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APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/42/09: CIA-RDP82-40854R040400080012-6 FaR OFFICIAL iJSE ONLY JPRS L/ 10158 - 3 December 1981 . _ West Euro e Re ort p p - cFOUO ssis>> Fg~$ ~OREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SER~OICE FOR OFFIC[AL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2407/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400480012-6 NOTE ~ JPR~ publications contain information primarily from foreign newspapers, periodicals and books, but also from news agency transmissions and broadcasts. Materials from foreign-language sources are t~anslated; those from English-language sources are transcxibed or reprinted, with the original phrasing and other characteristics retained. Headlines, editorial reports, and material enclosed in brackets are supplied by JPRS. Processing indicators such as [TextJ or [Excerpt] in the first line of each item, or following the last line of a brief, indicate how the original informatic~n was processed. Where no processing indicator is given, the infor- mation was summarized or extracted. Unfamiliar names rendered phonetically or transliterated are _ enclosed in parentheses. Words or names preceded by a ques- tion mark and enclosed in parentheses were not clear in the original but have been supplied as appropriate in context. Other unattributed parenthetical notes within the body of an item originate with the source. Times within items are as given by source. - Ti1e contents of this publication in no way represent the poli- cies, views or attitudes of the U.S. Government. COPYRIGHT LAWS AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING OW1~IERSHIP OF ;1ATERIALS REPRODUCED HEREIN RE~UIRE THAT DISSE~IINATION OF THIS PUBLICATION BE RESTRICTLD FOR OFFICIAL USE ONI,Y. APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2407/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400480012-6 _ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY JPRS L/10158 3 December 1981 WEST EURO~E REPORT (~'OUO 63/81) CONTENTS TERRORISM FEDER.AL REPUBLIC OP' GERMANY - Arrest of Neonazis Reveals International Collaboration (Rupp Doined, Tyll Schoenemann; STERN; 29 Oct 81) ,........A.. 1 ENERGY ECONOMICS FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Petroleum Industry To Dismantle or Modernize Refineries ~ (Hans-;Josef Joest; CAPITAI,, Oct 81) 5 POLITICAL ~ INTBRNATIONAL AFFAIRS SoviPt Peace Movement Ties; 17isinformation Activities (Philippe Krasnopolski; VAI.EURS ACTUELLES, 19-25 Oct 81)...... 7 Ef'fects o~ German Pacifism on Alliance, France (VAI,EURS ACTUELLES, 19-25 Oct 81) 10 _ I TALY PSDI's Longo on Future Alliance With PSI (Pietro Longo Interview; IL MONDO, 16 Oct 81) 12 Opinion Poll on PSI Craxi's Strategy, Popularity (Bruna Bellonzi, Roberto Ippolito; IL MONDO, 30 Oct 81) 17 - a- [ I~I - WE - 150 Ft~UO] APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2407102/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400480012-6 � FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Daily Press Listing by Political Pressure Group Control (Vittorio Borelli, et al.; II, MONDO, 30 Oct 81) 23 . GENERAL I TALY Profile o~ Dnerg~ng DC Leader Quarta in Puglia (Paolo Passaxini; IL MONDO, 16 Oct 81) 43 - b - FOR OFFIC[AL USE ONi,Y APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 FOR OFFIC[AL USE ONLY TERRORISM FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY ARREST OF NEONAZIS REVEALS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION Hamburg STERN in German 29 Oct 81 pp 20, 27-28, 32 /Report by Rupp Doinet and Tyll Schoenemann: "Our Hour Ha~ Struck"/ _ /Text/ German neonazis aim to destroy the state. They have allied themselves with right radical groups in France and Bel- gium. From them they obtain weapons, money and training. The ' Munich terrorists also lived in Paris before their planned crime. Is an international wave of right terrorism iffininent? The white Citroen GS travels from France toward the German border post. At the wheel a young Frenchman, Pascal Coletta from Paris. Passengers in the car are four young Germans, hair cut short.in the military style. The five are allowed to pro- ceed without closer inspection. They are unaware that they are expected. Nor do they notice that they are being followed from this point on. Officers from the Cologne Federal Office for the Pro- tection of the Constitution (Rf"V) in unmarked radio cars shadow them in turn--all the way to Munich. In the Munich suburb of Neubiberg the white Citroen stops in the courtyard of the building at Brunhildenstrasse 23. One of th~ rings the bell marked "Druckerei und Verlag Friedt~elm Busse" /Printing Shop and Publishing House Friedhelm Suase/. Among his neighbors Herr Busse enjoys the reputation of being a quiet tenant. On the odd occasion when he starts up his printing press in the garage at night, he apologizes: "I am printing romantic novels. It