Word: procommunist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting up a coalition government including Communists, even if such a settlement left the Viet Cong in position to dominate South Viet Nam eventually. More broadly, 83% would like to see some solution that would neutralize Southeast Asia so that it is neither pro-American nor proCommunist...
...with cheerful confidence. In 1953, the CIA helped to depose Iran's leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, making way for the return of pro-Western Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi from exile in Rome. The next year, when the regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán seemed increasingly proCommunist, the CIA stage-managed a civil war that ended in Arbenz's overthrow. CIA agents dug a tunnel from West to East Berlin that succeeded in intercepting Communist communications until it was discovered...
...charge was most dramatically made by Mrs. John T. McCullough, then a resident of Greenwich, Conn., who objected to a local appearance by Adler and Dancer Paul Draper on the ground that their appearances at certain political rallies showed they were "proCommunist" in sympathy. Adler and Draper countered with a widely publicized libel suit that ended in a hung jury...
Similarly, Administration spokesmen reiterate our commitment to self-determination for South Viet Nam, but we remain unclear about our willingness to accept a coalition (or proCommunist) government should the people of South Viet Nam eventually choose such a government under responsible international supervision...
...People's Militia, which the Communists intended to use to contain the army-their only possible rival in any struggle for power. In addition, they were infiltrating the army. On the teeming island of Java, home of 65% of the population, the military was estimated to be 40% proCommunist...