INFORMATION AGENCY IS PRODUCING PROPAGANDA ILLEGALLY

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NEWS & OBSERVER
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r:? A_I The Naws and Observer, Sunday, April 21, 1968
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By IIARLOW G. UNGBR..
Toronto Telegram News Service
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the United States Information of life" into the hands of ;print it and . distribute it ,?P!+
Agency has been violating the foreigners each year, through normal commercial
laws of the United States. It channels.
has acknowledged these viola- I 'There is, however, no doubt ! Books of this type are being ! .
tions before Congress on at ' in the minds of . foreign sold today in the U. S., Canada -''
least two occasions and has ` I, readers that the books off and other nations to readers
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desist." pagandistic, and the USIS does I~ reading straight propaganda
But the violations are con ! not attempt to hide its role as ream Washington.
tinuing and Congress appears the propaganda arm of the U.
unable or unwilling to stop S government. The USIA contract with
them. But USIA officials are far, authors and publishers under
this scheme is quite clear. It
r( Unlike the uproar produced. sless o-called about develothe i states in part: "Publication
disclosures ~C.LfJ... shall be without attribution to
subversion o of f n r ri v a t'e program, because this scheme
su the agency. The contractor
organizations in the United is entirely illegal. will not issue ... publicity or
States last year, little public f. The program is a two-pro- + information . in any form
indignation was produced by nged affair. One aspect of the regarding this contract or the
that the USIA had, in effect,
.subverted the American
publishing industry.
{ book. USIA then pays the
The USIA has been paying publishers, a high enough price
?,publishers, secretly to produce to allow these extra copies to
. be sold at attractive (50 per-
books bearing no government cent or more) discount prices
fact of the government's con-
nection with the subject
book."
In 1966, Frederick A.
Praeger, a subsidiary of
Encyclopedia " Brittanica.
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published a book called, Why
Vietnam? by Frank N..
label and distribute them
Trager. USIA paid Praeger. ,*
`.channels in the United States There is nothing to indicate and other countries, including to readers that the books were
Canada. Thus, many of the bought and paid for with USIA
politically-oriented U. S. books f u n d s . "Co-onerative"
available in local bookstores in publishers in this scheme in-
downtown Toronto, Montreal, -,.elude such. famous paperback
Now York, San Francisco and publishers as Fawcett, Ban-
' other major North American tam and Pocket Books..
cities are nothing more than Although perhaps the books
U. S government propaganda. technically cannots be called
The USIA, which operates
the United States Information :propaganda, because they
vice libraries around the were not written by the USIA,,
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world, is, of course, paid to be there. is little question that the
Unclip Sam's press agent, and p shlis USIA kco tract tawaits
$5,750 to publish it and the
author $2,500 to write it.
!'No American or foreign
sponsored. by the U. S. government's , propaganda
In 1966 Doubleday published ::r
a USIA-sponsored book by Jay
Mallin of Time magazine call-
ed Caribbean Crisis: ' Sub
version Fails in the Dominican'
Republic. It was an apologia
for the U. S. landings in the
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Despite the popular foreign .:them, are often willing to in-
that year Mallin was paid
sport of burning USIS., fluence"the author to write the ( nearly $5,000 in USIA funds to
libraries, the USIA manages right kind of book, write -a book called Terror in
to get about 15 million books The second prong of the ' which was published
describing "the American way USIA's book, development pro- :by D. Van Nostrand. ;,
gram is more insidious. Under. I A magazine called The New;i
the scheme, USIA simply goes - ~ Leader received $16,500 in.-';
out and hires an author to USIA and CIA funds a few
write the "right" kind of book, years ago to compile. a book
ilt then pays the publishers to - - - --~-- -- ---
program merely involves a
USIA order asking a publisher
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