DRAFT U. S. PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY WITH RESPECT TO (Sanitized) SOUTHEAST ASIA (PSB D-23 JUNE 10, 1953)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003300260007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 17, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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Director
Psychological StxateV BOvxd
t Drart U.S. Psychological Stra with
thet
Asia (PSS D-23 Jum U,,.-M-3)
1. MIG centrall11gams A&MY a wes that a
qg the Est tit. to Southeast Asia, the
ted U.S. effort to a vate the
countermeasures in the fields of P *MCI
a, plan to coordinate sax! c t"I this U.S. effort, should be
prepared, approved and placed in erect on the earliest
possible date. The Apmy believes that the proposed PSS D-23,
with mr, di ficat on, would mate sew this Purpose,.
(1) Conclusion 1 - page
words "and in Indoch1W O*wjem --aria
in the third line of parapaph 1.
(2) U llzsi 2 - pis 25 - Delete the
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.S." f:c+mes seema line ofh 2,
sort the words "sad + erations t heron are
culated by french policy" bWW*GM #' .
and the oanks, follaving that vend in the turd
line of paragraph 2.
(3) CConclusion 7 -pegs
1f j&a"raip" with "activated indigenous *am
efforts"
L i. ao s4' paragraph 7b.
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(2) Psi 28 - paragraph 2b 1)(b) - Delete the
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and in
"western military participation
effective: counter-effort-ft
(3) Page 29 - WagmPh 2b() Inee
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of
and
word "indigenous" between
delete
4) Palo 31 - paragraph 2b(8)L(a) - Replace
altruistic" with "logiear ia[9 t
gnus."
(6) Pap 34 - paragraph 2c(3)
"altruistic" with "logical."
(7) Pad 35 - paraVaph 3a(2) - Replace
"l rshil;" with "sit."
3. The Central Intel.li a Agency believes that two Points
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tion II should be
of eegahasis in the analysis (
brought into agreem-at with the conclusions
follow
a. P 1 - seraph is . The significance of the
is oversized. This ;applies also to
the title, ; hf.ch mould be d by alerting the words
I Isad to the first sentence of
paragraph ld on page 3.
b. Page 4 - paragraphs .a and. 2b - The .ides of
direct U.S. leadershi " is erroneous.
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