A Top Secret Document, Mr. Chairman
A TOP SECRET DOCUMENT, MR. CHAIRMAN [The document below is a report to the Kremlin of the Comintern's top-secret operative in the United States. The New Leader cannot disclose the source of this...
...The translation from the Russian was by D. Z. Pappranovich.] To the American Desk of the Politburo: Comrades, we are within striking distance of our objective: to completely disrupt American political life and break up key American political-warfare institutions...
...Beginning with our attack on Theodore Kaghan, the Number 2 man in the Office of Public Affairs, the top men have been discredited...
...As a result of our work, the experienced American propaganda staffs have been dispersed...
...The U.S...
...By exposing atheism in the Voice and by pointing out that one of its chief administrative officers, Reed Harris, had opposed commercialism in 1933, we succeeded in disrupting this chief agency of American propaganda...
...Recruitment of additional scientists will undoubtedly suffer...
...The New Leader cannot disclose the source of this document (to do so might jeopardize the pro-American underground in Moscow), but we can vouch for the reliability of the contents...
...The entire office of the Secretary has now been tied up for weeks chasing the many diversions which we cleverly launched...
...The Central Intelligence Agency...
...The major political advisers of the Voice, including Bertram D. Wolfe, have left...
...Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth...
...This is the progress we have made: High Commissioner's Office in Germany...
...Army...
...This is now our prime target...
...We are aided valiantly by our comrade "W...
...So far, we must admit, our success has been limited...
...The Army may recover, but its morale is shaken...
...But we hope soon to expose the machinations of this agency...
...many have fled their posts in confusion...
...Yours for the revolution, J. McC...
...P.," who has been given the special assignment of unmasking the AFL spy Irving Brown...
...This vital installation has now been neutralized...
...If history continues to move in our direction, we shall achieve power, in the Ap-pleton way, in two years...
...Die Neue Zeitung and other American propaganda organs, which carried on ?reckless fight against the people's democracies, have now been rendered harmless by budget cuts...
...Mao took twenty years to reach power in the Yenan way...
...These objectives, we should point out, have been accomplished in a very short time...
...Nearly 35 of the top scientists at the Fort have been barred from conducting important radar and electronic research because of our clever insinuations...
...Voice of America...
Vol. 37 • June 1954 • No. 25
