THE FOREIGN INFORMATION PROGRAM STATUS REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1952 PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

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THE FOREIGN INFORAiATION PROGRAM
Status Report for Fiscal Year 1952
Prepared by the Department of State.
1. TASKS,, In performance of the mission, the tasks of the Department of
Statets foreign information and educational exchange programs, carried on
by the International Information Administration, continued to be those set
forth in Annex V to NSC 114/2, in order of priority as follows:
(i) "The first task is to multiply and intensify psychological
deterrents to aggression by Soviet Communism, whether in the form of
outright action by the armed forces of the Soviet Union, of Communist
China or of the satellites of the Soviet Union, or in the form of
the subversion of existing free governments by civil forces acting
on behalf of Soviet Communism."
(ii) "The second task is to intensify and to accelerate the growth
of confidence in and among the peoples and the governments of the
free world, especially in Western Europe, including Western Germany.,
in their capability successfully to deter aggression of Soviet
Communism or to defeat it should it nonetheless occur and to inspire
concrete international, national and individual action accordingly.!"
(iii) "The third task is to combat, particularly in the Near and
Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, extremist tendencies
threatening the undermining of the cohesion and the stability of
the free world and the withdrawal of governments and peoples into
neutralism."
(iv) "The fourth task is to maintain among the peoples held
captive by Soviet Communism, including the peoples of the Soviet
Union, hope of ultimate liberation and identification with the free
world and to nourish, without provoking premature action, a popular
spirit disposed to timely resistance to regimes now in power."
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(v) "The fifth task is to maintain among peoples and governments
traditionally lixYked with the United States, particularly in Latin
America, a continued recognition of mutual interdependence and to
promote national and individual action accordingly."
2. BUDGET. The budget available to the Department of State for informa-
tion programs for fiscal year 1952 was:
Requested by
the P4esidert
Allocations of
Congressional
41.1otirance
Facilities
None requested
($36,001,160)#
Operations
International Press
Service
$11,952,304
$ 8,465,815
International Motion
Picture Service
13,074,035
10,194,554
International Broadcasting
Service
25,164,655
19,872,864
Information Service
Centers
7,133,909
4,647,780
Exchange of Persons
Service
10,652,960
6,515,802
Field Operations:
NEA ;x6,038,231
FE 5,360,673
APA 3,291,311
EUR 5,793,877
27,329,737
20,148,504
Policy and Program
Direction
2,226,552
2,203,146
Administrative
Su
ort
17.465.g4S
14;226;535
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Total
$115,000,000
86,575,000
Iranian program
(PL 861)
106,219
Finnish (PL 265)
298,697
*Carry-over available for obligations during FY 1952.
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Austria
2,024,650
1,879,800
Germany
14.,653s381
13,675,020
Japan (Army Transfer, PL 375)
1,565,800
3. PLANS IN OPERATION.
A. Substantive.
1. During fiscal year 1952, the following actions were taken in
accordance with plans for every country and with special plans as noted, to
intensify psychological deterrents to aggression and subversion by Soviet
Commiunism:
(a) The growing strength and unity of the free world were
projected, primarily by broadcasts of the IDS, to the peoples and
governments of nations dominated by the Soviet Union. This involved
exploitation particularly of
(i) the progressive development of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (Special Information Guidance No. 83, March 16,
1951, NATO);
(ii) the impetus given to the creation of ready defensive
capabilities among the free nations of Europe under the leader-
ship of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (ibid);
(iii) the economic and military assistance extended to free
nations b~r the United States (Special Information Guidance
No. 91, May 23, 1951, Mutual Security Program);
(iv) the maintenance by the United Nations Command of a strong
military position in Korea;
(v) the increasingly successful resistance to subversive
forces in Indochina and Malaya;
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(vi) the development of new weapons by the United States and
other free nations;
(vii) the progress achieved in establishing an effective
mobilization base in the United States;
(viii) the repeated warnings given by the United States,
Great Britain, and France that they will protect West Berlin
against aggression.
