FULBRIGHT 'MYTHS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 27, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1964
discovery of a large
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cache of Cuban weap-
Y"N HIS extraordinary speech two days ago, aner' battle plans for ever-
-L urging a radical change in our foreign throwing the demo-
policy, Senator J. William Fulbright justified cratic Betancourt government were consider-
his views as consistent with new realities that. ably more than a minor irritation. They were
had superseded old "myths." an "intolerable danger."
But beneath the Senator's turgid prose, ! . The importance of the Fulbright speech
his new realities revealed themselves as ap- lies' in the fact that he is chairman of the
proaching the old, discredited and disastrous Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that he
philosophy of appeasement. has been a close associate of President 'Johnson
His repeated use of the word "myths" as, and is a member of the President's party.
applied to attitudes and policy toward the For these reasons, something more definite
menace of 'international communism, is a is needed than the anonymous White douse
snide distortion. "Myth" suggests something statement that found Senator Fulbright's
imagined, something not verifiable. views very interesting" and said.that, as con-
It is no myth that the objective of com- Berns Cuba and Panama, the views did not
munism is to dominate the world. It is a hard, represent the policy of the Administration.
verifiable reality. The fact that the one-time Does the Administration, for instance,
monolithic nature of communism has changed agree with the Fulbright theory of "myths"
and that there are now Communist nations versus "new realities"? And to what extent, if
with varying degrees of tyranny and self- any, do the "new realities" mirror emerging
interests, does not make the objective less real. policies?
Nor is the danger of Castro's Cuba a myth.. It seems to us an important enough mat-'
MVr. Fulbright argues that the continued ter for the President himself to make clear.
existence of the Castro regime should be
accepted "as a distasteful nuisance but not an
intolerable danger."
It is extremely doubtful if former. Presi-
dent Betancourt of Venezuela ,would accept
the Castro regime as merely a nuisance. The
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