SOVIETS SAY CIA TRAINED AFGHAN REBELS IN PAKISTAN

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• Publication Date: January 2, 1980
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THE WASHINGTON POST
2 January 1980
By Kevin Klose
ence to the Asia Foundation, aprivate
Waohtnston post Poreirn Service American assistance oganization.
MOSCOW, Jan. 1--The Soviet Un- The State Department refused
to
ion expanded its allegations of Ameri comment on the Soviet charges,
, but
subversion in Afghanistan -today one official said a DEA agent is per-
in a continuing effort to blunt world . manently assigned to the embassy in.
criticism of the Soviet military inter- Afghanistan. The agent, however, was
vention there. out of the country-on vacation at the !
An authoritative article in the gov- time of the Soviet. incursion, accord-
ernment newspaper Izvestia said, inc, to the official.
"The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Under the authorship of Mikhail
is directly invo ve in.training Afghan Mikhailov, regarded here. as an au-
rebels in ca thoritative voice, reflecting leadership
t prang con ac s with coun errevoTu- views, Izvestia expanded earlier offi-
t__onaries and rea t onanes in _ e a t- cial accusations to include Britain and
stan itself." Pakistan, along with China and Egypt,
The paper claim d that CIA acents in the alleged subversion effort under-
or ;
? t rn'r t,nard taken by.Washington in Afghanistan.
and the American *Asian Fund' npar_ "Pakistan's anti Afghan course had
ate n the area of the?Af_han-Pakistan the support of the U.S. and Britain."
rontier." the paper said, "and was .decisively
Izvestia apparently meant the U.S. the result of instigations on the part
.Drug Enforcement. Administration of these countries, China, Egypt, and
(DEA), which has investigators in the some others."
South Asia region as part of the fed- Two days ago, the Communist Party
eral government's worldwide narcot- paper Pravda hinted strongly that
ics traffic suppression efforts. The Pakistan was invovled directly in the
."Asia Fund" could not be specifically alleged subversion plot. By naming Is-
identified but may be a Soviet refer- lamabad in today's account, the Sovi-
ets appear to have written - off any
early easing. of their already strained
relations with the 'Pakistanis, who
have strongly backed China in a. se?
ries? of Soviet-Chinese confrontations
Islamabad, like Tehran and other.
Moslem capitals, has sharply de-
pounced the Soviet military incursion,
which . Washington estimates at be-
tween 30,000 and 40,000 with another
12,000 or so ready to cross the border..
Meanwhile, the official. Soviet Tact
agency reported a telegram of thanks
to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
from Babrak Karmal, who came to
power in Kabul Thursday in- the So-~
viet-backed coup. -
Babrak, a 'staunchy pro-Moscow!
communist who was pursed frorii Ka-
bul leadership last year by the man he
overthrew, Hafizullah Amin; told
Brezhnev he is "convinced that with
the fraternal assistance and undimin..
ishing cooperation" of the Soviets,
"we shall win and overcome all diffi-
culties we inherited from the past."
Soviet media have avoided describ-
ing the insurgents opposed to Kabul's
Marxist government as- Moslems in
an apparent attempt to improve re.
? lations with other-Moslem countries.
In describing the angry rally by
Afghan exiles at the Soviet Embassy.:
in Tchran today, Tass simply called
them "hooligans who refused to dis-
close their names" and said they were
"hostile to the Afghan revolution."
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