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An example of this overt/Covert replay system (of distributing propaganda
genes) is the Israeli General Staff Campaign, which began as a rumor
France in early 1957, traversed the Mediterranean in false-intelligence
appeared in India in published form and received its latest known replay
a book published in Moscow in the spring of 1959.
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Rumor Campaign - France - Soring 1957 - french/Israeli General Staff Plans
In mid-March 1957 (six months after the Israeli and French/British
military action against Egypt) rumors began circulating in official and
diplomatic circles in Paris that the French and Israeli General Staffs
were working together on a plan for joint Israeli/French action against
Egypt. glen the tormaa0 rumors were traced it was learned in the first place
that they had no foundation in fact, and in the second that all traceable
tales on the subject ran back to a single local point of origin: *xiaxia
a Paris journalist named Andre ULKANN, who was notorious for his role as
a pro-Soviet propagandist. (A point of interest in this connection is
that ULMANN is the director of a small weekly newspaper, La _Tribune des
Ngtiow, which fits the type description given in paragraph B-5 of Section VI
below of the newspapers which have been used in surfacing and replay of 4millmg
propaganda forgeries; that is, it has no connection with local Communist Party
or front groups and does not propagandize on their behalf, but it does act
consistently as a vehicle for pro-Bloc propaganda.)
(another ref to this, adding no other info, on page 59)
False Intelligence Fenort - Lebanon - Spring of 1957,
During the first week in April 1957, an intelligence report was received
from Beirut that Prance "vas launching a plot in cooperation with Israel."
(another ref to this, without adding any other info, appears on page 57)
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On 4 April 1958 Mikhail Stepanovich Rogov, Counselor of the Soviet
Embassy in Paris, told a Western diplomat that his Government was currently
"worried about increased French/Israeli political and military cooperation,"
a worry which the diplomat promptly reported to his own foreign ministry.
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(discussing steps through which propaganda-forgery campaign
calls d "the Israeli General Staff Campaign" was distributed
throughout Europe and Mid- East)
False Intelligence Report - Italy - ring of 1957
At about the same time as the Lebanese report, above, an
intelligence report of the same type was received from Italy.
This report added, "The Israeli press has not mentioned the matter,
but details are being discussed publicly."
(another reference to this, without adding any other info, appears
on page 57)
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biktmlt. The newspaper Bein4
In. which the "John H" Letter was sur-
faced on Z5 August 1958, became overt
when the new Lebanese Government
cams into power in the fall of 1958..
At the time of the "John H" suxtecing ?
however, it was outlawed and anyone
caught with it (or other banned newsi
papers) in his possession was liable to
a six-month jail sentence. The paper's
political line was that of violent Arab
nationalism, but according to an
October 1958 report, "it is reputed to
have Commtmists among its employees
and close ties with the Cairo Al-Masaa
(a daily which was noted for its heavy
proportion of pro.. Bloc propaganda
items), and it publishee much material
from TASS and other Soviet bloc news
agencies." in other words, another
newspaper to which the type description
given in paragraph 111-5 of Section VI
appliess not a CP paper, but a
chronic purveyor of pro-Bloc propaganda.
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1959. Paddle Eastern countries. In late March and early April 1959
photostatic copies of the forged Murphy Letter (which was a part
of the Rountree Circular Campaign) were circulated in
intelligence circles in several Middle Eastern countries.
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1959. Middle East. In late March and early April 1959 the Murphy
Letter (also mentioned under "False Intelligence Reports," above)
was sent by direct mail to certain Middle Eastern newspapers and
Parliament members and to a member of the Government of at least
one Middle Eastern country.
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1 9 fiddle East. In late rch and early April 1959 the phy Letter
(also mentioned under tFalse Intelligence Reports above)
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Blitz is directed by an Indian
national named B. K. Karanjia. In
1947 Karanjia stated that he had once
been a CP member but had left the
Party. if. has since denied ever having
been a member. He has consistently
used Mite, however, as a vehicle for
pro-Soviet (end pro-liasser) propaganda.
