SOVIET FEVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201180107-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 107
• Publication Date: October 24, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PAGE J4-
NEW YORK TIMES
24 October 1985
WASHINGTON TALK
Briefing
Soviet Fever
The exploitation of Soviet Com-
munism by non-Communist in-
stitutions seems to be rising in
Washington and elsewhere as the
Reagan-Gorbachev meeting ap-
proaches. Nationally televised adver-
tisements are using stereotyped
Soviet ' characters to sell beer, soda
and 10bg4istance phone service.
More specifically, in the capital, a
new publication analyzing the Soviet
Union has just appeared and a con-
vention of 3,000 Kremlinologists,
Slavophiles and probably a few Rus-
sophobes will be held at the Sheraton
Washington Hotel just two weeks be.
fore the summit starts Nov. 19.
The publication, in newsletter for-
mat, has a title that only a triple
agent would memorize: Soviet Active
Measures and Disinformation Fore
cast. Its editor is Roy Godson, a pro-
fessor at Georgetown University, and
the first edition says of the summit
that "whatever the outcome, Gorba-
chev and his image makers are trying
to create a scenario from which he
personally will benefit."
The convention, Oct. 30-Nov. 4, is
the III World Congress of Soviet and
East European Studies, sponsored by
one group based at Stanford Univer-
sity and another in Paris. Secretary
of State George P. Shultz is expected
to address the meeting. Virtually all
participants are to be from the United
States, Western Europe or Japan, al-
though members of the Soviet Acad-
emy of Sciences have been invited,
too. Two participants listed the
sponsors are a as from
" none rt " fr-
ana papers win am with
Disc ons
current concerns and many other
topics, including the Serbo-Bulgarian
War of 1885 and, probably, the rob-
bing of an expensive overcoat and the
theft of souls, in the panel titled
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