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TIMES
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By Theodore M. Bernstein
SPY. WORD. Ever heard of
the word DISINFORMATION?
It's not surprising if you didn't
? because it's part of the....gAl.far
r cant. Let's say a Soviet spY
?? defects in London. Immediately
. "the Soviet KGB goes to work on
:ountermeasures, one aim of
which is to divert public Eaten-
,. Lion from the seriousness of the
defection. For ex ampl e, the
Soviet press will publish
charges -that a down British
diplomats are intelligence
agents in disguise and that the
British iu-publitizing the defec-
tion are guilty of provocation
and cold war tactics. In the spy
- trade here such diversionary
accusations are known as MS-
, INFORMATION. Similar tactics
are not uncommon in politics,
but among politicians the word
DISINFORMATION, that is
hasn't gotten around yet.
IFFY. QUESTION. The little
word IF 'frequently introduces
words in the subjunctive mood
? that is, words expressing a
hypothesis, a wish, a condition
contrary to fact or something
that is doubtful. Because of its
frequent appearance in such
expressions, some people leap to
the ? conclusion that it must
always be followed by a sub-
junctive. ? But whereas it is
.proper to. say, "If I were you
. . ." (not a fact), it is not
proper to .say, "He,wrs asked if
he were apprehensive over
getting married." Sometimes IF
is the equivalent of WHETHER, .
and merely introduces an indi;
rect question, as it does in th6
egoing second example. ? The:
verb there should be WAS4.1
Indicative mood.
In other. instances IF intro-
duces g clause suggesting doubt
or uncertainty and then the
subjunctive is ,normal: "If he
WERE honest, his score for -
eighteen holes would be 79, not
71." But when the emphatic
point is not the. IF, but rather
what follows it, the indicative
preferable: "If he WAS honest,
his store for. eighteen holes wa?
71." IT you 'are in doubt (not "il
you be in doubt"), use the
indicative because the subjunc-
tive in most Uses, is fading
decade by decade.
? WORD ODDITIES. INFINITE
and INFINITESIMAL start
from the same base, but they go ?
in opposite directions. The basic
idea in both is incapable of
being measured. But INFINITE
means extending beyond limits
or measure and has the sense of
vastness. INFINITESIMAL, on
the other hand, means go small
as to be unmeasurable. Under-
lying both these negative words
is the positive word FINITE,
based on the Latin verb FIN-
IRE (to limt or finish), which
in turn comes from FINIS. And
that's a good word to end on.
Have a finite, everybody.
(c) 1972 Theodore M. 13ernstein
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Last in a series
By L. EDGAR PRINA
Military Affairs Editor
.Copley News Service
WASHINGTON ? Was the
Soviet Union ever really rac-
ing the United States to the
moon?
Maybe yes, maybe no ?
but they made Americans
think so. After a prodigious
10-year, $20 billion effort, the
United States got there first.
The Russians still have not
put .a man on the lunar sur-
face.
Perhaps there will never be
a definite answer on the
moon race question, but U.S.
officials are convinced that
one of the missions of the So-
viet secret police ? or KGB
? is to carry out deception
and disinformation cam-
paigns ,as to the U.S.S.R.'s
scientific and space pro-
grams.
The KGB unit in charge of
their "big lie" operations is
? its Department of "Dezinfor-
matsiya" (Disinformation) or
? simply, Department D.
Staffed by 60 to 75 experts in
a wide variety of fields, it op-
erates under the overall di-
rection of the powerful Cen-
? tral Committee of the Com-
Thunist party.
'DIRTY TRICK'
Department D, located in
KGB headquarters in the no-
torious Lubianka Prison
building in downtown Mos-
cow, specializes in the "dirty
? trick.' Its operatives use
such weapons as forgery,
.fraudulent documents, false
news stories and rumors and
fabricated Intelligence re-
ports.
"Scientific disinformation,
both creating false impres-
sions of Soviet papabilities
and diverting Western re-
search into nonproductive
channels, is an important
part of Department D's re-
sponsibilities," a U.S. official
.said. .
"A former KGB officer has
reported that one of the aims
of the KGB at the time De-
partment D was created was
to carry out deception con-
cerning t
of the U.
us that Soviet scientists are
explicitly 'instructed to try to
mislead Western scientists
concerning the subject and
degree of success of their
current research."
