SPANISH WEEKLY "SP" AND THE O'BRIEN ARTICLE, "LA POLICIA DE DALLAS MATO A KENNEDY" ("THE DALLAS POLICE KILLED KENNEDY")
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TITLE : SPANISH WEEKLY "SP" AND THE O'BRIEN ARTICLE, "LA POLICIA

DE DALLAS MATO A KENNEDY" ("THE DALLAS POLICE KILLED

KENNEDY")

DATE :

05/14/64

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100

SUBJECTS : FOREIGN PRESS

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SPAIN

PROPAGANDA

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/08/93

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OSMW-9256 of 26 March 1964

A copy of the l January 1964 issue of SP, with the article

'La Policia de Dallas Mato a Kennedy," ("The Dallas Police Killed

Kennedy"'), is forwarded as Attachment I of this dispatch.

2. We have asked station source QUEGG/3 for a background

report on SP and its principal staff members, and will forward

it as soon as we receive it.

Meanwhile, American Embassy Madrid

Airgram 581 of 5 February 1964 described SP as Falange-oriented

and added that "since the Spanish government has close control over

the local press it is not difficult to give matters of its most

immediate interest the necessary publicity and it appears that this

campaign (on establishing Mexican/Spanish diplomatic relations) if

not supervised is at least encouraged by the Ministry of Information

or the Foreign Office."

As indicated in its masthead, SP is published both in

and in Barcelona, and its director is the Rodrigo ROYO men-

We do not know whether there is

any connection

but it might be noted there

is frequently cooperation-tacit or formal--between official and

semi-official Spanish propaganda organizations and those of

the

2:301

The writer of this dispatch does not

usually read SP and

is therefore not in a position to comment on its customary editorial

if any. On the content of this issue in itself,

inclined to guess that if the decision to publish the O'Brien article

was made by the SP staff it was probably done because the article was

sensational enough to offer good sales prospects rather than because

This comment is

based in part on the fact that the same issue contains a laudatory

article on Jacqueline Kennedy and another consisting of quotations

from the Kennedy books Profiles in Courage and "The Turning of the

If the O'Brien article was in fact published as anti-U.S.

propaganda, it would seem logical to look for the reason either in

JUN 1976

the paper's Falange orientation or in the fact that SP is published

in Spain, rather

than in the political bent of any particular staff

The Spanish press is government-controlled, and censorship

is very strict..

Occasionally an article of which the government

censors do not approve gets into print, but when this happens the

Document Number

"Political publications" exist

only in the sense that all Spanish publications are propaganda media

for the policies of the Spanish government.

Within this limitation

FOIA

there are certain nuances.

Of the principal Madrid dailies, for

ABC is Don Juan-

Arriba is a spokesman for the Falange flierarchy and the

Ya speaks for the Spanish Catholic

Syndicate organization and the Falange.

The only exceptions to

the rule that Spanish papers say only what the government wants:

them to say are a handful of periodicals published by Catholic lay

/autorganizations as apostolic material which is protected from secular

NSM

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censorship by the Concordat between the Vatican and the Spanish

government-and even this protection breaks down

for publications

that go too far beyond the censorship tabus.

the O'Brien article was published in SP it had been approved by

the Ministry of Information.

If it had not been, the issue would

not have reached the newsstands.

If the article was an anti- American propaganda plant the

two most likely points of origin would be:

a.

Movement (the other

The FalangE two members are the Carlists

which is the principal member of The

and the small

remnant of the old national-syndicalist J. O. N. S.)

Movement is the only political organization legally

to exist in Spain and, as the official political unit,

major part of the structure of the Government itself.

Falange is ideologically anti-democratic, hence anti-American.

As it happens,

its outlook in this field was illustrated nicely

in this morning's issue (12 May) of Arriba, in one of the daily

editorials written by J. L. Gomez Tello:

The editorial;

entitled "A Corpse for a Democratic War," is devoted to

Defense

Secretary McNamara's current trip to South Vietnam. It says the

var is going very badly

but the Democratic Administration can't

afford to pull out of it with an election coming up.

In Arriba's

"KHANH's army is suffering heavy losses--double those of*

a few months ago.

What does this mean? A dangerous disinte

gration,

which began with the fall of President DIEM.

How will

this affect those who were rubbing their hands with glee at

the death of the only man who was galvanizing his people in

this life or death combat?

But the Western world, which wants

nothing to do with the struggle against Communism--what is it

complaining about now?

KHANH is a democratic man.

So energetic

that the most spectacular thing he has done in the past few

days has been to order

the shooting of NGO DINH CAN,

younger brother of DIEM.

The Americans turned him over to

them.

(As they turned over to STALIN the General VLASOV who

wanted to fight against Communism.)

• things for

which there seems

to be no remedy in the demoliberal philo

sophy.

One of them is. (its penchant for) showing its liberalism

by offering up the anti-Communists as propitiatory victims on

the bloody altars of democracy.

Just when the ignoble term

'war criminal? a term invented by the Communists seemed to

have been forgotten on this side of the Iron Curtain, democracy

found a man to execute as such.

