Public Diplomacy: The United States should conduct a broad-based information and public diplomacy program, including white papers, radio and television, to press for fundamental changes in Soviet actions at home and abroad and to inform the American people and others on both sides of the Iron Curtain of the true state of developments in the Soviet bloc.

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They appear as shadowy characters on terror television shows, have become objects of sociological inquiry, and get paraded around as puppets for public diplomacy.

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