EXCERPTS BY MR. JOYCE FROM NSC 68

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00764R000300060011-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 1, 1953
• Content Type: NOTES

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EXCERPTS BY MR.. JOYCE FROM NSC 68
,It the same time, we should take dynamic steps
to reduce the rower and influence of the Kremlin
inside the Soviet Union and other areas under its
control. The objective would be the establishment
of friendly regimes not under Kremlin domination.
Such action is essential to engage the Kremlin's
keep it off balance and force an in-
attention,
creased expenditure of Soviet resources in counter-
action. In other words, it would be the current
Soviet cold war technique used against the Soviet
Union.
Development of programs designed to build and
maintain confidence among other peoples in our
strength and resolution, and to wage overt psycho-
logical warfare calculated to encourage mass
defections from Soviet allegiance and to
frustrate the Kremlin design in other ways.
Intensification of affirmative and timely
measures and operations by covert means in the
fields of economic warfare and political and
psychological warfare with a view to fomenting
and supporting unrest and revolt in selected
strategic satellite countries.
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NSC 153/1 (supersedes 20/4, 68/2, 135/3, and Pt.I of 149/2)
Re reducing Soviet power, US should:
Para.44: Place maximum strain on Soviet satellite
relations and try to weaken Societ control over
the satellite countries.
Para-45: Use political, economic, propaganda, and
paramilitary operations against the USSR and orbit
to delay consolidation of Soviet bloc power,
stilumate internal conflicts and reduce Soviet
rr bloc military and economic potential.
(NSC 20/4 included para.20 (b): To encourage the
development among Russian peoples of attitudes which
may help to modify current Soviet behavior and
permit a revival of the national-life of groups
evidencing the ability and determination to achieve
and maintain national independence.)
"US should take forcible political, economic, propaganda
and covert measures designed to create and exploit
troublesome problems for the USSR, impair Soviet
relationsh with Communist China, complicate control
in the satellites, and retard the growth of the
military and economic potential of the Soviet bloc."
"Measures to impose pressures on the Soviet bloc should
take into account the desirability of creating con-
ditions which will induce the Soviet leadership to be
more recepti'e to acceptable negotiated settlements."
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