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The "Economic Offensive" Launched by Socialist Countries towards Underdeveloped Regions——Intelligence Estimates of U.S. Government during 1956-1960

Yu YAO

Department of History, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

Received:2007-01-24 Online:2007-05-25 Published:2007-05-25

Abstract

Abstract:

Since 1953 socialist countries launched a campaign of "economic offensive" to expand their economic ties with less developed countries.Having felt security threats from this offensive, the U.S.government began to make a series of intelligence estimates.Based on the collected information and analyses of those estimates, Eisenhower Administration moved to adjust its economic policy towards less developed countries, which created permanent impacts on related policies of U.S.government afterwards.

Key words: economic offensive, less developed country, intelligence estimate

CLC Number:

K153

Yu YAO. The "Economic Offensive" Launched by Socialist Countries towards Underdeveloped Regions——Intelligence Estimates of U.S. Government during 1956-1960[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2007, 39(3): 14-18.

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