MEMO TO FRED C. IKLE(SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: March 7, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
7 March 1984
NOTE FOR: The Honorable Fred C. Ikle
Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy
Department of Defense
At the request of the Executive
Secretary, NSC we have reviewed the
5 March draft of your remarks to be
presented to the Boston World Affairs
Council and have no comments.
txecutive secretary
Executive Secretary, NSC
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rnwx, 9 suCK 1984
As a feaeeer professor at on `bf the Cller'kdt?:Ri$er
4astwstioas, I am pleased to remit-?Bostdb.. or your 4unhh
heavy des ` ' I shall'ralk sboUr the..
itasy`;=ptbwp~r.. especial &y
~rztatton htD betwteen democracy -i,i ~
act ttue t*r ilent region
s-l iejacy stcength.
they can reinforce each
?ffor peace. Peace
to the s 3Lh" of our - ci6d4try.
democrec Land peace Are, interrelated-N=
permits democry to take root. And in tray'
poi td, the dkwocracies need milit strength jr their survivals
aftd to protect the peace:
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p4mbCQ La the normal choice':thgL: psopletL...of the world.
~x,~+csar_f~es, because they are be- rtsponsivii--to the wishes
of the people, are much less i#k'tt ~tb an dint h1ps to ?_~.,~::
initiate war. The people--in ar "' oun~:ry- s~ceii +illudtant. to
sm arsd material resour to
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build up large military
c dsawcrs~ciee thg Me nol the.?j$aeole count.
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rl. a s. .r ^ ~sswk - ...- -
The basically peaceful natuti of da.ocra(Tese however,
no g-raraatts of peace. Throughout t the ,last hr-lf century. the l...x
. - _-ac~ss have been confronted talitar ii dictatorships
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this "vied, the democracies, byareglecting t1l~eir military strength. -
have iiwited the expansion of totalitarian polrers or - outright acts _
-of aggr-essi-CM.
~:-,x -Ci? t time was in the 1030s, when thi6 great Westerh
democracies failed to acgiire the strength thlkt could have deterrd- - ?,?
the 4ggiessions launched by Nazi Germany, ?asibist Italy, and Lope
JftPVft.1 Mad the democracies been-resolved to thaintain their mili= __--r?
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tary yower, the Second World War could have been prevented. As
Winston Churchill said. the malice of the wi+6ked Was reinforced ' }
the weakness of the virtuous.'
sac+oad time the demoeraeies -failed t4b -prevent aggr#tssiott -v `:..
+m..pr. i?w.was ri4%t after the Second World Wir,'`when th'6 -United State* Govern
"ant, mindful of the Wishes of t11e American p6ople, hastily demobU1**
what was then the sttongest military force in the world and pulled,. 77
its divisions out of Europe. This, created a loo er Vacuums iV3 Eura"_-1
,,ftich Stalin quickly exploited, by' pushing th+6 borders of the
'ttst empire westward, in violation of the YY`lta agreement. First
Stalin violated the Yalta provisions for pluriklistic denocriscies in , ..
VoLand .acrd Hungary. Then he forbid a Co*nmuni-6t -regime on
C'hachoslovakia, at that time a Western democr+ktic nation that the,.
Yiitia w 'aeneat hod never allocated to the So'biet Sphere.
in Europe, the Soviet expandion finally 6arse to a halt
when--in response to the coup in Cechoslovak.ta--the Atlantic
wLLiance was created. But in thd.. Far East. w6_ invited open
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armed aggression a third time by.our contirtueib failure to make
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