ANTI-U.S. PROPAGANDA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00024R000300060006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 19, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNCLASSIFIED C ENTIAL SECRET
EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
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SUBJECT: (Optional)
Anti-U.S. Propaganda
OUTING AND RECORD SHEET
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Deputy Director of Central Intelligen e
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
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Director, FBIS
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COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
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19 March 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FROM : Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Anti-U.S. Propaganda
1. The DCI and I wish to ensure that sufficient attention is being given
to assessing the scope and nature of the Soviet propaganda effort against the
U.S. and the extent to which other foreign propaganda is organized, supported,
directed or coordinated by the USSR and other forces or governments hostile to
the U.S. We also are concerned that our knowledge and understanding of,propa-
ganda efforts directed against the U.S. and its interests by countries without
any links to the USSR in this arena may not be adequate. Accordingly, I would
like for the DDO and FBIS to prepare, in collaboration with appropriate elements
of NFAC, a short paper addressing the Agency's assets and weaknesses in assessing
the foreign propaganda effort against the U.S. along the above-stated lines and
in what form our analysis in this area reaches policy agencies. I would appre-
ciate having this-paper-by 27 March.
2. We also are interested in the Agency's current substantive assessment
of these questions. Would you prepare, again with NFAC, a brief analysis that
would include:
a description of the Soviet propaganda effort directed
against the United States;
the extent to which the USSR organizes, supports, directs
or coordinates the propaganda efforts of other nations;
the scope and nature of propaganda directed against the U.S.
or its interests by countries independent of the Soviet Union
in this arena.
I would like this assessment by 8 April.
B. R. INMAN
Admiral, U.S. Navy
cc: D/NFAC
Signer
CL BY 18 March 1987
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CA would like drafte 3:00 Wed.
27 March paper:
Break down in 3 parts:
1. Data Base--extent of FBIS coverage
2. What done with material collected--FBIS publication/dissemination/analysis
(NFAC will contribute to this)
3. Assessment of assets and weaknesses
1. Soviet propaganda effort
2. Soviet bloc propaganda effort (defined as communist world, minus
China, Albania, Yugoslavia, and North Korea
3. Other--General statement about extent of coverage of rest of
world media, indication that we select material
reacting to. U.S. policies, actions and statements, plus, detailed
breakdown of coverage of following countries:
l.Libya
2.Iran
3.Mozambique
4.China
5.Nicaragua
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