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p Just before delivering an address which was to be broadcast on the radio in California on August 11,1984, President Reagan, during a studio test recording said something that shocked peaceloving mankind and exposed the White House’s policy of military preparations and the grave danger it presents. He said:

p “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”^^1^^

p This testifies to the unprecedented aggressiveness of the ruling circles in the United States, of their overweening ambition, of their inability to make a sober assessment of the realities in the nuclear age, in which there is no alternative to peaceful coexistence and the maintenance of peaceful relations between states.

p Peaceloving men and women throughout the world have every reason to fear for the future of the world. To understand the real meaning of the blood-chilling “jokes” made by the US President, one need only look at the little-known plans of the United States—Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP)— and NATO (Northag Defence Plan), which were drawn up in the 1960s and 1970s, for the unleashing of a third world war.

p SIOP, a plan for a nuclear attack on the USSR and the other countries of Eastern Europe, was worked out by the Pentagon in December 1960, when the US nuclear arsenal 107 was increased to 18,000 warheads, and the list of targets for nuclear attacks grew from 3,000 to 20,000.

p The plan is called “single” because it is the only emergency project that takes into consideration the nuclear arsenals of the three armed services of the United States. It is “integrated” because it embraces all other emergency plans for a nuclear attack, plans made by regional US commands in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and in Europe, and also because it involves the nuclear forces belonging to Britain. SIOP is the central and most secret component of the nuclear “ intimidation” plan of the West.

p Over the last 20 years SIOP has undergone several modifications and the latest military plan of the 1980s that we know of—SIOP-5D—envisages 40,000 strikes at targets not only in the Warsaw Treaty countries, but also in countries allied to Washington as well as in neutral countries: the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Finland, Italy, Austria, Sweden and Norway. The US President can choose from four types of attack: total, selective, limited and regional nuclear attack. The plan makes no mention about sparing the cities and civilian populations or about hitting only military “enemy” targets. The Pentagon has no scruples whatsoever. In its present form SIOP-5D leaves the US President only one possibility—an allout attack, i.e., the simultaneous launching of more than a thousand missiles targeted on the Warsaw Treaty countries.

p NATO has made a detailed Northag (Northern Army Group) Defence Plan, which provides for a first nuclear strike in the event of "any type" of armed conflict in Europe. The documents entitled "Summary of the Northag Defence Plan 79 (69)" and "Northag (CTS) 145 N/68" lay down the basic principles of the US strategy both for “limited” and “major” wars which can allegedly be won. Their content shows beyond any doubt that NATO, far from being a defence organization, is a military-political bloc designed for the preparation and conduct of nuclear war, and an offensive war at that.

p The Northag Defence Plan says:

p “It is clear that one cannot hope to withstand a major enemy attack for any length of time without recourse to nuclear weapons and the most important assumption has always been that SACEUR would authorize the release of nuclear weapons shortly after the enemy has crossed the Demarcation Line in strength.”^^2^^

p As we can see, there is not even a hint here that the Western allies would undertake political consultations or seek 108 approval of their actions from Congress, from Parliament, or from the Bundestag before sanctioning “R-Hour” (the moment at which missiles with nuclear warheads would be launched). It is quite obvious that it would be up to the NATO generals to decide on the feasibility of launching a nuclear strike. What is more, such a decision will be made by a US Army general I

p It appears that the NATO leaders have resigned themselves in advance to the thought of future victims, having invented a treacherous and self-justifying term "vulnerable zones", meaning sectors of territory which may be captured by the enemy. These include raw-material sources, industrial centres, dikes, lines of communication, aerodromes, warhead and chemical weapon depots, and port installations. These all are targets in Europe subject to be destroyed by nuclear strikes, the strikes to be sanctioned and launched by the North Atlantic Command. According to the document "Northag (CTS) 145 N/68," such major cities as Hamburg, Bremen, Hannover and Gottingen, and dozens of smaller ones such as Braunschweig, Salzgitter and Bremerhaven will be subject to a Western nuclear bombing on the very first day of a military conflict in Europe. The inhabitants of these cities are unlucky: they live in "vulnerable zones" and must therefore be wiped out under the Northag Defence Plan. Such a project could have been thought up by the sick minds of suicidal maniacs.

