READER'S DIGEST DRAFT, THE KREMLIN UNDER SIEGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-01147R000100050019-8
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 21
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 23, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C.20505
9 May 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDS&T
This is something we should be
prepared to do.
William J. Casey
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November 20, 1985
FROM: EHM
-RE: The Kremlin under Siege
The United States and the Soviet Union are roaring forward in
a seemingly endless, incredibly costly arms race toward some yet
unimaginable day in the early 21st century when the world's
rocket-powered nuclear equivalent of "The Guns of August" begin to
roar in World War III._ Yet today the White House can take a step
that could bring a decisive turn away from this race toward
nuclear Armageddon. Imagine that the President.of the United
States addresses the nation:
"Ladies and Gentlemen -- Tonight I want to report to you a
naior technological breakthrough in our space program that gives
us the power to destroy the Soviet regime and liberate its 300
million Asian and East European subjects from their police state
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controls."
nBy "Soviet regime" the President refers to the 50,000 or so
high Soviet Communist Party officials, those "nomenklaturists" on
the official high-ranking lists who maintain themselves in
privilege and power by police terror and extort huge resources in
labor and genius from their subjects for a military-industrial
complex far greater than any realistic needs for security from
outside attack. These professional party activists, who proudly
proclaim themselves to be above all "propagandists," obsessively
inflate the external danger 'Co, justify and secure their own police
state controls at home and their huge armaments from Angola to
Nicaragua.
.It is exactly here, on their home-front propaganda monopoly,
that Western space technology now for the first time gives us the
opportunity to engage and destroy them. We can now shatter their
fictional imagery of threatening energies without and demonstrate
to their subjects that they do not need their chains to escape
invasion or annihilation. Via satellite television broadcasting,
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we can beam Free World news programming directly to Soviet. and
East European audiences. We can show them: 'Things don't have to
be this way. Your Soviet masters can climb down off their
watchtowers, and without this Devil-Will-Get-You priesthood, you
can enjoy vast new fruits of productivity and freedom."
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