DIEM and his brother were

assassinated by the Communists.

And now still another has

been shot.

We feel a sensation of nausea at this conspiracy

mounted by the same ones who in the name of democracy and

'liberalism-are-opening the gates-to Communism.

The Ministry of Information and Tourism is the official

propaganda voice of the Spanish Government.

The overt political-

Ministry is its weekly newspaper

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address on its masthead.

A month or two ago Information Minister

Manuel FRAGA Iribarne (a Falangist, although this fact is only

incidental in his conduct of propaganda and political-action

operations) told the Counsellor of the American Embassy in

Madrid that he personally reads and approves the major El

Espanol articles before

they go into print. El Espanol, like

regime itself,

ideologically anti-darratio

The fact,

arcoats the

editorial line on the various Western

countries,

although the purely projagandist character of El Espanol makes

the swings somewhat morp obvious and usually somewhat more

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violent in El Espanol than in the general press.

During the

early part

of 1964,

for example,

the United States and its

government were receiving a very poor press in Spain because

of U. S. efforts to persuade Spain to drop its profitable

trade with Cuba.) . An example of the official propaganda

and approach as they tugn up in El Espanol was the

paper's farewell to the Kennedy Administration,

in an article

in the 22 February issue,

signed by one Benjamin PRICE and

entitled "DESPUES DE KENNEDY - La Nueva Frontera: Una Herencia

que"Divide a los Estados Unidos" (AFTER KENNEDY - The New

Frontier:

A Heritage which is Dividing the United States").

The article was headed by a photograph of President Kennedy,

captioned "Behind Kennedy's popularity-greater outside the

than within it were hidden the grave faults of the

Democratic Administration.'

At the beginning of the article,

in bold-face type, was a summary of the "heritage" of its

"AMERICA:

The Cuban infection is spreading to all of Spanish

America.

Castro is more dangerous than before;

the Russians have been replaced by the Chinese.

"ASIA;

Since the assassination of DIEM, Communist pressure

on South Vietnam has grown constantly; the Americans

soon will have to choose between getting out, and

fighting alone.

"AFRICA: CHOU EN-LAI has reached

the shores of the Mediterranean.

"EUROPE: China has in fact taken over the role of guide of •

"the new peoples' of the black Continent.

Utopians of Washington and London are

disarmament without guarantees.

Meanwhile, people

are still dying at the Berlin Wall."

The text of the article itself begins:

"The Government of President Kennedy was not a happy

government.

During its three years of

existence American

setbacks,

both international and domestic, were far more

than those that have occurred under any other

The failure at the Bay of Pigs,

only three

months after Kennedy's election,

solely by his

indecision. The project had been organized during the

but if Kennedy had wanted to he

trained in

'American, disembarked on the island without

air cover the Americans had promised®

"'The 'shame of the Berlin wall,' built in August of

damaged American international prestige.

The chief

the same yea the free World did nothing when the Conmunists

put up that permanent barrier between

eastern and

parts of the occupied city.

"In the summer of 1962 there was a stock market crash

comparable only

that of 1929.

The market was finally

but tens of thousands of small investors had

disappeared.

The Cuban crisis of 1962

viewed without-the din of

propagandan the

greatest result the

installation of

Communism

Southern Hemisphere.

The propaganda experts

painted the event as

a great victory for the political ability

of the defunct president,

who 'thanks to his

determined

attitude succeeded in avoiding a nuclear war.'

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"Finally, it was under the Kennedy government that

America found

itself upset by civil war:

an artifically

provoked war between white and negro American citizens,.

which the negro leaders today are calling "our revolution."

"On the whole, the three years of the Kennedy Government

be judged by the historians of tomorrow

as a period of

indecision,

of confusion and of fears.

At

the moment,

the

search for

the organizer of the attack which cost the

life

of the young president has receded into the background.

And

the tragic thing? is that perhaps the American people will

never know who put the homicidal weapon into the hands of

Lee Oswald.

The Warren Commission will not complete its

work for at least a year.

And if the crime was inspired by

someone outside

the U. S. it is doubtful that the truth will

be known,

because of the international complications it

might cause.

"It is under these clouds that in the next election the

battle will be fought between the conservatives of both par-

ties, who judge the events of the Kennedy Government realisti-

cally, and the neo-republicans and democrats, who

determined to concentrate on the tragic death

of the young,:

honest but inexpert and impulsive president.."

The article continues for a total of three pages, with.

an analysis of the forthcoming election campaign, brickbats

for the Johnson Administration, etc.

analysis stresses the writer's

Goldwater as the candidate most apt to be able to defeat both

Republican and Democratic liberals.)

In attempting to obtain an up-to-date edition of the

Anuário de la Prensa Espanola as requested in reference,

we learned

new edition has come out since 1962 and only the second of

the two 1962 volumes is still available.

We are therefore forwarding

as Attachment 2 a copy of Volume 2 of the 1962 edition.

Frete 7 ai hung

Foster H. BAINBRIDGE

R. Grant

Peter R.

AUMONT

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