HEREWITH THE TRANSLATION BROUGHT OVER BY GENERAL BOLLING YESTERDAY.

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UNCIASSIFIED
MEMORANDUM FOR: 14.d Di. ,tor
Herewith the translation brought over by
General Bolling yesterday. The portions
referring directly to you or CIA are sidelined
in red on pages 3, 14, 16 and 17. The news-
papers covered all 9tthe more sensational
statements.
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AUF DEP! KRIEGSFFAD - (ON THE FAT9 TO WO)
AUFZEICHNUNGEN EINES ENGLISHEN OFFIZERS
(NOTES BY AN ENGLISH -OFFICER)
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Chapter 6
Words and Deeds
The Diary of a Diplomat
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Iliad practically completed my book, and was about to send it to
the publisher, when unexpected events prompted we to take my pen in hand
again. All this was started by a brief conversation I had while seated
in one. of the cafes at Berlin, a place where occasionally I meet with
friends from beyond the Elbe River.
One fine day in August 1951, a short time after the exchange of
? messages between Truman and Shvernik and the resolutions voted by the
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U.S.A. Congress and the praesidiur of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.
concerning relations between the two countries, I met an old friend, the
Berlin correspondent of one of our London papers.
Like many others, I was inclined to regard the congressional resolu-
tion as a sign of weakening of the aggressive attitude of the United
States with respect to the Soviet Union. I expected my friend to confirm
my belief when I asked him, "Doesn't this congressional resolution mean
thnt the potentates in the United States are cooling off a little?"
Instead of answering, my friend stared at me intensively and for
quite some time; and I noticed in him indications of surprise, disquietude,
and of a sort of inner struggle. Finally he remarked: "Truran's message
is nothing but words. But the facts..." Then he was Quiet nlain; then
he opened his briefcase, and put Into my hands a fairly large, sealed
package, saying: "Take this; it contains the anower to your quesLion."
p. 210 I wanted to open the package, but he would not let me do it: "Not
here," he said; "wait until you get home." And then he called the
waiter and paid; we left the cafe.
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Outside he told me, lowering his voice: "This is a copy of the
diary of an American General at Frankfurt. I got it from an American
officer at Frankfurt; he had an opportunity to rend this diqry, And was
so shaken up that he decided to have a photostat made of it. He has
requested me to find t way tp bring the contents of this diary to the
knowledge of the public."
*Well, and what do you intend to do?" I asked.
"Don't he crazy," he said, and shrugged his shoulders. "You know
perfectly well what would happen to me if I Was to publish a document
like this. Or would you try to make me believe that you believe in
Morrison's fairy tale about the freedom of the press in England? At
all events I know frow personal experience that freedom simply means
that you must omit everything that contains the slightest grain of truth.
And it is precisely the truth concerning American politics that stares
you in the face from every line of this diary. I'm in no hurry to lose
my job; and ever since I've been in possession of these papers I have been
feeling as though I had been sitting on fiery coals. Take these things
and do whatever you like with them."
After I got home I read the diary from beginning to end. As long
as I live I shall never forget the impression it made upon me. I was
211 horrified at the thought that the fate of a great country and a great
nation, the fate of America and the Americans, rests today in the hands
of brutal inhuman beings such as the man who wrote this diary. And these
people have at their disposal atom bombe, poison gas, napalm, bacteriolog-
ical and other weapons, etc., with which they are getting ready to convert
the ancient cities of Europe into rubble and ashes and sweep our civiliza-
tion from the face of the earth.
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No one who hates war from the bottom of his soul can read without
feeling profoundly disturbed lines like the following:
(The specially indented paragraph is reproduced not from the German
translation, but from the facsimile of the handwritten text of the
diary.)
"Our attack should be directed at enemy weakness. Although
the military services are primarily concerned with military
weapons and methods, we must understand that this war is total
war and is fought with all weapons."
"We must learn that in this war it is fair to hit below
the belt."
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wrote these lines is Major General Grow of the U. S.
