WHILE LODGE TALKS THE GENERALS PICK THE BOMB TARGETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300290004-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 5, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 20.03112103
JUN 5
. `Aad'Hsho(a~id~od"'~:`gort'firebrand wash
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i "tie . Lodge T~lks me th{at all ~tlfythh'iE iig~tallc < ;t: came wlientl~E
'wO dlr.' Post pablisbed ezcee~
f
. thie
tree, ~
tattCea a wiry wt tenet diary of the U1
cueas
. Th e Generals Pick ought t4 say ;e' ~tta le Moaoow, ]
-that.." .(Quoted in T. F. Stones Ko4-ert ~ilttlker Grout(
eekly-) ? ' WAR I~l
This . senteneg is tangled. But "
The Bomb Targets the thinking of ?t he Dlltierrat The diary. had .laUer '
leader, itandt- out sharply :new hands bf Peace
I COULD ALMOST see the
(.enerala' grins when I , heard
rienty, Cabot Lodge at the UN's
Security Council.
Tha U-2 was just 8 "non wrili-
ta,y, one-man plane".on a "harm-
lesss observation flight," said
f're:tident_ Eisenhower's. repro-
.in jn the presence of a oven ? pptnectnua vitb 'nuclear
n
his rick-' wrntr General Grow to a
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ews ma
hen Matt
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hundied newapap less "AQgresaors for Peace" ? scientists. And- ES n warns us quotc(f ill Oft! Post of :Ita
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i ne U. S. nelegnie was triad- ? To have Peace' said icons wou
"not guilty" to the Soviet N alt t he w It. "i-e ahuald lie nuclear war. Fifty million more "itson s fi. me," added Gs
l'niuh's charge.of 'axgcession." ' would die dater from radiatior.'that the time is wipe for a'bi
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to declare our introiom thi
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But the General, .vim were. poisoning.
! po
. to pay any peke on the',
ut.-nipg in at,their` T{ sere in .. What a ' ike to bay for tI$ must start (thf .{war);
target-pkkttag flights that He
q34titting heh.46e belt;; r
the Pentagon
knew dif}erently.. price of-initiatin
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For the Generals were picking. fret cooperation for Peace" Cabot Lodge' calls so haraelfatthis I're, WVurld defender. "'rt
H-bomb targets that ver) day
And they made no secret about
it The facts about the target-
picking had' been leaked out t-)
?tne press. And I quote from a
.New York '.Tildes Washington
story of Msay 22:
LISTING TJiE TARGETS
The review of strategic war
plans, now in its final stages at
(he Pentagon," said the 'Times,
"is? being conducted by the Joint .
t(.hief of Staff. It will offer for
approval by Secretary Gates and
ultimately the National Sea'rit%
(tacneii, a new- list of strategic
targets in the Soviet Union."
(Targets picked. by Ledge's
armless" spy planes.)
;'ire "target` story cdntin}i, 1:
'Th,- probrem has several fac=
? torts. (Ine concerns the number
of targets, and the priorities that
mu+t be determined
''Secretary Gates must now
a11o+ate Soviet target pry rities
to the Polaris submarines .
'Phis is tte'same Defenttie Sec.
r.'tary, who staged the wul?ld-
?vi.le "combat alert" titre day he-
fsu the Ssrmma date. The com-
)Pat. :Jeri' was doubtless intend-
4"1 to wreck the Summit. Ard
Walter Lilll;mann sharply cu?n-
u.s?nted that -- 'The timing of
this `errr?rriser' was juiR r shade
worse 'hai sending the ti-2 on
its 'neritou' mission two weeks
before the summit."For a'wtrld-
tvisL? combat ?ilert is "Otte of the
preliminary ' stages" 4pirAYt@d
ani i Lippmaun, ~?
Iwft It in. a Mote!
R A v DS ' I;tn"ab ,}etarbt edntnaander. appears
FIRE
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Gates - r?? ,+,. ..
' a bardcer -+ reptee- to be cugg
by a fetter, . ritis?h
Acura the firebrand 'sections M PRICE w E WOULD PAY'
r. " And t-te 'U.
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Well Street, He is plWng with .,.*k `r
~ pp 3
General spoktt man sdn'Stf{}t
talk.
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hja
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the idea of a "preventive waf
Against the Socialist hinds, like Powertt and Mahon know that'~jorris, a Washiid
. that the quotes
would bring a'tarriter
,
,riacultWS aunriece(J gnat s.tcn intolthe -
fps to Marquis of Queensht,
a war"wouid "cast us in a charac- "1a?une a raxpected?ther; glimpee typical
a-relPs-
ter new to ?a true democracy,' as m'rrd?. oT
he wanted the United State, to
start the .shooting none the less.
Matthews had to resign soon
after. The people's wrath was
too great, And Gates - *he Rail.
Street firebrand - should follow
SUlt.
Unfortunately Gates isre't the
only aggressive warmonger in
high ? Government circles. The
Generals. are rattling the saber
'every day. Arad some Army."arid
Congressional leaders are pub-
licly hinting tiet they believe in
"ptevernee war," that is in ae-
gtessi, e war, even-.when they
speak against. it, And I quote
?1. the recent hearings of the
9iefeePe c '?c-) nittee of the
H:.use? of Rep:esentativea Ap-
pr-'pciation Committee.'
MORE SABr:R RATTLING
General Thomas S.? Powers,
( otnmander of the Strategic Air
,mmand, whieb 'drops the big
l eanbi, wns testifying:
"1 am not advocating pre'?en-
live war," said Powers. "The
mission If the SA(' is deterrence
. .., However .. , 'I also submit
t.at, you will not deter it war
nn:ess, you have the capability to
.ti''t a war."
'%2:ght"; to-plied ,Pep. George
14 tl'ahnr the TPxaa Domncraf.
f r meiea5re LVC/3i`I`L/Cl3-:'GTH-KUi/o-uu 14ymuuujuuLtluttY%rfq(lusers are inf)uentiit: At
. ~lsron: nitG'e. '
'
the fight for Pence is the \s
,,
141 One fight trwlay,
"We must employ every aft
the "subvtrs'on," that AINn I)
lee's Central Intelligence Age'
loyalty of ,Soviet subjects f
their regime;" We diary dents
hood, to poison the thouIthtp
the population."
search for "targets" it h
gloats a.t?the discovering of an
a bridge as a * good "target,"`
a passage flaotel ill-the 1t,rt
major's book. ? ,r ?
General (:row was court m
? his handling of "cluseif
his "war . , . now," thinking.,
his "hitting below the he
idea. was vAlced by his Pent:,
superiors. And the rea-on
this see:irs rather plain. For-n'a
of Grow's superiors tthougl.t th
PEACE CAN WIN
? xarmongers are hfraid of t