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This Central Intelligence Agency report, dated 1 June 1984 and marked unclassified for official use only, reviews how Soviet leaders and media treated President Reagan from November 1980 through May 1984. It finds that Moscow twice moderated its rhetoric to test prospects for better relations, and that attacks became the most abusive in two decades after the South Korean airliner shootdown. The report compiles authoritative Soviet statements and midlevel and routine media commentary as a baseline for analysts.
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Document 1 of 2 AGAL Concatenated Database admission by today's Washington Post, by Reagan personally. 401. Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Izvestiya political observer (Izvestiya, 11 Apr 84) 402. The actions of the U.S. Administration's leading trio--the President, the secretary of state, and the secretary of defense--are absolutely full of ultramilitarism, lightly powdered with an ostentatious "love of peace." 403. Reagan's speech at Georgetown University and Secretary of State Shultz's speech at a session of the so-called "Trilateral Commission" in Washington promise a repetition of what has already taken place and an expansion of what is now being done by terrorist methods elevated to the rank of state policy. . . . 404. Summing up briefly the essence of the recent speeches in this sphere by Reagan and Shultz, it boils down to this: The United States is now officially striving to cast aside everything that hinders its armed assertion of its "leading role in the world," that is, to free itself from the operative provisions of international law and the directive decisions of the United Nations. We do as we please--that is the "moral" that guides the present U.S. Administration. 405. Sergey Losev, director general of TASS (Ogonek magazine, 14 Apr 84) 406. The American Administration's destructive approach to the problem of restricting the arms race fits into the framework of Reagan's policy of a "crusade" against socialism and against the sovereignty and freedom of peoples. Terror, arbitrariness, and interference in the affairs of sovereign, independent states have been elevated to the level of state policy by the present U.S. Administration. Since the times of the Hitler Reich no government has so openly set the task of the forcible liquidation of lawful regimes in other sovereign states. Claims to international brigandage--that is the meaning of the American President's arguments that "peace based on force is by no means a slogan but a fact of life." 407. Viktor Olin, commentator (Moscow Radio World Service in English, 16 Apr 84) 408. The United States Administration persists in relying upon military strength, on achieving a military superiority, on imposing its system on other nations. The policies of the Washington Administration also cause serious concern because of their historical associations. Nazi Germany too adopted the strategy of a blitzkrieg and justified its attack on other countries by speaking of the need
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 56 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.