U.S. SECURITY THREATENED

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• Document Release Date: March 7, 2002
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• Publication Date: January 15, 1976
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For Release: January 15, 1976
No. 664
U.S. SECURITY THREATENED
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The United States lost the war in Vietnam in part because of the aura
of defeat created by hostile network and Washington media. The U.S. today
is suffering and experiencing reverses on a global scale because of the
actions of the anti-security elements in Congress.
Day by day, the headlines tell of fresh Soviet gains, including USSR's
extraordinary success in supporting a.proxy.regime in Angola. Cuban troops
are airlifted from the Caribbean to Angola and,. using Soviet battlefield
equipment, including rockets and tanks, establish a bastion in that former
Portuguese province from which the Soviet Union will be able to dominate the
oil route to Europe and North America. Soviet naval vessels move into Angolan
waters, and no one in authority mentions the possibility of a.counter-
deployment by the U.S. Navy.
Wherever one looks, the United States and the Western cause generally
is in retreat. The NATO alliance is in almost total disarray. Portugal is
on the brink of a communist takeover. Greece and Turkey are openly hostile
to the United States. Many former allies are aware of the changed balance
of power and the lack of will on the part of the American government and
people.
The American people apparently do not realize that the world sees the
United States as a "paper tiger." American military power. is immense, but
the will to use it in defense of vital American interests is not evidenced.
Moreover, the anti-security elements in the Congress have tied the hands of
,the President. Every U.S. security organization is under ceaseless attack
from the anti-security bloc in Congress.
Believers in freedom elsewhere in the world are shocked and alarmed at
the attempts to undermine and dismantle U.S. security institutions such as
the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Times of London recently had this to say about the attacks on the
"Americans'who would abolish or cripple the CIA are either motivated by
.a rival ideology or are suffering from that touching but dangerous form of
American innocence which can do as much damage as the CIA itself." The Times
pointed out that "information is necessary and espionage is unavoidable" in
a "very imperfect world."
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'fie way things.now stand, the U.S. government is prevented from acting
against Soviet aggression either in an overt or covert manner. Members of
Congress such as Sen. Dick Clark of Iowa seem more exercised about the possi-
biliey of U.S. involvement in Angola than about the reality of Soviet inter-
vention. His colleague from Iowa, Sen. John C. Culver, is the leader of the
congressional effort to prevent construction of an essential naval supply
facility in the Indian Ocean where the Soviets maintain a large naval squad-
ron. Sen. Frank Church of Idaho directs the witch-hunt against the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Such activities expose the American people to the greatest peril. While
the continental United States has great resources, the American people de-
pend on certain raw materials and energy from remote regions. The security
of the sea lanes around Africa, for example, are vital to the American' people,
for they depend on oil from the Persian Gulf. Interruption of the oil-supply
would have a devastating impact on the U.S. economy, as Americans know from
their brief experience with the oil embargo.
Furthermore, if the Soviets dominate' Africa, as they very clearly intend
to do, they certainly:will not ignore the oil-rich countries of the Persian
Gulf. These countries will be unable to.resist Soviet domination without
strong American backing.
The communist design for the world was revealed more than a half century
ago. It involves step-by-step control of the world countryside, so to speak,
until the capitalist heartland--the United States and a handful of Northern
European countries, Australia and Japan--are isolated and surrounded. In
short, the Soviets intend to be the arbiters of the destiny of Americans and
other free people.
Unless Americans demonstrate anew their determination to oppose
aggression and their will to win and maintain their liberty, their freedom
and independence will not endure. But the American people cannot make a con-
vincing demonstration of their love of liberty and independence so-long as
Congress is dominated by defeatists, appeasers and know-nothings bent on
destroying U.S. security organizations.
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