REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN ON THE POSSIBILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF PEACE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200370012-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 5, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

from REPORT FROM IRON .MOUNTAIN ON THE
POSSIBILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF PEACE:
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- .'John Doe', as I will call him for reasons that will be made
clear, is a professor at a large university in the Middle West
. Early in August of 1963, he [responded to a call from
Washington] to serve on a commission 'of the highest im-
portance.' Its objective was to determine, accurately and
realistically, the nature of the problems that would confront
the United States if and when a condition of `permanent
peace' should arrive, and to draft a program for dealing with
this contingency ...
"It met [initially at Iron Mountain, New York] and worked
regularly for over two and a half years, after which it pro.
duced a Report. It was this document, and what to do about
it, that Doe wanted to talk to me about .
"The report, he said, had been suppressed - both by the
Special Study Group itself and by the government inter-
agency committee to which it had been submitted. After
months of agonizing, Doe had decided that he would no
loner be party to its being kept secret .. .
the unwillingness of Doe's associates to publicize
their findings [is] readily understandable ... they concluded'
[that] lasting peace, while not theoretically impossible, is
probably unattainable; even if it could be achieved it would
almost certainly not'be in the best interests of a stable so-
ciety to achieve it ..."-from the Foreword by Leonard C.
, Lewin.
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