MINUTES THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD JUNE 12, 1952 2:00 P.M. DEPARTMENT OF STATE ROOM 5104, NEW STATE BLDG. 21ST ST, AND VIRGINIA AVE., N.W. WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

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Thirteenth Meeting of the
PSYClOLCOICAL STRATEGY BOARD
June 12, 1952 2:00 P. M.
Department of State
Room 5104, New State Bldg.
21st St. and Virginia Ave., N. W.
Washington 25, D. C.
Copy No. 1
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Mr. David K. E. Bruce, Under Secretary of State,
Chairman
Mr. William C. Foster, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Pea "a t " th, Director of Central Intelligence
biwDirector, Psychological Strategy Board
OTHER PARTICIPANTS:
Department of State
Mr. Joseph B. Phillips
Department of Defense
Brig. General. John Magruder, USA (Ret.)
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Brig. General Jesmond D. Balmer
Central Intelligence_ja2ncy
Psycholical Strategy Board
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A e nda Item No. 1. - Analysis and Planning to Counteract Soviet
Biological Warfare Propaganda and the "Hate
America" Campai n.;n.; Staff Study on Soviet Germ
Warfare Campaign PSB D-2
Approved with following changes:
(a)
(b)
Delete mission "all in par. 22.
In4par. 22 add a new mission: "Develop new measures
desl.gned tto seize and ma 1ntainiheinitiative in the
tiers of p aganda and o erations".
(c) That Ear. .23 be chap end to read: "That CIA provide
the necessary intelligence support to 'OC, a praising
he ci Qni fi n oe iTr impact of the S 7ev1t BW -9- i
propaganda, in t eir relationship tto the total com-
piex of Soviet co d war strategy".
Discussion:
commented that the principal recommendations were in
par. 22-2 . He noted that, in view of PSB's continuing interest in
the problem, par, 2L~ would require FCC to submit progress reports on
it to PSB. (Apropos of this, remarked that he had heard.POC
was having difficulty staffing their Planning Staff. He expressed the
belief that the member agencies want to give POC all possible support
in staffing its planning responsibilities so that PSB staff will not
be forced to engage in such planning.
General Smith offered additional language in par. 22 which was
accepted (see per. (b) under Action above).
Mr. Foster said the study was acceptable to him and urged that
its recommendations be aggressively pursued. He proposed that the
PSB be kept advised of action taken to counteract this BW campaign.
Mr. Bruce expressed the belief that the State Department is
already carrying out, in large part, the recommendations in par. 19,
but the Department will explore further (a) the possibility of getting
more assistance from other governments and (b) the proposals in par. 20,
Mr. Bruce proposed that the POC mission defined in par. 22a be
made a part of the NIE proposed in par. 23. said this
would be acceptable. General Smith said the NICE docket is so crowded
that it would take a year to get the NIE proposed in par. 23. He said
CIA, would give intelligence support but not necessarily as an NIE.
Agenda Item No. 2. - Plan for Conducting Psychological Operations
During General Hostilities PSB D- ; NSC 12
a. The Board agredd to advise the NSC that it would not accept
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the changes proposed by the Bureau of the Budget in par.
20 f NSC_127?
b. The Board approved the Bureau of the Budget's changes in
ap x ii. NSC 127.
he reported that the Bureau of the Budget's change in par. 19 (sub-
stituting POC for PSB) was acceptable to the State Department. Mr.
Foster and General Smith said they preferred the language of par. 19
as originally written. Mr. Foster agreed to the change, however,
subject to reserving Defense's right of appeal if the use of POC in
this plan becomes unsatisfactory.
Agenda Item No, 3. - PSB Procedure for Evaluation of National Psycho-
lo ial Effort TPSB-71T
Mr. Bruce read from his letter to of June 6 in which 25X1A
The Board recorded as its opinion that:
(a) The evaluation by the PSB staff of the over-all
psycki.olo , cal efforts ?rxld nod tie under~;aken at
(b) That the PS13 staff be authorized to select a specific
project or, an rep for evaluation recommend the
methods to be used, and present it to to }bard for
cc sicteraCon and authorization.
Discussion:
commented that the responsibility for evaluating the
nations psycho ogical effort is the third major function of the
Board and one of the most difficult. He indicated that the PSB staff
had given a great deal. of thought to the approaches and methods to
be used in this evaluation task and had consulted extensively with
evaluation experts in and out of the Government. The proposed evalua-
tion procedure, said, is a minimum program and an experi-
mental one.
