THE FOREIGN INFORMATION PROGRAM

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• Publication Date: October 30, 1952
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SECRET Annex A
October 300 1952
'HE FOREIGN INFORMATION PROGRAM
(Prepared by the Department of State)
(Quarterly Status Report, June 30, 1952 to September 30, 1952)
1 The tasks of the foreign information and educational exchange
program of the Department of State, carried on by the international
Information Administration, continued to be those set forth in
Annex V to NSC 114/2, in order of priority as follows
(i) "The first task is to multiply and to intensify psychological
deterrents to aggression by Soviet Communism, whether in the
form of outright action by the armed forces of the Soviet Union$
of Communist China or of the satellites of the Soviet Union, or
in t.he.form of the subversion of existing free governments by
civil forces acting on behalf of Soviet Communism,"
(ii) "'The second task is to intensify and to accelerate the
growth of confidence in and among the peoples and the governments
of the free world, especially in Western Europe, including
Western Germany; in their capability successfully to deter
aggression of Soviet Communism or to defeat it.should it
nonetheless occur and to inspire concrete international.,
national and individual action accordingly."
(iii) +-The third task is to combat, particularly in the'Near
and Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, extremist
tendencies threatening the undermining of the cohesion and
the stability of the free vo rld and the withdrawal of govern-
ments and peoples into neutralism,"
(iv) "The fourth task is to maintain among the peoples held
captive by Soviet Communism, including the peoples of the
Soviet Union, hope of ultimate liberation and identification
with the free world and to nourish, without provoking pre-
mature action, a popular spirit disposed to timely resistance
to regimes now in powe r. st
(v) "The fifth task is to maintain among peoples and govern-
ments traditionally linked with the United States, party-
cular y in Latin American a continued recognition of mutual
interdependence and to promote national and individual
action according],y.if
2, During the period June 30, 1952 to September 30, 1952, the following
.actions were taken, in accordance with plans for every country and with
special plans as noted, to intensify psychological deterrents to aggres-
sion and subversion by Soviet Communismt
(a) The growing strength and unity of the free world continued
to be projected to the peoples and the governments of nations
dominated by Soviet Communism. This involved substantive action
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soberly to exploit particularly
(i) The development and the maintenance of defensive military
strength on the, part of the free world, as demonstrated by
Operation fainbrace, maneuvers on the continent of Europe,
the ANZUS Conference, and the continuing successful resistance
to aggression and subversion in Korea, Indochina and Malaya,
(IA-P0-2-ANZUS)
(ii) The development of new weapons by the United States
and other free nations, particularly tactical atomic weapons
by the United States and the explosion of an atomic bomb by
the United Kingdom.
(iii) The diplomaticf economic, cultural and other supporting
actions given to the people of j 'est Berlin in order that they
might the more strongly resist the harassing tactics of Soviet
Communists.
(iv) The conclusion of the contractual. agreements with the
German Federal Republic and its planned inclusion in the
European Defense Community.
(v) The exposure in the joint replies of the United States,
the United Kingdom and France of the deceitful nature of
the proposals of the USSR concerning the unification of
Germany.
(b) The friendly disposition and the peaceful intentions of the
United States'were concurrently projected. This involved sub-
stantive action to exploit particularly
(i) The continuing efforts of the United States to promote
the balanced reduction and limitation of armed. forces in
the Disarmament Commission of the United Nations.
(ii) The patient efforts of the United Nations Command to
reach an armistice in Korea and the justice of its refusal
to repatriate prisoners of war.
(iii) The manifest absurdity and the malign purpose of pro-.
paganda designed to arouse hatred of the United States,
particularly charges that its forces engaged in bacteriological
warfare in Korea.
(C) Aggravation of the internal weaknesses of Soviet Communism
continued to be sought. This involved substantive action to
exploit, particularly
(i) The strengthening of the tyranny of the Kremlin over the
people of the USSR implied in the plans for the Communist
Party Congress. (IA-PO-53-20, Interim Guidance re Nineteenth
Communist Party Congress)
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(ii) The renewed purges of party leaders both in the
satellites and in France and Italy. (IA-Po-53-17, Italy,
1953)
(iii) The implication of the refusal of large numbers of
Chinese captured in Korea voluntarily to return to China,
(TA-PO-7, Use of Prisoners of War in Propaganda)
(iv) The continuing support by the United States of the
United Nations. as an instrumentality for the adjustment of
differences and the relaxation of tensions among nations and
the rehabilitation of victims of aggression. (IA-PO-53-l6,
Rehabilitation of the Republic of Korea)
(v) The unsoundness of the fundamental communist economic
thesis that the capitalist world is now entering a,period
of economic crisis which wall ultimately and inevitably
lead to its collapse.
