WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670059-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: November 12, 1956
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Merry-Go-
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By DREW PEARSON
,Tbe0uthci ot this column to given the
widest latitude Hie views do not time.-
arily reflect those of THE iunnoit.)
? WASHINGTON, Nov. II?
' Here is the inside story of
the greatest War sca re 'Wash.,.
has witnessed sinee:
Pearl. Harbor.
It took place early 'last week
following receipt 'of a blunt:
arning from Russia threat ra??
ing? to use force against England'
arid Franceif. they . did not get
out of Suez. This caused the fol-
lowing chain reaction:
? 1?All U. S. atomic bomber
Units were put on the .alert
2--Warships were dispsersed
so, as not to be targets for an-
other Pearl Harbor. '
3?Amphibian training maneu-
vers ..ciff the sou t he ta Atlantic
coast were canceled and the air- ?
plane carriers. Forrestal, Sara-
toga, and' other key ships were
prepared.,f or action.
4?An enlergency meeting
called at. the White House worked.
late into Monday night trying to
decide whether Russia was seri-
ous about its threat to use force,
including rock et s, -against Eng-
land, to ? haft war in the Near
East.
Acting' Seer e I a r y of State
? Her Hoover was the most
worried of all. He had reports_
that 150 out of 300 Russian, divi-
sions were on the ready-alert, that ?
the borders of Poland had been
sealed. that. Russian troops had
pouted into Hungary, making a
total .of l00.000 'Russian troops In
that little country. '
Erlt r a troops were necessary
becatise Red army units already
insido Hungary had refused to
fire on Hungarian rebels. First
the Wremlin pulled four divisions
out. ill Roumania to enter Hun-
gaT,, but when rebellion smol-
der) in Rciumania, they were
rutlind back, and four new divi-
siath were sent d tree t from
ROatia,
. ? .
IcERICAN intelligence also
lotted that the. Red. army in
ngary Was under the personal
ta.'.)in mend of President Eisen-
Pltwer's war time friend, Marshal
421ukov, though he was under
4Irders from the Kremlin. Those
in control in the Kremlin ari-
4,kpeared to be A nastas Mikoyan and
it new figure. Mikhail Suslov,
thember of the Soviet Presidium.
Briti s h intelligence also re-
ported that they had destroyed a
large number of Russian MICS
recently arrived -in Egypt. One
'British report put the number at
, ?
35 another at 48. The British also
'reported they had sighted some
'Soviet Bisons on Oct. ??30,? flying
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proves, he is smarter than others
by hiring others who are smarter
than he is.
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over Egypt. This is the huge 'new
Russian jet bomber, equivalent to
our 1352. ?
,
' All this sent the jitters through
top American leaders.
? At the emergency White House
meeting, however, Allan Dulles,
heads of Central Intelligence and:
younger brother of John Dulles, -
calmed official fears.
He rePorted that Mini= Policies
In the satellite countries had
backfired so disastrously that the
Kremlin was trying to save face
by waving the big stick in other
areas. He argued, that Red army
leaders were too realistic to start
an atomic war.
.
Other calming factors were also
noted. It was found that the text
of the Russian ultimatum to Eng-
land and France was not as tough
as the version abred over the
Moscow radio. Assurances were
also given by the Kremlin to t.S. ?
?
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?
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diplorriats in Moscow. 'that Khrn- ;
sham. and Bulganin were still in
control and that their conellatory
anti-Stalin policies toward the
west had not changed. Suslov Also
,made a speech, which, though
Tooth on Hungary and the Near
EaSe:, Was _considered moderate as
far as the west was concerned. :
While some of these factors
eased the tense atmosphere of the
White House emergency meeting,
Dulles agreed that it would be
safer if the British and French ?
arranged a cease-fire.
French reaction was negative.
Mollet wasn't at all worried by
the Russian threat. He branded it
a big bluff. He was bitterly op-
posed ' to any calling' off of the,
Egyptian war and wanted to, .
march into Cairo and hAng.
Colonel Nasser ton lamppost.
Finally, however,, he agreed to a ?
cease-fire.
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