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| RE ol Oh Rik we wee an ONE ee I ! POR RELEASE oY apamost e 25, 3960 - 2 BY FULTON IEWIS,, ‘Rs . - - The Communists aid ‘not turn Korea's POWs" anto-Adeologioa) ote 4 Communists; they aia not have to. They wished only for American GI's to "rat" on fellow soldiers, to make statements about U.S. “germ | warrare" and to indict their country before the court of world — opinion, Some 30 percent of the captured f Amerioan | Goldiers ¢ aid ‘ eollaborate with ‘the eneny. ~ a ee a ; if For three months the Communists “softened up" Powers, using the tiame technique perfected an Korea. Powers reacted an exactly the : manner to best further the. communist peychological ‘offensive. . His testimony was designed to show humiliation of the individual, to picture him as impotent, faceless, cowardly, @ pawn in the hands of his government. And it pictured America as weak, as unwilling to do anything for its citizens, &s packing down when risk |* involved. Powers's testimony, proceeding according to Soviet plan, depicted the U.S. as a weak, cringing nation, | Finally, the Russians used Powers's own family as an instrument in their carefully calculated plot to downgrade the U,S. The anguished claim of Mrs. Barbara Powers that her husband's government has not ——— done enough" for his return fed the Commmist propaganda mills, : And any pleas to the Kremlin by Powers's family will have served to build up the Soviet premier in the eyes of the world as a benevolent "big brother." That Powers would be executed was never deemed likely; the "humanitarian" Soviet government was expected to , let him off with a relatively small jail tern, ; | Even president Eisenhower helped serve the Communist show, His ; press conference statement, doubting that powers was brainwashed, was 2 a. | masterpiece ‘of naivete. What, asks Bdward Hunter, are the captive p of the USSR to knink, when they know the truth, that Powers was, brainwashed. a "Ri senhower ," says ter sadly, "has no concept of modern psychological warfare. as still fighting a Buropean War with outmoded weapons." *