ex-CIA agent: How the Soviet Menace Was Hyped

[emazur]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23522.htm


The Pentagon study demonstrates that the Soviet military high command “understood the devastating consequences of nuclear war” and believed that the use of nuclear weapons had to be avoided at “all costs.”

Nevertheless, in 1975, presidential chief of staff Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld introduced a group of neoconservatives, led by Harvard professor Richard Pipes, to the CIA in order to make sure that future NIEs would falsely conclude that the Soviet Union rejected nuclear parity, were bent on fighting and winning a nuclear war, and were radically increasing their military spending.

[Bodhi]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23522.htm

Remind you of anything? i.e. the war on terror. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[InterestedParticipant]

First, there is not such thing as an ex CIA operative. You are in the company or your are terminated.

Second, this story is more propaganda to cover that there never was a cold war, that the entire paradigm was manufactured to force both countries to build up their military industrial complex, and to keep the public scared and to keep taxes revenues flowing.

[apropos]

The Pentagon study demonstrates that the Soviet military high command “understood the devastating consequences of nuclear war” and believed that the use of nuclear weapons had to be avoided at “all costs.”

Wasn't this the entire point of mutually assured destruction? That wouldn't exactly be a revelation.

As for an exaggerated Soviet threat, when the leader of said country goes before the world and says "We will bury you", I am inclined to take him at his word. When I read the Gulag Archipelago, I am further inclined to believe that yes, Russia was a threat to freedom worldwide.

The dangerous and continued potency of socialist/collectivist thought should make this self-apparent.