THE SOVIET AND COMMUNIST BLOC DEFAMATION CAMPAIGN

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tran3ldto the artlclo into Burmese, make
T HE SC VIET AND COMMUNIST to place very great emphasis, both organiza- , slight changes in style, a to sign Burmese, from ' ke
BLOC DEFAMATION CAMPAIGN Clonally and operationally, on diin , s ecial correspondent In Singapore,' for In-
activity. Communist bloc services,, esn turnurn, tance. Upon pof such an article;
(Ml'. PRICE asked and was given per are playing their part In this work. stance. Upon publication licacreation of sSoviet uch a lntcle,
mission to extend his remarks In, the 5. it are disinformation operations? the the ie. l man of legitimacy
body of the Rscono and to include there- "Dezinformat lyx," in Soviet terminology, is agenc nd a receives becomes a sort ofpp onranco document.
with a paper entitled "The Soviet and false, incomplete, or misleading information
Communist Bloc Defamation Cam "But the work was not yet finished. 7;
that is passed, fed, or confirmed to a targetted then took the published article and checked
- individual, group, or country. 'Propaganda,"
, paign.") as it Is defined by free world students, may be it against the original Russian text. I noted
Mr. PRICE. Mr. Speaker, a major used as a support element of dezlnformatalya, all the changes and variations made by the
program to defame and discredit U.S. but propaganda per so lacks the precision ? newspaper, and wrote down in Russian the
and bite of disinformation. final version of the article. This final ver-
sponsibilities for and national al security having has 6. Soviet disinformation activity is planned sion was then immediately Sent back tu'
ponsi been conducted by the Soviet and Com- and directed by a specialized department of Moscow, this time through Tass channels.'
munist bloc since 1948. Iiow it operates the Soviet State Security Service. This "The last stage of this grandiose forgery
~~ KGB department, which was created to in- was under the special care of the -Moscow,
t
is explained in a paper, The Soviet t.enslfq Soviet disinformation activity, Is ! Information Bureau, Tass, d1o
and Communist,I3loc Defamation Cam headed by Gen. Ivan Ivnnovich Agayants, al the Soviet press, and Soviet diplomatic rep-
paign, ' which I submit for printing in the senior, professional intelligence ofirccr with resentatives abroad. It is their duty to see
R'rCORo. Main targets are the Central' long experience and well-developed agent and that the material is republished and distrib-
Intelligence Agency and'the Federal Bu- political contacts in Western Europe, cape- uted in all countries of the region as if they
,., ~,,,,,.,, whnrn hn served under the , were genuine documents which had ap-
a name AVl Avua?v v?v.??
the paper follows: in France ho controlled the French spy 10. Although the KGB 1s able to fabricate
TILE Sov%L-r AND COMMUNIST 13LOC ? Georges Pasques who was sentenced to life,; in Moscow whatever material is needed for
DEPAMATION CAMPAIGN imprisonment on July 7, 1064. Its disinformation operations, it has been
SYNOPSIS 7,. The assignment of Agayants to take making morn and more use of material pub-
1. The Soviet and Communist bloc effort' over the disinformation task Indicates the lished in the West, some of which had been
to defame and discredit U.S. departments high priority that the then Chairman of the planted there by earlier disinformation ac-
and agencies that have major responsibilities' Presidium, Nikita Khrushchev, gave to the tivitics. An examination of the books And
for national security has been underway' campaign against American. leadership and articles cited in any of the anti-CIA pamph-
lets reveals extensive use of Western source
e _-
.Central Intelligence Agency and has grown vary
markedly in' quantity and Intensity since, program. Department D 1s still directly tied most recent Soviet articles on the Agency
the esta'Illshment of the KGB Department into the Presidium in the planning of its are exclusively "documented" from Western
of Disinformation in 1950. This program' work .2 books, articles, and newspapers.
