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Show | Wonder if It Will Orbit? § Ray Cromley Brezh nev-NoMore TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20,1964. Today’sEditorials Nikita’s Cat’s-Paw CeSAN WASHINGTON — (NEA) —‘ said the result wi Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev will be » mammoth dust’ bowl. World Faces Era of Uncertainty no easier to deal with than Ni- shchev sent Brezhnev. In two kita Khrushchev. The new Russian boss is smoother, more dignified and Byall indications, Nikita Khru- . year-old Leonid Brezhnev from his, purely ceremonial post of presin Russia was a much a surprise ident of the USSR to take the to him as it. was to the world. more important role of secretary Soviet politics. remains. a mys- of the Communist Party Central Committee. | tery wrapped inside an enigma And it is Brezhnev who has and professional Kremlinologists, as well as everyoneelse, will con- been chosen—along with Alexei tinue to speculate on the story Kosygin, 60, another supporter of Khrushchev’s philosophy of cothat lies-behind this story. To be sure, Khrushchev himself existence with the West—to take reserved. He knows how to cut years, with luck, good rainfall and able organization, Brezhnev produced large crops that astound the experts. Khru- . shchey used this success.to put his losses, jump out of situations that no longer are profitable. But for the past 26 years he’s signal any immediate change in ported ‘removal of his son-in-law, cause a lot of them are wearing official newspaper Izvestia, also spectacles. Think of the girl-power lost through the necessity of suggest that we|may see a lim- the eyé makeup. The swivel lens ited form of “de-Khrushchevization.” Tf modern Russian history is a changes all that. Progress, in all its majesty, marches on. : reliable guide, the coming months A Good Ambassador that. is concerned with what the Russians do, while covert and The resignation of«Charles W. Cole as U.S. ambassador to Chile occasions: more thana little regret. During his three years in Santiago he has served the United States exceptionally well. The quality of his performance reinforces the idea that our ambassadors should not be political appointees, but men with a back- ground of: solid achievement and knowledge that will fit them for the task. : ; Ambassador Cole’ was vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation at the ‘time of his appointment in 1961. Prior to that he had will be a time of uncertainty both for the Russians) and for a world overt power realignment take plade within the Kremlin. Uuntil that uncertainty is over, the West will look back on the Khrushchev years as being,all in all, years of relative stability de- spite Khrushchev’s bloody crushing of“ Hungary, his building of the Berlin Wall, his dabbling in crises in‘ the Middle East and Africa and Cuba and in the United Nations. For it was also under Khrush- chev that restrictions against western reporters‘ in the Soviet Union were eased, that cultural and scientific exchanges began, that the limited nuclear test ban been president ofAmherst Colllege, treaty was signed, that a pale light anda professor of economics and history at Yale and Columbia Uni- of western ideas was allowed to penetrate the Iron Curtain. versities. He will be leaving Chile Nikita Khrushchev was an opportunist and, implacable foeman, always ready to exploit weakness‘es on the part of the United States ‘at a time when the pro-Western Eduardo Frei is about to take over as president after having defeated a pro-Castro Marxist. Ambassador Cole undobutedly deserves much credit for having moved Chile in ‘the right direction. * * * There’s a big lack of research on why people smoke or don’t smoke, says the Public Health ‘Service. For those who eatch fire the explanation is simple: politics. and its allies. But he was also a pragmatist and a man with whom a strong and determined United States could negotiate. Unlike other rulers the Russians have known, Khrushchev ap- peared genuinely interested in earning the favor. of the people. Compared to Stalin, he was al- most a statesman. Holmes, Alexander Vice Presidential Choices. Fail to Rate High Stature EN ROUTE BETWEEN CANDIDATES— , on fhe range with Lyndon, but the Ama“Love him, -hate her,” observed Dr& zonian affections of his wedded political equating of the same? : in* ae sete Witwereet “You can’t get away from national habits,” Couchmaster insisted from the of form. On strictly ome, ou test, the less. Repub- liean candidate for president might eas- don’s political love-mate is enough te make everybody yearn to be an outcast and an orphan.” — Yes, it was too bad somebody didn’t filibuster the Senate until it was agreed to introduce a Constitutional amendment z ii ei zt a Couchmaster snuggled-in-perpetuity? Aren’t there any borders to brotherhood at home and abroad? The wag-jaw radicalism of Lyn- i (ia Dr. evercare? Does ‘anybody desire to be lu Was American political acceptance of the familial couple with the social cognate is a vamp, Humphra is a Mom from Thruston Morton? Whatever got when he didn’t pick Sena- ii ’ low was a bad choice.” © should be called upon to bear. If Milla Momville.. Who wants to be mom’edby eae i He they feel in their hearts that Barry is right, they can’t rid their minds of ‘the notion that his Republican bedfel- partner are more than the citizenry a Clarence W. Couchmaster,; the celebrated psychiatrist on national affairs. “A good many Americans feel that way about their neighbors — and about the party tickets. If they can take Lyndon or General Max Taylor,. CIA ment On Kremlin . Policy ithheld In Probe Committee dium. Mr. Scott By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT use a telephone, connecta high-voltage wire, dur- thunderstorm. WASHINGTON — The Central from the Warren Commission in liquid or compressed