BOGGS SEES STRENGTH IN SOVIET PROPAGANDA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100410030-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: November 26, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

WASIJINGTON SLUt NOV 2 6 1959
ApproveAPo' lie 1999/09/17: CIA-RDP75-00149R000100
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CPYRGHT
Boggs Sees -Strength
in Soviet Pro aganda
n' the Associated Press In n ia, he saicl, tile Soviet
loc countlres put out a flood
a dozen after a trip f slick paper magazties to sell
crat of Lozen underdeveloped he Communist stor and are
Countries, says that in many of ortraying Soviet Premier
them, including India, Rus ' hrushchev as a man of peace.
doing a, fabulous propaganda h d
r
th
'"We need to do a bigger
propaganda job," he said.
. Mr. Boggs headed a House
Foreign Trade Policy Subcom-
mittee to Tokyo for a tariff and
trade meeting. He returned
yesterday by the way of Hong
Kong, Burma, India .and the
Middle East.
.
er an
On the o
oggs said, the United States
nformation Service is handi-
apped by a,lack of funds.
Can't Use Indian Cash
He said he was advised that
in India the United States Ifas
130 million in idle counterpart
unds but that thg USIS is pre-
ented from using any of this
FOIAb3b
money for propaganda and in- I said, are showing disenchant-
formation purposes. ment with socialism Os a solu-
The blame for this, Mr. tion to their development prob-
Boggs said, lies with Ccagress lem.
for restrictions on the use of Mr. Boggs, sponsor of a bill
these funds by the USIS. to give certain tax incentives to
artfun_ds'"are"'local United States capital invested
art~`
Counterp :
currencies deposited to the in foreign development, said he
account of the United States is convinced such legislation is
in foreign countries as a result needed. But, he added, foreign
of United States aid operations countries also need to reduce
there. or eliminate variou,; restrictions'
Br. oggs told a news con- on United States imports.
ference people in underdevel- He said he agrc.s with the
oped countries have an "almost view that there will be a wave
savage desire for the creature of protectionism in the United
comfort?" and that "more r. d States unless countries which
more they are convinced that have been helped by United
the way to get them is through States foreign aid lift some;.of
their own efforts and through these restrictions.
the ways of the West." He added he believes most,
of the countries are aware of
this and are working to ease
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