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• In 1949, US espionage in Eastern Europe had been turned over to a network run by Reinhard Gehlen, who had headed Nazi military intelligence on the Eastern Front.
• We should cease to talk about vague and…unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.
• the operative meaning of the Monroe Doctrine is that “the United States considers its own interests. The integrity of other American nations is an incident, not an end.”
• The industrial countries were to be guided by the “great workshops”—Germany and Japan—who had demonstrated their prowess during the war and now would be working under US supervision.
• The Third World was to “fulfill its major function as a source of raw materials and a market” for the industrial capitalist societies,