In the early 1950’s, Truman Administration began to shift its strategic focus from Europe to broad intermediate zones, so Middle East became one of regions the USA and the Soviet Union competed for. In order to bring Middle East, Truman Administration laid out the objective of its Middle East policy, trying to complete a siege around the socialist camp by including Middle East in the western camp by military, economic and psychological means. To fulfill the above aim, it instructed the newlyestablished psychological strategy committee to work out the PSB D-22 psychological strategic program to Middle East, which brought forward the psychological strategy that public and hidden psywar means were to be taken to train the Arabic proAmerican and anticommunist tendency so as to control the whole of Middle East. When taking office, Eisenhower carried on and completed Truman’s policy to Middle East and further emphasized the function of psywar in fulfilling the objective of American policy to Middle East. Meanwhile, an operationcoordinating committee was founded to speed up carrying out the program. However, as the USA persisted in its proAnglican and proIsrael policy, which was not in agreement with interests of Middle Eastern countries, its psywar operation to Middle East failed to fulfill the intended end.

Cold War between America and Soviet; history of Middle East; the PAB D-22 Psychological Strategic Program