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12 THE TECHNIQUES OF BOVIET PROPAGANDA _ Koumintang newspaper, in Nanking, was directed bya vary pretty and extremely intelligent young woman, Ki P’eng, who won the heart of the editor. Kung P’eng is today head of the ‘Department of ~ Information of Peiping’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. vos Ny Such is the situation; in many periodi of many tendencies, at ° many levels. oe . T2s confession of Aleksandr Keznechevev ‘ nenatrates atill further - Tis conf into the dark abyss of press infiltration, Kaznacheyev was s young attaché of the Soviet Embassy in Rangoon, capital of Burme who chose liberty in 1959. As a typical professional product of Communist « conspiratorial training, he had attended the specialized schools of ° Moscow for 10 years. There the students performed practical work . in falsification of documents and distortion of facts; learned how.to - ¢. implant snd maneuver clandestine factions in the organizations of “~*~ the free world, and how te corrupt men. There they studied paychol- ~~ Of languages, the art of poisonous sophisms, photography, rinting, + brulee, sports, the use of a silenced pistol, and guerre warfare. As a good student, Kaznacheyey received on graduation = diplomatic post in the city of a thousand pagodes. - a His work consisted of processing articles received on microfilm from - Moscow, drafted in their entirety by Russian propaganda agencies. : Picking them up in the Embassy cellar, translated them into -~ - Burmese or English, embellished with local color, and placed them in the large Rangoon newspapers, Newspaper of the People, New Light and the English-language Mandalay Ludu, over the signatures of undergrount ratus. Once published, Kaznacheyev forwarded clippings to Tass News Agency, which made a great deal of noi th i the point that they were genuine produ Bu . | In addition to staging these illusory theatrics, aznacheyey Was also responsible for numbers of forgeries, among which was a letter jon of Alskeandr Kozneacheyev ‘ penstrates a! her Burmese on the newspaper staffs, thanks to the appa- attributed to Admiral Frost, U.S. Navy, promising American support to an anti-Communist leader of the Sumatran insurrection against President Sukarno; a falsification calculated to identify Indonesian anti-Communists as creatures of Washington. The affair had serious repercussions, and the Admiral’s deni did little to dissipate the resulting suspicions. Forgery was suspected only by a few Propaganda speciclists at the time. Three years later it was confirmed by the testimony of its author, Kaznacheyev. : (6) News agencies ‘News agencies receive very special attention in efforte at infiltration. Foreign correspondents are especially susceptible to this technique since, being isolated from their national environment they naturally seek association with diplomats, of whom a third are from Communist countries and another third from the “‘neutralists,” where fallacious Soviet propaganda has wrought havoc. Also significant is an ex- posure to temptation that offers to provide compensation for the vag- abond existence which is the lot of many correspondents. The better to poison the agencies, Moscow has infested the cafes and bars frequented by their correspondents. The famous German Communist Willy Miinzenberg, one of the geniuses of political 7 Gee “Boviet Tntelligence in Avia: Conditions in the Soviet Unica,” testimony beture the Senate Internal Becurity Bubsommittes, 1960.