Campaigns of Truth: The Psychological Strategy Board and American Ideology, 1951–1953

Lucas, Scott

doi:10.1080/07075332.1996.9640744

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“…1976a, 56). Note here the PSB was abolished on clandestine projects we are concerned with in this article (Paddock 1982;Warner 1994Warner , 2014Lucas 1996;Hixson 1997). Christopher Simpson's (1994) seminal Science of Coercion: Communication Research andPsychological Warfare, 1945-1960 Simpson's (1994, 4) framing of psychological warfare as a "communication device" however, is especially relevant to the PSB's programs in terms of the "relationship between the production of 'knowledge'…”

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“…Such operations should not include armed conflict by recognized military forces, espionage, counterespionage, and cover and deception for military operations'" (U.S. State Department 2001). Also see the CIA memo titled Coordination and policy approval of covert operations January 4, 1967, DOC 0000790232 at https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/coordinationand-policy-approval-covert-operations 21 A partial list, the PSB Task Panels include: A, which "reviewed US psychological programmes if the negotiation to end the Korean War were successful or if they broke down (Lucas 1996,…”

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Murky Projects and Uneven Information Policies: A Case Study of the Psychological Strategy Board and CIA

Maret

2018

Secrecy and Society

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This case study discusses the Truman and Eisenhower administration's (1951-1953) shortlived Psychological Strategy Board (PSB). Through the lens of declassified documents, the article recounts the history and activities of the Board, including its relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and clandestine projects that involve human experimentation. Primary documents of the period suggest that institutional secrecy, coupled with inconsistent information policies, largely shielded CIA's BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA from the Board. This subject has not been previously reported in the research literature, and supplements existing historical understanding of the PSB's mission under the broad umbrella of psychological warfare.

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Murky Projects and Uneven Information Policies: A Case Study of the Psychological Strategy Board and CIA

Maret

2018

Secrecy and Society

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“…(Bernard Berelson, the future BSP head, was also in attendance.) 40 Throughout his Ford Foundation service Marquis was an active participant in Cold War psychological warfare research, at the RDB, as a member of Project Troy, and as a consultant to the Psychological Strategy Board (Needell 1993: 401-408;Lucas 1996).…”

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A ‘Not Particularly Felicitous’ Phrase: A History of the ‘Behavioral Sciences’ Label

Pooley

2020

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The article reconstructs the history of the "behavioral sciences" label, from scattered interwar use through to the decisive embrace of the newly prominent Ford Foundation in the early Cold War. The rapid uptake of the label, the article concludes, was the result of the Ford Foundation’s 1951 decision to name its social science unit the “Behavioral Sciences Program” (BSP). With Ford’s en- couragement, the term was widely adopted by quantitative social scientists eager to tap the founda- tion’s social science funds. The label’s newness and its link to the gigantic foundation’s initiative generated much suspicion and resistance as well.

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“…Vaughan 2005: 32). The program can be better understood in light of the US Doctrinal Program of 1953, prepared by the Psychological Strategy Board (see Lucas 1996) in which books were considered "by far the most powerful means of influencing attitudes" outside the US. One of the many aims of the doctrine was to "meet the Soviet influence in the doctrinal field" because its anonymous writers argued and feared that communism could and did breed "less in empty bellies than in empty minds" (United States Doctrinal 1953: 21).…”

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The cultural Cold War in the Middle East

Moghaddam

2020

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William Faulkner is an interesting case for the history of American cultural diplomacy. Although the State Department hailed him as a Cold War warrior, it had difficulty sponsoring his “modernist” novels in a book program that promoted American ideals during the Cold War. In this article I examine how the Franklin Book Programs arranged for some of Faulkner’s novels to be translated into Arabic and Persian by using sources from the Program’s archive and an interview with a former Franklin editor. The analysis is framed by Faulkner’s rise in status from a marginal to a major world writer. I also assess the cultural forces that led to his inclusion in Franklin’s list of publications. The analysis reveals a tension between American idealism and Cold War imperatives, further challenging the propagandist reading of the program and calling for a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of the cultural Cold War in the region.

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Campaigns of Truth: The Psychological Strategy Board and American Ideology, 1951–1953

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Murky Projects and Uneven Information Policies: A Case Study of the Psychological Strategy Board and CIA

Murky Projects and Uneven Information Policies: A Case Study of the Psychological Strategy Board and CIA

A ‘Not Particularly Felicitous’ Phrase: A History of the ‘Behavioral Sciences’ Label

The cultural Cold War in the Middle East

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