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["Brown, Martin (NCI)" <brownm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Devine writes...

>>>The USSR was always "encircled" and mostly was trying to develop their own
economic powers. While they did meddle in the other superpower's sphere of
influence, they did not attack it. (I don't think that this was due to the
soviet leaders' benevolence as much as their need to deal with domestic
problems and the nuclear balance of terror. The leaders listed above were
bad people in many ways, but they were also very conservative, maintaining
rather than extending their power.)<<<

When I was in high school in San Diego in the early 1960's a film called
"Communism On The Map," was required viewing in all civics classes (I don't
remember if it was produced by the U.S. State Department or the John Birch
Society).  This film was suppose to prove that the West was being encircled by
the Communist Empire.  Aftering seeing it I distinctly remember think, "Gee, it
looks more like we have them surrounded than the other way around."