(b) The friendly disposition and the peaceful intentions of
the United States were concurrently projected. This involved exploita-
tion particularly of
(i) the proposal put forward by the United States, the
United Kingdom and France at the Sixth General Assembly of
the United -Nations for study of the limitation and balanced
reduction of. arms and armed forces (Special Information
Guidance No. 104, October 24, 1951);
(ii) the letter addressed by the President of the United States
to the President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of
the USSR expressing the friendship of the people of the
United States for the people of the USSR (Emergency Plan for
Psychological Off rLive (USSR), April 11, 1951);
(iii) the patience of the United Nations Command in seeking
an armistice in Korea on honorable terms (Special Guidance
No. 106, December 17, 1951, Korean Armistice Negotiations).,
and
(iv) special efforts in Germany to strengthen democratic youth
and woments group, and development of democratic educational
activities and community life.
(c) Aggravation of the internal weaknesses of Soviet
Communism was sought, in accordance with Emergency Plan for Psycholo-
gical Offensive, by exposition particularly of
(i) the ways in which the Soviet Union exploits its satellites
and its own people for the benefit of the regime;
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(ii) the ways in which the people of China are impoverished
and ordered to war in the interest of a foreign power (Special
Information Guidance No, 98, August 10, 1951, Friction Between
Peiping and Nvscow);
(iii) the steady reduction, because of the requirements of
adv turous imperialism, of the standard of living in areas
controlled by Soviet Communism;
(iv) the contrast between conditions in those areas and con-
ditions in the free world as testified to by defectors from
Soviet Communism;
(v) the treatment meted out to racial and religious minorities
within areas controlled by Soviet Communism;
(vi) the attempted destruction by Soviet Communism of the
national traditions and the cultural heritages of peoples
falling under its sway;
(vii) the refusual of the majority of the prisoners of war
in the hands of the United Nations Command in Korea to agree to
voluntary repatriation (Special Information Guidance No. 109,
February 5, 1951, Exchange of Prisoners of War);
(viii) the Congressional inquiry into the massacre at Katyn
in 1943.
(d) Particularly in areas not under the domination of the
Kremlin, exposing the myths surrounding and inspired by Soviet
Comnrnnism, minimizing the fears as to the strength of fifth columns
acting on its behalf and recalling the fate of free peoples whose
governments have attempted to collaborate with Soviet Communism.
This has involved particularly
(i) countering the allegations that the United States employed
bacteriological warfare in Korea by seeking to compel the USSR
to accept or reject competent, impartial inquiry into the
charges;
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(ii) challenging the pretensions of peace of the USSR
(Special Information Guidance No. 50, July 27, 1950, The
Betrayal of Peace, Special Information Guidance No. 96,
July 31, 1951, International Youth Festival; Special Information
Guidance No. 66, November 13, 1950, Second World Peace Congress);
(iii) exposing the nature of the Moscow Economic Conference
(Special..Information Guidance No, 112, March 17, 1952, The
Moscow Economic Conference);
(iv) exploiting evidence of the decline of membership in the
Communist Party outside the USSR and of the diminished effective-
ness of its activities, (Special Information Guidance No. 76,
February 2, 1951, Communist Strength in Western Europe; Special
Information Guidance No. 81, March 10, 1951, Communist
Fallibility;
(v) keeping alive in the minds of others the fate of the
satellites of Eastern turope.
2. The following actions were taken to accelerate the growth of con-
fidence in the free world in its capability to deter aggression or to defeat
it should it nonetheless occur.
(a) Convincing the peoples and the governments of the free world
of the need for continued building of ready military capabilities as
a deterrent to war and of the progress made in achieving them. This
involved
(i) continuous interpretation of the problems facing the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization and. the progress made in solving
them. (Special Information Guidance No. 83, March .16, 1951,
The Crisis of Confidence; Special Information Guidance No. 102,
September 11, 1951, NATO Meeting, Ottawa; Special Information
Guidance No. 110, February 6, 1952, Psychological Approach to
NAG, Lisbon);
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(ii) exploitation of the development of security arrangements
in the Pacific (Special Information Guidance No. 100, August 28,
1951, Peace Treaty with Japan.)
