REDS WON'T RISK A WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200330125-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 125
• Publication Date: August 1, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

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agent who on his spurs mi cut ut for th+~nt ,ct?i?ping the
`APITA!L REPORT
'Reds Won't
Risk a War'
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
WASHINGTON, AUGUST
.s tinreliabl,e. )Ii. tti. lire
various sate.Ilite nati.w, are un-
trustworthy as far as the Krem-
ltn's military planners are con-
cerned. Not a single satellite di-
vision could be counted upon
to tight the Western Powers.
And neither, for that matter,
Could the I2rrd divisions in those
countries.
peo a down, and again the
Jiro ability is that the Russian
`told rs would
A the cru+?i,l . r otiations
Berlin {? :rated in
.,en va, and n- agitation
Is, ome settlem- grows on
t`,-:, art of the ai .,ors, it is
r(-,,f nary to feu e .-e to these
fact . And it i, 'ssary, as
Dodd has sal ':.iai we call
tts-' oviet bluff of ii' Warsaw
which supp oily, binds
.;? .her the satet , rouscsrh-
?dtare a common hatred for the
regime which oppresses them.
Dodd's analysis has been par-
s'=.~uiarly noted by top military
,t:en I have talked with, all of
whom expressed the hope that
the striped pangs boys in Ge-
nrva would take notice.
It was almost 21) years ago,
when the Nazi armies invaded
:tae Soviet Union, that the
4vorld got its first real indica-
F on as to the loyalty of the
+tinmtutist land armies. Al-
"hough the Hints enjoyed su-
xeeriority in manpower, aircraft,
tanks and artillery, the Rus-
.-aan Army defeated in droves.
Cho civilian population greeted
the Nazi armies as liberators.
It was only the brutality of the
?taxis that finally enabled the
iced Army to achieve victory.
There is abundant informa-
tion that the situation is no dif-
ferent today.,
Soviet baftfttlons ,stationed in
llungary in he 1956 uprising
had to be tvi,thdraavn In the
first rounds uif _battle because
they refuses! to bear arms
against Rungarians. And whole
divisions of led troops later
defected t,, the Freeedom Fight-
ers and foualit 101? a cause that
va doomed to defeat, because
the so-e3elle d Fn,,- World rr-
3?n~art .i,i
a denuncialion of appeasemen
over , Be 'tin, is continuing I
nipress bservers as-the on
standing member of this ye:tr'
crop of Senate newcomers.
Dodd, who courageously st!:
ported the cont)rmation _ c
Lewis Strauss and the lbMcl'e
late labor bill of rights, ill)
now impres -dl `Petltagon, c.)
brass with
of the Pc l situ Sen. Doctrl has concluded all
the . 13,Sixwki6iJl~ tlt
over Berlin or any otll,
piece of real estate hecai+
hey can't afford the dangers
my xpitiiary; showdown.
L. long succession of upra .-
yegq behind non i (* e
has clexnonslralet] h ee 11iiliig.:
1 t l That the satellite army di-
uisionc are unreliable; (2) That
tits; Soviet Army itself is un-
teliable; (3) Thatjhe_ masses
of people tinder Communism
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