RODGERS REPORTS: A RUSSIAN EVOLUTION, TOO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100510034-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: July 29, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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JI.~L 29 1965
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WASHINGTON: The agony ' of the dos and lightweight natural-shouldJi
Soviet Union as it tries to join jobs irom,Brooks Brothers, yet.
'the Twentieth Century is nowhere bet .'
And the way they talked 'change :.,
ter illustrated than in its handling of They no longer, sounded like 'Misc a
Gerald Brooke, the young Englishman Auer but like: the kid you'!*ent o
loss of liberty for "an- _..p_. __. __ ..---- ??_-- o_-.. _._,.___. __ _
ti -Communist a bit and came home again , to sh
off his wares. It turned out that Sovi t.
"diplomats .'had, a choice Of EhgliSl 0.,,;,
:r
Much has been
;'.written about the his- r r, language schools, one teaching O
ford English and the other' teachi g
toric near - paranoiac
'Russian distrust of American.
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most cursory study ofZ'"""'74
but the denote a lhajor intern 1, '?
,,the Soviet, Union un- Y- -, . .+:I
chews judgment that an old revol ~:;,s
how completely and. , tion is not a revolution at all and th t;';
masterfully he played
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on this eccentricity like Alice in Wonderland, the Sovi t
' to strengthen his own position. And, it Union had to run fast just to stay n
the vicious ventures of, one place In a world which it had s t. .'
must be noted
,
Napoleon and Hitler, among other vio- ' spinning in the first place by its thre s
latinns of Soviet, territory provide . to destroy it or, at' the, very least, o ^
bur some of
ample argument for. tile, $tranger-sny .,
i Soviets. The boldness of . Khrushchev a d,
the globe-trot- his. successors shows., itself in ma 'y
Under Khrushchev
,
"ting salesman ..of "peaceful coexist- ways, the ordeal of Gerald Broo ;
bei
f
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the you
ng one. A
ew years. ago,,.f
g,
once, startling inroads , were made.
Schooled at self-recrimination as in- Englishman would have been, push (d "dividuals, thanks to the..'fess-up-and- under, the Orient Express' or som
'y
die purge trials, Soviet officials broad- thing, eliminating any need for a trill.,
'ailed this proclivity to national,recikinl-. or any other trapping of due, proce s.
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'~ination. We In. Washington, used' to of law. It is indicative of Soviet aware.
invented baseball, suddenly. 'found world and Soviet desire to, be a pa t
ourselves being assured that the work-.'' of it, this juridical'going-through-th
f? ers' ' paradise -had termites but,, they '...': motions.
vrere .working on it. This will mean little personally o.'.`'
'Even physical appearances changed.' : ,.Brooke, suffering through one. year n
'.Back in Stalin's'day, the,. Soviet diplo- prison and four years' in a 'penal lab r
plats here were older. and paunchier' camp' for "anti-~Communist.agitatiol "';'
,and sported? white sidewall.haircuts Sut it may, portend much for,;wor d
`?7 and double-l?reasted, balloon-trou peace.; ; f ? " r .;
to defy a Si ..?.., ., 3h.n1}ituat y-,?.tir.G 3w ~:N:.
sered suits thick enough ~'? ""'`~ `
,,,young and. slim with Perry Como, hair
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By WARREN, ROGERS.