USIA FILM: 'VIETNAM, THE ISSUES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500040065-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: September 30, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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66- 5V-111
30 September 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: USIA Film: "Vietnam, The Issues"
1. USIA has produced a twenty-two minute film called "Vietnam,
The Issues" which it plans to distribute soon to a number of its overseas
posts for showing to foreign audiences. The film is narrated by Assistant
Secretary William P. Bundy. The script was done by a New York
professional, but it is largely based on my article published in last April's
issue of Foreign Affairs.
2. USIA called some time ago to ask my permission to use the
article in this fashion. After touching base of the General Counsel's office
I replied that permission was not mine to grant or withhold since the Council
on Foreign Relations held the copyright. I gather USIA has obtained the
Council's formal blessing.
3. Nowhere in the film am I, the Agency or the article specifically
mentioned or referred to. There are no direct quotations. Bundy's speech,
however, does follow the gene ial outline I used and is replete with what, at
least to me, are strong echoes of my prose. I do not think the film will do
the Agency any harm nor do I think we can or should block its distribution.
Its existence, however, and intended use are matters of which you should be
aware.
4. Mr. Houston is going to talk to Mr. Warner about the advisability
of speaking to Mr. Marcy before the film is distributed as a form of preventive
maintenance. If Mr. Marcy is informally contacted he will of course be told
that producing this film was not our idea or an activity with which this Agency
was involved in any way.
25X1
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
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