Khrushchev got his way. He;'
progress we've made in India.
Afghanistan?Burma, Indonesia,'
Ceylon. Do you want to queer
all that? Look a,t,tite foothold
we've gotten in the Middle
East; more power then ever be-
fore under the Czars or Stalin.
Shall we throw that away?"
Molotov: "It sounds wonder-
ful. But where's the real
estate? All you can show Since
Stalin is a piece of Vietnam. In
the old days you could see
progress ono the map. All youri
gains are psychological, not
actual. They are not yet ir-
reversible."
Khrushchev: "Yes, but the
tide is running our way. And
look at NATO, it's falling apart;
the Americans say so them-
selves. They have to get out
of Iceland and after Adenauer
goes we'll get them out of Ger-
many, too. If you have your
way, we'll scare the West into
getting together again. We'll
loose Nehru and U Nu and Nas-
ser, too. They'll believe the
American talk about Commu-
nist colonialism; for once we'll
look worse than even 'the
French. Even if we have to
live with Titos from Poland to
Bulgaria, it's a, cheap price to
pay. It will convince Western
Europe that all Eastern Euro-
pean countries are independ-
ent. We can more easily pro-
mote a neutral belt idea, in-
cluding all of Germany. Force
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Khrushchev: "Look at the the Polish press and promises