EVALUATION - TEST CASE

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: June 26, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM TO: General Walter Bedell Smith
Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Evaluation Test Case
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOftj
?-.708 Jackson Place, N @W.
Washington 25, D.C.
In accordance with the views of Board members expressed
at the meeting of June 12, I am submitting the attached proposals
for carrying out a "test case" evaluation of theetfectiveness of
our national psychological operations.
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. It will be seen that two alternatives are presented in
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The staff. is prepared to begin work immediately on either
If, for any reason, the Board felt it were desirable,, the
staff would be equally ready to apply the sane general procedure
outlined in the accnmnany"ing proposals to
F__ I In my opinions all of
these are important areas,, and shou3d be the object of PSB evalua-
tions as soon as practicable.
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While fully prepared to tackle any of these whi 4 the
might selects it is our recommendation that we start
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as the first "test" evaluation.
In arriving at this recommendation, the following major
factors were taken into account:
1. The special interest expressed
Board meeting.
2. The urgency of the
nearness (next Spring) of
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3, The fact that the United States has made a major and
varied psychological effort there.
4. PSB has completed and t into effect a plan for the 25X6
attainment of certain objectives which is now in the early
stages of implementation.
5. By a process of elimination: Whi a LA%
were both considered to be i.. ortant and urgent areas for evaluation,
they area both special cases
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Sou East Asia - and In ParlIcular 111W
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urgency, but the problem there is great complicated the
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left alone at this stage, althoug
ideal object of our next evaluation n another six months.
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special consideration because of the importance a; be-
cause of the fact that there, too, the U. S. is making a major
psychological effort; and because an evaluation of that effort
would be of the greatest value not only in planning for future
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to reach more effectively the Oriental mind in colonial or former
colonial areas.
The vastness and complexity of the
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South Asian problem,
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however, leads us to conclude that
provides a more
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