p The NATO documents do not contain the names of those responsible for the Northag Defence Plan. They are in all probability colleagues of the authors of suicide plans who had drawn up the Single Integrated Operational Plan and whose names can be found in the booklet US Secret Plans to Exterminate Europe, which was published in Cyprus in 1983. The public in Western Europe must know the warmongers who have prepared a horrible future for them—to vanish in a nuclear holocaust. Here they are, the sinister gravediggers of Western Europe:

p —B. E. Spivy, Major General, US Army Director, J-3 Division;

p —J. P. McConnell, General, US Air Force, Deputy Commander in Chief;

p —Charles B. Boswell, Colonel, US Army;

p —Royal R. Taylor, Colonel, US Army, Director, J-3 Division;

p —Robert R. Dickey III, Major, US Marine Corps, Director, J-2 Division;

p —Michaelis, Lt.-Gen.;

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p —Freeman, General;

p —Doleman, DCSOPS;

p —Bernard C. Hughes, Colonel, US Army, Chief, Plans Division;

p —O.W.Williams (PR);

p —L. F. Ayers.

p We may also include here the names of those who are collaborating in preparing the suicide of Western Europe: Alois Mertes (Christian Democratic Union—CDU); Jiirgen Mollemann (Free Democratic Party—FDP); Peter H. Boenisch, former editor of Springer’s Bild Zeitung; and Axel Springer, the "king of the West German press" himself, who has long been associated with the military-industrial complex of the Federal Republic of Germany.

p We repeat, the public in the West must know the names of the fanatics who are dreaming of revising, with the help of nuclear and conventional weapons, the existing borders in Europe and of establishing on the continent their long-desired "new order". History knows of many such attempts, and we know how they ended. It is dreadful to imagine that this catastrophe is being prepared by the West Europeans themselves with the support and under the supervision of their overseas partner.

p What role has been assigned to the radio centres of the West in the militarist plans of Washington and NATO? What will the Voice of America, the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Free Europe or Radio Liberty and their branches broadcast in the event of the implementation of SIOP-5D or of the Northag Defence Plan, or, as the US Army generals put it, on the eve and during the "outbreak of hostilities in Europe"? Western journalists will find it easier to get an answer to this question at the headquarters of NATO’s information-propaganda service in Evere (Belgium), where there are accredited representatives of all the radio stations of the North Atlantic Alliance countries, broadcasting to Eastern Europe, including Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. (Washington more than once persuaded its European partners to regard the Munich radio centres and their branches as NATO’s ideological mouthpiece operating in permanent contact with its respective bodies and entirely in the interests of the Alliance. The reason lies not only in the nature of the broadcasting, but also in Radio Free Europe’s illegal channels through which it obtains political and military information, which supplement the intelligence potential of the Allies.)

p It is a permanent function of the headquarters of NATO’s 110 information-propaganda service in Evere to brief and instruct radio journalists and to distribute prepared material for broadcasting to Eastern Europe. While day-to-day work continues, the plans for using the radio centres and other propaganda machines in the event of an emergency lie in the safes of the NATO strategists under top secret seals. Let us try to shed some light on this aspect of the matter.

p The document "Northag (CTS) 145 N/68" regards the radio centres as a system for warning the people in the West in case of war danger, and as an instrument for the psychological indoctrination of the population on enemy territory.

p On the other hand, the Northag Defence Plan provides for the transmission by certain radio centres of such programmes as would make it possible to blame the enemy for provoking a first strike and for the entire conflict; that is to say, it stipulates extensive "psychological warfare". By order of the Pentagon or NATO’s military command, in an emergency the Western radio centres must send special "shock transmissions" to the enemy audience. These are programmes designed to bring about the sharp aggravation of social contradictions in the socialist countries, to create panic, to intensify discontent among the population with government institutions, and openly to compromise political and public figures in East European states. In such an event all the transmitters of, say. Radio Free Europe in Munich and Spain will be switched on at full power; if this is inadequate, the Voice of America and even Pentagon transmitters will be linked up with those in Munich in order to launch a propaganda barrage, a kind of "artillery preparation" before the commencement of military operations, an all-out psychological war.

p “Psychological war", as we have already mentioned, is an invention of the West. To conduct such a war the US ruling clique has created a gigantic propaganda machine and centralized propaganda for dissemination abroad. Apart from government institutions, this “war” involves the US secret services and the Pentagon. According to the Western press, the CIA exerts influence on more than 800 various media, and the Pentagon on up to 300 radio and television stations all over the world.

p In the NATO countries special roles in the conduct of psychological war are assigned to the secret services and intelligence-gathering agencies, which are always directly involved in the preparation and unleashing of local wars of aggression; they interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states (Chile, Grenada, Nicaragua), and carry out 111 psychological operations of a strategic and tactical nature. Such operations are considered by the NATO leadership to be an important means of influencing the morale of the enemy armed forces and population "for the purpose of demoralization and promoting the fulfilment of the tasks set by the military command”.

