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America the Enemy: Profile of a Radical Think Tank
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BOOK WORLD
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6 / 1988 |
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Ernest W. Lefever
Ernest W. Lefever is president of the Ethics and Public Policy
Center and the author of Nairobi to Vancouver: The World
Council of Churches and the World, 1975-87, just published by
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COVERT CADRE:
Inside the Institute for Policy Studies
S. Steven Powell
Ottawa, Illinois: Green Hill Publishers, 1988
459 pp., $29.95
The American prestige press delights in exposing real or imagined dangers from the Right while often ignoring real and present dangers from the Left. Were this not the case, well-informed citizens would know as much about the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) as they know as much about My Lai and the Pentagon Papers. Put another way, sectors of the prestige press are more interested in reporting on and castigating the sins of America than the sins of the Soviet Union and its sympathizers.
Ever since the establishment of the IPS in 1963 in Washington, D.C., I have been aware that it was not the liberal think tank it claimed to be, but was committed to the agenda of the Left. During the early 1960s, I became acquainted with the cofounders, Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin, who pretended to be concerned about U.S. security and genuine stability between the superpowers. I soon learned that they saw America as the chief culprit in the nuclear "arms race." Barnet began pushing an early version of moral symmetry between Washington and Moscow. In my book, Arms and Arms Control (1962), I included two essays by Barnet and pieces by John Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Kissinger, Hubert Humphrey, Robert Strausz-Hupe, Morton Halperin, Fred Iklé, Herman Kahn, and Edward Teller. Barnet characterized Soviet-American arms negotiations as a "parallel monologue" marked by "intransigence on both sides." Fifteen years later in
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