FILES ON COMMUNIST BLOC PROPAGANDA

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Radio Propaganda Branch
FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
FILES ON COMMUNIST BLOC PROPAGANDA
A description of the files and records of
? Soviet, Chinese Communist, and satellite
radio and press propaganda maintained in
the Research Support Section of FBIS'
Radio Propaganda Branch
3 December 1962
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FILES ON COMMUNIST BLOC PROPAGANDA.
Contents
INTRODUCTION 0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 00000000000000
I, QUANTITATIVE 'DATA
A, Moscow and Peking Commentaries0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 .0 2
Comment About Countries and Areas
Comment on Topic4
Comment on Event4
Comment ,Beamed To Particular Areas
B, Moscow and Peking Newscasts 0 000000000 0 00000 9
Moscow Domestic Service Newscasts
Peking Domestic Service Newscasts
Moscow and Peking Newscasts to Other Audiences
II? TEXTS AND EXTRACTS OF OFFICIAL PRONOUNCEMENTS
A, Files of Texts 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 , ? 0 0000000 0p lo
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East European Satellites
CoMmunist Chinao North Koreao North Vietnamo Mongolia
Blocwide
Other Communist Pronouncements
130 Files of Extracts Leadership Statements on Key Themes? 0 12
War Themes
CPSU Congress Speeches
Khrushchev on Some Key International Issues
Ad Hoc Projects
1110 OTHER COLLATIONS
A0 Soviet Leaders 9 Activities and Status 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ,, 00 20
B, Khrushchevisms 0 0 000000 000000000000000 20
C, Biographic Information on Bloc Propagandists 00000,00 20
D, Indexes of Bloc Press Articles 000000 000000000 21
E, Tables of Contents of FBIS Publications 0 0 o 00o0o 21
IVO AREA AND TOPIC FILES 0 0 0 0 ? 0 0 0 22
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RADIO PROPAGANDA BRANCH
FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE'
- FILES ON'COMMUNIST BLOC-PkWAGANDA
This catalogue lists the materials on file in the Radio Propaganda Branch
(RPB) of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service that are drawn upon
in response to requests for reports and information on Soviet, Chinese
Communist, European and Far Eastern satellite, and Cuban propaganda,
RPB?s systematic analysis of the output of Sino-Soviet bloc media is both
qualitative (what the media say and how they say it) and quantitative
(how much they say, and to whom),
As studied in the branch, "propaganda" is defined to include all public
utterances from bloc countries that are carried by the radios, news
agencies, newspapers, and journals of those countries, (The definition
excludes statements made by bloc spokesmen that are not publicized by the
bloc's own media, although such statements are taken into consideration
by branch analysts,)
RPB reports its findings weekly in the TRENDS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF COM..
MUNIST BLOC BROADCASTS and every other week, more extensively, in the
SURVEY OF COMMUNIST BLOC BROADCASTS. RADIO PROPAGANDA REPORTS, issued
irregularly in a Current Developments Serfs and a Research Series, range
from spot reports on propaganda about current world developments to
studies of propaganda bearing on such intelligence problems as Sino
Soviet relations and the Soviet leadership situation. A new monthly
series of PROPAGANDA REPORTS covering salient aspects of Havana propa-
ganda was instituted on 6 November l962, Indexes of the PROPAGANDA
REPORTS are issued periodically. Propaganda developments of immediate
interest are also reported on the FBIS Wire in items headed "Comment on
Bloc Propaganda."
The files described below are maintained in support of this activity,
as a cumulative record of the content and quantity of bloc propaganda
on selected subjects, Questions concerning these files, requests to
use them, or requests for information from them may be directed to the
Assistant for Reports, RPB,
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I. QUANTITATIVE DATA
A. Moscow and Peking Commentaries
RPB bases its quantitative analysis on a cumulative record of the commen-,
tary items broadcast by the Moscow and Peking radios. Other communist
bloc radio, press, and journal materials are studied systematically as
to content, but not quantitatively,
The term "commentary" is defined to include radio talks and features, press
articles and editorials broadcast by the radio? lengthy radio reportage
such as accounts of meetings, parades or celebrations? official (govern-
ment or party) statements, diplomatic notes, official letters or teler
grams, and speeches.