p As an illustration we can cite an extract from the USA’s Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) (Annex L to Operations Plan NR 10-1):

p “c. Definitions

p “(1) Psychological Operations: includes psychological warfare and, in addition, encompasses those political, military, economic and ideological actions planned and conducted to create in neutral or friendly foreign groups the emotions, attitudes, or behaviour favourable to the achievement of national objectives.

p “(2) Psychological Warfare: the planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions having the primary purpose of influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behaviour of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of national objectives....

p “a. Concept of Operations

p “Unconventional warfare operations will be initiated in time of war when there are some areas in the Soviet Bloc in which a segment of the indigenous population is susceptible to development of a resistance movement by US military personnel or personnel responsive to US control. The creation of this favourable atmosphere will depend to a great extent upon the degree of success achieved by psychological operations planned, coordinated and conducted by USCINCEUR (US Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in Europe). Those aspects of psychoJogical operations which support UW  [111•*  are designed to: ’

p “(a) Convince the people of Soviet Bloc nations of the inevitability of US and Allied military victory....

p “(b) Condition the people of Soviet Bloc nations to believe that to accept and to support US Special Forces personnel is action in furtherance of their own idealistic and nationalistic aspirations.

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p “(c) Prompt the people of Soviet Bloc nations to take active measures in opposition to control by Soviet and Soviet Bloc dominated governments. Such opposition should be channeled into forms of guerrilla warfare, subversion, formation of dissident groups, etc.”

p A study of NATO’s plans of operations provides the key to understanding the touching concern which the West has for dissidents, enables us to see why the United States and its Allies need them so much, and explains the feverish activities of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which under the pretext of studying their listeners are searching for potential collaborators and for tomorrow’s dissidents.

p NATO needs dissidents as cannon fodder. We quote:

p “(4) The Commander of the Central Intelligence Agency Force, Europe, and Commander of the Support Operations Task Force, Europe, will develop contact with and support dissident elements in the Soviet Bloc areas and secure their assistance in acts of sabotage and insurgency in order to degrade enemy military capabilities to oppose allied penetrations.

p “(5) ...Satellite populations, if properly prepared, may be favourably disposed toward liberation so that they will, upon the appearance of authentic US and allied military support, rise against the Bloc and assist in the defeat of enemy forces...”

p NATO needs the dissidents as “administrators” in the Eastern territories that the West will presumably occupy. According to this plan, it will be the duty of the Commanderin-Chief of the US Army in Europe to "establish contact with persons identified as sympathetic to the West and known to have governmental and leadership potential for use in reconstituting administrations friendly and cooperative with the Free World”.

p NATO needs dissidents as ordinary spies. We quote from "Annex A to Operations Plan N R 10-1":

p “b. The fundamental strategy of UW operations conducted by COMSOTFE is to support SACEUR/USCINCEUR military operations by exploiting the resistance potential in areas dominated, or likely to be overrun, by enemy forces. The UW objectives are to:

p “(5) Obtain intelligence information.

p “(6) Assist United States sponsored indigenous leaders in establishing control over Soviet Bloc social and political structures. ...”

p “d. Activities conducted by indigenous UW elements will 113 be characterized initially by their clandestine nature... Included in these activities are the following: sabotage, covert propaganda; infiltration into enemy installations; planned civil disobedience or non-cooperation; and formation of groups as action nuclei for future guerrilla organizations.

p “e. As the situation permits, following the outbreak of hostilities, SFOD’s  [113•*  and/or other appropriate UW units, assisted by assets furnished by CIA, will be infiltrated into selected UW operational areas to generate, organize and equip resistance groups and to influence and guide their operations.”

p Now one can see why most of the broadcasts transmitted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Deutsche Welle, the Voice of America and the BBC are addressed to dissidents. It also becomes clear why the United States and its allies are investing such huge sums in the Alliance of Russian Solidarists and other anti-Soviet organizations, and in numerous emigre publications. It is merely for the purpose of keeping the dissidents in the Eastern countries “afloat”, to cultivate new dissidents as "cannon fodder" who can stab somebody in the back in the interests of the Allied Forces. The Americans have always preferred that someone else should pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them.

p To be convinced of this, it is enough to familiarize ourselves with Paragraph 1 of "Appendix 1 to Annex C to COMSOTFE OPLAN NR 10-1. Essential Elements of Information". What are the,CIA and the military intelligence services of the United States, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, or Federal Intelligence Service), and MI6 interested in? For what reason are the spies from the US secret services racking their brains in the offices of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Voice of America, the International Literary Association, at US embassies in Eastern Europe, and in international organizations? We quote:

p “a. When, where and under what circumstances, including outside sponsorship, are general resistance movements or revolutionary outbreaks likely to occur? How many people may become involved in active resistance? What are their capabilities? What are their probable political orientation and objectives?

