THEORY OF SOVIET AMIABILITY REVIVED IN SECRET CIA REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300490075-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 1998
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: August 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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AUGUST 23, 1964
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CPYRGHT
I set I in for
? e serf s s ushcbet a aci hnarrl, which vpel 7}.ec Within a picdim7inant factor
has made made a decision to yhe nal jaunt secul rl council ei ii colic
~ a i~`h 6''-',,a, I s goti I s with y !; 1 y?
the United States. The sowith structure. he c?ollnr?ii is hcad? ll'te(?(5 :'iff {)(>posith'1
* ed' by President Johnson, with
This colitentirt, imptyr inr ;id.
r of this information is not dis-~,
Are Disms' closed. Secrefar;Y of Stale Dean F(jI?k vocacy of a nc,,attve drfcnsr,
Red Activity Brushed Aside ile land Defense Secretary fioberi.
Y policy intended to omiulain the
0 r a i o r'y1 McNamara as its leading
a ,~1 Despite the establishment" of;'me'mbers status quo while Russia ev01x c5
.
CPYRGHT a soviet outpost in Cuba and lire ihcn,e that Russia is into a peace-loving stale, has
BY14'.ILLAit1) F;fIIYARIPS - tevolviug into a potential al[ met with spirited opposition in
C tChieann Tnbuua Prat < COJ111111I111St 5Uh1ErSlnr7 and tel?- y'
ism in Africa, the f having abandoned its goal of "301110 government circles. The
1tashinglmt, Aug. - t roster rm it' east world conquest was advanced .join(, chiefs of staff, at the time
States' forei
and South Am
pi
ri
li
a th
gn po
e
c
cy
auller;
e reportI th
,.tl,nrean two years ago in, a of the nuclear test. ban hear-
are Studying a (op-level Inlei expresses the belief that Rus-IIl,secret, ,;t.ariegy guide c o 1,7 ? lugs, prepared a position paper
ligence report depicting Russia sia will diminish "the vigor of piled by Walt. W. Rostow. r?Jtair- t which stated flatly that "mili-
as an increasingly amiable its revolutionary effort outside man of I.hc state departtiocat's~ tart Communism remains &6-
Power open to pear?eful settle- the communist world" in [he fu-I policy planning board
literal of incrnation;)l disputes.
sated to the destruction of our
This Russia ?- is -. mellowing A dark picture was d
tune. Ili o'los,are Stirs furor ra'su 1)isc?losure of the Rostow re society."
theory went, into temporary of the situation in Vict Na
nr Summarizing ing its survey of
,po; I. by t his
eclipse after the ('uban ntissile
newspaper in June, "world tr
f ,,.,. ,,,,?,.at
nd
" th
CIA
u
re =
Crisis of Uclobet-, 1962_ hvi-
deuce it again is thriving in the
highest circles of the Johnson
administration has been o b -
tamed by '.['rIBUN0.
A 47-page report dal.ed Feb. i
IA, 1964, and marked "secret"'
has been circulated in' the
White House, national security
conntcil, and the state and de-'
fense departments.
Prepared by C. I. A.
Based on reports gathered by
the world-wide espionage net-
tvork of the central intelligence,
agency, it. was prepared and,
indoscd by tire hoard of na-I
tional estimates; of that, agency. I
It, argues that the?Soviet'
e
s
e
ns scrto'r
doc
-
a
t r' ' cn+.I5cd to Con
'
oubt that victory can be won meat remarks:
nd a prolonged ;lalEmate "It is possible in the present
s the most to be anticipated 'o context of soviet policy-parti-
he report says some kind of 10 okm 1 c,r c rfirc l.ti, iicg to cularly to the extent that this
7cgotiated settlement b a s o d "9'rl "++u7leni. rnt 1 r'1;+ ,furl: policy derives from the U. S:
Ilion neutralization" is the only 'I",'nn' 'tt. The state dcpa+ t S R .'s appreciation of the mili-
olution, meal clr`clared (he , nru?Rp)pc i' lacy si[untion and from its own
If the comr>,unisl. world ha:; report. Lid been " garbl'-'d ' and difficulties at home and within
.s troubles, they arc matched -di-;Iort.rrl?`
the communitldtht
s wor -a y similar developments in tile; horlr nulnlhs I.oter?, the I a t e 1 some mo)rement.toward the set-
est, Iho paper asserts. h:uropeI President. K e n n e d y a n d; ticnletlt of some international
[ews the United States as,
,-, ..
ms in Latin America and t.ho each oilier in a crisis aroused i I I" obstacles to a "general
,
"
[widespread relaxa-i
r east. American influence iniby the di:cc?nrcry of soviet mis-' defenle
urope is wanirtg' Ales in Cuba. Talk about Rus- tion l of Icnsionsl r e m a i n e d
I, rea, lire
paper conceded, -,
,
The retort has a rnterirt s>~ s pcncchrl intentions sub
-
c enloraut signed by tihct'J sided for a t.ilnct but in June,. c.luse of such problems as Aerer-
fin and "the new tensions and
at Dent, ch;rirllmll of ,h?! 1as:;, KcuIo'cty again was call- problems Which will arise from
lard of national estimates, lleJ,r'g: foe a change of attitude to' the disorderly character of sot
red that the contents, eutiller;;'ti ud ihoSoviet Union.
1'he ne report under stud much of the world."
f w
rrends in the World Situa-' 1 y j r
" Iw the policy-p4mocl?s al'glleS Cites Lon;-::,rl Changes
)n," had been ,twice rcri:r(I iii. rile Bland Ial:en by Ken- Over the "longer run." them
d supplemented after ?board',,c,ly in.f.he (-11;,n affair dish- paper continued, "we contnt're
scussion," lusinnerl soviet lc:ic4cr3 about to believe that the gradual i
Johnson lbeads Finarrl the tl,ticflrlness of III ;;;r.lry ;,changes t a k i It g place in the
The hoard of t~sf{si afr; of the; power in internaro,o,t
S
Union, unct'r the impact of
?ng a new kind of relationship
wild the Uuitcd States.
-
This centfori.ing 1. h o m e
rushes off. theheflicose threats
of Nikila Khruslicir v as it kind
f inf.el~~{tia111~~r'crV'~*+rl1Ff?
economic Ktr~:;; and difficulties
with Red r'luna, is losing its
tl dlmtn
40D tsh its
t 0'11 Y08Y2 :iiC1,SR# P I.00?1'R000~1.0
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