SOVIET STRATEGY: USE THE 'WEAK' TO BURY U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300150025-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 21, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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.It's the astute Russian coholism, self-pity, wounded
.nuclear strength that their best hidden play is getting
In our Cold War face-off with the Soviet Union, so
much attention is devoted to the Reds' army, navy and
own weaknesses to destroy sense of racial inferiority, a
ourselves. fear of blackmail, an urge to
It's a sort of do-it-yourself strike back at persecutors
-destruction kit, lovingly real or imaginary-traces of
wrapped and packaged in the them all can be found in
`Kremlin and embossed with the ready responses o; Ameri-
a slogan that's surefire in can dupes to the bait the
the American market: Abso--. Russians used to win them
lutely no effort for -you over.
Just snip the ribbons" The import goes far b4a-
centiy pressed into service as fall for it.
spies. Could they be right?
. Venality..homosexualitx- al- The GP-rmsns'thou?ht.this
yond the narrow circle of the
All ' Weaknesses That espionage 'racket.
Flesh 'Is Heir To There are broad hints com-
ing from mangy other direc-
The scheme is far less costly tions that the Reds plan to
than any military invasion of bury us by using the same
the 'United States. kind of bait on a much more
The tip-off comes from the massive but subtle scale on
gallery of Americans which the theory that our com-
, the Soviet Secret Police re- posite national character will
nrle an any
the vortex of that perfumed
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Tobacco Road presided over
by Christine Keeler and,her
friends In London, and
watched closely by the Soviet
Union's Capt. Eugene Ivanov, ?
it w~s another American vice
whi..h can prove as perilous
as any-sheer naivete.
Put them all together, and'
whirl them around as the
planners in Moscow, Peking,!
and Havana are constantly
doing. Do you get a blend of
national character which Is,
Continued
was a sound theory in the 7; lieving that the total drift of 1i
early days of World War I. t the ,American people may be:
but history proved they towards the same general',,
miscalculated. 'I direction t a k e n' by the
They and their Axis allies Americans who turned to
tJ n ht.the tjprv. had, eve11 .1 spying?
greater~?Validity In, the early For Nelson Drummond, the;
days of World War II, but old Navy man, it started Out 3
once more it was a-.miscaI- with liquor and ? an incurable
culation. taste for the fleshpots.
The Chinese Reds were. For Sgt. Jack E. Dunlap,
vsu_.s!nrf'.of..it'in 19 Q...as? . the old Army man, it was'
but this time the miscalcula- I For Irwin C. Scarbeck, the'
tion was by no means as I diplomat in our Warsaw Em-
great as the others. With hassy, a man with a wife and
spiked guns, sheathed swords, children, it was an uncon-
and Uxiitcd _Natiops-im.posed ! trollable susceptibility to the.?
imitect oolectives ana mua- dark-eyed Urszula Discher,'
nha_ -South Viet- Nam, and For the. two defectors from'
'anama. the fuzz Is getting the National Security Agency
hicker than thistledown In -Bernon F. Mitchell and
ugust as to how much firm t Williams H. Martin-it was
esolve we intend to put 1, that puzzling malaise of
ehind any clearly' defined modern society, homosexual-
oals whatsoever.
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unists, then, either in I . Susceptibilities Are
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g t e a d l i y deteriorating on.
'-.trails blazed by our turn-
coats?
Apparently the Reds think,.
Fso and are betting their for-.!
Weather they are right or
wrong will prove to be the ;
riddle of our lifetime.
two worlds, each with a split!
Dersonality, are arrayedif
against each other.
their country, will stoop to!
the nastiest forms of de-
pravity to enlist spies bent on
I ' self-indulgent, pleasure-1ov-
is^. ing people, who will rise. to
f. the greatest heights of bray-l
ery and sacrifice whei wee
know we are threatened.
Obviously, . then, it's going,
i~to be, much easier' to licit us,
f~ when,we don't know.,
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