IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: May 16, 1952
• Content Type: MF

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following remarks are addre2sed torda further
focting on e problem of bow to proceed with the develoPmcnt
of an ideoioieai offensive.
2. 'First, a few comments an the :ennedypaper, I found
it very stimulating and coMprehensive. In fact comil it to
over a large area of the cold war only a portion or it Seems
to be directed to the specific subject of ideological warfare.
The heart of the Matter is, to quote Kennedy, that "we cannot
expect to subvert the enemy if we cannot even speak his language."
This point is substantiated later on 'here it is indicated that
in order to promote split r within the Party, "we must employ.
NEtrxian tormoi of reference." It is interesting to observe in
nnrotion with our particular problom that mnet of the specific
comments in this excellent paper do not adhere to this basic
premise I think it would be helpful in defining the problm
to comment on this point. A psychoanalysis description of
Stalin, explaining his actions on the base of his subconscious
hate of the father image, might have very effective results in
the Wilted States, perhaps elsewhere in Western Europe, but
probably have very little impact within the USSR where the very
subject of pathology, especial/7 l'reudian psychology, is
verboten. Similarly, the anal* between -an rOSR and a prison
is a very apt one aml can 'oe put to good rne in the psycholo4cal
offensive, but does not represent a form of ideological attack.
3. 1 labor these points only to show hew difficult it is
for even politica/1Y sophisticated .4mericana to think in terms
of Communist ideology with any facility.
4. 'For the purpose of this problem I suggest we adopt a
ow definition or terms. If for these purposes
defined as "the basic beliefs motivating a social
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defense voul be ad, .seed to 110 ;llectmla over7where who
have been so indoctrinated in rzist termz3 that their whole
political and sociological language is to a large degree
)arxist, To illustrate this type of ideological task, we
might consider a booklet recently published by the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce entitled "Profits." This booklet
attempts to set out in lay language that anyone can under-
stand the Mows" and "whys" of the profit system, A Ittrxist
defense of the hmerican system on the other hand, would show
how the surplus velum of our ;reductive system have been
progressively distributed in ever greater amounts to the
workmrs rather than concentrated in the hands of a few grasp-
ing capitalists, This would be a much, more effective ors-
opener abroad than anything published Itr the U. S. Chamber
of Commerce,
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are attacking
so. As art example of type content of the ideological
attack written in Marxist terms, as, Tab A,
5. Production of ideological
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104 ? 'Ant the Psychological 3trategy Board can
do with regard to this effort is (1) to give its officetAl seal of
?Batty for waging an ideological offensive,
te the substance and boundaries of such an offen-
olive, a the appropriate agencies with certain missions
with regard to this offensive, In connection with the question of
developing various aspects of this problem I an attsoh.tn at
Tab B a memorandum prepared for you by with 25X1A
reference to the problem of procedure*
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