WHO SAYS?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000201800006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 29, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
.29 November 1985
Who says?
Anyone who devotes much at-
tention, as we do, to the State De-
partment's translations from
Pravda.and the Soviet news .
agency, 'Ihss, will probably come
to the conclusion that a great deal,
of.their commentaryy, on the.'.
United States is picked, up from
our own press. Their quotes; of,.t-
course, inevitably show the admin-
istration in a bad light.
One of the oldest tricks in the
book, by no means restricted to
the international scene, is to plant
a story and then loudly quote it as
having appeared in-a,"reliable"
publication.
In line with this, it is worth
mentioning a paragraph from
Early Warning newsletter:
"In waging their nrooaeanda
wars, the Soviets and their con-
trolled fronts relish the irony of
being a e to quote American
sources against the 'main enema
- the United States. Every article
in the Soviet media attacking the
CIA and the U.S. intelligence com-
munity quotes at length from
American press reporting. fre-
quently from fringe newsletters
like Covert Action n ormation and
CounterSpv (now renamed The
National Reporter) as well as
from the major nationanewspa-
pers
-John Elvln
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