ECONOMY MUST HAVE PEACE CIA OFFICIAL SAYS REDS NOT PREPARING FOR WAR

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CPYRGHT
ECONOMY MUST HI4EF PEACE
CIA Official Says Reds
lot. ,Pre grin - for War.
By LYLE?C. WILSON. CPYRGHT ternal development plans.
C PY
GTON
, MARCH 2 UP rt Armory,
Jr. probably. Is the second-best or third-best rtned Amer-
ican on what the Russian Comm>,itrrds s- are poin
thinking
and planning.
Amory Is deputy chief .,for
Intelligence of the Ceah~l
Intelligence Agency. CIA is
the Unites States ~ipy apps.
ratut or, in more polite Ian.
guage, it is ?a counter. intelU-
gence ?organizatfon. ?
This well Informed Amen.
so was making the
other day i>, C S.C.
Amory's 'speed,.di$ Set
the publicity it.'dp0{v . d
spite the fact that what : he
had to say " as pretty' good
news .for U "d ims.
IUi;~, STt?)~
I %a that the
Soviet Union either ready
nor preparing fo a war. That
the, K sot :want
a .war ` Communist
.fit ul'a .
e : Russian
1 adets d .18 onths
ago that Ir Communist
ooonomy had is is years
~_ltt ace t. a is their in-
kJ .. M.T U%O
means mobilized for war o
preparing for war," Arno
said.' "They strike a balance
between military std -0th .
expenditures just as we do."
He believes the Soviet
Union Is not, reisdy to risk
a nuclear war over Berlin.
Nikita Khrushchev, instead,
thinks he can force the West
to "chicken out."
"IF THE West is resolute,"
Amory acid., "then 1~e11eve
that the Soviet Union 1111? ib'
the ones to, b dk down.",' .
During the 15. jrears of
peace which; Armory is clh-
vinced the Soviet (;Won mt1ft lalrings foreign., aid .jhar?
V nations, which -'neithere
Communist alite.i nor 'ex.'
pected to become allies.
Armory evidently believes,
events of the next 15 years
'largely will shape the long
haul pattern of the future,!
war or peace or whatever.
"We face a race for leader-
ship in the world against
militant Commuf fists with
fervent faith," he said. "We
must never tempt them into
a mayor military path white
letting down our ? strength
(although) they haven't got
what it takes -rationally to
challenge us this spring."
Armory said -the Russlant
leaders had no doubts on thei
future. In it comparatively',
short time they are confident
that the Soviet Union will be
tops-wor',tl wide.
have and urgently, wants, the
l
CIA expects the Kremlin te
.
follow this general pattern:
1.-PLAY its Sputnik dlflo-
macy to the limit
2.-STAND pat against in
-pressure in the areas now
dominated by Communism.
3.-INSIST either upon
two-nation talks between the
9nnial JIM1011 ..,d the United
States or demand that satel-,
late powers sit beside. Soviet
conferees In numbers equal
to the number of Allies sit-
rrg besido the Americans.
4.-MAINTAIN at h i g h s
pith the work of trouble
making among the peoples if -
non-Communist. nations.
S.--BUT softening this,
fifth column activity with,
some slow of willingness to'
a0operate with governmenti
qw which the Kremlin exec-I
dsea.ao-control.
s l~- CONTINUE ' an' 41ec-
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