PRIORITY LIST FOR INTELLIGENCE STUDIES USEFUL IN PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE PLANNILNG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01065A000500130069-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: November 17, 1950
• Content Type: MEMO

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iORANDUM FOR THE NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD AND THE
INTJEDEPARTbSENTAL FOREIGN INFORMATION STAFF
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SUBJIT: Priority List for Intelligence Studies Useful in Psychological
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Warfare Planning
Intelligence agencies of the government are now beginning to produce
individual country papers useful for planning psychological warfare. Over
a period of time it is proposed to produce perhaps 50 such country studies.
Since the production is currently getting underway it is now desirable to
indicate.a high priority list of countries in order to concentrate available
manpower on such work in the iamaediate future.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Interdepartmental Foreign Information
Staff have previously submitted to CIA separate priority lists and the
Psychological Intelligence Committee of the Director of Central Intelligence
has reviewed these lists and suggests the fbllot:ing i nediate priority list:
1, USSR
2. Czechoslovakia
3. Germany - East Zone
4. Poland
5. Hungary
6. Rumania
7. Bulgaria
8. Albania
9. China (including Sinkiang, Inner-Mongolia,
Outer4 ongolia and Manchuria)
10. North Korea
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1. Indochina
2. Yugoslavia
3. Turkey
4. Iran
5? Greece
State Department review completed
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It is requested that this meeting review the suggested list and
either approve it or modify it so that the intelligence effort may im-
mediately get underway.
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