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OCR Page 1 of 13Executive Registry
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
11 July 1949
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM NO. 189
SUBJECT: Popular reactions to Soviet Propaganda on the Current
Economic Recession in the US
1. There is in general a lack of positive evidence which would
indicate beyond reasonable doubt the popular reaction abroad to Soviet
propaganda concerning the current economic recession in the US. In
certain countries, however, an examination of economic conditions and
past reactions to Soviet propagande permits a reasoned estimate of
the impact of this particular campaign. This is especially true of
Western Europe, Northern Europe, and the United Kingdom, and, to some
extent, of Eastern Europe as we'll.
20 A study of press reports and editorial expressions, as well as
the monitoring of radio broadcasts, reveals an almost universal re-
action to the slow-down in the economy of the US. It is difficult,
however, if not impossible, to discern a connection between this re-
action and the increased stress laid upon the theme by Soviet propaganda.
3. In such sensitive areas as Western Germany and Scandinavia,
the propaganda may be said to have some effect in stimulating latent
fears of the longer-range effects of a US recession upon the local
economies. Fox the most part, however, it is possible to say that
those areas which, for other reasons, are particularly susceptible to
Soviet propaganda, have been notably influenced by this line, and, con-
versely, that in those areas (e.go, Italy) in which sensitivity to
Soviet propaganda has been dulled by surfeit, the effect has been negligible
40 The attached Appendix presents the situation as estimated with
respect to individual countries.
Note: This memorandum has not been coordinated with the intelligence
organizations of the Departments of State, Army, Navy, and the
Air Force.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
CIA LIST AND NND MEMO 6-5-to
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- He NARS, Date 10-9-41
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