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2 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA inexpensively by Moscow, despite all the threatening American mis- siles. Guinea, hans, Mali in yt] erypto-Communists in key positions, trained i 5 a cost of some thousands of dollars, against which American missiles costing millions of dollars are impotent. - -- ee pg BIT” In Cuba, at the very border of the huge American miseile complex, the Soviets have firmly established themselves by » pure, classic, head-on political penetration. ~~ . We eee E On the day the Government of Panama falls under control of some Popular-National-Progressive-anti-imperialist Front of Liberation, the United States could be manoeuvred into relinquishment of the Panama Canal out using a single missile from its billion dollar armament. ary real, and possibly nent development. The fron might consist of 500 students, 60 sergeants, 50 fessors, 40 ji | maliland, and Zanzibar are all becom- ists, 30 lawyers, and 20 longshoremen, gathered from the back rooms of a dozen cafes, and united around 10 Soviet agents, at s cost to Moscow of some half million dollars. - 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, comprebending, and fearing only the “hot” war while essentially neglecting the protection of 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 Commu- 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 ength has established the “balance of " the Soviets, unwilling to risk @ nuclear conflict, quickly shift the test to the civilian arena where they create a huge apparatus for en entirely different kind of war; political warfare. . It it essential to understand why the Communist threat cannot military, once the Western capacity for nuclear retaliation is estab; lished. ‘he reason usually cited, the “balance of terror,” whic threatens the U.S.S.R. with at least the devastation it inflicts, is o1 part of the story. The prospect of purely material damage is im ficient to deter the Communist heads, because there exists no balan and the Western leaders in the “horror of horror. masters would callously accent appalling | of lives if the: ry 0 the ruins. But this is precisely what they know will not They know that the one thing they really value, far more than ! lives of their subjects, would inevitably be engulfed in the rui their power. Studies by the Rand Corporation heve indicated s new charact of nuclear devastation; the simultaneous destruction over the 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 con ly di i S vars a tack enemy’s substance piecemeal, leaving always intact sufficient nants to assure the continuity of the old hierarchy and of the