Army. Hie diary informs us that he is a Military Attache for the U. S.
at Moscow, and occupies a leading position in the Intelligence service
tie United States Army. It was not an accident that brought General
.GTOM and his dirty diary to Frankfurt on the Main. As we learned from
his notes, he went there because the directors of the U. S. Secret Ser-
'r in1une 1951. It was Major General Grow's intention to enlarge upon
the views expressed in the above quoted passage.
Under the date of 26 February 1951, Grow entered the follnwing nota-
tiont (rhe specially indented paragraph is reproduced not from the German
translation, but from the facsimile of the handwritten text of the diary.)
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(note), war, when is where we have failed before. He nays Smith
im interested, but there is little action. he also feels that
! this is very critical year."
General Grow's diary does not by any means consibt of irreSponsible
memoranda jotted down by the first person who come:. al-ng. This is the
diary of an official representative of the White House. -The passare
just quoted indicates'elearly that this diary contains the frhnkly
expressed ViPWF of a man who was sent to Youcow by W-shirvton; and that
these viewr are shared by Llmith,
Lie director In chHrge of the American
Secret Service (Intelligence), who was formerly American Ambassador at
Moscow.
A few wires earlier we read in the diary as follows:
(f.xcept where specially mentioned, quotations from the diary are repro-
duced by retranslation from the. German version..)
"Thursday, 23 February.
Letter from Bolling makes it clear that my letter go to all the
leading departments, including the Fresident."
Grow's diary is of great importance to the public, and one could
not easily pans it in silence; because it reveals the guiding principles
and intentions of the present rulers of our 'Western World.'
The extracts riven in this book will give the reader an oplortunity
to see fol.- himself what happens at an American embassy in Furope, and to
learn what people are like who think and act as Grow does. The diary
served to confifr my view that, as I stated elsewhere, the germa of war
must not be permitted to reach maturity in their natural] neutrative
media?that is, they must not be allowed to thrive in secrecy and unplin-
'shed. For-thatireason I have decided to publish Grow's notes and a few
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'selected photostats, so as to bring to the whole- world's knowledge the
things that I was able to read myself.
p. 214 THE DAILY ROUTINE OF A MILITARY ATTACHF
General Orow's detailed entries in his diary serve to show the
reader with fullest clarity what happens at his Moscow office, And how
he goes about fulfilling his *diplomatic* obligntions.
Let us turn some of the leaves of the diary and rend his own memoran-
da concerning his daily work:
Monday, 8 January.
"I went south to find some anti-aircraft Areas, but did not find
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anything in new areas."
Friday, 12 Januhry.
"Spent the entire forenoon with Thornal and Abbe] exploring the
southeastern part of the city along new streets.
Did not find any anti-aircraft positions, but gathered a few valuable
data concerning the terrain."
Saturday, 20 January.
!Bush and I drove around three hours in the east and southeast
during a snowstorm, and discovered three AA positions."
Saturday., 27 January.
"A frosty fog reduced visibility to only n few meters, and conse-
quently did not go looking around today. One or two letters, and
a report concerning local anti-aircraft positions, in time to catch
the diplomatic mail pouch.'
p. 215 Sunday, 28 January.
"Got up at ten o'clock and had breakfast; than took the subway to
!El" Ring, and took an hour's walk on the grounds of the Frunze
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Academy. Discovered nothing new; but there are indications that
a few horses are being kept in the old cavalry stablea.."
Friday, 16 February.
*5horna1 and myself made a thorough investigation of the northern
industrial area, but did not discover any new anti-aircraft positions."
Saturday, 24 !arch.
*Thorne] and myself checked up on anti-aircraft positions. Two of
them seem to have been discontinued, in favor of an industrial
plant that is now being erected.*
It will be possible to cite many additional passages; but the fore-
going will probably suffice to convey, to the reader an idea of Major
General Growls "diplomatic" functions in Moscow. The careful manner in
which he "explores* every district of the Russian capital and its suburbs
shows that for this Secret Service diplomat Moscow is essentially only a
target for future atom bombs. He is possessed by the idea that he must
discover every anti-aircraft position and make a note of it, since they
might interfere with American bombers on their "good will" mission.