Radio Mo4courbroadcastimore than 3,000 commentaries a week to its domestic
and foreign audiences. Radio Peking broadcasts more than 1,400 commen-
taries a week to listeners in China and abroad. As much as 40 percent
of the commentary output from Moscow and Peking is devoted, respectively,
to Soviet and CPR internal affairs.
FBIS maintains 80 to 90 percent coverage of the commentary output of the
Moscow and Peking radios for all audiences, foreign and domestic. Infor-
mation on all monitored comment is supplied daily by the FBIS field,
categorized in RPB by subject area, topic, and/or event, and tallied on
a weekly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
RPB's counting week is the seven-day period Monday through Sunday.
Some commentaries are broadcast only once, to a single audience. Others
may be rebroadcast two, five, 109,209 or 40 or more times to many audi-
ences, and some speeches by top Soviet leaders have been broadcast by
Moscow more than 100 times; Khrushchev's report to the 22d CPSU Congress
was broadcast a massive 600 times. The same commentary broadcast, say,
70 times is counted as 70 commentaries.
No count of these commentary items on a given subject in a given period
(volume) or analysis of target audiences (beaming) can be meaningful un-
less it is viewed in perspective--compared with other statistics. Fifty
Moscow commentaries in one week on, say, Icelandic affairs (a subject
seldom discussed in Soviet propaganda) would be a huge volume; but 50
in one week on a Soviet party congress (normally publicized in many
hundreds of broadcasts) would be a very small volume. Moscow's volume
of comment on a given event may therefore be interpreted as emphasis,
deemphasis, or routine treatment depending on how it stacks up against
past volume on like events.
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The cumulative records of the volume and target audiences of Moscow and
Peking comment On areas, topics, and events are drawn upon as a continu-
ing base for such comparison, enabling analysts to spot the gradual long
term trends as well as the Immediate shifts in propaganda behavior that
are reported in the branch's publications..
Statistics on the volume and beaming of Moscow Or Peking comment within
any of the following categories can be supplied for any day, week, quar-
ter, or year (dating, for Moscow, from 1949 and for Peking. from 1955),
1. Comment About Countries and Areas
Statistics are available on the number of Moscow or Peking commen-
taries devoted to any single country and to major geographical areas.
All monitored Moscow or Peking commentaries are categorized by coun-
try or area discussed. Commentaries discussing a number of countries
in a single geographical area are counted in a broad area category A
commentary discussing Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Venezuela in
about equal measure would be given a "Latin America" code. A commen-
tary largely devoted to Argentina, however, would be given the coun-
try code "Argentina," A total statistic on Moscow's comment on Latin
American affairs would include all comment given the area code "Latin
America" plus all comment given individual Latin American country
codes.
A "Global Affairs" code is used for commentaries on general East-West
issues, such as disarmament and nuclear testing.
2. Comment on Topic4
At the same time, records are kept on the number of commentaries (about
all areas and countries) that give substantial attention to particular
topics, A commentary on the Cuban crisis that is largely devoted to
the theme of "coexistence" between East and West would be given the
area code "Cuba" and the topic code "Peaceful Coexistence." A pass-
ing mention of the theme, however, in a commentary basically devoted
to another topic, would not be included in the count on coexistence.
