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MEMORANDUM TOR:
The Honorable
Robert Cutler
Special Assistant to the President[+
SUBJECT:
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The DB ioe Coordinating Board, at its meeting of
February 17, 1954,
expressed the view that the public showing
of the Operation tyy film should be deferred and that the
timing should be decided in the light of the report of the
Secretary of State after he returns from the Berlin Conference,
The Board further agreed that there is little to be gained by
attempting to further revise the film with the view of in~serting material on the constructive peace-time uses of atomic
energy. It took cognizance of the fact that Soviet propa~
ganda will probably play up this film abroad as evidence of
U. S. waremongering and as support for the Soviet proposal to
outlaw atomic weapons, and agreed that the OCB should develop
in advance an information program to counter such a line of
propaganda in the event it is decided to show the film pub-
licly.
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