GUIDELINES FOR INFORMATION POLICY RE THE SINO-SOVIET DISPUTE

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EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM
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DATE II J 1942
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DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PLANS)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (INTELLIGENCE)
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UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS
June 7, 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE JOHN A. McCONE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SUBJECT: Guidelines for Information Policy Re
the Sino-Soviet Dispute
Attached is a copy of the "Guidelines and Procedures
for Coordinated Information Policy Re the Sino-Soviet
Dispute."
Also attached is a copy of a memorandum from Secretary
Rusk approving the guidelines as U.S. policy and assigning
responsibility to me for affecting the coordination en-
visaged therein. The Interdepartmental Political-Psycholo-
gical Group will assume primary responsibility for carrying
out this function. The group is prepared to assist your
organization in any way in carrying out those elements
of this program which are your primary responsibility.
Your attention is called particularly to paragraphs
9, 11, 12, 13 and 14 in which your organization is assigned
specific responsibility.
Mr. William Jorden, who heads the Psychological-Political
Group in my office, is available to answer any questions
you may have or to otherwise assist you and your organiza-
tion in this program.
George C. McGhee
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
THE SECRETARY
May 28, 19.62
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MEMORANDUM FOR: M - MR. MCGHEE
COORDINATION OF INFORMATION POLICY
ON THE SINO-SOVIET DISPUTE
1. Foreign policy considerations make it necessary
that there be followed within the Government a coordinated
information policy on the Sino-Soviet dispute.
2. ?I have accordingly approved the attached "Guide
lines and.Proeedures for a Coordinated Information Policy
Re the Sino-Soviet Dispute." All agencies and. officials
of the Government who are or may become concerned with overt
and covert information aspects of the dispute are requested
to observe and assist in implementing these guidelines and
procedures.
3. Responsibility for effecting the coordination en-
visaged in the Guidelines and Procedures is assigned to
your office. In discharging this responsibility,'you should
undertake appropriate consultations with other Agencies of
the Government, utilizing for this purpose the Interdepart-
mental Political-Psychological Group, which the Department
recently established.
Dean Rusk
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GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURES FOR
COORDINATED INFORMATION POLICY
. RE THE SINO-SOVIET DISPUTE
I. General approach
1. The basic policy to be followed in the public
handling of the Sino-Soviet dispute is to treat it as a
major international development which is worthy of important
emphasis' and close attention, and about which the American
and other peoples should be fully informed.
2.. Constant care is to be taken, however, to avoid
exaggerating either the nature or implications of the dis-
pute. In particular, statements and interpretations are to
be avoided that suggest. that: (a) the dispute has resulted
in, or is likely to result in, a change in basic Communist
objectives toward the US and the Free World, (b) the dispute
has affected the-capability of either the USSR or Communist
.China to endanger the security of the US, (c) the dispute
has eliminated or reduced pressures that the Communist
powers are bringing to bear on US interests in.various
critical areas of the world, (d) the dispute has mitigated
the urgency of the need for proceeding with. the strengthen-
ing of the free.world community.
3. Strictest regard to accuracy shall be observed
in the dissemination. of attributable information about the
dispute. .
4. Any suggestion that the US is taking-sides in the
dispute is to be avoided. Similarly, there should be no
suggestion that the US intends, or is willing, to manipu-
late its policies in the interest of furthering the dispute,
II. Treatment of Dispute in Official Statements
5. Carefully formulated references to the dispute
may as appropriate be included in statements of high. level
representatives of the Administration.
6. The
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6. The Interdepartmental Political-Psychological Group
that has been established in the Office of the Under Secretary
of. State for Political Affairs shall develop and make available
to appropriate officials of the Government a suggested general
.line to be followed in these references.
7. Within this general line, official treatment of
the dispute should be sufficiently full and lucid (a) to ensure
that the American public is informed of. the changing nature of
our Communist enemy and of the dangers and opportunities that
this poses for the US, (b) to furnish as appropriate the American
public with the rationale that lies behind policies followed by
the US in light of the dispute,..(c) to deny to. the Communists a
monopoly in interpreting what is going on in the Communist world.,,
and-(d) particularly, to counter Communist efforts,.as at the
.presents to gloss over the seriousness of their, differences and
to maintain the fiction of a monolithic unity that no longer in
fact exists.
III. Psychological Exploitation of the Dispute
8. The.US'Information Agency should report prominently and
fully and via all media pertinent developments in the dis-
pute, including relevant statements of Communist leaders and per-
-tinent articles that appear in the Communist press throughout the..
world. Reportage should be on a factual news basis except that
adequate, carefully prepared commentary should be utilized to cut
through; Communist double talk and to make clear to the unsophisti-
cated the real issues and targets dealt with in such. statements
and articles.
-9 To facilitate-USIA coverage of the dispute the Inter-
departmental Group shall arrange with the Intelligence Community
for a constant watch of developments and commentaries - Communist
and non-Communist - bearing on the dispute, and for the supply to
USIA on a regular and timely basis documentary and interpretative
tribution of appropriate selections from the same material with-
out attribution. to the Government, to domestic and foreign scholars
concerned with Sino-Soviet and world Communist. affairs.
material for use in its information program.
