NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: July 13, 1977
• Content Type: REPORT

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WEST GERMANY - CANADA: Schmidt
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USSR: Publicity for Toth Case
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FRANCE: Patronat vs. the Left
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//West German Chancellor Schmidt was optimistic
yesterday on prospects for an early resumption of Canadian
uranium supplies to Euratom following his meeting with Cana-
dian Prime Minister Trudeau.//
//Schmidt told reporters that an interim agreement
on the resumption of Canadian uranium shipments "seems fairly
easy to achieve" by late summer. His comments indicated Canada
had given up its insistence on a veto over reprocessing Cana-
dian uranium in Western Europe. Only two weeks ago West Ger-
many, France, and Italy still adamantly rejected any recogni-
tion that Canada has this right.//
//The interim agreement Schmidt predicted would
cover the two-year period during which the International Nuclear
Fuel Cycle Evaluation Program will be carried out. Such an agree-
ment would almost certainly make it more difficult for the US
to renegotiate its accord with Euratom in a more restrictive
form.//
//The fact that Schmidt chose to discuss this mat-
ter with Trudeau, although Euratom is technically the competent
body to deal with the subject, indicates that he may intend to
speak on behalf of Euratom in Washington.//
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USSR: Publicity for Toth Case
I Tass charged yesterday that Los Angeles Times cor-
respon ent Robert Toth, who was interrogated at Length by the
KGB before Leaving Moscow at the end of his tour Last month,
used his press card as a cover for intelligence work. Tass
added that Toth was caught "red-handed" and that only the
good-will of Soviet authorities kept him from being subject
to criminal proceedings. The Tass commentary was the first
public reference to the case in Soviet media.
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I I With Toth out of the country, Soviet propagandists
may feel the time is right to exploit the incident in which
Toth was accused of receiving from a Soviet scientist a paper
on parapsychology that allegedly contained state secrets.
Tass charged that, although the CIA had disassociated
itse rom Toth, other espionage agencies exist in the US and
hinted that Toth was working for an agency "related to the
Pentagon." The repeated assertion that the Soviets have ample
and detailed evidence against Toth suggests that Moscow may
use the case to bolster its allegations of US interference in
Soviet internal affairs and to inhibit contacts between Soviet
citizens and foreigners.
In a clear reference to the case of arrested dissi-
dent Anatoly Shcharansky, Tass accused Toth of having received
secret information from "one of the renegades now under in-
vestigation." Most of the KGB questioning of Toth in fact fo-
cused on his relationship with Shcharansky, who may eventually
be tried for treason. If the Soviets decide to prosecute
Shcharansky, one of the three arrested leaders of the dissident
group set up to monitor Soviet compliance with the Helsinki
accords, additional public charges of his alleged espionage
contacts with Toth and possibly other US newsmen can be ex-
pected.
I IDissident sources in Moscow said yesterday that the
Soviet scientist Toth contacted had been told that no action
would be taken against him because he had helped the KGB "to
expose an arch-intelligence agent." This will further fuel
speculation that the incident leading to Toth's interrogation
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also mobilized its resources in support of Prime Minister
Barre's economic stabilization program in the hope that an im-
provement in the economy will result in victory for the non-
Leftist parties in the election next March.
The powerful French employers association, the Pat-
ronat, has Launched an intensive, concerted campaign against
the common program of the Communist-Socialist alliance. It has
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Recent events have contributed to a less defeatist
attitude on the part of the French business community. Prime
Minister Barre's skillful performance in his debate with So-
cialist leader Mitterrand in May was generally considered a
plus for the governing parties, and the open quarreling within
the left over the updating of its common program has encouraged
French businessmen. French business is also gratified by a rise
in investor confidence, which has led to a moderate recovery of
the stock market since it bottomed out in May.
The new Patronat strategy was agreed on at a meeting
o the organization's secretariat in April. Since then, leaders
of France's principal industrial and financial groups have been
taking their case to their stockholders, to the heads of the
small and medium enterprises, and to the public at large.
The Patronat is now taking pains to erase the im-
pression--previously fairly widespread--that it is resigned to
a leftist victory. Its campaign emphasizes the apocalyptic dan-
gers inherent in a leftist victory: galloping inflation, de-
valuation of the franc, bureaucratization of the economy, the
heavy hand of the state on small and medium enterprises, and
the problems involved in paying indemnities for nationalized
industries. Patronat representatives are traveling throughout
France encouraging the business community to take on new em-
ployees and increase capital spending.
4Polls show that although a majority of the French are
prepare o vote the left into power, only a small minority
understands the full implications of what the common program
entails. If the Patronat campaign can help illuminate this is-
sue and erase the fatalistic impression among many undecided
voters that the left already has the election won, it will be
a valuable prop to a divided governing coalition that needs
all the help it can get in its election campaign.
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