AMAZING MR. RUSSELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500190007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 13, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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PHILADELPHIA, PA.
INQUIRER
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S. 983,64.'
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{ AMAZING MR. RUSSELL
To the Editor of The Inquirer:
Thank you for printing T>er-
trand Russell's letter on your,
editorial page. You did the
American people a great serv-
ice by showing then: how
amazingly naive people in this
world can be in regard to
Communism. Sounds to me as
if Mr. Russell was born after.
REPLYING IN KIN
To the Editor of The Inquirer:
the Cuban crisis. suit of Castro's continued hos-
I say let's continue t.ile tility to the United States and l
flights over Cuba or any place. to Latin America.
else where American security Mr. Russell should be ap-1
is at stake regardless of what''. pealing to Castro to ;make sin- ;
anyone or any nation thinks. cere peace offerings to the A
And someone please send.Mr. United States by making repa-i
-Russell a history book at least rations for the billion dollars'
from World War I'I to present. worth of U. S. property which
CHARLES MARTIN, 'Ile confiscated; by announcing
Clententon, N. J. that be will never again let,
TWO-WAY INSPC,"TION, Russia set up missiles on Cuban
and America
To the Editor of'The Inquirer:~, soil need not fear
a repetition of that crisis; by
U. S. Government spokesmen; pledging he will no longer train'
state that U2 flights will heti, men and women in subversion''
continued.over Cuba as a guar- and ruthless armed rcvplut.ion'~
antee against the installation and send them to other Latin
of, nuclear missiles on that i American countric.s
island. The Cuban Govern.) j~irposc of overtltrowutg the;
ment has stated repeatedly; ;governments of those court
that it consents to ground in-, tries and set up Communist;
spection, (presumably by a regimes.
U.N. team), provided that the Without these assurances`
United States consents to a; and demonstrated good faith,'`
like inspection. of, various spots .1 and
cannot trust Cas?t.rot
in the Caribbean from which it'; or the U.S.S.R. and is obliged
i,ss alleged the United States is! t.o continue the .inspection;
.~'ponsoring sabotage and other flights and really should inten-
attacks on Cuba. sify such efforts.
If the Cuban' allegation is: 'rite charge of imperialism'
mistaken or false, why should TIr. Russell makes against the.
the United States object to a U. S. for maintaining a naval',
two-way inspection? If the' base at f,uantananvo I, ay by.
Cuban allegation is 'Correct,. force, as he puts it, is entirely,
the people of this country have false and slanderous.. If the
a right to know and to decide. U, S. was,intperialistic it could;
Is it right foe 'us to tinker with have taken over Cuba long,
international justice and a pos- long ago.
siblo nuclear confrontation by ,? IIERBER'I P SETTER
continuing C.I.A. and. U2 oper-
ations in th ---Caribbean? Ut
would it be right to discontinue:
both and to ask the United,
Nations to maintain a two-way
inspection as long as it might
seem useful?
ARTHUR and HELEN
BERTIIOLF
Philadelphia,
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Your prominent "Letter: of,
the Day" space given to Berz,a
England and who slanders the:,
United States as an imperialist;
country has prompted this re-i
ply. Mr. -Russell sees a big in
consistency in the tolerant
policy the United States seems:
to be following toward the'
U.S.S.R. and the hostile policy,
we show toward. Cuba. Ile,
wants the United States to cs-:{
tablish normal -relations with]
Cuba and end the inspection
flights over Cuban territory.
The tolerant policy we are-,
showing to the U.S.S.R. is due;',
to a similar attitude which the;
U.S.S.R. now chooses to show,'
policy toward Cuba is the re-S