is a rush order." That particular evening, Tuesday last week, a rather lengthy conference is taking place in printer Busse's living room with the people from the white Citroen. Shortly after 20.00 hours the guesta load up their car, take their leave and drive off. Both the meeting and the loading operation are observed from beginning to end by the SEK /special unit/ of the Munich Police. The code name of the operation is "Bavaria." Eight officers in two armored and heavy BMW limouaines pursue the white Citroen for two kilometers through the residential diatrict. At the wide Putzbrunner Strasse one of the BMW's overtakes the French car. The stop sign is extended from the window. The Citroen driver tries to ram the police car. At that moment the other BMW turns up, puahes the Citroen to the side and stops. The eight SEK officers jump from the car. They are armed with automatica and wear 1 EOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007142/09: CIA-RDP82-40854R040400080012-6 FOR OFFICIA~. USE ONLY bulletproof vests. The five occupant$ of the car alowly emergen two being--~with some hesitation--to raise their hands. At tha~ very moment someo n e throws a hand grenade. It explodes under the Citroen. Shots follow. The police shoot back. ' Seconds later the uproar is at an end, On the pavement lie two dead, two seriously injur~d, one of them a policeman. From the white Citroen the police extract seven hand grenades F1 of Soviet origin, three automatica, one Smith & Wesson gun, a rifle and a shotgun with a sawn-of~ tiarrel, smoke bombs, tear gas and a~unition. Three quarters of an hour later criminal police officers carry eleven atrips of ex- plosive and several boxes of a~nunition from printer Buss~'s garage. Busse, the host of the shooting quintet, is arrested as the leader of a right radical terror association. By that time two of his young comradea-at-arms had already died in hospital: Kurt Eduard Wolfgram, 21, and Klaus Ludwig Uhl, 24. Peter Fabel, 18, lies in the inten- sive care unit. Peter Hamberger, also 18, and Frenchman Pascal Coletta, 19, are in jail. The following day the investigating judge at the Federal High Court issues an arrest order for them and Busse, for membership in a terrorist association. The coup at Munich brings evidence that the Nazi terrorists have long enjoyed the aid aiid assistance of political friends in France and Belgium. There they find money, weapons, training and hiding places. The wirepuller of the right terror international is 52-year old printer Friedhelm Busse. In the guise of a decent citi~en he ia really the head of the Popular Socialist Movement of Germany/Party of Labor (VSBD). Busse comes from the Ruhr. In Bochum, during the 1960's, he joined the "Reaistance Action" and later the NPD /National Democratic Party of GermanYi In 1970 he was their top candidate in North Rhine-Westphalia's Bundestag election. However, he considered the NPD too soft and proceeded to establish his own party, the VSBD. In 1974 he moved to Munich. He published brochurea on racial hygiene, blood and soil. He celebrated Adolf Hatler as an "outatanding historical figure." B~:sse's aim: "The establishment of the first radical-democratic and anti-imperial- ist state on German soil." He intended to achieve by violence that which he and hia party failed to achieve in elections. Later he lectured to the terroriat "Hoffmann Military Sports Group." At the funeral of his follower ~~rank Schubert who had kilYed a Swiss cuatoms offi- ~ cer and a policeman in December 1980, aubaequently ahooting himself, Busse said� "We must revenge ourselves, break the powers that be. We must be ready to die, to save our honor. We must hate our foes juat as they hate us. The atorm will be _ ra~ing until, eventually, the Reich rises anew." For this storm Busse sought alliea in Belgium and France. He found them in the Order of Flemish Militants (VMO) and the European~Federation of National Action (FANE). In August 1980 Busse follower Klaus Ludwig Uhl took refuge with FANE in Paris. This z4-year old tax counsel trainee from the wine village of Weyher near Landau 2 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007142/09: CIA-RDP82-40854R040400080012-6 FOR OFFiCIAI. USE ONLY (Palatinate) had already put up Hitler picturea on the walls of his room while at- tending secondary school. Toward the end of 1979 Uhl was sentenced to 2 years in prison for incitement to riot ~ and Nazi propaganda. Before proceedings began at the appeals court, he fled to France. . In exile he became a key figure on the right terror scene. His cover name in Paris was "Bormann"--the name of Hitler's deputy. Uhl/Bormann posed as the "head of the - propaganda echelon" of a"NSDAP" domiciled in America and used the pseudonym "Werdorf" to write for the VOELKISCHE BEOBACHTER, a neonazi hate magazine which was smuggled from France to Germany. From Paria he entered into contacts with the Hoffmann Military Sports Group