The belief that the Kremlin
is vitally interested in mis-
leading the United States and
the West in the scientific field
is supported in the Rand
Corp. study, "Deception in
Strategic Missile Claims,
1957-1962." Here is what the
study concluded:
'STRATEGIC DECEPTION'
"Since 1957, the Soviet lead-
ers, principally (Premier Ni-
kita S.) Khrushchev and
some top military figures,
have practiced deliberate,
systematic and sustained.
strategic deception."
The apparent purpose of
this disinformation effort was
to lead the West and the non-
aligned nations to conclude
that the U.S.S.R. possessed
intercontinental ballistic .mis-
siles in large numbers at a
time just after the first Sput-
nik when the U.S. capability
in this field was not fully de-
veloped. Thus, there was the
phony U.S. "missile gap."
The deception was aided by
private conversations with
Western diplomatic and polit-
ical leaders as well as by
public statements from Soviet
officials. - The United State's and its
allies are particularly vulner-
able to Russian scientific de-
ception when programs in the
research and development
stage are involved.
SCREENED INFORMATION
This is because the West is
largely dependent upon infor-
mation received through
channels which are com-
pletely under Soviet control:
published artic les which
have been carefully
screened; equipment shown
in Soviet parades; well-chap-
eroned visits to Soviet scien-
tific establishments and the
like.
"Given the security controls
surrounding Soviet scientists
and scientific installations
connected with military or
ffetWgic#ttlinggl
v.?
dependent verification of in-
formation through sources as-
suredly under our control
and, hence, to. identify the
scientific deception oper-
ations presumably being di-
rected against us by' Depart-
ment D," a U.S:' official
said.
American scientists, as a
whole, are Ten-owned for their
political naivete and social.
consciousness.
The Russians, particularly
the Department D experts in
the KGB, are quick to exploit
them. -
A classic example of how.
the Soviet Union employs its
scientists in the shoddy busi-
ness of disinformation was
produced during the visit to
the United States of Dr.
Pyotr Kapitsa in the fall of
1969.
FULL SWING
Kapitsa, dean of Soviet
physicists and director of the
Moscow Institute of Physical
Problems, made the U.S. sci-
entific circuit. - He visited
Harvard, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Bell
Laboratories, the National
Academy of Sciences, Stan-
ford, the California Institute
of Technology and Rockefel-
ler University.
Thus, he met and chatted
with many of America's most
eminent scientists. Did he
spread any Soviet dis-
information in the process? If
an interview in the New York.
Times (Oct. 9, 1969), is any
indication, ? he certainly did.
He made these statements:
? ABM (antiballistic mis-
sile) systems are intrinsicalls
very costly, yet they are in-
variably ineffective. If ABMs
are deployed in the United
States, it will only increase
the number of ICBMs in the
Soviet Union.
? Large amounts of money
can be wasted in poor man-
agement of space programs;
the U.S.S.R. is more expert in
this field than the United
States. .
' L. Soviet spending for
space programs is "several
times less" than the amount
the United States spends.
? He is deeply concerned
over the danger of a military
confrontation between the So-
viet Union and Communist
China.
? He believes in the "con-
vergence concept," ? that is,
that the Soviet and American
systems are coming closer
and closer together through a
scientific approach.
SUPPORTS BELIEFS ?
Kapitsa did not do badly for
one interview. He supported
the arguments of those Amer-
ican scientists who oppose the
Safeguard ABM system for
defending our land-based
Minuteman missiles and
stimulated doubts as to the
wisdom of huge expenditures
on armaments, particularly
since the systems of the two
superpowers are con-
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By L EDGAR PRINA
Military Affairs Editor
Copley News Service
? WASHINGTON ? As the
Central Intelligence Agency's
'Rich? Re M. Helms has point-
ed out, the Soviet secret po-
lice, in pressing the Krem-
lin's carnpaign of lies and
Slander against the United
States, "frequently use
seemingly independent media
to float fabrications which the
-Communist :outlets then re-
surface in the 'guise of un-
tainted proof."
They do this because the
.media they own and control
are suspect in the West. So,
Free World publications with
no evident connection with
the U.S.S.R. or even with
Communist-front organiza-
tions are lined up by the
KGB.
"Then, through hidden fi-
nancial subsidies and other '
methods, the Russians gain '
sufficient influence to assure
the publication of false sto-
ries about Western con-
spiracies, atrocities and
tary aggressions," Helms
says..
? A recent example of the
'KGB's disinformation activi-
ty involved Blitz, a weekly
publication in Bombay, India,
_ which makes the anything
but modest claim that it is
. "Asia's ? foremost news-
Magazine." Ostensibly inde-
pendent, it is actually a regu-
- lar conduit for Russian
. propaganda. . .
