RUSSIAN INSTRUCTIONS TO THE SOVIET-LICENSED PRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200220002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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At the end of ?etaber-1948. Colonol S.I. TYUlpanov addressed a meetins
of all of the editors-in-chief of the ~iussian-licensed newspapers
and publications. The meeting was called to criticize the editors
for their ineffectiveness in connection with the demonstration
"Against the ~rar-;~~ongers" at the Friedrichstadt Palast on
27 October 1948, Tyulpanov stated that the editors had shown that
they lacked the ability to create the effect of a s
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demonstration. He considered that this topic had been specifically
within the province of the press' and that their inefficiency had
been the more reprehensible because this theme represented the
newly adopted attitude of the Soviet authorities towards the
~testern Fbwers. -This demonstration had~be~en especially timed by
tl-.e Russians to launch the German phase of the campaign "Against
tYie b"+`ar-Mon ers", of which- the Stalin interview in vd
(28 Octaber~ was also a oart4 ,
?o Tyulpanov stated that hereafter every adition of aRussian-licensed
publication was to contain articles in line with this campaign
"Against the R'ar-1~2ongers". t'~herever possible it must be demonstrated
that the '+Pf?stern lowers were guilty of czar-mongering. The time for
theoretical disputes had passed' and every anti-Soviet statement
vas to be interpreted as a hostile act and to be considered as
wear>mongering. Tyulpanav indicated that the individual papers would
be allowed a free hand to conduct this campaign? but he did suggest
that a personality "smear" campaign was usually easier than dis--
cussions of the issues involved. `"'~
~. The Naw,tional-Zeitun,~ was given special instructions by the Russians
in the middle o~ovember to include France i.n ~.t5 current propaganda
articles directed at the'tJzstern Powers. All phases~of French
policy and personalities were to be pilloried' except the Communists..
The full burden of attacking French policies would have to fall on
the I~atl>Ze~tu,~,_,,,ne, as' the Communist press waG Aieii ~zp in advocet-
ing the Gominfnrm-sponsored strikes in France and the Soviet nca3,icy
foY~ the disposition of. the Ruhr
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