REACTION TO WESTERN PROPAGANDA BALLOONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005100330007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IIUIUR, _ /JNAG'Y REPORT
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THIS IS UNIEVtALUATED IN-FORM ATION
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Reaction to Western Propaganda Balloons
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DA 0M STIR. 29 October 1954
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.Q. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPPLEI ENT TO
REPORT NO.
1.. Large A.
Curtai
f balloons carrying messages of freedom behind the Iron
nded in the Melnik area of Czechoslovakia. Scores of
the ba -mm'anded in the trees and
the col ection_effortsof the SNB an
m embers` ni IMJVA~Canda, m AP-
the
people 'E
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much easi ir: ?for t.haa~ii
important and exact:
the Soviet orbit.
and literature in other languages the publishing of1jjich-is forbidden in
f the area. In spite of
hoslovak,Communist Party
nto the hands of the local
da material.with~much interest.
ever, in many cases the people
2. Many people wish that these balloons would drop samp
3. As a propaganda channel, the balloons are good and the material is read
by all classes of Czechs.
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