(d) Particularly in areas not under the domination of the Kremlin,
efforts continued to expose the myths surrounding and inspired by
Soviet Communism and minimizing fears of fifth columns acting on
its behalf. This involved substantive action to exploit particularly
(i) The schisms within local communist parties, especially
the plight of Marty and Tillon in France,
(ii) Through indigenous channels the fellow-travelling
tendencies of the authors of the report of the Inter-
national Scientific Commission on bacteriological warfare.
(IA-PO-4, International Red Cross Conference in Toronto)
(iii) Through calculated silence, the insignificance of
the impending peace conferences in Peiping and Vienna.
(TA-PO-A.sia Peace Conference) September, 1952)
(iv) The proceedings of the Ad Hoc Committee on Forced
Labor of the ; ;conomic ,and Social Council of.the UN in a
"Red Book" on forced labor, (IA-PO-53-20-Forced Labor:
UN Hearings October 14, l952 )
(v) The refusal of the USSR to join in further efforts
to negotiate a treaty concerning Austria,
(vi) Among Chinese overseas, the nature of the regime now
in power in China and its threat to freedom in Asia.
3. The following actions were taken to accelerate the growth of confi-
dence of the free world in its capability to deter aggression or to defeat
it should it nonetheless occur.
(a) Convincing the peoples and the governments of the free world
of the need and the possibility of building ready military capa-
bilities as a deterrent to war and of the progress made in achiev-
ing them. This involved substantive action to exploit particularly
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(1) The developing military strength of the free world
as revealed in Operation Mainbrace and other maneuvers in
Europe, with emphasis on the contribution and participation
of the Europeans, in the continuing successful resistance
to aggression and subversion in the Far East, in the develop-
ment of new weapons and new techniques by nations of the
free world,
(ii) A balanced understanding of the problems created
regarding the pace of rearmament by the domestic economic
.pressures and the reduotion of economic and military
assistance on the part of the United States.
(iii) The interest of nations in the Near and Middle East,
particularly the Arab States, in mutual defense ,arrangements.
(iv) The interest of the Philippines and Japan in developing
indigenous defense capabilities,
(b) Encouraging the peoples and the governments of Europe in the
development of common institutions for mutual welfare and defense.
This involved substantive action to exploit particularly, largely
through indigenous means
(i) The establishment of the European Coal and Steel
Authority.
(ii) Developments within the Council of EUQQpQ.
(iii) The need to proceed rapidly with the ratification
of the contractual agreements with Germany and the protocols
establishing the European Defense Community. (IA.-FO-53-14.,
P,DC and European Integration)
(c) The maintenance of confidence in the peaceful intentions, the
consistent policies and the reliable leadership of the United States,
This involved substantive action to exploit particularly
(i) A balanced understanding of developments, especially
affccti.ng foreign policy, growing out of the presidential
election, with.a view particularly to encouraging confi-
dence in the continuity of basic policy regardless of the
outcome, (IA-PO-l, The Presidential campaign)
(ii) The patience and the reasonableness of the United
States in its role of agent of the United Nations with
regard to negotiating an armistice and limiting hostil-
ities in Korea.
(iii) The motives animating the United States when, as
.with the United Kingdom concerning Iran and with France
concerning North Africa, the United States has undertaken
to follow policies differing from theirs. (IA-1'0-5,
Self-Determination)
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(iv) The cultural maturity of the United *State s as
an indication of the depth of its perceptions and the
sd~histication of its people, for example, the tour of
'Porgy and Bess," the participation of artists repre-
entin the U iced States and i n the conference of Venice
sp by presentation of typical
musical compositions, ballets and performances at the
Congress .for Cultural Freedoms in Paris,
(v) The development by the United States in the Dim-
armamont Commission of the United Nations of a campre-
h.ensive program for the balanced reduction aad limitation
of arms and armed forces,
(vi) The readiness of the United States, together with
the United Kingdom and France, to discuss the unification
or Germs,ny yi.th the USSR on s stable terms,
(vii) The dangers of neutralism as a r.eans of safeguarding
individual liberty and freedom,
(viii) The interests of indigenous groups understanding of
and sympathetic with the objectives of the United States,
41. The fol.,owipg actions were taken to combat, particularly in the Near and
IMiddle Fast, tendencies nationalistic and reltidous threatening to under-
mine the stability and the cohesion of the free world,, This involved sub-
stantive actions to exploit particularly
(a) The respect of the people and the. government of the United
States for the religion and the ctl.ture of the peoples of the
Middle ';ast, as demonstrated primarily by the readiness of the
United States Air Force to carry thousands of pilgrims to Mecca
who otherwise would have been stranded at Beirut and by the
attentions shown to Feisal of Iraq during his visit to the United
States!. Expl,.oi.tati cn of the airlift to Mecca has been left largely
to indigenous mechanisms) but it is the subject of a pictorial
pamphlet produced in Beirut, a film and a series of statements by
members of the crews of the planes involved,
(b) Actions taken by the United States to promote a fair and
reasonable settlement Qf the dispute between Iran and the United
Kingdom over the pationalized properties of the Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company.
