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Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 The Magazine For People Who Need To Know Volume 4, Number 1 $2 LHS/cpf NOTES ON: PRINCETON--CIA-o MIDDLE EAST p. 3 JOAN BAEZ-TOM DOOLEY OF THE 7 TH30 s .......... p. 4 TRANSAFRICA??? .......................... p. 5 US INTERVENTION IN AFGHANISTAN ................................. P. 3 CIA: PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS? .................................. p. 19 CIA IN INDONESIA: 1935 .................................................... p. 23 US INTELLIGENCE IN NORWAY ......................................... p. 33 US INTELLIGENCE: GUATEMALA ............:....... p. 42 HAITI .... .............................................. ..............:......... p. 43 FRANCE .......................................................................... p.43 JAPAN ................. ............. .. .......................................... p.44 ENGLAND ....................................................................... p.45 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 EDrrORUL Unique, indeed. Obviously, this depot could serve as a secret staging area for the Shah. loyalists led by the Shah's son who trained with these same officers in Texas and who is'also in the US. The American and Iranian peoples have a right and a need-to-know why this dangerous situation continues. Carlos Anzaldua Edinburgh, Texas The response to our "alert and plea" for public support has given us the courage and strength to continue and affirmed' the need for CounterSpy. The range of persons endorsing Counterspy include: Bob Moore (National Secretary of the Mobilization for Survival *), Sister Mary O'Keefe (Chicago), 'Kathie Sarachild (New York City), Jose Buckland (farmer/Oklahoma), Rev, H. C. Mulholland (North Carolina), Allen Fisher (England), John Cavanagh (fellow/ Princeton University), Rev. Richard Preston (Michigan), and others listed below. We are, of course, grateful for the expression of grassroots support and urge others to do the same and, if possible, contribute financially to Counterspy. Since our last issue, we have pre- sented papers at several conferences and completed special reports on the CIA in Nicaragua and US universities. CounterSpy presented a paper, "The CIA Goes To Work" at the VIII Conference of the International Peace Research .Association in Koenigstein, West Ger- many; and editor, John Kelly, organized and chaired a panel on the CIA in aca- demia for the 1979 Annual Convention of American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C. and presented a paper, "CIA and Academia". A catalogue of these papers and the special reports is available upon-request. Finally, we mentioned in our last issue, and the Pentagon has now con- firmed that Iranian military personnel, who came here as members of the Shah's military forces, are still receiving mili- tary training from the Pentagon in the US. The Pentagon has also confirmed our re- velation of an Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) depot at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey which USAF Colonel, E. Arcene McSmith, Jr, has described as ,a "unique arrangement". between the US .Air Force and the IIAF. Ricardo'Anzaldua U. San Diego/Ca. Jane Barry Philadelphia, Pa:. Robin Broad Princeton U. Fred Clarkson CALC=** Ellen Davidson Guardian* Ruth'M; Fitzpatrick Fairfax, Va. Sally Hanlon Big Cove Tannery (Pennsylvania) Carol Hanisch% New Paltz, N. Y. Ruth Heiss Rockford, Illinois Janet Higgins Manchester, Eng. Flo Littell Kelly San Francisco Dr. Lawrence Kirby Princeton U.* Lee Miller Washington, DC Stu Ozer Guardian* Colette Price New York City REDSTOCKINGS New York City Claire Schub Princeton U. Prof. Steve Slaby Princeton U. * Curt Wands Washington, DC -Martha Wenger CALC* -Scott Wright Washington, DC *for identification only - Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 14 ,so A L EAST The SD,was the elitist intelligence agency of academics that became a branch of the SS under the command of Reinhard Heydrich. According to a 1975 study by George C .Browder of the State University of New York, the SD's Nazi academicians considered them- selves an "idealistic intelligence ser- vice" separate "from the unpleasant and distasteful activities of the Ge- stapo and from. much of what the total SD implied". Indeed, the SD offered this separateness as its defense at the tribunals at Nuremberg. The tribu- nal rejected this defense for as Browder