TRENDS IN COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

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• Document Release Date: April 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 9, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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C~~nfidential
9 M,4Y 1973
(VOL. XXIV, N0. 19)
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canted in Foreign broadcast and press media. It is pub}tshed
by FPIS without roordinntion with other U.S. Government
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CONI?IDENTIAL L~IiI5 TI'.E:NDS
~) MAY 19 7 3
CO~dTEidTS
'I'op.Lcs and Events Given hta,jor Attention i
DKV S~iys Nixon "Slander" Aimed at ;:overing Allied Vio).ations 1
II.S. Accused of U;~ing ICCS Air Corridors for Reconnaissance Q
URV ,Journal Offers Candid Review of Conununist Strategy .?.... ,5
Peking Marks RGNU Anniversary, Heralds Sihanouk's Tour Abroad 7
11.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Moscow I'ictur.es President's Report in Favorable Light 9
C;HiNA-U.S.-EURUPE
i'elcing Conveys Interest- in Strong Atlantic Alliance 11
CHINA
Chows Authority Associated with Rustication Program I4
hII!)ULE EAST
Moscow Avoids 'Caking Sides in Reportage on Lebanon Fighting 16
NUT'?,S: Czechoslovak Media on SALT TWO; Moscow on CCD 17
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These statistics are based on the volcecast commentary output of the Moscow and
Peking domestic and international radio services. The term "commentary" is used
to denote the lengthy item-radio talk, speech, press article or editorial, govern-
ment or party statement, or diplomatic note. Items of extensive reportage are
counted as commentaries.
Figures In parentheses indicate volume of comment during the preceding week.
Topics and events given maJor attention in terms of volume are not always
discussed in the body of the Trends. Some may have been covered iri prior issues;
in other cases the propaganda content may be routine or of minor significance.
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CONFIDENTIAL FBIS TRENDS
9 MAY 1973
INDOCHINA
Hanoi continues to respan~:l to U.S, warnings against furttrer
~ommuniat violations of. r_he Vietnamese peace agreement with
assertions that Llie Vietnamese people will not be "intimidated."
President Nixon's remarks on Vietnam in his annual foreign policy
report to Congress were denounced, along with other statements by
Administration spokesman, as part of a U.5. campaign of "slander"
and "threats" aimed at covering up or justifying U.S. vjo].ations
of the accord and preparing public opinion for more serious
violations.
Hanoi announced on 6 May that on the 4th the 27 April DRV Foreign
Ministry statement condemning alleged U.S. and Saigon violatioi,a
of the peace agreement had 'been forwarded to the participants in
the 12-power Paris conference on Vietnam. Hanoi noted further
that the foreign minist:-y had asked the participants to urge that
these violations cease a;td that the agreement be scrupulously
implemented; a similar t?`quest for international action had
appeared in the PRG and DRV notes of 14 and 16 April to the inter-
national conference participants.
Moscow and Peking duly repot*.ed the DRV Foreign Ministry statement
of the 27th as well as the earlier PRG and DRV notes, but neither
has responded to the Vietnamese communist appeals to the inter-
national conference participants. In line with this silence,
Moscow and Peking have also ignored the response to the DRV
contained in the 24 April. U.S. note to the conference participants.
DkV SAYS NIXON ''SLANDER" AIMED AT COVERING ALLIED VIOLATIONS
The President's 3 May report to Congress on foreign policy was
assessed promptly in articles in Hanoi's party paper NHAN DAN as
merely the latest example of aCtempts by the United States ~.o
deflect attention from its own violations of the peace accord by
claiming that the DRV has committed major violations. A.n article
in the paper on the 4th assailed the President for threatening that
the DRV risks "revived confrontation with the United States" and
might "destroy the chances for a new and constructive bilateral
relationship, including economic assistance."
In an article on the 5th NHAN llAN cited Western news agencies as
calling the President's remarks the strongest U.S. warning since
the signing of the peace agreement and added its own observation
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that the report represents a n~~w csc;nlaticn in the recent
"policy of intimidation" by U,S. spokesmen, llanoi tailed (o
indicate the specific nature of: the President's churges
against the llRV, with the NIiAN DAtJ article nn the 5th ca,~ug
merely that the repvr.t "cor~nletely distorted the truth about
the situation in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos." HOWNV4r,
Liberation Radio commentaries did note that complaints about
DRV behavior included the charge that North Vietnamese troop~~
were sti3.1 being sent into South Vietnam and were continuing
military activities in Cambodia and Laos.
In reiterating the persistent line than J.S. "intimidation"
would not succeed, the 4 May NHAN DAN article cited Premier
Pham Van Dong's assertions in his May Day speech that "no brstal
force, no perfidious scheme, no insolent threat" can make the
Vietn~.mese people deviate from "the path of struggle which is
our oath to victory." An article in the army paper QUAN DOI NHAN
DAN on the 5th reminded the President that the U.S. "carrot-and-
stick policy" had not been successful in Vietnam.
Hanoi has not breached the question of possible talks between
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho since 28 April, when it publicized a
communique from the DRV embassy in Paris saying the embassy had
no information on press reports that such a meeting would be held.
However, NHAN DAN seemed to strike a negative note when in the
4 clay article on the President's foreign policy report it
injected a criticism of Deputy Assistant Secretary William Sullivan
for saying Hanoi must choose between a path of implementing the
agreement or a path which would revert to the "unf ortunate
military situation." The article, as reviewed by VNA, made no
reference to Sullivan's 27-30 April meetings in Paris with DRV Vice
Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach--meetings billed by U.S.
spokesmen as preparatory for a Kissinger-Le Duc Tho meeting in
mid-May. Hanoi has ignored Kissinger's 2 May statement to
reporters that there is an agreement that there should be a
meeting but no agreement on such details as the timing of the
announcement.
