SINO-SOVIET BLOC PROPAGANDA FORGERIES INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTED 1 JANUARY 1957 TO 1 JULY 1959

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
II. CASES OF DISCOVERED FORGERIES
A.. Multiple-forgery campaigns
B. Single-forgery campaigns
C. Forgeries in 1959
D. Descriptions of specific forgery campaigns
III. THE TECHNIQUE OF SOVIET BLOC FORGERIES
A. Political objectives
B. The "secret documents" used
1. Form in which surfaced
2. Types of "secret documents" fabricated
C. Source Materials
1. Fact
2. Fiction
D. Crudities and Errors
1. Mistakes in fact
2.. Mistakes in format
3. Use of British spelling
4. Use of British expressions
5. Use of expressions which are foreign
6. Mistakes in U. S. military terminology
7. Operational carelessness in referring to dates
8. Operational carelessness -- using typewriters which betray
IV. SURFACING AND REPLAY/ TECHNIQUES
A. Areas and operational methods used in surfacing
1. 1957
2. 1958-59
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B. Replay - methods of delivery to target audiences
C. Combined use of overt and covert assets, , , kmm using
the ISRAELI GENERAL STAFF Campaign as example:
1. Rumor campaign - France
2. Diplomatic report - Lebanon
3. False intelligence report - Italy
4. Press allegation - India
5. "SECRET STRATEGIC PLAN" forgery surfaced
6. Soviet "whisper" - France
7. Press replay on "French/Israeli plan" - India
8. Blitz replay ties FRENCH/ISRAELI GENERAL
STAFF PLAN with SECRET STRATEGIC PLAN -
India
9. USSR adopts the SECRET STRATEGIC PLAN
l0. Press replay - India
11. Press replay - USSR
D. Types of operation used in covert/semi-covert
surfacing
1. False intelligence reports
2. Rumor campaigns and "whispers"
3. Mailing "black"
4. Hand-to-hand distribution
5. Clandestine newspaper as surfacing point
6. Covert planting in overt non- CP newspapers
7. Clandestine radio
8. Semi-covert: official distribution
V. ASSETS USED IN SURFACING AND REPLAY - OVERT
A. Located within the Sino-Soviet Bloc
B. Assets located in countries of the Free World
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VI. ASSETS USED IN SURFACING AND REPLAY - COVERT AND SEMI-COVERT
A. Assets located within the Sino-Soviet Bloc
B. Assets Located in Countries of the Free World
1. Soviet Assets
2. East German Assets
3. Czechoslovakian Assets
4. CHICOM Assets
5. Non-CP press assets used in covert surfacing
VII. NOTES ON CENTRAL PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION
OF FORGERY CAMPAIGNS
A. Possible Soviet origin of internationally distributed forgeries
B. The Soviet Center
C. The East German Centers
Political targets
2. Black propaganda against military targets
VIII. ROLE OF UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (UAR) MEDIA IN
DISTRIBUTION OF BLOC FORGERIES
IX. ROLE OF THE CP PRESS IN FORGERY DISTRIBUTION
OUTSIDE THE BLOC
X. EFFECTIVENESS OF FORGERY CAMPAIGNS
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SINO-SOVIET BLOC PROPAGANDA FORGERIES
1 January 1957 to 1 July 1959
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I: (INTRODUCTION
and psychological warfare operations in countries of the Free World. The term
of the Jo&M operandi and organization of covert Sino-Soviet bloc political action
"covert political action and psychological warfare" as used
to clandestine operations which are conducted for the purpose of influencing public
and/or governmental opinion in the target countries along the lines desired by the
Bloc. It does not apply to activities and propaganda which are overtly attributable
to Communist parties or front groups, 41~ to operations conducted solely for the
purpose of collecting intelligence on behalf of Bloc governments.
