WHO CARES ABOUT FREEDOM?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100030117-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: May 19, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Speaking last Sunday at the eleventh Com-
mencement exercise of Franklin Pierce College in
Rind;e. Central Intelligence Agency Director
George Lush raised the most important issue of
our times. one to which every student, parent,
faculty member and guest who heard him should
give top priority in. his. thinking: (A strikingly
similar theme, was sounded by former United
Nations Ambassador. Daniel Patrick Moynihan in
his commencement address last Sunday at St..
~, :lnselm's College).
ell *'All through our history," Bush pointed out,
we have bad a commitment to freedom," but
now. both our friends and foes all over the world
are questioning the commitment- of the United
States to stop communism and to defend liberty
and are wondering if that commitment is strong
enon?h to make this country willing to sacrifice
for its goals.
THE ANSWER, WE FEAR, IS THAT NOT-
ONLY IS AMERICA NO' LONGER WILLING TO
SACRIFICE FOR FREEDOM, BUT ALSO THAT
OUR CURRENT LEADERSHIP HAS DECIDED
TO ACCOMMODATE THE ENEMIES OF FREE-
DO') AROUND THE WORLD.
In a recent column, former U.S. Ambassador to
Switzerland Henry J. Taylor reflects on Secretary
of S, ate .Henry Kissinger's visits with and prom-
ises of aid to leaders of African "nations" which
prattle about democracy, but whose sole interest
is poker.
In Kenya, his host was.the former murderous
Mau Mau leader, President .lomo:Keuyatta, who
has "killed off his opponents with all the eclat of
a Borgia at a-feast," and for whom "no glittering
luxury is today too good." :
In Zaire, Kissinger saw dictator 1llobntu Sese
3eko, a "fake soot Itsayer.'with his rheumy-meta-
physics and huckster's magic," x "carny quack.
and total swine" who "lives a champagne life
, .. while Zaire's impoverished people are too
diseased to work at a trade and too miserable to
have hope."
Columnist Taylor also cites "Field Marshal" Idi
Amin, President of Uganda, who is notorious for
blasting the United States, and Marien tigonabi,
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President of the Brazzaville Congo - both of
whom are ruthless killers who care not a whit for
their enslaved people.
Commenting on the lunacy of proposing assis-
tance to countries that lack :'the essential under- .
pinnings for an equivalent of the Marshall Plan
that saved Eurooe." Taylor points out that the
current total U.S. government debt and that of
every segment of our society has increased to
more than three trillion - yes. trillion -- dollars!
There is a direct correlation, we suggest, be-
tween this nuzzling tip to African dictators and
the feeling of the new isolationists that the United
States must accommodate itself to communism,
its military power, the massive populations under
its control, the persuasiveness of Marxist ideology
to the masses of mankind.
The view that there is nothing extraordinarily
wrong with communism as such..which holds also,
that the Soviet Union is not significantly worse
than the United States, has become a major
concern to increasing numbers of political com-
mentators. For example. consider the question
posed by CIA Director Bush before the backdrop
of the perceptive observations offered by Com-
mentary editor Norman Podhoretz. in the April
issue of the American Jewish Committee's month-
ly publication:
"What we see in this newl,v tolerant, anh
even benevolent, attitude toward communism
is the slow erosion of oul- own sense of
political value in response to the Communist
challenge - an accommodation in the sphert
of ideas to match the accommodation we
have been making in the sphere of power. Our
own political culture has always held uls
liberty as the highest political valve, while the
political culture of communism has always
scoffed at and denigrated liberty as a hour-.
geois delusion.
"Therefore, our unwillingness or usability to
condemn their.crimes against political liberty
- which they of course do not regard as
crimes at all - can fairly he described as a
symptom of the surrender of our political cul-
ture to theirs." -
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