SOVIET AIM STUDIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100190013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 22, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

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Soviet Aim S+udied:
A STATEMENT made recently by
n or - Jr., Deputy Ihirccter
of the . entral Intelligence Agency,
takes on new significance as the' oreign
Ministers of 15 North Atlantic Treaty,
Organisation Nations open their meet-
ing in Washington today. The purpo~/
of the meeting is to discuss Getanui
unification and the Russian throat to
In a little publicized speech deliver-
ed before a University of South Caro-
lina study g'roiip on March 3, Amory
said that the Soviet Union is not ready
to risk a major nuclear war, but that
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev
"expects to force us to chicken ottt."
'If the West is resolute, then 1 be-
lieve that the Soviet Union-by hook
or crook-will be the one to beck
down," the speaker declared.
President Eisenhower recently made
it plain that the Western allies will not
hack down in the face of a Russians
threat of nuclear war. The. reasoning
is that any such threat would be essent-
ially, as Amory. has indicated, a bluff,
Nonetheless, in Amory's vie* , the Rus--;-
sians are 'negotiating from confidence.
"The goal," he said, is to take over
Berlin (identified as a 'needle' to the
Reds because of its high pro-Western
'
standards) and' consolidate East Ger- ,.
many. They think they hold the trumps
because their action is peaceful. It's a
Case of 'here we go, here we come,' "
The outlook for the long-range
future. says the chief aide to cIA boss
Allen Dulles, is challenge. The Russians
are thinking in terms of a 30-year per-
iod. or longer. He emphasized that the
Reds "think in large gobs of time."
Since Stalin's death the Reds have
made an :"about-face rivaling anything
in history without compulsion from the
outside," Amory said. It would follow
that the race nm is not necessarily to*'.
the swift or to the strong, but the most
determined,
Prince Peter Kropotkin, a Russian
revolutionist and anachist who lived 'in
the -Nineteenth Century and the early'
part of the Twenthieth, constantly urg-
ed his followers to "take the long view"
when considering the Russian revolut-
ion ary movement. And that is what the
Cornmunists? do now in planning the
world revolution.
The NATO Foreign Ministers, as
they begin their momentous session to-
(lay, ndno douJ~pt pvec Yer~o
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