INTERIM PROPAGANDA GUIDANCE ON STALIN'S DEATH

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01065A000500020002-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 5, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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5 March 1953
&MORAN= FOR: CHIeFS ALL AULA AND IO DIVISIONS
ATTENTION: PP OFFICeRS
SUBJeer: Interim Propaganda Guidance on Stalin's Death
1. The following is an interim propaganda guidance designed to deal
with the period prior to and immediately following Stalin's death. The
propaganda themes are grouped together under appropriate target audiences
but this should not (exclude using them to other targets which the field
considers suitable.
2. Use of themes conducive to creating an atmosphere of apprehension
among Soviet and satellite representatives abroad should be closely coordinated
with operations aimed at defecting such officials*
30 PROPAGAI iDA TH AILS
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10 The people of the free world sympathize with the
Soviet people in the privations they have endured in the past
and hope that eitalin's death will give the peoples of the USSR
an opportunity to have a type of government responsive to their
desires for freedom, justice and peace,
2. Stalin's passing from power offers his successor an
opportunity to reorient Soviet foreign policy in the direction
of sincere international cooperation and permanent peace. Such
a puede would enable the Soviet Union to realize all its
potentialities as a great, rich nation and would bring to the
Soviet peoples a better life and a position of security in the
family of nations.
H. he Satellitew
10 Stalin's death moans that there will be a new dictator
in the UJSR bent on entrenching his power by appointing only
men of his choosing to responsible positions throughout the Soviet
orbit. He will therefore purge officials, high and low, fen the
satellite governments and replace than with his own men. Since no
one can be sure how the power struggle in the Kremlin will come
out, all current officials are possible targets for puree,
2. Protesting a
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2. Protectiug deWrtion to tto precepts of Stalinicm vill
pre,:ect actmatiat rrw dismissal zy the now leader. At. iccin
adapted WAre to his purposet and as 3ta1is adapted MAex acd lArAin
to his tvirposeo, tha maw dictator 4.11 adapt Mars, WO:a
St4"3,11i to nis own and* and any whose former' actions havo TA
cnommut with the new party line will be 4)urged. The td,*-4et,L
ixo4t4bwt7 of Communism is in itself e threst to those who tt7o,t,
refuse t*elmg the part/ line.
3. /here are many iadications that Chines* Centatlnivrt PUitfre
CNO Tait-Tong: rill Inherit Stalin's Treition as top COWWW.V; limder
4nd Sttills hifteelf cited 4ao'so theoretical works as va.D4,eb--%1 factri-
bstimo. tc Cormastist theo7. This w1,11 Man thOt, the Soviot orb.tt
couutrIts limiters fur*r! will be Foverned by an Asian detriAt and
Ult. 01 their energies will geared toward incrausibg Ute vov:i-vAc
trrestigr of Chime.
A7, To lins-Crsitytmlanist Pariles
1. indivate tbec4. 40servienee to W144iTA! tan CC longer 1.41 cns-
00140crail AmPlOixiegoi tliwgiano# #00 StAitain, tkfe fiNioi440 loo7 vwxra-
linutAt aud will saw becose anti-national fifth celumn at41.-4,4
fov a foreign power,
2. Also play themts 2 e1 3 ir B abaft.
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1. Speculate thst with Stalin's dtath the situation 14 'the
Soviet Union is so utosttled that the free world must increave its
efforts fcr tusl defense as a deterrent to any more blaterly
aggressive policy the atv Soviet leshership night favor.
2. Suggest that the Kremlin power group headed by Malertkov
lu responsible for cmdermiaing Stella 's health and arranged se
Doctor's purge to serve 64 an a priority cover for Stalin's tiwiestuaa
demise.
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Chief
Paycholo6Ocal Warfare Division
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