Obviously it is Major General Growls task at Moscow to use every
effort to prepare for a repetition of present events in Korea, where
Yankee bombers systematically make targets of peaceful cities and of the
civilian population.
p. 216 At all events, anyone who reads Grow's entries concerning his trips
in Moscow and vicinity cannot fail but draw the conclusion that the
Americans are establishing their air bases as close as possible to the
Soviet border, converting England into an American plane carrier, with
only one purpose in views To prepare for aggressive warfare against .he
Soviet Union, and in this manner to start a new world war.
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Somewhat.more detailed reading of the diary reveals further interest?
ing facts to the reader:
Friday, 19 January.
? -"Pope dropped by; he insisted that we have not seen all the positions.
Quite right; but we discovered four that he had not seen himself."
? Wednesday, 14 March.
*Pope dropped by, and we had a lengthy conversation concerning the
presumable strength of the Soviet Union."
? Wednesday, 23 March.
"Pope dropped by he gave us information concerning anti-aircraft
defenses at Leningrad, and confirmed our own observltions here. In
the afternoon I prepare the draft for a report on the industrial
plant that we have had under observation for six months."
Who is Pope? Grow merely mentions that he is an Englishman. In this
,manner we learn from the diary that our British representative in Moscow
does not consider it beneath his dignity to go snooping around for an
Americengeneral and to report his observations to him.
217 A large number of other entries prove that our diplomats in Moscow
are helping the American warmongers. Personally,.I cannot see how that
harmonises with Mr. Morrison's orations concerning our "friendly inten-
tions" with respect to the Soviet Union.
Colonel Ouimond, a Canadian diplomat in Moscow, has likewise become
one of Grow's obedient servants, as we learned from the following entry:
2 March.
-"Received report from Major Bush and Col. Cuimond (Canadian) concern-
ing their .trip to Tiflis?two hours in the afternoon. They did not
observe affy unusual military activities."
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Grow also mentions Sgourdeous, the Greek diplomat.
-Friday, 26 January.
"Sgourdeous, the Greek, likewise is longing for a bold decision by
force of arms. He is one of the few fighter:. amalg the FurcTe,Ins."
On 15 !arch he has another_note concerning Sgourdeous:
"Had a nice conversalion with Sgourdeous at supper. He is horrified
at our lack of decision, and se gm I. Beth of us be:ieve that the
Western Europeans will join us if we get rough and demonstrate
determined leadership.*
In still other entries we read the names of other members of the
embassies of other countries acting as helpers of the Amerivin general.
218 In speaking of his espionage relations with Turkish military and naval
attaches, Grow describes the naval attache, Captain Kir Oglu, as a "fine
fellow, who is anxious to work with us." The entry for 9 Farch reads ns
follows:
"Forwarded report concerning observations transmitted to us by the
Turkish attache."
From the foregoing quotations we can see that the Turks, like the
Greeks, are supplying American cannon fodder for Korea; and that they
make an honest endeavor tv,t to fall behind our own people in the matter
of collecting inform;ition for the American Intelligence Service.
We shall let this suffice on the subject of how rajor General Grow
and his colleagues from other embassies spend their time in roscow.
GROW STARTS TRWELLiNG
On 16 April, Grow made the following entry in his diary:
"The home of Tolstoi was closed today (Yondny): but that did not
bother us, lince we had not gone there to look at it."
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.But what was it that Grow was interested in-on his trip to Yasnaya
Folyana? What prompted the American Military Attache to vistt this
Leality made famous by the Immortal writer, Leo To!stoi; and why_shJuld
he express satisfaction at his being unable to get int the museum? These
p. 219 questions, which must occur to anyone as he reads these lines, are answered
in the same entry in the diary:
"Took note of.many license numbers of military vehicles. Saw some
A.A. equipment."
