FORTHCOMING BOO[ ] AGGRESSIVE WAR [ ] BARNET, AND MAR[ ]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100020032-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: September 17, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR Director of Cents-
Forthcoming Doc
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Barnet, and Iviar
1. This memorandum is for your gen
contains a recommendation for your consider
It is written to invite your attention to a book
An Aggressive War by Ralph Stavins, Richare
Raskin. The subtitle on the dust jacket is: ",
the United States adventure in. Indochina, " ' TI
publication by Random House on 29 Septernbei
indicates that it may be published a. week earl
the subject of a full column ad 'in The New Yo,
2; The book's preface states that it is
"intensive study" carried on by members of tl
Studies over a O-month period. The Institute
Washington-based "think tank", the political c
probably best described as Radical. Left. The
in 1963, then merging with the Peace Researcl
Fellows have been described as "scholar-acti,
known for its seminars and work attacking mil
calling for virtual unilateral disarmament. It
field of community control. Many of the seinit~ars; particuli~y-on
military spending, are principally conducted for congressional staff
assistants, to "educate" them on these evils. As an "educational"
institute, it is.tax exempt.
3. Two of the authors of Washington Plans An Aggressive `.'Tar,
Richard J. Barnet and Marcus G. Raskin, are the co-directors of the
Institute for Policy Studies. The third author, Ralph Stavins, is a
member of the Institute.
4. Marcus Raskin is a graduate of the College and Law School
of the University of Chicago. He served as an aide to Congressman
Kastenmeier of Wisconsin and was perhaps the driving force behind a
group of Congressmen who were trying to write a liberal Democratic
Also simultaneously available in paperback.
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