and organized military exercises in the ~?rdenne forests. Moreover he founded right radical "werewolf platoons" in Auatria and the Federal Republic. Neonazi Uhl negotiated with repreaentatives of the American Ku Klux Klan, with Spanish fascists and the VMO regarding a worldwide right alliance of action. His target was "the march on Germany." It was Uhl who recruited Pascal Coletta, 19, FANE member, to drive the Citroen. On Monday of last week l~azi internationalist Uhl was classified as an "exceptional- ly dangerous extremist" at a situation conference on internal security in Bonn's interior ministry. The discussion paper in Bonn was an anlysis by the Cologne BfV. The experts sum- marized the situation as follows: "At no time in past decades were relations be- tween German neonazis and their political friends abroad so intensive as now. At - this time we are quite justified in speaking of international neonazism." At many meetings of right terrorists at home and abroad "weapons, ammunition and explo- sive procurement and the planning of attacks" are said "to have been diacussed." Klaus Ltidwig Uhl and Kurt Eduard Wolfgsam, 21, the two dead "popular socialists" of Munich, are accused by the federal prosecutor's office of having operated already a month ago--to get money. On 23 September 1981 the two are a~leged to have at- tacked the branch of the Nassau Savinga Bank in Rennerod (Westerwald). Their lonz: DM72,000. The police ascertained that the Rennerod savings bank was to be the target of the Munich quartet once again. As far back as 11 August last two heavily armed men t~ad attacked the district savings bank in Neuenstadt near Heilbronn and carried off DM90,110. The police believe ro recognize Klaus Ludwig Uhl as one of the attackers from the photographs taken by the automatic camera inatalled in the lobby of the savings bank. Peter Hamberger, 18, arrested in Munich, was a member of the Hoffmann Military Sports Group. Last year, after the attack on the Munich Octoberfest, he and his _ chief Hof�mann went to ground in the PLO camp "Bir Hasean" in Lebanon. Last spring he fted from there, gave himself up to the German authorities and incriminated - Hoffmann. Thereupon he was discharged. The judge impoaed aeveral conditions, one - of them being avoidance of contacts with right radicals. 3 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007142/09: CIA-RDP82-40854R040400080012-6 FOR OFFICIAL US~ ONLY Hamberger got a joh as an unskilled laborer w~th Nazi printer Busse. An ideal em- ployer with the very best contacts in'Belgium, Hamberger used them to go under- ground. In Antwerp he quickiy found friends among the faseist VMO. Their legder, Bert Erikson, welcomed hi~ to his headquarters, the "Cafe Odal." The slogan of Hitler fan Eriksori: "We must walk on corpses if we want to Iiberate Flanders." Hamberger h~d himself phor_ographed with Flemish comrades on military sports exer- cises in the Ardennes. A few hours before the shots in Munich a bomb exploded in Antwerp's Jewish quarter, in front of the diamond bourse. The bomb had been hidden in a car. ~ao people died, a hundred were injured. Shortly thereafter a neonazi organization, the "Action Directe," ~laimed responsibility. Thursday of last week the Belgian antiterrorist unit Dian~ struck in Ghent and ar- rested four German right extremists. '�hree of them were sought per international arrest order by the federal German prosecutor general: The couple Klaus and Kristin Hewicker and Ernst Balke, 38, from Celle. Allegati~n: Membership in a criminal association. The Bxemen prosecutor's o~fice sought the fourth man, Gerard Toepfer, 25, for incitement to riot. The qu,artet had crossed the Belgian border from France at Lille. The Belgian~auth- orities had been alerted by their French colleagues and pursued the Germans to Ghent by way of Antwerp. The four took up quarters in the home of a right radical in the suburb of Sint Martens. When the police stormed their hiding place, they found rifles with silencers, blank drivers licenses and blank passports. They also discovered more proof of international neonazi collaboration: Notebooks with con- tact addresses of fascists in France, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. COPYRIGHT: 1981 Gruner + Jahr AG & Co. 11698 CSO: 3103/85 ~4 . FOR OF~ICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2407/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400480012-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY ENERGY ECONOMICS FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY PETROLEUM INDUSTRY TO DISMANTLE OR MODERNIZE REFINERIES H.imburg CAPITAL in German Oct 81 pp 14-15 [Article by Hans-Josef Joest: "When the Flame Goes Down"] [Text] Esso chief Wolfgang Oehme finds that the advertising slogan used by his company is catching up to him. "There is a lot to do. Let's get down to work." According to Oehme's oracle the petroleum industry is facing a shrinking process "that this industry has never seen before." As homeowners throttle their oil tanks and companies abandon heavy oil and go over to coal, the 31 German refineries are - working at their minimum technical capacity. Therefore the Esso chief wants the scrap metal collectors to take over. "About one-third of our refining capacity is no longer needed." There are two trends making the situation tight for Qil companieg: A decrease in consumption, and obsolete equipment. Last year petroleum sales decreased 11.4 percent to 118 million tons. The refineries, however, are designed for 150 million tons of crude oil. In addition the refiner~es which are technically not up to date turn out products which are not in demand. Instead of producing sought-after gasoline (sales plus 1.8 percent) they concentrate on yesterday's demands and supply light heating oil which is diffic~xlt to sell (17.6 percent drop in sales) and heavy oil (minus 9.3 percent). It is obvio~is that the oil magnates lack foresight and therefore do not like to talk . about these facts. Ttie bill is being paid by the consumer at the filling station. 1'he large petroleum companies strain his pocketbook in order to be able to sell their products which are difficult to sell, particularly heavy oil, at dirt-cheap prices. - An insider concedes that "the bestsellers have to support the sickly products." Improved calcula*_ions will not be possible until tfie processing capacity is drastically reduced, A smaller number of modernized refir_eries warking at full capacity will enable the oil companies to again defend themselves in price competition on the market which continues to dwindle. For the time being, however, study groups in the management echelons of the oil companies are selectin~ the plants to be modernized, reduced in operation, or dis- c~ntinued. Only those refineries will remain unaffected that produce special products, e.K., bitumen, an insulating medium, or greasing agents, as Oelwerke J. Schindler GmbH, Hamburg, a BP subsidiary. 5 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007142/09: CIA-RDP82-40854R040400080012-6 F'UR OFFICIAI. USE: ONLY The investment plans reveal which ref:neries are given a chance to survive by oil magnates. As early as 5 years ago, Shell, Veba Oel and Wintershall already had plans of highly modern cracking plants on their shelves, so-called hydrocrackers. These plants crack hard-to-sell heavy oil and convert it into gasoline which is in high demand. At that time, however, only Wintershall AG, a BASF subsidiary, ventured to go through with this costly investment and has since been operating Germany's most modern refinery in Lingen. Now, 5 years later, Messrs Vel~a Oel, Gelsenkirchen, and Shell, Cologne-Godorf, are following suit. Cracking plants of this type for heavy oil residues also give the planners an idea o� the size which even modern refineries must shrink down to. In the future, the refineries are to process only as much crude oil as the cracking plants are capable of cracking down to sought-after gasoline. Then no heavy oil would have to be subsidized by car drivers. Experts calculate that almost 20 tons of crude-oil capacity wi11 be eliminated in refineries with cracking plants. Those refineries which supply mostly chemical companies with their products also have - a chance to survive, e.g., Deutsche Marathon Petroleum GmbH, Burghausen. Their future will only be secured, however, if the plastics producers co-own the refineries, e.g., - BASF which has an interest in the Mannheim GmbH crude oil refinery through Wintershall, or Hoechst with its interest in the Union Rheinishche Braunkohlen Kraftstoff AG, Wesseling. The best example for this theory is the uncertainty of the fate of the Raunheim Caltex Refinery owned by the Deutsche Texaco AG and the Chevron Erdoel Deu~- schland GmbH. Up to the present it supplied Hoechst with refinery products, but the agreement is about to expire, and Hoechst's demand can be filled by its Wesseling subsidiary. Caltex has already announced a reduction in its capacity by one-third. Finally, problems of location make the discontinuation of 9 plants with a total of more than 30 miliion tons of volume a difficult undertaking. Large corporations require sales networks which cover large areas. Small suppliers must retain at least one refinery in order to exchange gasoline for otY:er areas. Old plants cannot be shut do~an until these cooperation agreements have been concluded. The oil companies are not worried about their employees finding other jobs, however. Refiner;� workers are highly qualified specialists and can be utilized in the chemical plants of the multi- national oil companies, like the workers of the Cologne Esso refinery ~vhich is about to be shut down. Other oil companies have ambi~tious plans for former refinery workers - of theirs: They will~be employed in the refineries converting coal into gasoline. COPYRIGHT: 1981 Gruner + Jahr AG & Co 9544 