HON. EDGAR W. HIESTAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 20, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Dingeri -Confronting AmeriCa
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
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110N. EDGAR tvHEESTANEtims
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- .._ OF CALIFORNIA -. ' -
'IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"
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Monday, February 20,, 1961'
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4 Mr. HIESTAND.. Mr: Speaker, we are
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always "faced with the task of awaken-
ing the American people to ,the,dange-rs
1 confronting us.. ' t-: .. ..1:*??
?!. George Todt touches On 'this vital'
1 'point in one of his e011liiins for the 'Los
Angeles Herald ExpreSs::i.' '. .
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DANGERS CONFRONTING ? AMERICA .
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I , (py ' Gem e Todt) -.
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. Cuba and- L s o ay - e-nothing more
, than symi)toms' Of 4a major disease-the
pathological desire of the international Com-
munist' hierarchy to conquer' the nations
' of the earth 'andpress- them into aJlled
one-world doiiernment dominated by Moscow
i and Pei/Sing. - . - ,Ic""- -' t7-1- ' ' *7.
This is the tteateit-? worldwide threat' to
the uhiverial,ffe-e7egency of mankind in
' the history of "CivilliAlon: . ... ..,......7 t...:.
. Yet the speolale 'Of 4 the Unitedg St?tes--
themselves ftice,zarelltprOtagonistraiid chain-
i'' pion of' hilmanahherty in modern, times--.
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? stand' rconfuled.,as =to tlie 'magnitude, the
direction, and'the?sco-pe of the teat today.
True, mark of -us are alerenow-l-and the
numbers are increasing 'daily_ with the pas-
a-age of time. But there BA still not enough.
My readers haveIonglieen'awrire as to my
1 beliefs about' the Reds1V ,-.'7 '4," r ?.. ..:.
" Briefly,. I thoughtz'tlie-Haiia%unCler' Adolf
Hitler. had. reached 'a' xi in 7 hiunan
depravity-and, voliinteefed?tb- fight 'against
' thenh" ' in tWor1c3J,?Warl II."1?4 But I +think: the
1 ' Commuits 'of, yesteiday ari.'cl 'today are 'even
I `worse. ' ' ?? ? ' ? ' ??14"'" = - ''? ' ?
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_ 4' ? ; ooba 4 Qiji. STION. ".. .,::-.211 '.' .:. 4',1:, ?
The blackest4a W. rt ' the PiCture iS ',they
have gratuitously picked us as their mortal
enemy, whOni thejr1iolan to' defeat by'either
fair means Or fdul. ',Hitler, at least, did not
? make us his!priority No. I 'target. The lat-
ter position was reserved' for such, peoples
' 6.7s the Russ,' the 'Poles,' and ' the French.,
Why are we sc1" dangerously' apathetic to
'the expanding7menabe,which',nOw threatens
us from the direction of the Ural Mountains
in no longertrfaraWay Eurasia? ? Is 1t.13e-
? cause we ?are .,so :rich' we,' Cannot? imagine
danger 'can 'berclose upor us? Why com-
placency? . 4,,,,,,,, ',.., , -- . ?
Recently??Gen:C:,P;,.Cabell, D,,,eppty_pi-?
- re8.Cor'nf ; the', Central , Ifialliggfice-_-Agency,
'inade-it'disee'rning speech' about'S5viet?cipa-
1 bilitieS"and- overall strategy ,.that zeroed 'in
1 on the military ideological-target. Strangely
enough, his piercing diagnosis received scant
attention'in=oni-obminuMeltfond'inedia7 '
I'VetwriiY,*(eillers".trieaa-:Gaiieral.'-"Cabills
knowledgeable ? words' and judge their merit
for themselves. He' said, in part: -
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. "What ,doi the; Communist ileaders .. really..
want? .,The answer is>simplyhez world.
. Call it conquest, domination or control, their
aim?as A stated .bylthemselves-and denion-
, strated by ,their actions-7ls to ;destroy free-
dom in the world. and to impose a Commu- ?
..-nIst structure upon the whole ,globe.. . ?
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. "Theirs lithe language.of total.war. They
have a consistency, and a single mindedness
aboutoprOmoting, a world revoliftion which
is unique :in :the history, of dictatorships.
We have :been warned before, by Hitler, of
plans 'for worldidomination. ',We cannot-Ig-
nore the present-, clear ,Communist warning.
"The Soviets .have -one great Intangible
resource which can best lad? described as
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gall. They are showing ever-increasing con-
fidence and . even arrogance about their
growth, both in material things and in in-
fluence. . .
"We in ,Intelliispe(CIA)?consider?.,the
? ofiTy--Milible---View of Communist inten-
tions is that the seek to destroy us by any
means they can use.
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GRASSROOTS ?
, ?"The next ,question .ildw?? Will it be
by diiect military attack or ,by long-term
erosion? The answer'is .both. 'If we display,
weakness in our Military Establishment
? if they believe they :could strike without
'suffering unacceptable damage in return?
then they will 'strike: 'Similarly, .11, we
maintain soft spots., in our nonmilitary,
posture at hone- and around the world they
will--as ,they have in the past? seek to
exploit these weaknesses. ? : '
''.'In their nonmilitary arsenal they have,
at their -disposal all' the open techniques of.
diplomacy,. trade, foreign aid and cultural
missions ,which," when used by almost any
other country, would be legitimate arms of
official government business.
43,:,1The
Communists lidi?e 'in addition local
parties, in nearly: every country of the
world?parties- trained' and directed by
Moscow, as at the recent meeting, and dedi-
cated to .the .overthrow of representatiim
d'ovcrnmelft..!ti _ ?
- NEXT?
.`fThis ?; is -no secrei. The Soviets have
.boasted there are ? active' Communist parties
in 87 countries in the world.-
f "The Soviets have the greatest and most
expensiiei propaganda machine :the world
has ever known. - '
!'Several years iv' we were -inclined to
say what goes on far across the Atlantic' or
the Pacific does not really .affect us. Then
we began toi recogniie , the; real - intention's
of the!Coraniunist. I Se;Yeral.rrionths ago we
could still hav,e-, said: 'Today Laos is in
danger:- tomorrow,, it. ma f;- be somewhere
else, perhaps closer to home.'". Now we are
forced to say: 'Today Laos and today Cuba,
90 miles from our shores.'
"Behind their curtain of secrecy, they
beiieve they ,can make preparations for a
surprise ,Military attack. ?
."In. insWer t to the question: 'When will
the dorrimiinista strike?'?the answer is they
aN-re.attacked, they .are attacking and they
ill continue to attack."
Perhaps an even more. pertinent question
ight be posed to my,readers: '
"When will we really wake tip?"
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