OPINION ON NEW SOVIET TACTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000700002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This Document contains htfcemation afeeting the Na.
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to or receipt by an -utbwftW parson is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SUBJECT Opinion on New Soviet Tactics
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the wear-earring peoples of the-United Kingdom and Western Europe
to curtail
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German and Japanese rearmament, and to build up the position of the neutralists-
25X1
he Soviets need an internal breathing spell
to consolidate soli ate G.1.. Z1alenkovis position ana "o build up Soviet technical war-
making potential.
United States. the Soviet Union is still definitely 25X1
behind-the'Unite States in ethnical development necessary to fight a successful
atomic war.
is basically eren from Stalin's policy, which could have
led to war before the Soviets had time to catch up techno].ogically to the
the new change of tactics of the Soviet leaders
A. An economic crisis in. the West because of any cutback in the armament
program.
B. The failure of efforts to create a European Army.
C. The creation of basic dissensions among Uestern countries.
D. The raising of the morale of Soviet and Satellite peoples which has been
shaken by Soviet propaganda about war-mongering and atomic war.
wl.U succeed if the o, owing occur:
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the new Soviet line is intended- to appeal to 25X1
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$. The creation of more favorable conditions for Counist parties 3-n _
Western countries to develop further their subversive organizations.
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now engaged in the boldest deception that they have yet ried,, with the
reasons behind the deception directly connected with Soviet calculations
as to relative Western and Soviet war-making potentials and tip.
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