Major topic codes include:
East-West Relations
Disarmament
Nuclear Testing
Negotiations
Peaceful Coexistence
East-West Trade
Amity (scientific, cultural and other
contacts and exchanges)
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b. World Problems
Economic Aid (Bloc and Western)
"National Liberation Movements" and Colonialism,
Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Uses
co Western Actions Against the Sino-Soviet Bloc
Western Aggression '(charges of atomic, bacterial,
chemical warfare preparations, military pacts.,
bases, remilitarization, war propaganda, military
budgets)
Hostility
Subversion
d. Image of the West
? Deprivation of Workers ,
? Persecution of "Progressives"
Racism
eo Image of the Communist World
Sino-Soviet Differences
Revisionism
Bloc Unity
Communist World Unity
3. Comment on Event6
In addition to area and topic codes, commentaries are given event
codes when they are linked to specific events or developments--an
anniversary, a special celebration, a leader's or delegation's visit,
an East-West meeting, a speech by a Western or bloc leader, an outer
space probe.
The event code is applied when the commentary is substantially devoted
to the evento Passing mentions of certain events are recorded, but
the cumulative statistics on commentaries devoted to events include
only those commentaries given event codes. Thus a reference in an
RPB publication to "50 Moscow commentaries on Vice President Johnson's
tour of the eastern Mediterranean area" means 50 commentaries substan-
tially devoted to the trip; it does not mean that only 50 commentaries
mentioned the trip.
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4. Comment Beamed To Particular Areas
The regularly compiled statistics discussed in sections 1$ 2$ and 3
above refer to volume of comment about given areas, topics, and evlints
in att tanguageso taken together. Statistics can also be collated on
the volume of comment about an area, topic, or event that is beamed to
a single audience or audience grouping.
a. Soviet Comment
Radio Moscow broadcasts in Russian to the Soviet domestic audi-
ence. Regional radios relay' Moscow programs and originate their
own programs in the languages of the various Soviet republics.
Statistics are available on the volume of Moscow domestic service
cOmmento Soviet regional radio comment is monitored selectively
but not computed statistically. (The regional comment essentially
repeats the central domestic service with regard to international
affairs.)
The Soviet radio broadcasts in its International Service in the
languages listed below. Most of the broadcasts emanate from
Moscow; a few, however, are broadcast from such cities as Baku
and Tashkent. Statistics can be 'compiled on the volume of Soviet
comment to any of the following foreign audience groups or in any
individual languages within those groups, except as noted:
The European "people's democracies" (except the GDR*)
Albanian
? Bulgarian
Czech
Hungarian
Polish
Rumanian
Slovak
Yugoslavia
Macedonian
Serbocroat
Slovene
Western Europe
Danish
Dutch
44,66,
*
Moscow broadcasts German to East and West Germany, not exclusively to
the GDR. For statistical purposes., German-language comment is counted under
Western Europe.
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Western Europe (continued)
Finnish
French
Getman
German to Austria
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish (and sometimes the Catalan dialect)
Swedish
English to the United Kingdom
North America
English
Latin America
' Portuguese to Brazil
Spanish to Cuba
Spanish to Mexico and Central America
Spanish to South America.-
? French to the West Indies (twice weekly)
The Near and Middle East
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Greek
Kurdish*
Persian
Tadzhik*
Turkish
Africa
Amharic
English
French.
Hausa
Italian
Portuguese
Somali
Swahili
* Not monitored by FBIS at present.
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Communist Asia
Korean
Mandarin
Mongolian
Tonkinese '(or Vietnamese)
Noncommunist Asia
Burmese
Bengali
English to Southeast Asia
Hindi
Indonesian
Japanese
Pushtu
Urdu
h. CPR Comment
Statistics can be made available on Peking comment to the CPR domestic
audience via the domestic service. They' are also available on com-
ment to any' of the following audience groups or in languages within
those groupso except as notedg
Southeast Asia
Burmese
Cambodian
English to Australia
English to India and Pakistan
English to Southeast Asia
Hindi
Indonesian
Laotian
Malayan
Thai
Tonkinese (or Vietnamese)
Northeast Asia
Japanese
Korean
North America
English
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Latin America
Portuguese to Brazil
Spanish to Mexico and Central
Spanish to South America
Western Europe
English
French*
German
Italian*
Portuguese
Spanish
USSR and East Europe
Russian
Serbocroat
Overseas Chinese
Mandarin to
Mandarin to
Mandarin to
Mandarin to
Cantonese
Amoy*
Chaochow*
Hikka*
Taishan*
America
the Americas*
Europe t Africao and West Asia*
Southeast Asia
Taiwan
The Near and Middle East
Arabic
Persian
Turkish
Africa
English
French ,
Portuguese
Swahili
* Moni
ored irregularly.
