INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04864A000300020018-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NOR
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT INDICATIONS OF pSyCFnL0G1CAL VULNERABILITIES
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1-14 July 1952
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The start of the harvesting season in the southern areas of the Ukraine, it is
implicitly admitted, has not revealed the expected high work tempos. In a number of
oblasts, in fact, field work is even more sluggish than last year. Mounting official
concern about the prospect of better winter conditions for the livestock is seen
in the continuing editorial strictures about the unjustifiably slow progress in fodder
procurement. Much of the blame for this unsatisfactory performance is placed on the
familiar reluctance to make better use of the available machinery, as in Kazakhstan for
examples where a good deal of the work is still done by hand. Reports'from the same
Republic reveal that the fight against the widespread violations of the agricultural
etattute has been only partially successful since a large share of the stolen farm
property and funds has not yet been recovered.
The much-discussed topic of suppression of criticism within the Party organizations
is still aired on a number of regional transmitters. Aversion to criticism at some
Party levels is indeed so strong that certain officials are said to be "going to
extremes" (udaritsya v krainost) to avoid it. One of such extremes is a do-nothing
policy which, it is hinted, is preferable to defending one's action against criticism
"from below" (snizu). The communist personnel training system, and lack. of discximinatior
in admission to Party membership continue to claim official attention.
In the anti-U.S. campaign there is increasing emphasis on the qualitative aspect of
anti-Americanism--bigger and beastlier crimes at home and abroad, etc.-but the volume
of broadcasts devoted to the theme has been more or less constant.
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