CIA briefing for Reagan: Soviet Media's Portrayal of America

A CIA "video briefing" for President Reagan, dated between Oct 1985 and Sept 1986. Declassified and released 2 Nov 2011 at the "Ronald Reagan, Intelligence, and the End of the Cold War" symposium at the Reagan Presidential Library. From symposium notes: "This was the first time the Agency used videos on a regular basis to deliver intelligence to the policymaker, and this collection marks the first substantial release of such material in one of [the CIA's] historical collections."

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Central Intelligence Agency
• Ronald Reagan
• Reagan
• CIA
• propaganda
• Russia
• Soviet
• media
• anti-american

[iraqilemonade]

sounds about right

[crumcon]

wow .. the soviet foresee this way back in 1985.

look at what happened now in the U.S

[RWT683]

So, not only did they correctly describe the US economy, they even predicted the Patriot Act! I'm speechless.

[maximummask]

5:36 Wow. Dang, a single article years later? Even the CIA couldn't disguise the failure of US media.

[ThrobertMcGee]

Best moment, at around 8:30, from a Soviet newsman responding to the claim that Soviet media gave a very one-sided and negative picture of American life: "How is it distorted? We don't only show the unemployed poor; we show millionaires, too, and high society!!"

(Which is true -- Soviet media was ALWAYS happy to show American poverty and American millionaires. It was the US *middle class* that tended to be censored out of Soviet news...)