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File r-;o............... the shooting down ot th pl ne ov r th Baltic; (b) the prop ganda campaign in th Sovi t Union gainst th United States; (o) Soviet . No. of Enclosures Post {a) . Sw dish h ra sments in Germany. 2. r. Henry w a ked what purpose he thought the Soviet Union ight have had in shooting down th Sw dish plan in th Baltic; wheth r, for exa pl, th Soviet Union hoped to derives e ort of political advantage from such n act. Mr. Henry discount d th po sibility that the incident had been manufactured by th Sovi t Governent for the purpose of exerting pressure on Sw d n. It this were the case, th move had c rtainly b ckfired inasmuch a the Swedish population had reacted very trongly to th att ck and indignation against the Sovi t Union was sweeping the country. r. Henry thought it or likely that the plane had been shot down by "trigg r•bapp ", over-conac1ent1oua pilots who prob bly thought that the Sw dish plane was pproaching too clo ly to Soviet territory or to th are of Soviet naval mano uvres. Be recalled the incid nt of the Sov1 t plane downed in the Yellow Sea about a year and a halt ago. H revealed that two Sovi t pl nee wer ae n flying towards a Unit d ations task force. On was shot down, as a purely precautionary mov, wh nit was considered to have ppro ched too close. whereupon the other plane turned back. The d cialon to shot was probably t ken by an offio r not higher than the rank of Commander. r. Henry ssumed that somewhat an logous oircumstan e probably held in th ca e ot the Swedish plane. At ny rate, the end result of th r cent incident, Yr. Henry said, had certainly been to the di dvant e of the Sov et Union in view of the anger aroused by its action in Sweden. We referred at 000609 �,_, : ., :, Docum.erit' 1sclosed under -h~ Afcefs Document divu'lgue eri V1?rtucfe lo Loi s;d ' 1,,,: ' ' ' '~ .' . • :_-,',·.. ·\) - ' . ' • ' ,. ., ~:--~1' ;,''. ," ' ' • . .' ' ,; ,1 . ,• ' .. • .•: : ' • ' ''. ,•' l ; • • ' I:•,• I ' ' ••.· j'' • ' •• . ' •·: ' \• . I • • • tli:ts >.~o-irit :to .''.~n·A~s:oci~ted Pret1S' article tn The. •. . ..Ev.1:ming-;3tar of June 20, 11'.\which it. is _:reported • • \;h~t.:the 'Swedish C¾ove~nr#erit has admitted that some , , ,;sf its .planes had ·occ·asionally flown over:. Soviet-. , • _coritrolla' d, t~:rr:t:tory. in the Bal tic •.. , Mr·. · Henry • . • ._::.·axp·re~sea:· bel:t~f\.~n. the accuracy .of t~is· ne~spaper ; ::11aport .(which probably was based. on· the text of .. a . ••. . :Swedish note)•:· ••• •. 1 :..- • I,,.,, I I.. •• • •.· ·• I' I ' •• '•', .: ' '• -: 1 1 • 3;, "-·We turried next to the .'t,acteriological .:warfare •,and. other prop~ga.nda.·- against 'the United States w.:J..thin'· ••. _the· .So,viet ;Union.. -We _asked 'Mr..'.·~enry- what he th'oUg!).t v1as behind ..·t}"rl.s moye. .Mr.~ Hentiy first pointed .out . that _the _campaign ·against· t.he -United States had bean •.• going· on, in the Soviet Uni'on fo.r many years and' _that •. the present: "~ te Ameri ca~, pr~paganda· was really a . . ·contin~e.~ion of th~ old' ·.policy., only in a mor~ accen"'.' ·tuated f'.orm·. .Ther.e···.were certain di.fferences, howeve.r~ • . ln ·.the first 'place,' it. seemed to be directed aga_inst .. the Alra:'icari: people as a whole a:nd not only against the:., •... · Vni ted. Sts ..tes ·Government and the "Wall' Street ..ca.pi talis·ts '.'. Secondly, 1~. was· m~~nt ··to appeal both t;o. the. Soviet •. ,•. population at home and:·to people abroad.:. Thirdly., .. • the Soviet Government itself, seemed off'icially .· • e.saocia,t.ed .with the drive. In the ·pastJ the Soviet authori:ti·es had f:req11ently contented the~sel v~s. with quoting foreign artlcles which suppor ..ted their views. :rrom .such· papers as the "Daily· Worker· 11, • etc. • Now, · , ·however, the-ir charges were given "Offi~ial sanction through· arti'c'l:es app·ear'ing 111 such .government.ailir·gvgans •as Izvestia·. • ,-Fi:µall-y, the campaign involved not only ··the· use of the p:t:e~s ~nd r-adio but als·o'.mass· meetings throughout the· cquntry. •. 