This propaganda film includes a declassified 1963 Pentagon report detailing U.S. efforts to combat communism.

The film is unusually frank about geo-political situations in Vietnam, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Cuba and around the globe. In that the film takes each global situation, discusses the problem, states the U.S. goal, and the proposed near-term and long-term solutions from an American point of view, it constitutes one of the rare documents in whcih our government ever declares its foreign policy clearly and completely.

The film contains no Red scare hysterics, it is calm and dispassionate. Yet this film finds its way into the propaganda series because of its firm conviction of truth.

Twenty-five years worth of hindsight tells us that the facts were wrong or distorted, and the politics flawed accordingly.

The 1963 Pentagon Report is an object lesson in the facts being arranged to fit hte conclusion. Since this film was classified -- for the eyes of the C.I.A., State Department and military personnel only - this exercise in self-justification is all the more ironic.

B/W Approx. 32 min. NR

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