173. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig) to the Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (Loomis)1

SUBJECT

  • USIA Broadcasting after the Moscow Summit

This is in reply to your memorandum of June 16. The policies you are proposing for USIA/VOA broadcasts to the Soviet Union definitely appear to be in the right direction. We would agree, with regard to internal Soviet developments, that you should continue to place the emphasis on reporting, at the same time continuing the VOA’s policy of eschewing polemics, not seeking quarrels and not attempting to magnify small incidents in your broadcasts to the Soviet Union.

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Major General, U.S. Army
Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  1. Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 295, Agency Files, USIA—Vol. IV—1972 [Jan-Oct 1972] [2 of 2]. Confidential.