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BO Moscow and Peking Newscasts
10 Moscow Domestic,Service Newscasts
Immediate information is available about the content of the foreign
affairs and military-affairs portions of Soviet domestic service .
newscasts'. Items about foreign and military affairs from five of
the eleven daily Soviet domestic service news programs are reported
by the FB1S field and collated in RPB on a weekly basis. Signi
ficant items or trends are reported in the branchys publications,
The cumulative files on these items date from 1953.
Domestic service newscast content is one gauge of the relative
moderation or bellicosity of Soviet propaganda, For example, an
abnormal incidence of domestic service news items picturing the
West as aggressive would accord with a special effort to stir up
the Soviet people against the United States or the West.
2. Peking Domestic Service Newcasts
Information covering Peking domestic service news items on all
subjects is also available. During critical periods this informa-
tion is collated in much the same manner as Moscow domestic ser-
vice news items in the project described above, This file dates
from 1958,
30 Moscow and Peking Newscasts to Other Audiences
Some information on Moscow and Peking news programs to foreign au-
diences can also be supplied. Currently the branch receives moni-
tori' -summaries of Peking programs in Russian to the USSR, in
English to Africa, and in Mandarin to Taiwan, and of Moscow pro-
grams in English to North America and Spanish to South America.
For information concerning the content of a Moscow or Peking news-
cast in any other language, RPB must query the FBIS field bureau.
that monitors the program. Spot information--for example, whether
or not Moscow broadcast information to the French about a given
development--can generally be obtained in less than eight hours.
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TEXTS AND EXTRACTS OF OFFICIAL PRONOUNCEMENTS
Mils Central Files contain texts, listings, and indexes of authoritative
bloc prO4ouncetents-leaders speeches, party or government statements,
diplomatic communications, editorials from the top Soviet and Chinese
communist party nawspapel"S, and so 'forth? Card indexes cohtain extracts
of Soviet leaders? statements On certain selected key themes, Fidel
Castrots speeches are filed, as are selected statements by Yugoslav and
Western communist leaders. Most of the files date from the early 19509s,
'although not all of them are exhaustive for the initial years.
Ao Files of Texts
1. USSR
Speeches, statements, articles, interviews, letters, telegrams,
and communiques by CPSU Central Committee Presidium members and
candidate members, CPSU Central Committee Secretariat members,
and ussR Foreign and Defense Ministers. .Filed by speaker. The
file dates from 1952, and is completefrom 1954, Statements of
eight leaders holding the, key party' and state posts are indexed*
b. Speeches, articles and other statements by Soviet military
leaders (marshals, admirals, and generals, as well as selected
colonels). Filed chronologically.
co Speeches and statements by Soviet U.N. delegates. Tiled chrono-
logically since April 1957Q
d, Diplomatic statements and communications made in the name of
the Soviet Government or Foreign Ministry. Filed and indexed
chronologically.
e. CPSU Central Committee and Council of Ministers decrees, deci-
sions, and resolutions. Filed chronologically.
f. TASS statements and denials. Filed and indexed chronologically,
g. PRAVDA articles, PRAVDA's editorials, editorial articles, and
authoritative articles signed "Observer" are filed in two series,
one on domestic affairs and the other on foreign topics, Filed
chronologically since 1951; foreign affairs articles are indexed.
h. CPSU Congresses. Speeches and materials from the 19th? 20th, 21st,
and 22d CPSU congresses.
