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TOP SECftff editorial offices so that. the propaganda materials could be prepared." ~/ It was shortly after the formulation of the propaganda program that David A. Phillips became Chief of the WH/4 Propaganda Activity. Phillips had done propaganda work for the Agency at the time of the Guatemalan activity, but subsequently retired and had been in private business in Havana. Accord- ing to his own story, he had intended to stay in "'~ private business; but in the course of Castro's rise to power, he was recontacted by Agency personnel and persuaded to take on the job of running the Agency's propaganda campaign against Castro.* According toone interviewer: In the Guatemalan campaign, Phillips had worked with a handful of completely controlled Latin American propaganda writers, and had been able to develop a single credible propaganda line. Now, however, he had to w:::>rk under ,Washington orders, to offer radio broadcasting time to all the major and competing Cuban exile groups. Much of the Phillips' * For Phillips' own story of his employment and his re-employment by the Agency, see his book The Night Watch (New York: Atheneum, 1977). - 211 - rop seCRCT