RUSSIA'S GOLDEN BULLETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01203A000200030003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 1, 1954
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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By Victor Lasky
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What the reds don't tell is their plans for nations whose economies
become. enmeshed with the Soviet's. This was spelled out, however,
at a secret meeting of Scandinavi*.n reds by Ville Pessi, head of
Finland's Communitts:
"We have launched a powerful campaign to direct our foreign trade
more and more to the USSR and the peoples democracies.
"We shall prosecute this campaign until 40 or 50 percent of our
trade is carried on with the East.
"Thereby, we shall force Finland into the Soviet orbit. At a
suitable juncture, this trade will suddenly be stopped.
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"With Finland wholly dependent on eastern trade for vital supplies,
the paralysis would bring about economic crisis, widespread unemployment
and public unrest.
"At this point we will be invited into the government.
"Of course, we would immeditaly tackle the difficulties. Trade
would revive. And once we get back into the government, we won't be
thrown out ...."
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These remarkable utterances quite naturally caused a sensation
when exposed in April by the Finnish press. Little wonder, then that
the Finns are not overly anxious to trade with their big neighbors ....
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