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> > Group will battle propaganda abroad
> >
> > By Ben Barber
> >
> > The Clinton administration begins work today on a new International
> > Public Information group designed to "influence foreign audiences" in
> > support of U.S. foreign policy and to counteract propaganda by enemies
>
> > of the United States.
> >
> > U.S. military, diplomatic and intelligence officials will participate
> in
> >
> > today's meeting of a core group to set up the IPI system of
> coordinating
> >
> > all overseas information among the various branches of the U.S.
> > government.
> >
> > The aim is "to enhance U.S. security, bolster America's economic
> > prosperity and to promote democracy abroad," according to the IPI Core
>
> > Group Charter, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times.
> >
> > However, the charter also says that IPI control over "international
> > military information" is intended to "influence the emotions, motives,
>
> > objective reasoning and ultimately the behavior of foreign
> governments,
> > organizations, groups and individuals."
> >
> > The charter makes clear that IPI activities "are overt and address
> > foreign audiences only." But it also says domestic information should
> be
> >
> > "deconflicted" and "synchronized" so as not to send a contradictory
> > message.
> >
> > The Clinton administration also hopes to encourage the United Nations
> > and other international organizations to make "effective use of IPI .
> .
> > . in
> > support of multilateral peacekeeping," the charter says.
> >
> > Shocked by confusion during military missions in Kosovo and Haiti,
> when
> > no U.S. agency was empowered to coordinate U.S. efforts to sell its
> > policies and counteract bad press abroad, President Clinton on April
> 30
> > issued a secret Presidential Decision Direction --PDD 68 -- ordering
> the
> >
> > creation of IPI.
> >
> > "In the old days, the U.S. Information Agency and State were the main
> > agencies for communicating internationally," said an administration
> > official.
> >
> > "With the information revolution, all agencies now have the ability to
>
> > communicate internationally and interact with foreign populations,"
> said
> >
> > the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
> >
> > "IPI is a mechanism that has been established to make sure that these
> > various actors are working in a coordinated manner."
> >
> > The charter insists that information distributed through IPI should be
>
> > designed not "to mislead foreign audiences" and that information
> > programs "must be truthful." But numerous clauses in the document have
>
> > an Orwellian ring that gives the impression of a vast, coordinated
> > propaganda operation.
> >
> > "The objective of IPI is to synchronize the informational objectives,
> > themes and messages that will be projected overseas . . . to prevent
> and
> >
> > mitigate crises and to influence foreign audiences in ways favorable
> to
> > the achievement of U.S. foreign policy objectives," the charter says.
> >
> > U.S. officials, and the text of the charter, explicitly state that the
>
> > new information policy will not be used as a propaganda weapon against
>
> > the American public --which is prohibited by U.S. law.
> >
> > However, since foreign media reports often get played back in U.S.
> > media, it will likely be impossible to prevent a backwash of the
> > pro-U.S.
> > information into America.
> >
> > The charter recognizes this by calling for the government's domestic
> > public affairs activities to be coordinated with its foreign IPI
> > efforts.
> >
> > Information aimed at domestic audiences should "be coordinated,
> > integrated, deconflicted and synchronized with the [IPI Core Group] to
>
> > achieve a synergistic effect for [government] strategic information
> > activities," the charter says.
> >
> > The administration official said that the IPI system is "geared
> towards
> > prevention and mitigation of crises" and will remain active in
> peacetime
> >
> > "so we won't need to reconstitute the entire thing all the time."
> >
> > Mr. Clinton's PDD 68, issued with no fanfare during the Kosovo bombing
>
> > campaign, orders top officials from the Defense, State, Justice,
> > Commerce and Treasury departments and the Central Intelligence Agency
> > and FBI to meet and set up the core group.
> >
> > Junior level officials from those agencies were to hold the first IPI
> > planning session today at the State Department. By Friday, the IPI
> core
> > group is required to issue a statement of its policies, programs and
> > scope of its work.
> >
> > Next Wednesday, senior-level officials meet under the chairmanship of
> > Morton Halperin, policy planning director of the State Department, to
> > firm up the IPI system.
> >
> > While a large number of government agencies are involved, knowledge of
>
> > the IPI effort has been closely held.
> >
> > Aides to top officials in the State Department, USIA and Voice of
> > America
> > all said yesterday they knew little about the concept apart from a
> vague
> >
> > outline of its mission.
> >
> > The IPI core group is also instructed by the charter to arrange
> > "training
> > exercises at the National Defense University, National Foreign Affairs
>
> > Training Center, the Service War Colleges" and other institutions.
> >
> > And its activities could go beyond broadcasts and press releases. The
> > IPI
> > core group is ordered by the presidential directive to "assist [U.S.
> > government] efforts in defeating adversaries."