One of the classic tools of covert psychological warfare is black propaganda
of the type known as "deception" or "misinformation" ~?+e device; used
for this purpose is the forged document which offers seemingly incontrovertible
evidence of a "fact" or set of "facts" which the forger wants his target audience to
believe. It is to this aspect of covert Bloc psychological warfare--propaganda by
forgery--that the present study is devoted. Propaganda by forgery is not by any means
new in Bloc operations, but a noticeable increase in its use in 1957 and 1958 led to
an intensive investigation of the subject. This study covers internationally-
distributed forgeries only. It does not touch upon the equally important subject of
propaganda forgeries which are targeted at a single country and are surfaced and
replayed within that country only. Such forgeries appear from time to time in various
parts of the world sad. West Germany, in particular, has been flooded with them {-asen& -
3efly:a a as~s~snt.d icy a irf -thivvs i during the past few years.
a V r g
propaganda) t?XXEE ~ ~ is
a function of the foreign intelligence services of the Bloc countries, closely directed
of the world with information supplied by Soviet and East German defectors indicates
in the field of foreign affairs (as distinguished from ideological CF
th t black -nn a ands/
Correlation of field reports on individual operations observed in various parts
internationally-distributed forgeries in-.the- past_.# - T have been
delivered to their target audienceesa r}d t~ i ccomple pa ern of overt, covert,
semi-covert and official media throug ? ~''~ ^~' ' e ake ee gal
by high-echelon units of the Communist Party. The ftGQ*VftOy with which ti"
*The otrtwoareCl
in P,,bl Information
Action CasHis' o
rsive Act vitiee ,
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1,~ 1~ ~s this study
before definite conclusions can be drawn.
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the possibility ` a single, central prrt ,e f planr g and prepar n of the
forged documents, hrres More information on this point is needed, however,
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of
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of the Soviet intelligence services, but study of his information against th
`of previously known data on the RIS makes it fairly clear that the
25X1 C5b unit for which he was co-opted-was
individuals who recruited him'1for this purpose tin Moscow>were rr-presentatives
or the Foreign Intelligence Directorate of KGB,==
are directly controlled by the KGB through political intelligence officers in the
on the basis or p onservatiz.on, wito, r1 V~Jp10.VSVLLV
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II. CASES OF DISCOVERED FORGERIES
In the period 1 January 1957 to 1 July 1959,ja total of thirty-six forgeries of
known or apparent Soviet Bloc origin were distriputed to targets outside the countries
in which they first appeared. Attachment 1 ~e-e~i-s~ ff these documents, in chronologice
order of surfacing.. As indicated therein, the thirty-six forgeries appeared as follows:
1957
19f -8
1959
1st quarter;,'
3
2
3
2nd quarters
0
6
1
3rd quarter
6
4th quarter
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12
20
4 (first half of ye
Multiple-forgery campaigns
1. An odd characteristic of the 1957_59 forgeries aa-w-wh-r is that they rarely
come singly. Of the total of thirty-six known forgeries, thirty were clearly
established by their content (and frequently by Bloc editorial comment as well)
as preludes to or "confirmation" of other fbrgeries. Following these lines
of interconnection, these thirty individual forgeries emerge as the component
parts of ten separate multiple-forgery campaigns. The campaigns are listed
in tabular form in Attachment 2.
2. The BERRY LETTER. CAMPAIGN
The method in which a multiple-forgery campaign is developed is illustrated
by the BERRY LETTER Campaign, which began with a series of remarks made by
Nikita KHRUSHEV in November 1957,aady the time of its final replay in
December 1958 had involved the surfacing of no less than seven separate
forgeries. (Whether the KHRUSHCHEV role was planned as the first step in the
campaign or whether his statements were simply drawn upon by the BERRY LETTER
writer as idea material is unknown.)
Prelude :
In the TASS release quoting KHRUSHCHEV's 22 November 1957'interview
`fel
s: "I would like to-express my views with regard to statements
Aly
made by certain representatives of military circles and published in
the press. It was reported that, allegedly, a part of the American
bomber force, with hydrogen and atomic bombs, is constantly in the
air and always ready to strike against the Soviet Union. Reports
have it that one-half of the planes are in the air. This is very
dangerous. Such a situation serves as an illustration of the extent
of the military psychosis in the United States. When planes with
hydrogen bombs take off
with three American journalists (William f,ndolph Hearst, Jr.,
Frank Conniff and Robert Considine), KHRUSHCHEV was quoted as
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that means that many people will be in the air piloting them.