GERM WARFARE CLAIM
warfare the KGB decided to dents in the Unit Z2:el States,
"prove" its case. Its tool: the they should be regarded as
fraudulent document. minor, it said, and the quick ,
. . . . __.
the State Depa-rtment
branded the Goldstein "let-
;tee a forgery. Under a New
York dateline and carrying Cal
? isrIcCrystal's by-line, it said: ?
"The first indication ' that .
the U.S. was in a state of
readiness to launch germ at-
tacks in Vietnam slipped out
last month following tumors
that the storage of .American
weapons of biological warfare
at special bases in Thailand
was supervised in an incom-
petent manner.
"There have been charges
that the weapons.-W6re re-'
spobsible for a bubonic
plague epidemic in. Vietnam.
Certainly, plague outbreaks
are an increasing worry from
the South Vietnamese author- ?
ities, but the American Navy
Department ? the branch of
the forces which decided to '
reply to the charges ? denied
that germ munitions were to
blame.
"The Navy Department's
accompanying comment,
however, confirmed that bio-
logical munitiens stockpiles
DID exist."
Thu, DrIcCrysal, in what
was labeled "an in-
vestigation," accepted the
forgery as gospel. He either
ignored or overlooked the
U.S. explanaton ? and the
evidence.
Tomorrow: The spa-
dial Soviet disinforma-
tion effort in the scion-
tific
The Russians got hold of a
letterhead of the Department
of the Navy's Office of Naval
Research, wrote an in-
criminating text and forged
the name of Gordon D. Gold-
stein to it. Copies of the pho-
ny document were photos-
toted and mailed to editors of
maxim's publications in India,
including the Statesman in
Calcutta, and the Free Press
Journal in Bombay.
According to the "letter,"
Goldstein opened with the
statement that Red Chinese
agents . were spreading ru-
mors "in your country" that
"the bubonic plague epidemic
in . Vietnam and the occur-
rence of epidemic diseases in
other Asian countries" were
connected with U.S. biologi-
cal warfare.
"They (the agents) do not
hesitate to assert that the bio-
logical weapons stored at spe-
cial bases of the U.S. Air
Force and Navy are neg-
ligently protected," the letter
continued. "They claim, in
particular, that the storing of
biological weapons by special.
BW (biological warfare) units
near the Thailand air bases
of the U.S. Air Force is car-
ried out in a most incompetent
manner.
"An epidemic breaking out
in Thailand as a result of such
carelessness might ? they
claim ? spread like wildfire
into other densely inhabited
countries of Asia t ha t lack
adequate sanitation, thus
Blitz' `big lie" story ? was leading to the sacrifice of
that the United States was ea. millions of innocent lives."
.-gaged .in germ warfare in CLAIMS 'PROTECTION'
SoutheaSt Asia. It -recalled Having "admitted" that the
.,the . spurious Communist United States stockpiles BW
charges of "biological war- weapons in Southeast Asia,
fare" during the 1950-53 the letter then goes on to as-
Korean War. sure the addressee that
?
After a. major Soviet propa- charges of negligence in their
.ganda barrage aimed at the handling and storage are "ir-
-Pentagon's alApfleVell Porotteileas#hgo w ? w
of April 23, 1958 ? long after
inoculation of nearby popu- .
lotions with the proper vac-
cines protected them.
"Suffice it to point Out that
during the last 10 years. only
an insiginificant number of
cases of bubonic plague or
smallpox have occurred
among the personnel of the
BW laboratories and storage
centers at the Dugway Prov-
ing Ground, Utah, and the
Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark.," the
letter asserted reassuringly.
INOCULATION TOLD
"They were, moreover, iniT
mediately localized, and the
inhabitants of the nearby
towns were protected from
any danger of infection
through inoculation with apr-
opriate vaccines. We have had
the same positive experience
? in Connection with our special
depositories overseas."
Blitz, in its March 9, 168,
edition, went promptly to
work. It embellished the pho-
ny letter with the additional
charge that the United States
has stored hydrogen bombs in
Southeast Asia. Under the
headline, "U.S.A. Admits Bio-
logical and Nuclear War-
fare," it said:
"The Americans have offi-
cially admitted in a letter
written by the. U.S. Depart-
ment of the Navy to some In-
dian newspaper editors that
the U.S.A. has moved huge
quanitities of biological war-
fare weapons and rritld (sic)
thermonuclear devices into
Vietnam and Thailand."