(b) Developing understanding of the advantage of and the neces-
sity for the participation of Japan, Germany, Yugoslavia and Spain in
the common defense of the free world (Special Information Guidance No,
65, November 16, 1950, Aid to Yugoslavia; Special Information Guidance
No. 68, November'30, 1950, German Participation in the Defense of
Western Europe; Special Information Guidance No. 78, February 2, 1951,
Germany and Europe Defense; Special Information Guidance No. 100,
August 28, 1951, Peace Treaty with Japan.)
(i) "neutralism and neo-Nazism in Germany",
(e) Encouraging the peoples and governments of Europe in the
development of common institutions for mutual welf re and defense. This
involved demonstrating the interest of the United States in
(i) the Schuman Plan (Special Information Guidance No. 77,
Schuman Plan Signing; Special Information Guidance No. 85,
March 27, 1951, Germany and the Schuman Plan).
(ii) the European Defense Community (Special Information
Guidance No. 3.01, August 28, 1951, The German Defense
Contribution),
(iii) the Council of Europe (Special information Guidance No. 86,
May 8, 1951, The Concept of Europe).
(d) Maintaining confidence in the peaceful intentions, the
consistent policies and the reliable leadership of the United States
and minimizing differences with its allies, This involved
(i) developing understanding of the responsible policies of the
United States in conducting, as United Nations Command, the war
and the armistice negotiations in Korea (Special Information
Guidance No. 106, December 17, 1951, Korean Armistice Negotia-
tions; Special Information Guidance No. 110, February 5, 1952,
Exchange of Prisoners of War; Special Information Guidance No,
113, March 25, 1952, Chinese Irregular Troops in Burma),
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(ii) seeking to reduce points of friction and differences with
allies (Special Information Guidance No. 92, May 31, 1951,
US and NATO Posts Overseas;. Special Information Guidance No.
93, June 11, 1951, Danger Signals to Ang1o-Americs,n.Cooperation;
Sprrial Information Guidance No. 107, December 29, 1951,
Mr. Churchill's Visit to United States).
(iii) explaining policies of United States deeply affecting
other countries (Special Information Guidance No. 91, May 23,E
1951, Mutual Security Program; Special Information Guidance
No. 9/+, June 16, 1951, Trade Act Extension; Special Information
Guidance No. 83, March 16, 1951, NATO-14DAP; Special Information
Guidance No. 63, October 27, 1950, U.S. Economic Mission to
Philippines).
(iv) exploiting the demonstrated willingness of the United State;
to seek to relax existing international tensions by peaceful
negotiation, as r't the meeting of the Deputy Foreign Ministers
in Paris, March-June 1951, and in proposing at the Sixth
General Assembly an inquiry into the limitation and balanced
reduction of armaments.
3. The following actions were taken, largely as the result of daily
and weekly guidance and country plans, to combat, particularly in the Near
and Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, extremist tendencies, national-
istic and religious, threatening to undermine the cohesion and stablity of
the free world (Special Information Guidance No. 89, May 21, 1951, South
Asia).
(a) Demonstration of the continuing interest of the United
States in the achievement of the legitimate national interests on
terms of safeguarding the security of the free world. This involved
(i) exploitation of technical assistance by the United States
and other free nations to underdeveloped areas;
(ii) exploitation of other assistance to free governments
(Special Information Guidance No. 82, March 19, 1951, U. S.
Grain to India);
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(iii) exploitation of private efforts to improve conditions in
underdeveloped areas.
