WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. SHCHARANSKY'S TRIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002000100109-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2006
• Sequence Number: 109
• Publication Date: May 2, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2006/12/05: CIA-RDP81 M00980R002000100109-9
William F. Buckley Jr.
ar s trial.
The trial of An~toly Thus far, routme oviet The x s~duaY' rob
Shcharansky nears, and un p_ Beni
stuff. But then a vaar ~rt~ .t_. _
that
is the d
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e- having arrested -Shcha-
es .e., pre union
fendant to dwell on- it, much ransky, the Soviett Union "proves" - i., sents
hangs on the procedure and announced that he would be . hard evidence that Li-
the outcome of extra-per- tried for treason, an offense pavsky w.as in fact a CIA
sonal interests. that not_uncommonly brings liar. That is unpleasant, but
Shcharansky is, we can a death sentence.' The
safely assume, innocent. prosecutors came up with truly damaging is thehpros-
But he is an important one Dr. Sanya Lipvasky pect that Soviet dissidents
pawn in whom the Soviet who had shared an apart- would stac.d to forfeit much
-Union has greatly invested. ment for a few months with of their sympathy outside
?erversely, the Commu. Shcharansky during his Russia if one of.their mem-
iists have been greatly bachelor days. bers was aided by the astonishing Lipavsk U.S. agent. proved to be a
behavior of President Car- press reportedthe , had Soviet U U.S.S.
Never inind ter and one of. hi TeX se" fessed to the Soviet Union in ing facts - - the almost cer almost cer-
-
curity assistant's, 1 vid great remorse that during tainly, Liravsky was a dou-
Aaron, 1976 he had acted as a CIA ble agent, in this case hired
Briefly on the matter of agent and, as a repentant by the KGB to approach the
Shcharansky. He is a com- Jewish dissident, he was CIA to
for lin
puter mathemetician who in now presumably ready to exressly i,o the he purpose a of
April 1973 applied for p testify against Shcha- disclosng that hlink inopub-
mission to emigra t~e to r- ransky, again presumably a licly useful circumstances.
rael. Permission co-conspirator. It is not Almost lost in the
e clear, whale services Li- excitement of Shcharansky
Why? Because he ' pos- pavsky was in position to
sessed classified inform - render the CIA since he was are two o her Goldstein Jews
tion," a charge at whic a doctor in a clinic that Pavel
AbramovichTae
everyone in Moscow who is examined taxi anc bus areto., h.,
rmitted to laugh laughed, drivers:
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thing c tried for so e
charansky had been em-
e " paras
ployed in? the Moscow Re itism
which i tie crim_e of being
search Institute fo Junk of last year, unemployed Ilk-happens
,u w Presideit., CaT
Gas, which is a fic ~er
an- that they are unemployed
classified, nounced at a press confer- because, on a .pl in
Shcharansky's offense is ence that Shcharansky "has emigrate from the Soviet
thatch
a) he is ra sky's _t he never had any sort of rela- Union,
tionship, to our knowledge, fired.frorr the rrjobs. Abra-
Soviet Union's frenzied with the CIA." But then last movich thereupon made 9
campaign against the Jews March, David Aaron, an frugal lic in by is unabated; b) he sought to important assistant to Brze- Hebrew. 1 e did this openly
leave the country; and c) zinski, tipped off Time paying all the relevant
by joining the forlorn Com- magazine that in fact Li- taxes. But he was neverthe-
mittee of Soviet citizens pavsky had indeed been ac-, less charged with unem-
who endeavored to monitor tive with the CIA. Between ployment inasmuch as He-
ioviet compliance with the them - Carter and Aaron brew is _e: " lot hoan "official
lelsinki pact, he insulted -_ about every protocol in languag
he people who signed that the s y busine
w can anyone
act. ss was vio-
b
a
e em !cyed teaching a
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