EXPOSING A LIE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 7, 1983
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AR i i~'.t~C~ED WASHINGTON POST
7: October 1983
Rowland Evans
..And -Robert Novak
:Exposing
A.Lie..
i ..-With, the "two=superpowers_approach-
.ingoDld' war,'.,the Soviets are waging. .a
it}isint'nrmation-campaign that, has :been
;giious]y ,immune from" .political.,and -;
tnedia attention.-Considering that its re
cent victims :include'iJ.N.Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick,4amed foreign -opera-
five Irvinv Brown if the AFL-CIO::and
aaimerous ,American ;diplomats abroad,
this indiff'erence.isriamaging tothe West,
and.feeds the rising tideof Soviet deceit
s _.A--confidential letter from e Jewish
emigrant who -miraculously escaped the
death sentence ofa Bulgarian courtmay
end that. .indifference. Now an Israeli
citizen, Dr." Heruy Spetter wrote. a letter
on. Aug. 31:letter to:Zbigniew Brzezihski,
Jim my CartWs.,national security advis-- -
er, that closes the circle on an ugly series
o f events' It alsoexposes exactly how-the
wheelsrof soviet disinformation turn,
ctushigg-innocent:targets to create. a
false picture of Soviet purity.
-Wrlting'frorri Tel Aviv, where he is
an .economic-consultant. Spetter .said -
that he had `read a recent article in
Izvestia, the Soviet government's news-
paper, tinder the head: "The 'Bulgar-
ian Trace' of Zbigniew Brzezinski.",
The article alleged that during a visit
to. Sofia as a guest of' the Bulgarian
Academy of 'Sciences in the early
1960s. Brzezinski "contacted a Bulgar-
ian citizen with-the nickname 'Andrew'
:whom he instructed to collect informa-
`tiorionbehalf-ofthe'CIA." -
"`Sinee I'am'the person JAndrew) in
question,"-Spetter -wrote,-the "follow
ing-facts"`should 'he' understood: "that'
ion-one-occasion, some 20 years ago; be-
.had'been''asked to drive Brzezinski in
Sofia -from the academy to his hotel-
because he could speak English; that
"'this was my -only --meeting" with
Brzeiinski;that, ass result of the brief
encounter, he had been arrested by the
Bulgarian secret police in 1973 and tor-
=tured to -confess" his recruitment 10
year s.earlier,,by Brzezinski, who -was
then an. occasional consultant -to the.
State Department.
bpetter was sentenced to death rrv 1
Bulgarian court, then released from-the;
trumped-up charges and allowed to
-emigrate to Israel in the summer of
11
1974.
There the -matter rested-until 1,
the assassination attempt on Pope
Jt hn Paul 11 in 1981 and the ensuing
,allegations charging :Bulgarian com-
plicity in the-shooting. .
'Onlyafterthose charges of a "Bulgar-
`yan."connection'?i,ith.the':attempted as-
sassination - Hof ' the "pope did 1zvest.ia
ktdredgeup the-oldsmear.against Brzezin-
`ski, using 'zSpetter $s` the foil. Both
;'~Brzezinski -end -''Henry Kissinger -had
ptiblicly-raised questions .about-the Bul-
,garian connection and the complete con
trot of 'Bulgarian`
intelligence 'by the
'Soviet:-"KGB:--One'way to convince the
world that neither' the-Bulgarians nor
the Soviets-:had a hand in the shootout
in -=St. -P.eter's "Square was to portray
Bizezinski as a'--longtime conspirator for
the CIA inside Sof ia.
The Soviet disinformation net is cast
! xade. Early this year"a bogus speech re-
putedly made by Kirkpatrick was
printed in far-left 'Indian newspapers.
According to the speech,' Kirkpatrick ad-
vocated a policy-4 "Balkanization" of
:India. 'Communist members used it
against the 'United States in their
speeches in the Indian parliament.
Irving Brown,' :for decades .the top
.AFL-CIO operative abroad, was the vic-
tim last March of 's forged letter carrying
his signature and published in an Italian
newspaper' The letter implicated Brown
in the secret.use'bof AFL-CIO money to
finance the outlawed Solidarity move-
-ment in Poland through an Italian labor
..otlicial known to he an agent of Bulgar-
ian intelligence. The~object -was to stig-
:mnatiie 'the -United States'"and cleanse
both KGB and Bulgarian intelligence
Eserdices '
Spetter's dramatic rebuttal-"Since 1,
;-ain.the person in'question"-was an un-
usually swift knockdown of the false Izv
,estia charge :against BrLezinski. But
=other Soviet disinformation, scattering
ptir