Th Is Al=o the es bil t of a t blackout when the
pilot may take the slightest signal as a signal for action and
fly to the target that he had been instructed to flv to. Under
such conditions a war may start purely by chance, since retaliatory
action would be taken immediately. Does this not go to show that
a tart as result of sheer ers ,
a derangement in the normal psychic state of a person, which may
happen to anybody? Such a horreible possibility must be excluded.
It may be that both sides will be against war, and yet war may still
start as a result of the military psychosis whipped up in the
United States.... Even if only one plane with one atomic
gr one dro en bomb were in the air, in this ease too it wool be
not the Government but the pilot who could decide the question of war."
(Underlining supplied to indicate statements on which the BERRY LETTER
was apparently based.)
Basic forgery: The BERRY LETTER
Some five months after the above interview, on 7 May 1958, the
official East German Communist Party (SID) daily Neues Deutsohlaixi
surfaced a letter purportedly written by Assistant Defense Secretary
1} Frank B. BERRY to Defense Secretary Neil McELROY. The letter
stated that 67.3 percent of all U. S. Air Force flight personnel.
had been found to be psyehoneurotic, a condition which led to all
sorts of phobias, unaccountable animosity and other irrational
behavior. It mentioned excessive drinking, drug-taking, sexual
excesses and perversions and constant card-playing as further
evidence of the general breakdown, adding that "moral depression is
a typical condition of all crew members making flights with atomic
and H-bombs." Attachment 3 is a copy of the BERRY LETTEi. as surfaced
in Neues Deutschland of 7 May 1958
First supplement: The M CRASH (true)
Having thus provided "official evidence" that KHRUSHCHEV'a "pilot who
could decide the question of war" was, in two--thirds of all cases,
mentally unstable, the planners of the BERRY LETTER methodically
supplied "examples." The first was a plane crash in England, reported
sane
Si t , item o 17 June 1958 and tied w th the BERRY LETTER by
RADIO MOSCOW on 18 June. ( The crashl actually Wm occurred
~ #nt -ha s. x ever been fully- c~hvakedr
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Second supplement: The U. S PILOT LETTERS (f forgeries)
The next step in the campaign appeared on 3 July 1958,
when the Soviet Embassy in London released to the Western
press and the British Foreign Office a letter purportedly
written by a U. S. Air Force pilot stationed in England, in
which the pilot threatened to drop an atomic bomb in the
North Sea near England, in order to alert English opinion
to the dangers of an accidentally-triggered nuclear war. On
4 July RADIO MOSCOW tied the letter 4116 the BERRY LETTER and
the MORGAN crash. The letter and the fact that it had been
released by the Saviet Embassy attracted extensive comment
in the non-Communist press throughout the Western world. No
doubt in the hope of repeating this delightful burst of
publicity, the Soviet Embassy in London released two more
"U:S.PILOT LETTERS 0 "(along the same lines as the first but
varying in detail) on 9 July and still another on 15 September
1958. These were virtually ignored by the press.
Third su lament: The POWERS ORDER Fore in allejation form
On 2 October 1958 the campaign was given another push when
Neues Deutschland published an article claiming that the
indiscretion of a USAF officer stationed at Kaiserslautern,
in West Germany, had disclosed the recent issuance of a
secret order by Strategic Air Command (SAC) chief General
POWERS, forbidding any flights over U. S. territory by planes
carrying atomic or hydrogen} bombs. Bloc replay promptly tied
this (non-existent) order -uM the BERRY LETTER.
Fi'r'th supDlement? Content of the forged SCHLAGZET envelope
In December 1958 the BERRY LETTER campaign received what seems
to have been its final replay, in a booklet mailed "black" in
West Germany. Forged copies of the mailing envelopes used by
a bona fide West German periodical named S_S gzeug were mailed
in West Germany,to an estimated 4,000 addressees. They were
accurate forgeries of the real Sghlagzeug envelope except for
one detail: they carried a West Berlin return address which,
on investigation, proved to be a vacant lot. The envelopes
contained an overt East German propaganda booklet, with the
address of the KULTURVERLAG DER DEUTSCHEN JUGEND (Publishing
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devoted to a suggested "culture program,
giving songs, skits, -.e:.
