Epstein Secrets

eam B to recalculate the Soviet threat and it was pre- determined. They were going to find that it was much bigger than the professionals angled like Raymond [inaudible] that | mentioned. They said Russia is less of a threat now than it used to be. Well, that was terrible news for the industrial complex s

litary build-up. It started actually under Carter but we think of it as the Reagan build-up, and that of course is a major factor in having ended the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union tried to match it with a weaker economy. And that arms race which was not about threats but was about fighting economi

eam B to recalculate the Soviet threat and it was pre- determined. They were going to find that it was much bigger than the professionals angled like Raymond [inaudible] that | mentioned. They said Russia is less of a threat now than it used to be. Well, that was terrible news for the industrial complex s

litary build-up. It started actually under Carter but we think of it as the Reagan build-up, and that of course is a major factor in having ended the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union tried to match it with a weaker economy. And that arms race which was not about threats but was about fighting economi

eam B to recalculate the Soviet threat and it was pre- determined. They were going to find that it was much bigger than the professionals angled like Raymond [inaudible] that | mentioned. They said Russia is less of a threat now than it used to be. Well, that was terrible news for the industrial complex s

litary build-up. It started actually under Carter but we think of it as the Reagan build-up, and that of course is a major factor in having ended the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union tried to match it with a weaker economy. And that arms race which was not about threats but was about fighting economi