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To: jbe who wrote (86237)	8/23/2000 8:33:45 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) of 108807

They lied. They lied consistently and blatantly. Obviously you never used to listen to Radio Moscow! Any treaties we signed with them we checked and double-checked for compliance with satellites, U-2s (later SR-71 Blackbirds and later still stealth spy planes including the hush-hush Aurora.) and spies on the ground. The Soviets were "predictable" because they ran all the media and a lot of what they said in the media gave solid clues to what they were actually thinking. Legions of CIA agents did nothing but monitor Soviet media day in and day out. FT Then why did we conclude arms control treaties (the Salt Agreements) with the Soviet Union? Actually, when the Cold War ended,and the Soviet Union finally collapsed, many long-time Washington insiders (I remember Eagleburger in particular) confessed to a certain nostalgia for the "good old days": the Soviet Union had been, at least, "predictable." If you lie about everything, you are, by definition, unpredictable. Personally, I would say that the Soviet leaders definitely concealed a lot, which is not quite the same thing as lying a lot.

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