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2. East European Satellites
a. Albanian, Sulgarianzechoslovak, East German, Hungarian,
Polish, and; Rumanian communist party and military leaders'
speeches, statements, articles, interviews, letters, com-
muniques, and so forth. All filed by speaker. Statements
by those holding the four key party and state posts in all
the satellites except East Germany are indexed.
b. Government or foreign ministry diplomatic notes letters or
statements, Filed chronologically by country.
Party central committee decrees, decisions, resolutions.
Filed chronologically by country.
3. Communist China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Mongolia
a. Party and military leaders' speeches, statements, articles,
interviews, and so forth. Filed chronologically by speaker.
Statements by five of the top Chinese leader's are indexed.
b. Government of foreign ministry diplomatic notes, letters or
statements. Filed chronologically by country. Those of
Communist China are indexed.
Party central committee decrees, decisions, resolutions.
Filed and indexed chronologically by country.
d. PEOPLE'S DAILY editorials and authoritative "Observer"
articles. Filed in two series, on domestic and foreign af-
fairs. The latter are indexed. Filedates from 1952.
4. Blocwide
a. Warsaw Treaty Organization materials. , Speeches and declara-
tions made at Warsaw "Pact meetings, filed chronologically.
b. Bloc political and economic meetings. Speeches, declarations,
and announcements regarding CEMA meetings and such political
meetings as the 1957 and 1960 Moscow conference of world com-
'munist parties.
5. Other Communist Pronouncements
a. Yugoslav communist party and military leaders' speeches,
statements, interviews, and so forth. Filed chronologically
by speaker.
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Other Communist Pronouncements (continued)
b. Fidel Castro's speeches and statements and a selection of
pronouncements by other Cuban leaders. Filed chronologically.
Co Western communist party leaderi9 speeches, statements, arti.o
cies, and so forth. Tiled chronologically by country.
d. World Peace Council resolutions. Filed chronologically.
e. World Federation of Trade Unions resolutions, Filed chrono.
logically,
B. Files of Extracts Leadership Statements on Key Themes
1. War Themes
A card file, now containing some 15,000 entries, catalogues para..
graph or sentence reference in Soviet and Chinese Communist elite
pronouncements to key themes relating to basic issues of war and
peace and relations between the communist and noncommunist worlds.
The categories cover such issues as the likelihood, preventa,.
bility0 and consequences of war; kinds of wars; and weapons of
war.
Elite statements are defined to include those made by the USSR
or CPR government, foreign ministry, and top party or military
leaders in notes, letters, speeches, artiCles? interviews, and. so
forth, as released by bloc media. Statements not carried by the
blocs own media--Khrushchev9s off-the-cuff remarks at embassy
receptions reported only by the Western press, for example
--
are not included. In view of the relative infrequency of speeches
on foreign policy by top Chinese Communistleaders0 articles from
the CPR party organs PEOPLE9S DAILY and RED FLAG-as broadcast by
Peking hedia--are additionally screened for statements on the
war themes.
The file of extracts of Soviet statements dates from November 19560
although some categories have been added since that time. The
coding and extracting of CPR statements dates from April 1960.
The cards represent an exhaustive record of the Soviet and CPR
leaders9 statements in the categories listed on the opposite
page. Categories which normally apply to statements by Chinese
Communist spokesmen are so specified in brackets.
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WAR TI1EMES CATEGORIES
Consequences of World War
Devastating destruction would be suffered by both sides
Capitalism/imperialism?would be destroyed
Mankind would survive
People must be educated not to fear war [CPR]
Destruction from radioactivity; discussion of shelters
Destruction from bacterial/chemical warfare
Possibility of Preventing War
War is not fatalistically inevitable9 although the danger of war
exists so long as capitalism remains extant (the 20th CPSU Congress
thesis)
World war can be excluded from society even while capitalism remains
in a part of the world (the 21st .CPSU Congress thesis)
Socialism will be victorious throughout the world without war
Likelihood of War.