now produces between 360 and 400 deroga 8. Agayants' department 7s staffed by an 11. In the 68 pages of "CIA Over Asia,"
tory Items annually. Communist press and an' estimated 40 to. 50 geographical and a slanderous booklet published in Kanpur,
radio attacks against the Agency reveal an functional specialists in Moscow alone; it India, in 1062, for example, American_ news-
increased sophistication In recent years. In. avails itself directly and peremptorily of the papers and magazines are cited 11 times,
Addition, many Communist-inspired books I worldwide resources, manpower and opera- periodicals of other Western or neutral coup-
and pamphlets which attack the existence, tions, of the Soviet security apparatus. The tries 15 times. The fact that some refer-
purposes, and status of CIA, and reflect at purposes, broadly stated, of the disinforma ,.! caeca are made to Communist organs is ob-
substantial budget for this activity, , have tion department are to: . scured by repeated citations from reputable
appeared throughout southeast Asia, Africa, ! (a) Destroy the confidence of the. Congress American publications.
shows
and the Near East, : and the American public In U.S. personnel A study of Soviet disinformation s2. CIA, in Its Intelligence role, is feared by' and agencies engaged r in anti-Communist 12.
h s
that LuSdvlets dy o are Soviet
engaged in an impressive
the Soviets for its unmask om and ability, and ) Undermine dwax erminieitAmerican prestige and research project to. collect And process infbr-
in-
spiraclea to penetrate and unmask Communist eon . ( matron and specuation about American in-
American institutions and denigrate telligence and security services that appears
By striking at against CIA, the democratic attack also Institutions.,
By st' A American leadership with NATO governments In Western publications and newspapers,
,on the intelligence community with par-, and other non-Communist countries, there-i This study also has confirmed the deep in-
terest thrust against the FBI and Mr. J. by contributing directly to the breakup off of the Soviet services in the develop-
F,dgar Hoover. The objective of the overall, the NATO alliance. meat and milking of Western the dev journalists.
program is to achieve the destruction, break- (c) Sow distrust and create grounds for Americans figure prominently among these.
up, and neutralization of CIA. A basic re- subversion And revolt against the 'United!
ent
quireracnt of Soviet policy and a major ob- States in the Western Hemisphere and among; D's 13. The Thety again measure st t and he CIA depth of may be judged
jectlve of the Soviet Intelligence services is the now nations of Africa and Asia. Dom a single episode. t A booklet e ug e
g
the destruction of effective security collab- These.purposes And objectives, it musttbbe, e, the former Director Central et attacking
c?r,atoa among the non-Communist coun-, emphasized, have been . established by the Allen W. Dulles, entitled, Study Intelligence, Mr. tries In order to carry out Soviet long-term' highest elements of party and government, Master Spy" (Allen s, a tit, wasA Study and
during 1061, and has
strategic plans for subversion, political up-, in the Soviet Union. i distributed In London Dulles)
holitic, popular fronts, and the eventual! Personal rn described by ofl'cerat wthis ho have left since been reprinted. The ostensible author
political isolation of the United States. was a prominent maverick Labor Member of
3. Defamation and forgery operations are the Soviet system and are now the United; Parliament, one Bob Edwards, who,was sup-
cn id, directed, and perpetrated by a States. One these Alexan der I{azua posedly Assisted In the 'effort by a British
v-,;;le ;le organization located outside the t,.r?get cheov, who served in Burma as an informs-, journalist. It d now known that the man-
.or which makes use of local Communist Lion officer-described the program and the; jou was Is in Moscow m -
.or pro-Communist propagandists and of co- process in a recent personal memoir: uscrlpt na senior I{wa desesea rmation officer, Col. Vas-
operating Communist bloc intelligence and' "Articles were originated in KGB head-: ally Sltnikov, and then srvfi up for Vas-
security services. Although such undertak- disinformation: quarters in,MosCOW-for example, about al-? olish axn pin th e the United Kingdom. final
r. Dul ed this ei de m.
