AMORY OF CIA SPEAKS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100190045-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: March 4, 1959
• Content Type: TRANS

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AMORY OF CIA SPEAKS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
C PYRG HJoward Reig, World News Roundup, 7:30 A.M., WRCA, New York, and
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REIG: "A top United States Intelligence Agency official has a fair
op
mistic outlook on prospects for getting along with the Russians in the
fu
e. To Ken Kirk of Station WIS, Columbia, South Carolina:"
KIRK: "A decidedly optimistic view of American and Soviet relations
t
ugh the current Berlin situation and the next fifteen years was expres
ed
las
night by a high Central Intelligence Agency official. Robert Amory,
r.
De
ty Director of the CIA made his first on-the-record address in some fo
yea
s as part of a foreign policy lecture at the University of South Caro
"Amory, one of the handful of Americans who know most about Soviet p3
ns
con
ended Russia is not ready to risk a major nuclear conflict. Claiming
he
Bar
in situation a deadly serious one, Amory still felt the Russians will
of
hav
enough to challenge us by this spring except in nerve, and when the s
ow
do
comes, the Soviets will back down.
"He pointed out the Russians need a 15 year period of peace, in order
to
et the economic goal they have set for themselves and that war would
tot
lly destroy their present progress. On disarmament, Amory said the
So
et Union is more serious on this score than meets the eye.
"He concluded with a hopeful note that the increasing education of t
So
et Union, its leaders and its people would bring them to a better unde
-
st
ding of America, and in time lead to a mellowing of the Russian relati
n-
shi
with the West.
"This is Ken Kirk in Columbia, South Carolina."
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