Many Russians Still Believe Mythical ‘Dulles Plan’ Exists and Guides Western Policy on Russia

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Dec. 3 – Russians continue to believe in a mythical “Dulles Plan” that supposedly has guided Western policy toward Russia since the 1950s and even see repeated documentation that it is nothing but a fake as evidence that it is in fact true, journalist Sergey Tashevsky says.

            In that, he continues, the fate of “the Dulles Plan” resembles that of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other hoaxes, many of them springing from works of fiction that have taken on a life of their own and that no amount of unmasking seems to be able to do anything about (sibreal.org/a/dlya-chego-sovetskiy-pisatel-pridumal-plan-dallesa-/32702075.html).

            Instead, those who have accepted these myths as true see such revelations about the falsehood of what they believe as evidence that the objects of their faith are true and even mine statements by officials who likely don’t believe in such “plans” for evidence that they really do and are only seeking to keep the truth from the population.

            Tashevsky provides a useful history of how “the Dulles Plan” first appeared in a 1970 Soviet novel, then spread into some of the nationalist thick journals at the end of Soviet times, and finally became the subject of widespread relief after the Soviet Union collapsed, an apparent confirmation that the Americans, using the Dulles Plan, had achieved their goals.

            Since that time, the journalist says, various experts have recounted this history and shown the whole notion to be a fraud. But “the plan” still has its believers. And Tashevsky suggests that he can imagine a scene in a new film in which a Russian agent like Stirlitz “knows that Dulles had not plan, but nonetheless Moscow demanded details …”