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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: Foreign radios have generally steered clear of comment about the\nHouse hearings on the controversy among the American armed services. Brief news\nreports have been issued by London and Paris. Commentaries have been limited to\ntwo from Moscow, and one each from Budapest and Havana. Neither of Moscow's\ncommentaries capitalizes on the armed services dispute as such. Both make refer-\nence to the atomic explosion in the USSR. One of them, beamed exclusively to each\nof the Satellites and Yugoslavia, exploits Admiral Radford's \"angry speech\" as if\nit were a single event indicating that the \"U.S. aggressors are losing their\nillusions\" because of Soviet possession of the atom bomb. The other, broadcast in\nGerman and Russian Hellschreiber, discusses General Bradley's testimony as if it\nwere a major policy speech winding up the first session of the 81st Congress;\nViktorov, the commentator, lashes out at Bradley's \"outspoken program of bandit\naggression.. against the USSR and the Peoples Democracies\" and attributes his\nalleged \"hysteria\" to the atomic explosion in the USSR. The Budapest radio also\ncites the Soviet atomic explosion as the reason for a revision of the alleged\nAmerican conception of a \"push-button\" war. The Havana radio traces the history of\nthe armed services dispute and wonders whether the apparently imprudent revelation\nof U.S. military secrets may not be part of a clever attempt to distract attention\nfrom America's real military plans and strength.\n\"ADMIRAL RADFORD'S LOST ILLUSIONS\": This is the title of the first Moscow\ncommentary, taken from the Soviet trade union organ TRUD and beamed in East-European\nlanguages on 21-22 October. Asserting that Radford is as much of a \"warmonger\" as\nthe colleagues he criticized, Moscow says that in contrast to them he realizes \"his\narms\nare\ntoo short for transporting planes into such territories from which\nattacks on the Soviet Union are possible. Radford's \"derision\" of the \"idea of\nan atomic blitzkrieg\" with the help of the B-36--an idea that Moscow itself has\nderided in the past--is attributed to the Soviet atomic explosion and his resultant\nskepticism about the \"courageous plans of the U.S. militarists. Radford melancholi-\ncally declares that the theory of an atomic blitzkrieg is an unfounded illusion of\nthe contemporary U.S. strategists.\nIt must be realized, proclaims the dis-\nillusioned admiral, that there is no cheap and easy method of winning the war.\"\nBRADLEY'S \"PROGRAM OF AGGRESSIVE WAR\" AGAINST THE USSR AND SATELLITES: The\nsecond Moscow commentary, a PRAVDA \"International Review\" by Viktorov, is broadcast\non 23 October. Treating Bradley's testimony as the culmination of the Congression-\nal session whose \"inglorious results vividly reflect the reactionary, aggressive\ncourse of U.S. policy,\" Viktorov charges that Bradley, \"the main strategist of the\nNorth Atlantic bloc,\" demanded \"a still fiercer armaments race, still more active\nRESTRICTED"
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