'A NATIONAL STRATEGY OF THE COLD WAR FOR THE UNITED STATES',

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: May 21, 1951
• Content Type: MF

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21 May 1951
MEMORANDUM FOR: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR POLICY COORDINATION
SUBJECT: "A National Strategy of the Cold War for the
United States", prepared by Admiral Stevens
1. Concepts contained in Admiral Stevens' paper are parallel
to the development of our own thinking over the past six months.
As a basis for our all-out cold war planning, we have established
as agoalthe creation of the capability to bring about and support
simultaneous revolutions in all the satellite areas, plus large
parts of the Sov3e Union. Furthermore, this concept has already
appeared independently in proposals submitted to us by the NTS.
2. I strongly recommend that Admiral Stevens' paper be sub-
mitted to the new "National Psychological Strategy Board". It is
recommended, however, that the concepts contained in Admiral Stevens'
paper be extended to cover certain defictencies in the paper as it
is now written.
3. It is not impossible that we will be able to organize and
carry off simultaneous revolts in the satellites and in certain areas
in the Soviet Union. Internal forces alone, however, may not be able
to maintain their positions after the initial revolt, and there is
considerable danger that the Soviet armed forces which remain loyal
to the Kremlin would be able to subsequently reconquer liberated
territory, and liquidate the revolt. We must therefore be prepared
not only to mount and support revolution, but to overtly sustain it
through its period of consolidation. This would involve, I believe,
the following measures:
(a) Complete mobilization of Allied forces in order to
neutralize large numbers of Soviet troops. A deception program
similar to that employed by SHAEF forces prior to the invasion
of France might be useful.
(b) Provide overtly arms, food, money and supplies to the
revolt once it has broken into the open. This would involve
the immediate political recognition of the governmentsestablished
on home territory and the extension of all possible support to
them.
`(c) Organize in advance in Western Europe and elsewhere
military forces composed of Eastern European emigres, defectors,
and expellees. These forces would be organized and trained as
StWlE\t military forces in anticipation of committing them overtly
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in support of revolution once it had broken out in their home-
lands.
(d) If the above support were insufficient to sustain the
revolution, it would be necessary to commit Allied forces to pre-
vent the entire movement from collapsing. This might not
necessarily involve total war, including atomic bombing against
the Soviet Union.
Chief, Eastern European DivLCsior
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