Saga Aro trio products of the - legod American support of the Indonesian,
Cam- a Mr. Dulles printing rins himself if f Marched, this
department of the KGB, known as depart- rebels, freququent nt American violations of
meat D, which is headed ded by Gen. Ivan Ivano- bodia's sovereignty, subversive activCam-
ivity of `; "Mr. roundtable on March 20, Well, that bvich Agayants, they are reviewed and passed Japan In the region, etc. The articles were. u too, doesn't BALDWIN
question h t brings
ri cgs the of
on by the Soviet leadership. The operations received from Moscow on microfilm and re- ? mat ion, What kind of dtslnformation is
of the Soviet Disinformation Department produced as enlarged photo-copies at the , mat distrhat the Soviets today? Can is
have been thus far in stimulating InEmbassy. it to English. was Somejoothertrmembershoof : yobein u explain this, Allen?
a wide e replay Africa ae United tvhe;
Middle East, and d even n In the St States. Vuzny'sg.groixp would then arrange through' "Mr. Dtn.LES. Well. I have hero right in
CIA will continue to be the prime target of, local Agents for the articles to be placed in my hand-
-Soviet disinformation and defamation op-' one of 'the Burmese newspapers, usually pro- Mr. BALDWIN. And what 1s dleinforma-
erations, Commutrlst-o'ionted. The ncwzpapcr .would Lion, anyway?
"Mr. DULLES. Well, this Is It, Here's 'A
be recalled tlias i in'ua ichov, dur- Study of a Master Spy.' Hero's a booklet that
66VIET AND COMMUNIST DISINrORMATION I ' It will.
4. It Is an established Soviet principle- Ing his U.S. visit In September 1959, engaged was written about me. Now, it bears on the
more than one discussion at the White outside bore, you see, 'A Study of a blaster
-now embraced by all members of the Commu In
nisi bloc-that a largo percentage of subver-, House and during his tour designed to do- SpyJ?, I won't give you the names of the
rive activity be devoted to the planning and atroy confidence in American Iptelligeneo, authors, but one of them Is a member of the
conduct of disinformation (dozlnformatalya). His statements and remarks made during in' 'legislature of a very great, friendly country.
operations which mold, divide, and mislead terviows, It is known, were prepared in ltd' , . Hut the real author of this-I am the 'master
other governments or leaders, and cause them vance in consultation with,the department iepy'-I have found out recently after certain
to adopt policies and undertakings which are. of disinformation.. 1eYander ISaznaeheev, 'InsndO a Soviet
ultimately advantageous only to the Soviet'" Ivan Mikhailovlcl~ VGZny, a KGB uBcer, Embassy" (NOW York, 1689), pp. I2-173.
Onion, T'ha Soviet leadership has charged, was head of the political Intelligence section COYI'ri1~t26C~`
the[iovlet, State, Besurlty Sea'vioe; th*,KGB, I at the Sayler ~lmbasay In Ropgaqur;,Sans,,, ,
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reseai?c?lh has been done, that the real author White and Ross write, that frequently the is made of the periodicals International Af-
.of this pamphlet is a Colonel Sitnikov,.- foreign policy of the United States as made fairs, Now Times, and Kommunist, all three
whom I believe you know, or know of. He is public in the speeches of the State officials, r,; which are issued in Moscow, the first two
'tae real, author. acts in one direction, while secretly, through in English and other languages. Interns-
' "Mr. Dr-nYADIN 4 Sitnikov? I used to work 'The Invisible Government,' it acts in the op- tional Affairs carried one major article on
with Sitnikov in Vicniha when he was deputy p"- to direction." American intelli;;cnco in 1960 and another
chief of the Soviet spy force, and he was the 17. President Johnson's appointment of in 1062. Since March I0G4, there have been
ei,lef of an American desk, I mean, working` Adm. William F. Raborn on April 11, 1965 five articles devoted to that theme. These
against Americans. He was trained as an in- , gave the Soviet press another opportunity,articles have alleged in general that intell.-
telilgence officer. One time lie was a spy to review and renew its attack On the Direc- Bence controls U.S. foreign policy and big
chief in Berlin and Potsdam, another time he tor of Central Intelligenco.. Moscow domes- ' business controls intelligence! The New
was in Vienna. To my knowledge last time tic radio announced the next day that the Times published one article on CIA in 1961,
he was in Bonn as a counselor to the Dm- ? appointment signified "the further strength- and one in 1063.
