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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180071-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: September 15, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN

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117 F'resr en , obviously promp y Zlisappotnt.7
,,, it in the Belgrade conference, has now taken a
stand against non-alignment. After signing
t? ioreeign aid authorization bill, he remarked:
-It is my belief that in the administration of
n r..e funds we should give great attention and
onsideration to those nations who have our view of
he world crisis." It seemed as if John Foster
>ulles' doctrine that "neutralism" was "immoral"-
)reviously repudiated by the Kennedy Administra-
ion--was coming back into vogue again.
FK vs. Nixon: President Kennedy slapped at
ixon for "taking political advantage of our ditfi-
?ulties" so sharply that observers concluded that the
orriher Vice President had struck at Kennedy's
not vulnerable point. What Nixon had said (on
olumbia Broadcasting System television) was that
'moving a few ground troops" into Berlin to scare
'lu?ushchev was "nonsense," and that the latter
'night well interpret it as weakness rather than
't r't'e gth ." '
1 n :this remark, Nixon revealed himself as close
to tie "unmuzzled" US military point of view-
which he has been fdr many years. On September 1,
IiI;N~Att EvEN'rs reported the military's fears that
Kennedy's stance on Berlin had actually encouraged
Khrushchev to aggression.
Nixon also deserves credit marks on his consistent
stand, on the issue of atomic testing. During the
campaign, he demanded a "cut-off" date soon after
the first of the year (1961) on test-ban talks and
early test resumption if Russia stalled. Kennedy
to(-;K a procrastinating line in the campaign which
he followed up until now.?
? Nixon's stand on foreign aid, however, indicates
that the Republican candidate of last fall still
suffers from the "me-tooism" which apparently
harmed his appeal to the people and presumably
resulted in his defeat. This represents a double
failure for Nixon, as follows: (1) he was unable
to understand, as did GOP legislative leaders Halleck
and Dirksen, that a grass-roots revolt against
foreign aid was under way with explosive results in
('rurgress ; and (21 he failed to understand that the
opinion of the grass-roots is that foreign aid, as
op4rated by Ike and JFK, is discredited, is of
pomitive danger to the country; and that the country
is behind the military in placing first emphasis 'on
power through weaponry and tough diplomacy
instead of the "Santa Claus," be-nice-to-everybody
(including neutralists) course of Eisenhower an
Kennedy.
This Nixon failure may lead to the furthe
rise of Senator Barry Goldwater, who differs o
this issue from Nixon and. Rockefeller and wh
understands the basic issue of the internationa
power situation.
Warnin Not Heeded: The National Broad
casting (. rnpan ?'s Berlin bureau chief, Piers Ander
t''11, reported la isl1tmz der Appd"omMEare
Communist design to seal off East Berlin and
virtually annex it to East Germany in violation o
all existing agreements between East and West
Anderton said the news came to Western powers
through a minor East German bureaucrat who fled
to the West bearing a document showing in detail
an East German plan to cut off the flow of refugees
to West Berlin.
The East German plan, said Anderton, was the
following: First, a barbed-wire fence "would be
thrown up along the 25?mile. border between East
and West Berlin. This would stop all' East Germans
from going to West Berlin. It the fence went un-
challenged, the Communists would build a cement
wall along the boundaries through the center of the
city." (This plan was not utilized in 1958, pre-
sutnably because Khrushchev was aware of Eisen-
hower's determination to wage all-out nuclear war,
if necessary, to stop it.)
'T4t$ 'llieoreElcal''s the 'Reds planned to
use in 1958 has become a reality today, said Ander-
ton. What diplomatic observers on Capitol Hill
would like to have answered is why Kennedy failed
to have any plans to stop the erection of the East
Berlin barricade since our government had been
orewarned of the Communist plans.
irting with Fidel: It becomes apparent
Capitol Hill that the Kennedy Administration, far
from pressing a program to rid Latin America of
the Castro dictatorship, is following a. program of
reconciliation toward the Cuban despot.
Some of the press.last week reported Administra-
tion attempts to learn to live with Castro in order
to quiet things down. It also told of the growl
frustration this policy is bringing to anti-
Cubans. Anti-Communists, of course, found th
meeting in Montevideo between Che' Guevara and
Kennedy Latin American adviser Richard Goodwin
(HUMAN EvENTS, September 8) very disconcerting.
HUMAN EvENTS now,learns that Goodwin has bee
meeting in the White House with another Cast
man, An agent who - is . here ostensibly as a new
paperman. An authoritative source tells us tha
this agent fed Goodwin the current Cuban lin
that Fidel is on the ropes and can only hold out fo
a few months. This argument, it is thought,
being bought by the New Frontier as an excuse fo
continued inactivity. JFK will "wait and see'
regarding Cuba-- rQfrain from harassing the
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