(b) Encouraging the peaceful settlement of disputes threatening
stability and order.. This involved
(i) projection of the efforts of the United Nations to promote
a settlement of the dispute over Kashmir (Special Information
Guidance No. 103.. September 18, 1951, Kashmir Dispute);
(ii) putting into correct perspective the attitudes and the
actions of the United States with regard to situations in
EVJpt, Tunisia and Morocco.
(c) Encouraging the nations involved to take positive steps to
develop their own capabilities for defense,
(d) Increasing general knowledge of the aggressive intentions
of Soviet Communism and its hostility to national independence,
established religious and local cultures.
4. The following actions were taken, largely in accordance with
Special Information Guidance No. 105, November 14, 1951, The Soviet Satel-
lites of Eastern Europe, to maintain, without provoking premature deeds,
hope of ultimate liberation among the peoples held captive by Soviet
Communism:
(a) Making plain that the United States looks to the establish-
ment in nations dominated by Soviet Communism of governments command-
ing the confidence of their peoples, freely expressed through orderly
representative processes. This involved exploitation particularly of
(i) statements of responsible public officials and private
citizens of the United States condemning the Sovietization of
those nations and expressing the conviction that freedom will
be regained by them.
(ii) statements and actions by emigres of a responsible charac-
ter reflecting an undiminished interest in and a steady pre-
paration for the restoration of national sovereignty;
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(iii) actions taken by the United States to safeguard the
legitimate interests of its citizens subjected to illegal
persecutions by the. governments in power.
(b) Promoting faith that the present situation in the world is
not permanent and that freedom will ultimately triumph through the
exploitation particularly of
(i) evidence of the illegitimacy and hence the impermanence of
existing regimes;
(ii) the actions listed in 2 above.
.(e) Keeping alive national traditions and values linking captive.
with the free world through the exploitation particularly of
(i) the literature, the music, the cultural and scientific
achievements of the captive peoples in the past and by
nationals of captive nations now living and working in the
free world;
(ii) evidence of appreciation of these achievements by the
peoples ,of the free world;
(iii) national and religious holidays, particularly those
the celebration of which is discouraged or prohibited by
regimes now in temporary power;
(iv) the growth for the development of communities of free
nations.built upon traditions and values shared by the captive
peoples (Special Information Guidance No. 86, May 8. 1951,
e Concept of Europe).
(d) Keeping the captive peoples accurately informed of the
situation in the free world as a source of hope and a guide to timely
action through
(i) the wide dissemination of facts about the policies and
actions of the nations of the free world and of the reckless
acts and policies of the USSR; and
(ii) sober interpretation of both the news of the free world
and of Soviet Communism.
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5. The following actions were taken, largely in accordance with
country plans and daily guidance} to maintain among peoples and governments,
particularly in Latin America, traditionally linked with the United States
a continued recognition of mutual interests;
(a~ Fostering conscious public support of the principles of
Pan-Americanism. This involved
(i) sustained exploitation of the American Foreign Ministers
Meeting, March 1951 (Special Information Guidance No. 84,
March 27, 1951, American Foreign Ministers Meeting);
(ii) exploitation of the signing of bilateral military assis-
tance treaties with seven nations of Latin America;
(iii) exploitation of visits exchanged between leading per-
sonalities of nations of Latin America and the United States,
(iv) numerous special occasions to emphasize democratic and
historic solidarity of the hemisphere.
(b) Demonstration of the continuing interest of the United
States in the achievement of legitimate national aspirations. This
involved
(i) exploitation of bonds of interest between labor in United
States and labor in Latin America;
(ii) exploitation of themes and developments as stated in
3(a) above.
(iii) the signing of Point IV agreements, and 10th Anniversary
of beginning of IIAA programs in Latin America.
(iv) exploitation of efforts and achievements of private U.S.
capital to help social and economic development in other Ameri-
can republics;
(c) Development of awareness of dangers of Soviet Communism.
This involved
(i) concentrated program in Panama of exposure of myths sur-
rounding Soviet Communism, emphasized by visit of ship-mounted
radio transmitter "Courier."