observed "try as they might, they were members of the total SS" Publicly, the CIA also claims a. separation between its "dirty tricks" and its research and analysis. CIA academic recruiter, John F.Devlin,told the American Historical Association CIA research " begins and ends with . a piece of paper". In a secret meeting, CIA criminal Richard M. Bissell, Jr. , came closer to the truth when he noted that the objective of CIA analysis is to provide- "timely knowledge" of "tactical significance". Furthermore, "intelligence collection and covert action interact and overlap... to the point of being almost indistinguish- able". It is patently obvious that the so- called academic branch of the CIA pro- vides the ammunition for covert opera- tions. CIA academician Ray Cline has admitted that covert operations are un- dertaken to "try to change the situation that you analyzed in R+A (research and analysis)". In short, CIA academi- cians, researchers, and analysts, like the SD predecessors, are part of the total CIA. In the Middle East, the CIA has ser- viced and furthered the exploitation by U.S. corporations and repression of Zionism and dictatorial regimes such as that of King-Hussein in Jordan. There is not a singe instance where the CIA acted in the true interest of Middle East peoples. As always, the CIA's RtA provides the wherewithal for it to carry out its exploitation, oppression, and repression. Given the history and on-going role of U. S. corporations and the CIA in the Middle East, it is with outrage that we report that during October 25- 26, 1979, Princeton University (PU) hosted a conference "The Middle East and the Superpowers" which featured acknowledged member of the CIA and U. S. corporations. Corporate partici- pants include: Abraham Almany (The Con- tinental Group, Inc . ); Bruce C.Anderson (Ebasco Services, Inc.); C. Andrew Brauer (New York Life Insurance Co.); Parker T. Hart (International Business Consultant); Richard H. Hittle (Conoco International); Richard A. Macken (Gulf Oil Corp.); and William A. Stoltzfus, Jr.. (William Sword and Co., Inc.). The acknowledged CIA presence was Harry Gelman who spoke in place of Arnold Horelick. Harold Saunders, a well- known "former" CIA officer was sche- duled to speak but was replaced by Michael S. Sterner from the U. S. State Department. Monroe Berger (PU), a for- mer consultant for the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom (1958-61), chaired the panel. The conference's rationale noted righteously that " . , more than ever be- fore the peoples of the region are seek-- ing to control their destiny and to shape their political, economic, and social in- Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 stitutl-Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 and values". And, what does this call for ? "This emerging position of the Near East calls for examination. F rst, the view of the region from outside from Washington, Moscow, and the financial world as exemplified by Wall Street - requires comment. " The ratio- nale concedes that internal views and interests "must be considered". But ac- cording to the question: "To what extent are they compatible with the goals and J0, AN BAZZ policies of the superpowers ?". (De- 5 701 spite the expressed concern for ,', ? "Moscow's " view, there were no Soviet y ? ' participants. Harry Gelman presented "Moscow's" view !) We feel the aforementioned On May 7, 1954, President Dwight persons Eisenhower wrote to Bao Dai after the deserve the "light of. day" particularly in the Middle East whose peoples de- defeat of the colonialists at Dien Bien serve an explanation. We feel the same Phu to express "admiration"on "behalf about the following scheduled speakers of the American people" to the Vietnam- and panelists whose conscious- partici- ese who fought on the side to the French pation provided a legitimate forum for against their own fellow compatriots. the U. S. corporations and the CIA, the Eisenhower concluded that: "We of the exploitative oppressors of the Middle Free World are determined to remain East peoples. Nehama Rezler Bersohn, faithful to the causes for which they William G. Bowen, L. Dean Brown, have so nobly fought. " Jerome Clinton, Martin Dickson, Normen Shortly thereafter, Eisenhower dis- Itzkowiz, Charles Issawi, Bernard Lewis patched CIA operative Colonel Edward ,, Robert Tignor, Richard Ullman, and John Landsdale to Vietnam. Prior to his Viet- Waterbur nam assignment, Landsdale, along with g (all from Princeton University); CIA's