This was all he brought back from excursion to the home of one of the
greatest writers of the last century.
The rest of his diary explains for us, page by page, the ,reason for
his trips to Pskov, Orel, Vladimir, Murom, and many other cities.
His helpers and colleagues from other countries likewise "explored,"
as the diary shows, Gomel, Orsha Saratov, Stalingrad, Astrakhan, and
other cities, reporting their obseriations to him.
In May 1951 Grow made a trip to Murom. This city impressed him as a
rapidly expanding city with a historical-background; but he was unable to
conceal his displeasure when on 11 !ay he wrote as follows: "Nothing of
military value." The growth of the city is not a matter of interest to
him. The things that he is eagerly searching out -ire objectives such as
bridges, highways, and peaceful cities, which he can record on his map
with a view to destroying them. He eagerly continues his search, until
finally he hits upon something that is suited for his diary: (The
following quotation is copied from the niglish version of the facsimile).
"Only bridge is R.R. and is good target."
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P. 220 The next day finds him at Shatura, where he makes tho following
entry: (Reproduced from the English text of the facsimile).
"Dig power plant at Shatura run on peat of which huge bogs
in-vicinity. Good target."
In passing through Rostov he. writes as follows, on 23 Nay 1951
(Retranslated from the German version):
"Rostov is a beautiful city, high up on the northwestern
bank of the Don."
The smoothly-flowing Don River, the beautiful city ("the most im-
pressive Russian city that I have ever seen") holds Grow's attention
only a few minutes. He then notes with satisfaction (Reproduced from
the English facstmile text):
"The bridge here is beat target: in S. Russia. This, together
with bridge over Kuban R. at Kavkazskaya, would cut off all the
Caucasus except for poor line to Astrakan which could easily be
cut."
221 To discover ways and means of destroying the harvest, of converting
into ashes the huge silos storing the food for a peace-loving population;
of disrupting means of communication and, perhaps, even of conquering
this fertile land which others have coveted in the past--such are the
aims of the people who sent Grow to Russia.
On the same trip, so his diary tells us, he also visited Tiflis.
We read the folllwing notice under the date of 27 May:
"Third day at Tiflis. Sites and myself were up at nine o'clock--
a bite of breakfast in our room and then outside, making reconnaissance.
We took a taxi and drove out toward the northwest, trying to see what a
tank parking area looked like."
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When I read Grow's diary, I was reminded of. the spies of the Ostbdro
(Eastbureau), who travel throughout the entire German democratic republic
disguised as tourists, commercial travelers, or stamp collectors._
Schuracher's agents, however, are mere small fry in comparison with
the Nmerican general of the Intelligence Service.
Grow goes about snooping from one Soviet city to another. He is
happy when he finds something thnt he can destroy, and disappointed if
he in unable to "discover" a suitable" target. Out of the whole rich
gamut.of human feelings he knows nothing but gratification of his in-
satiable craving for blood and destruction.
It would seem that all spies have one psychological trait in common:
Destruction is the only thing in which they are interested. Their motto
p. 222 seems to have been expressed in the words of Milton's Arch Fiend: "Havoc,
Ruin, Devastation, are my Gain." (Approximate re-translation of Milton's
line).
GROW'S LEISURE HOURS
No matter how much time Grow may have devoted, as we have seen in
his diary, to a search for objectives for future bombing attacks, he has
time left over, none-the-less, for his relaxation,
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is one of the conclu-
sions he has reached.
He discovers many ways to make life exciting for himself, first of
all alcohol. As we read some of his boastful reports--e.g. "five invita-
tions today"--we might imagine we were dealing with the diary notes of
some confirmed .drunkard rather than the diary of an American diplomat.
The motion pictures, too, give him much pleasure. "At night," he writes
under the date of 11 April 1951, 14.L. and myself ran a film just for
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ourselves, *Love, The Monster," a rather good and unusual gangster
comedy." Further down we read as follows: "'Robbery on the Train,'not
a bad film." Other films that he mentions have to do with robberies,
acts of violence, and murders, where gangsters are the heroes ("decent
Anglo-Saxon fellows").
