CONCEPT OF THE ORGANIZATION TO PROVIDE DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN THE COLD WAR

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: May 21, 1951
• Content Type: PAPER

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RE`i.ISEDz 21 Icy 1951
PSYCHOLOGICAL SMITFGY BOARD
(]DTTCEPT OF W. a GIIIJIZATIOII TO PROVIDE
DYIIRIJIC PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
III TIM C.LD WAR
TIIE. PDI3t ;
1. To ana7,yze the scope and mission of the Psychological Strategy
Board and the tasks of the Director and the Soft; and to derive there.
from the qualifications and approximate composiUen of the staff.
PACTS BFMING OTT Tim, mRoBIEII
2. The pur";ose of the I eeitive Directive of 4 April 1951, u
ths
"to authorize and provide for/w=e effective planning,
coordination and conduct, within the framework of
approved national policies, of psyclu-3ogical opera-
The Psychological strategy Board is reslnnsible for the
"formulation and prclgatiars, as giiidmce' to the
departments and ' dgencie s rrsponsible for pzycho-
logical operati ona,, of over-all national psychou-
1oolcal objectives, .-olicies and prcynrams, and fo
the coordination and evaluation of the national
psychological effort"
4. There is provided a Director., designated by the President# re.
sponsible under the Board for directing its activities. }o,, is anoisted
by a staffp the organization, qualifications and aize of uhf oh, uitldn
limits set by the Board, are established by hips?
DISCU`"SIOIT.
56 The Directive creates no new operating agency, It results from a
general sense of need for harnessing the dispar tb resources of exists.-,z;
depar nts and agencies responsible for executing various psychological
operations and intensifying the national effort. It includes under the
term "psych ological oporations" a aide spectrum of overt and covert
activities ? from propagatton of truthful foreign information to sub.
versive operations of both a moral and a physica3 character?
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6. In face of the peculiar challenge of Bolshevist Russia, the primary
objective of intensifying these unconventional national efforts is to trin
the cold trar and prevent declared global tzar. Failing this, the second-
ary objective is to create c'n