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Approved For Release 2003/0 PK O11 Pir FAPP96-00788R001300020001-6 ST-CS-01-169-72 July 1972 of acceptable diplomatic and military conduct. The study of these criteria is also the task of opinionology. Source again cited, as a case in point, the war in Vietnam. According to older, classical concepts of warfare, the Vietnamese (including the North Vietnamese), should have sided with the Americans who are fighting in Vietnam to liberate the Vietnamese from the threat of Communist oppression and mass terror. Instead, the Vietnamese masses have been welded opinionologically (i.e., deceived by Communist manipulation), into believing that they are fighting for their freedom and national independence against a “foreign (American) invader, whereas in reality they are fighting the Americans to be eventually enslaved by the Communists. Source believes that this situation is an obvious result of American ignorance in manipulating mass media. By ignoring mass opinion (both American and world), the Americans have maneuvered themselves into the position of an “invading foreign power," in the eyes of the opinionologically indoctrinated Vietnamese. 2. (C/NFD EXCEPT UK) General The study of the pattern of mass manipulation and mass resonance is based on the new scientific approach to psychology known as structural psychology. This psychology, which is also taught in the West, rejects the classical psychology which devotes itself exclusively to the individual. According to structural psychology, the individual is conceived as a derivative of the hierarchic groups which condition and mold his existence. These groups are: The Intimate micro-group (family) ; The social micro-group (environment) ; The social molding group (LORENZ, Praegungsgruppe); and The basic structuring group (ethnic group). According to structural psychology, the phenomenology of the individual is considered to be a reflection of the phenomenology of these four groups. The study of mass resonance is concerned with the fourth group. Of the different methods of investigating the pattern of this group, opinionology is one of the most rewarding and most commonly used. a. Glossary of Terms Source furnished the following glossary to define the psychological and psychiatric terminology used in this report: 133 NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300020001-6