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(ii) exposure of myths as set forth in 1(d) above.
(iii) exploited participation of Colombian troops in Korea.
(d) Development of confidence in leadership of the United States.
This involved
(i) exploitation as set forth in 2(d) above.
(ii) use of Puerto Rican example to show U.S. devotion to prin-
ciple of free determination of peoples.
B. Ot.)era.tional
The following represent major pals put into operation during Fiscal
Year 1952.
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1.. The United States Information and Educational Exchange Program
was reorganized into the United States International Information Administra-
tion.
2. Integration of informational operations was begun with the Mutual.
Security Administration in NSA countries.
3. World-wide integration of informational operations was achieved
with the technical Coop ration Administration.
4, Training;
(a) Selected overseas local personnel were brought to the United
States for indoctrination and intensive training. This program, be-
gun before Fiscal Year 1952, was continued during the year under
review.
(b) Orientation courses and media training for American per-
sonnel newly joining, the IIA program, and on-the-job re-training
were reorganized and strengthened;
(c) Coordinated training abroad of local personnel# especially
in American library techniques, was vide a regular feature of the
United States Information Service (USIS) operations in France and
Italy.
5. Take-over of the Public Affairs Program in Germany and Austria
on June 30, 1952, was planned and put into effect on the target date.
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6. Take-over of the Civil Information and Education program operated
by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan, was planned and
put into effect on the coming into force of the Peace Treaty between the
United States and Japan on April 28, 1952.
Genera,,,
7. Decentralization of operations was accelerated, marked by
(a) Increased local radio programming abroad.,
(b) Increased production of press and publications abroad now amounting to 80% of the total output .-, from raw materials and
pilot models supplied from Iiashington,
(c) local production of moving pictures, carrying a propaganda
message, in twelve countries,
(d) increased translations of American books, totalling 163
titles in 23 languages.
8. Greater emphasis was placed on working with and through indigenous
groups and channels, to achieve greater audience acceptability of the
United States propaganda message, and to encourage greater participation
by those groups in spreading that message.
9. A plan was adopted to increase the acceptance of American troops
overseas and combat communist propaganda against them,
10. "to offset the Soviet "Hate America campaign" and the bacteriolo-
gical warfare charges".
U. An outstanding example of sharper country planning was the
"geographic concentration" program devised by USIS-Italy, calling for in-
tensified and tailored USIS efforts in area of special political importance
in the forthcoming national elections. This program has been under way
since the beginning of the period under review.,
12. United States participation in international trade fairs was
furthered by the collection made by the Department of Commerce with IIA
support, of an industrial exhibit which will be shown first at the Izmir
Fair and later in Asia and Europe.
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13. A working committee was established to,coordinate IIA pro-
6I'a3aming and to stimulate output of special materials for the Middle East,
which will reflect United States interest in and understanding of Islamic
peoples for other than military or political reasons.
14. A plan was adopted to counter communist influences in Indian
universities and intellectual circles, where 20% are regarded as being
coinanunist. According to the plan, a USIS officer will visit each univer-
sity twice annually, Prominent Americans will make lecture tours throughout
India, and Indian professors and students will receive special mailings,
including follow-up letters,
Broade4s_tn Service
15. IIA now operates 62 land-based transmitters, of which 38 are
located in the United States and 24 at various points overseas
in 46 languages.
18, The primary responsibility for USIS television activity was as-
signed the Broadcasting Service in close collaboration with the notion Pic-
ture Service (INS) through the mechanism of the IBS-INS Television Board;
INS was made responsible for contacts with the film industry in procuring
films for TV use.
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Press Service
19. The Press Service was reorganized along regional instead of
media lines.
20. A series of background and action kits was planned and thirteen
were issued during the year for the use of USIS overseas missions, as
follows: Essentials of Peace (exposing the communist peace offensive),
Freedom or Slavery (the fate of man under communism), Peace of Reconstructia.
