Analysis of Soviet Press and Radio Reaction

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A000400230003-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 8, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON 26. D. C.
April 8, 1949
MEMORANDUM FORs Mr. Theodore Babbitt
Assistant Director
Reports and Estimates
Central Intelligence Agency
SUBJECT& Analysis of Soviet Press and Radio Reaction
I am attaching the information on "Soviet Press and
Radio Reaction" requested in your memorandum 30 March to
the Special Assistant for Research and Intelligence.
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A. Sidney ]Vordf III
Acting Director
Office of Intelligence Research.
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The first Bikini test was reported by the July 3, 1946 edition of all
newspapers in a TASS story from New York, based on Associated Press and
Reuters reports. The comments by TABS minimized the effect of the bombing.
On the some day a feature article on the Bikini test appeared in Pravda,
which criticized the expenditure on the test, the results, and the alleged
non-scientific nature of the test, and commented upon plans for control of
the bomb. No further reaction appeared until July 26, when a TASS report of
the underwater test of July 24 was published, again based on an Associated
Press story. The effect of the explosion on the ships and the atoll was
minimized.
C. Eniwetok test
No report on.the test at Eniwetok appeared in the press.
D. The Merck report and Mr. Forrestal's press release of March 13, 1949 on BW
No comment on either appeared in the Soviet press.
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