SOVIET PROPAGANDA ALERT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00024R000500260001-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 30, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/06/19 :CIA-RDP85-000248000500260001-7
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In June and July, Soviet exteznal propaganda stresseds
control and Peace i~tovements. Soviet propaganda focused on
a ege U. S. up icity at t e Geneva START talks. President
Reagan's speech at the U.P7. Special version on Disarmament
t SSOD) was seen as an attempt to hide Gr'ashingtcan' s bid for
military superiority b_y L~ortraying the U. S. as a '?peace~maker."
Peace demonstrations in the U. S. and Western Europe supposedly
showed increasing worldwide realization that Washington, not
i~ioscow, is the. true threat -to peace. A .related major themes
following the space shuttle's latest flight, concerned U>S.
military plans fur space.
Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Soviets accused the U. S. cif col-
lusion with Israel in its move against t~i~-PLO in Lebanono
According to Soviet charges, the U. S. wants to impose a Camp
David -type arrange-nent on Lebanon and neig"Whoring territories,
.leading to "U.S. imperialist domination over all .the area.?'
'Gas Pipeline Sanctions. Soviet propagandists decried the
Banc??ions as economic warfare. They- claimed: that. this new
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