(the treaty with Japan), Pattern for Aggression (Soviet strategy in North
Korea), Minorities (a progress report on minorities in the United States),
Warmonger:; Imperialist! (the United States record and the Soviet record),
NATO's third anniversary (the purpose, progress and purely defensive
character of NATO), the United States elections (explanation of the United
States political system), Credo for a Free Country (the faith that lies
back of the United States fight for liberty), Partnership for Peace (the
United Nations), Where all Americans Stand (the nature of bi-partisan
legislation), The Truth about BW (bacteriological warfare), Communism and
Sports.
21. Seven new magazines were planned and launched durin,the year,
including three in Europe where none had been published before.
22. Several interpretive news columns were planned and started to
supply the interpretation and perspective often lost through strict "news"
treatment.
23. Publication of AME'IKA magazine in Russian was given careful
review because of mounting Soviet restrictions.
Notion Picture Servigp
24. Planned production for the Fiscal Year under review was to
service 87 countries with 470 reels of new material produced or contracted
for, 4,439 foreign language reels in 40 languages with an estimated
92,000 print reels prepared for distribution. This planned production was
exceeded, with over 5,000 language reels and over 92,000 print reels
completed by Fiscal Year's end.
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25, A weekly newsreel unattributed to USIS was inaugurated during
the year. It is now distributed in the Middle and Far East in 20 language
editions to 16 countries.
Infprmatjon Center Service
26. A book publishing corporation, including on its board of director: I
distinguished American publishers,'was organized with a capital furnished
by IIA, of 3750,000. Its first area of attention will be translations into
Arabic.
27. Utilization of books to achieve psychological objectives was
expanded through:
(a) a preseritation progr, ru totalling 2.9010.9000 voluzcs;
(b) greater use of loan collections in government offices,
universities and other community centers;
(c) circulating packet libraries.
28. The number of information centers operated by USIS overseas was
increased during the year by 38, for a total of 193 centers.
du 4. - ional Exchange Seryigg
29. The selection of grantees was sharpened to focus greater psycho-
logical impact on established high priority target groups. Special efforts
are being made by overseas missions to keep in touch ,..H th grantees in their
return to their native lands.
Evaluation
30. The central Evaluation staff was made directly responsible to the
Administrator of IIA to increase its objective viewpoint by removing it Prot
planning and programming operations.
31. A series of evaluation studies and surveys have been completed.
Many of these were contracted for with private research organizations which
operate in foreign countries through indigenous research groups and
individuals.
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32. Extensive surveys into communication habits and their relation to
political and social motivations are being conducted in several countries,
notably Brazil, Mexico, India and Panama.
C. Pro,ress Towards Objectives
The degree to which a series of specific actions have contributed to
the creation of a given psychological situation can not be measured. The
broadcasts, news files, pamphlets, posters, exhibits, motion pictures,
translations, library facilities and leader and student exchanges sponsored
by the United States Government constitute only a small part of the sum of
influences affecting, the attitudes of an individual, a group or the govern-
ment of another agency. 'Moreover, the official propaganda of the United
States is itself only a projection of decisions taken and measures executed
in the other fields of national and informational activity -- political,
d3J.cmatie, economic, military. Propaganda can seek to put these decisions
and actions in the best light, but it can not far exceed their inherent
limitations.' Neither can it shut out from the minds and the emotions of
other peoples the influences directed at them from other sources. An
estimate as to how nearly a psychological task has been carried out and to
what extent a series of planned actions contributed must therefore be
highly qualified.
PLANS COIv 'LETIID TO DATE
A. Plans awaiting execution.
(a) S,ubstantive
1. Plans to deal with the special problems in the relation-
ship between United States troops in Germany and the German
civilian population.
2. Plans for fairs and congresses in Berlin.
3. Plans to increase the power of the RIAS station in Berlin,
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(b) Operational
1. The portion of the Radio Construction Program approved
by the Congress but for which appropriations have not been
made includes the following tentative projects carrying the
code names of: Negate, Vagabond "B"., Vagabond "C", George
Ocean., Peter, Maike,, King and Tare.
