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1 amw l l i ng t o l ove man The London SUNDAY TIMES of Decemberki nd except an Amer i can 16 quoted Dr J ohnson fol l owng Dr RS MUEL JOHNSON Ki ssinger s vi si t to London on December`11 and 12, on the techni cal i ty thatHenry i s an Ameri can Future hi stori ans wl l f i nd the Ki ss-i ngerana of November and December 1973 enl i ghteni ngI N PEKI NGon November 13 Ki ssi nger tol d Chou-En-l ai that theS woul d be f ri endl y wth China, no matter what . I t madethe petti ness he di spl ayed i n Europe a month l ater al l themore cutti ng Fred Emery of the London TIMES wote, Dr Ki ssi nger seem an impati ent man even imperi ous, wth hi sfri ends I ndul gences are for enemes or adversari es . On the matter of l oyal ty upwardM Emery reported unconcern on the part of the Secretary of State whether N xon goesor stays He stated on December 10 I t i s j ust becomng known that Dr Ki ssi nger hason occasion pri vatel y concurred wth assessments that Presi dent N xon can never recoverf romhi s Watergate af f l i cti ons .David Adamon descri bed Ki ssi nger i n the London SUNDAY TELEGRAPH of November 18 as aconservati ve who feel s more at hom i n the company of l i beral s . I f Ki ssi nger i s aconservati ve Harol d Wlson i s a ri ght-wnger Mchael Davi e, i n the l ef ti st LondonOBSERVER of the sam date the paper that sent Hanoi comade Mary McCarthy to coverthe Watergate i nvesti gati on - found i t more important to keep Ki ssinger as Secretaryof State than N xon as Presi dent Davie quoted Ki ssi nger as sayi ng that Chou-En-l aihas a better understandi ng of the general probl em of Europe than any European states-man. A di pl omati c remark to make on the eve of a trip to Europe When Ki ssi nger became Secretary of State, M Davi e wote, He tol d a formr Under-Secretary of State that he proposed to see among forei gn ambassadors onl y Dobrynin,the man f romMoscow M Davi e added that when Ki ssi nger al l owed the Russi ans toprovide the i nterpreter for the Nxon-Brezhnev tal ks i n Moscow thi s summr i t wasbecause he thought an Ameri can State Department i nterpreter woul d l eak the substance

of the tal ks to Wl l i amRogers, the Secretary of State . Thus the stage for theDecember 10 meeti ng of NATO forei gn mni sters i n Brussel s was set THERE WERE DFFERENCES FROMTHE START Henry stormd at Amri ca s al l i es over thei rl ack of support i n the Mddl e East war Portugal , the onl y al l y that permttedWashi ngton to use her terri tory (the Azores) as a stagi ng poi nt for the ai rl i f t toI srael , and cam i n for Arab hatred because of i t found that Henry di d not knowwhatal l i ed sol i dari ty meant when Portugal asked for weapons to of fset hand-carri ed mssi l esthe Russi ans are sendi ng to GuineaI n Brussel s Ki ssi nger harped on the embarrassi ngl y pro-Arab atti tude of our al l i es,though sai d al l i es were i n the posi ti on Leni n outl i ned i n hi s strategy for worl drevol uti on, wth Washi ngton mai nl y responsibl e for putti ng themthere Leni n wote,Af ter forci ng Europe to wthdraw f romher col oni es, which are the worl d s reservoi rsof rawmateri al s, needed resources wl l suddenl y be cut of f Economc cri si s wl lfol l ow Then unemployed workers mobi l i zed i nto armes wl l be abl e to sei ze power .Wth Europe i n a mood to toppl e any government that l essened the chances of getti ng

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Page - 2-Arab fuel , Henry found i t regrettabl e that some al l i es do not share Ameri ca s vi ews He sai d, Ameri ca knows what she i s doi ng and her pol i ci es are as much i n Europe si nterests as her own Londoners poi nted out that factori es were cl osing for want ofoi l , homes were col d, armed forces i mmobi l i zed to save petrol and men were bei ngthrown out of work An economc and pol i ti cal cri si s was i n the of f i ng whi l e I sraelwas pumpi ng six ml l i on tons of oi l a year fromcaptured Egypti an wel l s at Abu Rodeisi n the Si nai , sel l i ng much of i t to Rumani a Henry acted as though he were tel l i ngthe Europeans to eat cake Ameri ca s partners shoul d regard the energy probl emas abasi s for uni ty, not di suni ty, he sai d Can Europe and the Uni ted States devel oppol i ti cal and ml i tary securi ty arrangements, he asked, which thei r popul ati ons wl lsupport i n a peri od of dimni shi ng i nternati onal tensi on? What dimni shi ng i nter-nati onal tensi on?When Si r Al ec Dougl as-Home returned f romMoscow i n earl y December he tol d hi s govern-ment, I t i s clear that the Soviet Uni on wshes to di sarmthe West by removi ng i tsresol ve to defend i tsel f Equal l y absurd was Ki ssi nger s determnati on to sel l NATOml i tary l eaders the Common Market There i s no i ncompati bi l i ty between Europe havi ngi ts own i denti ty and conti nui ng trans-Atl anti c uni ty, he tol d them No edi torbothered to poi nt out that the i denti ty of the Common Market i s soci al i st, that inevery country of the Common Market soci al i sts and communi sts are uni ti ng, and thatAtl anti c uni ty, as the men Ki ssi nger was tal ki ng to see i t , wl l be a Common Marketwth Ameri ca on the i nside and cal l i ng i tsel f Atl anti c I n France the l eader of the social i st-communi st coal i ti on, M Fran~ois Mtterand,won massi ve approval for the i dea that Europe must be made i n order to constructsoci al i sm Ki ssi nger pushed Mtterand s cause by l i nki ng i t to NATO Ameri cancommtment to NATO and support for European uni ty i s a cornerstone of Ameri can forei gnpol i cy, he sai d Read Ameri ca s aim i s a soci al i st European superstate whi ch wl ldefy Ameri ca, thereby enabl i ng Ameri can pol i ti ci ans to tel l thei r consti tuents thatonl y by enteri ng the European pol i ti cal , monetary and pol i ti cal uni on on a one-votebasi s can Atl anti c uni ty be preserved Thi s has been the pol i cy of the Counci l onForei gn Rel ati ons f romthe start FromBrussel s Henry fl ew to London on DecemberMORE GAFFES INLONDON HeathrowAi rport was an armed camp because of threats that anattempt woul d be made on hi s l i f e Thi rty-one Ameri can ambassadors f l ew i n wth ad-vi sors and secretari es, for two hours wth thei r chi ef, between hi s l uncheon wthPrime Mni ster Heath and di nner wth the Pi l grim of Great Bri tai n that eveni ngHe tal ked for an hour and forty mnutes wth Forei gn Secretary A ec Dougl as-Home, andmade i t clear that he was i n no mood for compromse or concessi on The SUNDAYTELEGRAPHof December 16 headed i ts account of the meeti ngs i n London Anti pathy ofKi ssi nger and Heath Grows . The Prime Mni ster and Forei gn Secretary were i rri tatedby Dr Ki ssi nger s bl unt styl e of di pl omacy, abrupt deci si ons and i ndi screet pro-nouncements ; Europe was tol d Some cal l ed i t arrogance I t l eaked out that whenKi ssi nger was wth the thi rty of fi ci al s and secretari es accompanyi ng himi n the V cePresi denti al j et, he referred contemptuousl y to the pygmy admni strati ons i n Europe The SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (December 16 ref l ected, I t i s easy to see why M Heath andDr Ki ssinger mght not l i ke one another Ameri ca s Mddl e East pol i cy has touchedoff an economc di saster for the Bri ti sh and perhaps for the Western worl d general l y I n hi s press conference Ki ssi nger hi t the Europeans agai n, singl i ng out Lord Cromer,the Bri ti sh ambassador to Washi ngton After i t was over Lord Cromer gentl y asked himWhen you sai d that those consul ted most were those that cooperated l east, whomdi d yohave i n mnd, Henry? The Russi ans?At the Pi l grim di nner that ni ght Ki ssi nger sai d, I amtol d that the Bri ti sh adoptthei r accent to impress Ameri cans I f you wake themat four i n the morning they speak

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Page - 3-Engl i sh l i ke everyone el se. I t was a subj ect best not brought up Most of thosepresent found Henry s guttural Engl i sh of fensive enough to gi ve a sensi ti ve man ani nferi ori ty compl ex The fol l owng day the cri ti c of the Ki ng s Engl i sh took of f forAl gi ers, Cai ro and other poi nts whi l e Bri ti sh l eaders went to Copenhagen for two daysof bul l yi ng by Common Market soci al i sts WHAT AMERICAWAS COMMTTED TO i n Al gi ers, Cai ro, Ammn, R yadh and Damascus i s unknownKi ssi nger di vul ged detai l s of hi s tal ks onl y to the Soviet ambassador to Egypt,Vl adimr V nogradov, and V nogradov brought himMoscows approval , i nstructi ons orwhat-have-you the fol l owng morning, December 16 On hi s arri val i n Lebanon a fewhours l ater government l eaders whi sked himto Rayak Ai rbase, 40 mles f romBei rut,to protect himfromPal esti ni ans When he reached Tel Avi v he was rushed to J erusal emi n a hel i copter to prevent hosti l e J ews frommobbi ng him J ewsh Defense Leagueposters branded hima J ewsh Bernadotte, a name best forgotten by peopl e cal l i ngfor arrest of Pal esti ni an terrori sts Count Fol ke Bernadotte, the UN medi ator i n theMddl e East i n 1948, was murdered by the Stern gang and MenachemBegi n s I rgun SvaiLeum because he was not suf f i ci entl y pro- I srael A more sati sfactory Ral ph Bunchesucceeded Bernadotte and the assassi ns were permtted to escape .The worl d was torn by stri kes, founderi ng economes, pol i ti cal i n- f i ghti ng and thethreat of war as Ki ssinger dodged assassi ns abroad but was prai sed at home at year send U S NEWS WORLD REPORT predi cted on J ul y 30 1973, Rel ati ons wth othernati ons shoul d be fai rl y smooth for the rest of 1973 Mnor i rri tati ons yes butprobabl y no bi g confrontati ons . (Emhasi s thei rs) There i s tal k today about theU S becomng a second-rate nati on - - fal l i ng behi nd others i n wl l i ngness to work,i ndustri al growh, soci al benef i ts And that s al l i t i s - - tal k wthout foundati onThe truth i s war i n the Mddl e East was i nevi tabl e I t coul d have come any day, asthe chronology of the festeri ng sore i n the Mddl e East makes cl ear THE BACKGROUND Af ter Worl d War I the League of Nati ons, under Zi oni st pressure,ordered Bri tai n to impl ement M Bal four s declarati on and establ i sh a home i nPal esti ne for the J ewsh peopl e wthout prej udi ce to the ci vi l and rel i gi ous ri ghtsof exi sti ng non- J ewsh communi ti es there Though the l atter formed an immense majori ty,they were never consul tedI n 1924 Zi oni st ef forts to i ncrease immgrati on to a poi nt of maki ng the exi sti ngcommuni ty a mnori ty began When Bri tai n was gi ven the mandate there were 80,000Jews i n Pal esti ne By 1939 there were 450,000 Between 1944 and 48 terrori storgani zati ons as vi cious as Bl ack September took the fi el d agai nst the Bri ti sh andPal esti ni ans The I rgun Svai Leum, l ed by MenachemBegi n, and the Stern gang underNathan Yal i n-Mor, al i as Major Fri edman Yel l i n, enj oyed worl d Zi oni st protecti on andsupport j ust as Bl ack September i s shi el ded by Arab states today On J ul y 22 1946,Begi n s men dynamted the Ki ng Davi d Hotel i n J erusal em ki l l i ng 91 i nnocent men andwomen and muti l ati ng many others One man was shot at when he tri ed to escape througha wndowI n 1947 Begi n s fol l owers sent ei ght l etter bombs through the mai l to Mni ster wthoutPortfol i o Arthur Greenwood, Food Mni ster M Strachey, Fi nanci al Secretary to the WarOf i ce J ohn Freedtuan, Presi dent of the Board of Trade Si r Staf ford Cri pps, FormerMni ster to Syri a and Lebanon General Si r Edward Spears and Si r Harol d Macmchael ,the former Bri ti sh Hgh Commssi oner i n Pal esti ne The recipi ents had opposed un-l imted J ewsh immgrati on to Pal esti ne on grounds that i t woul d l ead to conf l i ct The l etter bombs, made of powdered gel i gni te wth a penci l battery and detonator,were mai l ed i n I tal y, as Bl ack September l etter bombs often are today Establ i shi nganother precedent for Bl ack September, Begi n s men trapped two Bri ti sh sergeants,Cl i f ford Marti n and Mervin Pai ce, and hanged themi n col d bl ood because Bri ti shauthori ti es refused to rel ease ten I rgun ki l l ers who were awai ti ng tri al

