PROGRESS REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PSB D-14C 'PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS PLAN FOR THE REDUCTION OF COMMUNIST POWER IN FRANCE.'
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ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
THE DIRECTOR OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
JAN 1 4 1953
I220R'iNDWI FOR : Gener~,1_ Walter 13. 21hith
Director of Central Intelligence
Progre;;r Report on Implementation of
F: D-11?.c "Psychological Operations
Plan for the Reduction of Communist
Power In France."
.'stt,ached hereto for your Snformetion is an interim progress
report on PSB D-14c "Psychological Operations Plan for the Reduction
of Communist Fower in France".
NSC review completed
1. Progress Report on Implementation
of PUB D-14c, I) ted January 13, 1)53
Copy No. 4'
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PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
Washington 25, D. C.
Copy No, 42
January 14, 1.953
11ENORANDUM FOR: The Honorable
Da J.d K? E. Bruce
IJnde:r i?ecretary of State
SUBJECT: Progress Report, on Implementation
of Pn D-14c "Psychological Operations
PL ,n for the Reduction of Cominuni st
Power in France."
Attached hereto for your information is an interim progress
report on PSB D-14c "Psychological Operations Plan for the Reduction
of Communist Power in 14-ance".
1. Progress Report on Implementation
of IaB D-14c, dated Janu..ry 13, 1953
(Note: Identical Memoranda sent to Mr. Foster, General Smith and
General Young.)
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Seuri. y I . ormaatign
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January 13, 1953
Fro,~ Lr e ssr R. e 'o t on, L_pJ f1 dent tio, of
PSB b ~c ~rl'chol o_~ic.]. Oneratior. s
Plan for the Reduction of Coim.tunist
Poi,?r '' n France, ?P
Formal implementation of PFD D-34c "Psychological Operations
Plan for the Reduction of Comrmuni st Power in France". is now in
its eleventh month with coordinating eomm.qittees functioning regularly
in both Paris and. Washington. During this period there has been an
interchange of views between members of the committees, both by
personal visits and by exchange of reports and other pertinent papers.
Functioning of the Paris Committee is the direct re r,ponsibility cf
our Ambassador and, in addition to interdepartmental representatives,
discussions are now participated in by the Chief of the P2 A Ni.ssi.on
to France and the Deputy Chief of M ssion, Paris Embassy. A repre-
sentative of the U. S. Corrinander-in--Chief, Europe, will also soon
participate in the discussions. Progress toward achieving the
objectives of. FSB D?-14c Is regarded as satisfactory with the initia-
tive in anti-.connmrd. st actit its a e being taken by the T- ench Government
and with our own activities being conducted in the back;[-,,round.
The French Communist Party continued throughout 1952 to contract
in size and to display the same lack of dynamism that has characterized
it to an ever increasing, extent during the past four years, Membership
in the Party is now estimated at around 450,000, amounting to a 50
percent decline in ovcr..a1l membership since 1946 The electoral
strength of the Communists, however, continues to run at about 5,000,,000
out of a total of 19,000,000 votes cast in each postwar national
election.
At no time during 3,952 did the Party reveal any capacity for
rallying non-communist support to such an extent as to influence govern.
went policy. Signs of a split in the Party hierarchy became evident
with the purge of Marty and Tillon and in September the Party line
become a "United National Front" policy, The French Communists are
apparently striving to create a united front with all elements of the
population on the basis of a program of "peace, nationel independence,
end democratic libErties".
In spite of its decline in 1952, the French Communist apparatus
will remain for the foreseeable future a powerful and dangerous factor
for French security and therefore for our own within the NATO framework.
The CPF is one of the world's largest Communist parties outside the
Soviot Bloc. In France,, itself, it is still a mr:: jor political party,
an important power in the trade union movement, and a huge propaganda
machine.
For the immediate future the most likely lines of attack against
the sources of Comiruni.at strength lie in legislative and administrative
moves by the French Government and in action by ourselves in the field of
public opinion. If the French Government succeeds in its present efforts
to convict the Party leaders (and thus the Party itse7 ') of treason by
judicial process, and so to brand the Party as "foreign", the basis will
have been laid for all manner of measures to weaken Conmiunist influence,,
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