spor FS -6- (c) Training programs, provision of technical information and consulting services to aid other countries in building up their capabilities to use atomic energy (para, 5c - NSC 5431/1). {the Director, FOA, has instituted a series of capabilities within his agency to support the technical training of foreign students in nuclear subjects on a non-classified basis,/ 12. AppraisalofEffectiveness. During the period under review evidence continued to accumulate that the President's peaceful uses program enlisted a large measure of world public opinion support. In the view of the London Economist, which to a large degree is representative of suphisticated international political opinion, the proposal constituted "genuine psychological warfere", 13. MajorEmergingProblems. The planned series of nuclesr weapons tests, both in Nevada and in the Pacific Proving Grounds, can be expected to raise various climate of opinion problems abroad, especially in the Far East. On behalf of the Operations Coordinating Board, the Working Group will be in a position to advise the respective operating agencies as to their public information plans for those events, and will be prepared to recommend whatever actions May be necessary to minimize such climate of opinion adverse effects of such testing as may occur. 14. Publie disclosure - - of the effects of thermo-nuclear to foreign climate of opinion abroad, and could adversely affect U.S. international security interests, and may require exploration by the 4 Brit : SECRET ©3¢ 2%5h shee k id : ‘ f 1 { ‘ Bb ada hd Moa, “Be Te em ee re OT - REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHTD. EISENHOWER LIBRARY weapons, particularly radioactive fall-out, is of major significance tt? ee te