Very likely he gets his ideas from such films as to how one can
achieve one's purvoses by any means possible, by Lruth or falsehood,
through hard blaws? (hitting below the belt).
p. 223 So far as one can judge from the many passages where the diary men-.
tions roulette, poker, whist, and bingo, games of chance very likely are
Grow's most favorite pastimes. On 29 January he puts down that he sat
down at 1900 to play cards and did not getup from the table until 1:00
A.M. He attaches so much importance to this form of relaxation that he
keeps a most accurate account of his winnings and losses. His notes
indicate that the stakes or these games are always very high.
All apart from the atmosphere of "refined" pleasures which I had
occasion to observe at an earlier time in our army of occupation, Growls
diary reveals the Intrigues and trickery that go on among the American
diplomats. It would appear that the Military Attache always has to find
some fault or other with the Ambassador. He rages against him--of course,
only in the privacy of his diary--on one occasion because he allotted a
smaller apartment to Vajor General Grow than to somebody else; and another
time because tbe Ambassador goes after him for the smallest errors and
shortcomings.
We learn from the diary that Grow takes his revenge by never missing
a single occasion to proffer cynical remarks about the Ambassador.
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at the same time conducting themselves as befits the leading figural
of a legation." (re-translated).
The foregoing appears under the date of 14 April 1951.
On another occasion he refers to a cutting remark that his wife
addressed to Kirk, and he writes as follows:
!She certainly told Kirk where to get off!" (Re-translated).
The diary shows very clearly, notwithstanding, that despite all
heavy quarrels Kirk and Grow worked heart and soul together.
On 24 March 1951 Grow made the following entry concerning instructions
given by Kirk with regard to travel of embassy personnel in Russia:
"Kirk wants all travel to be planned for an important goal or, if
such is not the case, to be omitted...." (Re-translated).
We learn thnt Kirk takes personal interest in the "explorations"
carried on by his subordinates, and that he lays down general directives
4 on that subject. Grow also makee. a note of how much his reports are
appreciated by the Ambassador.
n. 225 27 March, 1951. (Reproduced from the English facsimile text).
"Threw a minor bombshell by reading our paper which definitely
estimated action this year or before July 1952 by all forms of
warfare, including Europe. It was backed up by capabilities and
reasons. Amb. accepted our paper as sound and worthy of serious
consideration."
Grow also confides to the diary his own hopes for the future:
"I doubt I shall be here next year."
He writes on 4 January,
hope not; because with the expansion of the Army I ought to be
given a better post."
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On the next day he adds:
"The expansion of the Army will be a help to all the old bones."
(Re-translated).
I believe there is no need for comment. Any reader can see from
these lines that Grow is building up his egotistical plans on the prepara-
tions for another world war.
Although Grow is longing for more because of the anticipated advantages
he never misses an opportunity, none the less, to turn an honest penny even
during peacetime.
GROW'S BUSINESS AFFAIRS
Like Generals Robertson and Clay) whose heroic deeds I hive already
recorded, Grow is turning a covetous eye upon western Germany.
On 4 June 1951 he was called to. Frankfurt on the Main for a conference
of the chiefs of the American Intelligence Service in Europe, where he had
much time at hit disposal?just as in Moscow--to engage in business. His
diary contains a revealing report of how he made his trip a profitable one.
June 1951.
"....then I went to the antique shops and acquired a silver cow (cream
pitcher)."
12 June 1951.
rm.t. went shopping; then stopped at the commission merchant's and
gave-him a large order which I hope we shall be able to get out of
the country." (Re-trans.)
2 July 1951.
'Went shopping again in the afternoon.'
14 July 1951.
'We shipped 10 large carton boxes with clothing and two trunks that
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we finished packing yesterday."
