Cybernetics—in the Service of Communism was the title of a symposium and accompanying publication sponsored by Aksel Berg, a prominent promoter of cybernetics in the Soviet Union.
He provided an eponymous introduction noted for its length and programmatic nature.
[2] An American organizational theorist, Donald G. Malcolm, remarked: “If any country were to achieve a completely integrated and controlled economy in which ‘cybernetic’ principles were applied to achieve various goals, the Soviet Union would be ahead of the United States in reaching such a state”.
[3] He also suggested that cybernetics “may be one of the weapons Khrushchev had in mind when he threatened to ‘bury’ the West”.
As a result of such concerns the Central Intelligence Agency established a special unit to study the Soviet cybernetics.