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Page 78, line 19 ... for "in only eight" read "in only seven. "
Page 101, line 14 . , for "HVA (Haupverwaltung Aufklaerung)"
read "HVA (Hauptverwaltung Aufklaerung)."
Page 109, line 1 ... for "non-Bloc press" read "non-Bloc
CP press. "
ANNEX 4b, Summit Conference Campaign . renumber the
chart to read "ANNEX 4-B" in the upper right corner.
ANNEX 5a, Israeli General Staff Campaign .. renumber the
chart to read "ANNEX 5 -A" in the upper right corner.
ANNEX 7c, Cesko Slovo Campaign ... for the last line of the
third block in the extreme right column of the chart read
25X1A8a "list which was stolen 15 June,"
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PROPAGANDA FORGERIES, 1957-59 - ALPHABETICAL LIST
Two cables, surfaced in the 28 September 1957 issue of Blitz.
Purportedly sent by U.S. Ambassador ALLISON, in Indonesia,
to the U.S. Embassy in Taipei. The first reported on "the
necessity of increasing military aid" to the revel forces in
Indonesia, while the second was a "progress report" on U.S.
efforts to overthrow President SUKARNO. The second closed
with a note on details of packaging arms shipments for
smuggling to the dissident DARUL ISLAM leaders in Indonesia.
Surfaced in Blitz, 28 September 1957.
Letter purportedly written by U.S. Assistant Defense
Secretary Frank B. BERRY to Defense Secretary Neil
Mc ELROY on 27 March 1958. The letter was a
"confidential report" to Secretary Mc ELROY, stating
that medical examinations had shown that 67. 3 percent of
all U.S. Air Force flight personnel were psychoneurotic
(alcoholics, sex perverts, etc.) due to the strain of flying
with atomic bomb loads. Surfaced in Neues Deutschland,
7 May 1958.
BEN GURION/EISENHOWER CORRESPONDENCE
"Secret letter which Israeli Premier BEN GURION has
exchanged with President EISENHOWER since about 16 July,
i. e. , two days after the revolution in Iraq, and continuing
to date. " Surfaced in Cairo daily AL AHRAM, with the
above introduction, on 3 October 1958. Tied by subsequent
replay with the ISRAELI GENERAL STAFF campaign.
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in Blitz of 13 July 1957, of the existence of
a State Department directive to Ambassador BISHOP, in
Thailand, ordering him to use all local U.S. intelligence
facilities "to screen the loyalties of the King and his
Government members. if
CESKE SLOVO
Forgery of an entire issue of a bona fide Czech emigre
newspaper. CESKE SLOVO, which is published by Czech
emigres in Munich. The forged issue announced that
CESKE SLOVO was going out of existence because its
editors were disillusioned with the West, and carried
other anti-Western propaganda. Mailed "black", June 1958.
Blitz of 13 December 1958 reported that CHIANG
Kai-shek had recently written a letter to President
EISENHOWER, warning that "every third soldier" in the
CHINAT Army was disloyal.
"Secret memorandum" allegedly written by U.S.
Secretary of State DULLES to President EISENHOWER,
stating that the real objective of U. S. policy in the Middle
East was to suppress national independence movements and to
establish the U.S. in the colonial role previously occuped
by Great Britain and France. Surfaced in an article on the
ROCKEFELLER LETTER. The article ended, "it is clear
that the (DULLES) memorandum met with the agreement
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of the National Security Council and served as a basis
for the so-called EISENHOWER DOCTRINE. " Surfaced in
Neues Deutschland, 10 March 1957.
ERHARD LETTER
Letter allegedly written by Ludwif ERHARD, West
German Minister of Economics, to Chancellor ADENAUER,
reporting that "the highest representatives of the West
German armament industry support ADENAUERIs policy
of remilitarization without reserve and emphatically
ask ADENAUER to frustrate all attempts toward a relaxation
of international tension, to prevent the convening of the Summit
Conference, and to reject along with the U.S. , the policy of
peaceful coexistence." Surfaced RUDE PRAVO (Prague),
ZZ May 1958.
