RUSS COMPUTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300340051-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: March 1, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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A new way to destroy all internal political
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downfall of integrity.
Russian government are justifiable excuses.
Summary: Some may argue the Russians
simply will buy computers elsewhere. Let
them. We shall not have contributed to a
can computers to the Communists.
Defense Department staffers who have op- i .
posed the sale on security grounds now hope
that new proof of the Russians' use of com-
puters to suppress dissent will prevent the
transaction.
A report by Victor Zorza, expert on Soviet
affairs, and evidence gathered by the Central J
Intelligence Agency now substantiates what
sduiitis to most'"Americans like a horror mov-
ie. Zorza has written that the full records of
any Soviet citizen's psychological character-
istics and actions "could be used to devise an
approach that would quickly persuade him
that his best interests require him to conform
to the political guidance of his spiritual ad-
viser at the KGB (the Soviet secret police)."
Coupled with mood-altering drugs, the com-
puters become a tool for suppressing dissent.
Most Americans heard little of the Declara-
tion of Frankfurt a, year, ago. This was a
statement from a conclave of Bishops of the
Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia. {
It revealed that "Religious people and those
citizens vindicating. their right to think other-
wise than in terms of party directions have
been whisked away to so-called 'special psy-
chiatric hospitals.' Subjected to drugs, they
are numbed and can no longer defend. their
faith."
The U.S. has been too slow to react to
urging from other parts of the world to de-
nounce the new Russian weapon against its
people. Most Western governments have been
supportive of a move by the Canadian Psy-
chiatric Association asking the World Health
Organization of the United Nations to speak
out against the Russian mind-bending proj-
ect.
Our foot-dragging is difficult to rationalize.
The Russian practice is repugnant and vio-
lates all our American political tenets. Aiding
the Russian government by furnishing com-
puters which will make even more mind-
twisting possible would be. totally unethical.
Neither money nor possible offending of the
by the proposed sale of sophisticated Ameri-
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