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a 2 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA —-.. wc: inexpensively by Moscow, despite all the threatening American mis- siles. Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Somaliland, and Zanzibar are all becom- ing Soviet satellites by the strategems of a few thousand indigenous erypto-Communists in key positions, trained in Communist schools at a cost of some thousands of dollars, agaiast which minsiles costing millions of dollars are impotent. -— ---~--« ¢. | 4 fl7.”. In Guba, at. the very border of the huge American missile complex, the Soviets have firmly established themselves by »« pure, classic, head-on political penetration. ~~ ; . Wen ee ona On the day the Government of Panama falls under control of som Popular-N ational-Progressive-anti-imperialist Front of Liberation, the United States could be manoeuvred into relinquishment of the Panama Canal without using a single missile from its billion dollar armament. kL ts ‘ur 1 a , ™ pak This is a very real, and Posy imminent development. The front might consist of 500 students, 60 sergeants, 50 0 professors 40 j ists, 30 lawyers, and 20 longshoremen, gathered from the back rooms of a dozen cafes, and united around 10 Soviet agents, at a cost to Moscow of some half million dollars. oe This would be the beginning of the end. The free world will perish like a languid colossus, gorged with unused atomic super- weapons, from the bites of myriads of political fleas trained by Moscow. It will die of a psychosis which might be termed the ‘“‘Mars complex,” which consists of visualizing, comprehending, and fearing only the “hot” war while essentially neglecting the protection of the decisive front; the subversive war waged by Moscow and Peiping. So war preparation is made only on the field where it will not occur. Build- ing up the retailiatory capability of the West in opposition to Commt nist armament is, of course, also of vital importance, as otherwise the enemy would promptly subdue the world by the threat of annihilation. However, once our strength has established the “balance of terror,” the Soviets, unwilling to risk a nuclear conflict, quickly shift the cop- test to the civilian arena where they create # huge apparatus for en entirely different kind of war; political warfare. ot It it essential to understand why the Communist threat cannot military, once the Western capacity for nuclear retaliation is estab- lished. The reason usually cited, the “balance of terror,” whic threatens the U.S.S.R. with at least the devastation it inflicts, is o part of the story. The prospect of purely material damage is ins ficient to deter the Communist heads, because there exists no balan between them and the Western leaders in the “horror of horror. ™.h I i The Communist slave masters would callously accept appelling ! “Pr ‘5 of lives if they were thereby better enabled to raise the Red flag o the ruins. But this is precisely what they know will not ocr They know that the one thing they really value, far more than | lives of their subjects, would inevitably be engulfed in the their power. ; Studies by the Rand Corporation heave indicated s new character of nuclear devastation; the simultaneous destruction over the wh territory, of the whole network of human and technical comm tion links which maintains the control over society. These are elements of resistance which classical wars have never succeeded completely disrupting all at once. Such wars could only attack enemy’s substance piecemeal, leaving always intact sufficient nants to assure the continuity of the old hierarchy and of the he ” a ; ° - 7