Blitz regarded the local Communist
Party and its affairs with a faintly
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jaundiced editorial eye until about
m14-1957, when it began to move in the
direction of approval of Indian Party
actions. It still criticises the Party
from time to time, but was a consis-
tent and violent propagandist on behalf
of the Communist government of
Kerala. In the summer of 1958.
Karanjia made his first step toward
official identification with Communist-
sponsored organisations as such when
he attended the meeting of the World .
Peace Council in Stockholm and was
elected to membership in the Council.
On the return journey to India, he
stopped in London. Paris and Cairo.
Karanjia and his paper still have no
official connection with the Indian
Communist Party, but the role of both
as propagandists for the countries of
the Sino-Soviet bloc is frank and violent.
During 1959 Blitz surfaced no Bloc propaganda forgeries,
and gradually ceased replaying them, although its
anti-Western, pro- Bloc propaganda line did not change.
In addition to a small staff of correspondents in
various parts of the India Blitz maintains a permanent
correspondent (Paula Wiking2) in London. The paper claims
a circulation of 80,000.
Replayed the Berry Letter in June 1958, The /7
/ n1newspaper is a weekly, published in New Delhi. It be-0,-a..
licrt-Ayonnee-ted with the Indian Communist Party, but is
chronic purveyor of Bloc propaganda, including
perennial 1:11.ot charges" against the West.
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West Germany and Austria. The Ceske
5iovo Campaign. Ceske Slovo is a bona
fide Czech emigre newspaper, pub-
lished by Czech emigres in Munich.
In June 1938 &forged newspaper pur-
porting to be the July 1958 issue of
Ceske =novo went into circulation. The
forged edition carried anti-Western
propaganda. including the claim that
Ceske Sieve was going out of existence
because its editors were disillusioned
with the West. It leas an accurate
duplicate of the format and style of the
real Ceske Slovo. The forged issues
were mailed "black" from Munich and
Vienna to some current and some
former subscribers of the real news-
paper, through use of two genuine
mailing lists. One of these was an
out-of-date list obtained several years
earlier by means unknown. The other
was up-to-date and had been obtained
through a recent burglary of the offices
of the real Geeite-Slevo. The fact that
the burglary and forgery were a Czech
intelligence operation has since been
confirmed.
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3 Qeohos1ovakian Assets.S (r paragraph D-3 of -Section IV above for the role
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page : Svobodne C eskoslovensko. Pro-regime Czech-language monthly which has
been published in Chicago, Illinois, for about 10 years. Its circa lation
is approximately 1200 copies. The paper and its publishers are not connected
with thl.c
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, In Aug 58, the paper replayed, as authentic,
material, from the forged issue of Ceske Slovo.
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In late March 1957 an official East
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met secretly with an unidentified individual or individuals
who were connected with the Arab League, and arranged to have the
Rockefeller Letter and its sequel, the Dulles Memorandum, translated
into Arabic and distributed to the Governments of the Arab League
member states.
(list of Bloc assets used in covert distribution of forgeries)
2- DMELaaMaP-112.911
See paragraph D74 of Section IV above for report on the role
of an East German Trade Delegation official in covert reply
of the Rockefeller Letter and the Dulles memorandum to the Arab
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As noted elsewhere in this study, technical evidence has
ablished the 0' Shaughnessy Letter forgery as having been typed
an HVA typewriter.
Z. Black propaganda against military targets within
West Germany and against NATO is handled in
covert operations conducted by an "independent
Department" under the Chief of the Political
Administration of the East German Army, or
his deputy for ideological activity. CP back.
ground and current membership is required
all East German staff members and agents,
forbidden for prospective West German agent
The SED (CP) Party Secretary le consulted"
the event of particularly important questions"
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This unit turns out various kinds of psychological warfare
literature for covert distribution in West Germany. This
literature presumably includes propaganda forgeries, but
since none of the internationally-distributed forgeries
discussed in this paper have been traced to it details of
its operation are outside the scope Of this discussion.
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Of the seven forgeries which were launched singly, one
01 Shaughnessy Letter) was established by its subject and by
'ertain operational details as part of a known East German IS
4peration and one as an operation of the Czech IS.
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Names and addresses needed for operational use,
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Still another type of factual data used is, of
course, the names and addresses of target
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individuals when the forgery is to he surfaced
/ by covert mailing rather than by overt means.
