FIRST PROGRESS REPORT ON PSB D-28 - 'PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY PLAN FOR ECONOMIC SECURITY VIS-A-VIS THE SOVIET ORBIT'

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• Publication Date: January 14, 1953
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WASHINGTON 25,13. C. PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
WASHINGTON
t0 nuar vv 144, 1953
ID!,OrL.AiIfltjM FOR: General Walter 3ede11 Smith
+ire,,';or of c;an .ral I?te] ii 7ence
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U. JEC'C: Fir: t Prorrreo ;~otlo,t F j P,S_B D-2 - ' Pstr eholoc^ical S:Fr2tE3:
3'la.n_ o r `'eonomic ec u i tv ~r i_g- v is the soviet Orbit"
t--t8ehed herowiJ-1, -, n-i si brittPC1 in connPei ion with Item 9
of the P.e r+ of the PSB Plannin ; Panel
on PSG :D-28.
The -term.-; of ?~ fe 'c nr e i'c,r this nl a~, were nroved the
.`lane 2L, 1952.
1 're i.5 I?r'r,ort
or P3j? D-2,1
Co -v To. 1,2
NSC review(s) completed.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C.
i~i: -0P,&PDITli FUR: IIi -L-111 DAVID 31.iUCE
U,'.Ji13 3EC MAY G;V : V'M
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January 14, 1953
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Flan __. _ ~.. ~co ~oTa3 c ecuri iu -vis the I pvse t, Or itn
tl ttachad herewith cn,. sut' litted in connection with item 9
of the Qenda is the First 'r'o:.;rosss ioport of tT e P`5.3 Plannin Panel
on PS;3 D-2C.
Tho terms of r of rcnce !by this plan were approved by the
Hoard June : 4, 1952.
/a/ Man G. :irk
Director
Si.i lar ~aerlo$. sent to:
1'ro;.;ress Report ho Lot. Oilli. C. Foster
on P53 D_2S deputy Secrot,2; of De:'en e
Caneral Gklter 3. Smith
tir3ctor of CIA
)rig. Gen. . illard C. Young, USAF
Mob JSPD, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Hor... N. A. i arriman
Director for Mutual Security
Security In orm Lion
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1. The Board ap+,rovad the to:'m of reference for this plan 21; Juno,,
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2. Tho ti 1o ranal~~ces call d : or in the ter,,-is of refe r e:jco were com-
pleted by the Office of Intol.li;once fese^.rclhj, Aepax?t.c_ont of State.
Thee were:
(a) The factors which cresta resistance to u.S. economic
security obS,ectives the Soviet Orbit.
(b) e o;-tent of Soviet economic e;-ploitatioL of the captive
ccuntrios and the vulnerability created choreby.
These anc,lysez have been ,,iven wide circulation and were made available
to the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
3. d?ir. John Haskell, trice>presLlent of the A ew Yorlc Stock cchanCe,
a consultant to the Director of PSD, sounded out the views of oublic
opirnion loaders and businessmen in the U.K., ;el ium, #'?.,anco, S? itzer..
]a.:'d ,and C.or~iw ny with respect to the p01 ;rc'.:clorica.l aspects of current
Ea r c-I lest trade policies. Ilis findings were circulated without Corr iaent
to interested u.s. officials.
4. At the fourth neetin, of the planning panel it was aLr:ed that
no enoctive ps;y-cholaical stra:t3, ;r could be dev3lo_;ed until h:r. Ilarrir .r.*s
i cononjc Defense Advisory Coni n ittae reach :d a ,
policy-
,, aecision on the
quostioa of what the U.S. could toll ~'orei~?n ,;overnnea--ts .r. o ardin5; our
Position on non_strat?ic trade with the Orbit.
5. m
5Those clatters wore discussers at the U.S. eono',j Defense
Officers meeting- hold in Pra_ris in Kov tuber. Subsecuontl?* it has ;become
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czi;reed policy ; hE1t U.S. trade cont::nos objectives can best ,-)e realized by
ir::1iroc-4on_ rather than by a U.S. ,,Tod-,aranda caiipai;;n, ich p:-obably
i,ould be re ;a,rJad b:.r t_o :foreir,'m ovarizients and ,peoples as unwarranted
inter-ven_tior. It is also a :recd tlsat an indiroct i .fomat-io:r:. pro,(;rai
will be ,,ost li?zel;?i to succeed if the can do: ions irate
that it doe,, no-'11o}moue the er.,.rns3.a:: of non-strate -'Ac t ,t.-West trade
Eli.--d i:: in the process of reducir,: t;. . trade bar??r:ier.s. This R:.~.ll be
difficult to acco; relish since it iiae also a;r;raed that any tiAtate;.nient
-heroin the U.3. sot forth th t it i,ouic" not oppose the of
r.o stratet is ast-West tra- - riustt at the sa .c timo c,-21 attention to
(a) Soviet political riotivaas in trt, do; (b) tv fact that non tra.tegis
trade s' ,ould rot create dan,-serous c.:1)endency upon Eastern na: 'ic is or
sources of suppl y; (c) that tho Soviet Orbit not be pariitted to use
trade as a i. loans of e; tracti ng strategic goods from tha free i?rorld.
