ACHIEVING A 'CONSENSUS'--A CASE HISTORY

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• Publication Date: May 30, 1965
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;FIGHT Achieving' tz . tConsensus'--A Case History
of riso'n?Type' Government Is Big Staff Operation
By EDITH K,ERM1r ROOSEVELT
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one-voice public, does ? .not upon in advance. Significant- directly 'led to such, oper - Gunnar Myrdal's o02
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ht It requires ri
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pp
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ur
ng
y
.,, a staff opera- held the post of assistant ex- of wheat to Soviet Russia cialist economy.
Senate
tion. ecutive secretary to Gunnar and shipment, of chemical Accotding to this
study,+no less a person Chant
Our care- f7m processing equipment and en-
u l Myrdal, executive secretary gineering know-how to. the Deaft Rusk, then president of-i
"r:~?
l y-con- ofthe United Nations Eco-
the Rockefeller Foundation
fa t r u c t 'e d f Red bloc.
x, no, Commission for Europe. Secretary f State,
p r o paganda~' (Myrdal, the Socialist Swed- eBill of Goods'
and now o helped to develop the "ad-i
c l i in a t e Ish economist, severely in-
i'
fis especial- vantageous approach" ii
~w,.'s+t } ured his country's economy 1 What we are witnessing to, volved in this policy research
Iy effective
i to educate" Congressmen.
illw1; b$ engineering Its disastrous ay is a governmentdevised "to the field (- rS pro Communist trade agree- 'educa t i o n a 1" campaign Businessmen constitute an-
of . foreign ment with the Soviets after w which Rostow admitted" in his
"to. otheS key target for the State
policy. This World War II.) - nemorandum~ was needed Department's . _psychological_
is an area Mls. [:oosevett~ Not unexpectedly, the Milli- sell Congress and th@': public warfare operations since it is.
!.'where "consensus" , can he' kan-Rostow report of. May 10, the proposals already given they who must be persuaded
easily manipulated since goy-'' 195x. entitled 'Proposal for a official'sanction. This also is to transfer American indu's-
r ernment or government-allied New Foreign Economic' Pot- 'State Deppartment opera-
"think factories" are the pre- ? trial and technological know
icy, suggested that East- ion under the overall direc- how to Communist countries. 1 {
dominant source 'of research. I West trade be used "to exert -
As a case history, let us ion of Tracy Barnes, who
(political pull on elements ends . the CIA's domestic
" Report Pttblisheci
take the issue of east-West within the Communist bloc
Matom-
th
f
.
trade. The smooth' operation, According to the New York
to-mold public opinion in fa- Times of May 29
1956
'this
,
,
t,,vor of an increased flow of supposedly, "privately pre-
rom
e
overt arm
c Building at 17th and, H
,soviet Dive was secretly s~art-I port "reached .the National ' nrtwDrk of. law firms such
ed. ten years ago by the same, Security Council," topmost as 'Sullivan & Cromwell(' ad
people now openly pulling the;U. S. policy-making agency. visors in "private" life '.'uci
''The state Department "or-
dered". the '-"l Intelli-
gence' Agency to prepare a
operation all along. ' statute for Advapced ? .Stthly~
and Robert $owie
Princeton
,
ea
Formal Policy Paper director of the Center fot In y, Greenewait, chairman of
F basic policy analysis and rec- The next step came when
ommendation, known as an the National Security Council
"Estimate," on the innocent obediently. echoed the' same
iv subject of trends in the Soviet theme in- a formal policy pa-
Union, to determine whether per urging cooperation, be-
,
professor of economic his 9 intorporate ~ Rostow Mem- 6brerfftnerfC s Center or inlet- ?
p tO~`?,anyindum Into a National lIn?
The choice of personnel also X111 lEstlmat~. TM ,. ' t ?'
rdfiected ? the standard tech
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ka trade. with Cotnmunlat coum f
tional Board of Estimates, This study, w ch riot 1111118A n, professor of economics, { headed by Sherman Kent,, to pettedly was assigned td. th
Eel
'
Walt Whitman Rostow trice -is based On' "doctored
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e
s
c
e
The final step in the llc mittee entitled United States :not
gy: Assigned . to the lob ? at ~? ?? -realize, of course; is that,
1T were Dr Max F I process was for the CIA s Na Foreign Polley (No. 12). the drive to promote aid ind
The CIA farmed out a con- ' based on the theory, totally : laid, as far back as March 30, gagement . with . mmuns
,tract, for a pre-policy pa- , unsupported by the words and 1960, when Milliken and Ros- II cdu;itr{es+?and' create nee cp-
1 tow participated in the Prep portunities to Influence their i
'per," to one of its front-deeds of Soviet leaders, that Sen
groups, the Center for Inter-1 the USSR was evolving into ' oration of 'a study for the - development..
national Studies at
f the Massa- .. peaceful state." ate Foreign 'Relations Corn ,What so many IiusinetsYmeA
i a mature of and 'Americans penerail ddb
h
s
tts In
titut
Technolo-
{ Slanted instructions given ' by or overlapping interest. to the theme that the Comrffu up 'on the 12-man committee i
L the State ' Department to the This was in the widely-pub- nisi regithe ' is supposedly be -none other than Dr. Max F,'
' CIA in its directive, known as Ircized "Rostow Memoran- "
coming "more capitaitatic Milliken: -, !
a "schedule," essentially de- dum" revealed in the press in and, "evolving." Thus, It Is not surprising,
-termined in advance the con- mid?1962. The memorandum that the "consensus" in. the
elusion that emerged. by Rostow, now transferred to Study for congress ? report is that "we could use,
R / the State Department where trade negotiations to Open up
Farms Otft Job he became chairman of its . In.'the Congress, the ground- peaceful
Policy Planning Board, was work for, "consensus" was new avenues of en-.I
h Cid
Ht was evolving into a peace- tween teommunst an Soviet Union ,and then retur Our old friend 'from' the 10 ful society.. However, the non-Communist world in areas MIT-CIA 'complex also turns t'i
of home to,wcite books ta More
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? t cy ,', ~ ~ " ..}.. 9{1~k' .'f`aJ / , fnY ~i?' f rcF',}' t ?'~`- *I~?.Y rS .. /~ t,
ternational Affairs .at Harvaru the Board, E. I. du Pont de,.
University; certain writer Nemours and Co., and chair-.
with links, on magazines !uc man, Radio Free ' Europe,
as Life and Newsweek, an Fund, an organization whose
authors secretly subsidized b' ' links with' ,the CIA ' are well-,r
'l
On Aprii:29, 1965, the White
House published a "Report to.,
the President of, the" Special Committee on U. S. Trade Re-
lations, '
with the East Euro-
pean Countries in the Soviet.
Union: Members of this'; i
supposedly independent .oh-,'
ders included Crawford
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