THE RIGHT TO KNOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130076-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: August 1, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

ATLANTIC Monthly
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Approved For Release 2000/08/24 Dl
RDP
The rbjlet to know
Secre(ary I)tilles's brother, Allen
I>irlles, chief of the Central lrifrfti'-
gettee Agency, for over a year had
been contending Iliac "in introducing
mass education, the troubled Soviet
leaders have loosened forces danger-
ous to themselves. It will be difficult
for them henceforth to close off their
people from access to the realities of
I he outside world."
In the wake of the Khrushchev
speech, students in Czechoslovakia
and Poland especially have been
noisily demanding the right to read
Western newspapers and to visit
broad. Moscow, too, has allowed
enough of its scientists and other
technicians to go to the West to create
it demand by their colleagues to see
the outside world. Education alone,
if the history of flitler's Germany and
Tojo's Japan is any example. may not
be enough to alter the course of the
Soviet 1'nion and the satellites. But
eclucal ion plus communication could,
in the view of an increasing number
of those both Fvithin and without the
government who follow Communism
as a profession.
??e Allen Dulles thesis is that the
educated Soviet. man cannot long re-
main, as described by one defector
from that class, "a man divided."
'.1'he human mind cannot be compart-
mentalized; the man who has freedom
to pursue his work in t he physical or
biological sciences, even in economics,
literal ure r history, must in time be-
gin to seek the truth in t'hepolitical
realm. Yet it is true, as the scoffers
point out, that even American scien-
tists have been notoriously apolitical
and naive - witness the Oppenheimer
case - and can stay buried in their-
laboratories. V
Perhaps, comes the answer, if they
remain in Russia or the satellites. But
if they have firsthand contact with
the West, it will be impossible. And
now that. the Soviets of Khrushchev,
Rulganin & Co. are willing to permit
exchanges, (he West is indeed foolish
Af it does riot agree to them.
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