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Page_ -4-THE UNWORKABLE PARTITION Seeing that she could not ful fi l l her obl i gati on to thePalesti ni an Arabs, Bri tai n turned her mandate over to UN I n November 1947 a UNSpecial Commssion recommended parti ti oning Palesti ne i nto two i ndependent states, oneJewsh and one Arab, wth Jerusal eman i nternational ci ty The recommendati on waspassed by the Securi ty Counci l on May 15, 1948, wth Bri tai n abstaining and the Arabsrefusing to recogni ze the Jewsh State David Ben-Guri on decl ared that the newcountrwould be cal l ed Israel , and the Arab League cal l ed for a j ehad (hol y war Pri nce Fai sal i bnAbdul Aziz al -Saud, the younger brother of King Saud of Saudi Arabia,headed the Arab delegati on whi chwas defeated i n UNduring the debates of 1947 and i nthe vote of May 15, 1948 For Fai sal , whose l i fe in NewYork had been mde a night-mre by i nsul ti ng telephone cal l s, i t was a personal huml i ati on Pri nce Fai sal sworethat he would return to pray i n J erusalembefore the end of hi s days but he opposedfri endship wth Russia and remined surpri singly fri endl y to Ameri caHarry Truman, facing an electi on wth the odds against him recogni zed the newstateimmediately and Russi a fol l owed i n three days A reluctant Bri tai n j oi ned themtenmonths l ater, after I rgun terrori sts blewup the Bri ti sh embassy in Rom because theyhad not done so sooner Fol l owng the UNvote Begin s I rgun Svai Leum and the Stern gang l aunched a dri ve tocl ear l and for coloni zati on by fri ghteni ng the Arabs i nto fl eeing The Pal esti ni anvi l l age of Dei r Yassin was selected to start the pani c M J acques de Rayni er, chi efdelegate of the I nternati onal Red Cross, reported on vi si ti ng i t that three hundredpeople were massacredwthout any ml i tary reason or provocati on -- oldmn, womn,chi l dren and newy-born savagely murdered wth grenades and knives. In the fal l of1948 MenachemBeginwas givena hero s wel come in NewYork (Guests in the fashi on-abl e East Si de hotel where he stayed found thei r doors l ocked fromthe outside, forsecuri ty reasons, when he went down the hall in the morning Ashort ti m l aterCount Fol ke Bernadotte, the UNmdiator, was murdered by Begi n s men and the Sterngang, and the assassi ns permtted to escape Had RalphBunche, Bernadotte s successor, shown any i ncl i nati on to pl ead the cause ofthe 700,000 refugees mde homless, he undoubtedly would have gone the sam way I nDecember 1949 the UNpassed a resoluti on that 600,000 to 700,000 Arab refugees beal l owed to return to thei r homes or accept compensati on fromthe I srael i government Nothing cam of the UN resol uti on Fi ghti ng conti nuedwth Egypt, Syri a and Trans-Jordan helpi ng the Arabs The I srael i s were outnumbered but armd, by Russi an consent,wth Czech arm andAmeri can war surplus materi el I n Apri l 1949 an armsti ce gaveI srael a newchunk of l and in the north, the Arab stri p along the Sinai border i n thesouthwest and a wedge extending as far as J erusalemin the east Egypt retal i ated byti ghteni ng her blockade of I srael i shi ppingThe I srael i s and thei r supporters showed woeful j udgment i n maki ng the Egypti an kingthe butt of thei r pent up emoti ons against Egypt Month after month the press rantedagainst King Farouk By goading the Egypti ans i nto revoluti on they were asking fora governmnt of soldi ers ESQURE ran a l ast vi ci ous arti cl e referri ng to the ki ngas Fatso i nmd-1952 and twoweeks after i t hi t the newstands the monarchy wastoppled The blockade was immediately extended to al l goods shipped to I srael I sraecountered by opening the port of Ei l at i n the Gul f of Aqaba, access to which wasdomnatedby Sharmel -Shei kh on the Sinai shore I n 1953 i nterference wth I sraelshi pping began, and i n 1955 I srael i ai rcraft were banned fromSinai ai rspace I sraelsei zed Sharmel -Shei kh inNovember 1956 UN arranged another cease-fi re and Israelwthdrew fromSi nai except for theGaza Stri p and the east coast down to Sharmel -Sheikh, which she held unti l a UNexpedi ti onary force took over i n March 1957 PRNCE FASAL ONTHE HORZON On March 24, 1958, Ki ng Saud of Saudi Arabia handedpower over to hi s younger brother, Pri nce Fai sal The fol l owngmorning the NewYork

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e -5-Herald-Tribune bl asted Fai sal as anti -Ameri can and ardentl y suspi cious, i f notdownri ght hosti l e to the West As Arab-I srael i rel ati ons festered i t was apparent that I srael would have been betteroff had she paid a l i f e annui ty ten years earl i er to the 700,000 Palesti ni ans who hadsince mul ti pl i ed i n numbers andwere creati ng a hate bank i n thei r refugee camps Zoni sms al ternati ve was to try to buy Arab f ri endshi p by supporti ng Arab revol ts i nEurope s col oni es and to gain Back Afri can neutral i ty by aid handouts and ml i tarymssions Both backfi red The l ong range aimof the North Afri can l i berati onmovements was to forge a chai n that would strangle I srael I t was always known thatBack Afri ca would l i ne up wth the Arabs In May 1967 Nasser was convinced, erroneousl y i t turned out, that I srael was aboutto attack Syri a He moved troops I srael di d l i kewse Nasser asked UN forces topul l out of Sinai and Sharmel -Shei kh and when UThant compl i ed he moved i n onMay 21 The fol l owng day he declared a blockade of Ei l at The I srael i ai rf orce hi tEgypti an bases on June 5 at 7 :45 a m and the Six-Day War was on When i t was overI srael held Sinai down to the Suez Canal , Palesti ne up to the J ordan, al l of Jerusalemand a sl i ce of Syri an terri tory on the Golan Heights The trouble was, each squaremle of l and gained sent more refugees to swel l the hate bank I n November 1967 the UN Securi ty Council passed Resol uti on 242, emphasizi ng thei nadmssi bi l i ty of the acqui siti on of terri tory by war I t cal l ed for wthdrawalof I srael i armed forces f romterri tori es occupi ed i n the recent confl i ct, theacknowedgment of the sovereignty, terri tori al i ntegri ty and pol i ti cal i ndependenceof every State i n the area and thei r ri ght to l i ve at peacewthin secure and recog-ni zed boundari es and a j ust settl ement of the refugee problem General Mati tyahuPel ed, Quartermaster-General of I srael i forces during the Six-Day Wr, wote ofI srael s refusal to abide by Resol uti on 242, Fi rst came the desi re to hol d on to theterri tori es, then the securi ty arguments were superimposedI srael beganpumping her si xml l i on tons of crude oi l a year f romthe capturedEgypti an f i el ds The Western press whi ch had rai l ed against colonial i smwhen theFrench were f i ghti ng to hold Ageri a and Sahara oi l f i el ds, which had nothing to dowth Al geri a, approved of the race to establ i sh settl ements in East Jerusalemand thecaptured terri tori es At the same time powerful newspapers, TV chains, pol i ti ci ans,Zoni st phi l anthropi sts and lefti st professors l eadingmobs of students tore theheart out of the Ameri can army over Vetnamwhi l e taking for granted that i t wouldcome to the aid of I srael i f necessaryINTHEWNGS, THE RUSSIANS Long before the Egypti an and Syri an of fensi ves, on theeve of YomKippur, i n October 1973, Russi an agents were at work, urgi ng the Arabs touse thei r oi l -against theWest Theman responsibl e for resi sti ngMoscows blandi sh-ments and for Sadat s running the Russi ans out of Egypt was King Faisal For atl east f i ve years Moscowhad been urging the Arabs to remove the oi l weapon f romal i en hands, fromthe hands of foreign exploi ters and to turn i t against themi nsi sti ng that thi s wouldbring i nstant success Pl an after plan was drawn up showing howto do it Const antl y the Arabs were remnded of theWest s col ossaldependence on thei r oi l Kuwai t and King Fai sal were cast i gated for refusing tonati onal i zeI n Jul y 1973 Soviet broadcasts told the Arabs that though they had nati onal i zed onl ya tenth of thei r producti on the West was mortal l y af rai d of l osi ng the keys to Araboi l Keep i t up and the imperi al i sts wl l be forced more andmore to yiel d andretreat, the oi l producers were told Moscows i dea of an oi l weapon was amassi ve wave of nati onal i zati on rol l i ng across Arab l ands, engul fi ng the oi l statesand runni ng out Russi a s enemes Moscowpointed out that thi s would provide a sol i dbase for social i sm