4., find .. •• . : Mr •. Hen·ry said that it·. was very difficult to. adequate'reasons to account ,for this cani'pa:i,gn.· ·some people. thought that the Soviet authorfties were prepa·ring their· pe·ople for war.. ·However;, .he tended •.to. " discount ·-th.is thesis. . It was posslble that the campaign . , was ·a. ~ea~,ti,on against ·united· States charges with- regard ·to.- the,:Katyn ·Forest massac:r.e and ·.the activities of. the •. ·.congre.ssional ·Subcommittee.which had. beeri 1rivest;i.gating • ·s,ovtet responsibility. It_ was also .intended~· Mr. Henry ·thought., to foster.dissensions in the non-Soviet·world ..··and/dfis,tr.ust of the Unite'd· S:tatea ... :B,,inally,. Mr._-·:H~nry . 1 . belie•ved tha·t the· Soviet a uthori-ties were .se.tting hysterical •. • . and less. sure of ~hemselves and·.were becoming afraid of· • .•.•. • • ... :.-the. West·ern .defence. prepara:t1ons .. , ·This fear tended to .• ,. , . ! ., •. expre~s itself· in a: ca~paign _of hate against the Uni.~ed .• ·::·.r,.- ,':,: : . . St.ates.. , • • • · • • • • · • · .. . ' .· ~:.·r ;, . ·.: .5. • .· •. :• ··wa.·a·sked-,whethe:r perhaps Mr ... Henry thought· there. ,_. -was. any., p~s.si'bili ty tl'Jat-. thue Soviet• charges represented··. . f,_' · .an effort .to embarras·s the nited St;ates with regard to· •> • . /. ••.the Geneva Protocol and perhaps to •induce it to ratify . ••.• , ,._. -1 • 1 ·the provision prohibiting ·the use of bacteriological· .:' . · :· ·weapons~'· Mr·.· 'lienr.y dl:scounted this. •pos~ibility.: . He· • • · . ,- I expressed some disa,ppointment that cert;a·in ·delegations • • · ·• L . in the JJnite·d Nations. had ai~eady, ~xpressec;l. a: wiliingness:· • ._.:·C·• ..to' support the. Soviet proposal in the Security. Council ·.• • I" that·.this Protocol should. be ·ratified by all States.. •... ,· • ' ' • • ,,' • 1 • ,, I J : ·' ii ' .• ·"I. • �"' Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de lo Loi sur /'occes a /'information -"------..----.. .· • I,. - ,._ ""\ , turn point to the S v1et nta 1n Ge ny. a ked r. H nr h th r he recent Sovi t action 1n B rlln nd along st Ger n bord r 1th tern G rm ny •rep rt an effort to preve t et rn Ger ny r titying the Bonn A reementa nd th European Defence Treaty. We also asked wh ther Ur. Henry believed that th ov1 t obj ct1v a ore limit d nd wh thor he thought the ov1et authorities would be oaretul not to over l J their han and prov ke the ·eat rn powera. r. H nry agr ed th t th Sovi uthor1t1 • would limit their obatruct1v action in e ny n tha~ they• uld Erob bly b c r ful not tog ad the at tot r. thought, ho ver, that their o ea w r not pr1no1 lly direct d ag inst tern O rmany. It thia were th case, Soviet taot1os vin pr 1 ly th opposite rr ct. Ev ry move or the1ra in aat O ny nd around B rl1n rv d to 1nore s ho t111ty tor th in eatern Ge ml;J.....~J. r. H nry thou ht th t t principal a ot th Sovi taut ,or ti a to out otr erl1n and th ole ot East Orm.any tr contact 1th the ' at and raise n 1mpr gnabl "iron curtain" b tw en the two Ger nya. As con ry 1m a gradually to ke lit o unbearable for th eat B rlin ra th t thy woul eventu lly g1 up and b o advocate ot the abando nt ot B rlin by the stern p er. r. nry could not oonceiv or the est a ndon1ng B rlin at any t1m. He thought th situ t1on 1n ny would b come 1ncreaa1ngl d rou aa tim w nt on. H.H. 0 G 000611 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDBC00333 Title A name given to the resource "U.S.-USSR Relations," WashDC to SSEA, despatch no. 1485 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 25-Jun-52 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "BERLIN. Political Situation. 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