The pa-ol una,nmousl r ,a_:rees taut the U$Slt is vulnerable to
ps rcholo;;ic,-1 attack because of it,. exploitation of the cap:.ivo economies
and its opposiiion to the anrarzsio_-, of peaceful, ,-,on-strai;eic trade, A
PSI' staff parer, prepared earlier with this point i . ;?ii;- d waN d.i:;cu,sed,
but no a re:n :nt has boon :'eac}ed. The stla.f'f taper recoimponds that the
Soviet position in captive 73urotc tb:, a ,tacl-od by a concerted and hi,,;hly
pi:blicized off -'3r b -,r the Western Gov_:rnnents to export to can tivo +s'iirope
appro..in`wtely :4:4OO million worth of eonsumar goods and other nog- strata? is
items.
The paper develops t,i:.e argument that since these -oods are noil avail-
able on the open riarh:7.t in western Purope with no a:--port control, it is
clear tint, thou :h the people of captive Zuropo arc., gager for zioro con-
sumer ;gods, since tI ey are not heirs purchased t' U .,;',SR is obviously
opposed to such ~rddc. A 1:_i; 1-r :ublicized offer ,o and trade in no:i-
stratodjo goods, rejected by the USSR as was the Iliar,?shall Plan, would be
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calculated to the -', lseno of :7oviet pro !a :%.unda on i~ehalf of
,c:uc~ful tr::e, -1 could =:rovido the :test ..;ith a .,eapon :Cor constant
attack behind the Iron Curtain the gaper co;cluded.
ues iioi-_s ~-iavw bean rz:.isad re_;f rdi f; a possible ne(,utive Con-
arc .: ioi al reaction.-n, end. the r~ ,, 12 -omo eli a,, that this ps;Tc :olo"ical
st~razteLy i o0.; LJ ver'r difficult to ne -otiate with the other Western
:uropea.n Cover since ar- still interested in peaceful trade
t th the Orbit courts ie s and m~.. r oppose a psyckolo 4cal attack bbec~:.u$o
future acoilonic rela"7-ions m y be co" eider od Two important thr n props -
_anda .-airs. It tra,; also felt ti at a non-s Crater is 'trace off or at the
present tine might creates in ti'.o ?"psb7 is n-in.d of Woe born 23uroipe
ro::a:rdin;,; this -*.Ti -portancc attached to the s trater:ic t ^ _dc co idols since
scxie Western ; rronaean Govcr?nrmror.ts have not g at made :public :i;hoir policies
rE. ;r~r ::in the control of strategic trade.
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PSB D-28
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
WASHINGTON 255, D. C.
2L June 1952
TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR TASK PANEL tIJ"
Code Name: PLUMAGE
These Terms of Reference were approved
by action of the Psychological Strategy
Board.
Charles E. Johnson . " `.- _
Secretary to th'e Board
LHIS IS AN APPROVED PAPER7
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24 June 1952 PSB D-28
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
WASHINGTON 2 5., D. C.
TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR TASK PANEL "J"
(PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY PLA1 FOR ECONOMIC SECURITY
VIS-A-VIS THE SOVIET ORBIT)
I. The Problem.
To prepare national psychological strategy for specific courses
of action with respect to the psychological aspects of U. S. economic
security programs concerned with the Soviet orbit.
II. The Objectives.
A. To increase the degree of acceptance in the Free World of U.
economic security objectives vis-a-vis the Soviet orbit.
B. To weaken the Soviet control over the orbit countries by capi-
talizing on and obstructing Soviet economic exploitation of captive
Europe and China through psychological operations,
The Tasks.
Under Objective A this plan wild;
1. Analyze the factors which create resistance to U. S. economic
security objectives vis-a-Iis the ;soviet orbit.
2. Assign to the operating age icies psychological actions to in-
crease support for U. Si economic security concerned with the
:3oviet orbit.
Under Objective B this plan wilt.:
1. Analyze the extent of Soviet; economic exploitation of the
captive countries and the vulnerability o1eated thereby.
2. Assign to the operating agencies psychological actions to
exploit Soviet vulnerabilities in 1 above.
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