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TOP SECRET

ANTI COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA IN THE FAR EAST

General Policy.

1.

The broad task of our anti-Communist propaganda in the Far

East is to impress on the peoples of the area the essential hosti-

lity 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.

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 ocmes will only be effected to a slight extent by the actions f

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

K

Kremlin, without necessarily the abandonment of Communist princi-

ples 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's

Republic and the Government of the Soviet Union, and the people

of China and the Russian agents of intelligence, security,

economic and commercial penetration. It is essential to any

policy of such "encouragement" of Titoism that there should be

throughout our propaganda and guidance to the press no sugges-

tion that such a tendency is, in fact, developing:

on the

contrary, our propaganda should harp on the complete domination of the C.C.P. by the Kremlin and the consequent subordination

of Chinese interests to those of Russia.

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