bossy? but I mentioned him in my book and' oning of cooperation between the espionage Three articles concerning CIA were pub-
in the articles in' Ufa in 1050, and it Is my' apparatus and the military and military lished by this multilingual magazine during
belief that he is at home now, industrial monopolies." 1064? In May 1965, Kommunist published
"Mr. Dtrs.LES. He has a whole dossier on me. 18. An editorial published on April 14, an article with the title, "The American In-
I'vo read some things there about myself 1065 in the Tanzanian newspaper, the Na- tolligenco Service Is a Weapon of Adven-
that oven I didn't know." 'tionalist. which was replayed by the New turism and Provocation."
CONTINVING ATTACK ON TFIE DCI China Nows Agency, claimed that Admiral 23. Tlho assassination of President Ken-'
Raborn's appointment implied an "attempt nedy was the subject of a book by Joachim
'14. The resignation of Mr. Allen Dulles and 1 to save the Paco of the United States over Joesten entitled, "Oswald-Assassin or Fall
the appointment of Mr. John McCono neces- accusations of Interference in the internal Guy?" (1964) published by Marzani and
altated a shift in the Communist attack on:. ars of newly Independent states in par- Munsell Publishers, Inc. of Now York, In'
the Director of Central Intelligence. The' ticular." which Joesten states that there is no qucs-
Soviet propaganda transition from one Di- 10. Krasnaya Zvezda in Moscow asserted Lion in his mind that Oswald was a minor
rector of Central Intelligence to another was (April 18, 1905) that the departure of Mr. CIA agent. Marzani, a known Communist,
accomplished by June, 1963 with the publics- McCono and General Marshall S. Carter was was coauthor of a pamphlet, "Cuba Vs.
tion of a pamphlet entitled, "Spy No. I." IS. "connected with new failures in assessing CIA," published in 1961. Jocsten is revealed
sue( by tho State Publishing House of Po-those forces against which American im- in a German Security Police memorandum,
litical Literature in Moscow (Juno 1063), the 'porialism in aiming its aggressive blows." dated November 8, 1037, to have been an
substance of the book is summarized on the The artiolo concluded, '-The American ins- active; member of the German Communist
title Page: I- porialists probably assume that Raborn will', :arty (KPD) since May 12, 1932; he was is-
"Jolin Alex McCone is the Director of the be a more successful accomplice for them in sued Communist Party membership card
Central Intelligence Agency of the United the struggle, against the peoples of the social-' (Mitg'liedsbucih) No. 632315.
States. Behind the exterior of a respectable 1st countries and other freedom-loving 24. A primary aim of Soviet disinformation
gentlcm.hn is hidden the seasoned spy, the peoples. These hopes are hardly justified, is to sow distrust among the Western allies
,organizer of dirty political intrigues and however, since in our era the course of 1115--by discrediting the policies and motives of
criminal conspiracies. torical events ls'not being determined by the the United States and American methods of
"This pamphlet tells of the Past of the Raborn and not even by their Wall Street: implemeting those policies. Considerable
chief of American intelligence, of the meth- bosses." attention is devoted to creating app rehen-
ods by which ho amassed his millions and 20. On Juno 5, 1005, the Greek. Communist Lion, uncertainty, and antagonism toward
.became the servant of the uncrowned kings newspaper Avghi. In` an article entitled, the United States among the uncommitted
of America, the Rockofoilers, and of the Ai- ?i "U.S. Master Spy, William Raborn;' alleged and underdeveloped nations. Thus, the So-
fluenco which McCono exerts on the policies that the appointment of Admiral Raborn was victs reiterate the longstanding Communist
of the U.S. Government, particularly In the
intended "to lessen the enmity between the; charge that the United States is imperialistic
Cuban affair." CIA and the Defense Department Intelli- i nd seeks world domination. They cou-
15. In November 1064, the Soviet news- genco Service." The article continued, "The tinually emphasize the theme that CIA is a
paper Komsomol'akaya Pravda published' a main reason is the fact that the key posts )Major instrument in the execution of Amer-
further attack on Mr. McCone entitled, "The in the American administration are now.. lean policy. Two pamphlets, "CIA Over
Spy With the Slide Rule." Referring to Mr. , being taken over by representatives of the AF1S'.' (Kanpur. 10621 and "America's Undo-
McCono's activities as Director of CIA, the top and overt forms of monopolist capital, clued Wax" (Bombay, 1063), are dedicated to
article added, "Under the leadership of Mc- ry the most reactionary force that leans theme.
