There are military people-and all of us, I think, or most of us— who believe that one of the necessities of our times is an adequate military posture to meet this threat from zero to infinity across the whole spectrum of force, and all the way from the cold war on through guerrilla warfare, limited war, and nuclear warfare, which has finally now been recognized as national policy. There are many of us who are tremendously concerned by the economic threat. There are many of us who are also concerned by the sociological aspects of the threat, and by the psycho-political, and you can use any other qualifying words you want to-the overall threat of world communism in all of its terrible facets. And we feel, without stating what the policy should be, that there should be an alertness and an awareness on the part of every American that this is critical, because this is the way leadership is generated. If this is a democracy, it comes from the will of the people. If the will of the people does not exist, the determination to meet the threat will not exist. Mr. KENDALL. You have stated in your prepared statement that you know of no directive prohibiting the members of the Defense Department from speaking out clearly and forthrightly against communism. IDENTICAL STATEMENT DELETED IN CONGRESSIONAL PRESENTATION— PERMITTED IN CIVILIAN PRESENTATION Now, let me direct your attention to a deletion which was made in your proposed statement to the House Science and Astronautics Committee, and this is the deletion: With Soviet infiltration menacing this Nation and extending through the four corners of the globe, freedom of spirit and self stands in great jeopardy. The threat of catastrophic war again haunts the lover of liberty and the protagonist of peace. The Reds deliberately, fanatically, unceasingly, strive to destroy the shreds of stability remaining as we enter the new frontiers of the 1960's. A tower of peace founded on anarchy and chaos cannot stand. That is the end of the quotation. Now, what interpretation would you place upon that particular deletion as to the suggestion of an inhibition on this subject? General TRUDEAU. Do you recall which year this speech, this presentation Mr. KENDALL. Just a moment. General TRUDEAU. Was it 1960 or 1961? Mr. KENDALL. In these books which should be available for the use of the Senators-Stu, will you put them up-this is speech No. 21. The delivery date was February 1961. General TRUDEAU. I have got it now. It was only a question whether it was 1960 or 1961. Yes, I recall that statement, because I think, if we can find it here, that I made it in another speech where I will try to verify that in just a minute. It was permitted to be said in a civilian speech, and I will get the date of that in a moment, but it was not permitted to be said before an important committee of the Congress. Now, the speech which you remark about was a presentation in February of 1961, that is correct, and the statement, as you quoted it, was eliminated. I have here the paper that came back from the-yes, this becomes very interesting because the identical statement which was deleted from my presentation to the House Science and Astronautics Committee in February 1961 was approved and given by me in the second to the opening paragraph of a presentation I made before the Brookings Institute at Williamsburg, Va., on January 13, 1961, less than a month before. Mr. KENDALL. Then this just illustrates your point that you have been unable to detect any particular pattern? General TRUDEAU. Yes, sir. Mr. KENDALL. Or policy? General TRUDEAU. It does. Senator STENNIS. Excuse an interruption for just a minute, gentlemen. Members of the subcommittee, we have here for distribution, which is now being done, an abstract of General Trudeau's speeches that were censored, covering a period from August 1961, and the changed parts are noted in the proper places. We can use this as a guide and we might give one to the general. Although you have your papers there, this might help you. General TRUDEAU. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. This is a very difficult matter to present, members of the subcommittee and members of the press, but it is necessary. I think we can proceed. Mr. KENDALL. I might say, Mr. Chairman, within a short while we will have copies of this available for distribution to the press. Now, General, this abstract shows the identity of your speech, the date cleared, the date delivered, the original wording and the revised wording with deletions, the type of change, the responsible agency and the reason for it, where it was given. I might say this was prepared for us by one of your very fine officers. General TRUDEAU. Yes, sir. Mr. KENDALL. If this has not been made part of the record, Mr. Chairman, I would suggest that it be made a part of the record at this time. Senator STENNIS. That is the new abstract put before the subcommittee? Mr. KENDALL. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. Without objection, this abstract will be made a part of the record. There are military people-and all of us, I think, or most of uswho believe that one of the necessities of our times is an adequate military posture to meet this threat from zero to infinity across the whole spectrum of force, and all the way from the cold war on through guerrilla warfare, limited war, and nuclear warfare, which has finally now been recognized as national policy. There are many of us who are tremendously concerned by the economic threat. There are many of us who are also concerned by the sociological aspects of the threat, and by the psycho-political, and you can use any other qualifying words you want to-the overall threat of world communism in all of its terrible facets. And we feel, without stating what the policy should be, that there should be an alertness and an awareness on the part of every American that this is critical, because this is the way leadership is generated. If this is a democracy, it comes from the will of the people. If the will of the people does not exist, the determination to meet the threat will not exist. Mr. KENDALL. You have stated in your prepared statement that you know of no directive prohibiting the members of the Defense Department from speaking out clearly and forthrightly against communism. IDENTICAL STATEMENT DELETED IN CONGRESSIONAL PRESENTATION— PERMITTED IN CIVILIAN PRESENTATION Now, let me direct your attention to a deletion which was made in your proposed statement to the House Science and Astronautics Committee, and this is the deletion: With Soviet infiltration menacing this Nation and extending through the four corners of the globe, freedom of spirit and self stands in great jeopardy. The threat of catastrophic war again haunts the lover of liberty and the protagonist of peace. The Reds deliberately, fanatically, unceasingly, strive to destroy the shreds of stability remaining as we enter the new frontiers of the 1960's. A tower of peace founded on anarchy and chaos cannot stand. That is the end of the quotation. Now, what interpretation would you place upon that particular deletion as to the suggestion of an inhibition on this subject? General TRUDEAU. Do you recall which year this speech, this presentation Mr. KENDALL. Just a moment. General TRUDEAU. Was it 1960 or 1961? Mr. KENDALL. In these books which should be available for the use of the Senators-Stu, will you put them up-this is speech No. 21. The delivery date was February 1961. General TRUDEAU. I have got it now. It was only a question whether it was 1960 or 1961. Yes, I recall that statement, because I think, if we can find it here, that I made it in another speech where |