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Kremlin, to divide the satellites from the Soviet Union, and to exploit
the anti-Bolshevik revolutionary potential within the Soviet Empire.
To this end, we should immediately mobilize the talents and energies
available in the free world in much the same manner as we did in
the Manhattan project.
   (2) In order to lay the basis for this program, the Kremlin should
be continuously identified as the threat to the liberties of all free
peoples, as the oppressor of the Russian people and of the peoples it
has subjugated, and as a tyrannous oligarchy which drives its satellites
to commit aggression against others. The United States should con-
tinuously champion the right of all peoples to chose their own form
of government and to be secure in their national independence. It
should express its political support and, in case of war, military
support, for all peoples who are now free and for all peoples who
seek liberation from their bondage, including the minority peoples
now a part of the Soviet Union.
  6. Continuing with the third item on the agenda, the President
might then call upon the following for their views as to steps which
should be taken:
  a. The Secretary of Defense;
  b. The Chairman of the National Security Resources Board;
  c. Mr. Harriman;
  d. The Secretary of the Treasury.

Policy Planning Staff Files
Memorandulm by the Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff
                            (Butler)'

TOP SECRET                       [WAsINGTONJ,] December 13, 1950.
                            NSC 68/3 2
                  (NSC MEETING, DEC. 14, 1950)
  The' President has approved the conclusions of NSC 68 as a state-
ment of policy to be followed over the next four or five years. The
present report is in response to the President's request for further
information regarding the implications of those conclusions and the
priograms envisaged by them.
  Some of the important considerations brought out in the present
report are:
  1. The aggressive action of the U.S.S.R. land its satellites and the
disparity in military power between them and the United States and

  This document was prepared as a briefing paper for the use of the Secretary
of State in connection with the 75th Meeting of the National Security Council,
December 14. It was placed in the Secretary of State's briefing book.
  'Ante, p. 425.


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