CHARGES PRINTED
The Statesman and Free
Press Journal printed the
phony charges too, but after
the U.S. State Department
issued a denial and produced
evidence of a forgery both, in
effect, published retractions.
Most disillusioning to U.S.
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?`Military Affairs Editor
,Ccpley Naws Servicl
WASHINGTON ?
jOb of the Soviet ECCI'2t pelice
(KGB), assigned it . by The
powerful Central Committee
of the Communist parte, is to
discredit individuals, organi-
zations and governments re-
garded as inimical to the in-
terests of the U.S.S.R.
'Acting through its Depart-
ment of Dezinformatsiya'
,(disinformation), the KGB
as used fraudulentstories,
forgery, deception, false ru-
mors and propaganda in ef-
forts to damage the reputa-
tions and effectiveness of
Richard M. Nixon, Henry A.
Kissinger, Sargent Shriver,
Nelson A. Rockefeller, J. Ed-
gar Hoover, John Foster Dul-
les, William P. Rogers and
many other American lead-
ers.
It has employed the same
Immoral tools in an unrelent-
ing campaign of slander
against such U.S: government
organizations as the Central
Intelligence Agency, Federal
Bureau of Investigation and
Peace Corps. ?
OTHER TARGETS
Although the United States
Is. "Enemy No. 1" .to the
Kremlin, ,the KGB has other
objectives as well. It aims to
lull the West and divide it.
How do you drive a wedge
between the United States
and its allies? If the U.S.S.R. ?
Is viewed as stable, strong.
and aggressive in its ? pursuit
of foreign policies, the West
is encouraged to remain
plied. .
On the other hand, if the
West can be made to believe
the Communist superpower is ;
riven with darnestic prob-
lems, is chastened by the
'threat" of Red China and is
seeking a. .genuine detente
ApproV
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T,then the allies are inclined to
:lower their guard.
'COMMON THEMES
Aceordingly, among the
standard Soviet dis-
information themes are
:these:
1. The U.S.S.R. has severe
:internal troubles; there is;
potentially, at least, a viable
domestic opposition to. the
Communist regime; the So-
viet-Chinese split is going to
-lead to war.
2. The KGB is dull, plodd-
ing and ineffective.
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PHOTO COPY CONCEDES POSSIBILITY
The document was a pho- A slightly off-focus photos-
tostatic copy of an alleged sp.- ' tat of the phony document
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?
3. The United. States treats
Sits allies with arrogance and
contempt.
In the last four or five
years, particularly since the
Arab-Israeli war of June,
1967, the Soviet dis-
informatiob effort has fo-
cused heavy attention on the
Middle East.
If one were to pick a prime
target in the Middle East for
the Department of Dis-
information (or Department
D, as it also is known), the
name of Lt. Gen. Moshe Da-
yan likely would head the list.
The popular Israeli defenae
minister, a. tough-talking
hawk, military hero and pos-
sible future prime minister,
is the kind of leader who
could rally a nation in time of
war.
It is not surprising, there-
fore, that the . general
recently was the intended vic-
tim of a typical 'Soviet-type,
fraudulent-document libel.
Known to U.S. officials as
the "Denholm Forgeries,
Part II," the document was
armed. with a multiple war-
head. It sought to . discredit
Dayan and British and Amer-
ican intelligence agencies and
show Western collusions with
Israel. The unusual aspect of
the case was that the forgery
surfaced? I 1
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_.patch h U. S''. was published by the leftwing,
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Army attache in Tel Aviv, sex-and-scandal weekly, Hao- .
from Col. Charles J. Den- lam Hazeh, Nov. 10, 1970, in,
holm, chief of the collection Tel Aviv. Uri Avneri, its edi-',
division, office of the assis- tor, is a member of the Knes-
tant chief of staff for Army set (parliament) and a bitter
Intelligence in Washington. political opponent of Dayan. r
Denholm, who looks like he According to Avneri, he re-
might be a teacher, now is a ceived the photostat in the
mail a year earlier from an.
major general serving as
commander of the Army Se- anonymous sender in Paris.
curity_Agency in Washington. He said the postmark in- -
Dated May 25, 1959, the for- (Heated it came from a sec-
get-I .paper said, in part: tion of the French capital in
."In connection with your which a number of foreign
inquiries' concerning Maj. embassies are located.
In an article accompanying
Gen. Moshe Deevan We have ,/
the published document, Av-
neri conceded that "I as-
sumed, a priori, that there
was a reasonable possibility
of its being a forgery by a
foreign espionage service,
such as Soviet intelligence."
consulted CIL authorities.