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Page - 6-Fai sal woul d have none of i t Si nce Fai sal and-the Emrs and Shei khs of the oi lstates were enemes of soci al i sm thei r overthrowbecame a must among Russi a' s aim One of the arguments used by Presi dent Sadat to get Ki ng Fai sal to use the oi l weaponto the extent he has was the threat of a communi st revol t l ed by Pal esti ni an extremi sts and di rected by Moscow Russi a' s determnati on to bri ng soci al i sm whi ch i s tosay, Russi a - i nto the Mddl e East never wavered Constant emphasi zi ng of the factthat Ameri ca' s ai rl i fts of superi or weapons thwarted the regai ni ng of the l ostterri tori es has served Russi an pol i ti cal ends i n the Mddl e East more ef fecti vel y thanan Arab vi ctory MEANWHLE ELECTIONDAY APPROACHED IN TEL AV V Gol da Mei r' s Labor-Soci al i st Partyhas been i n power si nce the country was formed I t has fol l owed a hard l i ne wthmnor concessi ons The Nati onal Rel i gi ous Party cal l ed for f ronti ers al ong thel i nes of bi bl i cal heri tage Thi s means that the l ands sei zed i n 67 must remainI srael i forever Opposi ng the above i n the f i ght for the 120 seats i n the Knesset was LIKUD I t i scal l ed ri ght wng, but I srael i fasci st woul d be more apt MenachemBegi n, theterrori st who hanged the Bri ti sh sol di ers, bombed the Ki ng Davi d Hotel and helped wpeout Deir Yassi n i s LIKUDs l eader I ts stand i s not an i nch of occupi ed terri torywl l be surrendered . I t voted agai nst attendi ng the prel i mnary peace tal ks i nGeneva Had LIKUDwon the December 31 el ecti ons, MenachemBegi n woul d have becomePrime Mni ster and General Ari k Sharon, who l ed I srael i forces across the canal andtrapped the Thi rd Egypti an Arm, woul d have been Mni ster of DefenseI n 1949 Begi n compared Ameri ca to Nazi Germany because a conci l i atory gesture had beenmade to the Arabs On November 13, 1973, whi l e Ameri ca was ai rl i f ti ng ml l i ons ofdol l ars worth of materi el to I srael , Begi n accused Wshi ngton of pressuri ng Tel Avi vi nto a cease- f i re He compared i t to the pre-war betrayal of Czechosl ovaki a andcal l ed Ki ssi nger a J ewwho obtai ned hi gh of f i ce and i s doi ng harmto hi s own peopl eunder the gui se of obj ecti vi ty. To Begi n the I srael i s were Ki ssi nger' s peopl e, notthe Ameri cans whose Secretary of State he was No pl atformof fered a chance of peace WHAT NEXT? Ms Mei r' s Labor-Social i sts won the el ecti on wth a weakened maj ori ty Odds are that after a breathi ng spel l f i ghti ng wl l fl are up agai n Though I sraeli s spendi ng 25%of her gross nati onal producti on on defense, no I srael i governmentwl l gi ve up East J erusal em Si nai wth i ts Egypti an oi l f i el ds and the Golan Heights And no Arab state wl l settl e for l ess Arab agreement to recogni ze I srael ' s exi st-ence was al ready a vast concession I t i s doubtful that I srael ' s l eaders are aware of the extent to whi ch the negati vepol i ci es of thei r ml i tants wthi n Ameri ca, when Ameri can i nterests were at stake,have di vi ded and weakened the one al l y on whi ch Tel Avi v coul d count for support On December 28 General Dayan cal l ed for more settl ers i n J erusal em I t was nothi ngl ess than a request for war Beyond that, the predi cti on most common i n Europe i sthat the dark cl oud of assassi nati on hangs over Ki ssinger, probabl y at the hands ofextremsts, i n Ameri ca Li keni ng himto Bernadotte may have been a death sentence

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VOLUME XVI - LETTER 9 - FEBRUARY, 1974

AFOREIGNAFFARSLETTER R PORTSB r i t a i n and Communi st uni ons_1974 started badl y J ames Reston tol d the worl d through the NewYork Times NewServi ce and Theo Somners quoted himi n NEWSWEEK of January 21, 1974 : Bg nati onsobviously wl l not tol erate for l ong pol i ci es that cripple thei r i ndustri es and throwthei r people out of work The man who spewed inci tement for weeks when Ameri can forcmoved to save themsel ves i n Cambodi a was hinti ng that the same army shoul d be throwni nto thewar i n he Mddle East I t was i ncredi bl e Th s was the manwho, wth hi stop associ ates, went amok i n 1971, to use the words of Jacques Soust el l e, Frenchmember of the National Assembly, when the subject of V etnamwas brought up I n afrenzy they tol d M Soustel l e they d d not need any mandate, they had the power topul l Ameri ca out of V etnamandwere goi ng to do so

Whi l e the same group threwassaul t waves against the Presi dent to gai n domnance overthe i nst i tuti on, A r Marshal Si r Gerald Gbbs observed fromacross the ocean, Surel ythere i s no compul si on on the Presi dent of the Uni ted States to tape records of hi sconfi dential di scussi ons, or i f taped, not to destroy them i f he wshes, or i f l eak-ages mght affect the securi ty of the Uni ted States? And howcan a man be i ndi ctedon non-exi stent evidence, and the groundl ess suggest i on that i f the evidence exi stedi t mght have been damaging to hi m?I n Bri tain communi st l abor l eaders and Labour-social i st pol i ti ci ans grasped the energycri si s to pul l down thei r Prime Mni ster and, i f necessary, wth himthe country M H B Pratt , of Sunderl and, wote, Born i n the reign of V cto-i a, I have never beforeknown a Prime Mni ster under so many forms of attack from so many quarters M Aan Tattamexhorted stri king constructi on men Bri ti sh workers must declare war onthe employer class and take ml i tant acti on i n support of thei r demands unti l Pri meMnister) Heath i s gone, employers abol i shed and capi tal i smdestroyed forever .I n France i t was the same story Soci al i sts who for years duped those to thei r ri ghtby expounding against communi sml i ned up wth communi st s i n a cal l for a confrontati onbetween the forces of capi tal i smand the popul ar masses MEANWHLE, HENRY KISSINGERTRAVELLED The Times of London reported that on January 13Teddy Kol l ek, the mayor of J erusal em urged the Ameri cans to bear i n mnd emotionalprobl ems connectedwth the future of J erusal emand to tackl e the problemonl y whenother i ssues had been settl ed and passi ons had subsi ded. M Kol l ek tol d reportersthat Dr Ki ssi nger had agreed that Jerusal emhad a l owpri ori ty. On January 15 theLondon Ti mes printed a column-long l et ter fromTeddy Kol l ek stati ng reasons why not ani nch of J erusal emshoul d be yielded and expressi ng determnation to hol d the ci ty What wl l happen when Arabs l earn why J erusal emwas given a l owpri ori ty? And howmuch support d d K ssinger promse? Wl l J ames Reston cal l for war against I slam tosave i ndustri es and prevent people frombeing thrown out of work? Or wl l he step uphi s campaign to change the consti tut i on so K ssinger can become Presi dent, impeachmentproof and acceptabl e to the Left?AS THE OL CRSIS SPREAD Ageri a ra l ed against Ameri ca MNUTE, the French ri ght-wng weekly of January 16, pointed out that Ageri an oi l operat i ons are i n the handsof an Ameri can f i rmheaded by General James M Gavi n, who at the peak of the Frenchwar against Ageri an terrori sts was Presi dent Kennedy s ambassador to Pari s

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Page - 2-Val eurs Actuel l es the conservati ve Pari s f i nancial weekl y of J anuary 21 reportedthat Chase Manhattan Bank and Fi rst Nati onal Ci ty Bank (bulwarks of the Counci l onForei gn Rel ati ons) served as i ntermedi ari es for the Al geri an Mni ster of Energy onhi s recent vi si t to Ameri ca Head of the Al geri an l obby i n Ameri ca, the magazi nestated, i s M Cl ark Cl i fford, Presi dent J ohnson' s former Secretary of Defense, whohas i nterests i n the El Paso O l Company and i s a di rector of Phi l l i ps Petrol eumI N BRI TAIN THE ENERGY CRISIS provi ded an opportuni ty for impl antati on of the communi sprogramadopted on J une 2, 1971, to sweep Heath and hi s crew out of off i ce . Lefti si n pol i ti cs and l abor uni ons were ordered tomobi l i ze and uni te the forces capabl e ownni ng changes i n pol i cy and l eadershi p. Depri ved of oi l , Great Bri tai n ground toa hal t A 3-day work week was decreed On J anuary 17 workers at a company nearSheff i el d refused to return to the 5-day week because they were making more by workinthree days, drawng three days' unempl oyment pay, getti ng a tax rebate and l oafi ngAutomobi l e manufacturers estimated that i n 1973 over 300,000 cars val ued at some 782ml l i on had been l ost i n Engl and through stoppages caused by l efti sts fomenti ng exi si ng gri evances or i nsti gati ng stri kes . M Gl bert Hunt, the chi ef executi ve ofBri ti sh Chrysler, denounced agi tati on by i nternati onal soci al i sts backed by uni versiti es, to sabotage i ndustri al rel ati ons for pol i ti cal ends .Gordon McLennan, of the Communi st Party, expressed hope that the cri si s wl l l ead toa General El ecti on and a bi g Labor maj ori ty i n Parl i ament, perhaps wth vi ctory atthe pol l s through a cri ppl i ng nati onal stri ke. B l l Ronksl ey, communi st presi dentof the Associ ated Soci ety of Locomoti ve Engi neers and Fi remen (ASLEF), ordered hi s29,000 members to ti e up the rai l road systemwhi ch twenty-si x years of nati onal i zati ohad reduced to anarchy Commuters who, as taxpayers, were ml ked of 750,000 to payrai l waymen who reported for work but were bl ocked by ASLEF, coul d not get to thei r j oThe bi g questi on was : Shoul d the country ri sk an el ecti on? TheGovernment i s faci na chal l enge to i ts authori ty and that of Parl i ament unprecedented si nce the war, theDai l y Tel egraph of J anuary 18 decl ared Thi s conf l i ct between trade uni on power andthe authori ty of Government has been the basi c underl yi ng i ssue i n our pol i ti cs forsome time Now i t has come to a head The el ectorate shoul d be i nvi ted to pronounceon i t .THE NATIONAL UNON OF MNEWORKERS (NUM entered the f i ght when the Arab cut-off offuel i n the dead of wnter put Bri tai n at thei r mercy The NUMrul e book openl ystates that one of i ts obj ecti ves i s to j oi n wth other organi zati ons for the purposof, and wth a vi ew to the complete abol i ti on of capi tal i sm Wat other organi za-ti ons? The Communi st Party? None of the f i ve communi sts runni ng the mneworkers'uni on today was on the executi ve commttee before 1971 Under Mck McGahey, the48-year-ol d founder member of the Bri ti sh Communi st Party, the mneworkers are now onthe march The mask i s off and Bri tons are tol d that a coal i ti on of the Labour l eftand the Communi st Party i s out to take over the country SUDDENLY ENGLI SHMEN BEGAN WAKING UP Many asked i f i t was too l ate I t had beenpopul ar to ri di cul e peopl e for seei ng communi sts under the bed. A f l ood of l ettersto-the-edi tor began heapi ng scorn on the ri di cul ers M J E Luyton, of Dover,wote, I t i s hearteni ng to see the Dai l y Tel egraph, one of the l eadi ng and mostresponsi bl e newspapers, at l ast devoti ng more space to the menace of communi sm Weno l onger have to l ook ' under the bed for reds . They can nowbe seen, heard andcounted I t was l ess than a decade ago that they openl y boasted of thei r avowedi ntenti ons, but unfortunatel y so few of us saw the danger, and we have al l owed i t tocreep up upon us by sheer apathy Now they are i n control of the uni ons i n our l ead-i ng and vi tal i ndustri es . For about a month i t appeared that Bri ti sh permssi venesstowards Reds had reached the end of the rope M P.E.H Pi ke, of Cornwal l , wote tothe Dai l y Telegraph, Havi ngat one time had some responsibi l i ty for l aw and order i na country i n whi ch a strong cl andesti ne communi st organi zati on exi sted, I f i nd i t

