THEORY OF SOVIET AMIABILITY REVIVED IN SECRET CIA REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700080022-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: August 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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0 ~ ~h r ,sere ,has made a decision to the national security count ii eigu policy.
negotiate better relations with; structure. The.' council is bead' Meets Stiff`Opposltl++!t
the United States The snure
? ed by President Johnson, ~+ith This contention, tmplyrnc' act-.
of this information is not dis-
Are DI I Secretary of State Dead tusk vocacy of a negative drfenKr
closed. and. Defense Secretary Robert.
Red Activity Brushed Aside policy intended to maintain ihcr
i. McNamara as its leading
r, Despite the establishment of members, status cltto while Russia evoli es
a soviet, outpost in Cuba and theme that, Bussia is into apeace-]Dying state, hall
EYWILLABI) Y , , evolvi.ng into a potential ally,; met witli spirited opposition iixi
(Chrtann Tribupa Pm& S tvrtnr ConllnUlti5t Subversion and trr?'hawing abandoned its goal of some government circles. The
r 22,._ Africa the f r cast'
~I a5hingtl)rt, Aug. ihllt! (l rorism in world conquest, was advanced joint chiefs. of staff, at the time
,States'- foreign policy planners and South America, the report. more than two years ago in, a; of the nuclear test, ban. hear=
qrp studying a top-level. int.el- expresses the belief that Rus,lsec:rel, startcgy guide c 0 Cl ings, prepared a 'position paper,
,ligence report clepii.in> Russia sia will diminish "the vigor of q)iled by Walt. W. Rostow. ('lull'. which stated. flatly that "mili-
as an increasingly antiahle its revolutionary effort outside man of the, stain departiricat's tart Communism remains dcd
power 'open to peaceful settle- the communist world" in the fu- policy planning board. cited to the destruction of our
ntenl, of tnernationaI disputes,; Lure. " Disclosure Stirs Furor society."
This Russia is - mellowing; A dark icture was drawn
theory went, mto lent ~orar p itisclnssu e of the R.ostou+ rev Summarizing its survey of
Y I Y of the situation in' Vitt Naar, Poi l, by this newspaper in June, "world trends " the CIA docu-
ec .eclipse after the Gilboa tttissile where "there remains serious loo: , caused' a storm in Con-. '
crisis of, October, 1962., Evi- doubt that victory can be won nr trt n;itc+ cif meat remarks:
dente it again is thriving in the; and a "prolonged stalemate` t r .i It is possible in the present
highest circles of the. Johnson is the most to be antici.pate+( context of soviet policy-ptirti
`adnrinist.ratioit has been o b - The report says "some kind of trt"ii1`E d e .geulive i t n ilegc I^, cularly to the extent that this
tamed by Tim TRIBUNE. negotiated settlement. b a s t'+ d avoid r''!rl.ntfttl. otr a cla ;;.ific'et policy derives from the U. S:
A '47-page report' dated Feb. upon neutrali anon" is the only rbu unrt :it. 'I'he state delta, t? t 5? il."s appreciation of the milk
19,' 1984, and marked "secretsolution, nte~rt declared the netivsp ipcv tary situation and from its own
has been. circulated in' the If ?file communist world lea, rrporl. Ira'( been "garbled" and Idifficulties at home and within
Wbit.e house, national security, its troubiesi, they are matched] 'dk;torteri. ('the communist world - that
council, and the state and de-,by similar developments in thei I''nuc months later, the 1 a t e! sonic movement.towat?d the set-
fense departments' west, the paper asserts. Europe President' K e n n e d y a n d( Dement of some internati2nal
rrcpat?cd by C. 1. A. views the United States ast Khrusb!eliev were confronting issues will occur.'.' .
Based on reports gathered by "overdramatizi> g" it.s prc'h-'~each other in a crisis aroused 1 The obstacles to- a "general
the world-wide espionage net- lens in Latin America and the det;enle" [widespread relaxa-
work of the central intelligence far cast.. American influence iii 1 by the di:,co+ cry of soviet mis
files in Cuba. Talk about Rus? tion of tensions] r e m a i n e d
agency, it was prepared and! Europe is craning. !great, the paper conceded, he-
indorsed by the hoard of na-I The report has a covering sia'S peaceful intentions sub.
cause, of such problems as. Ber
tional estimates of that agency.mentorandum signed by Sher- sidcd for a 'tuner but in Juno,. fin and "the new tensions and
It argues that the. S o v 10 t mail Bent, chairman of list. J963, Kennedy again was call- . problems which will arise frotn
Union, under the impact of board of national estimates. }Ir. ,!r'g roll a change of attitude to, the disorderly character of so
economic shins and difficulties noted that the contents, entilled ward t},o Soviet Union. touch of the world." ' .
with Ted, c'hiita, is losing its "Trends in tile'? World Situa- The new report under study is Cites Lon Run Changes
.hoslility.fr',.lie west and is seek- ? by tie.. policyplanncrs argues
ing a new kind of relationship tion, . had been twice'revised That, the stand lalceo by 1{crt? Over the "longer rtm," the
with the United St.at.es.- , and supplemented after ;board ,. nccl.y in-tlt(3 Cuban affair disil- ?piper continued, "we continue
This comforting d; h e nt e discussion." tusioned soviet leaders about to believe that the gradual
brushes off the bellicose threats Johnson flea'ls Board the usefulness of - military j ,changes t a k i n g place In the
of Nikita ILhrushvlmv AS Akicid The board of .e:;lh,trrlr.,s of the; Mover in infetnai c'uual +ti;:pulc tJ, S, S. R. will diminish its
of utteeital:f+atta4 E' 1illtilsil iil-it - >! lfitrtits its flndbtgs if' the i. -t testod ftrt+, toss+`s55iplt of
fi i ?ltasl.ility to the nest ' and the
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