DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000600090005-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2006
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• Content Type: LETTER

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Honorable J. W. Fulbright
Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations
United States Senate
Washington 25, D.C.
Dear Mr. Chairman:
I am happy to respond to your request for comments on 5.414,
a bill to create a Freedom Commission and a Freedom Academy.
There can be little doubt that the United States must constantly
seek, in all practical ways, to improve and accelerate its efforts to
deal with the massive and varied challenges of international Communism
throughout the free and uncommitted areas of the world. One of the
basic issues is whether establishment of the proposed new instrumental-
ities for research and training would enhance our national effort in
strengthening U. S. capabilities in countering Communist tactics.
Much is already being done by both governmental and private
organizations throughout the world to expose and counter the aims and
tactics of international Communism and to foster alternatives consistent
with the ideals and values of a free society. A number of these efforts
are highly effective, although they appropriately are relatively unpublicized
in the United States. Increasing attention is being given within the
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Executive Branch to coordinating the existing U. S. governmental
programs and encouraging complementary private activities abroad by
universities, foundations, and international labor and professional
organizations and their foreign affiliates.
In the educational and training fields the Executive Branch of
our Government has been placing increasing emphasis on departmental,
agency and interagency schools and training courses on the nature,
theory, history and tactics of international Communism, with particular
stress on means of countering Communist subversion and insurgency in
underdeveloped areas. This Agency is actively participating in this
program. There also are a number of private facilities in being or under
development for training selected foreigners in combatting Communist
subversive tactics and strengthening free institutions.
The intelligence community has long devoted a considerable amount
of coordinated effort to collection, research and analysis programs con-
cerned with the aims, strategy and modus operandi of international
Communism and constant efforts are being made to strengthen and improve
these programs adrawing on nongovernmental facilities and nonintelli-
gence components of the Government as appropriate. The results of these
research programs are made available to the foreign affairs action
elements of the Government for guidance and exploitation.
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I should like to point out that the foreign graduates of a Freedom
Academy officially and openly sponsored by the government to combat
Communism would be subject to Communist denunciation as well as the
possible suspicion of their own governments upon their return to their
homelands. The idea of providing training in recognizing and combatting
Communist conspiratorial techniques is eminently sound, but I would
have reservations as to whether a publicly established U.S. Government
school of the kind envisaged would be an effective countermeasure to the
secret political schools of the Communists. These derive what success
they achieve from their secrecy and from the conspiratorial methods
employed by their graduates, most of whom can only be identified by
intelligence methods.
I trust that the points which we have discussed, which would have
a bearing on any proposal which has as its objective the combatting of
international Communism and the training of individuals in this endeavor,
will be of some assistance to the Committe e in its consideration of S. 414.
The Bureau of the Budget has no objection to the submission of
this report from the standpoint of the Administration's program.
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