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Page -3-heartening to see that some peopl e recogni zewhat i s happening i n thi s country andare prepared to cal l a spade a spade To refer to communi sts as the l eft-wng element,or by some other simlarl y equivocal phrase, i s dangerous I t i s safer to regard so-cal l ed left-wngers as communi sts whether they carry the communi st party membershipcards or not I ndeed i t i s possi bl e that many of the most dedi cated communists do notadverti se thei r bel i efs by paradi ng thei r membership i n the Communist Party I t i s,after al l , more advantageous to j oi n the Labour Party Can themoderate elementof the Labour Party ri de the communi st ti ger i t has spawned? As a member of theel ectorate I regard the odds i n favor as i nsuffi ci ent to warrant the ri sk of castingmy vote for Labour London edi tors who have for years pi ctured Senator Joseph McCarthy as awtch-hunterand members of the J ohn B rch Society as l unati c fri ngers turned prime space overto l etter-wi ters making statements whi ch mght have come f romthe J ohn B rch Bue BookM Gordon Crei ghton, of Rckmansworth, Herts, wote the Telegraph that a certainMember of Parl i ament must be mghty nai ve i f he thi nks that not one member of theCommunist Party has been returned to a seat i n Parl i ament There are wel l -i nformedexperts who esti mate that i n fact the l ast Parl i ament contained as many as seventyagents of Red Fasci st imperial i sm I n al l probabi l i ty there are at present i n thi scountry at l east one ml l i on communi st supporters of a foreign power, and among themare strategi cal l y placed men who hol d hi gh ranks i n the Red Army or the KGB Cearl yal l these peopl e are not i n the Communi st Party, which i s del i beratel y kept smal l i norder to lul l us to sleep The answer i s that i n accordance wth Khrushchev s secretdi recti ve of August 1958 they are i nsi de other parti es, and i t i s under another l abel ,not Communi st , that they plan to come to power i n Bri tain Wi ti ng to l end aidwhencal l ed upon i s the most-powerful army, navy and ai rforce theworld has ever seenThe extent to whi ch morale was l i fted by the casti ng off of bl i nkers where communi smi s concerned was evidenced byM D Denni ss l etter i n the Telegraph of J anuary 18 I came f rombehi nd the I ron Curtain and have been i n thi s country for 25 years Ihave always been puzzl ed why there were never expressed any sort of condemnati ons i nthe papers, on the radi o, etc against the subversi ve acti vi ti es of the communists At l ong l ast I cannowsee i ndignant l etters appearing i n your paper I s i t not tool ate? I amaf rai d the communi sts are al ready i n the saddl e Thi s ki nd of l ettersand arti cl es should have been wi tten 20 years agoM F W Ankers, of Chester ; asked, Can someone please enl i ghtenme as to thedi fference between a l eft-wng social i st and a communi st? Perhaps M Wlson coulddi fferenti ate between themOne could go on for pages and the l etters would f i l l a book Some were scholarl y andworth preservation One such, by Lieut Col H V Rose of Revel stoke House, NossMayo, Near Plymouth, Devon, appeared i n London s l i beral Times of December 13 Bri tai n s survi val as a democrati c sovereign power i s today threatened fromwthin

as never before, he wote Part of the blame he placed on party pol i ti ci ans whobel i eved that the promse of material wel farewas more l i kel y to wn votes thanappeal s for austeri ty There was a total fai l ure to appreci ate that, having l i qui -dated her Empi re, Bri tain coul d no l onger enj oy i ts vast reservoi rs of cheap foodand rawmateri al s to make good her defi ci encies The ri sing generati on, he sai d,should have been taught the vi rtues of hard work, soci al di scipl i ne and patri oti smI nstead, society was permtted to suffer f roma fal se-sense of post-imperi al gui l twhich i nduced an unprecedented outbreak of trendy l i beral i sm Themnori ty ofdecadent i ntel l ectual s, whose power to bend publ i c opinion to thei r views i s i ni nverse proporti on to thei r-value to the communi ty, fear . that the pendulumi s al readyswnging.So strong was the ti de against communismat year s end, even the l efti st OBSERVER

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Page - 4-pri nted a l etter headed Enemy Wthi n . To those of us on the sidel i nes i t i s veryevi dent that Bri tai n i s at war i n al l but the ml i tary sense and that the Fi fth Col umi s al i ve and wel l , shel tered and nouri shed by the trade uni ons, wrote M Norman F Bunker to the paper whi ch sent Hanoi propagandi st Mary McCarthy to Washington tocover the Watergate heari ngs I s i t not ti me that both the government and the generapubl i c di d something to cut themdown to si ze?For a month i t l ooked as though Bri tai n was sti rri ng Then the Left ral l i ed The plto back moderates was trotted out Whether the cal l to take defense agai nstcommuni smout of the hands of anti -communi sts and gi ve Non-communi sts a monopl y oni t i s a red strategy for i mmobi l i zi ng communi sms enemes or a soci al i st strategy forconni ng voters i nto hel pi ng soci al i sts and communists destroy capi tal i sm no TVcommentator or mass-ci rcul ati on paper i s l i kel y to ask The game of the neutral i zeri s to pi cture anti -communi smas extremsmand non-communismas anti -communi sm ThomasBraden, accordi ng to R Harri s Smth i n hi s book, OSS - The Secret Hstory of Ameri caFi rst Central I ntel l i gence Agency, successful l y i ntroduced thi s doctri ne i nto CA,and i n so doi ng threwAmeri can support behi nd l efti sts who were al l i es of the commun-i sts i n destroyi ng free enterpri se and capi tal i smaround the worl d At the same timeCAwas emascul ated as far as effecti veness agai nst the real enemy was concerned The exponent of the neutral i zer s doctri ne i n Bri tai n, working always as the opponentof extremsm of both l eft and ri ght, i s M Bri an Crozi er, who for hi s purposefounded the I nsti tute for the Study of Confl i ct . Mr Crozier does not say that hevotes Labour-soci al i st, the part whi ch Mr Wedgewood Benn says i s commtted to bri ng-i ng about a fundamental and i rreversibl e shi ft i n the balance of power and weal th i nfavour of working peopl e and thei r faml i es . Mr Crozier si mpl y states that he doesnot vote conservati ve. Nei ther he nor hi s I nsti tute come under the f ire reserved forthose who f i ght communi smas non-soci al i sts I n 1961 went to Ameri ca to l ecture and col l ect materi al for an ei ght-page arti cl epubl i shed i n London by ENCOUNTERmagazi ne onMarch 1962, enti tl ed Down Among theRghti sts - a Report fromAmeri ca. No menti on was made of Ameri ca s revol uti onari esof the l eft However, Mr Gordon Hal l , the Boston anti -anti communist, was prai sed byMr Crozier for having conducted a courageous one-man war agai nst extremsmfor thepast f i f teen years . The arti cl e started, J ohn B rch i s the Horst Wessel of anAmeri can neo-Nazi sm The real man must have been an i ntol erant busybody The mythmakes himri ghteous and i nc rrupti bl e. I t was a hatchet- , j ob on Ameri can anti -communists and i n parti cul ar Mr Robert Wel ch and the J ohn B rch Soci ety, Crozi er sexample of howsoci al i st and communi st uni te agai nst the anti -communi st whose acti onsare effecti ve Nne years l ater, on March 1, 1971, Mr Crozier was gi ven four pages of favorabl epubl i ci ty i n U S NEWS WORLDREPORT On Apri l 9, 1972, he took out i nsuranceagainst attack fromthe l eft by decl ari ng i n the London Sunday Tel egraph, The manwho di d the most to di scredi t anti -communi smwas the l ate Senator J oe McCarthy .Bri ti sh readers have never been gi ven a case by case hi story of the men J oe McCarthyquesti oned ENCOUNTER the magazi ne i n whi ch Crozier axed the effecti ve enemes of communi smi nAmeri ca, i s edi ted by Mel vi n J Lasky, an Ameri can who formerl y wrote for the NEWLEADER, the pol i ti cal organ of Ameri can l abor ENCOUNTER at the time was f i nanced byCA through the Congress of Cul tural Freedom whi ch was CA-supported and headed i nLondon by Mr Murray Mndl i n, the edi tor of Pal l Mal l Press Pal l Mal l i s owned byFrederi ck Praeger Co. of NewYork, whi ch was exposed i n 1967 as the publ i sher ofCA-f i nanced books extol l i ng the so-cal l ed non-communi st l eft, and sol d to thepubl i c Typi cal examples are Praeger s expensi ve vol umes by J oseph Butti nger, theAustri an soci al i st l eader,natural i zed Ameri can, whomLeo Cherne, di rector of theResearch I nsti tute of Ameri ca, regul arl y heaped wth prai se But Cherne and Butti ngewere di rectors of another CA front, the I nternati onal Rescue Commttee Cherne

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Page-has hi s own Research Insti tute publ i cati on, probabl y CA-fi nanced as wel l , and i s amember of the Presi dent' s 11-mn Forei gn Intel l i gence Advi sory Board, whi ch meetsfor two ful l days every other month to reviewmateri al gathered by CIAand othergovernment i ntel l i gence sources The fronts and i nterweaving l i nes through whi ch higri ding leaders of the non-communist l eft prai se and advance one another, i t can beseen, are endless A constant fear was that someday there mght be a crackdown onl efti st professors and l abor l eaders Pi cturi ng defensive acti on as confl i ct andorgani zing an I nsti tute to prevent i t was the answer Crozier rushed out a report on the current cri si s whi ch the London Times of January16 cal l ed a pl ea to back moderates i n f i ghti ng subversi on . Aplea for i neffecti ve-ness, for subversioni sts are never mderate Acti on by pol i ti ci ans was rul ed outbecause, sai d M Crozi er, we do not bel i eve that repressive l egi sl ati on would beacceptabl e to the Bri ti sh publ i c or that i t would be effecti ve. Employers andpol i ti ci ans were urged to support mderate trade uni oni sm I n plai n Engl i shStrengthen labour soci al i sts so they can destroy employers and non-l abori tes Themost val uable contri buti on our pol i ti ci ans coul d make to counteri ng subversi on wouldprobabl y be to refrain from or at l east to reduce, party recrimnati on over i ndus-tri al rel ati ons matters, wote M Crozier Wth fi rm going bankrupt by thethousands because of red-di rected stri kes, pol i ti ci ans are tol d to keep sti l l Certai nl y, M Crozier and hi s Insti tute have made val i d anti -communi st statements -but always wthi n the context of social i sms fi ght for power And no arti cl e M Crozier ever produced has attacked communi smor communists as vi ci ousl y as the pi ecehe publ i shed i n CA-fi nanced ENCOUNTERon anti -communi sts i n Ameri ca After Crozierappeal for alarmed Bri tons to qu t wi ti ng l etters and l et mderate trade unioni smtake care of everythi ng, a di versi onary move was l aunched on January 18 OVERNGHT THE CALL FORA CLAMPDOWNONCOMMUNSTS CEASED Cal l i t coi ncidence or supel ati ve cunning by menwho knowBri ti sh psychol ogy thoroughl y, the publ i c' s mnd wasdi verted fromReds wth a singl e news story M Chri stopher Wlker of the Timesi ntervi ewed a former CA consul tant named Mles Copeland and wote a story headedCA men i n Bri tai n checking on subversi on. He quoted Copeland as saying that 30 or40 extra CAagents ski l l ed i n the use of advanced survei l l ance techniques had beensent to London because asi de fromsuperi or techni cal competence wth al l form ofsurvei l l ance equ pment, i t i s wdely recogni zed that our agents have more freedomtooperate i n thi s country which your own i ntel l i gence servi ces do not possess . Youare restri cted and squeamsh on your own terri tory fromdoing the sort of thi ngs thathave to be done to track down terrori sts and subversi ves .No l i ne could have been better chosen to take the heat off nati ve Reds and bri ngwathdown on the meddl i ngAmeri cans . Nor coul d a troubl e-maker have found a better manto quote For some years Copel and has wi tten l etters to Bri ti sh papers on Ameri cani ntel l i gence and enjoyed a reputati on as an authori ty on CA though claimng con-sul tant status when labeled as an agent I t was almst as though the whole thinghad been orchestrated, the way the l etti ng off steamagainst communi st subversi onceased and the outpourings against Ameri ca started Three such l etters were featuredi n the Times of January 21 The fi rst started, So Bri tain has l et i n Nxon' splumbers More fol l owed on January 22 By the 23rd there were si x Then newsstori es began appearing Lord Harl ech, the fri end of the Kennedys, got i nto i t wtha radi o broadcast In the hue and cry against Ameri cans the manwho started i t wasforgottenMR COPELANDS OCCUPATION IN BRTAIN i s l i sted as busi ness consul tant and govern-ment rel ati ons speci al i st . Duri ng Wrl d I I he was wth OSS before becomng a U SV ce Consul i n Syri a and serving CA as a member of the consul tant f i rmof Booz,A len and Hamlton In 1955 and 56 he was i n Wshington on a CA-sponsoredcommttee chargedwth planning Mddl e East pol i cy - a period when Ameri ca l i nedup wth the Russians at Suez and Red-sel ected Ageri ans were f l yi ng to Ameri ca on