Quite obviously Grow is not suffering any shortage of Bonn occupation
money. He is in agreement with Colonel Humphrey, whose acquaintance
the reader has already made, and Sir Brian Robertson, our former military
governor, with respect to the opinion that there is no reason-for terminat-
ing the occupation. The thing that he would really strive for--at least
227 so far as one can judge from his notes--is "The establishment of a strict
Leavenworth regime in the occupied territories." This Leavenworth is a
prison in the United States:
But Grow would not be true to himself if he did not speculate in the
stock market, as he mentions in his diary under the date of 1J April 19511
. 'letter from Geo Parker saying that he bought 100 shares of Allis...
(word illegible) for me at 44 3/4. He considers it a good buy.-"
Anyone who reads Grow's diary will no longer feel surprised at hear-
ing of U.S.A. generals who, hope for another war just as the stock market
speculators do.
PLANS OF_AMERIGAN GENERALS
Another war is Grow's dearest wish. His diary convinces a reader
that he and-all other war maniacs of his ilk feel sad and depressed about
? anything that contributes toward preventing war, and hugely rejoice over
. anything that indicates that a war is being prepared.
Grow's diary reads like a medical sick report. The type of illness
of which he is suffering calls for watchfulness on the part of all healthy
persons. His illness is the thirst for blood. Just like any other dangerous'
. infection, he has to be studied; and means must be found for neutralising.
? the host of the germ.
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has reached the acute stige, is expressed in his own words:
'War! As soon as possible! Now!"
Again and again Grow comes back to his argument of starting the war
in 1951. WMy conclusions," he writes on P January 151, "might be npiroxi-
mately summarized as follows: This is tie year." by this "year" Grow
means the year that will see the outbreak of the war for which he is
longing.
*This is the year!" He repeats on 9 January; and again on 29 Parch
he writes as follows:
"It seems to me the time is ripe for a blow this year."
But Grow by no means wishes to confide these views only to his diary.
In June 1951, at Fnankfurt on the Vain, there was a conference of
the chiefs of the American Intelligence Service in Furlpe. Grow himself
declares that he carefully considered and prepared his report more than
a month before he went to this conference. Again and again he worked
out a number of alternates and sketched out and constantly polished his
speeches. lbotostats of some of the trites for his speeches at, Frankfurt
were among the paters I received from my friend.
Fven before thnt time Grow had given expressicm t. h's Innermost
thoughts in a note entered in his diary on February 5:
wWe need a voice to lead us without equivocation: Communism must
be destroyed!? (Re-translated).
He repeated the same idea in his notes for his speech he was preparing
for t!e conference: "I believe there is no way of putting it more simply
4 than by saying: "Communism must be destroyed!' This general call for
the destruction of Communism Grow manifestly wants to address not only to
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dictate which attempts to make colonies of England, *France, and of the
other countries of Europe so far as they are caught even now in the snores .
of the YarshaIlIlan and the North Atlantic 'act.
As we read in his note of 27 March 1951, Grow insists un
"action this year by all forms of warfare."
The plans embodied in his report are very far-reaching:
"In the end we shall have to concentrate on the principal theater of
war and relegate the Pacific to the background, that is, confining
ourselves there to naval attacks and air attacks, merely to hold our
positions." (Re-translated). Grow's diary contains. remarks relating
to proposals and suggestions rade at the Frankfurt conference by other
representatives of the American Intelligence Service:
"The essential thing in them was: The necessity of better work at
'Washington, and a great expansion of C.I.A. espionage." (Re-translated).
It is not surprising that at the Frankfurt conference Grow was placed
In charge of the "Committee on Critical Problems." What was meant, by
the organizers of the conference, when they used the term "critical
problems" (or: critical items?) will be clear from the sketch given by
Grow. One of the sections of this committee, for instance, concerned itself
with the use of atomic weapons and with chemical and bacteriological
warfare.
Another section bore the highly significant designation "Vulnerability."
Its task was the choice of objectives for subversive endeavors.
The diary shows us what sort of human being it was whose orders were
carried out by lope, our representative at Moscow.
Let us continue looking at Grow's entries in his diary, and we shall
see what his further plans were.
