SENATE REPORT CITES RED CHINA'S STRIDES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00965R000300090054-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: January 4, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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i By. Alvin, Spivak
IInited Press International
A Senate subcommittee staff ~ unknown swb3ect -how, .Mao
1~`ort~ay, lan. 4, 1960 ~ 1.1
yesterday depicted Red China
as a "lock-step society" in
which the close-knit Com-
munist Party is the "drill
sergeant."
In a report to. the Subcom-
mittee on National Policy 1Vl;a-
chiliery, the, staff described
the top Red Chinese leader-
ship as "knowledgeable and
confident to the point of cock-
iness."
Subcommittee Cha i r ih a n
Henry_ M, rackson (D-Wash.),
saki'. he released the report in
an effort "to lead to greater
understanding of the nature
of the challenge facing our
nation in the- cold war."
T.he Subcommittee staff pre-
pared the report in coopera-
tion with executive agencies.
Thea report detailed the sys-
tem by which the Party, head-
ed by Mao Tse-tung, decides
on policy and the government
obediently carries it .out. It
said, the National People's
Congress ahd the- Party Con-~
greys go through the motions
of policy-making, but actual
decisions are made by a hand-
ful of Communist kingpins.
7C~e. study throws new and
n~3ed,Ifght on a dangerously-
have organized to transform
China from a prostrate colos-
sus into a giant on the march,
in 10 short years," Jackson
said.
-The report, among other
things, said:
? "Survival of the fittest, is
the rule in Communist poli-
tics; only the boldest and
most ruthless reach the-top.
This fact tends to make for
aggressive policies."
? Red Chinese policy-mak-
ers are strongly conditioned
by the Leninist. doctrine "that
imperialism is a phenomenon
peculiar to a certain stage of~
capitalism. This forces Chin-
ese policymakers into a pos-
ture of antagonism to the
West -and gives them a sturdy
philosophical link with the
general Asian resentment of
Western colonialism."
? Mao Tse-tung, despite his
"special position of authority
in policy-making," does not
hold a government post. This
is because he "considers that
his responsibility fqr -policy-
making requires time for re-
flective thinking and freedom
from administrative details."
? The .Communist regime
.does nod cons~d~ gublc ap-
proval, "ap all-important cri-
terion for cleci~ing whether
policies }re .workable."
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR
This is far your information.
attached is the Sackson Subcommittee's
Committee Print of National Policy Machinery in
Communist China. This unclassified report was
refined by CyCI from the original classified paper.
It is :reprinted here without attribution as arranged
with i:he Subcommittee staff. Also attached is an
article from the Washington Poat on this study. j
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