(c) The efforts of the United. States to promote direct negotia.-
tions between France and the colonial peoples for the achievement
of popular aspirations in Tunisia and Morocco,
(d) The encouragement given by the United States to reconcilia
ton between Israel and the Arab States,
5, The following actionsw verc taken to maintain, without provoking pre-
mature deeds,, hope of ultimate liberation among peoples held captive by
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Soviet Communism. This involved substantive action, carried on almost
entirely by the Voice of America and by RIAS in Berlin, to exploit
particularly
(a) The balanced interpretation of statements made in the
Qot4'se of the presidential campaign concerning the policy
of the United States toward the satellites of ':.astern Europe.
(b) Interpretation of the significance of the Nineteenth
Communist Party Congress,
(c) Exposure of the campaign of hatred against the United
States,
(d) The manifest impracticality of the proposals of the USSR
Ooncerning the unification of Germany.
(e) Portrayal of the Sino-Soviet meetings in Moscow in a
light calculated to raise doubts in the minds of Chinese
on the mainland as to the motives of the Peiping regime in
their dealings with the USSR.
6. The following actions were taken to maintain among peoples traditionally
linked with the United States, particularly in Latin `,merica, a continued
recognition of mutual interests. This involved substantive action
(a) To foster Latin 5merican association. with U.S. objectives
and policy especially through exploitation of
(i) The visit of the Secretary of State to Brazil.
(ii) The conversion of Puerto Pico to Commonwealth
atc t ,
(iii) The performance of Puerto Rican and Colombian
troops in Korea.
(b) To interpret the position of the United States with regard
to issues involved in Latin American nationalism., including
nationalization of resources (PO-53-10, Alleged International
oil Cartel, PO-53-5, Self-Determination, and continuous infor-
mation guidance on Ecuadoran, Polivian and Chilean elections,
on U, S, . tin and copper purchasing policy, etc. )
To develop attitudes and methods for meeting the anti-U.S.
propaganda of the Prgentine Government (Circular instruction
of 1lugust 26, 1952, and }O-53-13).
(c) To demonstrate the dangers to Latin America of Soviet
Communism, This involved
(i) Successful conclusion of the special project
in Panama Initiated in fiscal 1952.
(ii) Preparation of special programming to meet
the deteriorated political situation in Chile.
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(iii) Stimulation of awareness in Latin American
countries of the Communist danger in Guatemala,
(iv} Incouragement of intellectual movements in
defense of T?,'eptern val,.ue. (Circular airgram,
September 30, 1952).
(v) Counteraction of the Communist BW'u campaign in
Latin America (Circular instruction, September 17,
1952)1,
(vi) Counteraction of propaganda in Latin Pmer'ica
related to the Peiping f-Feacett Conference (IA Special
l~nstructi,on, August 1 , 1952 and Latin American
supplement).
7, The following actions of an operational nature were taken in support of
the actions listed above.
(a) Administrative.
(i) Approval was given to a staff study providing for
the establishment of tbs IIA F~uropean Regional Service
Staff, whose purpose is to provide USIS missions in
Europe and elsewhere, especially Greece and 't'urkey,
with materials originating in Europe, to provide advice
AS to the effective utt1iation of media and to oooper-
ate with Office of Information of the Special Representa-
tive In Europe in servicing US information offices in
Europe.
(ii) Approval vas given to a staff study providing for
the estatljQh nt of the ITA Near Last Regional Service
Center in Beirut, Authorization has been given for the
shipment of equipment and the assignment of personnel to
the Center,
(iii) The Department of State has upder executive order
a.ss4 ned from the P` utual Security Agency responsibility
for administering the Information Media Guaranties,
(b) Folicy Formulation,
On July 10,, 1952, the Current Information Folicy Staff
Office of the Assistant Adminia trator for Policies and Plans,
inaugurated a new series o~ information policy guidance known as
Intarmatipn Guidance BUIletinst The great majority are trans-
mitted by telegram to posts having an interest in the subject
matter,, As of September 30, 1952, 111 Bulletins had been issued.
evaluation,
Evaluation studies completed include detailed studies of
problems in Turkey and Iran, of the placement of USIS materials
in foreign newspapers? of the use of the USIS transcriptions on
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foreign broadcasting systems, of non-theatrical film distribution
in foreign countries and of key words in propaganda of the United
States and the free world.
(d) International Press Service,
On August 11, 1952, responsibility for the preparation of the
four regional editions of the Fireless Bulletins was assumed by
the, Regional Pranches of the International Press Service,
(e) International Broadcasting Service.
