BI-WEEKLY PROPAGANDA GUIDANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000100010019-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 8, 1959
• Content Type: PERRPT

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The moat extensive xh,,.ke?up in personnel since Stalin's dvmath isas currently
taking place in the USSR. The pmrgan; s have been gathering speed sine the removal of
Police Chief Se rovo On 20 March, Kos;y yin wars appointed Chairman of the Gosspian
(State planning), The' fact that during hies; early career he enjoyr:d the favor of Molotov
and and Bulgaain, thar?.t, he has been in charge of coneum+ r goodsis, and that at the 21st Party
Congress he was very reserved in h=. criticism of the a nt.i.Party group, has given rise
to speculation concerning the reason for this appoinatmentaotitan policies and contemplated actions. An all-out international
Communist propaganda barrage to presently being directed at the Laotian Government's
action against the Communistdinopired mutiny of the two Pathet Lao battalions (armed
and dominated by the Vietmlab). In November 1957 the Laotian Government agreed that
1500 Pathet Lao troops would be integrated into the Laotian Army. The Neo Lao Bak Sat
(NLHS), made up of Pathet Lao members, was recognized as a legal political party.
The NLRS leaders demanded higher ranks and more important positions than the
Laotian Government offered. The Government agreed to the NLHS demands and
scheduled formal integration 11 May 1959. However, on 10 May, Prince Souphanouvong,
leader of the NLHS, ordered the Pathet Lao not to participate in integration ceremonies.
Legally, this order constituted an act of rebellion since the Pathet Lao had been placed
under the command of the, Laotian Army by the November 1957 agreement. The Laotian
Government issued the ultimatum that, unless the Pathet Lao accepted the assigned ranks
or resign from the service within twenty-four hours, they would be considered in open
mutiny. Laotian army unite surrounded the Pathet Lao battalions. Souphanouvong
ordered the Pathhet Lao to surrender on 17 May. On 19 May, one battalion surrendered.
but 700 men of the remaining battalion escaped in the direction of North Vietnam. There
are persistent reports that the Pathet Lao mutiny was inspired by the Vietminh forces .
50-100 of whom had entered Laos in Laotian unifora s probably to lead the Pathet Lao
mutineers into North Vietnam.
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Soviet eoonbmic,pressure on Finland which brought down the Fager
holr 1 Government was relaxed as a result df the .Kekk4inen rushchev meetings of
M ry 22 and 23 in Le grad? The flew Finish Governments headed by Agrarian
S aela.inan,; which was formed withonat the participation of the Social Democrats,
found the favor of Khrushchev. When the YSocial Democrats started to attack the
new governments the Soviets launched a` propaganda campaign against thethQ' On 25
April, The Soviet Gover ,e organ, Izv 'Published a long article directed
against the "reactionaryr" circles in Finland who were trying to bring about the fall
of the government It specifically singled o the Social Democratic leadersQ
mentioning the names of Chaim. are Vaino Tamer, former First Secretary of the
4arty Vaino L.eakineAD Vice-Chairman Olavi Lindblom and Kaarlo Pitsinki,, Secretary
aneral of the part Th
y,eeeanenwere ACCti,eed not only of pursuing a reactionarv
policy but of being the sarvard;e of_tmperialiat circles beyond the Finnish borders'
8 May,, 'Pravda, the Soviet Party argamm, carried an interview of Khru shchevg s
which repeated the thargrs made previously itaIzvestiaa Other articles and radio
broadcasts directed at Finland continued to repeatthe same charges. The brazenness
of the , Soviet attitude is wall illustrated 'by th e'Radio MoscavW cormmex to r who
said
that !'although some Finnish Aewspapers soaagbt to accuse the Soviet Union of into
rm
vention.ins Fin]and~a' internal affairs, in reality the Soviet Premier's words against
e 'innish So i Democratic leader because of one eidsd. orientation toward the"
Western irralaerialiets cats only be regarded ais sni for a