WATERGATE Vietnamese communist media were slow in reacting
DEVELOPMENTS ;u disclosures in t:-e Watergate case, with the
first report coming in a Hanoi radio broadcast
on 24 April--a full week after the President's sta..*_ement of the
17th. Hanoi's initial silence may have been related to c?evelopments
in DRV-U.S. relations or may have merely reflected caution in
evaluating the significance of the case. Hanoi's publicity has been
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DIS lIt[:NUS
5 MAY 1913
cnniined to ['~~UCinL'-lc?Vel rrtdlo rind press ac:cuuntk, wish no
autliorltatlve pre+er+ ccanmrnt. In (ceeping with tha pattern since
chr_ rrtKning cf Lho prate .rgrrrrmrnt, Hnnai's trcntme.+l of the
1'r~+eident has bren devolu of the kind of personal invective tnnt
had been a r+tnple of ;~1tV corntnent during the :;gar yea; a. It~porte
on Watergatr_ hrive hc~c~n cr,itlcal of the 1'rest.den;, but derogatory
referenc~W haven K~~nerrrlly hrrn att.ributccl to the Western preHrc.
tilnce the :.4t1~ there has been nn Increasing flow of daily Hanoi
aCtentlou to Watergate. 'l'yplfying llanol's r~~lrJtive circumspection,
howc,v~r, Hanoi's first lengthy report, broaclcar~t in Vietnamese on
thr. 7.8th, cited Western newo agencies for the allegations that
"Nixon has become furious as his rule lrt the Watergate case is being
trucked down" and that "the activities of the White House are
virtually paralyzed." Ilan~i's reports on the President's 30 April
speech Co the nation included a 3 hiay broadcast which did go so
far ate to claim that he had "admitted part of the guilt" in the
Watergate affair. Tt cited various alleged U.S. news commentaries,
including one speculating that the President had participated in
a coverup and another that he might resign.
A two-part radio commentary, broadcaRt in Vietnamese on 7 and
8 May, offered Hanoi's first extensive analysis of the affair.
Reviewing events ever the past year, the commentary ,judged
Watergate to be a "great political loss" for the President anti
his Administration which "not only threatens the President's
prestige but also threatens his leadership of the nation."
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CONFIDENTIAL c;;IS TRENDS
9 ~lAY 1973
U,5, ACCUSED OF USING ICCS AIR CORRIDORS FOR RECONNAISSANCE
Hanoi and the PRG have reacted to charges that ICCS helicopters
were fired or: in Quang Tri on 2 May by countercharging that the
United States that day had raent a x~econnaiasance plane into the
ICCS corridor to conduct eapianage ar,r.ivities. Protesting the
incident promptly ~n the 2d, a PRG Foreign Ministry spokesman's
statement, as broadcast by Liberation Radio in Vietnamese, sai.G
the reconnaissance plane had been met with "punishing fire."*
Elaborating on the incident, a 3 May Hanoi broadcast said that the
plane was a "pilotless reconnaissance aircraft," and a QUAN DOI
NHAN llAN commentary on the 4th claimed that it hEd been flying
at the altitude, time, and flight path set for ICCS aircraft.
Communist comment on the incident for the most part has failed t~
directly acknowledge charges that the ICCS helicopters were
fired upon, but Liberation Radio on 7 May quoted the spokesman
of the FRG delegation to the JMC as saying at a press conference
on the Sth that the United States had "slanderously" accused the
liberation armed forces of firing on the helicopters.
The PRG Foreign Ministry spokesman's statement not only protested
that the United States had misused the ICCS corridc,r
but also charged that it had ?~~iolated Article 4 of +.he Paris
agreement and demanded that it "put an immediate end to its
reconnaissance flights over PRG-controlled areas." Article 4
does not specify an end to reconnaissance activities in stating
generally that the United States "will not continue itF m~!litary
involvement or intervene in the internal affairs of South Vietnam."
Some recent propaganda has also complained about GVN aerial
reconnaissance, but there has been no effort as .yet to press
claims that this is a violatiun of the peace accord.
The 4 May QUAN DOI NHAN DAN article which discussed thel May
incident also responded to Canadian demands for changes in the
regulations on the ICCS air corridors. The army paper declared:
"If the United States and the Saigon administration scrupulously
implement the cease-fire and do not use impostor aircraft bearing
the ICCS or ti-e JMC insignia to carry out illegal acts, it is
certain that this question does not need to be raised."
* A VNA English report of the statement said the plane had been
shot at and "punished," and a Liberation Radio broadcast in English
referred to it as "downed" as well as "punished." Whether the terms
were being used synonymously is not clear. But perhaps because no
plane was downed, a VNA English transmission of the statement on
the 3d changed the phrase to "chased away."
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CONFIDENTIAL FIIIS TRENDS
9 P`AY 1973
DRV JOURNAL OFFERS CANDID REVIEW OF COI`'I`1UNIST STRATEGY
In the March issue of tl:e DRV party journal HOC TAP an alternF.te
member of the Central Committee, Hoang Tung, provided an ;inc~sually
candid evaluation of the significance of the Paris agreemEit and
of the many phases of ttte communist struggle leading up to it.
The article is similar to one by lloang Tung in HOC TAP last
October--which analyzed the 1972 spring offensive-?-in its view of
the Vietnam war as symbolic of the world confrontation between
the comr