FOREIGN RADIO REACTIONS TO THE PRESIDENT'S THREE RECENT MESSAGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500730138-5
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 138
• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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LN at1Ui; TONS TT15!:.a be been ralstij ]y few monitored foreign radio camnmentarles about
e.r.Ty Le t :e Pr Sgiden:.'e th^+ae resent aeagea shoe Issuance of the 11 January
repot; :L6 "Foreign Adis Reactin to tke I!,Freaident'a Btuiget Message." The 3oTiot ra .ioi
gi7oa wido s11atributi-on to Vik1.cv 's lonei PRAT. article which, it is claimed, strips
aw:a7 thlill 11ro3y hypocrisy and oh i decm~ago f from the President's three messages" and "re-
n ka1l eggr'I icsaive imperi Liam"" as II', ?t~be "essence of Truan'a Program." And,
be+lat:+.i y, Mceoorx? a a iasuen i.'> fix t oa entary ? d?evot e d ezcluaively to refutation 'of I"bun
Stata the Unite : on sagas _ afacr?weas to American dam acy and freedom. Comments favr--
shla to t e President ome 1,z?= ?ar=u a is Switzl rland, Portugal, and Japan. Of same
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eln a monitored z' ~enoe to the President's messagen
"-:#E 'ICIR-TTUTR A, mz Cff AxMra1 -33IFFITAII Ida "his is the title of Tiktcrov s pMT,.JA
art.lo the brie tausb In 1 , he adds little that Is new to the substance' Of Radio
KneacmIs proviou9 I.ocIarlatizcJ. Ohn Oterlatlo of all three messages, sags Tiktoroy, the
fear. `..eta
"ET & begins with a? of I Lee avi ends an a f=ax-al note. However much Triimoisai
xiee to get a'w y frqa eats, IA. glazing epldoweo an unea tiefactCry etSte' in aIV
git en eapeot forces hia to =In admdepioxm thloh sa at his own Optimistic Tlews;
TIrst is vlty Tra nn'e messages era full o. Contradictory views."
The FM'-IA writer then paO O&M to lists h "contrediat~.amae" as that between the Preeidenrt's
declaration thaat the eaomzsa9 o downti in' 191I9 had been prreated and his "admission" tbdt the
"recension caused c oncernc am l nultering to millions Who ~aTa becc ae unemplcyed. " And' in hie
i'arsigrnI policy re rl 1, a ooartred3oticn ini found betwosz his "eloquence about peace (and., j in
the same treath, ]bias urging that the a menu race be speeded up. The budget: a alleged _
allooetlon of the "lien's ehar9" f' aggressive purpoeee lei alslo said to contradict his,
marlo r.'baut peace ana to 1VOTS hid "llm1egogy and hypocrisy." And where Viktaro does- not
Oita tsuah All.4ged o diotiovs he 11UPP1106 his awn iliar SoTiet eaaortione to r fute
the :"r osident. . , ,
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Tiktarov also induiges in an attempt to identify current American policy, as euuaoiated bT
the President with Sitlerito German. A previaue oar+vontary on the budget message did the
same thing with reference to the current "scale of American war preparation. " 9Ylrbcrov,
taking a eamewhat dilferexrt 'tack, charges that "the preeahing land spreading of the~Aserlc an
way of life to all countries and all races is very remxiniscent' of Hitler's propseeida, whiioh
also urged the spreading of the fascist Nov Order to the vhole' world, all countries and
peoples." The article concludea, however, that the President's messages "will dot and
cannot doceive ar cme. Facts are stronger than Tr=an and speak for themselves. " But
another Soviet commentatcrr predicts that the "capitalist" Congress, as much of a "docile
tool of Wall Street" as is Truzaa hi-elf', will back the program enunciated by the President
in supprrt of the "monopolists*... pans for vcrld domination
"ANMCAR THOUGHT -CON OL"z A Soviet ccmentary by Ritin, the)!, only one concerned oxolusivlely
with '4eccpocing" the Freeielexxt'e references to democracy and liberty, is broadcast'only to
Nczrth Ameaioa. A,;:do ling to Nitin, the following are eons of the "true facts" about liberty
in the T! ited States t
The average Arioan, "constantly shadowed," lives in tension and fear.
TelepY,..*iaa are tappeijand FBI agents even record the books one reads.
The slightest sympatbv with progressive ideas and. the least show of dissatisfaction
with things ea they are results in FBI blacklisting.
'B 'iry progra5w,A-v~) organization" has been declared subt+ersive;
Old '1711 ser.^r^t.n}s are