INFORMATION AGENCY IS PRODUCING PROPAGANDA ILLEGALLY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200320007-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 21, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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the United States Information , i,ot me,, into t^e ,muua .,.
through normal commercial
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. laws of the United States. It ' 'There is, however, no doubt channels.
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ese v
has acknowledged t
in the minds of foreign
lions before Congress on at sold today in the U. S., Canad
and other nations to readers
least two occasions and has readers that the books off
d U5IS shelves are pro-
have no idea they are ~.
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( promised to "cease an
nagandistic, and the USIS does '~ -,ustraight propaganda
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l But the violations are con- .: thnot attempt to niae its FUR; ab e propaganda arm of the U. from Washington. Ai
timing and Congress appears The USIA contract with'
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1 them. But USIA officials are far, this scheme is quite clear. It
( Unlike the uproar produced. less open about the agency's states in part: "Publication
; by disclosures of. C~IA..,, so-called "book development" sha11 be without attribution to _ a
subversion of o r i v a t"e program, because this scheme the agency. The contractor
organizations in the United is entirely illegal. I will not issue ... publicity or
States last year, little public The program is a two-pro- !j information . in any form '
roduced by need affair regarding this contract or the
was : One aspect of the I pt's con-
p
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disclosures before Congress
that the USIA had, in effect,
subverted the American
industry
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book. USIA then pays . the I
a high enough pace
The USIA has been paying publishers
to allow these extra copies to
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books bearing no governmen cent or more) discount prices
label and distribute them ,-- - -- -' Trager. USIA paid Praeger- ,t
through normal commercial in foreign bookstores. $5,750 to publish it and the
channels in the United States There is nothing to indicate author $2,500 to write it, .;`
and other countries, including to readers that the books .were Newsweek magazine later
recommended it to its readers.
th
e bought and paid for with USIA.
Canada. Thus, many of
politically-oriented U. S. books f u n d s , "Co-operative" !' No American or foreign ;?
available in local bookstores in ublishers in this scheme in- reader had any idea it was
p
by the ? U. S.
onsored
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lude such, famous paperback
New York, San Francisco and publishers as Fawcett, Ban- ',government's , propaganda
arm.
erican
h A
m
tam and Pocket Books.,
other major Nort
' cities are nothing more than Although perhaps the books In 1966 Doubleday published ';
U. S government propaganda. i technically cannot be called a USIA-sponsored book by Jay
The USIA, which operates ; because they - Malkin of Time magazine call-
the United States Information propaganda, ed 'Caribbean Crisis: Sub-,
Service libraries around the were not written by the USIA, version Fails in the Dominican;
world, is, of course, paid to be there. is little question that the
Uncle Sam's press agent, and, publishers, knowing that a Republic. It was an apologia
for the U. S. landings in the
it has been highly effective. ? lush USIA contract awaits Dominican Republic. Later
Despite the popular foreign them, are often willing to in that year Malkin was paid
sport of burning USIS, ;fluence the author to write the nearly $5,000 in USIA funds to
ht" kind of book
i
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"`
g
r
n
, write ?a book called Terror
libraries, the USIA manages
to get about 15 million books The second prong of the 'Vietnam, which was published ,
'describing "the American way USIA's book, development pro- by D. Van Nostrand.
L ? .. gram is more insidious. Under A magazine called The New.
,the scheme, USIA simply goes Leader 'received $16,500 in'.
out and hires an author to USIA and CIA funds a few`.,
;write the "right" kind of book, years ago to compile. a book
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USIA order asking a publisher
to add, say, 25,000 extra copies
fact of the governm
nection with the subject
book."
In 1966, Frederick A.
Praeger, a ' subsidiary of
"
Brittanica,
Encyclopedia
published a book called, Why
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