IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE NONAGRESSION PACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003100280025-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2009
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 4, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Ideological Warfare Nonaggression Pact
1. This memorandum contains a suggestion for your con-
sideration as a possible psychological move against the USSR to be
timed with the negotiations concerning Berlin. Copies have been
sent to the DDCI, DD/P, A/DDP/PP and C/PP.
Z. It is suggested that the U. S. might propose publicly to the
Soviet Union that the signing of any arms limitation agreement or
nonaggression pact between the U. S. and the USSR must be preceded
by the signing of an ideological warfare nonaggression pact.
Obviously the phrasing of such proposal would have to be most care-
fully prepared, and a careful analysis made of the Soviet reaction and
counter proposals so that they could be anticipated or immediately
countered. (I make this suggestion in view of the fact that I have often
heard it said that the U. S. loses considerable advantage in the time
that it often. takes us to reply to Soviet proposals.) In presenting the
proposal for such a pact, I believe that its initial premise should be
a statement that the Soviet Union should publicly renounce international
Communism and indicate that its aspirations were purely nationalistic,
no longer directed at the overthrow of the capitalist states. This
could then be followed by specific paragraphs on each of the major arms
of the Soviet offensive.
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
Inspector General
cc: DDCI
DD/P
A/DDP/PP
C/PP
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