FROST LETTER
Letter allegedly written by Rear Admiral Laurence
FROST, Chief of U.S. Naval Intelligence Bureau, to
Indonesian. rebel leader KAWILARANG. The letter "told the
rebels not to despair just because the U.S. issued statements
expressing, on the surface, non-interference in the
Indonesian civil war, " and added, "We will continue giving
assistance to you through Taiwan and the Philippines and
other channels.'" Surfaced in The Mirror, Rangoon,
8 June 1958.
Purportedly written by former U.S. Under Secretary
of State Herbert HOOVER, Jr., to "the American capitalist
CURTIS who is now in Venezuela. " The letter is a
confidential offer to CURTIS of the job of directing the
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U.S. Government program for wresting control of the Sahara
oil fields away from France and obtaining ownership for
U.S. oil companies instead. (The letter did not show the
identity of the addressee, which was supplied editorially, as
above, by Neues Deutschland in surfacing the forgery.)
Surfaced in Neues Deutschland 22 January 1958.
ISRAELI GENERAL STAFF PLAN
Two phases: The first was launched as a rumor campaign, in
Europe and the Middle East, that the French and Israeli General
Staffs were working together on a plan for joint Israeli/French
action against Egypt. Rumors March-April 1957.
The second--tied with the first in later replay--was a
propaganda forgery entitled "Strategic Plan of the Israeli
Army for 1956-57 -- Translated from the original in Hebrew,
published in a booklet entitled "Dagger of Israeli" by BLITZ,
in Bombay, in fall of 1957. The "Strategic Plan" purported
to show Israeli planning to seize the territories of all its Arab
neighbors.
Letter which in the BEIRUT AL-MASAA and subsequent
CHICOM versions was signed "JOHN H" but in the Soviet
replay versions was signed "JOHNSON". Letter purported to
be written to members of the U.S. Army Task Force in
Lebanon by an officer in the 75th U.S. Engineer Battalion,
saying, "I arrived together with a group of American officers
from Munich on 27 July.... A few days ago we received
orders to remain in Lebanon for 15 n-onths to insure U.S.
security and tranquility. In addition to this, it is intended
to carry out large-scale technical work in Lebanon for
turning the Riyaq and AI-Qualyat airports into bases for
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American planes with atomic weapons. Five sites for the
launching of rockets will be built on the Syrian-Lebanese
frontier.... " Surfaced in Beirut Al-Masaa 25 August 1958.
KISHI/DULLES PACT
Blitz of 12 October 1957 alleged the existence of a secret
pact between Japanese Premier KISHI and Secretary of State
DULLES "to permit use of Japanese troops anywhere in Asia. "
MURPHY LETTER
Letter addressed to U.S. Ambassador McCLINTOCK
in Lebanon and purportedly written by Deputy Under
Secretary of State Robert MURPHY. The letter "assured"
Ambassador McCLINTOCK that "NASSER is not the man
we shall support" since "you are right to note that we have
nothing in common with NASSER and his kind.... " Mailed
"black" at various points in the Middle East in March 1959.
O'SHAUGHNESSY LETTER
Letter purportedly written to the State Department
by Elim O'SHAUGHNESSY, Chief of the Political Division
of the American Embassy in West Germany. The letter
called the attention of the reader to the activity of reactionary
ultranationalist groups in West Germany and advised that the
U.S. Government support and use these groups. Mailed
"black", in West Germany in July 1957.
POWERS ORDER
Allegation that "a U.S. pilot stationed in West Germany"
had, in the course of a conversation, disclosed details of a
"secret order" by General Thomas POWERS, head of the
Strategic Air Command, ordering planes with nuclear loads
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to fly only over foreign territory and not to endanger the
American population by flying over the U. S. Surfaced
in Neues Deutschland on 2 October 1958.
RANKIN CABLES (2)
Forged cables purportedly sent by U.S. Ambassador
RANKIN, in Tai-pei, to the Secretary of State. They
discussed methods of assassinating CHIANG Kai-shek and
included a recommendati.n by Ambassador RANKIN that
"Version 3"--murder disguised as accident--be used.
Surfaced in Blitz on 21 September 1957.
