Cold War mentality (literally)

I find, to my delight, that Works by the U. S. Government are not eligible for U. S. copyright protection. I had thought this might be true, but I wasn't sure. So I can in fact share with you all a document I duplicated at work for a student to read. I ended up typing it by hand as the text quality was too poor for OCR. As I was typing, I kept thinking "I really want to share this with people".

The original looks like an nth-generation photocopy of a mimeograph typewritten original. I'm not sure, but that's what it looks like. It was declassified in 1975 by (or under the authority of) Henry Kissinger, and the original resides in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. The only things I altered were where the page numbers appear and some comments in brackets about illegibility.

Oh, I must excerpt this gem:

C. War. A "preventive" war -- in the sense of a military attack not provoked by an attack upon us -- is repugnant to Americans on moral grounds

Would that it were still so.

Do what you want with this, but I'd love if you linked back here so I heard comments from people.

Behind the lj-cut are six pages of text.

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SUMMARY OF
A Report of April 7, 1950
concerning
A REEXAMINATION OF UNITED STATES OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIC PLANS (NSC 68)

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