TRANSMITTAL OF CHINESE COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA LINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900230005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 31, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China
Transmittal of Chinese Communist..
Propaganda Lines
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 20 September 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
LI Hsin-ch'ing (2621/1800/3237), director of the Propaganda
Department of the South China Sub-Bureau, called a meeting in Canton of per-
sons responsible for local and overseas propaganda for the Chinese Communists.
At the meeting ~e presented the following outline of the government?s future
propaganda line as determined by the central authorities (sic):
a. The Chinese must block the formation of any Asian and Southeast Asian
military alliance sponsored by the United States,. or war may break out
on the China mainland this winter. The significance of such an alliance
is exceedingly grave. Its success will mark a Communist failure. The
alliance must be smashed by the propaganda effort, or the Chinese Com-
b. The Communists must step up their anti-United States propaganda.
e. The Communists must bend every. effort to convince the British to divest
themselves of control by the United States.
2. According to the directive. from Peiping that accompanied the statement aiv;na
these propaganda lines
the propagation of lines was to be
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