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49. Stephen Cohen, New Statesman, Feb. 8, 1985; Amos Perlmutter, oped,
NYT, April 30, 1985.
50. Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 356-7; his emphasis.
51. Henry Kissinger, The White House Years (Little, Brown, 1979), 57, 65;
for discussion of this much praised and utterly fatuous document, see
TNCW, chapter 6.
52. Gaddis, Strategies, viiin, his emphasis.
53. Basil Davidson, Scenes from the Anti-Nazi War (Monthly Review press,
1980), 93, 152; Smuts cited on p. 17; Davidson was a participantobserver
in British intelligence in southern Europe.
54. Stephen Ambrose, Rise to Globalism (Penguin, 1971), 58.
55. Davidson, 233f. See Kolko, Politics of War, for discussion of Italy and
the general pattern in Europe and Asia. For a brief review of CIA activities
in Europe, see Halperin, Lawless State, 36f.
56. Wittner, American Intervention in Greece; Johnson cited on p. 303.
Christopher Hitchens, Cyprus (Quartet, 1984).
57. D. F. Fleming, The Cold War and its Origins (Doubleday, 1961), I, 5O1-
3; citing NYT, Nov. 19, 1949.
58. Linklater, et al., Fourth Reich, 135. See this study as well as John
Loftus, The Belarus Secret (Knopf, 1982), and a six-part series by Kai
Hermann, “A Killer’s Career,” Stern, from May 10, 1984, based on
interviews in Bolivia and US government documents. See also Alan Ryan,
Quiet Neighbors (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1984); documentation
from US intelligence provided in the Stern series indicates that a good
deal is covered up in the account by Ryan, who directed the US Justice
Department investigation of Nazi war criminals. For more on the entire
matter, see Peter Dale Scott, Covert Action Information Bulletin (Fall,
1985).
59. Loftus, Belarus Secret, 68ff., 77f.; Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept
the Secrets (Knopf, 1979); NSC 68; reprinted in Etzold and Gaddis,
Containment.
60. See Hermann, “Killer’s Career,” for interviews with intelligence operatives
and Bolivian officials on these matters.