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INFO
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to: slinc
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re: 2U
ref themes de3igned form foreign opinion vs ws8urnt. shoulo be useo your area to show gravity of situation and stimulate resistance. however, equally essential "plot" be ridiculed to minimize popular fear and show govt panic. nice balance between tragic and comic required.
suggest oissew ref themes by:
phone team members pose over phonerelatives friends of known commies, protesting theirinnocence.
queries of govt whether ref themesgovt den ials.
odearl inquiries wsburnt afmytrue.
broadcast denouncing themes as "vicious
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MESSAGE Cocy
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RUM0RSB" ASKING GOVT ALLAY PUBLIC CONCERN BY DISCREDITING SUCH ANXIETIES.
3. FOLLOWING SUGGESTED RIDICULE THEMES:
A. WHAT FOREIGNER BEHIND PLOT? TRUJILLO AGAIN? MCARTHUR? MCCARTHY? RITA HAYWORTH? PEURIFOY'S DOG?
B0 WHO WSBURNT "TRAITOR"? CASTILLO ARMAS, YOIGORAS AGAIN? PONCE? ENA? HIGH ARMY OFCRS? GHOST OF ALVARADO? LA MACISTE?
C. GOVT IN PANIC. ARBENZ HAS BRAIN TUMOR, SENDING FOR SWISS DOCTOR. SLEEPS FULLY DRESSED* CARRIES PISTOL. PGT CABLE TRAFFIC TO MEXICO, MOSCOW TRIPLED LAST KEEK. GOVT LEADERS PREPARING OOSSIERS ON EACH OTHER,
WHO WILL BE ARRESTED. ARENAS? CHOOSE COMIC OR WHOLLY NONoPOLITICAL FIGURES, LIKE DANCERS OR BULLFIGHTERS.
E. PRO PUNNING SEND TO PRESS ANOTHER QUESTIONNAIRE ASKING IF THEY BELIEVE PINK PAPER TRUE BEFORE PINK PAPER PUBLISHED*
F* DEFENSE REVOLUTION APPARENTLY EQUALS GOING ROUND
IN CIRCLES.
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G* POLICE OFFERING0 TO SIT IN JAIL ONE WEEK ASRGANIZING POLICE ESSAY CONTEST FOR "BEST CONFESSION."
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hU MAKE LIBERAL USE JOKES, SUCH AS UBJCO 1
BANNISTER TOLO AT LINC OF WSBURNT CITIZEN SAYING NEXT WAR HE ON SOVIET SIDE SO CAN BE PDPRIME PS. OR ARQENZ-COWMIES PLANNING WAR ON PBPRIME, ARBENZ FINALLY SAYING "BUT WHAT IF WE WIN?" OR ONE GOVT OFFICIAL ASKS SECOND HOW HE FEELS ABOUT REGIME, SECOND SAYS "SAME AS YOU," FIRST SAYS "SORRY, MUST ARREST YOU."
Ij.. SUGGEST PRESS QUERY GOVT ON PARA 3A, B, C, D, QUERY PRG ON JE. PHONE TEAM, POSING AS POLICE, LAST THREE JOKES POSSIBLE CARTOON, RADIO THEMES, TRY GET PAPERS PRINT "DAILY CHUCKLE" FRONT-PAGE, BOLDFACE*
5. INFO ADDRESSEES: USE AS DESIRED.
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