PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE- PART 1 OF 4 - BY CORDWAINER SMITH

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Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), is better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith. From 1937 to 1946, Linebarger held a faculty appointment at Duke University, where he began producing highly regarded works on Far Eastern affairs. While retaining his professorship at Duke after the beginning of World War II, Linebarger began serving as a second lieutenant of the United States Army, where he was involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board. Furthermore, he helped organize the U. S. Army's first psychological warfare section.

In 1943, he was sent to China to coordinate military intelligence operations. When he later pursued his interest in China, Linebarger became a close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek. By the end of the war, he had risen to the rank of Major.

In 1947, Linebarger moved to the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he served periences in the war to write Psychological Warfare (1948), now regarded by many in the field as a core text. He eventually rose to the rank of colonel in the Army reserves. He was recalled to advise the British forces in the Malayan Emergency and the U.S. Eighth Army in the Korean War.

While he was known to call himself a "visitor to small wars", Linebarger supposedly refrained from becoming involved in the Vietnam War. However, it is known that he performed some amount of unspecified work on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency during his career.