War is inevitable
War cannot be eliminated/excluded while capitalism exists in a
part of the world
One should not harbor any illusions; the nature of imperialism will
never change [CPR]
Tensions should not be relaxed [CPR]
Prewar situation exists; war is about to break out
U.S. (or imperialists) are preparing a terrible crime against humanity
--
a thermonuclear war
First Use of Nuclear Weapons
West would use nuclear weapons first even if the Soviet Union re-
nounced their use
Soviet Union would not use nuclear weapons first
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Nuclear Deterrence
Soviet nuclear capability deters the West
'Denial of Western concept of deterrence
Retaliation
Brandishing of Soviet strength.
Threats of retaliation against Western "aggression" in any part
of the world
Threats against Western bases
War Psychosis; War Propaganda
Balance of Power
Balance has shifted in favor of the bloc; "East wind prevails over
West wind" [CPRI; West is a "paper tiger" [CPR]
USSR is the strongest military power
Socialism is at least no weaker than imperialism
Number of nuclear tests upset the balance; fewer tests would leave
the USSR in a weaker position
Danger of War Breaking Out Through Accident, Miscalulation
rMad" pilots; pilot error
H-bomb flight accidents
Nuclear missile submarine accidents
Surprise/Sudden Attack and Preventive War
Response to surprise attack (second strike)
USSR might strike first
Local or Small Wars (geographic/limited weapons)
Local war is likely to spread into world war
Local wars can be contained
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"Just War"
Just or sacred wars (East-West wars; bloc defense of homeland)
National Liberation Wars
National liberation war is inevitable/permissible
Just or sacred liberation wars, civil war
Opposition to export of revolution/counterrevolution
Peaceful versus nonpeaceful transition to socialism
Nth Country Problem
Question of additional countries acquiring nuclear weapons
Hints that the Warsaw Pact might be given nuclear weapons
Denials that the bloc has atomic weapons/bases
Warnings that missile bases may be established in other bloc states
Threats/denials of Soviet bases in nonbloc states
Soviet Rocket and Missile Development
Production; stockpiles; types of rockets and missiles
"Fantastic" Soviet weapons
Soviet Military Strength, Capability, Strategy
Discussion of Soviet army, navy, air force, rocket troops, artillery,
etc.
Discussion of military equipment, air and sea vehicles
Bloc Military Capability
CPR military capability [CPR]
Warsaw Pact military strength
Defense Needs; Manpower Versus Weapons
Bloc mobilization/demobilization
Defense needs g fully reliable or need further buildup
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Defense Needs; Manpower Versus Weapons (continued)
Relative importance of manpower versus weapons-
Bloc civilian mobilization; discussion of DOSAAF
Deprecation of UeSe Military Capability
Polaris, SAC, etco
Outer Space
Outer space for military purposes
Legal issues
International cooperation
Troop Withdrawal
Troops should be withdrawn from foreign territories
Western Military Pacts
Expansion of NATO, SEATO, CENTO
New pacts
Nuclear-Free Zones
Negotiations and Summit Meetings
Negotiations as means of settling international disputes
Mutual concessions/counterproposals
CPR must participate in solution of international questions
CPR needs relaxation of tension for peaceful development [CPR]
Future East-West summit meetings
Bloc summit meetings
Responsibility of Powers in World Affairs
Responsibility of USSR and United States
Responsibility of USSR and CPR
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Peaceful Competition
References to peaceful competition with the West [CPR]
Taiwan
"Liberation" of Taiwan
Two Chinas issue
Offshore Islands
2. CPSU Congress Speeches
Sentences or paragraphs from the speeches delivered at the 19$11, 20th,
21st and 22d CPSU Congresses relating to selected key themes are
coded and carded as in the. above War Themes project. Some 45 Soviet
speeches at the 22d congress9 for examples are coded and carded in the
following categories in addition to the war themes:
Leadership
? Stalin
Collective leadership and personality cult
Ant iparty group
Characterizations of Khrushchev
Investment Priorities
Heavy versus light industry
Economic development versus defense requirements
Increasing agi#UltUral inVestment
Power stations
Agricultural Organization
