RUSSIANS CONFIDENT OF BIG BLUFF?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100190016-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 2, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

ROME (N,Y.) SENTINEL APR 2 1959
tFor Release 2000/06/13 : CIA-RDP75-000
Circ.: I 16,740 FOIAb3b
Date: ;,=t, 4 yg::
RcsnTConf id ent of Big B1 of?
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" the e is res ,
liev that the Soviet Union - by hook must be interpreted as indicating that
or rook - ill be. the one to - back the Western Allies will not back down
do ." This estimate, made by the on Berlin in the faee Of a Russian
dep ty direc r of intelligence for the threat of nuclear war.-;The reasoning
LTS Gent i nt`IIi ertce"Agtncy in a is that any such threat would be es- I
Ii is of "March 3, sentially, as Amory has indicated, a
a a b ' t e "oft authoritative bluff. Nonetheless, in, Amory's view,
jigence na'ty ade Public as the Russians are negotiating from
t o th ,A lantic'I'reaty -Clrganiza- confidence. "The goal,' 'he said, "is to
do allies m et to drscttss `cerman re- take over Berlin (identified as a
uiii cab on nd 9 t1i Russr"a seat "needle" to the Reds because of its
'high pro-Western living standards)
to erlrn.
e peec i, made from `notes ;and and consolidate East Germany. They
no carried he ' esa IMMItion think they hold the trumps because
wi fuss por~te n tllC ItmSbia; their fiction is `peaceful, It's a case of
S. T ., "nevus aper The Staff-Robert "here we gd, here they come.'
si an `fo C.T:A Irect- The outlook for the long-range fu-
or en Du estold avex'sity ture is challenge. Thy Russians, says
R
of t`h C rolina , sidy -OW-that' the U. S, 4mtell cenceaexpert, "think in
th ovret ion is not- re lty -toriisk i lartfe'T xof tme."
-$ or-un ear w~f 'h*6rS'en;but- Theirk*s~rt'lsrin tl30-Year period
th t giet reniier `1qikita- S: Khru- between.1945 and 1975 -- goals view-
s l ev ex act to e ut hIeken' ed by therm with Or"nce - are a
nat:ional-b product of $500
w. apera dftt?? e talk` Ion, coxisurner start ands compara-
h b c nfrrmed or a' by tQ'e of Western Europe, and
off. said #hat 4Tie s` X100 b ' a nually to spend on arm-
vent E what'Wtake ra_ ally a"rnert~s" "ext ernal investments"
.s a : e fu- tt itt> r "no strings" foreign
to GPI us t~ sp in~'L'fi -
toa '; r s In I"oii t- hiit, says old ovo-ard nations not actu-
a'll or ited to become allies.
o e t v
nex Ye upe
Amory re-
f r' ce fQ~ehiin the S1 tttth-'s death,
w 'rid ~~ a `st rfiiffart~t 1`ommri sits s , : 1m$ tans have made "an
faiths $` ~ Img anything in
th i~~e
his- of A ""*s ls'e t TerdS tom` corripulsion from out-
a ditiQ ini rc Side "`"lft