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rrr en THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA UW bearing the recommendation of a reapectad general. Young Gure- vicius was timid, modest, kind, and « bit sickly. No one suspected that he was sn agent, although hia writings were curiously elanted in such a way that the Soviets never appeared in a bad light. This Poculiarity was ascribed to the not unusual sin of youthful radicaliem. en the Soviets occupied Lithuania in June 1540, Guzevicius ap- peared before the director of his hewspaper with the Communist demands: Immediate discharge of all anti-Communist employees and complete control of all activities by the Soviets, Thus it was revealed that the likeable and conscientious Guzevicius secretly occupied so elevated a position in the hierarchy that he was named Minister of the Interior, the police agency of sovietized Lithuania. One of the more explosive revelations of the Communist underworld was provided by the testimony of Janus Kowalewski,? who told of his entire life as a conspirator in Poland after World War J, acting under orders from the Kremlin. Kowalewski disclosed that he was carefully taught the art of journalistic distortion. He learned how to exagger- ate the news of crises in capitalistic countries, to blur that which re- vealed the deficiencies of the U.S.S.R., to safely slander anti-Com- munists, to promote the advancement of sympathizers to higher posi- tions, and to recommend or condemn in literary criticism according to the. service to, or opposition of the Kremlin exhibited by the work raviewad. The use of und und journalists, in otherwise “normal” news- papers is only the first stage of this technique. More audacious is the concept of a newspaper created to be secretly controlled in all of ite elements. Newspapers financed by Moscow deliberately developed a non-Communist posture, although their columns were laced with fabrications to which subsequent relerences could be made, advantageous to Communist propaganda, such as: ‘Even the bour- geois newspaper (name deleted) recognized that there are no concen- tration camps in Soviet Russia.” Thus, with funds provided by the apparatus, Kowalewski was entrusted with the of creating a periodical, for which ha chosa tha napicuoue title I/ustrated Bimonthly Magazine. Kowalewski testified that, from the beginning, some of the articles published were completely written by the “Agit- prop”? department of the Communist Party. but signed by obliging writers, among which was Brenkowski, now Minister of Education of Communist Poland. “Today,” declared Kowalewski, “I have attained such @ consum- mate in detecting the manipulation of minds by the Soviet apparatus that I can sniff in 10 spots, in 10 lines, the specific odor of a mmunist fabrication in a non-Communist newspaper. For ex- ample, when I read the following sentence: It would be better to write nothing against the Poland, because that would harm the church * * I know, without the slightest doubt, that this sauce was cooked in the Communist casserole.’ Passing to Chine, employees of the Koumintang news aper Ta King Pao inchuded underground agents such as Mrs. Peng Tsu Kang, who concealed her Communist affiliation for 20 years. Another 3 Coxmmunist, Penetration and Explotetion of the Free Prost, 1962, Ganate Internal Security Subsom- U'Kghiation and peopegands. ee: Constitution, CPUBA, publisbed In Dally Worker, Fob. 71,1027 30-602 O-65——-8 cutions Of the church in