The CIA on Vietnam
efr...@cc.memphis.edu
> The Soviet Fall
>
> In view of current efforts by the CIA to resurrect its claim that
CIA = Cover Its Ass. (What was it Buckley used to say--
"the operation had all the earmarks of a CIA job: it
was expensive, bloody, and unsuccessful.")
> its intelligence was accurate re the fall of the USSR please note:
One should also note Henry Kissinger's fabrication
recently, to the effect that Detente was based on
the underlying premise that the USSR was on the way
out (when of course that policy was based on the
opposite assumption--that the USSR was here to stay,
and likely to grow -more- powerful). Also instructive
is Strobe Talbot's book on Rejkavik, which posits the
grandchildren of Gorbachev negotiating on behalf of
the USSR with the grandchildren of Reagan. (To think
that these are the turkeys who will go down in the
history books . . .)
FWIW, I was predicting (as a private citizen) in 1984
that there would be no USSR in the year 2000. Some of
my more pro-Soviet leftist friends still haven't
forgiven me for being right.
Ed Frank