CONGRESS 'MANIPULATED,' MISS ROOSEVELT SAYS

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• Document Release Date: June 30, 1999
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• Publication Date: April 5, 1964
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Date: APR 5. 6A ..;.,..
Between the Lines
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.! EDITi-I rrE4MIT.ROOSEVELT
GHT Congress
!, r ,By
mooth techniques for manipu- 'E
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`Manipulate d,' Miss Roosevelt days
Propaganda Job
She Aecuses Inte[1 ectuals'
.
lations program his instituted `.'The cover for this would be a
Significantly; - another step,S
to "condition" the public to ac-.. projected disarmament agree. .!. is the "selling" of the Pugwash
cept the proposals. A typical ment with Soviet Russia,'. ', type' proposals to government
device is the subsidized publi- At the eighth Ptigwash Con-':`
cation of a scholarly book ad- ^ ference, 1116 1961, officials know. On no Aug., u 16 in
n16, , Ar?
16, 1961
vocating the'measues -already,; American and Soviet intellect thur Larson vice president of
decided upon. The author inay'; tuals agreed; that i1 joint re-PRI and a State Department)
be an' ex-State Department of- search group should consider - I U
t
Nl
tates policy is made can be I nderstood once you know the '
work some-'
thing like this.
lating the
Congress and
molding opin-
ion.. They
meet with So-'
r]American iq
tralllntblgence Agency,
of the "government. Others are
linked`--to it through the?Cen-
torious Phoenix papers prepar-
ed for the U. S. Disarmament
Agency.
U. S., conference partial-
ommended in the,by. now no-
er a suitable climate has been
achieved in the United States.
"Tacit understandings" are rec-
I ensue which are announced at
official 'conferences later-aft-
"u n o fficial" Miss Roosevelt
international conferences: The
same names pop up year after
year. "Tacit understandings
Continued
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tio ficial or some specialist in psy- 'these specific questions. One 11 consu
e the:
chological warfare. What is ac-; f of the most, significant per., matters, testifi before the,
' in..
tually a skillful and carefully (baps was. "developmen of in., Senaeesate For hearings on elations the Dis?~
planned ' propaganda job is ,ternational criminal law a li armament e hear
usually financed 'either by a cable directly to individuals suggested d ? op, or i Teae'J
foundation or, by a govern- %violating the ;disarmament search, topics s for
;
ment grant to a publishing I agreement'' or'?' committing Studies of These included of Pkbli ublic
house. (The Center for Inter- -Nimes against peace.,' Opinion in th the '.Outbreak national Studies at the Ma: :.ccndental impor- Moder.OOutbreak of
chusetts Institute of Techncv ? ;.,r, `vas a proposal for Modern Wars" and TJte For-;,
ogy has had such an arrange-'"limitation of propaganda di= eign Correspondents: A Study;
ment for mans" years with the rested against other nations or...1 of Opinions, Attitudes; Recruit-j
ment and Social Composition
CIA,under,Project Cenis.) races. Composition." A lobby group is' set up in!' A proposal for joint research Since then I have legency
Washington, D. C., to funnel on these questio,nns was actual- gave the Disarmament Agency
expert witnesses s otestify t-, .ly signed. The ?ignatories for $ for a' the sub3 ct of
fore
the Soviet Union were A.. B.
tees, plant assistants in con-I.Topchief and F. M. Khvostov. Media Analysis Disarmament." Inspection
gressional offices and cooper-f For the United States, they in-,
I for Michelson, a Under phi-,
ate with federal' officials in. pct Michelson, a major b
eluded Dr. Louis B. Sohh and vioral research the,i
drafting bills for busy con .Dr., Harrison Brown. 'Both project, the
gressmen. ? I Americans are on the Advisory D ant nseto Stanford Universitybtll~
)
A surprisilati proportion'
ropo do off1 Committee of the Peace;Re- for "Propaganda Comparlson.x
le ed search Institute (PI), 'now of Soviet-American Ideologies,'!'
ti the key Congress. Some it p s
this Y g known as the Institute for Pol.
? lators' are so busy being er-1 icy Studies. This tax-exempt? Book Published
rand boys to their constituentsl corporation in Washington has'.
they barely read the laws ,orl been conducting seminars in I Then comes the time for the
documents to which they of 4 disarmament. for congression= proposal to be made respect
fix their signatures. In many al assistants *Dr. Sohn
a pro- able to tho public. A book has
,
1cases they lack the backgroRn fessor of international la at been published entitled "Prop
it
detect how sceemingly iso Harl?ard is also a consult t?'-aganda - Towards Disarma:,)
fated pieces of legislation whett{~ to. 'a Disarmament A enc . ment in the War of Words,"~
put together can change oue':.r r.>~:,,.,.? .v'';,iby John B. Whitton and Ar4
form of government.
With' this pattern in mind,''
tone might watch the develop-.3
ment.of a proposal that would j
~actually:place our, newA meoia4,
thur Larson. It is financed bye
grants from the' tax-exempt.
'. Institute for International Or-,
der, ' in New, ' York -City of
whicl},, the, same Larson ?is^
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