REVOLUTIONARY ROLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130034-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: September 20, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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Revolutionary Role
Allen W. Dulles, director of en ra ',Intel.
1 gence Agency, has challenged-"O.S.
tizen in a statement, to the House Committee
i Un-American Activities.
Communism, he explained, is making an ag-
ressive bid for parliamentary conquest. It is
wing this in the belief that parliamentary gov-
rnments are so far gone'158t they will crumble
is soon as they are 'ufidternuned.
The underminers inteil~~. to use freedom to
estroy freedom and to set up in its place
uthoritarian rule. They think they can do this
ith no trouble because they believe parlia-
rentary governments have lost touch with their
wn people.
Only the Communists, as they see it, have a
hance to set themselves up as the political
gents of working people. All of this has bean
lueprinted as clearly' as Adolf Hitler blue-
rinted national socialism t'ar Germany.
Italy, France and Indon ia, Mr. Dulles saes,
re in imminent danger. The threat of success
very real throughout Asia, because Asiaties
ve scant knowledge of parliamentary goverm-
ent and slight resstln to trust the governments that have exploited their..
What Mr. Dulles does not say is that the
Iternatfve to parliamentary 'conquest by Corn-
wrists will have to be a resurgence of the
itality which once enabled parliamentarians to
vertlirow authoritarians.
That is the basic foreign-policy issue of the,
stional election in the United States thus year-
hetber or not the United States` will play its
stork role of leading the revolution again,(
lespotsm.
CPYRGHT
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