In a message dated 1/6/1 1:39:55 AM, wmmmandel@earthlink.net writes: << Walt Rostow gets a number of pages in Gregory Mitrovich' UNDERMINING THE KREMLIN: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, Cornell University Press, 2000, accurately described in the cover blurb thus: "containment was only the first step in a clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power. Drawing on recently declassified U.S. documents, Mitrovich reveals a range of previously unknown covert actions launched during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Through the aggressive use of psychological warfare, officials sought to provoke political crisis among key Soviet leaders, to incite nationalist tensions within the USSR, and to foment unrest across Eastern Europe, Mitrovich demosntrates that inspiration for these efforts did not originate within the intelligence community, but with individuals at the highest levels of policymaking in the U.S. government." Rostow was at the heart of all this. Mitrovich is all the more convincing to non-Lefts because he employs Cold War language throughout: "the Soviet threat," etc. William Mandel >> Bill don't you think this started with the western intervention in Russian Civil War. Financing, supply and arming the Whites against the Reds. Also early stuff with Churchill and Brit Intelligence networks in Russia?--Stew
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