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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (53093)	10/19/2002 12:56:17 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

Did our non presence in China do the population of that country any good under Mao ? Because I'd like to hear how we should be blamed for that one too, while we're at it. We had a presence in China when we helped evacuate Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists during the civil war with Mao's Communists. In 1950, the newly created CIA "supported guerrillas on the mainland." When the Korean War ended in '53, "so did our presence in China" when the CIA was unable to re-ignite a civil war. Let me ask you, Did our non-presence in the USSR do that country any good under Stalin or Kruschev? After all, some you among them no doubt, credit Reagan for the fall of the Soviet Union despite our "non-presence".