Mr. Bruce expressed his opposition to the use of the traveling
task force technique proposed in the paper under discussion. He said
it would mean contacting U. S. mission and foreign officials abroad,
taking up their time, and perhaps unintentionally harming U. 5,
efforts,
said it was his impression that the Board!.responsi-
bility for evaluation was something more than simply the sum of each
department evaluating its own position; the Board had a joint responsi-
bility for making a coordinated evaluation effort.
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Mr. Foster suggested that PSB staff should direct specific
questions to each of the member agencies for answer through use of
their existing evaluation facilities. In the event the necessary
data for evaluation could not be obtained in this manner, then the
PSB staff could send someone to the field after getting the Board's
approval, Mr. Foster proposed.
25X1A eviewed some of the points in the paper under dis-
cussion, a emphasized that the five-point procedure outlined in the
paper would make possible the production of an over-all, coordinated
evaluation picture which would take in all the maiy factors of our
psychological effort and point out contradictions and overlaps
between agency programs.
-General Smith said PSB+s evaluation responsibility was one of
the most important things it can do and is badly needed. He commented
that exclusive dependency on the U. S. field missions to evaluate
themselves would result in reports which vary in accuracy, strength
and value and would be colored by their nearness to the problem and
professional pride In the work on which they are reporting. General
25X1A Smith expressed doubt, however, whether any useful product would be
developed through the use of the proposed task force technique.
General Smith suggested alternatively that outside consultants might
be employed by PSB. said. he liked this idea of using con-
25X1A sultants,
observed that under the Presidential Directive and
under the reporting outline received from the NSC (see Agenda Item
No. L) the Board was required to come up with an evaluation of the
national psychological effort in terms of objectives, policies, capa-
bilities and limitations. He suggested that we should go back to the
NSC and report that the broad-scale evaluation effort proposed by
the NSC was too extensive an undertaking at this time, and that the
Board instead proposes to proceed on a more specific basis. Mr.
also recommended that the use of the task force technique be
retained in certain instances where it seemed appropriate rather than
be eliminated altogether.
Agenda Item No. L. - Memorandum to the Board: Reporting to the
Natianal Security Cauneil PSB ]
Action:
Final action was deferred until clarification can be obtained
from Mr. Lay, NSC Executive Secretary, concerning the preciseintent
of his letter of May 2, re uest~..n PSB to submit a report on the
status of national sYChalogical programs for the NSC 11 review.
Discussion:
Mr. Bruce observed that the Departments are under obligation to
make progress reports independently on their own activities. He urged
that clarification be sought from the NSC staff as to whether these
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reports were to be made through PSB.
said it was his im-
pression that FSB is asked to assemble and coordinate the agency
reports concerning the national psychological effort. Mr. Foster said
his interpretation of NSC's request was that PSB would only extract
the information bearing on the national psychological effort from the
regular reports, without itself getting in between the member agencies
and the NSC.
General Smith commented that the NSC may be confusing the Board
and the Board's staff. He said the Board cannot very well pull to-
gether parts of its separate report and then submit it to NSC as an
over-all report.
reported that the NSC staff had in mind, in connec-
tion with the NSC 11)4 review, that the various agency reports would
be reviewed and coordinated by PSB rather than having them come direct-
ly to the NSC secretariat from the departments.
General Smith proposed that the three agencies should make up
their reports independently and submit them to PSB who would then form
a tripartite working panel. This panel would write up a summary report
for NSC, attaching the three independent reports as annexes.
commented that this procedure is what he had in mind, too.
Agenda Item Na, . - Princeton Statement (PSB D-26)
Final decision as t how and when Statement is tg be used de-
ferred to next meetng. epartment oaf State to improve text in interim.
Discus ion:
stated that this item had already been discussed pre-
liminarily at the preceding luncheon.
General Smith expressed his concern that this statement or some
form of it be issued as a public statement so that it may be used as
guidance to our foreign information agencies. He recommended that the
second sentence in the final paragraph be changed to read: "The
United States has no thought of urging its cultural, social or economic
patterns on any country", in place of the former language., "The
United States had no intention of attempting to impose ...+'. General
Smith said the original language gave the impression that the United
States had the power to impose its patterns on other peoples.
General Magruder commented that Mr. Allen Dulles (who partici-
pated in the original drafting task) also had certain modifications
in mired. Mr. Bruce said that the language of the Statement could be
improved and made more forceful. He noted that the Princeton group
reached no agreement as to precisely what would be done with the
Statement and when it would be issued; they wanted a paper that could
be used as-a statement of U. S, foreign policy in case it was decided
that it would be appropriate for the President or another high govern-
ment official to issue a statement which could be used as a guidance,
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Agenda Item No. 6. Progress Reports on Current Work
Not presented.
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