CASEY LIKENS COMMUNISM TO NAZI TOTALITARIANISM

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: September 24, 1986
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ON PA01114=. WASHINGTON TIMES
24 September 1986
Casey likens communism
to Nazi totalitarianism
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Communist states, led by the So-
viet Union, pose a threat today simi-
lar to World War II-era Nazi totalitar-
ianism, according to CIA Director
William J. Casey.
"What we face today has much in
common with what we faced in
1944', Mr. Casey said in a recent
speech before an audience of World
War II veterans of the Office of Stra-
tegic Services, predecessor of the
CIA.
The primary objectives of the So-
viets' "creeping imperialism," he
said, are strategic control of Middle
East oil fields and the Central Amer-
ican isthmus.
Mr. Casey, a key administration
hard-liner against the Soviet Union,
blasted Marxist-Leninist states for
"unleash(ing] the 'four horses of the
Apocalypse' ? faimine, pestilence,
war and death:'
The CIA Director made the re-
marks Friday during a two-day sym-
posium on the OSS and its founder,
Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan.
The meeting was sponsored by the
William J. Donovan Memorial Foun-
dation, set up by several OSS veter-
ans.
During World War II, Mr. Casey,
working under Gen. Donovan, di-
rected secret agent operations in
Europe against Nazi Germany.
"Throughout the Third World we
see famine in Africa, pestilence
through chemical and biological
agents in Afghanistan and Indo-
china, death everywhere, with over
300,000 Soviet, Vietnamese and Cu-
ban troops in savage military oper-
ations directed at wiping out na-
tional resistance in Afghanistan,
Kampuchea, Angola, Ethiopia, Nica-
ragua and several other countries,"
Mr. Casey said.
Mr. Casey called the massive exo-
dus of refugees from communist
states since World War II an "elo-
quent indictment" of communist
policies, and he warned that millions
of Central American refugees will
pour over U.S. borders if corn-
mmunists consolidate "their con-
gest of Nicaragua."
Unlike the 1960s and 1970s, a pe-
riod in which leftist insurgencies at-
tracted anti-Western guerrillas, "the
1980s have emerged as the decade of
freedom fighters resisting commu-
nist regimes," Mr. Casey said.
He compared U.S.-backed insur-
gents in Nicaragua, Afghanistan and
Angola to "George Washington's rag-
tag army," which managed to defeat
the British in the American Rev-
olution with covert assistance from
France and with as few as 3,000 men
active at some periods.
"A resistance movement does not
seek a classic, definitive military
victory:' Mr. Casey said. "Nagging
military pressure" can "bring down
or alter a repressive government:'
he said.
Mr. Casey said he believes covert
shipments of sophisticated weapons
are not the best way to support anti-
communist insurgents, since guer-
rillas "do not need and cannot han-
dle" advanced military hardware.
"What they need is what always
has been needed in these kinds of
situations ? training in small arms,
and their use in small unit actions,
good intelligence and good commu-
nications," he said.
Mr. Casey, in an apparant refer-
ence to democratic resistance forces
fighting the Marxist Sandinista re-
gime in Nicaragua, concluded his
speech, "We helped provide this
I kind of help] with effect to the resis-
tance against Nazi Germany, and if
we can muster our resolve and act
before resistance assets are allowed
to wither away, we can put these tac-
tics to good use today."
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