Cone, the CIA was transformed from just an toward dangerous adventurism', At least, tits
invisible government to a government of U.S. that is what the events in Indochina, Donhin-; 25. An example of the use of the daily
oil monopolies, mainly Standard oil and its lean Republic, Congo, and elsewhere show." press and radio to mount this line of attack
owners, the Rockefeller group, All of the TIIE COMMUNIST GRANGES AGAINST CIA occurred 2 years ago in Ghana. Sufilciont
timn has now passed to nermit an evaluation
Asia, Aden, and Brazil, were carnuu v""
emissaries of,the w?~?? man -of the Communist bloc against CIA, Its DI-1--
the participation of 1963, CIA was subjected to an attack in the
with the slide rule: ? rector, and its operations have remained Ghana press and radio which attempted to
16, On December 8, 1064, Moscow domestic generally the same since the beginning of tic the Agency to the death of Premier Qas-
the attack. Nevertheless, slants and replays sim of Iraq. This campaign was allcgodly
radio stated: "The American newspaper Now have been constantly adjusted to changing based on an article in the French paper
York Herald Tribune had reported that: in and regional political developments
"U.S. Central Intelligenco Agency boss "aut ress which asserted that CIA was the
and to the vulnerabilities of tar(-^t audiences "authoor of the Iraq murder." All article in
John McCono has secretly approached Presi- and individuals, particularly is tile newly the Ghana Evening News for February 28,
dent Johnson with a resignation. re- emerging areas. Tho basic anti-CIA themes 1063 was headlined "Nco-Colonialist 't'error
quest ? ? ' the American press prefers for in use as of midsummer 1915 are: i in Iraq Menacing Threat Against Africa:"
the moment not to speak about the actual I (a) CIA is an instrument of American' oil May 15, 1965, the Spark, a weekly Ghan-
reason for McCono's resignation. The reason.: Imperialism. It is racist, and a direct threat' ian newspaper, carried a front page story
for it consists, in the first Instance, In the' to national liberation movements, with the headline "The Secret War el CIA:
serious collapse of American foreign policy,' (b) In its work agatdst national libera-l The Killer at Your Door." Accoring to the
which, to a considerable degree, is formulated, lion movements, CIA engages in espior. ; Jo, article, "This murderous game, which goes
on the data provided by the CIA. Basing. economic and political subversion, sabotage, by the Innocent-sounding namo of 'intelli-
iti activity on defense of the interests of assassination' and terrorism; it trains and genco', has its Western-World nerve-center
the largest monopolistic groups based on supports counter-revolutionary forces, In America's Central Intolligsncy Agency,
the Ideology of anticommunism and mill- ' (a) CIA is an instrument of American ag- known briofiy as CIA." Included in the artl-
tarism, the CIA is proving incapable of a gression and gathers Intelligence for aggres-clc were eight illustrations of "spy equlp-
more or less' objective' correct appraisal 'Gf rive plans against peace-loving , socialist ,ment." Four pf these illustrations had car -
the balance of power m , the world arena. states. Diplomats, tourists, and scientists
W IA,UU hn?v) ".uu a.w....... -...__, --- - - %u) van uv......... ..o ......
