INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04864A000200090013-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY COMNNNIST CHINA
SUBJECT INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VITLNERABILI~IES
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THIS iS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CPW Report No. 10 - (:OMMUNT~T-CHINA
(Feb,;' lgw~le.r 1952
During the week ending Feb. 21~ Chinese Communist broadcasts to the Chinese people continued
to lay extremely heavy stress on the antiwaste, anticlorruption, and antibureaucracy `.
drive, both in voice broadcasts and in Peking's numeral code transmissions to the press.
The 1t~5 news programs monitored from 22 regional .stations in all parts of China carried
637 separate news items, Of this total, 372 items, approximately 58 percent, were concerned
with the drive, leaving only 12 percent to be devoted to all other subjects, including
international news and war reports from Korea. This total includes only regularly
scheduled news broadcasts, and does not take into consideration the special broadcasts
t~f anticorruption rallies, which were not monitored.
Propaganda techniques emplyyef to popularize the drive inclu.de'd t~ew and' -more forceful
methods such as the presentation of cards to inspection committee members, with orders
to merchants and businessmen to aid the bearers of these. cards in their search for
corruption. Numerous confession and accusation meetings still were reported, along
7ti"th~rf~,1r3:~g indications that these meetings are losing their appeal. The Canton radio
reported the setting up of a special liaison committee, and a special office, through
which all accusations must be channeled in the'fztu:re. There seemed to be an increase
in the number of arrests reported, and a decrease in the number of pardons granted,
although a considerable number of businessmen and public employees were granted pardons
r,following full confessions." Many of the confessions were not considered full enough,
and more attention seemed to be given to linking the "exposing of other corrupt elements"
with the confessions. Shop clerks and factory workers still were being utilized on a large
scale to uncover corruption among merchants and businessmen, but this phase of the drive
seemed to be given less stress-than in past weeks.
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