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Page 6-CIA schol arshi ps On l eavi ng the CIA consul tant j ob, Copel and went i nto busi ness i nLondon wth Kermt Roosevel t, the OSS-CI A offi cer who acqui red an undeserved reputa-t i on as an anti -communist when Mossadegh' s attempt to take over i n I ran was thwarted The decidi ng factor was not anti -communismbut oi l French servi ces consi deredRoosevel t a hi gh l evel supporter of the FLN i n Al geri aI n hi s book The Game of Nati ons, Copel and tel l s of turni ng over 3 ml l i on toNasser i n unvouchered U S secret funds for hi s personal use The Los AngelesTi mes of J anuary 18 1970, cal l ed himthe Egypti an l eader i n the State Department' Game Center' duri ng the Nasser peri od . So much for the man who provided the fol l owpunch to Crozi er' s cal l for moderati on against communi st stri kers and touched offthe wave of fury agai nst Ameri ca Part of the phenomenon of l abor-soci al i st respectabi l i ty as opponents of extremsmboth ri ght and l eft l i es i n the f i rmy-pl anted i dea that whi l e anti -communists areextremsts, equal l y ml i tant one-worl ders out to sacri fi ce thei r country' s soverei gntyto a worl d state are not extremsts at al l The closest the l atter have come tocri ti ci smwas when the Ti mes of London reported on J anuary 26 that M Cord Meyer,the (C A) stati on chi ef i n London, has recei ved a fai r amount of publ i ci ty i n theUni ted States A bri l l i ant student at Yal e, he l ost an eye i n the Paci f i c duri ngthe Second Worl d War and emerged fromhi s experi ence a fervent i deal i st wth abel i ef i n worl d government He j oi ned the CIA i n 1951 at a time when many l i berali ntel l ectual s did, and j oi ned the department i n charge of the secret fundi ngof non-Communi st, l eft-wng publ i cati ons (Emphasi s ours) He ran i nto troubl e duri ng theperi od of McCarthyismbecause of hi s l i nks wth communi sts among worl d federal i sts He was suspended wthout pay for three and a hal f months and then rei nstated Arecent art i cl e i n the NewYork Ti mes suggested that he was embi ttered by the ex-peri ence and moved to the ri ght pol i ti cal l y.Trust the NewYork Ti mes to make a man who wants to rel i nqui sh Ameri ca' s sover-ei gnty l ook good to the onl y peopl e l i kel y to attack him

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WARSAWPACT M NPOW RThe important thi ng i n pol i ti cs i s to exi st The i nternati onal scene i s atheatre, France' s Forei gn Mni ster, Mchel gbe r ~ J A recentl y decl ared Thestatement i s apt, because i n the theatre ref f f rMd to by the al l but unknownfuncti onary catapul ted onto the worl d stage by Presi dent Pompi dou i n March1973, al l that transpi res the meeti ngs, the oi l negoti ati ons, the nati on-cri ppl i ngstri kes and scurryi ng of Mni sters and Heads of State i s agai nst a singl e backdropThe l engtheni ng shadowof usesever-growng power on l and and sea and i n the ai r Month by month the spectr `backdrop expands The posturi ng actors busy themsel ves wth sub-pl ots whi ch i n rel ati on to the setti ng are tri vi a A press whi ch i sthe enemy of government i n Ameri ca and the voi ce of government i n communi st countri esampl i f i es the scri pt So much for the theatre Let us l ook at the backdropTHE : FARCE I n J anuary Moscows pol i ti cal commentator, V kenti Matvi ev,wote i n zvesti a and MoscowNews that a trendi s devel opi ng i n the worl d which f avorsthe struggl e for social j usti ce and nati onal l i berati on movements whi ch wl l bri ngabout a d rabl e ace. Thi s, M Matviev assured hi s readers, i s al so the opi ni on057of Henry Wat Matvi ev meant was that western communists are devel opi ng atrend of rev nary movements f avorabl e to Russi a i n the name of l i berati on. Headded, Easi ngof pol i ti cal tensi ons wl l accompany an easi ng of ml i tary tensi ons But easi ng of ml i tary tensi ons wl l come onl y when western nati ons cease to di sputeRussian ml i tary and naval domnati on and submt to rul e by nati ve communi sts obedi entto MoscowI n the f i rst two months of 1974 Russi a rei nforced her some 400,000 troops massed wthEast Germany' s 190,000 al ong the German border Russi an f orces i n East G e werereported at 22 di vi si ons of f rom10,000 to 15,000 men each, backed by an ai rf orce ofsome 60,000 At l east 7,000 tacti cal nucl ear warheads, as many as Ameri ca has i nWstGermany, are poi nted toward the Wst Hundreds of T-10T supported by 1,000 to1,500 faster and more modern T-62 tanks desi gned to operate i nmaneuverabl e assaul tgroups have been i nstal l ed i n permanent bases on the German border I f a reducti onagreement i s reached wth Ameri ca at the Geneva tal ks, the 1,500 ol d tanks whi chdi sappeared l ast year wl l be brought home, the newones l ef t i n pl ace At l east 50,000 Russi an tanks are depl oyed west of the Ural s, and f our newsystem are under constructi on Dai l y more detai l ed reports on Russi a' s s aggebui l dup reach Wstern Europe whi l e press, TV, and radi o i n the Wst emphasi ze ~P ntpBy J anuary 1974 the overal l l and superi ori ty of the WrsawPact nati ons over NATOwastwo to one i n ready ef fecti ve troops, two to one i n ai rcraf t and f our to one i n tanks Add to thi s imbal ance the advantage of l onger trai ni ng, standardi zed equi pment, ahi gher l evel of moral e, a central posi ti on and control of the i ni ti ati ve The 210,000man Ameri can 7th Army i nWst Germany, backed by Wl l y 60,000-man Bundeswehr,does not begi n to i ndi cate the rel ati ve strength of East-Wst f orces THE AMERCAN ARMY' SMORALE Years of constant attack by press, TV and l ef ti st pro-f essors agai nst al l thi ngs ml i tary have brought Ameri can moral e to an al l -ti me l owand l owered the qual i ty of recrui ts A l i ed ml i tary observers contempl ate anAmeri can army that i s 25 negro and estimate real i sti cal l y that a hi gh percentage ofrecrui ts, bl ack and whi te, j oi ned the army on orders for ml i tary trai ni ng wth aneye to revol uti on (Resi stance I nside the Army) was not di sbanded wth the end

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Page_-2-of the war i n V etnam Many of France' s top ml i tary men knewonl y too wel l what theAmeri can army was goi ng through i n I ndo-Chi na Revol ut i onari es i n the ranks, stabsi n the back f romcommuni st women' s organi zati ons, l ef t i st professors, pol i t i ci ans,edi tors and student movements at home - they had gone through i t Before every V et-mnh operati on ci vi l i ans di sappeared from the area marked for attack A short timel ater, as mysteri ousl y as they went, they came back Those who returned were thereto sni pe, i nformand pl ant booby-traps for the enemyEvery V etnamese army - the Cao Dai forces of Pope Phamcong Tac, the Hoa Hao sectwhi ch decimated the Reds i n the Cantho regi on of the Mekong, the Bi nh Xuyen pi ratearmy of General Le van V en, the communi sts i n part i cul ar - used chi l dren, women andol d men They were expendabl e, l ess l i kel y to attract attenti on and sure to be under-rated Vandenberghe, the Forei gn Legi onai re who was General de Lattre de Tassi gny' sgreatest commando l eader, used chi l dren as spi es when prepari ng a rai d He sai d,The ravi shi ng l i t t l e urchi ns are ful l of ruses, and they l ook so i nnocent Thedel ta i s ful l of them They are so ni ce, even the V ets are not suspi ci ous of themThey go everywhere and observe everythi ng Thei r gi f t for di ssimul at i on i s f ri ghten-i ng How they l ove the game of espi onage and what pri de they take i n i t They knowperf ectl y wel l what i t i s goi ng to l ead to, but they are proud of thei r rol e Theseyoungsters have a geni us for evi l Wi l e they are pl ayi ng they regi ster everythi ng -al l t he detai l s - where the sentri es are, the command post, the breaches i n the bamboobarri cade . Wen the Cao Dai army moved, ol d men and women were the eyes and ears oni ts f l anks Whi l e guerri l l as were i n operati on, the young and the aged served ascoveri ng sni pers When Seymour Hersh and the NewYork Ti mes pi l l ori ed Li eutenant Cal l ey for savi ng hi suni t f roma cl assic ambush i t was another bl ow to destroy the wl l of any Ameri canof f i cer anywhere to do anythi ng that mght be ef fecti ve A l ef ti st radi o hen namedMckey, i n Atl anta, exul ted over Cal l ey' s convi ct i on pp. the ai rwaves of Stati on WRNGl i ke thousands elsewhere Before Captai n Aubrey l awyer for the prosecut i on,had time to qui t the army and cash i n on hi s newpopul ari ty wth the l ef t, a reti redAmeri can ambassador i n the south of France, i gnorant of V etnam- and the country towhi ch he had been posted, for that matter - sent hi ma tel egramwth one word, BravoOn May 21, 1971, M J R ves Chi l ds, Ameri can, l i vi ng i n Nce, France, wote theI nternati onal Heral d Tri bune i n Pari s that a l etter by Captai n Dani el had been l i kea breath of f resh ai r There emerges f i nal l y an Ameri can who puts pri nci pl e abovepri vate i nterest Nowwe can rai se our heads agai n Thank God for hi m By that time the hero of pri nci pl e above pri vate i nterests had l eft the army to entea hi gh-pri ced Washi ngton l awf i rmand take on the defense of A fred tthgs ~ the homo-sexual securi ty ri sk who murdered a U S embassy of f i ci al i n Equatori al Gui nea Future hi stori ans, i n examning the conduct of l ef ti st l awyers and j udges i n the seri eof tri al s i n whi ch anti -war acti vi sts came out wth f l yi ng col ors and patri ots werepi ctured as cri mnal s mght bear two seemngl y unrel ated facts in mnd Back i n the' 30s, i n Vol ume VI I , No 63, of the communi st j ournal INPRECOR Stal i n' s future chi efprosecutor, Andrei V shi nsky, wote, I n the Sovi et Union the court i s an organ ofclass rul e. By 1969 l eft i st l awyers and j udges had made i t so i n Ameri ca I n md-March 1972 Senator Sam E ~~s sub-commt tee was i n sessi on, l i steni ng dai l y towtnesses who sai d what senator Ervi n wanted to hear on the medi a and f reedomof i n-formati on Washi ngton-based consumer group cal l ed _t Tgr_v _n_ __pdi (AIM showedthrough moni tori ng the Ervi n heari ngs that TV and the press were gui l ty of sl anti ng Senator Ervi n refused to admt thei r f i ndi ngs These were i ncidents i n Ameri ca' s moral di sarmng whi l e the f ranti c Sovi et programgrew Sam$howboasted i n 1969 that al l he had to do to start an anti -war marchwas pi ck up ephone Hs l i eutenants needed no i nstructi ons and the KennedyI nst i tute of Pol i t i cs at Harvard gave SamBrown time of f to l ead them The exampl esare countl ess Taken together they destroyed the morale of the men i n uni formand