They informed us that Dayan
was well known to their Brit-
ish colleagues since he was
involved in some delicate op-
erations they conducted in
the Middle East. SIS (British
Intelligence Service) ap-
proached Dayan in 1941 while
he was in a British prison and
obtained his release before
his sentence expired.
"The CIA considers that ac-
ceptable provisions for joint
contact with Dayan could be
? worked out with SIS in accor-
dance with previus practice.
'CIA will instruct its officer in
Tel Aviv, Mr. W. Lockling, on
the matterand he will get in
touch with you. You must
maintain close liaison with
him as mediator." ? -
Here; one is supposed to
conclude, is a lackey of the
old imperialists (British)
being passed on to the new
imperialists (Americans).
Certainly, one of the pur-
poses. of the disinformation
fraud was to involve the U.S.
, Central Intelligence Agency
and the British Intelligence
Service in alleged attempts to
recruit Dayan as an agent.
Another purpose was to di-
minish the prestige and
fluence of of Dayan, a hard-
liner against the Soviet
Union's intrigue in the Middle
islidseirbol t ndsiagAks
However, he said he de-
cided to publish it after Da-
yan refused to discuss with
him, off the record, the ques-
tion of war and peace, and af-
ter a British newspaper cor-
respondent learned of its ex-
istence.
The timing of publication
suggested another ex-
planation. It came shortly be-
fore the Israeli Labor party
elections. Dayah was report-
ed to be locked in a bitter
fight with Deputy Prime
Minister Yigal Alton for the
party leadership. Each would
like to succeed Golda Meir as
prime minister.
The publication was not
calculated to advance Da-
yan's political aspirations.
DISCREPANCIES CITED
A study of the photostat in-
dicates the form is a correct
copy of a Department of the
Army letterhead. The content
raises suspicions, butlhe sig-
nature makes the forgery
plain. The use of "SIS" as the
designation of British in-
telligence is strange because
the service has been known:
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now seems to many students, hocral CUld society pages of the nation's
intellectuals and Congressmen, to be cr;?!tal--
niadernocratie, conspir,tc7ial, sinister. Yet, if -he gives the c.,-;:earance of
The revelations in recent years that inecuciance?he is witty, Lregariou.3,
have ,rna,:le the 2::,,e..a.cysusp,ect include resere is there, ?lit:o
Its activitios in Southe 1st ,%Laia, the a high- veltag a".ectrie harrier, just'
Congo, Guatemrla, the YJay of Figs; beneath the surface. Helms is a mass
t12 flights; its SC:cf..2:7, f?LIZIcling of apparent contradictions: inwardly
thrciugh "front" foundations cf the self-discipliaed and outwardly relay.cd,
National Student Association plus alecorbe-d in the essential yet fasci-
private ci.ltu;-.21, wcinen's and law- natel by the trivinl. A former foreign
y:3rzt groups, aa'..1, finally, two ye-ars coc-zesponclerit, he observes much and
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? Accord to I m , a num er o
tricks are "used by the Sdviets to nurse
a little 'plant' into a big lie." He cited a
few:
' "One is to print a local or planted
rumor as a news article Using both (So-
viet) bloc and free world papers as out-
lets. Another is to lend the tale a seem-
ing authenticity by replaying through
bloc media stories attributed to the
Western press. A third device is the al-
legation that the current Soviet charges
are proven by secret Western docu-
ments ? documents that do not even.
exist as fdrgeries."
The major Soviet disinformation
themes charge that the United States is
an imperialist power bent upon W or 1 d
Thil is the first in a .series of ' ?Central. Committee of the Communist
four articles analyzing the Party, directly supervises. its work.
l' The schemes and themes of dis-
. Soviet Union's campaign to dis- .
., information are planned by the party
credit the West and sow. confu- , leaders and committee staff units domination; that it interferes in the af-
sion with deception, fraud and handle the details. If forgeries are re- fairs of independent countries and that
forgeries. i quired, they are prepared by Depart- it connives against its own allies.
, !. ment D experts or satellite intelligence
To promote these themes, the Seviets
. . services, often the East German and have peddled some fantastic con-
Czech.
The aim of the game is not simply to .coctions. .
Would you believe Nelson A. Rocke-
mislead and defame the Western pow- feller sent a "letter" to President
' ers but, through such weapons as pho- Dwight D. Eisenhower outlining a cy-,
? ny "facts," fraudulent documents and nical plan for using U. S. military and.
false reports, to prompt them to takejeconomic aid to press a world domina.
