(This file includes the New York Times Book Review, March 19, 1972, article ('The Guest Word') by Lewin in which he engages in damage limitation by claiming the original book was a hoax--for no particular plausible reason...)
“‘John Doe,’ as I will call him for reasons that will be made clear, is a professor at a large university in the Middle West. His field is one of the social sciences... Early in August of 1963, he [responded to a call from Washington] to serve on a commission ‘of the highest importance.’ Its objective was to determine, accurately and realistically, the nature of the problems that would confront the United States if and when a condition of ‘permanent peace’ should arrive, and to draft a program for dealing with this contingency. .. . the unique procedures that were to govern the commission’s work were expected to extend its scope far beyond that of any previous examination of these problems. “I will leave most of the story of the operations of the Special Study Group, as the commission was formally called, for Doe to tell in his own words... At this point it is necessary to say only that it met [initially at Iron Mountain, New York] and worked regularly for over two and a half years, after which it produced a Report. It was this document, and what to do about it, that Doe wanted to talk to me about. “The Report, he said, had been suppressed--both by the Special Study Group itself and by the government interagency committee to which it had been submitted. After months of agonizing, Doe had decided that he would no longer be party to keeping it secret... “...the unwillingness of Doe’s associates to publicize their findings [is] readily understandable... they concluded [that] lasting peace, while not theoretically impossible, is probably unattainable; even if it could be achieved it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of a stable society to achieve it”-—FROM THE FOREWORD