CSO: 31a3/42 ~ 6 ~'OR OFFIC[AL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2447/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400484412-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY POLITICAL INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS SOVIET PEACE MGVEMENT TIES; DISINFORMATION ACTIVITIES Paris VALEURS ACTUELLES in FrenCh 19-25 Oct 81 pp 54-55 [Article by Pt.ilippe Krasnopolski: "The KGB's Pigeons. How t'L~e Saviets Are Operating in Disguise in Europe. By Manipulating the Respectable Peace Movements Animated by Christian or Youth Organizations"] [Text) "The pacifist movement...is regaining strength and sgreading especially in the countries of Western Europe. What are the reasons for this? Cn one hand, the people are greatly pre occupied with American poliY.ics; on the other hand, the pacifist = initiatives of the socialist countries have had their effect. The diverse political forces have joined the pacifist movement: the communist parties, the major sectors of social democracy and of the ecology move~r~ent." Mr ~3oris Ponomarev, member of the Soviet Communist Party Politburo and head of the "international relations" section, is drawing up this report in the October issue of ' the "New International Review," one of the communist mwement's theoretical publications. It is also a balance sheet. A year ago, on 28 September 1980, the World Council for Peace decided to organize a widespread campaign against rearmament of NATO members and ag~inst the emplacement of the American Persh~ng 2 rockets in Europe. This World Council has its headquatters in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is an organization of ~be~ience to the Soviet Union. In France, it is xepresented by the Movement for - Peace, whose secretary general, Mr Michel Langignon, is a member of the Communist Party. Mr Pon anarev can appreciate the work it has accanplished: Three hundred thousand - demonstrators "for peace and disarmament" in Bonn on 10 October. Last April, there had been o~ly 25,OOG protesting against the NATO sessions in the capital of the Federal Republic. _ Other demonstrations are anticipated: in London on 24 October; in Brussels and Paris on the 25th; at the Hague the following matth. "The struggles waged by the pacifist foroes of WEStern Europe are converging," affirms the daily L'HUMANITE. The culmination of the campaign will be a great internatiaial demonstration in Brussels on 6 Decembe r, the eve of the IVATO council meeting . 7 FOR OFFICIA~. USE ON~.Y APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/42/09: CIA-RDP82-40854R040400080012-6 FOR OFFICIAL USk: ONLY In Germany, t!-,e agents of the Soviet Union are mr~ving about in disguise. At the s~urce of the assembly were two pacifist organizatians with Christian tendencies: the "Expiation Action" and the "Action Movement ir the Service of Peace." ~n reality, the idea for this demonstration belonged to a Dutch organization,- "End the N Boanb," created in 1977 at the Netherlands' initiative and headed by the International Relations offioe o~t the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. The decision for this was, nevertheless, made in Hamburg on 20 June during Kirchentag, at the synod of the German Evangelical Church, after the first demonstration had brought ~ogether 80,000 people in the city streets. On 24 August, the plan received the blessing of the central committee of the Ecumenical Council of Churches which met in Dresden in the GDR, and that of Mr Erich Honecker, East Germany's head of state. ThQ small communist party (DKP] of the Federal Republic of Ger~nany thus placed its men. One of the organizers of the 10 October demonstration is a certain Fritz Teppich. He has already been at the forefront of the disturbances against General Haig's visit to Berlin on 13 September. In the sixties, Mr Teppich activated the German leftist . mavemert within the Apo, the extra-parliamentary opposition. Previously, he lived in East Berlin, where he w~s working for the western division of SED, the Communist Party of East Germany, before becani.ng wrrespondent for ADN, the GUR's news agency, in the city's western sector. There he belonged to SEW, the SED's western branch. But he so on left the mwement (after a falling out with its head) to rejoin the pacifists. Another communist infiltrator is Mr Achim Maske, presently the secretary general of the _ Ccmmittee for Peace, Disarmament and Detente. He is a former director of the communist group, Spartakus. - A report of the Bundesverfassungsschutz, the offioe to protect the Constitution (the DST [Directorate of Territorial Surveillance] of the Federal German Republic) , was for- - warded to Mr Schmidt. It reveals this communist infiltration of the pacifist mavements. According to this regort, the European communists will be drawing up a 3-year plan of action against the NATO reartr~ament, with 1981 being the first pl~ase. _ For the first 6 months of 1982, this plan would provide fo: direct action against military installations in the NATO cc~untries, such as taking aver the barracks. On 5 August 1982 (the eve of the anniversary of Hiroshima), demonstrations would take place in all of Western Europe, acccmpanied by hunger strikes. At Christmas, the _ churches would be occupied. In January 1983, the pacifists would call for civil disobedience (refusal to pay taxes, etc.); strikes against industry would be launched. Finally, again in August, on the 6th, there would be new mass dem onstrations. The Pershing rockets are due to be installed in Europe in 1983. 