Napoleon Valeriano, had directed Oles Smolansky (Lehigh U.), Bayly the extermination of thQusands of Huks Winder (NYU), Ernest Dawn (U, of Illi- nois/Urbana, William B. in the Philippines 'under his so-called Quandt propaganda campaign of the Filipino (Brookings institute), 1.0. Hurewitz Civil Affairs Office. Stanley Kamow (Columbia U.), Ann Lesch (Ford Founda- described a t tion) , Dankwart Rustovv (City U., New Ypical psychological war- York), and All Banuazizi (Boston College) fare operation: "When a Huk partol passed the , ambushers snatched the last man, punctured his neck vampire- fashion with two holes, hung his body until his blood drained out,. and put the corpse back on the trail.," Landsdale was sent to Vietnam to undertake a similar propaganda and psychological warfare campaign to save Vietnam from itself and the "communists" and co- incidentally replace the French colo- nialism with U. S. neo-colonialism, such as was imposed in the Philippines. An integral component of Landsdele's psychological warfare and Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 w ~. campaign to slip the U. S. into Viet- nam was a worldwide propaganda cam- paign about the tremendous food and medical needs of the Vietnamese (the propaganda, of course, never men - tioned the American role in producing these needs). Spearheading this cam- paign was CIA agent, Tom Dooley. Dooley propagandized from one end of the U. S. to the other about Vietnam. his image was based, in part, on - what even Holy Mother Church called - false CIA reports filed by Dooley. The ultimate hypocritical conclusion of all this was the Food-for-Peace program whose monies were used to buy weapons and ammunition with the permission of the U. S. government. Now we have a latter-day Tom Dooley, Joan Baez, telling us Vietnam has to be rescued from itself again and hymning the CIA's line on Cambodia. It is like a re-run of the 1950's night- mare with Baez telling President Carter: "Either we bluff our way in there or pretend we didn't hear Phnom Penh's reaction to distributing food. " And later at a "Georgetown house under the Waterfront chandeliers" tell- ing the like of Edward Kennedy and Chip Carter that: "We just have to take our Red Cross and say, 'Here we come'. It's risky, but I don't think they want to shoot us. " With Chip Carter responding: "We support her wholeheartedly. The President thinks her work will change world opinion and help us to proceed. We're going to go into Cambodia under the pretext that they will let us. " We don't know what's happening in Vietnam and Cambodia. But neither does"Joan Baez, her ilk and even Ed Bradley of CBS News, conceded that the CIA is propagandizing about Cambodia. We do know, however, that the U. S. government through the likes of Dooley and Baez has been lying to us about Indochina for over 25 years. Thus, to Baez we say: "Hell No, We Won't Go" particularly in light of her saying she is now "comfortable" with limousines and plush hotels - the haunts of exploiters and war crim- inals. 7 M A e The CIA is an ideological institution whose indoctrinated members seldom really leave. They do, however, engage in-"sheep-dipping". This is a process whereby a CIA member ostensibly leaves the CIA to join another organiza- tion while maintaining loyalty to the CIA, sometimes with no contact with the CIA for years. It has been documented that the CIA has specifically targeted blacks in the US for cooptation and barring that, "neutralization". Given these facts, CounterSpy feels compelled to call at- tention to a Washington Post article of May 21, 1978. "There has for many years been an informal 'Africa Lobby' consisting of interested blacks from the State Department, the CIA, Capitol Hill and private organizations. Robinson said TransAfrica includes many of the same people... ". (Randall Robinson is Executive Director of. TransAfrica, a black lobby on Africa and the Caribbean.) CounterSpy believes strongly in every- one's' ability to change else we would not struggle as we do. It is not Counter - Spy but the CIA's nature that requires persons in TransAfrica to come forward and state whether they were in the CIA and what is their position on the CIA. This is particularly essential since Trans- Africa owes it to itself and persons con- sidering working with it to be up front about any relationships, even past, which its members may have had with the CIA. