RECORD UNMATCHED BY ANY OTHER PUBLICATION WE BEGIN OUR 11TH YEAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300130005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 20, 1974
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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TACTICS.
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Record Unmatched By Any Other Publication
WE BEGIN OUR 11th YEAR
This "the Jan. 20, 1974 issue, is the start of the eleventh year of TACTICS magazine. There Is nothing
comparable. An early leaflet, answering the question, "But what is TACTICS?", said: "TACTICS isprimartly
a technical lournal on matters relating to propaganda pressures-propaganda warfare. But it also fulfills the
function of a specialized newsletter. Because of
the hush-hush and distortions caused by the anti-
anticommunist propaganda climate and by an in-
sidious news management approach, practically
every issue or TACTICS contains news 'scoops'
and news 'exclusives'.
This was not precisely how TACTICS started
out. We minimized our news role. The preface,
written especially for the first bound volume, 1964,
said, "TACTICS is not a newsbulletin or a news-
letter, and neither Is it a newsmagazine." All the
emphasis was being put on Its role "in the field of
personal and national attitudes, with especral re-
gard to deliberate efforts and methods to influence
and change them, as part.of psychological warfare."
This remains its motivation, and the news that
appears in TACTICS is intended to illustrate the
tactical. TACTICS has always stressed that it "does
not seek to convert anyone," that it "is written and
researched for those who understand the need for
guidance, alerts and background (intelligence) in
our struggle. "
The astounding amount of "scoops" and "ex-
clusives" In TACTICS was first disconcerting to
the editor, and finally had to be accepted as a fact
of life. If TACTICS could accurately refer to it-
self as, "The 2LIy professional 'psywar' journal, "
it just naturally would have to contain all of this
hitherto unpublished news and unrewritten history.
In many cases, time and developments were
to demonstrate this. This is being written with the
hope that in the second decade of TACTICS' life,
such articles will be better used as guidance. For
instance, the Nov. 20, 1965-yes, 1965--issue had
an article headlined:
Squeeze Play Against Ourselves
MOSCOW'S OIL GAMBIT
TACTICS has only just learned that this article
is now, these many years later, being quoted in
radio talks. The first paragraph pointed out, "oil
is the American achilles heel," that we had plenty
but "all this oil is underground... A modern wdt
would be over long before we could' get it out.
The article added. "In sum, our oil Htiuation
provides the Soviet Union with a ready made means
for our paralysis and conquest... Indeed, it is the
cornerstone of its political-economic war against
our country to the trap in what is now the Watergate-
ITT affair. Covert "psywar" is another fact of life,
but to use it domestically, against our own people,
Is a horrible misuse of It, in the mannorof n "banana
republic. "
Specific legislation should restrict such covert
operations to true "psywar" defense against foreign
countries using it against us and make a felony of
its misuse domestically. If readers of TACTICS can
help bring this about, it would a life-saver for our
nation. This is the ignored theme of what has been
made into an internal ploy in partisan politics.
In 1968, TACTICS disclosed the widening gap in
American and Soviet naval power, to the advantage
of. Moscow, especially in nuclear submarines. The
figures we presented were denied, but facts were to
prove them accurate a dismal period afterwards.
"WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD" %
The following appears on Page 469 of the
f second edition, 1974-1975, of Who's Who
in the World:
HUNTER, EDWARD, editor, author, b.N.Y.C.,July 2,
1902. a Edward and Rose (Weiss) H.;,-elf-educated;
m. Tatiana Pestrikoff, June 30, 1932 (div. May 19611;
children-Robert, Tate Ann. Reporter and news edi-
tor of various newspapers, including Newark Ledger,
New Orleans Item, N. Y. Post, N.Y. American;Report-
er Paris edit. Chgo. Tribune, 1924-25; news editor
Japan Advertiser, Tokyo, 1927; editor Hankow (China)
Herald, 1928-29, Peking Leader, 1929-30; covered
Japanese conquest of Manchuria, Spanish Civil War,
Italian conquest of Ethiopia. Internat. News Service,
1931-36; Chmn. Anti-Communist Liaison, Inc.,1962- i
also pub.-editor monthly Tactics. Cons. psychol.war-
fare USAF, 1953-54. Served as propaganda warfare
specialist AUS, with morale operations sect. OS S,
Asia, World Warts. Author: Brain-Washing in Red
China, 1951, rev. edit., 1971; Brainwashing: The Story
of Men Who Defied It, 1956, reprinted 1971;The Story
of Mary Liu, 1957; The Black Book On Red China,1958;
The Past Present: A Year In Afghanistan, 1959; In
Many \'otce9:OurFabulous Foreign-Language Press,
1960; Attack By Mail, 1963. Contbr. articles on psy-
chol. warfare, polit. extremism numerous periodicals.
Clubs: overseas Press, Silurians. Address: 4114 N.
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