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SECRET.

ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA IN THE FAR EAST

General Policy.

1.

The broad task of our anti-Communist propaganda in the

Far East, as seen from London by the Foreign Office and

Colonial Office, is to impress on the peoples of the area the

essential hostility of Kremlin-controlled Communism to

nationalism in Asia, and thereby to attempt to offset the

anti-imperialist and anti-colonial campaign being run there

under Russian-Chinese inspiration.

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2.

In regard to China in particular the task is not at

this juncture to attempt any subversion of Chinese Communist

control or administration. The end for which we must work is

that the Chinese Government should wean itself from Soviet

control and from identity of policy with the Soviet Union.

Though it may be beyond the powers of the Russian Communist

Party to control China for long, a breach if it comes will

only be effected to a slight extent by the actions of foreign

powers, even the United States. No non-Communist power can

hope to do much to promote a "Titoist" development of the

Chinese Communist Party - that is, a break from complete

domination by the Kremlin, without necessarily the abandonment

of Communist principles in internal economic and political

development.

3.

Nevertheless, we must seek to exploit, so far as is

possible within our very limited means, the points of friction

between the C.C. P. and the C.P.S.U. (B), the Chinese People'

Republic and the Government of the Soviet Union, and the

people of China and the Russian agents of intelligence,

security and economic and commercial penetration, It is

essential to any policy of such "encouragement" of Titoism

that there should be throughout our propaganda and guidance

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