Volume 25, Number 15 · October 12, 1978
The Strategic Mind
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Books Discussed in This Article
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story
by John Stockwell
Norton, 285 pp., $12.95
Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA
by William Colby, by Peter Forbath
Simon & Schuster, 493 pp., $12.95
Decent Interval
by Frank Snepp
Random House, 590 pp., $4.95 (paper)
A few weeks ago in Washington, there was a small though interesting explosion over the effort by an old Harvard colleague, Samuel P. Huntington, currently on assignment to the White House, to get Daniel Patrick Moynihan, also recently of Harvard, to make a public assault on a presidential decision involving trade with the Russians. I was sorry for several reasons to read about this. I've repeatedly urged my Harvard colleagues, when they go to Washington, not to practice the kind of politics which is commonplace in Cambridge. Washington is not ready for it. But I was much more alarmed by an earlier communication from Sam Huntington in which he defended a briefing on world strategic balance that he had given to the Chinese. It involved, he said, no secrets; it was one of many such briefings he had been giving recently.
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