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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp88-01350r000200770004-6: THE ARMS OF KUSS A REVIEW BY PEGGY ANDERSON

Approved For ReleagLbe2O'&3IK MI -01350R0002Oa7,7bb?".) P16!4 17 L July 1969 Olt .L ~ _~, M,~:D " H A review by Peggy Anderson The War Business; The International Trade in Armaments by George Thayer Simon and Schuster, 383 pages, $6.95. is not a private merchant, in business Fifty-five wars have been fought in the 24 years since 1945, George Thayer tells us, and 95 per cent of them have been fought in the underdeveloped areas of. the world-with imported wea- pons. This book is about the sale of arms throughout the world and the effects of that arms trade on world tensions. 'Thayer states his c…