'THAWING' BY RUSSIA CAN STAND WATCHING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040041-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: April 28, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON -I In' this era of the renewed thaw with
and slowly et
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s a, c lessons ea nee y former Ant assador Robert C;.,
,*Vlurphy are worth rcvi
Bob Murphy was a career State Department official on the '
same level as Britain's Harold Macmillan in several critical
areas during World War 11 and in the immediate postwar period.
Berlin was one of these areas. and it was there that Murphy
learned first hand the Russian technique of approaching objec-
tives stage by stage.
The blockade of Berlin be- sure such access. At One sea, e
gall as a probing operation with a tone Mongolian soldier vv ;,s
in i n o r traffic - the only impediment to full
interferences
'access.
how the Russian ic,d,ntent in it has only recently been dis-
c full-scale closed that the American ent-
su?icture in Cuba began. in thisoc.irtgwh n
ers out. In the but they never can be learned. the entire Marine Guard con-
early stages, It WILSON If the thread of Murphy's all- tlnoent. The Sviet espiona e
on a reapproehenent wit h , 1cntt?a(ed 'and Russian -paid
and freeze: the
that kept. Berlin alive was im matters progressively, moving intern, l Security .-Coinntittee
admission of failure; we should as far and as.fast as the e(ist- ! l)a\;e been, ,trying to do this
never helve had to supply I3er- in, risks will permit. r"1110 last several years. But.
flip this way, but should have Periods of calm are part o(; a' procedures don't seem to
e strateg improve much and such heretics
insisted on access by normal the sta.,e-by-stak ?
a, whose crime'
methods from the hcgi7inimg. ;,nd it is in just y just such stci~,cs as :, s Otto "
was telling Otcthe truth about big
using force if ncccss:'1 y io as- this. that the American, guard
atitcmtatieally, drops, y, is remain ostracized
and in_s}tspension.
probably have convinced the have ever would hvbeen built if c'c' is revel OCSL to live up to
Russians that.the risk was too U.S. tanks had pushed away its r.nutation. in the lames
;
13und shy thrillers. .
great. But the first proles the hat bed wire when it was
seemed to indicate a lack of first laid and if the first con- This, incident has been cx-
resolution by the Western crc.te block had been kicked crucialingly embarrassing . to
powers. Irresolution met every aside wher`r first put down. the State Department, to say
successive step until the point In Cuba the time to have nothing of the Marine Corps:
was reached where -breaking, -acted wawhen the first Conn- ! Rut it is hard. to convince
the blockade would have Meant hat: troops were installed and the State 'Department that its'
full-scale war. not when tile missile bases were security procedures are very.
As Murphy sees it, the airlift: erected. Russia goes about these lax. Sell. Dodd and his Senate
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so much reliance is being placed- baggy in Poland was thoroughly .