2. The following ten projects prepared in accordance with
YSC Action No. 575-' ., and approved by the Bureau of the
Budget for submission to Congress, but for which the neces-
sary funds were not authorized.
(i) Support for a book publishing and export house. As
reported in 3.B(25) above,, the corporation has begun
to prepare Arabic translations. World-wide use of the
book corporation awaits further monies to be authorized
by the Congress.
(ii) A four-fold mass communication project involving
several media divisions. It was to consist essentially
(aa)travel and study grants to popular writers from
30 priority countries,
(bb) an exchange involving some ninety individuals
in the field of radio from 30 priority countries.
(cc) an exchange involving some 150 individuals in
the field of press and publications, on the working
level,
(dd) bringing four man teams to the United States
from countries where the motion picture industry
is either mn xistence or poorly organized.
(iv) Feature films produced in and for countries of
the Middle and Far East to combat neutralism and
addressed to youth.
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(v) Establish 17 positions throughout the Far and
Middle East, to work to convey our psychological message
principally through folk customs, folk-tales and folk:
'lore.
(vi) Special publication of 78,000,000 cartoon books
with a propaganda message, directed at priority target
grotr,'.r in Latin America, and.6,000,000 copies of "An
Outline of American History,"
(vii) Exhibits of democracy, consisting mainly of four
truck-mounted traveling exhibits and sponsored exhibits
at 25 major fairs.
(viii) Interchange of local employees between IBS in
New York and local. employees overseas,
(ix) Research and technical developments in the field
of electro-magnetics, better to equip IIAts radio oper-
ations in the "electro-magnetic war" with the:Scriet
Union.
(x) Financial support to implement the plan to increase
popular acceptance of American troops abroad.
Establish two regional press and publication centers:
one in the Riddle East, tentatively scheduled for Bierut,
the other in Latin America, tentatively scheduled for Panama.
B. Stand-by Plans
(a) Substantive
1. Two plans for psychological operations with reference to
Korean armistice negotiations.
(b) Opera.tional
1. A plan to provide for psychological actions s `,uld the
Soviet Union increase its efforts to isolate Berlin.
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PLANS TN PREPARATION OR STUDY
A. Substantive
1. Psychological operations in the event of war.
2. ,The concept of freedom.
3. The role of labor and free trade-unionism in a free society.
4. Colonialism and its relation to evolution of non-self-governing
peoples.
5. The nature and function of land reform as an element in the
evolution of non-self-governing peoples.
6. American culture as a factor making acceptable abroad the
leadership role of the United States,
7. Free enterprise as a significant element in American society,
history and development.
8.. Racial problems as a factor in propaganda.
B. (nerational
1. To further improve the training of personnel in the field of
psychological operations.
2. To use nationals of third countries to carry the United States
psychological message to a given country. The problems are legal
as well as financial.
4. To improve the conditions under which foreigners visit the
United States. There are some indications that the exchange of
persons program is nearing saturation under the present statutory
limits on per diem allowances, the present immigration legislation
governing the issuance of visas and the present internal revenue
regulations which levy tax on earned incomes of trainees.
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5. To devb1op further the use of folk songs, folklore, folk tales?
itinerant story-tellers, and other non-literate and pre-literate
folk media to carry our message.
6. To supply newsprint to friendly publishers abroad.
7. To bridge the gap in understanding between Asia and the
rest of the world, Europe included.
8. To determine use of three dimensional moving pictures in the
media operations of IIA.
9, To incorporate the findings of evaluation into operations.
10. To aid the appropriate German governmental agencies to prepare
courses in troop indoctrination, and to prepare a democratic
citizens army.
11. To meet the problem presented, should the Soviets raise troops
in East Germany.
12, To use unconventional media and techniques in special situations,
13. To determine the influence of q t ' *r 4,-,,'ative or qualitative food
deficiencies on group attitudes.
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