Tag: USSR

• April 5, 2023

  NSC-124: US Objectives in Southeast Asia

  Hi! Here’s an interesting document from the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, East Asia and the Pacific, Volume XII, Part 1. NSC-124 – Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary, Top Secret, Washington, June 25, 1952 Statement of Policy by the National Security Council on United States Objectives and Courses…
• April 3, 2023

  NSC-48: US Post-War Policy in Asia

  Hi. Here’s another interesting document from the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East and AustraAsia, Volume VII, Part 2. NSC-48 – The Position of the United States With Respect to Asia A Report to the President by the National Security Council, Top Secret, NSC 48/2Washington, December 30, 1949. Conclusions: Our basic…
• March 3, 2023

  NSC 5412 – Covert Operations

  Here’s an interesting little document that we should all be familiar with. National Security Council Directive 5412: Covert Operations 1) The National Security Council, taking cognizance of the vicious covert activities of the USSR and Communist China and the governments, parties and groups dominated by them, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “International Communism”) to discredit and defeat…
• July 23, 2019

  Kennedy: “I’m Not That Interested in Space”

  In 1957, The USSR launched Sputnik to orbit the Earth. Two years later, in 1959, the USSR orbited the moon with Luna 3. By April of 1961, the USSR put the first man in space: Yuri Gagarin. The U.S. needed to respond. In spring 1961, President John F. Kennedy approved a mission to land a…
• December 17, 2018

  Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Towards Cuba

  Hi. I wanted to summarize an article from the Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 34, Part 2, May 2002: “Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Toward Cuba” by Louis A. Perez Jr. For more than forty years the United States has pursued a policy designed to remove Fidel Castro from…