FREEDOM'S LURE HELD SOVIET'S BIGGEST FEAR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100040040-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: October 21, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
Freedom's Lure Held
Soviet's Bi est Fear _
Dulles, director of the Cen-
ral Intelligence ?A~aenc!,n says
ovie4.- rulers fear more than
nything else the desire of
heir own people for freedom.
"We can and must exploit,"
his fear, Dulles added in a?
peech at the closing session
f the 23rd annual New York
lerald Tribune Forum.
Dulles advised against under-
stimating the material and
piritual superiority of the free
orld over. the Communist bloc.
e noted that in the past five
ears 1,800,000 persons have
led to freedom from Soviet
Jast Germany and 250,000 re-
ently chose to leave Commu-
ist Viet Nam.
The Forum also presented an
our-long discussion of the
chievements of the Eisen-
ower Administration by four
abinet members - Oveta Culp
obby, secretary of health,
ducation and welfare; James
Mitchell,. secre- ar?y of labor;
e r b e r t 'Brownell, attorney
eneral, and George M. Hum-
hrey, secretary of the Treas-
ry.
Brownell said the a,dminis
ration. aims to meet the se-
urity needs of the nation with-
ut 'destroying those: demo-
ratic values the security pro-
rarn is designed to protect.
Questioned about employ-
went, Mitchell reported that 62
'Ilion people are working in
is country, more than ever
History. He said
unemployment now totals 4.3%
of the work force. He com-
pared this to 17.2% In 1939,
5% in 1949 and over 7% in
1950.
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman
of the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion, :old the Forum atomic
weapons and the fact that no
nation,has a monopoly on them
"imposes upon statesmen re-
straints of a kind novel In his-
tory. There are inducements
for caution that great auto-
cratic powers did not know in
the past."
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