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| A Blast from the Past: How to Slow IranÂ’s Terror Machine |
| 2007-02-26 |
| By Dr. Paul Kengor In his pursuit of Cold War victory over Soviet communism, Ronald Reagan enlisted several fascinating covert efforts as part of a bold campaign of economic warfare, an assault so sensitive and so damaging that Reagan advisers denied it publicly, only acknowledging it decades later. “Certainly it was economic warfare,” said Reagan defense official Richard Perle, “although we had to deny it at the time.” Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger explained that the effort had to be “a silent campaign.” Reagan himself was forced into denials or dodges when asked if he was pursuing an economic war against Moscow. His closest aide, National Security Adviser Bill Clark, later explained Reagan’s reluctance to me in a series of interviews: “Look, he didn’t want to admit publicly that we were effectively at war [with the Soviets] or that we wanted to defeat them.” Clark said that Reagan carefully avoided using words like “economic war.” |
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