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Page - 3-perfected the anti -war mchi ne that wl l be standi ng ready when Russi a s six-oceannavy and mghty l and and ai r forces threaten the Wst NEWS-SPEAK A exander Ro1zhe - tsyi n, i n an essay cal l ed Live not by l i es decl aredbefore l eavi ng Russi a that e ehadbecom a pi l l ar of the Sovi et regim, and thatevery day vi rtual l y every Russi an i s subj ected to varying degrees of pressure toaccept the offi ci al fal sehoods as truth, or at l east not to questi on themopenl y I nAmri ca, through grade school , uni versi ty and the mss mdi a, a siml ar decepti on hasbeen put over through our own formof work di storti onLast month thi s report touched agai n on what R Harri s i n hi s book OSS - TheSecret Hstory of Amri ca s Fi rst Central I ntel l i gence Agency cal l ed the greatvi ctory of the CI A l i beral facti on i n the adopti on of Thoms pol i cy ofsupporti ng the non-communi st pol i ti cal l eft around the worl d. There i s no non-communi st pol i ti cal l eft for the simpl e reason that there i s no area of l efti stmli tancy i n which at mny poi nts communi st and non-communist lefti st aim do notcoi ncide The resul t i s occasional competi ti on punctuati ng program of common acti onagainst free enterpri se, capi tal i smand mnagemnt The Wst s fi ght i s againstcommuni st expansi on Communi sms val i d enem i s the i nternati onal pol i ti cal ri ght CI A s sensel ess backi ng of l efti st l abor uni ons, pol i ti cal parti es and i nternati onalorgani zati ons of students and j ournal i sts strengthened communi sms part- ti m al l i esand hurt communi smnot at al l I t i s i ncredi bl e that A l en MIesand Thoms Braden shoul d thi nk that by mki ngJ oseph Butt~ngrer the Austri an soci al i st l eader natural i zed Amri can, a di rector ofa CI A front, The I nternati onal Rescue Commttee, because of hi s l i nes i nto theSoci al i st I nternati onal , he woul d be helpful to Amri ca I nstead hi s l i nes i nto C Awere of i nesti mbl e value to the Soci al i st I nternati onal to whi ch every soci al i stowes l oyal ty Lefti st professors, pol i ti ci ans, TV commntators and newsmn werepushed upward and protected by a sort of free msonry of the l eft behi nd which ThomsBraden, A l en Dul l es and Braden s associ ate, Frank hrew the wei ght of CI AThi s was the al l i ance that mde possibl e the changing o the mani ng of Engl i sh wordswthout readers and voters knowng i t was happening Non-communist was sol d asmani ng anti -communi st Anti -communi sts were pi ctured as extremsts . Communi stsbecam l i beral s, whi l e communi st sympathi zers and supporters who di scl aimd mmber-shi p becam moderates .Under J ohn F Kennedy a cal l for peaceful revol uti on was l aunched There i s nosuch thi ng as a peaceful revol uti on I f i t i s peaceful i t i s pol i ti cal evol uti onRevol uti on always l eads to crim and vi ol ence As the no-wni smwar i n Vi etnampro-gressed word-mani ngs were stretched to cover i t Those who wanted a Hanoi vi ctory -mani ng Amri can defeat - were cal l ed doves Those who wanted to fi ght j ust hardenough to keep the enem fromwnni ng - i .e . , to drag the war out - were cal l ed hawks On the pretense of gi vi ng both si des a heari ng, debates that were di shonest fromthest_art.were set up across the country between doves and hawks, wth mn l i ke McGeorgeSu representi ng the l atter No one who wanted ml i tary vi ctory was gi ven a heari ng+n England Si r Basi l H Liddel l F ~the ml i tary hi stori an, wrote that the onl y wayto mke war l ess costl y i n term of bl oodshed and treasure was to seek qui ck and deci -sive vi ctory FromUNArthur i g encouraged the enemy and stabbed Amri can moral e by stati ngthat vi ctory i n Vi etnamwas not Amri ca s aim On October 27, 1968, R chard ` xor i_stated on the TV programFace the Nati on Amri ca must end the war i n Vi etnambynegoti ati on . Thi s wth an enem constantl y assured that he di d not have to negoti ateThree days l ater Robert Kow1 i eclaedon NBC that No responsibl e U S offi ci alhas mnti oned ml i tary vi ctory, and thi s woul d be impossi bl e anyway. Had any generalspoken up he woul d have been torn to shreds by professors, the mdi a and rampagi ngstudents On December 5 1968, Henry Ki ssi nger s fel l owCFR-mmber J oseph C Harschwrote that Ki ssinger was one of the fi rst among top experts to concl ude that ml i tary

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Page - 4-vi ctory i n V etnami s nei ther possi bl e nor desi rabl e . On December 4, 1970, C L Sul zberger of the NewYork Times wote, Ml i tary vi ctory, l i ke concepts of uncondi -ti onal surrender, has been recogni zed as obsol ete since Worl d War I I . When a f i naldi sengagement was arranged by Ki ssinger, the habi tue of Cyrus Eaton s Pugwash Con-ferences who thought vi ctory was not desi rabl e, the same professors, pol i ti ci ans andwi ters who pi ctured exponents of no-wni smas hawks rushed to get i nto pri nt wththe theme that mghty Ameri ca had been defeated by l i ttl e North V etnam The truthwas, North V etnams l eaders knew that Ameri ca had the power to wn the war i n amatter of weeks, and had i t been made cl ear that Ameri ca i ntended to wn, Hanoi sfi rst probi ng operati on woul d have been the l ast and the South woul d have been l ef ti n peace Organi zati ons wth unchal l engeabl e names l i ke FreedomHouse declared thatan Ameri can vi ctory i n V etnamwoul d be a bl ow to f reedom (Leo Cherne, of CI A sForei gn I ntel l i gence Advi sory Board, I rvi ng Brown, the l abor del egate who backed theterrori sts i n A geri a, and Senator J acob J avi ts are stalwarts i n FreedomHouse . )To what extent Ameri ca was responsi bl e for the deteri orati on of moral e i n the WestGerman army whi l e Russi an strength grew i s hard to say, but i t i s unquesti oned thatWl l y Brandt and those he brought i nto power wth himare responsi bl e for the stateborderi ng on revol uti on which nowexi sts i n Germany And CA, wth i ts avowed pol i cyof supporti ng the non-communi st l eft, which i s to say soci al i sts, had much to do wthbri ngi ng Wl l y Brandt i nto power I n 1961 Chancel l or Conrad Adenauer was about tovi si t Washi ngton Wl l y Brandt, member of the Soci al i st I nternati onal and mayor ofWest Berl i n, undercut Adenauer, who was the West s man, by rushi ng to Washington amonth ahead of him H du B Report, March-Apri l 1961) The soci al i st tenet, I t i sthe duty of al l soci al i sts to hel p i nto power soci al i st governments el sewhere wasl i ved up to, to the l etter On March 13, 1961, V ctor Reuther gave Brandt an Ameri cansfor Democrati c Acti on di nner i n Washington On the 16th Leo Cherne and Soci al i stI nternati onal bi gwg J oseph Butti nger gave himan I nternati onal Rescue Commtteedi nner i n NewYork and awarded himthe phoney Admral Byrd Award as a free nati onl eader . A l thi s was to l et West Germany know that Brandt was the man Ameri ca wantedBut the I nternati onal Rescue Commttee was a CIA f ront, as CIA anal yst R Harri s Smthadmts i n hi s book OSS - The Secret Hstory of Ameri ca s Fi rst Central I ntel l i genceAgency. Smth l i sts i t as part of the non-communi st pol i ti cal l eft around the worl dcomposed of trade uni ons, pol i ti cal parti es and i nternati onal org ni z ti ons of studentand j ournal i sts which CIA has backed and used since the Al l en Dul l es era He shoul dhave said whi ch have used C A .COMMUNST I NFILTRATION IN GERMANY At the tim of Brandt s 1961 trip to Ameri ca,agents fromEast German l abor unions di rected by the Federati on of Worl d nions i nPrague had al ready i nf i l trated the Hamburg uni ons whi ch Brandt s f ri end and fel l owmayor, Max Brauer, had used as a l ocal soci al i st party The communist- formed GermanAssociati on for Peace i n A geri a was servi ng as an espi onage network agai nst NATOunder the protecti on of Brauer, the Mlwaukee uni on off i ci al who had come home to enterpol i ti cs On March 31, 1963, off i ci al s f romFrance s communist-di rected General Con-federati on of Workers (CGT) sl i pped i nto Strasbourg accompani ed by a member of thesteeri ng commttee of the French Communi st Party, for tal ks wth l eaders of theDeutscher Gewerkschafts Bund (DGB) of West Germany For two days they di scussed pl ansfor di stri buti on of East German l abor propaganda i n West Germany by the DGB H duB Reports, Nov-Dec 1962) No German paper reported the meeti ng and the report gi venby thi s newsl etter was i gnored There was no reci procal propaganda di stri buti on i nEast Germany Yet, the DGB was a member of the I nternati onal Confederati qn of FreeTrade Uni ons (ICFTU) i n Brussel s, i nto which Ameri can workers had poured ml l i ons onI rvi ng Brown s assurance that they were bui l di ng a bul wark agai nst communi smThe l i e was gi ven to I rvi ng Brown s hi gh-soundi ng tal k l ess than a month l ater, onApri l 26, when Herbert Tul az, Assi stant Secretary-General of the I CFTU declared ata 3-day DGB ral l y i n Nuremburg that worl d-wde workers sol i dari ty i s a trade uni onobl i gati on. He made no di sti ncti on between communist and non-communi st I t was acal l for workers everywhere to uni te agai nst capi tal i sm management and free enter-

