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In line with recent developments in the technology of data collection & data processing it is suggested that the field of PO res might well pay more attention to available data for the twin purposes of raising better problems for new surveys & interpreting survey results within broader frameworks. It is contended that available data may appear in forms which roughly coincide with the res process itself, ie, the range is from `raw' data to completed studies. This means that the user must always try to reconstruct the steps through which the data were originally assembled. Working from several illustrative res reports, the relative advantages & disadvantages of such data are specified & a number of procedural rules are suggested. AA.

John W. Riely to Thomas J. Goree, April 11, 1863 [Goree Family Papers MSS. – LS.] Special Orders to Thomas J. Goree, requesting that he report to Franklin, Va.

Res on psychol'al warfare has suffered from an excessive concentration on the two extremes: nose-counting problems such as how many enemy soldiers carried propaganda leaflets when they surrendered, & global questions of strategy for which adequate data were lacking. A realistic res program on an intermediate level would be more useful. Among the problems which should be studied are the singling out of groups under 'cross-pressures' & other particularly vulnerable targets for propaganda, adaptation of the message to the particular group which it is sought to influence, & above all adaptation of the message to the tradition & mentality of the enemy pop, which may be completely diff from that of those who are conducting the propaganda. Res is also needed on the readiness of individuals under strain to accept communications which represent both the expressed & the repressed sides of their ambivalence, & on the influence of the individual's participation in various groups on his reactions. IPSA.

US, chiefly; 10 articles.