N tendon to the subversivo activity of the can foreign policy. c genco ant ore gn o
CIA, just call it 'The Invisible Govern- (o) CIA engages In psychological warfare, - "CIA Intrigues l In Latin Amcro sorti(Juno
mcnt'' ?_ ! ".. 'T}1o)'e_ia;~G?k?18>a to suspect,, utilizing falsehoods to undermine the inter 1fle4), "An Im4).'' lst. Spy C,)Ih:: and
(September 1064), "U.S. Intent,^genco and
national authority of the U.S.S.R.
Peter beryabin is a former KGB officer, (f) CIA is fighting the Communist Party 1'oretgih Policy" (October 1064), "U.S. Intel-
now in the United States. His personal: of the U.S.A. and the communist and ligencc and the Monopolies" (January 10cl ).
memoir, "The Secret World", (Now, York. Worker Parties of other capitalist countries. There, were short references to CIA in anuses
1950)- is probably the most authoritative (g) CIA spies on the allies of the United dealing with other topics in its issues of July
public account of KGB organization and i States and overthrows its henchman who are, maid ugustan 6Cassandra" (Jan. 22, 1054) .
activity. `_ -_?,., unable to suppress national liberation move-;
Reference is to the book by ..uovlot Cold-' and "The Espionage Jungle"
Gov-' 22. Theincreasing weight of the attack oni (Aug, 12. 1064). There have been two pieces,
and Thomas H. Ross, "The Invisible David Wise' monts.
eranSent," NaW, Yoslc. , iiandom'_ ouso, 1004.'..0IA becoinea evident. wheal ail. , ex4nlins)tign; on CIA lu tllo magaicino to data in 1005.
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,licr appeared in West Berlin-The Facts, all.
anti-CIA tract that was published in Moscow
in 1062.
26. A major theme developed principally
in the uncommitted areas during the past 12.
.to 10 months has been the alleged interfer-
onco of the United States, and especially
CIA, in the internal affairs of other coun-'
tries. Three recent pamphlets, "American'
Intelligence-,This Is Your Enemy" (Cairo,
April 1064), "The Truth About Komla Gbed-,
email" (Ghana, October 1964). and "Opera-,
:tion Boa Constrictor" (Colombo, 1064) do-
velop the idea that through its intelligence
and aid agencies, the United States Is en-
gaged in a conspiracy to domipate the Mld-
dle East, Africa, and Asia. The conspiracy
allegedly takes the form of active efforts to
'overthrow anti-American governi-.ints and
to gain economic control of tKose areas
through foreign aid and economic exploita-
tion.
SOVIET FORGEirIES
27. One of the preferred instruments uti-
lized by the Soviets to disseminate disinfor-
mation Is the forged document. Detailed
.testimony on 32 U.S. forgeries attributable
to the Communist bloc was given by Mr.
Richard Helms of CIA on June 2, 1061, before
the Internal Security Subcommittee of the
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.',
Fourteen new instances of forged U.S. official
documents have come under scrutiny by the
end of July 1065. Some of the more recent
examples are still being studied. Although
CIA has not been omitted from some of
,these spurious documents, the principal pur-
poso of such forgeries has been to discredit
U.S. policies and the repersentatives of other
-U.S. agencies overseas, such as the Depart-
nient of State, USIA, the Peace Corps, the
Armed Forces of the United States and
American political loaders generally.
28, The Soviet defamation campaign, what-
ever may be its targets, has but one objective.
Defamation of CIA is only an aspect of .a
coherent, well-orchcstrated effort to deni-
grate the United States and its policies be-
fore world opinion. Every department and
agency of the U.S. Government is a potential
? target of the disinformation department
when such attacks will servo Soviet interests..
Whatever may be the immediate subject of
any single Soviet disinformation operation-
CIA, the State Department, the Peace Corps,
or USIA-the ultimate objective is to isolate
and destroy what the KGB designates as
"Glavni Vrag" ("gain Enemy"), the Unii;ed
$tates. '
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