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Page -5-pri se I t was Marx' s Prol etari at of the worl d, uni te i nWl l y Brandt-WlterReuther l anguage These were the boys i nto whose hands CIAwas handing money andpower i n the fal se cl aimthat they were using the non-communist l eft to beat thecommuni st l ef t . R Harri s Smth)1974 - THE TAKEOVER After uni oni zed Ameri cans had beenml ked of ml l i ons to bui l dup the monster I CFTU i n Brussel s to which I rvi ng Brown was the AFL-CO del egate whi l eservi ng as the I CFTUdel egate to UN, Ameri can Labor pul l ed out and the Red Federa-ti on of Wrl d Uni ons moved i n A chi l d shoul d have known i t woul d happen Not anAmeri can workman has been abl e to protest that hi s enforced contri buti ons were usedto bui l d up a l abor empi re obedi ent to Russi a i n the Wst Wth the hurt i nnocenceof a trusti ng husband George Meany recentl y wote Heinz-Oskar Vetter, head of theGerman DGB The contacts mai ntai ned by the DGB wth the government-control l ed uni onsof Sovi et Russi a consti tute a threat to the f ree worl d By l ate 1973 when Meany wotehi s l etter i t was too l ate The Chel epi n Pl an was movi ng ful l speed ahead on a road-bed bui l t by Ameri can uni on l eaders and exponents of the Braden doctri ne i n CAALEXANDER CHELEPINwas key man of the KGB when i n 1966 the Kremin gave hima new j obas vi ce-presi dent of the Federati on of Wrl d Uni ons, agai nst whi ch I rvi ng Brown wasbeati ng hi s breast and tal ki ng about howmuch they hated him Chel epi n' s teamknewthat the West German Communi st Party (DKP) wth i ts 40,000 members and scatteri ng ofsympathizers coul d count on no more than 3 or 4%of the el ectorate Before the ri seof Wl l y Brandt, the V ce-President of the Soci al i st I nternati onal , to power, di rectcontact between red l abor unions and the DGB was di f f i cul t Thi s i s why, when theBerl i n Wal l went up, Marcel Dufri che, of the French Communi st Party, and hi s comadesf romthe CGT were sent to Strasbourg i n March 1962 to negoti ate the handl i ng of redl abor pamphl ets by the DGB i nWest Germany Wth the ri se of Wl l y the vi si bl e wal lstayed up but the i nvi si bl e l abor barri ers came down Men l i ke l abor l eader Vetter,who saw thei r futures and Germany' s i n term of cooperati on wth the East, rode in onBrandt' s coattai l s Chel epi n tol d hi s i nf i l trators to move slowy, to avoi d f ri ghten-i ng the West Germans at al l costs Don' t worry about expanding the German Communi stParty, he sai d Concentrate on hel pi ng comades i nto key posi ti ons i n thei r uni ons He was doi ng on communi st l evel what Leo Cherne, J oseph Butti nger and Ameri cans forDemocrati c Acti on did on the soci al i st l evel i n Ameri ca when the essenti al was getti ngWl l y Brandt i nto power, so that Chel epi n coul d go on f romthere The West German DGB i s di vi ded i nto sixteen professi onal branches wth over sevenml l i on members Thei r wei ght i s consi derabl e i n el ecti ons At present they haveover 9,000 del egates on management boards i nmaj or German companies Herbert Mes,the newpresi dent of the German Communi st Party, has stated that f romnowon i t i s onthe l abor l evel that the decisive battl e between l abor and capi tal i smwl l be fought Some of the most important f irm i n Germany were i n the hands of l abor del egates i n-stal l ed i n j oi nt di recti ng commttees on Chel epi n' s orders when the present wave ofstri ke threats hi t Germany When i t became cl ear that the one thi ng German manage-ment wants to avoi d i s bei ng accused of anti -communi sm red l abor l eaders knew theyno l onger needed Wl l y Brandt A di recti ve was sent out tel l i ng German workers thata col l ecti ve economy and col l ecti ve property are no l onger utopi an dream but goal swhi ch may be real i zed on a short term Whi l e Chel epi n men were bei ng eased i nto WstGerman l abor uni ons, another teamwas i nstal l i ng Red professors i n school s and uni ver-si ti es to formstreet f i ghters and uni on l eaders of the future I n 1970 Heinz-Oskar Vetter beganmaki ng tri ps to Prague and Moscow to di scuss thecommon i nterests of East and West European workers . He repl i ed to George Meany' sl etter by maki ng a broadcast f romMoscow tel l i ng European uni ons that he supports theri ght of Sovi et l abor uni ons to serve as i nstruments of Russi an pol i cy On J anuary 18the anni versary of Leni n' s death, Bori s Ponomarev, the boss of communi st parti es ofthe Wst, made a speech which the western press di d not bother to pri nt Pi erre deV l l emarest, i n hi s French-l anguage newsl etter, publ i shed i n Le Haut Cerrey, 27000,

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Page France, (U S ai rmai l subscri pti on 16per year) quoted Ponomarev as saying Thanksto the acti vi ti es of communi sts, the organi zing and consol idati on of the prol etari atcontinue to i ncrease in the capi tal i st countri es Attacks on the systemof exploi ta-ti on never cease to spread The instabi l i ty of the economc si tuati on, the energycri sis, the di scontent of themasses have reached a point where a si tuati on openingtheway to radi cal revoluti onary reform may arri ve at any mment .I t was not i dl e tal k The l abor uni ons of Great Bri tain, Belgium West Germany, I tal yand France hadbecome unmanageabl e Party acti on di rected by himel f and coordinatedwth union acti on di rected by Chel epin had done the tri ck Soci al i sts cleared theway Two days after Ponomarev s speech, on January 20, union l eaders fromcommuni st and non-communi st countri es, many of whomowed thei r posi ti ons to AFL-COhandouts and I rvi ngBrown s organizi ng, assembled i n Geneva to make the gang-up agai nst everything to theri ght of soci al i smworld-wde They cal l ed i t shownga constructi ve spi ri t inplanni ng future cooperati on between East andWest Aweek after the bi g l abor meeti ngi n Geneva, i n which the non-communi st unions CAhas been supporti ng formed anal l i ance wth the red unions they were supposed to fi ght, another meeti ngwas hel d inBrussels Leaders of 21Wst European communi st parti es poured i nto the capi tal ofBel giumand the Commn Market on January 27 to gl oat over theWst s troubles Mes-sages of encouragement such as Wlter Reuther and I rvi ng Brown used to send to trouble-makers i n Spain, Portugal and Afri ca through thei r Confederati on of Free Trade Unionswere sent to Bri tai n s communi st-l ed mners Wth Bri tai n founderi ng l i ke a doomed shipand reds stri ki ng everywhere whi l e the i ronwas hot, the comades i n Brussel s madeplans for a pan-European communi st conference l ater thi s year and aworld conferenceto fol l ow always agai nst the omnous background of expanding Russi anmght THEREWERE OTHEREVENTS - but a cri si s-numbed publ i c fai l ed to ti e themtogether Der Spiegel of February 18 reported that Herr Brandt was i n such a deep depressi onover being outpaced by hi s l abor union al l i es that he was i n a mod to resign Opini onpol l s had himsl i pping and ForeignMni ster Wl ter Scheel on the ri se Ohers mai n-tai ned that Helmut Schmdt, the fi nancemnister, would repl ace Brandt before Chri stmasThe London Times of February 19 reported, TheChancel l or feel s hi s great work i s donenowthat the Ostpol i ti k i s complete and that i t i s real l y too much to expect himtoconcern himel f wth the weari some detai l of domesti c pol i cy which j ust wl l not goaway and l eave himi n peace Forgotten by everyone was the Ameri cans for Democrati cdinner inWshington onMarch 13, 1961, and the bi g dinner and phoney award given himby another handful of l efti sts i n a CA front i n NewYork three days l ater One of thewsest predi cti ons of 1973 was made i n the London Times of J une 12 by M J ul i an Cri tchl ey, the Conservati ve Member of Parl i ament fromAdershot I t had awstful note Europemay yet pay the pri ce for defeat i n V etnam he stated

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Subver si ve f or cesH DU B REPORTS begi ns i ts seventeenth year wth a story that starts i nPari s at 10:15 P M , December 3, 1973 A hi ppi e-l ooki ng cartooni st empl oyed by Canard Enchai ne (The Chai ned Duck) happened to be passi ng thesati ri cal weekl y s newpremses at 173 rue St Honore He noti ced cracks of l i ghtthrough the curtai ns short t ime l ater J ean C ementi n, admni strator of the paper,and C aude Angel i , i ts 42-year-ol d chi ef i nformati on edi tor, j oi ned him They foundworkmen i nstal l i ng mcrophones i n the wal l s

Overnight the l efti st press went wld The Mni stry of the I nteri or, the pol i ce, theDST (French equival ent of the FBI ), the SDECE (Servi ce of External Documentati on andCounter-Espionage) were under merci l ess attack Frenchmen not on the l ef t f el t thatCanard Enchagi ne shoul d have been bugged a l ong time before but had probabl y arrangedthe mcro-pl anti ng i tsel f for the purpose of touchi ng off a Watergate-type dri veagai nst the government THE PARALLELS WERE GLARING Fromthe f i rst the af fai r seemed strange The fake workmen appeared to be tryi ng to drawattenti on Li ghts were l ef t on, l oi terers madethemel ves noti ceabl e, a l ookout i n uni formopenl y used a wal ki e-tal ki e but neverwarned hi s fri ends That the three staff members shoul d arri ve when and as they di dwas si gni f i cant Madame Mchel i ne Berti n, the concierge whose j ob was siml ar tothat of Frank Wl l s, the Watergate ni ght watchman, vol unteered to hel p newsmen con-duct i ng an i nvesti gati on on thei r ownShe i denti f i ed I nspector Georges Laborde of the 3rd Dvi si on of the DST as l eader ofthe teamof mcro-pl anters, though a l aw of J une 13 1952, makes the i denti t i es andmssions of DST of f i cers secrets of nati onal defense To confront or expose a DSTof f i cer i s puni shabl e by l aw but the l awwas never i nvoked agai nst Madame Bert i n I nstead, a hue and cry agai nst the machi nery of l awenforcement and defense was rai sei n the name of f reedomof the press . Leadi ng the campai gn was Canard Ench-ai ne andi ts al l y, Le Nouvel Observateur Many expressed doubts about thei r moti ves, and howthe bugging j ob happened to be bungled i f experts were real l y handl i ng i t PLUMBERS WHOWERE MEANT TO BE CAUGHT? I t was not forgotten that a l ookout at theWatergate saw l i ghts movi ng toward where hi s col l eagues were worki ng, and, thougharmed wth a wal ki e-tal ki e, fai l ed to warn them Or that no precauti ons were takento occupy the attent i on of the night-watchmanI n the French af fai r i t was recogni zed fromthe start that i nf i l trators i n the pol i ceor the DST coul d be out to get M Raymond J ean Marcel l i n, the Mni ster of theI nteri or The col onel at the head of SDECE i s a del egate to the Mni stry of theI nteri or One of the arm of SDECE (known as an antenna) i s SUBAG the I nter-Pol i cebody for the study o subversi ve movements I ni t i al i nvest i gati ons are handl ed bysub-di rectors i n the of f i ce of General I ntel l i gence (Rensei gnements Generaux, knownas RG I nformati on compi l ed by al l these bodi es pours i nto the DST, to be pi ecedtogether by men whomthe purpose of the l awof J une 13 1952, was to keep facel ess To di scover the head of the serpent of subversi on i n France, i f i t i s domesti c, or

