'PARTIAL, HALF-TRUTHS' DEFENDED BY STATE DEPT. INFORMATION CHIEF

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: July 13, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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%P'artial, Half-Truths' Defended
ByState Dept. Information Chief
By MARSHALL McNEIL
WASHINGTON, July 13.-
some of his re orts'to policy
makers co-774'.."
truth'
indignant airing on the Hous
floor.
Such "truths" make "peopl
testimony, said today he in
tended ,to discuss the intelli
bated.
In Transcript
Bow's questioning of Hils
man is reported in the tran
script of House Appropriation
Committee hearings.
Hilsman said his bureau,
which wants about $3 million
for this fiscal year, "develops
and implements a comprehen-
sive co-ordinated program of
policy-relevant research and
analysis for the department
and for other federal agen-
cies." 7iilswau serves on the
United S t a t e s Intelligence
Bo xd, whose chairman is Di-
retor John John McCone of the
CV Intelligence
CPYRGHT
Among his ways of gather
ing material for. the usually
icy-makers-33,iLSman explained
he was s"a gents to Viet
e'`"Gong prisoners.
Study Methods.
"If we are to succeed there,"
he told the committee, "we
have to know a great deal
about the method- of Viet Cong
operations and their appeals
and attempts to recruit."
Amon studies already made
is one
14 t uerrilla
warfare. i sma* sai it had
ben "extremely useful" and
is being 'used at Fort Bragg,
N. C.
Hilsman commended a guer.
rilla unit of the World War II
Ei_ge of Strategic Services
a g a i n s t the Japanese in
Burma.
He handed Bow one of his
bureau's policy research stud-
ies classified secret, explaining
that "this particular one the
President has seen."
Bow asked if he knew
whether the President was
a s
"frightened" by the report as
he was.
He Doesn't Know
Hilsman said he couldn't
guarantee the President read
it.
Hilsman, who said some of
his bureau's epp ts? were,
'e ,,,hy, persons who did',
nod have complete security!;
clearance, fCien added:
"Of course, some of the
statements you have read are
pletely, valid. On tie j
other hand, there may be a
h., truth here or a _partial'
truth which will make people
sit up and think."
"If I am sitting down in the
State Department," Bow re
marked, "and this is given rre'
Ias a research study from thei
Bureau of Intelligence and Re
search, I should think that 7,
would have a right to believe;
this is not half truth or partial
truth, and be able to rely upon
it. Is our foreign policy made
on reports with half truths;
or partial truths? That is
pretty dangerous."
Thought-Provoking
Hilsmdn-a7i5er?i that "it
should make you think and it.
should have some findings
which are useful," but he was
not allowed to finish this state-
for Bow interrupted:
"Do you mean to tell me in
order to get the people in they
State Department to think, we
have-to feed- them half truths?
I do. not agree with that. I4
would hope they are muchi
more intelligent than that ,
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