Editorial Note
On June 30, the President’s Committee on International Information Activities presented its Report to President Eisenhower. This Committee had been established on January 24, 1953 as a result of a Presidential Directive which stipulated “a survey and evaluation of the international information policies and activities of the Executive Branch of the Government and of policies and activities related thereto, with particular reference to the international relations and the national security of this country.” The Committee, chaired by William H. Jackson, and including Robert Cutler, Gordon Gray, Barklie McKee Henry, John C. Hughes, C. D. Jackson, Roger M. Kyes, and Sigurd Larmon, interpreted its mandate so broadly that the final Report of June 30 was devoted to the entire range of national cold war policies, covert as well as overt, with the stress decidedly upon the psychological, as opposed to the strictly informational or propagandistic aspects of international information activities. [Page 1720] For this reason, and to avoid separating the report into several parts published in several compilations, it has been decided to print the full report; see page 1795.