during its investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. Despite the commission’s written request for all documents that might shed light on the assassination, CIA authorities failed to turn over a national intelligence estimate » warning) that it is Kremlin policy to remove from public office by assassination Western officials who actively opposéSo- The gas is fatal within and an autopsy would viet policies. ; Titled) ‘‘Soviet Strategic Executive Action,” the suppressed CIA document went into the shocking details of how agents of KGB, the Soviet secret police, are trained to do away with Western leaders, including officials in the U. S., and to make their deaths appear due to natural causes. One of the KGB’s newly devised assassination weapons is “a pneumatically operated poison ice ‘atomizer,’ which leaves no wound or other evidence of the cause of death.” While this deadly weapon has yet to be used against any high Western official, hundreds of KGB agents covertly operating outside of Russia have been supplied with this pocket-size gun, awaiting only orders from Moscow to use it. THE MURDER WEAPONS— Highlights of the suppressed intelligence estimate, which is locked in a security area within the tightly-guarded CIA, are as follows:: “It has been reported that the KGB endeavors to remove the threat to Soviet interests posed by certain members of Western governments, sometimes arranging for the dismissal of such persons from public office, at other times even having them ‘eliminated’ physically. “Such activities are known to be undertaken against other types of persons in the West, notably defectors from the U.S. S. R. and from other countries of the Soviet bloc. “One recently reported as- sassination technique is to electrocute an individual by luring BERRY’S WORLD not able its use. Non-trace- have been reportdo not take effect until hours. after being adthus allowing an asto be far from the scene his victim dies. knowledgeable source has described a pneumatically op- erated. poison’ ice ‘atomizer’ which leaves no wound or other evidence of the cause of death.” Congressional investigators, who |haveasked that the name of their committee be withheld for security reasons, report that CIA} Director John McCone made no mention of this explosive jdecument in his secret testimony before the Warren Commission. , While McCone furnished the commission with the CIA’s secret surveillance reports on Lee Haryey Oswald’s eight days in Mexico City before the assassination, including details of Os- wald’s contact with the head KGB agent in the Soviet embassy there, the CIA chief gave no hint of the Kremlin’s assassination policy. OTHER SUPPRESSED DOCUMENTS — Other U. S. intelligence experts, very dubious of Russia’s co-existence line, sttess that the Warren Commis- sion’s findings might have been different if this CIA estimate and other documents suppressed by the State Department had been available for study. They; point out that the State Department cover that the CIA’s assassina-_ tion document was never shown by administration officials to involves the use of which projects a poi- Intelligence Agency withheld vital intelligence information suppressed evi- dencé linking Oswald with one of its employes who, according to |security files, ‘presented strong pro-Soviet views on every question that came up in the Department’s U. S. S. R. country committee” while he was.a member. This State Department official’s name appeared in the and a candidate member of the ruling Presi- Speaker John McCormack (Mass.), next in line to succeed Président Johnson. While FBI officials warned Speaker McCormack, a dedicat- ed anti-Communist, that he is on the list of Western officials feared by the Kremlin, No CIA authority has shown the No. 2 man in government the CIA report listing these secret Soviet assassination methods. Instead, McCormack learned about the report only recently from congressional probers who are trying to determine why the document has been suppressed. The investigators also are trying to determine why -the CIA in its pre-assassination report to the State Department on Oswald’s. trip to Mexico City gave details only of the defector’s visit to the Russian embassy and not thé Cuban embassy. The CIA did not report the later visit until after Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. Editor's Mailbag Hello! This.is Republican Headquarters calling — I want to thank you and: the. hundreds like you who have received such a call during the past three months and have So willingly accepted the jobs you were asked to perform. Thousands of man hours are put in during each campaign by you. wonderful volunteer with other information pamphlets about Off the ‘Beat: is, for those who seek to tear SOME THOUGHTS ON the building down. 5 I'd like to set one thing straight. I have never advocated saving the tabernacle as a: relic. As a museum,it would be too big and costly to maintain for that purpose. That building THE HEBER TABERNACLE The stately Wasatch Stake Tabernacle in Heber appears doomed, despite a long fight to save it which has created scars and bitterness among the community which may never completely disappear. In the current Wasatch Wave appears this notice: ‘Unless sufficient funds for purchase of an alternate site are on deposit should be saved because it’s with the First Security Bank Headquarters Of Republicans Thanks Public tacts During Khrushchev’s temporary, eclipse in the MalenkovBeria-Molotov jakeover at Stalin‘s death,’ Brezhnev lost his the Soviet Union, put him full Presidium post. But: when time in the Communist party Khrushchev worked his way secretariat (organization and back up to party first secrepatronage) so that he could tary, Brezhnev” became.chief build his party following. The political commissar of the Deestimate here was that wil fense Ministry. six months Brezhnev