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 September 6, 1979 Statement We feel that, we "lust respond to the latest in a series of at tempts to suppress inquiry into the details and nature of Gloria Stein. ell) s assouauon with the Central Intelligence Agency. We are alarmed that the most visible commentary on these events has come from several well-known figures in the feminist movement who not only condone but endorse this suppression. Because feminism's appeal and impact spring from a fundamental intel- lectual honesty, it is particularly distressing that the suppression of dissent may be seen as some kind of official feminist position. In 197S,.after Redstockings researched Gloria Steinem's' affiliations and raised questions about her political past, Stein- em published a "Statement" in connection with her activities on behalf of the Independent Research Service, a CIA-funded group. Many feminists found this document neither entirely credible nor to the point, and they have persisted in seeking more enlightening answers. Because of the consciously counterrevolutionary role the CIA has played at home and abroad over the years, it makes sense to expect a participant in the women's movement- especially one who has come to symbolize it-to fully discuss her past relationship to the CIA. We are still waiting to hear Steinem's opinion of the Agency; the last one she gave charac- terized the CIA as "liberal" and "farsighted" (The New York Times, February 21. 1967). The events that prompted us to send out this letter include: 1) Gloria Steinem, Clay Felker (most recently publisher of Esquire), and Ford Foundation president Franklin Thomas were among those who threatened to sue for libel if Random House allowed the CIA chapters to be published in the Random edition of Redstockings' Feminist Revolution. At the same time, Newsweek/Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Warner Communications-a major Ms. stockholder-also complained. The offending chapters were deleted. Thus, Steinem and her powerful supporters successfully used the threat of litigation to exercise prior restraint over publication. 2) When Steinem learned that the Village Voice had assigned journalist Nancy Borman to prepare an article on the censor- ship of Feminist Revolution, her attorneys, Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, threatened suit against the Voice if any mention of Steinem's CIA association appeared in the article. After some delay to allow the Voice's legal counsel to review the material, the Voice published the article (May 21, 1979), and in subse- quent issues several letter-writers responded with attacks on Borman. and the Voice, 3) In May 1979, when Heights & Natter News, a New York City neighborhood paper published by the Columbia Tenants Union; began a series on the material deleted from Feminist Revolution, Steinem's attorneys again threatened suit. But instead of threatening the Columbia Tenants Union corpora- tion-as they had the Random House and Village Voice corpor- ations-they sent a letter to each of CTU's 32 board members. Board members cannot be individually sued for a( corporation's acts, except in a few instances not relevant here (many non- lawyers may not know this); but Steinem'5 attorneys stated in their letter to the board members that publication of the material "could subject [them] to individual liability." Heights & Valley News stood up to this attempt at intimidation and is continuing the series. All this legal harassment was in response not to any actual instance of false, malicious defamation, but to the potential raising of embarrassing questions about some feminists' rela- tions with the power elite. We think that Steinem and her associates have not made a convincing case for cutting off discussion. At question is not just the right to debate one woman's past associations, although this is often important. There is an urgent need for wide- ranging debate in the feminist movement on such questions as: - Do feminists think there are special topics on which it is defensible, to stifle discussion? Why do we put up with bad- faith appeals to "sisterhood"? - How far should feminists go in making compromises? Which kinds of compromises help us reach our goals? Which hurt? - Is there a conflict-of-interest problem that our movement needs to solve-as other movements have tried to solve it -when movement representatives accept positions on the government or corporate side of the bargaining table? - Are "right-wingers" the only reason for the growing num- ber of setbacks for women? Or is the feminist movement fail- ing to discuss its