PROGRESS AND STATUS REPORT ON 'HUNGARY-RFE' INTELLIGENCE PUBLICITY FILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00764R000500090012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 9, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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Memorandum to Colon 1 Grogan 9 January 1957
Subject: Progress and status report on ttHungary-RFEtt Intelligence Publicity File
25X1A9aJ. Before his departure this noon, handed me this press-clipping
file, for me to show you at your asnvenience, w is he had inherited from me
last December 28,$hen you asked him to take over this project from me.
along with a draft of an alternative memo (dated Jan. 9), drafted by hi,qself,
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3. So far we have about 260 press comments--about 130 of them U.S. Official
and unofficial; and about 130 from USSR and Other Communist Sources, These
260 items were for the most part se]e cted 4 weeks ago, then red-lined by me,
then organized (under 5 "tabs"). These clippings deal with the following
these principal issues:
a. Was U.S. Intelligence Caught by "Surprise" on October 22-23?
b. Did RFE " Provoke" the Original Hungarian Uprising?
el. Did U.S. "Incite" the Revol [t by other overt or covert means?
Ii.. The 260 clips are organized, for convinience, not under the above 3
subjects but according to source, as follows:
a. U.S. official comment (on above 3 issues)
b. U.S. unofficial comment
c. USSR propaganda exploitation (of above 3 issues)
d. Communist propagadda exploitation from other countries (ditto)
e. U.S. press comment before Oct. 22 (back to Jan. 1956), when relevant
5. Most of these clips are for the first 6 weeks of the revolt, Oct. 22 to
Dec. 7--the result of an intensive survey by myself completed between Nov. 29
(when you asked me to launch this project) and Dec. 7. For the last It ) weeks
(Dec. 1O-Jan.9) there are stx relatively few clips, confined only to those that,
thanks to Nancy, she noticed each day in your daily press book. There are
doubtless others which, on a closer screening, might well be added if there
is an active need for this compilation.
2. Along with the clips he also returned to me my partial draft of a covering
memo to the DCI (dated Dec. 10, about 10 pages long, as far as I had gone),
6. Of the 130 Communist comments (in tabs C and D), about half of them
25XlA9(3bout 65) were culled by from the FBIS dailies, up to Dec, 7,
while the rest were selecs ty me from your daily press book.
7. As to a written analysis of this material, nd I both 25X1A9a
assumed that such a study would be helpful, and sac of us prepared a
partial draft, complete up to a points A--
a. My draft, as of Dec. 10, was addressed primarily to a eh of -the
three issues listed in paragraph 3 above (part 3 had not yet been done).
25X1A9a. s draft, as of Jan. 7, was addressed primarily to
summarizing first the specific "CIA" comments, then the specific "RFE" comments.
8. A third alternative, at this juncture, might be simply to send the
DCI a brief, 1-page memo, calling attention to this accumulating (but without r`ay
analysis), and inviting him to indicate what kind of analysis, if any, he
might want at this particular moment, or some days later.
25X1A9a
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