AGGRESSION IS WAR'S LOSER, CIA OFFICIAL SAYS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000401700026-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: June 6, 1991
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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people In this world respect and fear power and authority and the psi of power"
~ggr~ssfon is war's loser. CIA official says
By John F. Rewllnson .i, , 4 ,: "t Ihlnk IJb
fie AAiara oaMlr star ~,..; . ( yes leader Moamow) Gad --aft
was very concerned and worried that as we
The quick and >I imfW U.S. responas to moved out of the Middle East we might stop by
Inq's Invasion of Kuwait will deter Mier awes- and visit him. Al a result, he was very cautious
nor nations, Richard J. Kerr, deputy director of about what he did. People are going to be very
the Central Intelligence Agency, sold 4 T1100% careful. particularly about coafronllns the United
yesterday. States," Kerr Mid.
"I think there In so question about it. The Kerr made those renwrtcs during a question-
Arabs generally, and most people in this world, and-answer session following his speech,
respect and tear power and authority and the In the same session, he said, "From many
use of power, I. aaW;,~'Mhether we like that. points of view we regret that Saddam Hussein Is
whether we find It a moral Ihlni or whether we're still there (In power). He Is unfortunately trying to
satisfied with that' responn is not as relevant do many of the thing he tried to do before A.
as the fact that when they see a response, I think It war, like trying to rebuild his military and
has a real Impact on'their behavior." i strengthen his own role. Iraq will not be accepted
Ken, sb, wbo'he. bees 'i ith' tIle CIA slat* back Into the world with any kind of enthusiasm
1900, spoke yesterday at a luncheon meeting of while he Is still In power."
the Rotary Club of Tucson at the Doubletree Hotel, Kerr declined to answer a question about
443$. Alvernon Way,;t , whether the CIA has any objective now to remove
CONTIN1D
Iluaseln from power.
One of the keys to the success of Operation
Desert Storm, Kerr said, was the clear policy
oblectlve set by President Bush.
Also Bush, the secretaries of state and de.
tense, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
are "probably the most informed set of custom.
ers about Intelligence that we've ever reed."
During his speech, Kerr said that while the
confrontation between East and west has not
ended It has changed la s fundamental way.
In the pest eo years, much of how the United
States reacted to the Soviets depended on what
that nation did. with the United States ending up
on the opposite side.
From a policy and Intelligence view, Kerr
said, It formerly was believed that one could un-
derstand the Soviet Union It one could under.
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Ott nd'lta top leadersatp. That M't true anymore
;becauae the top Soviet leadership doesn't under-
r1~nA ih~ Gvbl IInIeM h. AMA
The Soviet Union Is trying to fli,lta economy
'by taking the worst of socialism and the worst of
captallsm and bring them together, Kerr said.
"It'$ a disa ter, It's kind of like saying we're,
'going to change the direction you drive on the
road, but were not going to do It at one point
of tlme,,w 're going to do 11 gradually," the CIA
leader said.
Since be joined the CIA. Kerr'a duties have
included analysing Information on Soviet forces In
Cuba during the 1042-63. missile crisis, Frond, 107e
to 1982, he was director or deputi,dlrector of sev-
eral analytic oUlea With the Directorate of Intel-
ligence. In July 1882 he Was appointed associate
to his present paltion on April 21, 10811.
pointed o-
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