> >
> > "The intelligence community will play a crucial role . . . for
> > identifying hostile foreign propaganda and deception that targets the
> > U.S.," the charter says.
> >
> > Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ****************************************************************************
>
> >
> >
> >
> > WASHINGTON TIMES Friday, 30 July 1999
> >
> > White House says information system not aimed at U.S.
> >
> > By Ben Barber
> >
> > White House spokesman David Leavy on Thursday adamantly denied a new
> > International Public Information (IPI) system would be directed at
> > American audiences.
> >
> > IPI is a secret Clinton administration program to control public
> > information disseminated by the departments of State and Defense and
> > intelligence agencies.
> >
> > It is meant to "influence foreign audiences in a way favorable to the
> > achievement of U.S. foreign-policy objectives," according to a draft
> IPI
> >
> > charter obtained by The Washington Times.
> >
> > But critics claim that IPI will be used for domestic propaganda.
> >
> > "That is totally inaccurate," Mr. Leavy said. "The IPI initiative is
> > designed to better organize the government and the instruments we have
>
> > to support our public diplomacy, military activities and economic
> > engagement overseas. There is no impact on the domestic press."
> >
> > Mr. Leavy said that U.S. information officials at home and abroad
> serve
> > different functions.
> >
> > "There are officers who work with the media in the United States and
> > officers who support the U.S. policy overseas. They are totally
> > separate.
> > They are totally different functions," Mr. Leavy said.
> >
> > But a former deputy chief of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) under
> > three presidents said he fears the IPI plan would mean U.S. propaganda
>
> > aimed at foreigners would be used to influence American elections.
> >
> > Gene Kopp, who served under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Bush, said the
> > elections of President Kennedy and President Carter were directly
> > influenced by leaks of USIA foreign public-opinion polls showing a
> > decline in U.S. prestige abroad.
> >
> > "I am concerned this could happen again under the IPI plan," said Mr.
> > Kopp, currently a Washington lawyer. "The administration is
> transferring
> >
> > all assets, except broadcasting, to State, where they will not be
> > separated in any way. It will be very difficult to separate what is
> > disseminated in the United States and overseas."
> >
> > He said that the opportunity for abusing the system will be great.
> >
> > "The temptation to spin this stuff in a partisan way will be very
> strong
> >
> > -- probably irresistible," he said. "The other ominous feature is that
>
> > this includes the intelligence agencies. They are in the business of
> > misinformation. God only knows where that goes."
> >
> > New allegations emerged Thursday that the Clinton administration has
> > been trying to control how American news organizations cover foreign
> > affairs, at least since the Bosnia peacekeeping mission in 1996.
> >
> > According to a former government official, who insisted on anonymity,
> > the
> > White House created a Strategic Planning Directorate, which used the
> > State Department and USIA to pressure American reporters into
> favorable
> > coverage of the U.S. troop deployment in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
> >
> > It came into being just prior to the 1996 presidential election.
> >
> > "I heard them talk about it in conference telephone calls --how they
> had
> >
> > to control the media out there, the bureau chiefs, because if the
> > Republicans picked this up [the Clinton administration] would be
> exposed
> >
> > as having no foreign policy," said the former government official.
> >
> > Shortly after President Clinton won re-election in 1996, the
> > administration announced that U.S. troops would not be home by
> > Christmas, as promised. Today, nearly three years later, some 7,000
> U.S.
> > troops remain in Bosnia.
> >
> > "The U.S. public wanted to know how long American troops had to be
> > there," said the ex-official. "The Clinton people said 'only one
> year,'
> > and [that] they would be home in December, after the election. But
> > everyone knew the only way to keep the warring sides apart was robust
> > international and American presence."
> >
> > This former official said this was widely discussed.
> >
> > "In the conference calls, they openly discussed how they had to
> prevent
> > American journalists from discussing this," he said.
> >
> > The source said that USIA officials and National Security Adviser
> Samuel
> >
> > R. Berger tried to convince American editors not to publish accounts
> by
> > their reporters who wrote that Bosnia was unsafe for Americans, that
> > Muslim extremists were a threat, and that the warring sides would
> never
> > be pacified.
> >
> > Ivo Daalder, who was a staffer on the National Security Council at the
>
> > time, said discussions had no ulterior motives.
> >
> > Mr. Daalder, who is now at the Brookings Institution, said the talks
> > among the USIA, National Security Council and other agencies "had the
> > sole purpose of making sure they share information among them, and
> when
> > the U.S. government speaks to the outside world, it does so in a
> > coordinated manner."
> >
> > Mr. Daalder said "there was no deliberate campaign designed to put out
>
> > false information prior to the 1996 presidential election."
> >
> > He said that USIA did increase staffing and efforts to convince
> American
> >
> > reporters in Bosnia of the administration's perspective in September,
> > prior to the Bosnian elections.
> >
> > Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
> >
>
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