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.. "the osition Sometimes these differences carry as far as the OC3 where they are, i n compromise (a characteri:.tic bzck F h as ap of many 'intelligence community' a c t i v i t i e s ) , ."USIA operations tend t o fuznthen complicate local s i t u a t i o n s from both the 'PP and P I ' points of view, USIA 'unattributedt operations are extensive and re- sult both from broad interpretation placed on its r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s by the USIA and thn comparatively free hand (sometimes uninvited) that is allowed its country Public Affairs Officers by the local Ambassador. On the other hand C I A is i n propaganr'a p1.0 rams ( p o l i t i c a l science training and tradecraft i n Vietna ; paper book programs ; which are d i f f i c u l t t o I j d ibllities assigned t o it b r t h e Congress and by the NSC ( p a r t : m l a r l y by NSC 5$12/2 which, as you know, is the ba:,ic charter for CIA'S PP a c t i v i t i e s ) . "The military rxpecto t h a t Jt w i l l be responsible f o r the conduct of unconventional warfare, (and there is difference of opinion here as t o the extent of that responsibility); it is not q u i t e sur*I- who will l?s re- sponsible f o r other PP operations i n t i m e of war - o r how (or when) the responsibilities f c l r them w i l l be d i s t r i b u t e d , mingling i n t h e i n t e r n a l a f f a i r s of other nations of bright, highly graded young men who *nust be doing some- thing all the time t o ,justify t h e i r reason for b,oing) today a r e bzlng conducted on a worlcl-:vldz basis by a "PP operations (often growing out. of t h e increas2d horde of CIA representatives I I I I m a n y of whom, bu the very nature of t h e - - nei s i d atioii 4 o1 ~ are p o l i t i - cally immature. (OU r vaeailngsq 'wlth shifty, changing characters their applicatior3s of 'themes' suggested from headquarters o r developed by them i n t h e f i e l d - sometimes at the suggestlon of l o c a l op- portunists - strange things are apt to, and do, develop.)