NOTE BY THE EXECUTIVE TO THE HOLDERS OF PSB D-18A/2 (JULY 31, 1952)

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• Document Release Date: August 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 8, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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NOTE BY THE EXECUTIVE
to the Holders of
PSB D-18a/2
(July 31, 1952)
The number PSB D'-18a/2 was assigned to this document
in error. This number had already been used for an earlier
document in this series? a working draft dated March 10, 1952.
Edmund J./Bennett
Major, USAF'
Acting Executive Officer
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NSC review(s) completed. Page 1 of 1 Page
The number PSB D--18a/3 is hereby assigned to this document.
The holders will enter this correction into their copies.
This note will be attached by the holders to their
identically numbered copies of the document.
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PSYCHOICAL STRATEGY BOARD
WASHINGTON
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable
David K. Bruce
Under Secretary of State
The Honorable
William C. Foster
Deputy Secretary of Defense
General Walter B. Smith
Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Progress Report on Psychological Operations Plan
for Soviet Orbit, Escapees - Phase "AR (PSB D-18a)
There is attached a report on the subject plan developed by
the staff on the basis of information obtained from the State
Department, CIA, the Department of Defense and MSA. A brief
account of this activity has been included in the NSC Report as
well.
This project which has been under the administrative direction
of the State Department has not progressed far enough to date to
permit the handling of any significant movement of escapees, How-
ever, the necessary organization has now been established and
substantially staffed and sufficient progress has been made in
completing arrangements with cooperating governments and volunteer
agencies to enable the screening and movement of escapees toward
resettlement to begin, The State Department should be urged to
proceed with the program will all possible speed,
Aside from the need for vigorous implementation of the program,
it is suggested that the State Department should take one addi-
tional step. As you are aware, the basic plan (D-18a) did not
specify the manner in which it should be treated from the standpoint
of foreign information. The State Department reports that no
general propaganda exploitation of the escapee program is contem-
plated but that a guidance is being prepared emphasizing spot
treatment through overseas information media of newsworthy care and
resettlement projects and of assistance given to key individuals.
Although this may be the wisest manner of treatment, there are
questions underlying such ,a decision which might be usefully con-
sidered on an interdepartmental basis. These include an identification
of those of the several purposes of the program which can be furthered
through foreign information activities and a common understanding as
to agency roles and activities.
Recommendations
1. That the attached progress report be considered
and approved by the Board.
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2. That POC be requested to review current foreign
information plans and activities in support of
the Escapee Phase A Program and consider whether
additional actions should be taken by one or more
of the constituent agencies..
Raymond B. Allen
Director
1. Progress Report on Psychological
Operations Plan for Soviet Orbit
Escapees - Phase "A" (PSB D-18a).
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Progress Report to The Psychological Strategy Board
on
Psychological Operations Plan for Soviet
Orbit Escapees -- Phase "A"" (PSB D-16a)
This pl an,approved by PSB December 20, 1951} includes programs
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jainnument 'co Tine universal. x ary r ning and Service Act, Public
Law 51, which permits recruitment of escapees into the U, S. Armed
Forces.
Escapees are those persons from the territory or control of the
USSR, the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslavakia, Hungary, Bulgaria,
Rumania and Albania, who escape into Western Europe, ranging from
Turkey to Sweden? East Germans, Yugoslavs, Chinese and ethnic expelees,
such as Turks and Greeks, are not included.
On April 7, pursuant to approval by the President, $4,3 million
dollars were made available by the Director of Mutual Security to
the Department of State,which had been given responsibility for the
program.
The time since funds were made available has been used:
(1) to identify and care for the most urgent immediate needs
of escapees; and
(2) to build the organization and staff for the continuing
administration of the program,
Organization,
Small staffs are being; established within the U. S. Diplomatic
Missions in each of the,'countries which border the iron curtain.
Activities in support of this program have been begun in all of
these countries, A regional office has been established in HICOG
and a policy and coordination unit in the Department of State has
been attached to the staff of the Advisor on Refugees and Displaced
Persons, Bureau of United Nations Affairs.
Preliminary Arrangements.
A general contract was signed on June 16, 1952, with the Pro-
visional Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe (PICIAmE,
an, international body organized in November, 1951) for the overseas
transport of up to 11,000 escapees during one year at an estimated
rate of $100 per capita. Further detailed negotiations on movement
of escapees under the PICMPIE contract and operating procedures with
voluntary agencies took place during July.
Resettlement.
The first escapee to be moved under the program left Germany for
the United States on June LG; eight others departed June 16, and another
shipment was scheduled for July 14. In Austria, 123 persons are being
prepared for resettlement to Canada; two have been moved from Italy
to Ecuador. It is anticipated that a scheduled flow may be attained
in August,
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Supplemental Care,
Projects have been authorized to care for urgent immediate needs
of escapees resident in Greece, Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Italy.
The assistance has been taken the form of food, clothing, shoes,
repair and decontamination of barracks, medical treatment and the lily.
For example, in Germany, projects developed by the National Catholic
Welfare League, the Lutheran World Federation, and World YM/YWCA, are
being supported by funds obligated under this program and will provide
aid regardless of religious affiliation. In every country of opera-
tion the immediate needs of the escapees are being met.
Propaganda Utilization.
For the present, no general propaganda utilization of the plans
and activities of the Escapee Program is contemplated by State
Department. Spot treatment through overseas information media of
newsworthy care and resettlement projects and of assistance to key
individuals will be undertaken when circumstances are favorable and
opportunities are presented, Dissemination will be confined to Iron
Curtain areas, When the program has greater accomplishments to point
to, the State Department plans more general treatment.
Of the initial authorization of $4,3OO,000 an estimated $1,500,000
was obligated during the fiscal year 1952. It should be noted that
the request to the Congress for fiscal year 1953 was in the amourtof
;4,260,500, consisting of the $2.8 million unused in FY 152 plus an
additional $1,460,500 to cover an increase in the estimated number of
escapees already requiring assistance. Under the terms of the Mutual
Security Act further determination by the -'resident authorizing the
use of the additional $1,L60,500 for the Escapee Program will be
required.
Accomplishment of Other Purposes.
The Department of Defense was requested under this phase of the
plan to liberalize the conditions under which escapees may be
recruited under the authorization of the Lodge Amendment to the Uni-
versal Military Training and Service Act and to take all feasible
steps to expand such recruiting. Physical and mental requirements
have been somewhat relaxed, Of 51914 applications from escapees, 3916
have been rejected, 295 have been accepted (262 of whom are already
on active duty) and 982 are being processed. Most of the latter cases
are still in the hands of CIC.
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