.n 1c
for use as an amateur theatrical performance. One of the songs, printed
complete with score for piano accompaniment, was a direct tribute to the
BERRY LETTER. Freely translated, it ran:
he FFllying Psvohoneuro_
by Werner BRAUNIG
There flies Jim from Alabama,
there flies Jack from %nnessee
high above the city
wearing heated pants,
with the bomb aboard
and the Psychoneurosis,
and on the automatic pilot is printed: Liberty.
And what can happen.._
how does that concern us?
That does not concern us at all!
There flies Jim from Alabama
high over the State of Wisconsin
and there is a city
and people walk in rows,
and there is a (psychoneurotic) crack
and he shoots them up--
there were a few people killed
And if such a thing can happen-_
doesn't this concern someone?
Doesn't this concern us at all?
There flies Jim from Alabama
Over you, and over me.
With death in his head,
and then he sees red,
and he pushes the button
and it's over for you and for me:
And because that can happen tomorrow,
it does concern us;
Mankind! It even concerns you .,$
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II. cant.
The ltple-forgery campaigns show some indication of a pattern
of annual targeting for 1957 and 1958. As shown by the content and
the emphasis in replay of each. campaign, they have been targeted
primarily as follows:
ZgMet
19
jq
Worldwide
1
1
Middle East/Africa
1
2
Asia
1
1
Europe
1
2
4
6
have been targeted at Middle Eastern and Asian audiences and% at
worldwide audiences, making a total of A' of the 1 campaigns targeted
wholly or in part at.,audiences in the industrially underdeveloped areas
of the world, while of the .6single forgeries were targeted at Asian
and African audiences. During this period there has been occasional
replay of propaganda forgeries to audiences in North and Latin America,
but no forgeries have been reported as surfaced in or targeted primarily
at countries of the Western Hemisphere.
Sinele forgery campaigns
Of the,hr":torgeries which were launched singly, one (the O'SHAUGHNESSY
LETT R) was established by its subject and 11
as part of a known East German IS operation. The other,-"were
overtly launched and thereafter died on the vine, with little or no
subsequent replay. The a' re shown at the end of Attachment 2.
Forgeries in 1959
Thus of the total of cam
psi gas surfaced in the period 1957_59,
No new forgery oampaigns appeared during the first half of 1959,
although new forgeries were surfaced in continuance of,2rof the 1958
campaigns andA new single forgery was launched. Replay on certain of
the campaigns begun in 1957 and 1958 also continued during the first
half of 1959, as shown in the final column of Attachment 2.
DescriRtios of s~-e cy i c forger y csrpains
The known propaganda forgeries which were internationally distributed
during the period of this study are described, by target area, in
Attachments, through T
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III The Technique of Soviet Loc For r
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Political objectives
The political objective] of the 1957-59 forgeries, viewed as a whole,
can be defined simply: creation of a climate of Governmental and :met public
opinion which frill tend to (a) break up the Western Alliance and (b) discredit
the West in general and the United States in particular
areas o
g N4
r he
The specific objective of each of the propaganda forgeries has been
readily identifiable by its content and timing, and often by accompanying
Bloc editorial comment, as an effort to supply 'documentary confirmation"
of propaganda charges which were being made at the same period through
conventional Bloc media. The BERRY LETTER, for example, "proved" the
unreliability of indivi dual U. S. pilots in the midst of a Bloc propaganda
campaign against the flights of the Strategic Air Command (SAG). The
ROCKEFELLER LETTER "confirmed" chronic Bloc charges of U. S. Imperialistic
aims, while its DULLES MEMORANDUM supplement "proved" that the recently
announced Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle EaDt--a. major current target of
conventional Bloc p e14U. S.
propaganda--vas simply mete in implementing the~U. S.
imperialist policy.
