THURMOND AND THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700530005-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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oes on to show that man Rostow that wars of national
Thurmond
g
the CIA is the "covert arm of the liberation are old-fashioned, while
State Department, with its Washing- the Central Committee gets on with
ton headquarters under day-by-day' its main work of instigating and sup-
guidance from State Department ex-; porting such wars afresh in South- :
perts, and its field agents under ab east Asia, South America, the Mid
solute control of our ambassadors. die East,, l Africa." Fprthermore, as the recent revela-
h h the CIA has o er-
wn
Thurmond and the CIA' ^ Cleveland, March 10 - Senator
Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.), in an
address before the Young Americans
for Freedom, unmasks the United
States policy of "mutual accommoda-
tion" as "a policy directed not only
towards the rest of the world, but to-
wards U.S. domestic affairs as well.
The development of a world socialist
order, in which the U.S. would sim-
ply be another socialist cog, is the
goal of 'mutual accommodation."'.
Thurmond exposes
an American
"cultural revolution."
Such a transfo.rn}atio'n of the
United States is ibein'g' adomplished
by a "cultural revolution" conducted
which, says Thurmond, "has sup- c4~gl~'Ssa3L`C'1
by the ruling elite operating through
the Central Intelligence Agency, ?tows, the Soviet!4nd.tAmerican so-
ported socialist activities at home, and "'
rewarded socialist scholars with fat
grants for studies that undermine
American culture. It encourages stu-
dents to be anti-American and sup-
ports mass demonstrations that take
the place of lawful representative gov-
ernment. . . . Now there are those',
who say that the CIA is anti-Com- ;
munist, and that we are hurting our,
own cause when we expose and crit-
icize the CIA's anti-Communist ac-
tivities. The writ of our national anti-!
Communist policy goes only as far as
containment and stalemate. The CIA
has admittedly been under the direct
control of those who wrote and di-
rected that policy. The CIA is not an
instrument that has functioned with i
the goal of victory over Communism.
It has been an instrument of the Cold
War, used to oppose Communist ex-
pansion, but never for the expansion
of American principles. Instead, the
meat of socialism, both at home and weapons and supplies and men into,
abroad." _ North Vietnam" and why the "Soviet
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Mons ave s o
ated hand-in-glove with the most
prestigious parts of the establishment
-the law firms, the foundations, the
respectable public officials who have
returned to business and financial in-
terests, and, of course, the professors.
It is my personal belief that the CIA's
involvement in the financial and cul-
tural establishment. has barely been
scratched." In short, adds Thurmond,
"What the CIA was doing was
building socialism behind the backs
of the American people."
In examining our policy of "mu-'
tual accommodation," Thurmond
notes, "It is no coincidence that two
j of the most ardent advocates of con-
tainment, Cold War, and 'mutual ac-
commodation' have been the two
j; most notorious paid propagandists of
the CIA, George Kennan and Walt ?'i
Whitman Rostow.... If we are, to
Rostow Is
on the
CIA payroll.
Fir~atlyyr Thurmond points out that.
the Soviet government "is merely a
Communist front." For "the real
power" lies in the Central Commit-
tee of the Communist Party of the
U.S.S.R. whose policy is world dom-
ination through "the blind alleys of
'mutual accommodation."' The "real
bosses," therefore,' are the. "91d com-
munists such as Mikhail A. 5uslov,
Boris Ponomarev, and Yuri Andro-
pov," and not Kosygin. and Brezhnev.
Once this is realized, Thurmond
remarks, it is easy to understand {
"why the Central Committee orders
the Soviet government officials to ne-
gotiate for peaceful trade and co-
existence, even while the Central
CIA has been used for the develop- Con.-imittee's real policy is to pour