I THINK YOUR DRAFT SPEECH IS FINE ... AND PERSUASIVE.

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I think your draft speech is fine ... and
persuasive. You might wish to put in a short
section on the Soviet "withdrawal" from
Afghanistan as that subject would reinforce
concretely your larger points about their
involvement and their duplicity. I have
marked one minor point on Yemen on page 9.
I always struggle to introduce something
humorous when I give speeches to outside
groups. My only suggestion on a subject like
this one is that you might want to use the
all-but-fool-proof joke that General Walters
tells about Cuba. He notes that the Soviet
and Cuban activities you describe here have
had the ironic result that Cuba is now the
biggest country in the world: its bureaucracy
is in Havana, the government is in Moscow,
the army is in Africa, and the population is
in Florida. Everybody laughs at this one.
John Helgerson
DI
Central Intelligence Agency
Office of the Deputy Director for Intelligence
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