ROCKEFELLER LETTER
Purportedly written to President EISENHOWER by
Nelson A. ROCKEFELLER, outlining a plan for U.S.
domination of the world through use of economic and
military assistance pacts. The letter stressed the need to
play up the economic rather than the military aspect of
U.S. aid programs, in an obvious effort to discredit all
future U.S. economic aid projects by identifying them
as instruments of a U. S. plan for world domination.
Surfaced in Neues Deutschland 15 February 1957.
ROUNTREE CIRCULAR
Purportedly a State Department circular sent by
cable to U.S. diplomatic missions in the Middle East.
"Signed" by Assistant Secretary of State William ROUNTREE.
The document stated that one of the principal aims of U. S.
policy in-the Middle East was to split the UAR into its
original Syrian and Egyptian components, to stop the
growth of Egyptian influence, and to spoil Soviet-UAR
relations. Surfaced in Al Abram, Cairo, on 26 July 1958.
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SJAMSUDDIN LETTER
Allegedly written by rebel leader M. SJAMSUDDIN
to U.S. Ambassador Mac ARTHUR in Tokyo, to "confirm"
U.S. agreement to aid the Indonesian rebels. The letter
began, "Your phone call proved to be real magic. The
meeting ... was very useful. We have agreed practically
on all the details. Now, I hope, our ties will remain
permanent and we will receive all necessary materials
without delay.... " Surfaced in The Mirror, in Burma,
15 May 1958.
STATE DEPARTMENT CABLE (TAI-PEI SERIES)
Purported cable from the State Department to the
U.S. Embassy in Tai-pei, stating that "Control over
the armed forces of the Asian members of SEATO remains
our prime objective" and outlining subversive steps to be
taken in the SEATO area to achieve this aim. Surfaced in
Blitz on 1Z October 1957.
STATE DEPARTMENT DIRECTIVE ON SUMMIT MEETING
Allegedly a "secret instruction from the U. S. State
Department to the chiefs of U. S. foreign n issions abroad,
explaining the U. S. policy of sabotaging negotiations for a
Summit Conference. " Surfaced by official East German
news agency ADN on 7 June 1958.
SUDAN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
On 1 December 1958, the official Czechoslovakian
press agency CTK sent out a release, crediting"the Cairo
press" with 1 ublication of a report that the new Sudanese
Government had found secret documents of the old Government,
showing U.S. bribery of high Sudanese officials.
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Allegation only, in an 11 August 1958 news report on
RADIO BAGHDAD that "In Lebanon, Saeb Salem has
received a cable from. four American paratroopers expressing
their desire to volunteer in the people's forces. "
U.S. PILOT LETTERS (4)
The first of the four "U. S. Pilot Letters" was
purportedly written by a U.S. pilot stationed in England,
threatening to drop an atomic bomb in the North Sea in order
to alert English opinion to the dangers of an accidentally-
triggered nuclear war. The three later letters were along the
same lines, but differing in details of the threat made. All
four were written in an obvious effort to "prove" the existence
of the "psychoneurotic 67. 3 percent" on when the BERRY
LETTER had reported. All were released by the Soviet
Embassy in London, July-September 1958.
WELENSKY DOCUMENT
Text allegedly "emanating from the office of the Prime
Minister of the Central African Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland, Sir Roy WELENSKY," and signed by "Alfred
FINSENT, Head of the European organization of Central.
African, and Sir Roy WELENSKY, Prime Minister of the
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. " The text stated
that it had been officially decided that African nationalist
prisoners were to be transferred to "another concentration
camp where all those who would not express their resolution
to break with African nationalism would be extern inated. "
Editorial comment added that "the other concentration
camp" to which the document referred was the Hola can;p in
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Kenya, and that "the African prisoners involved number
about 80,000. If, after interrogation, they refuse to disown
the Nationalist movement they will be thrown into ditches
called 'poison wells' filled with poisoned water. Within a
few days the poisoned water will penetrate the body and kill, "
and added that "The Cairo Bureau of the Kenya African
Association states that according to their knowledge, 35
Africans have already been exterminated 'experin entally'
by this procedure." Surfaced by the official Hungarian
press agency MTI on 4 March 1959.
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