MUST WE PORTRAY OUR FOES AS STUPID?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200120013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Must We Portray .Our Foe
TO THE EDITOR: May I comment on your' guarded? The local police can be blamed
editorial of February 1 on the Mott case. for laxity but would you 'indict the whop;
Unless the editorial writer had access to U. S. government?
secret files, the conclusions -presented left As to the writer's wondering about,U. S.
something to be desired The reasons given consular officials' walking the, stmets of
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s murder (if it Wa ,fie
for Mr. Mott
demonstrate Russian "toughness' anti/o he more dangerous than a Russlan'(or an Antierl-;
Russians belief that he was CIA,a nt. Bari) strolling through. Oentral Parkt Ni nay
big? ussia's obvloua embarrassment rather
than "toughness" over the affair and the
return of the body would indicate they found
C
Ee themselves in a situation they would rather'
I
have avoided.
Regarding the editorial writer's bein
,': be they know something we don't know and
It is possible that Mr. Mott was murdered ,
by some individual crackpot without its nec-
having been 11a_ grand conspiracy
essarily
the
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