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BOOK on Communist Subversion

Discussion and Outline

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DRAFT

CONSlDE~_ nONS:

Of late. public attention has been focused so forcibly uponmeasures which can feasibly be undertaken against the Communist"oblique thrust" and other short-of-nuclear war expansionist tech-niques that a broad and spontaneous public audience has beencreated receptive to an examination of the methods utilized bythe Soviets in furthering their drive toward world domination.Citizens of the Free World have viewed the geographical advanceof Communist influence for the most part in impotent dismay--primarily because neither the goals. strategy or tactics of

still arouse a feeling of vague distaste, but these publir:iecid defec-

Communist-directed subversion are understood with anythingapproaching clarity. Sporadic revelations that Western officialshave become paid or ideological agents of international Communism

tiona from trust are more often than not viewed by the public in aquantitative context: the Foreign Office official (for example) wasonly one of, say. ten thousand Foreign Office employees; therefore.


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corr.e s the comfor-ting rationalization. the threat of Soviet sub-ver sion is neither massive nor irnmediate. Possibly Laos willfade from public consciousness as did North Vietnam and Czechoslo-valda. There remains, in this Hernd sphe r e but hazy remembranceof a Communist thrust into Central Arner'Ica-o-Guaternal.a, or was itEl Salvador'( --and the Communist putsch in Brazil in1934 hasbeen totally forgotten. V,'hat clings to the American mind is un-comfortable awareness that Cuba has come under Communistdorn.ination only 90 miles from our shores, that Communist "tech-nicians" were flown into the Congo not long ago, and that the Laotianconference in Geneva is dragging on interminably, like the Koreanand Vietnam talks before it.

The public mind is conscious of foreign spies who steal orbuy secrets, of riots and rioters inthe capitals of the world; ofonce-friendly nations where our Arnbas sador s are stoned, ourPresident burned in effigy; of countries beneficiary of massiveAmerican largesse suddenly aligned with our ene=nies. The Howand ",\'hyremain to be explained.

That the Soviet purpose is total and immutable is compre-hended Iess incountries far more vulnerable than ours to thepressing rnenac e of subve r son, As much, then, for our allies

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as for ourselves, the nature of Communist subversion shouldbelaid bare--the methods of Cut-rate Conquest.

Implicit in the foregoing is the suggestion that the readingaudience for such an expose is a mass audience. .To interest, cap-tur-eand convince a popular audience, the material shouldbe pre-sented in readily-comprehensible terms which simplify the reconditeand too-often doctrinaire equations of the textbook expert on Com-rnunism. In short, the slant must emphasize the paramount factorof interest: supporting documentationhowever desirable. must besubordinated, for unless interest is generated in the reader's mindthat mindwill wander, rendering persuasion impossible.

Thebook shouldbe written in simple interpretive style. asnarrative unembellished with polysyllablcs of classic derivation; thetour\-de-force ostentation ofthe litterateur must be sedulouslyavoided.

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Publishers consider photographic illustrations so enhancingto non-fiction texts that the author's responsibility to furnish thepublisher with appropriate photographs is stipulated routinely in aclause of every publishing contract. Where possible. then, photographsofmore than average interest should illustrate the text ,as well asmaps of critical areas.


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The book will differ from the many others in the field of

Communism in that it will address itself to the entire panaramaof Communist subversion and subordinate the popular cliches ofespionage; further, the authentic documentation will be so con-elusive as to set itapart from general and theoretical tr~atiseshowever profound.

With audience, subject, and treatment in mind, structureand content follow:

CONTENT

The material might be organized under four major topical headings:I. Definitions - Subversion

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"... overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin;destruction II (V~ebster)Conquest, the goal: isolating America

ItThe theoreticians of the Kremlin hardlywaited for the guns of the Second WorldWar to cool before they picked the demo-cratic West, and particularly Amerfca,as the chosen enemy. It is doubtfulwhether any gesture of good will or anyconcession from our side will reduce thevolume and venom of vilification againstus emanating from the Kremlin. II (90)

n. The l\~eans - Strategy and Tactics of Subversiontilt is obvious that a proselytizing mass movementmust break down all existing group ties ifit is towin a considerable following. II (34)

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Overt Action

Trade and economic dominance

Special appeal to conservative business

ldilitary pressure

Culture as a weapon

"Sal.arni!' - the whittling away; border erosion:

Propaganda"Mass rnovernents do not usually riseuntil the prevailing order has been dis-credited. The discrediting is not anautomatic result of the blunders andabuses of those in power. but the de-liberate work of men of words with agrievance. II (lZ9)

Fa! sification

Distortion

International movements"A rising mass movement attracts andholds a following not by its doctrine andpromises but by the refuge it offers frornthe anxfetde s, barrenness and meaning-lessness of an individual existence. Itcures the pdgnantly frustrated not by con-ferring on them an absolute truth or byremedying the difficulties and abuseswhich made their lives miserable. butby freeing them fromtheir ineffectualselves--and it docs this by enfolding themand absorbing them into a closely knit andexultant corporate whole." {39}

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Professional and ScientificLaborSocialist

The Induced CrisisBerlinOuernoyj MatauVietnamLebanonLaos

The Conference Table, Combat ArenaKoreaRed China: (Geneva}'Bandung

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LaosThe SummitsDisarmamentThe United Nations

The Nuclear Neurosis - "Better Red than Dead"Neutralism - EuropePacifism - Japan .


