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Article Four of the South Vietnamese constitution prohibits "every activity designed to publicize or carry out communism...
...Despite the undeniable economic achievements of the East Germans and the surface gaiety of life in Leipzig or Dresden, the impression is largely correct. There is a defensiveness that boils over into hostility at the slightest unfavorable reaction by a visitor, followed by a memorized promotion of Communism's virtues. "It is not a stable political system," says Peter Ludz, a professor at the University of Bielefeld and one of West Germany's leading experts on the G.D.R. "It simply is not supported by the masses...
...they have been used, thrown out, ignored, stepped on and left without any hope of justice. They do not want to be lumped together with men like Haldeman and Ehrlichman−those who knew exactly what they were doing. They are little people who thought they were helping fight Communism." As Barker explained to the Ervin committee, he was told that the Democrats had received contributions from the Castro regime and he participated in the break-in to find proof...
March of the Pots. Allende's second mistake was to assume that the middle and upper classes would placidly accept his "Chilean road to socialism" so long as all things were done constitutionally. They never did. "If we have to burn half of Chile to save it from Communism, then we will do it," threatened Roberto Thieme, leader of an extremist right-wing organization called Fatherland and Liberty. More moderate opponents were less outraged but equally adamant against Allende's plans to broaden state controls. Opposition parties, controlling both houses of Congress, fought him all the time...
...Freidin was often debriefed by CIA men and got leads from them in return. Occasionally, he says, he accepted CIA money−"so little that it was laughable." To Freidin, a staunch cold warrior like many of his colleagues there, the relationship was all part of the fight against Communism. He dealt with the CIA, he claims, "because it was the right thing. I never told them anything that I wouldn't print...