I owe special thanks to Michael Gurevitch, Jay G. Blumler, and Mark Levy of the University of Maryland, as well as to Susan Coyle, for their many insights and patience throughout this project. Many thanks are also due to Bernd Greiner and the Hamburg Institut für Sozialforschung; Noam Chomsky; K. C. Lee; Marsha Siefert of the Journal of Communication; Bill Solomon and Bob McChesney; Allan Hunter and the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin; Sandy Ungar and Pat Aufderheide at American University; David Roll of Oxford University Press; Bruce and Caroline Simpson; and, of course, to Gail Ross, who encouraged me to pursue this project along the way. Thanks to Robert Speigelman, John Kelly, Craig Nelson of Johns Hopkins University, Sriramesh Krishnamurthy of the University of Washington Archives, and Martin Manning of the U.S. Information Agency Library, all of whom were kind enough to share out-of-print psychological warfare texts that proved essential to this study; L. John Martin, W. Phillips Davison, and John Prados for sharing their recollections and insights with me; Charles O’Connell for access to his study on Harvard’s Russian Research Center and Brett Gary for access to his work concerning the Rockefeller Archive Center; Lauren Brown of the University of Maryland Libraries Historical Manuscripts and Archives Department for his help with the Bureau of Social Science Research archives; George Arnold and Mark Saxon of American University’s archives; Edward Reece and John Taylor of the U.S. National Archives; Dennis Bilger of the Truman Presidential Library; David Marwell of the Berlin Document Center; and to the Interlibrary Loan and reference specialists of the McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland at College Park, whose assistance with my endless requests for obscure materials went above and beyond the call of duty. Special thanks to Meiling Wang, Wendy Babbitt, Mark Raskin, Mark Solovey, Mark Pavlick, and Nancy Bern-hard, all of whom read early drafts of this book and offered ideas and criticism.
C.S.
Washington, D.C.
April 1993