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50 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA The league should first acquire powerful media of communcation: newspapers, radio and television stations, and publishing houses. With these tools it would undertake the following tasks, in cooperation with other, already existing orgenizations: . (a) To diligently destroy all the daily swarm of sophisms circulated to sw port the international politics of the Kremlin, by means of bole refutations which the league would strive to have published by the most influential newspapers. {b) To clearly expose all the conspiratorial methods utilized _ by Moscow ond | Peiping throughout the free world. . (c) To circulate all such material ss might enlighten public opinion on the true nature of the Communist systems. To organize demonstrations mobilizing public opinion egainst the direct end indirect undertakings of totalitarian communism. . . {e) To encourage a sacred union of all free men and free political parties, transcending national and doctrinal barriers, or resistance to the menace of Moscow and Peiping. The League’s climate would be militant; not diplomatic. Its style would be lofty but incisive. It would attempt to reverse the present trend to the end that the free world would stand as the accuser, rather than a defendant. SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES The Institute for Resistance would cooperate with the World League of Freedom to create a network of achools at all levels, distributed throughout. the free world, where men and women of all nationalities _ and races, carefully selected with regard to the audience they would command on their return to their own environment, could receive a more or less intensive training on Soviet political warfare, and on the ; ways and means of protecting freedom. ABSIBTANCE TO THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES é Massive moral and material assistance must be organized to the — unflagging opposition, be it stealthy or violent, of the peoples groanin under the yoke of totalitarian communism, who are our most depend- able and valuable allies. In them lies our only hope of overthrowing . the dictatorships of Moscow and Peiping without resort to war; and . we should bear in mind that the destruction of these dictatorships is - the only true guarantee of lasting peace. ~ Adequate centers should implement, with the necessary discretion, all the means provided by modern technology to transmit messages through the Iron Curtain; literature parachuted from baloons, small © automatic transmitters, small, jam-proof radios capable of receiving foreign broadcasts, miniature records and tapes, etc, These centers could prepare literature, and brigades of conversationalists for Soviet , citizens visiting abroad. The free world has every justification for . such strategems because of the brazen censorship imposed on all ideas and activities behind the Iron Curtain, in contrast to Western tolera- . tion of any kind of propaganda—any Communist thesis. These centers would also welcome those who flee to freedom, and - undertake the systematic publication of their revealing stories. In ° cooperation with the World League of Freedom, the centers would _