As the content descriptions in Attachments 4 through 7 show, the
specific propaganda objectives of the 1957-59 forgeries have included:
"q nfi mation' - of
f: ,1U. S. imperialistic aims (ROCKEFELLER LETTER Cam i
Charges made in the chronic "U. S. plots" and "Western
plots" propaganda (TAIPEH CABLES, FROST LETTER. and
ROUNTREE CIRCULAR
campaigns and several of the single forgeries)
'Current propaganda charges concerning the SAC flights
as a danger to world peace (BERRY LETTER Campaign)
~U. S. plans for large-scale military aggression (U.S.
SOLDIERS IN LEBANON Campaign)-
jlEfforts of a belligerent U. S. to sabotage plans for
a Summit Conference (MMIT CONFERENCE DIRECTIVE)
Fan French and British distrust of the U. S. and,
secondarily, of West Germany (HOOVER LETTER Campaign
and the O'SHAUGHNESSY LETTER),
(:-Discredit anti-Communist emigre leaders and the U. S. in
particular, and the west in general, in the eyes of
Bloc nationals and emigres (CESKE SLOVO Campaign),
Bloc efforts to:
t'' Fan U. S. and Arab distrust of France and Israel
(SECRET STRATEGIC PLAN Campaign)
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III. 4I cont.
Presentation of the propaganda message within each of the forged
documents is far from subtle. An example is the HOOVER LETTER. The
forgery itself is a long, rambling document, but its message appears
succinctly in the opening paragraphs, which (a) establish that the
writer is offering the addressee a job and is making the offer on
behalf of the U. S. Government, and (b) define the job: "You will
never persuade me that we might find a better person to work on the
project. Do you seriously believe that there is someone else who would
know how to grab and hold on to the good old Sahara Desert the way you
would? They think highly of you in %shington and give your abilities
full credit. I don't have to tell you about the importance of African oil.?'
To avoid any possibility that target audiences might miss the point,
replay comment usually explains it again and as bluntly as possible.
Continuing with the HOOVER LETTER as an example, RADIO MOSCOW explained
in replay that the letter showed "the desire of the U. S. monopolies to
seize control of oil wherever it is found in the Middle East, and that
the State Department gives them all possible aid." The content of the
letter itself made its primary targeting at France clear, but to be
sure the message was not lost on this audience, RADIO MOSCOW broadcast
a comment in French citing the letter as proof that "the United States
desires to prevent France from settling her disputes in North Africa in
order that the U. S. may take over the resources there."
Another example of editorial lily-gilding is provided by,Bloc comment
on the ROCKE",ELLER LETTER. The forgery itself was purportedly a plan
for achieving U. S. domination of the world, in part through military
alliances but primarily through economic aid programs. In surfacing the
letter on 15 February 1957, Ngues Deutschland supplied its own paragraph
headings for the various sections of the letter. These included:
"American Prestige Catastrophically Fallen"
"What is Good for Standard Oil is Good for U. S. A."
"Iranian Foreign Policy under U. S. Control"
"Economic 'Help' yaws Military Pacts After it"
"Forcing Neutral States in Direction of U. S. Wishes"
"Bring Colonies of Others under U. S. Control"
"Re 'Selflessness' of U. S. Assistance"
Comment in a later replay by the East German press agency ADN was
equally forthright in explaining the ideas the forgery was expected to
convey: "ROCKEFELLER's letter to EISENHOWER is causing a stir throughout
the world. Indignation at the plans for brutal enslavement and oppression,
hidden behind what is termed aid, is running particularly high in the
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RADIO MOSCOW, in a broadcast in Indonesian to Southeast Asian
audiences, also removed all danger that its listeners might miss
the propaganda point, by explainiing that the ROCKEFELLER LETTER "shows
decide the direction of -the foreign-policy the U. S Government, which
that the imperialist interests of ROCKEFELLER and other U. S. billionaires
--le-the fascistic executor of their wishes."------
Lorm. in which surfaced
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Facsimile reproduction. Attachments 3 (copy )
of the BERRY LETTE
and 9 (copy of the ROUNTREE CIRCULAR) are examrnles of this
form of surfacing. Used in 22' of the..36 forgeries.
kr'Verbatim quotation of the text of the alleged documents, with no
effort at facsimile presentation. Attachment (copy of
the DULLES MEMORANDUM) is an example. Used in,6 of the 36
forgeries.