own serious mistakes? - Does dependence on government and corporate funding and foundation grants increase or decrease the effectiveness of feminist groups? Does it distort their politics and activities? - What is to be done about government and corporate spy- ing and intervention in the feminist movement? These questions are not personal but political. They are at the heart of our survival as a movement. We will not be silenced. Note: Copies of the two articles reviewing Steinem's CIA asso- ciations, which were in the original edition of Feminist Revolu- tion, are available for $1 from Redstockings, P.O. Box 1284, New York, NY 10009; Redstockings' information packet on the censorship of the book's Random edition is $1. Copies of the Sept. 6, 1975, Majority Report, containing Steinern's state- ment and annotations to it, are S.75 each from Majority Report, 49 Perry St., New York, NY 10014. Copies of the Voice arti- cle and letters of response are S.50, cash or stamps, from the Statement Group, c/o Nancy S. Erickson, 619 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. 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In 1973, the forty year-old dictatorship of King Mohammad Zaher Shah and two of his uncles ended in a coup led by his cousin and brother-in-law, Mohammed Daoud, who had resigned as Zaher Shah's prime minister in 1963 and had seemingly re- Amok U tired from political life. (Zaher Shah was in Italy on vacation at the time of the coup, during a famine in his country, INTERVE j T 3 0,W 341 IN and was later offered asylum by Saudi Arabia.) There was virtually no one in Afghanistan prepared to fight for the 4GHANI$TAN FGHAW724STPS h Sha alff, who had led an extremely re- by onrad Ege pressive and corrupt regime. The end of the monarchy was welcomed by "If Henry Kissinger were still around, most of the people. Daoud's coup was there would be one hell of a temptation to assisted by various sectors of the _ get involved"; 1 was the reaction of a Afghan society, especially the leftist U. S. "specialist" to recent events in parties, Afghanistan. But Henry Kissinger is not Soon after the coup, the U.S. be- "around", and State Department and CIA 'came more "involved" in Afghanistan. officials keep assuring us (as they did (Adolph "Spike" Dubs, U. S, Ambassador during the "secret" war in Laos and when to Afghanistan from the summer of 1978 covert aid was being given to the Kurds until he was killed on February 14, 1979, in Iraq) that the U.S. .is "not interfering and who "had been trying to wean the in any way"2. in Afghanistan.. Afghans away from Moscow" 4 was What is happening in -Afghanistan appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of that might provoke "one hell of a tempta- State for Near Eastern and South Asian tion to get involved" ? Many factors Affairs in 1975.) ;Iran, "encouraged by and diverse U.S. interests are involved the United States, made a determined - all best illuminated in the light of effort to draw Kabul [Afghanistan's cap- recent Afghan history. ital ] into a western-tilted, Teheran - Afghanistan is a mountainous country centered, regional economic and secu- about the size of Texas with a population rity sphere embracing Pakistan, India, and approaching 18 million of many different the Persian gulf states" 5 and to promote nationalities, most of them peasants in policies of anti-Communism in Afghan- the countryside. This landlocked country istan. The Shah of Iran began a massive borders Iran, the Soviet Union (the bor- $ 2 billion aid program to Afghanistan der with the Soviet Union-is some 2, 000 under the condition that Daoud crack miles), China, Pakistan, and India; and down further on the Khalq and Parcham even though it has no access to the sea parties who had,been the "backbone of it has strategic significance. The United [Daoud's] 1973 coup" 6 but were con- Nations rates Afghanistan as one of the sidered "Communist" by the Shah and the world's poorest countries with an annual U.S. Government. Iran, also pushed for the per capita income of .