DEAR MR. DRYDEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300450009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Content Type: NSPR

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!.ETTER TO EDITOR
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I liave read great interest %`r. t For ^thoS4'
+x.r.,, :,-Lrer t vumon[ Lan.,- iW branding
i r'.i,r,l 12, 1982) analyzing thr? make this
1 rue level thinking, wtl't tP theory Af
licatory theory of the Race for Peace
the defense %f mocracr: bit, t
j ignt wingers. administrators with ins1irlilt,
In my humble opinion, the U. S. and judgment, III* two het-gI' to#
quote Mr, Kyle, "at every sacrifice." Again4 for. 'the. Race -?or Pesee
for the past twenty years. Couhcil, I aM riot..a pessimist; Jesus
I,et'ti revtrty the record and the Christ lit, the boo-, of St. Matthew.
sacrn:ices: Chap. 24-"V.4 .. end in the book $ St.
The Itoosevelt Administration's Mark. Chap. 13: V
7) says: '"And
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complacency until our shameful hu- ve shall hear of wars and rumors ?or
,nilialion at i'earl Harbor (an event wars: ee 'hat ye be not troubled: for
'm iich we could and should ha.e ' sill these "hangs must come to page:
bccn prepared); Rnosevelt's blur:- but the end is not et." And vrho-are'
wisd(j,n and insight than Roosevelt believe a .var with communism is in-'
could ever have hoped to attain)
;
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evitable. flaw far In the futtu'e that
giving Russia half of Europe; Harry r war is, no one can say. A drm stand
'i'ruman's plunge into the Korean ': at this tine will serve the
urpose of
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war,
man again unprepared,
aati the cost immobilizing Russia's policy of grab-f
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McArthur for his "overaggressive- 1' - l -~ _` er
flat policy, on t the othther hand, r4ness," thereby compounding his orig- :'.' aid her expedition of this
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teal stupidity; the baiting of Ellen- i ,
it has for the
t,,...,e~ .,,t.. s .. .:M ...~ .. ,._ , past-twenty yeam
chev (abortive Summit Conference in
France); the erection of the Berlin
wall without anything more than
strong diplomatic objections from the
Kennedy administration; the har-
rassment of allied planes in the
Berlin air corridor, again met by
JFK with puny diplomatic objec-
tions; the abortive Cuban invasion,
fiasco, planned by the U. S. Central
Intelligence Agency (a group of el-
derly schoolboys playing spy games
with the innocent-lives against skill-
ed and hardened communists.)
Small wonder that Berlin and the.
w.vhole of Western Europe are leary'
of our intentions and actually won-,
tier whether they can count on out
tack. With this foreign policy recor?j,
we might conceivably call a cease tit
rum onto the battlefield, shake haefs
Will, the Russians and then itrup
6o,,,bs on our allies.
lie, ailing the past twenty years,
1 desperately hope that Mr. KK!r,'"
aatemt^nt, "I agree with this two--
level policy" means only that he
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..thpds of its expedition, thus far ,. ~!k
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federate Ggrfer.at_' o aid, '"get
consisting of not gluing tltn inch Vrhl i
Idet me remind. the reader that Rug-
sia 'wltl not fight until the following
two things have taken plats: (a)
`?~her have gained every inch pns-
(b) their military superiority is ovv
erwnetmingly greater than burs. Ar~
4trtwavering stand will cause the 42
take place, but the second will
ever occur unless we hitow it.
Once we have shown our adaman.
We side, we may be able to employ,
r lack of aggressiveness. Until we
for. P rtjt thi' itcleus of ? tinuta-
tiob to=~ at3'!ri'1i "'write thf'< It hasp
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to cone tuni;
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