From Six Crises, Richard M. Nixon, 1962

I had made hundreds of protocol calls on high government officials in nations around the world, but never before had a head of government met me with a tirade of four-letter words which made his interpreter blush as he translated them into English.

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, 1962, page 236.

From Red Cocaine, Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., 1990

News of the physically debilitating effect of the drugs captured the imagination of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drug and narcotics trafficking, he reasoned, should be viewed as a strategic operation that would directly weaken the enemy, rather than merely as a financial or intelligence tool. Accordingly, he ordered a . . . study to examine the total effects of drug and narcotics trafficking on Western society . . .

The conclusions of the study were that trafficking would be extremely effective, that the most vulnerable targets were the United States, Canada, France, and West Germany, and that the Soviets should capitalize on the opportunity. The study was approved by the Soviet Defense Council in late 1955 or early 1956. . . .

( pages 9 - 10 )

 

In 1962, Khrushchev formally extended the Soviet narcotics operation to the East European satellites. The strategic leaders (First Secretaries, Premier Ministers, Ministers of Defense, Chiefs of General Staff, and special assistants) of the satellites were summoned to attend a secret meeting in Moscow . . . . High-level Soviet officials attending the meeting included Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Suslov, and Adrei Kirilenko. It was at this meeting that Khrushchev formally laid out the Soviet strategy. Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese were smart, he began, referring to the drug business. They were also more imaginative and operative. Why should we let the Chinese have a free hand in this world market, he asked, and then he answered his own question. The Chinese were good, but the Soviet Bloc intelligence services had a much superior organization and should move as fast as possible to use the drugs and narcotics both to cripple the capitalist society and to finance more revolutionary activities.

( page 35 )

Red Cocaine The Drugging of America
Atlanta, Georgia : Clarion House, 1990, page9-10, notes p. 223.

From Soviet Union's Aggressions Against the World, Gen. Oleg Sarin & Col. Lev Dvoretsky, 1996

The quiet coup that happened in the Kremlin tended to be obscured by the war in the Middle East in 1967. The Politburo of the CPSU decided that Nikita Khrushchev had been pursuing a course of management of the country, and his relations with other nations were far too liberal to suit the hard-liners in the party. Further, he had become something of an embarrassment to them. They remembered the Cuban missile crisis and the loss of prestige that had accompanied it. Much of his authority had been undermined already by the CPSU Central Committee, the Ministry of Defense, and the Foreign Affairs Ministry. So, the most reactive elements of the party and government got the man they wanted, Leonid Brezhnev, and the "thaw" in the cold war with the Western powers ended.

Alien wars : the Soviet Union's aggressions
against the world, 1919 to 1989 / Oleg Sarin, Lev Dvoretsky
Novato, CA : Presidio, 1996, page 120.