BOOK JOURNAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800090007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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gin be concerned ,c:,. tit'' flu ;s 11:0 are accurate ...
growing bar rhaps t::ay sal.
d,..rais carlr:ola_ uable, _ :
reading mat:.._. t is tir:e':G Vin! c:::cret icious whst i
un and ta'.:., It is a wel. certa)n :s that they ; o not to:,
known fact that many nc :e read: what. he surely want:
most s .'r ?., teat b o 0 t s an':! to know: they are woor
books n1acen in ",t.J:. /'..ICf1 tin VSia z-a.1'S wu.
braries are wrLu:n or select.in ever have bee:. written wilba-.
LO reflect the political line support and wOt:.~
doarr. L'ha ..::as o ti-;not have been released by
dlv!....-_ `fr 1G::7 and tee free, 1commercial publishing house
M_`.,..-,;. economy. i v. ihout su: sic`.zotioa - cite:::
Noso well-known is the face :.cause they were unworthy G.
that many books bou:4;n: liCat:on or they were un
public . ores or n _ r:.etab'.e '
stands, as well as those or_ _ae C-._, despite fact that'
by mail, have been secretly su;-: is unlawful for this agency tc
si iizcd by the government _--;Joperate in on intelligence - g alit
thus, their contents in varying Bring or is::ormation - dissemi-,
degrees controlled. nating capacity in the Unite;:
Two government agencies, the States, appears also to be rice; -
s~ USIA and the CIA, seem to: : volved...in addition to t-l: -
' flaVC G;;en parti u a y'active :ant scandal about its line);
this field. And even the rotor -Icial s, nport of tile politically ac-
ously "liberal" Washington Post 1 tive National Student Associa-
ls beginni :; to show some COIl-I t)on.
cern. do article ,.:_tten by! Recently, for example, td;:
Geoffrey 1 'olff .entitled "Oov-j:'ost article charged,
..rnment Book Control - HOVV C-.or ;e Carver wrote for the f
.^.2 UST A an CI Use ply respected (Sic) periodical
u ,its .ars To niluenee Public F oreign Affairs an article sup-
Opinion," in its February 5,1porting our official policy to-'
1957 issue, the Post document-!ward North a South Vietnam.
ed case after case of the ov- :M:r. Carver is with the CIA, but
ernment subsidizing, censoring, I this crucial information was not
and influencing the content:s;reiated by Foreign Affairs.
;nd distribution of bocl:s. Worse, it is possithat it (the
"Th re is much evidence," I Worse,
was not given to
Wolff wrote, "that books are "the magazine."
used increasingly as engines of There was much more infor-
propaganda, that highly - :)"aced oration in the Post article show-;
persons .are pre-censoring books in that, without doubt, the gov-'
t'.:y find repellent or embar'-Iernment is deeply and persist-i
cassia,; and that they are corr. ,::.tly involved in attempts at
rnissioning and controlling thelthought control using, of course,
writing of books without disclos- your tax money.
irg the facts of such control." However, all of this is not
Wolff tiler went on to quote really surprising. We should
Reed Harris, Dbecto::? of the lliinc':r by now t,-,at, when some
USIA Information Center Ser v-;people are given the power no
ice, as admitting before a sub-lappropriate the earnings or"
committee of House Con-1-1 or Iople, the funds thus obtai..
:ni tee on Appropriations tnat,led will be used to expand and
We control the things (ol ){per: tuate the system while, at,
from the vary idea do.rl to Me the same time, being used also
final edited :..... to silence or play down any;
COn Olt R[.1T1s' tes- Criticism Cf what is gull' 'on.
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R0008
00090007-1
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