p “b. What are the strengths, weaknesses, dispositions, and capabilities of security and/or military forces capable of attempting suppression of resistance movements or 114 revolutionary outbreaks in areas selected under (1) above? What is the likelihood that these forces, or any segments thereof, might defect or conduct themselves ineffectually in a suppression role? Where will these forces exercise greater or less interference with UW operations?

p “c. What is the probable reaction of the population of the nation concerned under the various possible circumstances of a resistance movement or revolutionary outbreak? Is external sponsorship likely to effect their reaction?

p “d. What will be the Soviet reaction and course of action in the event of resistance movement or revolutionary outbreak? Satellite reactions?

p “e. Are there any organized clandestine resistance groups? If so, what and where are they? What is their orientation, affiliations, reliability and potential? Who are the recognized leaders and how can contact be established with them?

p “f. What groups by profession or other category are most likely to resist or revolt? What groups are most responsive to Western psychological operations?

p “g. What opportunities exist for access by resistance groups to arms, munitions, and other military stores?

p “h. What specific items of logistical support would most effectively aid a resistance movement or revolutionary outbreak?...

p “j. What areas constitute suitable places of refuge for E & E operations?...”

p And so for the CIA employees at the Western radio centres, the most important task in the plans for a third world war is to support emigre organizations at home and anti-socialist centres in the countries of Eastern Europe, to maintain secret and regular contacts with leading dissidents so that their activities are in full conformity with CIA directives and the Single Integrated Operational Plan, and to make an extensive search for, and selection of, unofficial informers among renegades.

p What measures are envisaged in NATO’s plans as regards Western radio centres and their employees? In the mobilization documents of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty there is a provision to the effect that if broadcasting facilities are inadequate in Munich the spare radio centre in the United States operating under Pentagon control is to be employed. The evacuation of American citizens working at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is also provided for in an emergency. How far is such an evacuation possible in a crisis situation, in which European territory is being subjected to suicidal bomb attacks by the Atlantic allies? And what will happen to those 115 radio centre employees who are not US citizens? The mobilization plan drawn up by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the duty instructions of the security chief at the Munich radio complex provide the answers to these questions.

p According to his duty instructions, Richard H. Cummings, Director of the Security Services Department at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, is obliged, for example, to preserve materials marked "Special Instructions" (results of the study of suspicious employees, summaries of observations and technical control of personnel, lists of employees at national editorial offices who ought to be interned at once in the event of an armed conflict breaking out in Western Europe).

p If the emigres at the national editorial offices have no wish to be interned, the mobilization plan provides for the use of psychotropic weapons against those who resist and try to escape so as to avoid collective death in a "vulnerable area". At NATO headquarters this toxic agent is marked "EA-3167", which means nothing to the uninitiated. This weapon of psychochemical warfare was developed, tested and stored at the Aberdeen testing range in Maryland, USA. Observers have described the effect of the preparation on the human body. It is a colourless, smokeless substance. At first the victims who have breathed it in will not notice anything peculiar. They will feel somewhat strange though: a slight noise in the ears, perspiration, a little shivering. After a while everything around becomes grotesque. They do not merely look at the objects around them, they swim in them. They feel drawn to an open window; Similar victims are in the streets: carelessly dressed people, some naked, wander aimlessly, muttering something. Cars run onto the pavements, knocking over pedestrians. Dozens of people, including policemen, sit in the middle of the street, roaring helplessly with laughter. Others in an ecstasy perform St. Vitus’ dance. Everybody outside is caught in a cacophony of mass insanity...

p Such is the effect of "EA-3167", one of the psychochemical weapons which has been added to the arsenal of the Pentagon and NATO in the event of a nuclear conflict. The Reagan Administration has allocated 10 million dollars from planned expenditure for the programme to produce chemical weapons, within the framework of which new toxic agents to be used by the CIA in offensive operations are being developed.

p There are different scenarios for the use of the psychotropic weapon "EA-3167". It will be used, in particular, in the event of an act of "civil disobedience" at Radio Free Europe/Radio 116 Liberty in order to disorient people and paralyze their will to resist, after which they can be transferred to another city, to a safe village or to a concentration camp. So those who are pacing the corridors of the Munich radio centre, those who are doing their utmost before the microphones to propagate US policy and the Western way of life, are apparently unaware that the architects of that policy have already prepared for them a smokeless toxic agent, that they will be the first victims of a psychotropic war.

In the existing situation the attention of the forces of peace is centred on a task of worldwide significance—to rid mankind of the threat of war, to prevent the forces of aggression from turning our planet into a desert scorched by nuclear conflagration.