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THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA 15 subject to exceptions! Soviet infiltration activities; finally and obviously, ministries, especially foreign ministeries, where certain internal memorandums and reports, inspired by proto-Soviet attitudes, have done great harm to the free world. . . Infiltration in the publishing world is first simed at the manuscript readers, the nerve centers where decisions are made on ideas to printed, and those to be rejected. It ie then directed at, the book reviewers who advise in the press, and on radio and television, which books to read, and which to leave on the shelves. If an anti-Com- munist work escapes the sly suppression of the faceless arbiters in publishing firme, it is then necessary to destroy its public image or organize a conspiracy of silence surrounding it. . ‘A courageous French television director who echeduled time for an anti-Communist presentation received letters the next day in which he was told: ‘We'll destroy you * * * “These letters were written by a special brigade of correspondents maintained by the Communist Party to bombard with protests and insults those newspapers, radios, and television stations carrying material too critical toward Moscow. These maneuvers should not be considered inconsequential. Their od uences on human destiny can be dramatic, Thus, after World War II, 30 works on China circulated in the United States. The 25 which propounded the famous fabrication that Mao Tse-tung was an inoffensive agrarian reformer received 8 warm welcome in im- portent segments of the preea, while the 5 which told the truth about cruel Stalinism encountered a wall of silence. The bucolic vision of Chinese communism which was thereby imposed on American opinion was the principal cause of the abandonment of China to the Communists; a desertion which has today consigned 700 million Chinese to a living hell, and the entire world to dread. __ Infiltration has also invaded the fountains of literature, the libraries; including some where this influence would be least suspected. While on a lecture tour in a great. Western country, I found dieplayed on 8 table in the library of one of its smartest colleges, where only million- aires’ daughters browse, several “progressive” magazines without the balance of a single anti-Communist publication. Conspicuously displaved was the Soviet propaganda magazine New Times, edited in English by Moscow. (f) Labor unions and parties Many lebor organizations are infiltrated to the extent of total colonization, effectively duplicating Communist Parties. As such, they are more properly classified as parallel organizations, which discussed in a subsequent section. Here the discussion concerns only free associations, in which Moscow plants numerous secret auxiliaries. These undercover propagendists have two tasks: to assure union or party policy slanted in favor of Moscow, and creation of internal op- position aimed at taking over leadership or disrupting it. Many of these auxiliaries came into the open when their countries f into the Soviet orbit; sadly symbolic of this phenomenon are the names of Fierlinger, Cyranl iewicz, and Marosan in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary. It is unfortunately beyond doubt that a number of Fierlingers continue to work side by side with honest ac-