HOAX OR ANALYSIS? PEACE DISASTER THESIS STARTLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200370006-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 6, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Hoax or Analysis?
Disaster
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Thesis Startles
The New York Times News service the' manuscript on to him last
NEW YORK - The book, is winter.
described as "a harmless sub- "Doe" is described as one
terfuge," "a hair-raising an- of the 15 members of a special
alysis," "the sinister work of government study group held .
at "Iron Mountain, N.Y."
a sick mind" and "a serious from -1963 to 1966 to produce
fra the report."
It is "Report From Iron MANY OF Lewin's articles
',.;Mountain: On the Possibility have been political satires.
published by the Dial cress
and described as a suppressed
government. report arguing
that the world would face a
1 'catastrophe if peace broke
out.
HIE BOOK states that war
and war preparations are in-
dispensable to world stability.
its unidentified authors con-;
elude that "lasting peace,
while not theoretically impos-
sible, is, probably unattain-
able; even if it c o u l d be
achieved, it would almost cer-
tainly not be in the best in-
terests of -a stable society to
1'~achieve it."
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i.? thentic. Harold Hayes, man- by war is allowed to disappear ;has written several" political ' sive energies.must be focused .:,
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i"n editor of Esnuire maga- ? without massive advance plan --47?-? on outsiders.
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-'LIUC, W m. y.... "a - _ 85005,.. a New York puu-
December is- form of slavery," ni vent enea ' lishing .monthly, said `in its . ing saucer "incidents" may ,
t? he obookrd in i condensation
have been ., government at-
the author
October issue that
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I sue, ? says he accepts Dial's mies from outer space or de
assurances on authenticity. liberately poison the atmo- would identify himself within tempts to test public responses
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But publishers, reviewers sphere n a politically ae-
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have seen advance copies gen- true account of
erally consider the book a stitute for Policy Studies in sentially think-tank a true study .has tween 1963 and 1966. These
' dates fit the time. span of a
Washington said that if the what a
hoax, concluded.
report is' authentic it' would , study by the Washington Cen-
"? "TO OUR knowledge n o probably have come from the ACCORDING TO the book, ".ter of Foreign Policy Research
such special study group ever ureau of the Budget of the the ' creation of ? inaginary ' for the' Arms Control and Dis-
existed," said a spokesman for Central Intelligence Agency. enemies in a time of peace is F armament Agency. This
the State, Department's. Arms study,
dde
at ne pr" important because govern i published July 10, 1966, said
ircu
C o n t r o l and Disarmament vately circulated reports rts was
Agency. "But it''s cleverly mentioned in the book. .. ment must spend 1 a r g e , president Johnson's disarma-
amounts of money outside the 'ment plan could destabilize
done, and whoever did it ob-
viously has an appreciable "AS FAR AS I know, only normal workings, of supply 1'< the world instead of promot-
grasp of, the disciplines in about 60 people in Washington and demand.. and that aggress f, mg peace.'
volvcd." ' ever saw my report. If it's a "- ' Both ' the center , and the
The book carries an intro-' hoax, it must involve some- agency denied this report was
duction by Leonard C. Lewin, body high up," he said: 11 1 1 t the basis. for Iron Moun-
a New' York City freelance. The Harvard economist, `, tarn." -
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writer, who states that "John Prof. John Kenneth Ga
Doe," a professor of social ii widely suspected of being .
science from a large Midwest-., the' book's author. Under the
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might more profitably direct
that question' to Washington
and people in the administra-
tion." '
"Iron Mountain," described
in the book as being near the
town of Hudson, N.Y., is ap-
parently a :reference to the
Hudson Institute,.'the "think-
tank" where war games and
other projects for the future
are developed under the di-
rection of Herman Kahn.
"WE HAD nothing to do
with it," said Kahn. "It sounds
nutty to me-either a practical:
.
joke or something sinister."