(1) The ship-borne transmitter, the Courier, on September 7,
1952 began operations at Rhodes, 1rograms in nine languages
MMTur.sh, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, English, Armenian, Georg-
ian, Azerbaijani and Tartar--are broadcast in short and medium;
wave ?],en&th.s (luring a period of 5-3/L hours daily. Monitoring
reports this far available indicate excellent, reception.
(it) A fifteen minute broadcast in Tartar was inaugurated
at the local programming center at Mfurich on September 21)
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(iii) . study of the transmitters Igcatcd in the United
States was made by x3ooz, Allen and Hamilton T-.ith a view
to providing a stronger short-wave signal to relay bases
overseas,
(iv) Alfred Hammond Morton assumed charge of the Inter-
national Broadoasting Service with the title of Deputy
Administrator of the International Informat~on Admrinistration,
(f) Information Center Service`
Franklin ,i'ubltcations, Inc., a private corporation formed by
.a group of publishers and private interests, was formed in July
to undertake, on behalf of foundations and universities as well as
the Government, the publication and distribution of noteworthy
American books in translation in foreign countries. The first
efforts will be made in the Arab States. The sum of o5CO,000
has been made available to it by the Department of State.
(g)
International Motion Picture Service9
(i) A film showing the participation of the individual
voter In the process of choosing presidential candidates
has been completed and distpabuted, .another showing his
participation in the election of a President is scheduled
for completion immediately after the election,
(it) The first conference of film officers., involving
representatives from posts in the Tear and Middle East,
rasheld an Cyprus from August 11 to August 15, 1952,
ltd the purpose of determining how films could be
produced with sharper focus on local problems.
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(h) International Educational Exchange Service.
A tendency has been noted on the part of certain foreign
governments to undertake unilateral control of the selection of
their citizen; who may be offered exchange grants by the United
States and other governments. The trend appears to be motivated
by (1) the heightened nationalism common to Asian states since
the war, and (2) a desire to control closely any exchanges that
might occur with the Soviet Union and Communist China and at the
same time not to make it appear that these governments are being
singled out in any way.' The Burmese Government has made formal
representation in this matter to the United States Government,
e:teip'ting only the Fulbri ght program, since it is founded on a
formal agreement between the governments. The Department has
taken the position that even at the cost of a temporary cessation
of exchanges with Burma, the principle must be maintained that
this government has final responsibility for selecting grantees
financed through congressional appropriations. While Puma is
the clearest case in point at the moment, similar situations have
developed in Indonesia and in Syria and are nascent throughout
most of Southeast Asia and the Middle Last.
(i) Cooperation with Private Enterprise.
;projects are under way with various private agencies, social,
commercial and philanthropic, to provide foreign groups with books
and magazines, to assist Americans travelling abroad, to provide
radio facilities to underdeveloped areas, to project a balanced
picture of Wall Street, to promote the exchange of persons and to
develop bi-national community relationships,
(j) Cooperation with Other Governmental Agencies.
Integration of Information activities of the International
Information Admnistrat'ion and the Mutual Security Administration
in other countries has taken place in"the United Kingdom, Denmark,
Austria, Gerinany, The Netherlands, Belgium-Luxembourg, Italy,
Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey. Integration had already taken
place in Iceland, Switzerland and Trieste.
(k) Cooperation with Other Governments3
(i) Di-national committees to'promote the ready accept-
S1100 by local populations of troops of the United States
eatablrished on their soil have been formally established
In France, the United Kingdom, t ermany, Italy and Iceland.
Similar oomm ttees are functioning on an informal basis in
Libya and Aorocco.
(ii) Negotiations are under way for limited cooperation in
orejgn information activities with the government of Australia.
Cooperation would chiefly concern broadcasts to Southeast Asia.
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(1) Electromagnetic '~'arfarer
No significant change took place in the overall level of
Soviet jamming, although minor changes took place from time to
time in the application of the jamming mechanism to'the various
language broadcasts.
Sufficient information has been received through govern-
mental intelligence sources to v'arrant the conclusion that the
Sov ets have in the process of construction, probably in the
final states, somewhere between eight and twelve high powered
transmitters either designed for or capable of jamming in the
medium.`regtiency and low frequency bands, These are generally
distributed around the European Der:iphery of the Iron Curtain.
An East German Intelligence source heretofore found to be
re table, reports the establishment within the government struc-
ture of East Qerma .y of an office for radio warfare. A powerful
East Zone br~oadcs,sta..ng station moved on to the frequency used by
the ArmedForces Netwrk in Dor.in, t-hether this was intended as
a deliberate i lterference treasure, or whether it represented a
Soviet need fora frequency ids not now known,'
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