8 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400084412-6 NOR OFFICIAL US~ ONLY The report likewise sheds new light on last February's publication in the weekly STERN of a map shaaing the site of Ameri.can nuclear missile installations in the Federal Republic of Germany. This document had been furnished to the journal by the BBU [expansion unknawn] , an ecology movement, which itself proceeded from the Can- munist Party of the FRG. These documents were furnished by Section A of the KGB, the famous "disinformation" _ department. Thus, in June 1980, a"Pentagon document" began to be circulated in Great Britain, showing the American atanic w~eapon targets in the Swiet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries. But it also included the ones in the neutral oountries and even NATO members (in the case of Russian occupation) . This document arrived in the Netherlands the follawing December, Today it is being circulated among the Scandi- navian countries. A"pacifist" majority was elected to the Hague last May. Photo Captions 1. p. 54. Mr Egcr~ Bahr. One of the only German political f.igures, along with Mr - Willy Brandt, to receive praise from PRAVDA. 2. p. 55. The arguments of German pacifism are summarized in the text of this poster: "Bill for the FGR. Items delivered: packaqes of food, Marshall Plan, Star- fighters. Paid to date: loyalty to the alliance, military bases. Balance due: _ battlefield." COPYRIGHT: 1981 "Valeurs actuelles" 9475 CSO: 3100/67 - 9 FOR OFFICIAI. USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00854R400404080012-6 FOR OF'FICIAL USE ONLY POLITICAL INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EFFECTS OF GEF2MAN PACIFISM GN ALLIANCE, FRANCE Paris VALEURS ACTUELLES in French 19-25 Oct S1 p 53 [Article: "Disarmament at a Distance; Mr Brezhnev Did Enough By Deplaying His SS 20 Missiles for '.German Pacifism' To Develop"] [Text~ "There is no greater art," said the Chinese philosapher Sun Tsu, "than to dPStroy the enemy's resistance without fighting on his territory." The deployment of Soviet SS 20 missiles (directed exclusively against Western Europe) is already achieving its ~ objective: disarmament at a distance. In a few months, Chancellor Schmidt's capacity for resistance will be known. But part of his public opinion has been won: "Better red than dead," stressed the demonstrators in Bonn, following those in Berlin. The Federal Republic of Germany is nevertheless the country which has received 15 million witnesses: the refugees of occugied Europe. The Communist Party has no ~ representation there; even access to public office is forbidden to its members. The goals of Soviet foreign policy in Europe are at the same time permanent and immediate. They date f rom the Potsdam Cor~ference (August 1945) which was aimed at dismembering and disarming Germany. General Gehlen, who was the head of the German secret service, recalled in his Memoirs 10 years aqo: "The disintegration of the Western alliance and the subversion of the Federal Republic are two complementary aspects of the same Soviet strategy." At present, it is a matter of slowing down the installation of the Pershing rockets and NATO cruise missiles, capable of restoring to Europe an equi].ibrium of nuclear forces which has been endangered by the use of the movable laanch pads of the Soviet SS 20 rockets for 2 years. Because of the range and precision of these nuclear missiles, added to that of their ~ Backfire bombers, the Russians could aim at Western Europe and neutralize its prin- cipal means of defense--on condition that neither the Pershing nor the cruise missiles are deployed in Germany and elsewhere, since that would force the Soviets to reckon not only with the Europeans but also the Americans. This is the reason for the present Soviet activism toward preventing this emplacement. _ The policy of detente, the departure of Mr Nixon, and the weakness of Mr Carter have allawed Mr Brezhnev to make up for his strategic delay. He is in the position of daninating his rival. This superiority will be gained in 1985, i.e. in littie over 3 years. But not for loqq, because Mr Reagan is authorizing a formidable recovery effort in putting 180 billion more dollars into American defense aver the next 5 years. Mr Brezhnev therefore is hoping to stall for time. ~ 10 FpR OF~ [CIAI. US~ ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/49: CIA-RDP82-00850R040400080012-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY In G~rmany he depends on two levers.. One is the Left~s neo-nationalism: it is in the - name of "German national interest," of "patriotism," that the spokesmen of the pacifist demonstration have expressed themselves. By treating the American atmy as the "occupier," Mr Egon Bahr (founder of 05tpolitik) makes himself understood. The other lever is the Poli~h crisis. That poses many disadvantages for the Soviet system (especially the risk of spreading), but by not intervening for a year in Warsaw, the Kremlin let the German Leftists spread the idea that the "Polish renaissance" would show the possibility of a"liberated" socialism, "managing itself" in the East. "France is not confusing pacifism ~aith peace," said Mr Mitterrand on 24 September. - He cannot deny that France will not be spared the campaign being waged in Germany, just as it would beco~ne involved in any armed aggression against Germany. Photo Caption 1. p 53. Mr Ehrard ~ppler. "In the Pershing matter, German national interest is identical to Moscow's." COPYRIGHT: 1981 "Valeurs actuelles" - 9475 CSO: 3100/67 7 11 FOR OFFiCIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY , ~ , PULITICAL ITAI'Y i ! - PSD1'S LONGO ON FUTURE ALLIANCE WITH PSI Mil;in Il. MONDO in I~alian 16 Oct 81 pp 23-25 ~Interview with Pietro Longo, secretary of the PSDI [Italian Social Democratic ~Party~, by Donato SpProni: Pietro Longo Speaks: United with the PSI [Italian Socialist Party] Against the DC [Christian Democratic Party]"] ~ ~Text] His mos~ recent exploit was last week, when he refused to budge from the position that the governing majority should put to the vote a joint foreign policy bill, thus heading off at its inception a looming convergence between socialists and communists. During the same week, he praised to the highest the work of Giovanni Spadolini but he also took the government~to task, harshly - criticizing Minister Rino Formica's tax proposals. In sum, PDSI Secretary Pietro - Longo continues being a dark horse and a threat even to his allies. Why and with what strategy in mind? IL MONDO put these questions to Longo himstlf. ~(~ues[ion] Your role in Italian politics is being likened to that of a priva- teer. One is never certain where and when you will attack next. Eve:.~ the governments being supported by your party never feel secure in that respect. Why � this behavior? [Answer.~ Uo we convey that impression? We may at times lack the necessary subtleties of style or adroitness of maneuver. But from the standpoint of basic substance, we have never been wrong. If anything, it is the others who are now coming round to the viewpoints of the social democrats. ~Question] With respect to this government, you started out by immediately attacking Spadolini in depth. Now, you have changed tone. Why'? LAnswer] 1 am convinced [hat our first laic government must be characterized by determina~ive ~ction. Spadolini should not be mediating between social groups li.ke his Christian democratic predecessors. In the beginning, I had the impres- si.on that. he was becomin~ involved in too many mediations. ~question~ And now'? - 12 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007142/09: CIA-RDP82-40854R040400080012-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY [Answer] It appear.s to me that our proddings have been useful. This is the reason for the great satisfaction I have expressed recently and in my meeting with the prime minister as well. [Question] The PSDI has always favored the interests of certain categories with respect to the overall objectives of the fight against inflation. But now that Spadolini has put the absolute limit of the public defic~t in the fight against inflation a~ 5U,000 bi.llion lire, are you not concerned that this policy line may pull the rug from under your feet? [Answer] We too recognize the basic objective set by the government, although I do t~ot believe 5U,000 bilLion lire of public deficit is necessarily the absolute limit, jus[ as I do not believe in the magical effec[s of the 16-percent limit on che rise of prices. We have always defended the weaker categories, like the retirees, opposin~ a freezing of automatic indexation that would make them the sole vic~ims. Bu~ we have also proposed that a study be made aimed at rebalancing the accounts of the INPS (National Social Security Institute] with new revenues to come from self-employed workers. [Question] Your criticisms of the government are presently centered on the internal revenue service. Why? [Answer) There are two points of major concern to us. First of all, we are con- cerned over the intent to restore taxing authority to the municipal administra- - tions, espec?.ally as regards the imposition of direct taxes. I can understand t:he levyiriK ot taxes by a municipal administration in relation