LETTER TO GENERAL W.B. SMITH (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003100020046-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: January 15, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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January 15,1952.
General W.B. Smith,
,N . ?T.
2430 "E" Street;
Washington v .0 .
Dear ueneral Smith:
Enclosed I am sending you a clipping from yesterday's
N.Y. 4`yorld-Telegram that might be of interest to you,
re ;5 of my suggestions,a form-sheet holding two sets
of fingerprints ? issued,
to be taken by the
and the control prints by the port-or border authorities at
the point of entry.
I think that yesterday's news from Russia confirmed
my concepts of the situation of which I wrote you on iov.22,
1949.- That young son of a Russian liaison officer,who told
me on Oct.13,1947, h the hischance
ofiallutheamu~gikstclminterer
the revolution" and gripes
viewed then in Berlin won't get off my mind. I still,and firm-
ly,believe that the Kremlin is in serious trouble, and that
the "Voice of America,' should bet utilized for fostering that
revolution which might spare us III.
But: First the "Voice of America" must be de-American-
ized. I would propose to. call it The Voice of the Conscience
of the :leardd?ofhall the at and Liberals,
to be e cleare
and all those useless feature broadcasts be eliminated. The
"Voice" should not be merely another information agency, but
strictly a branch of the armed forces, a hard striking Ieaappoon
in the cold war. To use it as has been done is waste. hope
that in your new position - to which incidentally I congratu-
late you, - you may do something to put the Voice on the level
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for Which it was originally intended.
I remain, S' cerely yours,
encl/
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General W.B. Smith.
2430 P"E" Street,N.W.
Washington, D.C.
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