-actions contrary to their own interests.:-
tion goal?
Richard .M. Helms, director of Cen-.
How about an "agreement" between
Secretary of-State John Foster Dulles
and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi of
Japan "to permit use of Japanese
troops anywhere in Asia?"
By I-, EDGAR PRINA
? Military Affairs Editor
Copley News Service
- WASHINGTON ? At No. 2 Dzerzhin-
sky Square, not far from the Kremlin
In downtown Moscow, there's a rather
ugly gray limestone edifice whose no-
toriety has been recorded in novel and
news story. ?
It is the intamous Lubianka Prison
building, the end of the line for many
an important "enemy" of Stalin - and
his successors, but in czarist clays the
home of the Lubianka Insurance Co.
Since the Bolshevik revolution in
1917, the Lubianka- has also served as
headquarters of the dread Soviet secret
police, the Cheka, when it was first set
up under Felix Dzerzhinsky.
? Today the secret police organization
Is known as the KGB or, more formal-
ly, the Committee of State Security,
.and one of its busiest arms is Depart-
_ment _D of its first chief directorate.
popularly called the Department of
"Dezinformatsiya" (disinformation).
A more apt name, according to U.S.
Intelligence experts, would be "Depart-,
ment of Dirty Tricks." ?
The key function performed by De-
partment D, which was created in late
1959, is to help p-repare, carry out and
monitor deception/disinformation oper-
ations ? an effort directed primarily
against the United' States ("Glavni between the United States and its
Vrag" or "Enemy No. 1") and its al- friends.
lies. It has a headquarters payroll of 3. To drive a wedge between the peo-
.perhaps 60 to 75 experts of various pies of non-Soviet block countries and
.types. Its chief for a number of years their governments by fostering the line
;was the recently deceased Gen. Ivan that "these governments do not repre-
ivanovich Agayants. sent their citizens because they are
puppets" of the United States.
. Vasily Sitnilcov, an expert on North The Soviets use a variety of types of
"Atlantic Treaty Organization affairs,
documentary frauds, including the
was No. 2 and may have been ad- faLse 'news story, the distortion of a
vanced to acting chief. -genuine document, the forgery, the fab- 18 1963, from Sargent Shriver, director
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portance is ' or true account attributed to a noti-
existent organization. ? _tIve in Ethiopia doveta e
Dorrtittit
?ir.iost powerful groups in USSR, the..
tral Intelligence, has pointed out that
the Russians "have a long tradition in
the art of forgery.". They. produced the
spurious anti-Semitic tract, "Protocols
of the Elders of Zion," at the turn of
the century. Or a "letter" from Dulles to the U.S.
Soviet forgeries began appearing in ambassador to Iran, in which the sec-
volume in 1957 and many of them have retary made insulting remarks about
been aimed at American targets the shah?
through a worldwide network.
"The CIA (Central Intelligence Arlen-
Perhaps a "letter" from Dr. Frank
B. Berry, assistant secretary of de-
cy) put these fakes under the micro-dfense for health, to Secretary of Dc.
scope," Helms told the Senate Interna
fense Neil H. McElroy in 1933?
Security subcommittee when he was
top aide to Allen W. Dulles at the agen- This one ,had Berry asserting that
67.3 per cent of all
cy. "We found that each Soviet forgery flight personnel in
the U.S. Air Force were psychoneurotic,
is manufactured and spread according
drmany shoi,vin phobias, "hysterical syn-
meshto a plan. Each is devised and timed to g
with other techniques of psy- omes and fits of unaccountable, ani-
chological warfare in support of Soviet m?sitY''' ,
strategy." . Berry also "reported" that studies of
Helms listed three main purposes of chronic overstrain of the nervous sys-
the disinformation effort: tern among Strategic Air Command pi-
1. To discredit the, West generally, cessi lots and navigators indicated "ex-
and the United States and its govern-, ve and systematic use of alcohol
ment specifically, in the eyes of the (quite often even in flight), use of nar-.
rest of the world. cotic drugs (particularly cigarettes
. ' containing opium and marijuana), and
2. To sow.. "suspicion and discord". sexual excesses and perversions."
among the Western allies, especially . For good measure, this line was
added: "Moral depression is a typical
condition of all crew members making
flights with atomic and H-bombs."
The forged Berry letter first surfaced _
in the East German newspaper Neues
Deutchland in May, 4958, and then was.
replayed in other Communist organs.
Later Soviet disinformation projects'
pushed charges just as far out,
For example, a "letter" dated June
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