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Page -2-the octupus, i f i t i s i nternati onal , the f i rst step was to ascertainwho i s doing thesappingFOURTEENYEARWAT FORREVENGE On August 23, 1963, the DST, workingwth SDECE,arrested M Georges Paques i n the act of handing secret NATO papers to a KGB offi ceri n a cafe near the Pari s opera Paques record was shocking An undercover memberof the Communist Party, pushed i nto important posts i n every government si nce thel i beration, helped by unseen hands i nto the highest l evel of NATO where he photo-graphed any paper he wshed In sum he was an El l sberg A communi st mayor near theBelgian border, ten agents of Pol i sh ori gin and Paques were found to be members ofNetwork Eleven of Soviet I ntel l i gence i n Wstern Europe For fourteen years theri ng worked to get the men and servi ces which arrested P Aques Network Eleven was theel i te ri ng of the I nnostranny Otdi el I . 0 . ), a separate secti onof the Kremin s secret servi ce, control l ed by the Central Commttee of the Russi anCommunist Party 1. 0 reaches i nto the Un t, : d States, Great Bri tai n, West Germanyand every country i n the West Many of i ts agents are made respectabl e by fake ex-clusions f romthe party Thi s i s cal l ed gi vi ng thema fal se beard. Easternblocembassies and consul ates provide di pl omati c immun ty for 1. 0 offi ces abroad Friend-ship organ zati ons, pol i ti cal and cul tural bodies, student movements, youth clubs,civi l ri ghts groups, l egal defense team which aid onl y l ef ti sts, and educati onalassociations are i ts arm When an 1. 0 agent i s caught, the l efti st media rai se cri eof McCarthyism and wtchhunt, i f i t i s i n Ameri ca, or another Dreyfus i f i t i sFranceI . O. s search for agents never stops Those moti vated by i deology are preferred Mel i ke El l sberg Top priori ty i s g ven to students, ci vi l servants, arm, i ntel l i genceandpol i ce of f i cers, parl i amentarians, j ournal i sts, professors and dipl omats Apart-ments are maintained i n principal ci ti es of theWest for agents passi ng through orneeding a hideout When Reg s Debray (who i s nowseeking entry i nto the U S . wasserving a 30-year termi n Bol i vi a, rent was pai d regul arl y on hi s apartment at 4 Avende l a Porte Bri angon, i n Pari s Andreas Baader, of the Baader-Meinhof Germn terror-i st gang, was hidden there i n 1969 when Germn pol i ce were l ooking for himPutting the j i gsawpuzzle of 1 . 0 operati ons together, French servi ces noted that 196l eaks f romNetwork Eleven di sclosed a newoperati on bearing the code name Razl ojenye,l i teral l y, rotti ng. I ts f i rst Bri ti sh vi ctimwas Si r J ohn Profumo, the DefenseMni ster i mpl i cated wth Chri stine Keeler, a cal l g rl connectedwth the Soviet NavaAttache i n London Razlojenye operati ons to rot countri es f romwthin had a commndenomnator Men connectedwth the Atlanti c Pact were top targets The weal thy andti tl edwere smeared i n the furtherance of class warfare, and di rt amssed for the de-structi on of pol i ti ci ans who could not be defeated at the pol l s De Gaul l e s hatredof thosewho opposed hi s pol i ci es provided an unhoped for opportuni ty i n France Patri oti c of f i cers were purged f romthe arm, pol i ce and i ntel l i gence servi ces andreplaced by reds or gangsters To those who concealed thei r feel i ngs and clung tothei r j obs, a patternwas apparent NETWORK ELEVENWAS INTERNATIONAL When Ameri ca s Nati onal Student Union sent perm-nent del egates abroad on CA funds to work wth foreign student unions, only l efti stswere sel ected Communist-appointed students were given scholarships to American un -versi ti es by CAs NSA f ront Thus the cohesion which synchroni zed student ri otsagainst the war i n Vetnamwas establ i shedIn the choice of scandals to be kept before the publ i c, day after day, the men whodecidedwere selecti ve Two years before Si r J ohn Profumowas f ramed and hounded f romthe Bri ti sh defensemnistry the Republ i can votes whichwouldhave made RchardNxondefeat J ohn F Kennedy were thrown i n Lake Mchigan The latter was not a scandal Three years after the Profumo af fai r, Mehdi ben Barka, the Moroccan whomCA and

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age 3-Ameri can l abor uni ons had pushed upward through the years, was ki dnapped i n Pari s onOctober 29, 1965, on the eve of hi s departure for Tri conti nental (Europe, Afri caand the newworl d) communi st congress i n Cuba I n the ensuing stormwhipped up bythe worl d l eft and the i nvesti gati ve press, SDECE was made the scapegoat An offi cerw had been ordered to cooperate wth Ki ng Hassan' s Secret Servi ce was brought i n i nhandcuffs I n the exposures and l eaks that fol l owed, SDECE' s l i nes behi nd the I ronCurtai n were betrayed and a number of agents di sappeared, never to be heard of agai n I n 1969 Yugosl av bl ackmai l er and smal l - time strong-armman cl i ngi ng to the f i lmworl d was mysteri ousl y murdered Canard Enchaine and Le Nouvel Observateur pul l edout al l the stops to l i nk the murder wth the Presi dent of the French Republ i c Backtracki ng i n thei r search for a common pattern, securi ty agents di scovered that whenthe heat was on Presi dent Pompidou C aude Angel i , the secret i nformati on chi ef ofCanard Enchaine, who speci al i zed i n pri nti ng pol i cy and defense documents, was work-i ng for Le Nouvel Observateur (Edi tor- i n-chi ef of Nouvel Observateur J ean Dani el(real name Ben Said) was French correspondent for The NewRepubl i c Newsweek of May14, 1973, gave hima ful l page Mchel e Ray, who went over to the Vi etcong i n earl y 1967 after spendi ng four monthswth the Green Berets, and w i n December 1967 offered 400,000 for Che Guevara' sdi ary for story agai nst the Ameri cans, was Nouvel Observateur correspondent Oi vi er Todd, seni or edi tor of Nouvel Observateur, i s Newsweek' s French authori ty A typi cal Todd propaganda pi ece agai nst Ameri ca i n Nouvel Observateur was headedSai nt J oan Baez Whi l e Canard EnchA nd and Nouvel Observateur worked to compromse Presi dent Pompi douand hi s wfe wth the Marcovi ch murder, because of thei r fri endshi ps i n the movi ecrowd, SDECE stumbl ed on to a source of certai n l eaks whi ch had caused i rreparabl edamage duri ng the Ben Barka scandal The assi stant of an SDECE commandant who wasdragged through the mud by the press and eventual l y di smssed, was young woman wth press card as a cover who worked i n counter-espi onage under the code name Karamel ,andwho had been assi gned to the Marcovi ch affai r Draw three paral l el s J ackAnderson' s fri end, Yeoman Fi rst C ass Charl es Radford i nstal l ed i n the Whi te House;Dani el El l sberg i n Rand Corporati on and the Pentagon and El l sberg' s fri end MortonHal peri n taken i nto the Nati onal Securi ty Counci l by Ki ssi nger himel f, agai nst theprotests of the FB I n 1972 an opportuni ty presented i tsel f to get J ean Rochet, the anti -communist chi efof DST An i nternati onal dri ve was afoot to obtai n permssi on for Leopol d Trepper,the chi ef of Russi a' s greatest wartime spy ri ng, to l eave Poland M Rochet statedthat unti l Htl er i nvaded Russi a Trepper' s famous Red Orchestra network of spi es,whi ch covered France and Bel gi um had del i vered ml i tary secrets to Stal i n' s temporaral l y, Germany A sui t was brought agai nst Rochet by Gl l es Perraul t, the l eft i stwi ter who wote The Red Orchestra, and Perraul t' s fri end, C aude Angel i I n theyears since 1941 communi st col l aborators had ri sen i n government, the press, UN andthe courts Fri ends of Moscow i n the Forei gn Of i ce were ready. to hel p them Menwho mght have saved Rochet were too val uabl e to be exposed on the wtness standAs resul t, Rochet was purged, confi dence i n the DST shaken, Paques' arrest was avenand the cl imate favorabl e for i nfi l trators improved Rochet' s i nvesti gati ons ofEastern bl oc embassi es, trade mssi ons and agents were temporari l y hal tedAfter Rochet fel l the l eakage of secret papers i ncreased, part i cul arl y to NouvelObservateur and Canard Enchaine Photocopi es of confi denti al defense reports appearei n pri nt Numbers of l i cense pl ates used by counter- i ntel l i gence and DST cars werereported as news Canard Enchai ne promsed i ts readers newdefense secret everyweek Confi denti al notes between offi ci al s, word-for-word accounts of tapped tel e-phone conversati ons, dossi ers of men charged wth subversi on and the secret fi l es ofj udges rol l ed off the presses of papers cl aimng to be conducti ng i nvesti gati ve repori ng I n September 1972 the communi st publ i cati on Rouge pri nted secret pl ans for

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i n FranceCLAUDE ANGELI CAME FIRST Was the buggi ng of Canard Enchai ne off i ces arranged by thepaper i tsel f to strai t- j acket the DST and SDECE? I f nati onal defense j usti fi ed thebuggi ng of Canard Enchai ne, di d i nf i l trators i n the services t ip of f thei r comadeson the paper? The servi ces had to know Agents faml i ar wth Hanoi s use of womenand ol d men as sni pers and observers bore i n mnd that on September S 1969, ani nf i l trator i n Fort Benni ng, i n Ameri ca, phoned an edi tor and touched off the dri veagai nst Li eutenant Cal l ey Another i nf i l t rator i n the Pentagon l eaked i nformati on toan anti -war propagandi st named Seymour Hersh The very papers hammeri ng ad nauseamnow on Watergate got the l i eutenant who saved hi s men fromHanoi s sni pers DST andSDECE deci ded to see i f Canard Enchai ne was up to the same game i n France Thei rf i ndi ngs were al armng C aude Angel i : Started as edi tor of L Avant Garde,off i ci al organ of Communi st Youth Member of Ferry-Godot cel l of French Communi stParty, i n V try I n charge of rel ati ons wth France-Hungary Commttee 1964 expul -sion fromthe party bel i eved phoney, as expul si on order was never off i ci al y announcedAngel i s wfe sti l l party member Wth J ean Paul Sartre Angel i resurrected SecoursRouge (Red Rescue), pre-war communi st organi zati on nowknown as Secours Popul ai re .J ean C ementi n, present admni strator of Canard Enchai ne, and Angel i set up coordi nat-i ng center to i ncrease credi bi l i ty of l eaks by passi ng some on to other publ i cati ons Communi st cel l worki ng i n Li berati on, a communist j ournal l ong di rected by France sRed Baron, Emmanuel d Asti er de la V geri e, served as base for coordi nati ng center J EAN CLEMENTIN member of CP cel l i n Liberati on, used the soci al i st weekly L EXPRESSas outl et for 1. 0 l eaks Duri ng French war i n I ndo-China, C ementi n worked wthV etmnh agai nst France Returned to France when soci al i st Pi erre Mendes-France roseto power I n 1961 was exposed as French correspondent for Deutsche Vol k, WestGerman communi st publ i cati