Allegation only, i. e. disclosure of the details of the alleged document
with no attempt at either facsimile reproduction or verbatim
quotation. Attachment 2x 11) (copy of the BISHOP DIRECTIVE)
is an example of this #,'W. While an unsupported allegation is
not, strictly speaking, a forgery, the surfacing and relay system
used for these forgeries-by-allegation is the same as for the
other two types. Allegation of the existence of the document in
question is sometimes a prelude to surfacing in one of the other
two forms, while in other cases the campaign may run its full
course on the psis of the allegation alone. Used in 8'of the
36 forgeries.
A propaganda forgery may be surfaced in any of three forms:
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Types of "secret documents" fsricated
Of the separate forgeries, 27zere supposedly written by or to
U. S~4 tionals
foreign nationals *tkn(KISHI/DULLES PACT, SJAMSUDDIN LETTER
to Ambassador MacARTHUR, FROST LETTER to the Indonesian
and WELENSKY DOCUMENT.)
(cables, dispatches, letters) purporting to be correspondence
b to ween the State Department and its diplomatic missions
abroad (O'SHAUGHNESSY LETTER, BISHOP DIRECTIVE, they _ TAIPEH
CABLES, BRUCE LETTER, SUMMIT DIRECTIVE, ROUNTREE CIRCULAR,
DIRECTIVE ON UAR and the MURPHY LETTER.)
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urporting to be internal U. S. Government letters or memoranda
(DULLES MEKORANDUM to President EISENHOWER and BERRY LETTER
to Defense Secretary McELROY.)
semi-official letters by former U. S. Government of
(ROCKEFELLER LETTER to President EISENHOWER and HOOVER LETTER
to a U. S. Oil company executive.)
letters or other correspondence between U. S. officials and
KAWILARANG, and CHIANG Kai Shek letter to President EISENHOWER..)
Of the remaining/forgeries,`have purported to be internal
%'t_letters or verbal indiscretions of U. S. ?military personnel abroad
U. S. PILOT LETTERS, "JOHN H" LETTER, POWERS ORDER and
U. S. PARATROOPER CABLES
documents of other Western and pro-Western Governments (FRENCH/ISRAELI
GENERAL STAFF PLANS SECRET STRATEGIC PLAN OF THE ISRAELI ARMY! ERHARD
LETTER to West German Chancellor ADENAUER; SUDAN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
~,u Y wrrd
forged issue of an emigre newspaper and .2'series of letters
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The other' ,d were they "forgeries p` jthe CESKE S OVO Campaign
purportedly written by the editor of the same periodical) and the
(West German periodical)
forged SCHLAGZEUG/mailing envelope which carried the last known replay
on the BERRY LETTER.
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M. cont.
Source Materials
A typical Bloc propaganda forgery consists of two distinct sets of
source material: a framework of overt fact, used to give verisimilitude
to the forgery, and the fictional statements which convey the propaganda
Fact. The factual material may include any or all of several kinds of
data:
1.mes and tines of the mw2orted writer, the dressee and any other
persons who may be mentioned in the document. A frequent practice
is the inclusion, either in the forgery itself or in accompanying
editorial comment, of the full name and title of the purported
writer and addressee. Thus, a NCNA (CHICCA press agency) news
release replaying the FROST LETTER begins, "B ntan Timur today
published a letter sent byar Admiral Laurence FROST Chief of
the U. S. Naval Intelligence Bureau, to KAWILARANG, one of the
ringleaders of the rebel clique," and then explained that "KAWILARANG
was the former Indonesian Military Attache to Washington." In
surfacing the POWERS ORDER (allegation only), Neues Deutschland
identified "General Thomas POWERS, Commander of the Strategic
Air Command of the United States," as originator of the order.
