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OCR Page 1 of 175/16/54 - Reel 7 - Track 1, Page 1
MR. ACHESON:
Well, now let's see if we have gotten to a point of some agreement
in this analysis. What we have been doing is primarily political and
economic. It is primarily to give the people in the area the desire and
capability to prevent these "huches" by which there would be a Communist
take-over. There are many difficulties in the way of making that pro-
gram successful because of the offect of the factors that we talked
about once. Also, I thought we had reached pretty much agreement that
if we were unsuccessful, and if there were these takewovers, then it
would not require massive forces on the part of the Russians to con-
quer this area, but it would be infinitely easier for them to establish
jumping-off points to which they could send the disintegration further
into Africa. Now then, we are agreed about that point. Then the ques-
tion is: Is there any kind of reinsurance that we could get within
practicable financial and military terms, which would make that con-
to us
sequence a failure here less disastrous, and do you look for it in
this area? My analysis would indicate that if the present policy is
not successful, it is possible for the Russians certainly to deny this
area to us. Deny it to us alright. Probably it is possible for
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them to use to to their advantage and our disadvantage. That raises the
question: Is there anything we could do to deny it to them, not as a
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(or porch?)
place which is run by a Communist force, that is already here, but as a
place that is useful to them from the point of view of any economic
forgexxer resources or any bases or military uses they could put it
to? If there is something of that sort, then we might have reached
a situation where they can keep us out of it, from the point of view of
offensive military use or economic resistence. We might be able to keep
them out of it for the same purposes. That, in turn, would have its own
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