SOVIETS SHOW TV INTERVIEW WITH AMERICAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303590006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 3, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON STAR (GREEN LINE)
3 April 1980
With American
Soviets Show
TV Interview.
MOSCOW (AP) -Soviet television
broadcast an interview last night
with a man identified as Robert Lee,
an American citizen Soviet media.
last month reported was arrested in
Afghanistan for "instigation of anti-
government actions."
Slurring his words and speaking
haltingly, the man said it had be-
come clear to him that a Moslem
rebellion against the pro-Soviet- Af-
ghan regime resulted from "imperi-
alistic interference in the internal
affairs of the struggling progressive
state of Afghanistan."
The broadcast made no mention of
any criminal charges brought
against Lee. Aired on the nightly
news program "Vremya" (Time) the
report said only that Afghan author-
ities gave "our correspondent the
opportunity to>? interview Lee,"
apparently in the Afghan capital of
Kabul.
State Department spokesman
David Nall said in Washington that a
man identified as Lee had appeared
on Afghan television several days
before and made similar comments.
"We don't know who he is," Nall
said. "We haven't had a chance to
talk to him, although we have asked
the appropriate Afghan authorities
about him."
In answer to questions in English
by Soviet interviewer Leonid Zoloto-
revsky, the man identified as Lee
said:
"You see,. that Afghanistan is
another evidence of what we wit-
nessed 20 years ago when the Cuban
people defended', their freedom, and
then there was Vietnam."
The man called Lee'was blond;,
had a thin face and was dressed in a
dark sweater-, black raincoat and
brown trousers.' His eyes were
covered by a large pair of tinted
glasses.
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