U.S. URGED TO UNDO COMMUNIST ADVANCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B01152R000100100021-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 18, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MONDAY, JULY 18, 1983
U.S. urged to undo
communist advances
By Ed Rogers
WASHINGTON TIMES STAFF
A former head of covert action for the
CIA believes the free world must "roll
back" communist gains - not just con-
tain them - and considers Angola in
southern Africa an ideal starting point.
Max C. Hugel, who resigned under
fire in 1981 because, as he says, fighting
media charges of earlier stock manip-
ulation appeared a "no win" deal even
though the charges were false, recom-
mends covert action in Angola.
To do this, Hugel said in a wide-
ranging interview with Washington
Times editors and reporters, the United
States needs to show Congress, the peo-
ple and the world the significance of
Soviet gains and the Soviets' true inten-
tions.
Behind the local strategy, he said,
whether in El Salvador or in Angola, is
"world Marxist domination."
Hugel said regaining an area the
Soviets are encroaching upon would be
a far better goal than merely containing
them where they are.
"You can't just stop them," Hugel
insisted. "You have to roll them back to
let them know they just can't continue
on that basis.
"The only way that I could see rolling
it back is to have covert action as part of
our foreign policy, accepted by the pres-
ident, accepted by the Congress and the
American people," Hugel added.
Is there any hope of gaining such a
policy?
"If you can't get a foreign policy ini-
tiative under this administration, I don't
think you can," Hugel replied.
Hugel believes "the most logical"
place to roll back communist forces is in
Angola.
"If you roll them back there, you will
start a rollback in other areas of the
world," he said.
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