Volume 14, Number 11 · June 4, 1970
Memo to the AP Editors: How Laird Lied
By I.F. Stone
Secretary of Defense Laird's recent speech to the editors of the Associated Press on April 20 recalls a legendary exploit in military-political annals: the villages Prince Potemkin built for Catherine the Great's tour of the Russian countryside. Laird's description of the Soviet nuclear arsenal bears about as much relation to reality as the rosycheeked peasants trotted out for inspection by the delighted and bamboozled Empress.
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