LETTER TO GENERAL WALTER BEDELL SMITH FROM CHARLES W. MCCARTHY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003300160011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 28, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE DIRECTOR OF
PBS CHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
WASHINGTON 25. D. C.
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD.
FEB 2 8195-2
General Walter Bedell Smith
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington 25.9 Do C.
Dear General Smiths
I am enclosing herewith the minutes of the tenth meeting
of the Psychological Strategy Board, held February 21st, for
approval or, if considered necessary, for corrections
In order to expedite Board business, if these minutes
Are in acceptable form, your written approval is requested.
This approval is required before further action can be taken to
implement certain papers approved at this meeting.
For the Directors
es W. McCarthy
NSC review(s) completed.
Colonel, U. S. .
Executive 0ffijer
59753
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Tenth Meeting of the
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
February 21, 1952 2:30 p.m.
Director's Conference Room
Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency
General Walter B. Smiths Director of Central Intelligence,
Chairman
Honorable William C. Foster? Deputy Secretary of Defense
Honorable James E. Webb, Under Secretary of State
Dr. Raymond B. Allen, Director, Psychological Strategy Board
25X1
Mr Joseph B. Phillips
Department of State
r meat of Defense
Brig . Gen. John Magruder, USA (Ret'd)
Mr. Clayton Fritchey, Director, Office of Public Information
Central Intelligence A enc
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Brig.GGen.. Jesinond D. Balmer
Mutual Security Agency
Mr. Samuel D. Ber ;er - Items 1 through !t (as considered) only
Mr. Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. " Items 1 through !t (as considered)
only
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Mr. James J. Vadsworth, Deputy Administrator - Item 1
(as considered) only
Mr. John A. DeChant - Item 1 (as considered) only
Atomic Energy Commission
r. 11Henry D. Smyth - Item 1 (as considered) only
Mr. Shelly Thompson - Item 1 (as considered) only
Psychological Strategy Board
Mr. C. Tracy Barnes, Deputy Director
Mr. Mallory Browne
Mr. Richard Hirsch
Mr. John Sherman
Mr. Edmond L. Taylor
Col. Charles W, McCarthy, USA, Executive Officer
Charles W. McCarthy
Colonel, U.S *Ai.
Executive Officer
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A proval of Minutes:
Minutes of all previous meetings have been approved.
Agenda Item No. 3. - Memorandum on Publie Statements with Respect to
CertaJ Amer caann -ea one ,PS D- d72
Actions
Approved as amended.
Disw,u,,sion:
Mr., Foster indicated desirability of the note, inviting attea-tion
to the President's Directive of 5 December 1950, "Public Discussion
of Foreign and Military Policy", being included.
Mr? Fritchey (Chairman of the panel appcint:,d to draft the paper)
pointed o?at the difficulties faced by his grn3p in avoiding preparing
a paper which might be too restri,3tive a Msi ber-s of the Board wawa,
unanimous in agreeing that at best the task assigned the panel was a
most difficult one and that extensive delineation of "dots" and