STAFF STUDY - PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY PLANNING FOR WESTERN EUROPE

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• Publication Date: January 15, 1953
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DOC . NOPSB D-38
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PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
Washington
STAFF STUDY - PSYCHOi,CIGICA3s STRATEGY PLAhTNLNG FOR WESTERN EUUIOPE
(THIS IS 1 APPROVED i PER)
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SEC ' January 15, 1953
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRAwEGY BOARD
WASHINGTyON, D, C.
STATE STUDY - PSYCHOLOGICAL "ail 1 T GY PLAk?NITIG FOR WESTERN
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The reconunendations contained ift this staff study were
approved by the Board at its Seventeenth Meeting, January 15,
1953.
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Secretary to thej
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PSYCH LQCICi S7H.&TEGY BOARD
WASHINGTON D. C.
Pemorandum of January 12, 1953
Ivi 1/C1=;. NDUN1 FORS HE HONORABLE DAVID BRUCE
UNDZ i, SECRETIR OF STATE
SUBJECTS S f . Study -oil W &j" riur=e
I. The attached staff study on an iiportant aspect of psychological
strategy planning for Western Europe (PS13 D-38) is submitted for informa-
tion and approval of the recomxiendations (paragraphs 5 and 6).
2. The aim of the present stuay has been to analyze the approved
national policy objectives, to m Le a preliminary assessment of U.S.
psychological capabilities in the target area, together with the limiting
factors operative therein, and to formulate a meaningful psychological
objective. While some of the basic psychological problems which confront
the United States in Western Europe have been identified, the ways and
means by which such problems can be resolved have not been set forth.
This latter task will of course become the principal concern of the
planners once the recommendations have been approved by the Board.
3. In this context,, the Board may wish to note that current intelli-
gence indicates that anti-American attitudes and sentiments in Western
Europe continue to develop at e rapid rate and are already hampering the
achievement of U.S, security objectives. Hence the preparat;_on of a
psychological strategy plan designed to reduce Western European antagonisms
to the United States and its purposes, should be considered a matter of
priority.
/s/ Alan G. 'ark
Dire cto~w
Similar memos. sent too
The Hon, William C. Foster
Deputy Secretary of Defense
General Walter B. Smith
Director of CIA
Brig. Gen. Millard C. Young,. USAF
Cief, JSPD, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Hon, U. A. Harriman
Director for Mutual Security
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PSYCHOLOGICAL STRcTEGY BOARD
WA.SFINGTON, D. C.
STAFF STUDY ?- PSYCH0?~ LOGICAL STB4TECY PLANNING FOR WESTERN EUROPE
PROP
11 To determine the requirements of psychological strategy planning
with respect to the achievement of national objectives in Western Europe.
ANALYSIS
2. See Annex.
CONCLUSIONS
3. United States psychological ope:.,ations in Western Europe have not
succeeded in reducing the gro-ath c? anti-American sentiments and attitudes
but in fact may have unwittingly been coatributing to them by too strong
overt pressures.
4. Consideration of the sharp stre?ses and strains within the NATO
alliance, in the libht of Soviet capabil:a.ties to capitalize on such strains
to the jeopardy of approved U.S. policy ;,pals, indicates that in order to
atta;Ln progress towards the reduction of Soviet power and influence in Europe,
ways and means must be developed to incroase the effectiveness of psycho-
logical operations aimed at the reductionG of Western European antagonism to
the United States and its purposes.
RECOI 2NDATIONS
5. That the analysis and conclusior.s be noted.
6. That the :Director be authorized to undertake the preparation of a
psychological strategy plan for Western I.urope with the objective of devising
effective ways and means of reducing T1estern European antagonisms to, and
achieving support for, the United States and the U.S. national purposes.
Attachments
Annex - Analysis of
Planning Tasks for
Waste-n Europe.
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ANNEX to
PSIS D-38
January , r 1953
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
WAS EI I `IC'ON , Ds C e
ANA PSIS OF PLAI%iP? }I T 5KS SOIL ZIESTERtd EUROPE
1. proved National Policy
A survey of approved national policy objectives with respect to
Western Europe reveals the following explicit statement of urgent national
security goals. These guiding points hav-3 been selected with due regard
to the fact that in Europe the reduction. of Soviet power and influence
continues to have over-riding priority in the employment of our psycho-
logical capabilities.
(a) to intensify and to accelerate the growth of confidence in
and among the peoples and the governments of the free world,
especially Western Europe ... in their capability to success-
fully deter aggression of Soviet communism, or to defeat it
should it nevertheless ocur, and to inspire concrete inter-;-
national, national and individual action accordingly. (F ccorpt
,
from NSC 114/2, "Objectives and Programs for National Security",
October 18, 1951).
(b) The United States should ... conduct, with great vigor,
political warfare opera ions as an integral part of its over-
all strategy, in order to reduce: eommunst and neutralist iii,.
fluence, combat anti-r-morican propaganda, and create strong