DULLES SEES 'LIKELIHOOD' OF WAR IN MIDEAST IF PLAN IS REJECTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700450102-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 102
• Publication Date: January 16, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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Dulles Sees `Likelihood' of War
In Mideast if Plan Is Rerertedil
Efficiency Not Impaired
"Not a nickel," be' declared,
:would be spent in any such at-
tempt.
The Secretary tikewtss red*,:-
ed the efforts of some D~r~toorats
to establish that the Mmtnta-
tration was undertakitn~gg ever-,
amounting military commitments'
'about the world while Pr4grew
cutting back. t$ armed i
services.
Such cutbacks as lit so-
Burred have not impaipedht-
ing efficiency, Mr. cow
tended.
He asserted to Senator Stuart
Symington, Democrat of MIs-
souri, that it was not ootreat to
say, that the nilitary pgwir of
the United States had decUned
telative to that of the Soviet"'
Union.
"May I suggest," m
6MU
Senator Symington. with a I
poUtehOss. "that you have g lit-l'
tie talk sometime with llfbut
brother on that point
"Yes, sir,. Mr. Dulles reflkd
Impassively. His brother, Alen
W. Dulles, is head of the Central
'Intelligence Agency.
The Secretary took the posi-
~.tton that the old troubles be-,
tween the Israelis and the Arabs'
could not usefully ~dkd
under the Middle i
lution.
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