ORIGINS OF DETENTE UNFOLD SPEECH BY WALT ROSTOW WAS EYEOPENER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700080011-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 5, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAR 5 997
discreetly, the Admini?,_ration
is bringing out into th:r. open
what for sometime n: 'w has
been bandied about "se-
cret policy."
Walt Whit-
man Rostow,
3 r e sident
J' o h n son's
assistant for
national se-
curity af-
talk at t h e
University of
Leeds in Eng-
land,, on Feb.
23 that attracted moo"crate no-
tice in the press. OlWiously,
this is all that it or .,inarily
would have warranted.
Knowledgeable circles here
In the national capital at once
spotted some telltale r'o nts in
his address as of special sig-?
nificance. These points includ-
ed:
1. Moving towards "reconcil-
iation and cooperation" with
Communist regimes.
2. "Global cooperative en-
terprises in the fields of aid,
trade; money and in various
technical. fields."
.3. Working, toward di,arma-
ment and a "normal" rela-
tionship with Red China.
Complete Procetlitre
Superficially; these. objec-
tives may sound invilin g. How-
ever, as translated into ac-
tion here in Washington, they
describe a whole procedure
of appeasement and unilater-
al disarmament.
The policy of a:,n,':oration
with the Soviet Union has re-
quired many years f prepar-
ation. The groundwo?", for this
was laid down by the h.,,te I)c-
partment, acting t ,l r 1.;h its
covert arm, the Cen'r: l inirl-
ligence Agency. By this
line had been puhti ,.col in
Rostow's policy-satin;: hook
subsidized by the "_"A and
bearing "he comp. c1iensiva
title, "The United S rtes in
the World Arena."
This book was part r-.' CIA's
"'Project CENTS," i:oruuc'.ted
nt the Center for Inicri.ational
"By one-way reliance on supposed-
EDITN KERMIT ROOSEVELT ly tacit arms control agree-
ments with the Soviets which
they never entered into or ob ~,? ? ,?
now has it become general -served. It is all in Defense
Ia uwledgr that the MIT cen Secretary McNamaru's mind.
ter, as well as an entire inter Rostow added:
lac. king network of supposedly "Since this residual right is
independent foundations, uni? the root of national sovereign-
versity research gr'oups' and ty and the basis for Cie exist-
publishing houses have func- ence of an international arena
tioned over the years as State of power, it Is therefore, an
Department accessories for: American Interest to see an
the CIA, . end to nationhood as it has
been 'historically defined."
Z3rainu,ashed Students This book argues for a
his was not entirely a mat movement in the direction of a
ter of foreign relations. In vi federalized world organize-
olation of the spirit of the law, lion ueffective intcrna-
the more important -aspect of tional law."
the Rostow book and others ti- Mind you, the promotion of
nanced by the CIA was their' world government and the
use in indoctrinating Ameri- downgrading of our national
can students .and the public. security has all along been
Such books- arc used by col-? nartisclo secret policy, now be.
loges and universities across . Si disclantly, the CIA-spon?
the country as well as by sored book urges the down.
government agencies. . Until
recently, of our security sys.
, the students and
teachers who used them usual- tem. Is this part of the pack.
?, age of concessions that have
ly had no idea that they were been made to the Soviet Un-
being indoctrinated with what : ion? The answer Is yes. The
cc'nstdutes plain government Rostow book states : (page
propaganda. They did not', 531):
know that Rostow was on the
CIA payroll at that time or'?]y,itial Tipoff .
book as his advisers and col s +~ne
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financed by the CIA for work- ed operation." -
log along specific political Significantly, It was when
lines. This had to coincide Rostow held an overt. post as
with the points just made pub- head of the State Depart-
lic: recently by Rostow in his ment's policy planning board,
London speech, that Otto F. Otepka,.the
agen- cy's security chief, was re.
Off ictal policy. moved from his post.
what has now become offs-' This pus just a tip of the
ciil was spelled out on page Ict e tion Icerg in a fa
wider r bigg r Ad in.
5of. the CIA-financed he been trying to convince the
he heading of of "the
United States and the Decline public that the Soviet Union
ci Nationhood," There Is this is no threat. It dovetails with
statement: "It is a legitimate the fundamental Communist
American national objective to of using, our hope for peace
see removed from all nations as'a device to lure us; igtoI t
-including the. United States I ting down our guard.
-the right to use substantial
military force to pursue their
own interests,"
Here we recognize the dis?~?