The BERRY LETTER is signed,"Frank B. BERRY, M. D., Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Health and Medical) 1
Place names and names of oreanizational its. The BERRY LETTER refers
to USAF bases on Midway Island and to the Patuxent River and Cooke
bases. The "JOHN H" LETTER identifies its purported writer as
a member of the 79th Engineers. The ROCKEFELLER LETTER mentions "the
discussions at Camp David which resulted in my resignation;" etc.
Official format, if the forgery is presented as a Government cable, dispatch
is
or memorandum. (See Attachment 12, which/a copy of one of the
TAIPEH CABLES as surfaced in B tz, and
BMW Attachments 3.,wthe BERRY LETTER,,-and 7., -the
ROUNTREE CIRCULAR.)
Re erences to recent news items, used in the body of the forged document
or in accompanying editorial comment. The "JOHN H" LETTER states
that "I arrived from Munich July 27 by Globemaster with a group of
the U. S. Army." (The forgery itself was based upon the landing of
U. S. troops in Lebanon, and the world press of the period was full of
details of their transportation by air from West Germany.) In surfacing
the DULLES MEMORANDUM, sues Deutschland explained editorially that the
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document had been written "in the last half of December
'1956, 7 just after the NATO meeting in Paris." (NATO had
held a widely publicized meeting in Paris at that time-6
The Camp David talks between
President EISENHOWER and Nelson A. ROCKEFELLER, mentioned
in the ROCKEFELLER LETTER, had taken place and had been
reported in the press)
St t ments the pMRgrted niter bag ctual made i " s eeches
r ss co eren es magazine gZlicle
t ors ternent
,y j blished other dividuals which ht Rjausjkl be
attributed to him. An example of this occurs in the
ROC lLE:R LETTE1z. On 5 December 1955 the _N 2v Yprk Time
carried a front-page article in which this ~COtts~c h paragraph
appears :
"Although economic and technical aid in the underdeveloped
countries has been running at more than one billion dollars
a year, more than half has been-concentrated in three
places where military political, rather than economic
factors are controlling. These are South Korea, Formosa
and South Vietnam."
The ROCKEFELLER LETTER, surfaced 15 February 1957, contained this
paragraph:
"Although, for instance, economic and technical aid to
underdeveloped countries last year amounted to more than
one billion dollars, more than half of this sum was
actually devoted to three countries in which military and
political rather than Economic considerations were the
determining factors. These countries were South Korea,
Formosa and South Vietnam."
Nimes and addresses needed for operational use. Still another type of
factual data used is, of course, the names and addresses of target
individuals when the forgery is to be surfaced by covert mailing
rather than by overt means. Target addresses for use in "black"
mailing of psychological warfare material are known to be obtained
by the East German IS (and, presumably, by the Soviet IS as well)
through overt research facilities--telephone directories, diplomatic
lists, names and addresses culled from local newspapers, overt directories
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III. .cont.
ofk government units, from lists of foreigners
visiting Bloc countries, etc. Others are known, in the
case of East Germany, to be obtained from East German
agents travelling in the West. In the one known Czech
operation discussed in this paper{ the nmk1aa-m-Mottla CESKE SLOVO
paign4 -#
mailing addresses were obtained by urglarizing the
offices of the offices of the real CESKE SLO' O and making off
with its subscription list.
The overt material used in Bloc forgeries is culled from an enormous
supply of research material: newspapers, books and periodicals of all
nations, diplomatic lists, telephone and other published directories,
overt information handouts of Western official units, and so forth. The
extent of Bloc overt materials research facilities is established not only
by the factual detail used to embellish the propaganda forgeries but also
by the content of conventional Bloc radio and printed propaganda. Books
The State Of Israel--Its Situation and Policies (see
') are built by stringing together quotations-usually out of context
and occasionally false-from a fantastic number of published non-Bloc
sources oeh rangfr the world's mayor newspapers to obscure local books
and brochures. While the overt evidence in itself leaves no room for doubt
as to the method and extent of Bloc research of this type, it has also been
confirmed 1 by a recent East German IS defector who described in
detail the overt research materials available to psychol gical mc8 warfare
_in>ther.,