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He formulates them as follows:
"To put the quesLion differently: Whet should we do to fill out
the vacuum after the Soviet regime is do:.troyed': The new lendorohip
cannot be I,-prsvized off hand in a hurry. Ti sh-uld b ropagated
in advance." (Re-transjated).
So the thing thlt Grow and his chiefs desire is a puppet regime formed
by men who gre entirely dependent upon them and are hated by the Soviet
popu!ation.
p. 231 .But how is this unbelievable plan of over-tUrning all democrstic
regimes and setting up a world dictatorship of Wall Street io be carried
into effect? "With every weapon," sayo Grow.
"We must start by hitting below the bolt. This war cannot be conducted
according to Marquis of Queensbury rules."
An important role is assigned to the American Intelligence Service in
connection with American plans to precipitate a new wir for the purpose of
overturning the democratic regimes:
(Reproduced from the English facsimile text).
'Our intelligence agencies must strive ceaselessly to find and
report points of strength and weakness as well. We must employ every
subversive device to undermine the confidence and loyalty of Soviet
subjects for their regime. We must cause them to loose faith in
Communist leadership."
p. 232 Grow even goes so far as to suggest what is to be done:
"Anything, truth or falsehood, to poison the thoughts of the population."
Passages like the foregoing, in my opinion, do not require any comment.
In any ordinary, rational human society any person expressing such views'
would be put in a straight-jacket and locked up where he could not injure
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the social organism. But in the world of the Trumans and Achesons,
Churchills and Morrisons, Eisenhowers and Montgomerys, persons like Grow
are given responsible government positions, where they can employ every
means to precipitate mankind into a third world war.
I wish that my English readers would give serious thought to the
above-quoted remarks, many of Which were formulated publicly at an
official conference by a man who holds a government post. Is it possible
to sleep in peace if one knows that one or two houses farther down the
street a murdering thief holds his knife in readiness to kill his own
neighbor? Would that be the moment to reach the conclusion That is none
of my business?" Wouldn't it be safer to assume that the murderer, in
keeping with his instincts, would turn also against ourselves and
kill us,
so as to be able to escape with a richer haul?
Did we win the war for peace so easily that we can afford to entrust
this peace and our fate to adventurers like Churchill or the late Forrestal?
./p. 233 Hardly. The nations of the world are daily getting more and more conscious
of the fact that it is their own task to defend the peace. Even Grow him-
self cannot deny this fact, however much he may be blinded by his passion
for. war and destruction.
No matter how stubborn may be his resistance and thnt of others like
him, they are being compelled more and more to admit they are powerless
when they run up against the will of the people. In a rage at the
unanimous loyalty of the Soviet people for its government Grow makes the
following admission in his diary: '
W. must not assume that the Russian population hates its govern-
ment....ft will support it.
Later he writes with the same impotent rage:
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We must not make the mistake of thinking that the. Russians are?
suffering need... The Russian standard of living is improving.'
But the Russians are not the only thorn in the side ,_.%f the war
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On 5 February 1951, Grow Fade the fol] wing entry ii. his diary:
The Europeans are so timid and British business
men are afraid
they
might loose Hong Kong. The French are also twistiniz around.*
Even the signers of the Atlantic Pact themselves cannot make uj
their minds to resort to war, because their own populations arc unwilling
234 to support ther. Grow's conversations among plain people offer no conso-
lation for him at all. When he was in western Germany, he ma-id the
following entry on 4 July 1951:
As I returned throupt the village I talked tc a shop owner who
gave me to understand that he can't stand Americans."
And then he continues:
"I was much depressed when I returned, because I ln afrPid that ',,co
many Germans are of the same opinion.*
It is a good sign if Grow is feeling depressed.
The populations of the word must keep a close watch on the War mongers.
They must be watchful and steadfast in the defense of their most precicus
basic right--the right tc peace and freedom.
A footnote in parenthesis on page 211 states that the facsimile reproductims
of the handwritten text were made from photostats of parts of Grow's diary.
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