AMERICAN REPORTEDLY PRAISES AFGHAN REGIME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303590009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 30, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/23: CIA-RDP90-00552R000303590009-4
O PAS Q DUJ 1 UH JU!'dUH Y ULUtiL
30 March 1980
A i er icon. reportedly praise
A ~ Al s
NEW DELHI - Robert Lee, an American arrested g of iuus revonruon being carried out by the pro-So.
'-
.during anti-Soviet riots in Kabul last month, has viet government of President Babra'.c Karmal.- ` -,-
turned up on Afghanistan government television The informant from Kabul, who asked not to be
praising the pro-Soviet regime and denouncing "cap- identified, said Lee told his viewers that the people of
italist bandits" of the West, a traveler from Afghani- Afghanistan were united and that they should "rise
stan reported yesterday. up against the filthy imperialist (Western) bandits,
Afghan media earlier had charged that Lee, of just as their grandfathers did against the British
Monterey Park, Calif., was arrested as a CIA agent. nearly a century ago."
The account of his television appearance last He quoted Lee as praisin ? "clan stru gle' and ns
Wednesday said no mention was made of any CIA blaming anti-Soviet activity in Afghanistan on merce-
connection. Instead, he was quoted as saying he had naries and bandits armed and werking for China, the
entered Afghanistan in order to witness first hand the United States and other Western coup ries.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/23: CIA-RDP90-00552R000303590009-4