KOREAN TRUCE: ORBIT PROPAGANDA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000100060035-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: July 29, 1953
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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29 July 1953
Korean trace: Orbit propaganda
1. Describes the armistice as a "supremely important"vindication
of the current Soviet position favoring settlement of inter-
national questions by negotiations, and not by the "policy
of force."
2. Victory for "peace-loving forces" in that the UN allies were
compelled by the pressure of world opinion to enter the
armistice talks. Special emphasis on Moscow's role in this
marshalling of world opinion.
p/ 3. Destiny of Korea should be determined by the Koreans themselves.
4. Demands continued vigilance and places full responsibility
for the actions of the South Korean government on the US.
5. Belittles US military capabilities. (Despite "numerical
superiority and highly modern equipment... US air raids and
inhuman germ warfare... first war without victory in which US
succumbed to a small but heroic people...")
6, US now wants to push on in Indochina after having failed in
Korea. (Faris Humanite)
7. Tied to E4st German demand that negotiations begin immediately
on unification of Germany.
Hungarian Szabad Ne editorial is first to state that the political con-
ference will not be limited to Korea "since agenda will include:
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l. Definite peace for Korea.
2. Elimination of all possibilities of aggression against
the Far East.
3. Admission of China to the UN.
4. Discontinuance of the blockade of China.
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