OCB CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR FUNDS TO PUBLISH MATERIALS DOCUMENTING SATELLITE TREATY VIOLATIONS

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• Publication Date: November 16, 1954
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SECRET
OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD
Washington 25, D. C.
November 16, 1954
MEMORANDUM FOR THE BOARD ASSISTANTS
SUBJECT: OCB Consideration of Request for Funds to Publish
Materials Documenting Satellite Treaty Violations
The attached memorandum is on the agenda for November 19
as other business for preliminary discussion and possibly
disposition if a way can readily be found to carry out the
working group's recommendations,
Elmer B. Staat
Executive Offic,%
Attachment:
Memo for OCB, Executive Officer,
fm. Chairman, Worki Group on
NSC 174, dated 11/4154
NSC review(s) completed.
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when removed from attachment
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OPERATIBNS COORDINATING BOkRB
Washington 25, B. C.
November 4, 195b
MEMORANDUM FOR THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF OCB
SUBJECT: OCB Consideration of Request for Funds to Publish
Satellite Treaty Violations.
Materials Documenting
1. The current list of agreed courses of action to implement W )C 17t,
includes the following point:
"18b. Develop opportunities to exploit the voluminous dog-amenttsu. y
materials being compiled in the Department of State to demonstrai:a
satellite treaty violations."
The Department of State was assigned primary responsibility for the imple-
mentation of this course of action, with the USIA and CIA having supporting
responsibility.
2. The assembly and compilation of these data have been under way fo?
more than two years, and two volumes containing evidence of violations by
Rumania of peace treaty guarantees of freedom of expression and freedom of
press have been published. Additional material sufficient for nine more
volumes has been collected, but funds for the work of editing and publica-
tion are not currently available to the Department of State. The project
will have to be suspended unless needed funds in the amount of $65,000 can
be made available. Approaches to USIA and CIA have had negative results,
3. The presentation of such evidence would be in fulfillment of the
terms of a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 3,
1950, with U.S. suppcrt, Y:hich called upon member states to submit data
of this nature to the Secretary General. If published, the materials
would be of substantial value both to the USUN Delegation for use in
debates at the UN and to the USIA in its work abroad, particularly In
countries where the true attitude of Ccnrn-anist regimes toward human right.3
is not clearly understood. The U.S, delegation to the UNESCO General
Conference at Montevideo has reed f^.7-, trial of this kind. Evidence of
treaty violations by the satellites would also serve one of the purposes
of the campaign to unmask the in1 ornational com rardst conspiracy and Sovte.t
imperial iom, one of the air.is of tFziah ?.^ to inC c to the nationals of the
free nations of the world that cormmun _o? controlled pasties, although they
may have an indigenous base, are merely in3tru.nents of the Kermlin for
furthering communist aims of total takeover a d total control."
4. The Working Group on. NSC 17'; recommends:
a. That the 0CB approve; the completion of this project.
b. That funds for this purpooc be made available by the
appropriate L~gencios.
/s/ Francis B. Stevens
Chairman, Working Group on NSC 174
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