Sovkhozes versus kolkhozes
Private plots
Rural redevelopment
CriticisMOf MTS reform
Criticism Of agricultural administration
Role of specialists
New lands
Geneticists
Administration of Economy
1957 industrial reorganization
Economic Managers rights/powers
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Administration of Economy (continued)
Party control. commissions
'Size of party apparatus
Other Internal Issues
Bloc Affairs
"Socialist legality" and role of state security
Titetable for transition to communism
"Withering away of the state
Dictatorship of the proletariat
All references to China. Albania0 Yugoslavia
Soviet role
Applicability, of CPSU draft program and Soviet
experience to bloc or communist movement
Stages and timetable of transition to communism
Bloc discipline; obligation of parties to observe
decisions of conferences of fraternal parties;
separate roads to socialism; nationalism;
backsliding from socialist internationalism;
dogmatism; right/left opportunism; revisionism
Class struggle in socialist states
Economic coordination and specialization
Revolutionary Movements
Other
Role of communist party in national liberation
movement
National democratic state; role of national bourgoisie
Noncapitalist or socialist road for new states
Tasks of revolutionary movement in capitalist states
Bloc economic aid to underdeveloped countries
Bloc aid to national liberation struggles
"General line" of Soviet or bloc foreign policy
Character of present epoch
Definition of peaceful coexistence
References to "sober elements" in Western leaderships
Separate treaty with GDR
Guarantees of access and/or free-city status for
West Berlin
Partial disarmament measures
Use of funds saved through disarmament to aid under-
developed countries
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3. Khrushdhev. on Some Key International Issues
All Khrushchev statements about disarmament, Germany, Laos, and
Cuba and all his references to the possibility of A Soviet-Japanese
peace treaty are extracted and filed. The file dates from May 1958
on disarmament, from July 1960 on Cuba, from April 1961 on.Laos,
and from October 1961 on the Japanese peace treaty question. Khru..
Shchev's references to Germany are logged from November 1958 to
July 19611 the file of extractS'begins with June 1961.
4. Ad Hoc Projects
In addition to the continuing major carding projects described above,
files of significant extracts of bloc statements are produced in
connection with specific developments and held for purposes of back
research. These have included the coding of Soviet propaganda on
the Middle East crisis in the summer, of 1958 in such categories
as "Soviet Threats of Counteraction," carding of Soviet propaganda
charges against the original individual members of the "antiparty
group," and other similar projects. Currently, the carding of Fidel
Castro's public statements in a number of broad subject categories
has been started on a pilot basis; this file at the present stage is
not exhaustive in any of the categories.
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III. OTHER COLLATIONS
Soviet Leaders/ Activities and Status
1. Information from the Soviet radio and press concerning the where-
abouts and activities of CPSU Presidium members and candidate
members and members of the CPSU Secretariat is recorded in a file
dating from December 1959. Information gathered from this pro-
ject is used in analyses of propaganda bearing on the Soviet lead-
ership situation.
2. A companion to the above project is a listing begun in April 19610
noting radio and press mentions of places and buildings named
after living Soviet leaders. (In January 1962 the USSR Supreme
Soviet decreed that places would no longer be named after living
,persons. The Soviet radio and press, however, have continued to
mention collective farms and towns named after members of the
. Presidium.)
3. The members of Soviet government and party delegations to foreign
countries are listed in a record dating from April 1961,
B. Khrushchevisms
A log begun in early 1959 records Khrushchev's proverbs, anecdotes,
references to his family and characterizations of himself, descrip-
tions (both colorful and rude) of Western personalities, statements
ridiculing religion and referring to the Bible and to God0 jabs
at the Chinese Communists, and in general remarks that depart in
Khrushchev/s personal style from the Soviet propaganda stereotype.