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Cqvert ActionWhy and HowAgents are Recruited

"Faith in a holy cause is to a considerableextent a substitute for the lost faith inourselves." (14)

Utilization of Political and Personal IntelligenceTerrorism - 9th Section KGB

Sequestration - Dr. Walter Linse, etc.Assassination - Pal Maleter, Nagy, Khokhlov,London Polish GovernmentMalaya and the Philippines

AgitationRiots and The Mob"When we loee our individual independencein the corporateness of a mass movement,we find a new freedom--freedom to hate,bully, lie, torture, murder and betraywithout shame and remorse. 'Herein un-doubtedly lies part of the attractiveness ofa mass movement. We find there the"right to dishonor, IIwhich according toDostoyevsky has an irresistible fascina-tion." (98)

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Black PropagandaForgeryradiopress mediamailzurnoz

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Infiltration, penetration and manipulation ofGovernment bureaus and officialsLabor MovementsTeachers and Intellectual." Vanity.' BaidNapoleon, 'made theRevolution; liberty wall only a pretext. 'There bapparently an irremediable in-security at the core of every intellec-tual. be he noncreative or creative. II (131)

Youthand Student."Unle.s a man bas the talents to makelIomething ofhim.elf. freedom hnirklome burden. Ofwhat avall 18freedom to choose if the 8elf be in.effectual? Wejoin amass movementto escape individual responsibUity If (30)

(3" Ii."I'IIAReligious and Minority GroupsNationalist Movementa; anti-ColonialiamLeft-Wing Socialism

Fronta"On. of the most potent attraction. of ama.1 movement is its oflering of a sub-stitute for individual hope." (14)

Cornmuniat Partie.. action mechanism andRecruitment Pool; direction and fundin,Themes. Slogans and Appeals

Inevitability - wave of the futurePeace and Disarmament

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SurvivalNeutralism IpacifismClass struggle. the Face of AnarchyLand ReformCommunism - a better lifeSoviet scientific "superiority"Racial and religious equality"Chaos, like the grave. is a havenof 'equality." ~.Nationalism

Jlnti-colonialismHate America

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In. The Targets - 16 Case HistoriesCzechoslovakia - the pattern revealedChina - from Yenan to PekingRumaniaGreece - near successVietnamGuatemala - failure of a missionKorea (?)Iraq


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Defense studies. Ifthe Taylor recommendations have, by bookpUblication date. been publicized. they should be examined insofaras they suggest ways to inhibit Communist erosion of the Free WoDi.)

Lacking the foregoing, the author might want to consider thefollowing premises inframing hi. conclusions:

The Communist nations led by the Soviet Union arecommitted to nothing le.8 than the subjugation of the entireworld; by subversion ifpossible-- ifnot. by military force.

Communist statements are not indicative of Communistintent. To further their purposes J Communists are capableof being all things to all men at all times. In the Communistlexicon. this is not inconsistency but basic strategy.

Co-existence isCommunilt double-talk. a lullaby for the

unwary, the unsophisticated and the seH-deceived.As Communists, the leader. of the Communist world

hold fanatically dogmatic belief inthe inexorability of Communistsupremacy. They prate of Peace. but there is no Peace; thecurrent lull inmilitary activity called the Cold War is simplycontinuum by subversion of the Leninist thesis.

Loss by the West of nuclear monopoly radically alteredthe military/political balance in the West's struggle for survival..Assuming that nuclear parity has been or will be reached, theCommWlist world still exercises a frightening pre-eminencein the techniques of political subvefsion.

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Distribution of Foreign Aid funds. for the manyhumanitarian and eleemosynary motives attributed to it.should not be charged with the primary role inhalting Com-munist subversion. Foreign Aid. as conceived by GeneralMarshall--and undergoing only superficial alterations since1948--was not designed as a political weapon; it has not beenused as such. and in practice has proved only a tangential

palliative. Under an authoritarian governrnent--as in theUSSR-- Foreign Aid can play an integral role inthe extensionof national policy when used as a positive political instrument;United Sates tradJtio;l" of ~9urse. prohibits such a radicaland seemingly-calculated use of overt funds. Althoughpublic and much editorial opinion holds Foreign Aid. whenproperly (by GAO atandaa-da] administered. to be theremedy for Communist subversion. a review of Communistsuccesses in the 13 years since the Marshall Plan does notbolster such sanguine reliance.

"The despair brought by unemployment comes notonly from the threat of destitution, but from thesudden view of a vast nothingness ahead. The un-employed are more likely to follow the peddlersof hope than the handers-ouT of relief." (15)

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Covert action alone can never substitute for positive

foreign policy. but covert action..!!: support and furtherthis country's avowed goals. National flexibility sufficient

to meet the Communist challenge on its own shifting ground

cannot be achieved painlessly,but the world in which we live

is demonstrably so vulnerable to CommwUst subversion that

as a simple matter of survival this nationlmust recognize the

nature and dimensions of the threat. and meet it promptly. in-

telligently and continously wherever the symptoms appear.

Conclusion

Between comforting. but unrehiistic. dependence on ForeignAid and the far extreme of military and/ or nuclear action, what

practical alternatives exist? (Hopefully. the Taylor recommendations

will"be available as souec e material; if not. the author will have tostate what strategems his own convictions suggest.)

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