to the services ~t renciers, buc: I believe the overall tax reform criteria should not be touched. LQuestion] And tl~e second point? ~Answer.] That of the proposed tax on wealth, which upsets the ba~ic concept of the Italian tax syscem, wherein taxation is tied [o income. Moreover, it would be a fur~h~r F,low to the housing sector, which is today already in dire crisis. ~Question]. But Finance Minister Rino Formica says exactly the opposite. He says the cax on real property sources of income could in fact have an indifferent eff.ect on tax revenues, replacing as it would heavy taxes Like the INVIM [communal tax on increases in real estate value] and the registration tax, which restrict _ the frrrdom of movemE:nt of the market. [Answer) Indifferent [ax effects exist only in books. Par~tphrasing George Orwell, i would s:~y that there is also psychological taxation to be considered. The mere announcement of a tax on wealth is sufficient to lower the Italian pro- pensity forsaving and investing. A much wiser approach instead might be to reex- amine all tax rates and revise all tax legislar.ion affecting the housing sector. But rhe tax system cannot be based on the institution of a wealth tax, and even less on such high levels of it, in tha[, what is being talked about is no less - than 0.50 percent of the building's worth, while countries that have this kind - of tax havc stopped at U.10-0.20 percent. 13 FOR OFF[CIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400084412-6 FOR OFFIC[AL USE ONLY . [Ques[ion] There is a feeling that the housing problem will be the PSDI's war- horse in che months ahead. Is that true? [Answer] I would say i[ is our most pressing concern. Minister Franco Ni.colazzi (Editor's note: Public Works, PSDI) is fighting like a lion to revive the national housing sector and mortgage credit facilities, and for a revision of all the , related legislation. Housing is one of the focal points of our party's action and the reason for our prese~lce in the government. ~Ques[ion] What are the major dangers the government will face in the next several . months? ~Answer) Certainly, the passing of the budget bill, which will require unshakable , solidarity on the part of the majority, despite its many emendable provisions, as [he prime minister has also said. It will [ake political courage, and political courage we, for our part, have. [Question] What others? ~Answer] Once the fog has lifted, there may be o~her reefs ahead. But we must fight against the psychosis that a government must last not more than 1 year, I = say that a government is based on an agreement among the parties and must con- ' tinue for the duration of this agreement. ' , [Question) Who tends to seek early elections? [Answer] Until now, the majority parties--the DC and the PCI [Italian Communist Par[y]--have always benefited from the climate of radicalization generated by early elections. This time round, moreover, there is a crisis within each of the two parcies that may induce them to seek internal unity through elections. [Question] What do you think will come of the presumed renovation of the DC? ~ ~Answer~ I don'[ believe i~. The Christian democrats make a lot of noise, talk a great deal, dress in the sackcloth of Jacopone da Todi and flagellate themselves continually. But they cannot undo the structural aspects of' their problem. [Question] And what are they'? [Answer] The DC is the Western party that has been in power for the longest per- ' iod of time and has exercised it in tk~e most constant manner. Then, the DC has - always represented and tends still to represented the old rural world, the same world in which the Italian Catholic Church is rooted and which has compelled the DC to wage the rear-guard battles of the last several years. The DC has not begun ~ yet to retrieve the laity of our industrial civilization, in which religious sentiment as well ~akes on another meaning. [()ues[ion] Is that an irremissible sentencing? 11~ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400080012-6 APPROVED F~R RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400084412-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY IAnswer] 1 would say it is an objective judgement. For some time to come, and pending a profourid cultural renewal within itself, the DC will have to resign itself to a no longer preeminent roie. (c~uestion] And what do you think will come out of the PCI's internal debate? [Answer~ A recurn to that process of revision that has co~ne to a halt in the la~t 2 yt~ars. When we read that 90 percent of the PCI's militants are pro-Soviet, we can only deduce that the leadership group has lacked the needed courage in the incernal debate. The Polish communists are giving a great example of how debate can be carried on openly. It is incredible that the PCI cannot do the same in Italy, where not even the physical courage of those who have the Russian tanks ii~ their doorsCep is needed.