The statements include his many zoological metaphors applied to
a wide range of subjects and personalities ("They have let the
goat guard the cabblage0" for example, in a May 1960 reference to
the notion of the Vice President representing the President at
the summit); attacks on a wide variety of Western personalities
(an October 1961 statement likening Senator Margaret Chase Smith
to "Satan in the guise of a woman" for supporting resumption of
nuclear tests); and such characterizations of world figures as the
September 1960 remark that "I would say Mr. Lumumba is as much a
communist as Khrushchev is a Catholic."
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D. Indexes of Bloc Press Articles
In providing an integrated analysis of politically relevant bloc radio
and press propaganda, RPB depends for press and journal source ma-
terials primarily on translations supplied by Foreign Documents Divi-
sion, by the State Department?s field staff, by nongovernment sources
such as the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies 9 CURRENT DIGEST OF THE
SOVIET PRESS, and by the FBIS bureaus in Austria and Germany. Some
bloc publications are received in the branch for reference purposes.
Translated tables of contents of selected bloc newspapers and journals--
received from a variety of sources--are kept on file. The branch
maintains an index to RED FLAG and eight other Chinese Communist jour-
nals dating from 1958.
E. Tables of Contents of FBIS Publications
Contents pages of the FBIS DAILY REPORT and SURVEY OF COMMUNIST BLOC
BROADCASTS are clipped and filed chronologically. The DAILY REPORT
contents pages (Soviet, Satellite, and Far East sections) cover the
period from 1952 to date; SURVEYs from 1956 to date.
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-IV. AREA. AND TOPIC FILES
The branch's Central Files include folders containing background data
and published RPB articles or reports pertaining to each area and coun-
try and to a number of key topics. Under "France" for example, these
files contain folders of (1) all articles dealing with bloc propaganda
about France that have appeared in the FBIS SURVEY OF COMMUNIST BLOC
BROADCASTS, clipped and filed chronologically and listed by title0
(2) all published FBIS special reports concerning bloc propaganda on
France, filed in chronological order and listed by title, and (3) other
relevant background materials.
These files contain information and extracts dating from 19480 although
records are more complete for Moscow than for Peking or satellite propa-
ganda. Systematic collation and analysis of Peking propaganda began at
a somewhat later period. European and Far East satellite output, moni-
tored less exhaustively by FBIS, is covered more selectively in RPB
publications
Individual series of folders contain records of all information collated
in the branch and discussed in its publications concerning bloc propaganda
treatment of all areas and of the following themes and topics2
Western "Aggression" and Blocs
Bacteriological Warfare
Hostility (allegedly displayed
tories, nations, or
tical0 military, or
Espionage (allegedly committed
Disarmament and Nuclear Issues
by the West against bloc terri-
property by means of overt poli
economic actions)
by the West against the bloc)
(including peaceful uses)
Outer Space
East-West Relations
Soviet Strategy
Soviet Capabilities
United Nations
Neutrality
"Liberation Struggle" and Colonialism
Racism (as allegedly manifest in the United States or the West)
Jewish Question
Religion and the Vatican
Western Disunity
Economic Crisis in the West
East-West Trade and Soviet Aid
Amity (between bloc and Western countries)
VOA and other Western Propaganda
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Rightwing.Socialists
May Day
World Federation of Trade Unions
"Peace Campaign" and Front Groups
International Communism
Sino-Soviet Relations
The series of folders on USSR domestic affairs is broken down into a num-
ber of subcategories, including Economy, Welfare and Culture, Science,
Military, State and Law, Ideology, Nationalities, Party Affairs, Stalin,
Soviet Leaders, the October Revolution Anniversary, and Lenin Anniversaries.
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