THE CIA TRIES TO TEACH ITS OLD MOUTHPIECE NEW TRICKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300310033-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: June 21, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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The nature of the Central In-
telligence Agency's infiltration
into Soviet society is indicated
by its avovrciI goal of the "liberali-
zation of Soviet society." That is
how ifs ccunvrrevolutionary, anti-
socialist, anti-Soviet program is
presented in we Library of Con-
gress study of Padin I.ibe t.y, the
CIA's ;tiii.inich hard vehicle for
subversion.
The study was prepared at the
request of Senator J. IV. 11'ul-
bright, as chairman of the Foreign
Relations conunittee. It was pub-
lisrcd in the Congressional Re-
cord of Alarch C.
In this vein the Central Intelli-
gence Agency has expressed its
concern, via FL,, about it.e "seri-
ous institetionol and ideological
inadequacies" of the Soviet U 100%
about its '"serious economic pro-
bleins," the "most serious being
the allocation of resources.'
-%,,tithin the larger framework
of (its) goals and purposes FL
pursues immediate objectives,"
the Library of Congress study
poinis cut. These "practical them-
es" include.:'domocratic political
alternatives, economic, reform,
peaceful intentions of the demo-
cratic world, ideolo ical irrele-
vance of ;`r;arxism-Leninism, and
the virtue of cultural diversity
and political pluralism.''
The CIA's concern that social-
ism should flourish is also ex-
pressed over its other system
of subversion by radio _. Radio
Free Europe, hick, like RL, is
based ill ,Iun'.cll.
James Robert Price, author of
the RVE Library of Congress
study, holds that, "by and large,
cornnientcries tend to lean slight-
ly toward the 'liberal' approach
as this term is currently used in
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But even here the CIA is cau-
tious. Simply to attack defects in
"in;p'eli,entemtion" is no asstu?-
once of an audience, since lb
people in the sucialist countries
know, better blab the (CIA lys,
what ON prcbi 'rn s are. They
criticize their own deioerits (he
better to correct them.
Tint is why CIA "criticism"
is not "purely, uc:'ative." llisic::d,
"valid aehievem"nts are t;nTn
due credit" in older to offer, "it)
abundance," what pretend to be
"alternative 1.ppro?cl_es" to Knit
the CIA describes as ''sG-i bated
courses of action)"
The ''general pl!ilo:~oi,ilical a!
preach of itl, is one that apt-cols
to ratic:i,isin.' 'I';;c ILL-Ctrl i,tCi-
thod of ogeratioa is, as the Lie,.
L'or' of Co: 'ress study puts it.:
Ill_. ',ttenilits to suhstitutu rc:t_on
for emotion, and a calm Foie
for stridency.' It banns froim tue
premise that the most cenvu:c-
in? prescntatir;n is one v,'iiich
that tells all skim, of a story.'
,Ns phipue'tiical appro n_'h
was not emplovcd v,hcn f;o gen
milit crists f;r'IinCd dov; n
dent. ,i'sgo Diem, with the f..e-
krio'.,ledg rind probably i: ki-a-
tion of the CIA; our des it re ieef
tii, years-long murder policy
carried out in Indochina by the
CIA.
Given peace in Vietnam, we
"rationalism" in its operations
More; if not instead of assassi-
nation, then in addition to it.
RL's preferred tone is ''friend-
liness, enlightenment and dig-
nity" the library of Congress
study relates.
'f'lie library cf Congress 1tF'L
study cites the te=at of a birthday
od tori11 brondee=t by FIR on the
oceasi'Ai hi the Nth birthday of
tine (unnainemi) leader of an (un-
uan,^d) s"icirili_t country. The
study notes tii_ti original draft
of the Oiifrial and inchulcd a
petty and p'rsc ,;il nttac',~. ' But
flat this lied I:cii cleaned uo
prior to tiro i)roafeast.
11:' draft and the foal text
sui;. esf bo(.h that policy de-
ptr,,'cs dirty pco'. and that dirty
c col is hill; n-et in its opration:;.
I N I T S ;licy is ,.st I;asccl on do-
e'ccy l;ut on tl:_ Conviction that
Lhe rom?,d' int nli,_ ;s of its opera-
tiv:es do more ii'irin than "; pod,
in tiie 909 ruts, eel the CIA is in
business for ti.e !o, ~t h;~ul.
In RL comments which de-
scribed a "cliche" or "act" of f
Leonid Bre-zhnev as "stupid," the
word ''stupid" would be bluo
encil-
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American policies." ed by an editor, the Library of
This testimonial is especially Congress study said,
noteworthy corning as it dos -Sarcastic expressions" about
from a (fo:rner) CL\ agent. Brezhnev were deleted from a
?Stated Communist ideals" go conimenWry beamed into the So-
untouched, not because We Cir1 is viFot Union in June 1071; as Nvere
more sympathetic to communism references to "'escape abroad,' i
than to capitalism but because it 'escape from the homeland,' and
figures that attacks on the 'Am- a 'comparison between the USSR
plement.ation" of these "ideals" and a prison cell.'
may be more productive of sub'.'er- {._..
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