CONTRA ARTICLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300240006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 31, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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SECRET
31 July 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR:
International Issues Division
Office of Political Analysis
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Contra Article.-
1. I thought your article, "Changing Power Relations Among
OECD States," in the first issue of Contra was absolutely super. It
is all too easy for us to think that our relationship with our principal
allies goes on unchanged despite the clear changes in power relationships.
I personally think that a lot of the trauma in the United States today
over our international posture comes from a failure to realize that our
position and leverage in the world is so different than it was even a
decade ago. As a consequence, we are frustrated because we think we
can do things as in the past and we simply cannot. The other day a
Senator asked me why we should tolerate such reluctance on the part of
an ally, I in being willing to let us fly a U-2 over its airspace.
In short, there is still a feeling that we should be able to dictate
to our allies. 0
2. I am going to ask Bob Bowie to look at your piece and see
whether we shouldn't give it wider distribution. I also wonder whether
it needs to be "Secret." I recognize there are some delicacies in it
such as descriptions of but I don't see much that is
really classified. Lj
3. Again, thanks for a very stimulating piece of work.
STANSFIELD TURNER
cc: Editor, Contra
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