would be In 1954 Khrushchev staked his political survival on his pro: . strong enough to take over. He did, with or without Khruposal to create a new grain shchev’s concurrence. bowl in Kazakhstan. Experts our candidates, and more hours on in Heber by 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964, the old stake tabernacle will be demolished. * “This was the word emanating from a meeting held last Tuesday evening between the stake and 2nd-5th Ward. leadership and Save the Tabernacle Committee heads.” Oct. 20 is today, and the last time I checked, the group battling to save it were a long, long way from the necessary $60,000 to buy an alternatesite. Because this is a church building, the group trying to save it has been handicapped by the fact that they are fighting a church decision — and the matter is, in the final analysis, still one of the best buildings in towh, and the amusement. hall which will be torn down with it is still virtually. as good as the day it was built. It will cost a pretty penny to replace those amusement hall facilities in the new building. There are charges the tabernacle has-deteriorated. There are counter-charges that it has been allowed to deteriorate by the group which has planned for years to destroy it. a church offair, But this has be- And there’s the little matter of -the petition to save it: — which never, it seems to me, was given the attention it deserved. A total of 1366. people signed that petition. I am told that’s a substantial majority of the adult membership of Wasatch Stake. ; ‘Somebody in Coalville — and that somebody in cases like these can only mean stake authorities — almost led in tearing down the beautiful old tabernacle there a year or so ago. But forces more suc- address book of a suspected Soviet agent who arrived in the U. |S. in 1943, according to government files. . (Congressional investigators i Alexei Adzhubei, |as editor of the ‘(for also have been shocked to dis- || BY JAMES 0. BERRY eral LDS Authorities brought a reprieve and the chance to save it, if money for another . site could be raised. But $60,000 is a lot of money, and if they raised it, the building might become a liability on someone’s hands. What should be done is enlarge its seating capacity by restoring once-present balconies, and continue te use it for the purpose for which it was built in 1877— as a tabernacle to the Lord. Two wards will get chapels in the building now planned on its site. Fine, they need chapels, selor Hugh B. Brown — who ihas shown more interest than anyone in saving the building —is safely in Hawaii convales- sj¥ don’t mind this deprivation, be- i The very abruptness of Khrush- chev’s dethronement and the re- After the war, Brezhnev joined Khrushchev’s struggle for Stalin’s seat. Mr. K'had him made.a secretary of the Central Inside W: has: grown steadily worse. girls who wear glasses.” Either this is no longer true or the girls removing the glasses for a dab at lessness even among the tough army men. gs that “men seldom make passes. at board of the southern front. He racked up a reputation for ruth- China that began under him and successes which he received thetitle of Hero of Socialist Labor). His contribution: excellent organization and banging heads together. , Of late, Krushchev’s enemies have been growing in strength. Agriculture continues in a slump. Russia’s position in international communism is slipping. Many overseas Sovietbacked Communist parties are not doing well. The Soviet position is weakening in. Africa and Latin America. Therefore, Khrushchev took Brezhnev out as president of By B F Dorothy Parker once observed with Khrushchev —with his failure to solve. the perennial agriculture problem, his failure to heal the rift with Red man-in-orbit I little hinge and goes to work enhancing her eye glamor. crisis. Again, when the Soviet space program showed signs of: lagging, Brezhnev pulled Khroushchev’s chestnuts. out of the fire by helping with a series of military commissar in the war, he took Brezhnev along. Brezhnev made major general at 37 and was chief of the political hurry to touch up her eye shadow _ dissatisfaction without taking off her glasses.” She simply tips up the lens on its old) Voroshilov at this time of When Khrushchev became a Soviet domestic or foreign policies. Yet at the same time, there has been evidence of growing party 1960, when Khrushchev E glasses. This enables a girl in‘a, This would seem to indicate that Khrushchev’s ~ ouster was -not the result of an intra-party revolution and that it does not was set out to wreck the proposed summit conference, blaming the U-2 flights, he sold the Presidium on the need for a young, tough man — Brezhnev —to replace the aging (80-year-, madelittle progress until ‘Khrushchev discovered him at the age of 32. In the Ukrainian purges: of the late 1930s he was Khrushchev’s eager lieutenant. Those purges were so drastic and the Red rule over the Ukraine was so oppressive that in World War II many Ukrainians welcomed the advancing German armies. & ‘In line with our policy of calling attention to important technological advances, we turn now to the swivel lens for ladies’ eye- In Communist until he was 25. He over Khrushchev’s two posts as premier of the government. and chairman of the party—at least for the present. (The investigator « Triumphof Technology vestigation. who passed judgment Brezhnev, himself). 5 Then, last June, he freed 57- the blame fell on Brezhnev’s successor after a Moscow in- 3 run the country forever. a dust bowl, as predicted, but * called on every time he’s had a job calling for a tough, ruthless administrator. Brezhnev didn’t become a 5 last year pointed to his age (then .|69) and hinted that he couldn’t Brezhnev back on the Presidium. Kazakhstan later became been the man Khrushchev has if “A ee OE shchev’s sudden exit from power oo be a Khru- don’t |