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CIA and the Penkovsky Affair: “A New Disservice for All Concerned”
Paul W. Blackstock
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06 September 2018, pp. 11-15
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In an enlightened foreword to the October 1963 issue of Holiday Magazine, an issue devoted entirely to Russia, the editors observed that “there is a constant pressure here by a loud and rabid minority, including many in high places, who want no words said or written about Russia unless they are loaded with hate and provocation.”
The editors could hardly have foreseen that some two years later, under C.I.A. auspices, the American public would be exposed to the so-called Penkovsky Papers (Doubleday, 411 pp., $5.95), a book which is literally “loaded with hate and provocation” and which unfortunately became a best-seller overnight. The book's appearance at a time when U.S.-Soviet relations were already strained over the muddled situation in Vietnam may be purely accidental or it may be simply another case of “the right hand of government not knowing what the left is doing” as was amply illustrated in The Invisible Government.

Wars of National Liberation: The Methodology of Christian Ethics II
Theodore R. Weber
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06 September 2018, pp. 15-19
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The primary ethical problem for United States policy in regard to “wars of national liberation” is that of intervention, not war. To be sure, the morality of war must be faced together with the morality of intervention. But the basic question for the intervention is not whether morally it may use force and take human life, but whether morally it may exercise power where it has no authority. By what right does the United States seek to influence the relationships, structures, and focus of authority of another political entity—or evert of a nonentity in process of becoming an entity?
Justifiable intervention is an admissible—although limited—concept except to those persons who reject every unilateral use of national power, and to those who take an absolutistic stand in favor of the principle of non-intervention (and that stand also requires an ethical defense).

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