'INDIGENOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF DIPLOMACY' BEFORE THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRS AT RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 17, 1952

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000100780001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 17
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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The effectiveness of any Media, of
havee. And
n the kind of a fora .jn po1:
are
ways in which we conduct psycho
to ical warfare may have a tremendous impact upon our Tutu
policy,
as to particular countries or areas.
overt or open
Psychcaloical warfare
wo kinds
the covert or secret. :`' tle other terms
n have been
o axxd black and oven arey a none is comp
descriptive and I say this as a result of some year
in with these quee do s durink; the las.
drsds of speciric media have been employed in both
al warfare, some of which should not be re
v"lod for security reasons. But it Is not so much with the
media
r am concerned today bu
ed
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order to
id not start the
di ;,eno us 1'syc Logical 'arfarew. using the ad-
as talking abut propaganda or Information
r within any given country whose att
luence an distinguished from proi
the Vnit? . States directed at any such target country.
Such propaganda can be both open or secrete overt or
or ail;
,
in other countries,
a of those who know
brief assignment, I have selected
ellaprin,e are from within and
tiderstad us
a convince the peo
rma that we are peace lovin
ion i Korea, that we are not the
This is no
ithout, It need not necessarily come purpose
kd
us but may be spread from within by a reflection
act
the Stall
,uest ion, because millions
roubled on this point.
ould the beat was of convincing the Burmese?
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a broadcast from A=*
on in Bursese in
defend tn:, Afterican .mnt
s beased at te peoplo of
or news
s conceived and o:
untr"ies ' n
te2lo Burma** who In the millOu of
odes, reach Burmese as "mad6 in Sums"
in Ameri :.
ea"ntheticall,y, I intend no criticism of the
pr
needed and I support it.
urable good because millions of people
want and nee
ear I
ad by
done is
aut the -world
not always. those V::ioh
ve free accept iro abroad. For this reason, we mist not con-
fuse our
rest, which is eiaply the
vidual liberty and trsedo , with our own methods in this country.
Bret must be redefined autf iris
tolerance for the unique and Individual characteristics
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of other Leo
bass is eces
Bo w such
ideas which are impressed from without. The concepts of
spt2'it of
*xpros
bests is perfomante .
My
unite it on
e ideas are, a th from within
4 poorlyr at bee
e by our actions
. here must
by our public
pubic express ions
went? uus iase and methods
apt, t.refore,
sa eteeties, and other re
s ttciont to carry the tree world :'
c*ut by
only Val
of eM,)hasjs and mindset.
.9j;; thy," ou i the bay sue""
would hel
ent with some %Mtians,, which
he is right or
Intervention by you on behalf of your American strangor# or an,
n of Cairo,
rbed in its relations with the West you see an
into a seert aua
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of fair
cold war between the Unit
want to win and muet win, the crucial question is whether
not this court
to make the kin
keep friends es n e- influence, peoples.
abandon
effort that
edec effurt to this end, we a
in the field of psychological
4a'
re, except
purely strategical and tactical media in euppo:
that Ideas o we ? ent to conve j
in .support of our foreign policy,
policy may be?
s by preaeureee,
enterprise a
em afraid we shall fail, no matter
II
our unique Americas methods mean
methods have been here.
nothing to most of the other peoples
wee 9 /+ - ~ 7 }+~ Thouf
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must vary Ere .t l
the ,round
aahlevemen
eo&ta, do iRa want to Impose upon our allies and upon
o hoe aggression may be stopped or freedom pre. erve
anc stymie any r1 influence wo may
have with our noutra
of be better to encourage the wide
of varytn views on stopping
Korea which recently was approved by the inn
be.
at uraan wous . vote, with only the Gov iet Union and its
votin a einat it., in th
United S
iva serious onaidarat
ibis
by
to
oval to most of tile Indian
ith retarenee to the Korean war
doubtedly were not based upon o to to
a aon roeiaa p opooul was worked out by negotiation which
brought an ity eon, tike nations of the free world.
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for over a yea
00 s ion
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have been
4i the p.o+les
,von such eonvinoin
nda t ion of an Asian na
e y outral In the cold w
thOu It a
munis be contained
old war,
ugly important that uesi c
iot, because of excessive
world.
Ai 1sr5te3r s
In our ;=tier a standar,
of 33v#n
convince him that his
support of substantial segments
Neither an Indian
ding
to cur wealth or dependent upon our-standard
superior
we way yet learn from the Arabian teateh*r and the Indian
op hero And so, let t s, instead, compare peasant top san'
nt to zercht, wherever they may be. For that eop
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pe ul*r atiroeds, and we are no ex,-
an who bas done any extensive travel it abroad
In recent
In all the free world, few, if any, love us, a respect
but misunderstand us* r%ary
)pport is h fib
a billion e d a he
~'nd
whole is effect
her we
d& on the
often lausible,,
poelall In poverty stricken countries,
uubvarv.
al warfare which:
4 tasteful
t oiar subversive activitt are extrwwly
ad, it is to
ed that we can
z o `~ 9 C 1 0 the sln.i
some outright distrust us.
n-
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belnk--, enploye.d any: as a result
rather th
about ten days
in point, ulthou ;;? :