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...taken considerable interest in Iran during the preceding years, as previously unpublished documents show. Alarmed by the continuing Soviet threat to Iran, Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the chief of the Agency, sent a secret memo to President Truman on June 27, 1950. Hillenkoetter warned Truman that although the USSR would not attack Iran directly it would intensify its efforts "to build up subversive forces within Iran and...weaken the country by means of propaganda, border activities and diplomatic pressure." For the moment, however, the CIA was not unduly alarmed because the newly appointed government of General Ali Raumara maintained firm...
...danger of the British worsening the situation by an "unyielding attitude." Yet the special estimate concluded confidently (and Truman marked this in the margin) that "We do not believe...the situation is such that there is imminent danger of the government's losing control, barring armed intervention of the USSR...
...What is the chief human rights issue in the USSR...
...talks are better than war. They deal with very essential things, but we must take care of arms control problems and other questions in these talks. I think the U.S. wants effective results in a short time and that is dangerous in some ways. The U.S. and the USSR must also discuss Chinese-American relations...
...USSR is trying to open up to the West. How long can the present system go on, before people realize the differences and everyone becomes a dissident...