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Associated Press
AP-NY-03-24-01 0100EST
CIA Boasts of Manipulating News
.c The Associated Press
HAVANA (AP) - The CIA boasted in a recently declassified section
of its propaganda plan for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba 40
years ago that it would be able to place stories about the
operation ``directly on international wire services.''
``Should military action be extended over a long period of time,
the radio and leaflet operations previously described will be
augmented by all the regular propaganda apparatus,'' read the
document, which was shown for the first time Friday to key
figures in the Bay of Pigs drama, who gathered here this week to
compare notes.
``This will include press placement throughout the hemisphere
through CIA assets; through Miami exile contacts with Florida
papers; and through Headquarters placement directly on
international wire services,'' read the newly declassified
sections of the propaganda plan passed among conference
participants in Havana.
The document did not indicate how the Central Intelligence Agency
would accomplish getting its information on news wires.
Much of the propaganda plan had previously been declassified in
large part as an attachment to the government's Taylor Commission
report, which examined the U.S. role in the April 17-19, 1961
armed invasion of Cuba by CIA-trained exiles.
The three-day invasion ended in disaster. Without U.S. air
support and running short of ammunition, more than 1,000 invaders
were captured. Another 100 invaders and 151 defenders died.
The propaganda plan was also included in a briefing book supplied
to conference participants. But a section on wire services was
blacked out, leaving it unreadable, even though it had been
declassified through the efforts of the National Security Archive
at George Washington University, one of the conference
organizers.
Jon Ellington, a former National Archive Security employee who
used the Freedom of Information Act to gather U.S. documents for
his book ``PsyWar on Cuba: The Declassified History of U.S.
Anti-Castro Propaganda,'' said he received the more complete
version of the document upon request from the John F. Kennedy
Library in Boston.
``It may have been a mistake,'' Ellington said of the passages
that were not blacked out. ``This shows how far they were willing
to go, even to reach a domestic audience.''
The document said that the placement of news stories on the
international wire services ``deserves special comment.''
``For in spite of all elaborate planning to reach the Cuban
people and the rest of the world directly, it is the output of
the established wire services which most effectively do the
job,'' it said. ``One report on United Press International, for
example, will be repeated on nearly every radio station and most
of the newspapers of the Caribbean area. UPI was the only news
agency mentioned by name.
``Because of the importance of this, military planners should be
aware of Headquarters capability of placing items directly on the
wire service tickers,'' the document continued.
``During a period of fighting, especially in the first few
days,'' the document said, ``we will be in a position to place
specific messages and propaganda lines. This will be enormously
important in influencing the actions of Cuban government leaders
and stimulating sympathetic support of the patriotic rebellion
from other countries.''
AP-NY-03-24-01 0100EST
Copyright 2001 The Associated Press.
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