Target addresses for use in "black" mailing
of psychological warfare material are known
to be obtained by the East German IS (sad,
presumably, by the Soviet IS as,well) through t
overt research facilities..telephone &rec.
y taries, diplomatic U.ts, aunts and addresses
culled from local newspapers. overt direc.
tortes of government units, from lists of foreigners visiting Bloc countries. etc.
Others are known, in the case of East
Germany, to be obtained from East German
\ intelligence agents travelling in the West. In
the one known Czech intelligence operation
discussed in this paper (the Ceske Slovo
Campaign), mailing addresses were obtained
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by burglarising the offices of the real
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kAl liption list.
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rational Carelessness--Using_Typewriters Which Betray the Forgery
pies: It has been determined that the machine used in typing the
kefeller Letter was not of American manufacture, and was probally mV)(e_
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be ore World /Air II by Bheinmetall V. E. B., which, is located at Sommer a,
be Erfurt, in Thuringia, East Germany.
Analysis indicates that the Berry Letter was typed on either an
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melunelown foreign machine or a rebuilt combination f different typewrite L1
chine parts, possibly of American origin.
In another instance (the 0/ Shaughnessy Letter) the machine on which
a forgery surfaced in West Germany had been typed proved to be the same
one used a few months earlier in a known East German intelligence-service (HVA)
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West Germany. The Of Shaughnessy Letter.
On 5 July 1957 a letter was mailed in Munich, addressed to a high
French official in West Germany. Having thus been delivered to its
single target--the Wench Government- -the letter was never published or
replayed in any way.
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The document. mailed so simply, was
a forged letter addressed to the State
Departrr3ent in Washington and carrying
the typewritten 'signature' of Film
O'Shaughnessy. Chief of the Political
Division of the American Embassy in
West Germany. It called the attention
of "the State Department" to the
activity of reactionary ultranationalist
groups in West Germany. and advised
that the U. S. Government support
these groups and use them. In the
context of the period in which it was
mailed, the forgery was obviously
expected to suggest to the Trench
Government that the U. S. Govern-
ment viewed with favor rINV est German
ultranationalist groups" like the one
that was currently receiving extensive
publicity in the Trench press. One of
the biggest news stories of the summer
of 1957 in France was the terrorist
murder of Mme. Trecneaud, the wife
of the Prefet de Police at Strasbourg.
Mme. Trerneaud had been killed. on
17 May 1957. by a bomb mailed to her
husband in the guise of a gift package
of cigars, and the French press over
the following weeks emphasised the
growing conviction of the investigating
authorities that there was a connection
between this covertly-mailed bomb and
a flood of particularly vicious hate
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is the sans
/Preach officials sad private
in Paris and in AIaace-X4orraise. The
Letters carried the 'signature r-
posted West German neo-fasc
calling itself the Xampfverhind f
tte Dealihnessiges Deutschland and
deasaading that Alsace-Lorraine bo
returned to Germany. (Other Letters in
the series had been sent at various
times, to lusuirioans statioaod in
Geassaar-p-ineluding Mins 01Sksughnes
It has sines been established that the
liasuptirsrbasni is a pissatees orgauisation
seciating oily as a signature on
letters sat leaflet. which)* ed
by the East Glit"221411 foreign
service HVA, sad mailed in lyre=
West Germany by courier* sent from
East Osraitaa)' for that purpose (se*
paragraph C4 of Section VII below).
Esc cooperating* in proraoties of psy-
chological warfare casupsips was
painted up in connestion with this cant
peke when. May 19S8, a long Rsdio
Moscow broadcast to Frsacs InFritsch.
warned its listeners against the
asfitioras activities of the "West German
irbasapiverhand Ater Fin Unablisengigee
Deetschlaad and strongly implied that
this "West German toso-fascist orges1
satires" was secretly supported by the
West Genoa* Government.
