Dark Horses

‘One of the great frauds perpetrated on well-meaning Americans is the idea that when they meet ‘informally’ with Soviet members of delegations to religious conferences, peace meetings, cultural or people-to-people events they are meeting a genuine representative sample of the Russian people. From my experience on the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the House Committee on Internal Security, and for the past several years on the Intelligence Committee, I can stipulate for the record that there is no Soviet official allowed to visit the West who is not playing a role in the overall Soviet covert action apparatus.”

So writes the late Congressman John Ashbrook in his Foreword to a useful little book, The War Called Peace: The Soviet Peace Offensive (Western Goals, 309A Cameron Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314; $5), put together by the staff of Western Goals, a worthy organization that includes on its roster Roy Cohn, Representative Phil Crane, Dr. Mildred Jefferson, Roger Milliken, Dr. Edward Teller, and General Lewis Walt.

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Chilton Williamson Jr.

‘One of the great frauds perpetrated on well-meaning Americans is the idea that when they meet ‘informally’ with Soviet members of delegations to religious conferences, peace meetings, cultural or people-to-people events they are meeting a genuine representative sample of the Russian people. From my experience on the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the House Committee on Internal Security, and for the past several years on the Intelligence Committee, I can stipulate for the record that there is no Soviet official allowed to visit the West who is not playing a role in the overall Soviet covert action apparatus.”

So writes the late Congressman John Ashbrook in his Foreword to a useful little book, The War Called Peace: The Soviet Peace Offensive (Western Goals, 309A Cameron Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314; $5), put together by the staff of Western Goals, a worthy organization that includes on its roster Roy Cohn, Representative Phil Crane, Dr. Mildred Jefferson, Roger Milliken, Dr. Edward Teller, and General Lewis Walt.