10. The Interdepartmental Group shall arrange for the dis-
11. The
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11. The Interdepartmental Group shall arrange. with the
Intelligence Community and with appropriate private organi
zations for unattributed dissemination in key foreign languages
of the major documents bearing on the dispute that have
appeared in the Communist press in the past.
12. The Interdepartmental Group, in conjunction with
USIA'and CIA, shall encourage,. and, to the extent feasible,
support translation into key foreign languages and foreign
dissemination of scholarly books and articles dealing with
the. dispute that have appeared in this country and the UK..
13.' The Interdepartmental Group shall review with
responsible Intelligence officers the classified materials
on the. dispute available within the Government and shall
arrange for the covert publication of appropriate items as
security considerations permit.
14. Proposals for other covert activities shall be
submitted to.the Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs.-for review on a.case-by-ca:se basis. No covert ac-
.tivities,shall be undertaken by any Agency without the con-
currence of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs.
15.. In performing the foregoing assignments, parti
cularly:those set forth in paragraphs 10-13, the Interde-
partmental Group should seek the advice and. assistance of non-
governmental experts on Sino-Soviet and. world communist
affairs
16. The Interdepartmental Group, in cooperation with
U, shall plan and arrange for continuing classified brief-
ings of appropriate congressional leaders on the. dispute.
These briefings should be factual in nature and should be
as full and frank as security considerations permit.
17. The Interdepartmental Group shall arrange for the
preparation and dispatch to US posts abroad, and to.the US
UN Delegation, of material adequate Co ensure that personnel
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at these posts are fully informed of the nature of and
developments in the dispute..
18. The Group shall also prepare instructions for the
treatment of. the dispute by US representatives abroad and
at the UN in both their contacts with foreign officials
and in their public statements.
VI. Coordination with Allies .
19. The Interdepartmental Group shall arrange for
an'exchange of views regarding these guidelines with repre-
sentatives of key US allies, including key Latin American
allies and Japan as well as major NATO powers, in order (a).'.
to secure coordination of their information policies with
those of the US, and (b) to secure support as needed for US
information efforts.
VII. Press Briefings
20. The Interdepartmental Group shall advise the P
..area as to classified and interpretative materials that may
be. used in background briefings of representatives of the
American press.
21. The Interdepartmental Group shall arrange with
P-for the regular supply of materials referred to.in numbered
paragraph 9 above to interested representatives of.the press..
Material on this subject produced in P will be submitted to
the Interdepartmental Group for clearance and utilization
-.as appropriate.
Concurrences:
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EUR - Mr. Kohler ,, INR - Mr. Hilsman
FE - Mr. Yage P - Mr. Greenfield.)
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,RAMM FOR THE NG T AA1. I JOHN A. NtCONE
CENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Guidelines for Information Policy Re
the Sino-Soviet Dispute
Attached is a copy of the "Guidelines and Procedures
Coordinated Information Policy Re the Sing-Soviet
ste.'t
Also attached is a copy of a memorandum from Secretary
k approving the guidelines as U.S. policy and ` assigning
pons ibi .ity to me for affecting the coordination en-
.s ad therein. The Interdepartmental Political-Psycholo-
gical Group will, assume primary responsibility for carrying
out this function. The group is prepared to assist your
organi -tion in any may in carrying out those elements
of this program which are your primary responsibility.
Your attention is called particularly to paragraphs
11, 12, 13 and 14 in which your organization is assigned
specific responsibility .
N. William Jordan, who heads the Psychological-Political
rem in my office, is available to answer any questions
you may have or to otherwise assist you and your organiza-
tion in this program.
/s/ George C. McGhee
George C. McGhee
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3 1 AUG 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Guidelines for Information Policy Re the Sino-Soviet
Dispute
REFERENCE: Executive Memorandum No. 7, 11 rune 1962
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When the referenced Executive Memorandum was put out,
you asked several questions concerning the "Interdepartmental
Political-Psychological Group". This Group which is headed by
William Jorden of the Department of State is an informal ad hoc
organization established by George McGhee. It meets on call of
J'orden. Its charter is to tie together various aspects of U. S.
policy in the political and psychological field, and apparently it
gets into those matters that McGhee ask it to. Our representa- 5X
tive on this Group is E_ I who is our 225X1
regular liaison officer to State and USIA, and whose broad charter
is to keep himself advised of anything in the entire spectrum o~
goings-on at those agencies which might affect CIA. I understand
the Group is presently working on plans as to what to do about
possible Chinese nuclear tests (in the political-psychological field
obviously). Attached. is a Memorandum for the Record which
I prepared on this subject. As far as adequate circulation
in CIA of what is going on in this field, I have alerted I to
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keep me informed so that we can put out appropriate Executive
Memoranda similar to the attached. 25X1
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