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C. The East Germnn Centers
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1. Political targets in West Germany and France are
reached through covert operations run by the East
German equivalent of the Soviet KGB. This is
HVA (Haupverwaltung Aufklaerung), which is the
foreign intelligence branch of the Ministry of
State Security (MIS) and is also a unit in the
structure of the Communist Party of East Germany
(SED). The organisation works with a Soviet
adviser. While HVA conducted psychological
warfare operations prior to 1957, it was only in
January of that year that psychological warfare
was officially announced within HVA as a major
operational responsibility of that organisation.
and HVA began exerting pressure on its personnel
to increase the number of such operations and to
keep their volume high. One unit within HVA is
responsible for control end coordination of
psychological warfare operations, and for
evaluation and dissemination of overt and covert
Information and information requirements. The
objectives of HVA psychological warfare opera-
tions are:
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(a) to create antagonism among the Western
Allies;
(h) to mislead and frighten the populations
of the target area.;
(c) to channel misinformation into the hands
of Western intelligence organisations.
When the defector who gave the above
Information in 1957 was shown copies of the leaf-
lets signed Kampfverband uer in Unahhaengiges
Deutschland (q.v. in the discussion of the
O'Shaughnessy Letter, in paragraph D-3 of
Section IV above), he promptly identified them as
a product of one of the HVA operations, stating
that the name of the "signing" organization was
simply placed on the material by HVA in printing
the leaflets, in order to give an appearance of
authenticity. Another HVA operation mentioned
by the same defector was the preparation, in mid-
1957. of letters on forged letterheads of the
Berlin office of the British Broadcasting Corpora-
tion (BBC). The letters indicated that the British
Foreign Office had directed BBS in Berlin to
support the "Goettingen Declaration" which had
recently been issued by eighteen German nuclear
physicists. The letters were mailed to the West
German Foreign Secretary and other leading West
imannaree.
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Berita Ninggu has no official connection with the CP.
Until 1956 the paper was a spokesman for one of the
Indonesian non- Communist political paries. In 1956kxx
it was sold, and under the new management began its
policy of following the Bloc propaganda line. Since 1956
also, the paper has been used consistently for publication
of unattributable Bloc propaganda of the nMisinformation"
variety--printing as news stories false charges of Western
plots, aggression Plans, and so forth.
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(section entitled "Notes on Chntral Planning and organization of Forgery COVeins)
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B. The Soviet Center
1. HIS defector reports based upon experience in
various Soviet intelligence components up to early
1952 have mentior04 girecificisinforrnation"
units within the CorninterntiGai4 ItiVD and
Defectors whose expiaiettiS in ::+crviet intelligence
services extended beyond the dissolution of the
KI in 1951 and ended in 1954. however, have
stated that the HIS as they knew it in 1951-54 did
not distinguish organisationally between
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misinformation and other political/psychological
warfare operations or between this field of opera-
tion and intelligence collecting.
2. A ORU (Soviet Military Intelligence) official who
defected during World War limed* the following
statement in mid.1958 concerning organisational
responsibility in the USSR for the conduct of black
propaganda and psychological +mestere operations
outside the Communist bloc. This comment is the
defector's own projection of the situation as he
knew it into terms of present conditions within the
USSR:
"The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
(CPSU) directed and still directs political, black-
propaganda and psychological warfare operations
through various channels. These channels,
depending on time and place, would be
the Ministry of Toreign Affairs (Ambassadors
and other top-echelon Soviet diplomats,
and the prose depistment of the Ministry
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the Soviet pressi
the political departments of the Soviet
armed Cores* and KGB;
operational units of GRU and KGB;
Individual Soviet writers and propagandists;
the Soviet General Staff.
"It must be assumed that the direction of this
activity is well planned and organized by the CPSU
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of bin work for the residentura, for con..
parison of the Burmese text in The Mirror
with, the Russian wording of the original.
The source did not know any of the details
of the operation through which the original
Russian text had been translated for The
Mirror SAttd transmitted to the newspaper. He
stated. however, that other Moscow articles
which he had handled had been translated from
Russian into English within the rezidentura
and then "fed to the local newspapers,
principally The Mirror and115.414.saaszt . Often
the articles appeared in these two papers
translated word for word from the English
Into Burmese and sometimes with a few minor
changes." The Reeidentura then compared
the articles in Burmese with the original
Russian versions to check on accuracy, made
notes on any variations, and sent reports on ,
the results back to Moscow.
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