PROS FOR FREEDOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200330087-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: March 6, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Counter-Communist Corps
Red Professorx ave courses
'running three to seven years.
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Senator Dodd (D-Conn), Was Communists have dom 1ow. -- - since ......
a:luresting his colleagues on were they able to achlew thef been educating *Wetted
lie said: "With every day's litical warfare? In suggesting and engineering, bqt in the
news, it becomes clearer that this as a starting point, I do not. proved methods of p t
the (Id meth- mean: that. we should copy.So' and subversion. TAIs?h re.
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enough.
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dimensions of
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oviet experience, eyed , FL we ourselves Must de-:.. See ''h ,7nus raQ6.
-methods which meet our sP4- "hat can we no as a Coong
cial needs and are In accord ter-measure in fupport of our
with our own ethics, position In the Cold Warta k on-
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are employing =A&,/= es is their massive development and the Idea Is now before the
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creasing isolation.. , . There voted long and serious thought people, for example, _who taoauld
proach in our . planning and Power In a modern state. of a Castro movement, in itpiti
thinking. , t _" The problem divides into: a the utho to scrvens of llrOQ,;
live employment of street riots I utions -- legislatures, courts, The Freedom Academy b4'
in Japan, of infiltration in Iraq, defense forces, churches, Is backed by an Impressive bib,
of the takgover in Cuba right schools, information facilities, partisan list of Senators, both,
tinder our noses, and of events family loyalties; and 12) re- liberal. and conservati0e? It::#
in Guinea, ire- distant West At- placing thent, at the opportune'elso endorsed by acknowledged
rica What did they mean, and moment, with a party 'dictator- Pxpertz on the World War, lilte
what could ?,e do about pre- ship. In this field, they have James Burnham and Robert
venting similar tosses in the fu- amassed a great body of prad- Straus-Hupe, as well as Are
sure'. tical experience, from - which their McDowell, of the Uphol.
'As a starting point, I sug- they have deduced working sterers Union, the best Inform:
gust that we examine what the theories, which form the basis ad man we know on tecnnlgtie;
of their training inetlttates for of Communist subvertlotir
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Senator Llodd pointed out
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d[, formed by ICeremsky, hat Pt. We are talking Here abou
? pared for the work .tm lurid. the free spirit of Inquiry Rhef
Since that time,- ths' Caanmu.. try' to maintain on** 0o11eg4
nista have never ttagledtml the campus. It is arevertlheleli. s
formation of trained AN" cc and vital training
political warfare. 'fie Lanni ! profeaional level tha^.
Institute and the 1 ealktny of ihouid be undeirtakan as qt;
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