$ 160, an infant termination of Afghanistan's traditionally mortality rate of 50" per cent, and ann friendly relationship with the Soviet illiteracy rate of some 90 per cent. Union. The.Shah began to exercise more' Almost all Afghans are Muslims be- and more power in Afghanistan, and SAVAK, longing to the more traditional of the 'his CIA-trained secret police, got heavily two branches, the Sunnites. involved in Afghanistan's internal affairs. .Events have moved rapidly in Afghan- SAVAK went so far as' to pinpoint "sus- 8 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 ti' pected Communist symphathizers through- out the Afghan Government 'and military" 7 who were then to be purged by Daoud. In the same years, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) stepped up its program of police aid to the Daoud government. Two million DM ($ 1 million) were made available "in the form of equipment supplies and top-level guidance for the Afghani police by two German police officers in view of political developments" .8 In addition, the West German magazine Der Spiegel reports that almost all high ranking Afghan' police officers went to the FRG for training. 9 Five Afghans were alsc trained in the U.S. by the Drug Enforce- ment Agency (DEA) or through CIA program: in the International Police Academy (IPA) in Washington, DC and the "Bomb School" (Border Patrol Offices, BPO) in Los Fresnos, Texas : Abdul Samad Azher (DEA) ; Qader Abdul Azizi (IPA, BPO, DEA); Abdul Vaheed Najmi (IPA); Miam Rafiuddin (IPA); and Khawar Zaman (IPA). With this improved police force, Daouc got rid of officers and civilians in his government, often using brutal tactics. He handed key positions to aristocrats and supporters-of the big landowners and the deposed monarchy. The economic power stayed in the hands of a few land- lords - five per cent of the population owned half of the arable land - and the corrupt bureaucracy of Zaher Shah' was only slightly reformed. The economic situation in Afghanistan deteriorated quickly in spite of the big foreign grants. Unemployment increased - to almost one million, and from an anticipated development budget of $ 400 million for 1976/77, only one third was. actually expended by the Daoud govern- ment; and from the 1977/78 budget, only one sixth was spent. 10 Da'oud's highly' proclaimed and badly needed land reform never took place, and the dissatisfaction- of the Afghan people mounted. In response Daoud turned more and more to open re- pression. In February 1977, he adopted - a one-party constitution, and issued laws providing severe penalties in- cluding the death sentence for opposition political activities. At the same time, the Shah of Iran's policy seemed to succeed: Daoud signed treaties with Iran and Pakistan and showed increasing' hostility towards the Soviet Union. Furthermore, the Shah him- self planned to visit Kabul in June 1978, and Mohammed Daoud wanted to meet President Carter in the fall in Washing- ton. But Daoud's alliances with the U. S. Government,` SAVAK, the feudal land- lords and the Muslim clergy (often big landlords themselves), could not main- tain his reign. On April 17, Daoud's newly appointed interior minister Abdul Quadir Nuristani arranged the assassi- nation of Mir Akbar Khaiber, a popular leftist leader whom Daoud and Nuristani considered "Communist". Khaiber's funeral turned into a massive anti-gov- ernment demonstration. Daoud, encour- aged by the Shah, responded with an attempt to eliminate any and all oppo- sition. On April 24, seven popular "Communist". leaders were arrested, and on April 26, hundreds of suspected Communist sympathizers were purged from their governmental posts. The next day, Daoud was over- thrown in what the U.S. press usually calls a "Soviet inspired, bloody mili- tary coup", but even Selig S. Harrison, a long time South Asia correspondent for the Washington Post , saw no Soviet masterminding behind the "bloody coup" and wrote that "it is misleading to depict the coup in the global strategic chess game". 11 The U. S. Government obviously did not expect a "coup" at this time in Kabul. Warnings from SAVAK ,about an unstable internal situation were not heeded, and in the subsequent criticism of the CIA's incompetence in Iran, the Afghanistan intelligence failure was invariably mentioned. Mohammed Daoud and some of his closest advisors were killed on April 27, and a part of the army loyal to Daoud put up a short but fierce fight against the rebelling part of the army. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Hundreds of people were killed. The "military coup" should prob- ably be called a "decisive stage of the Afghan revolution" which had been advancing rapidly since the end of the monarchy in 1973. The "coup" grew out of a "tremendous and acute discon- tent" 12 of the majority of the Afghan people which was especially visible during the widespread anti-government demonstrations in the days after the assassination of Khaiber. In addition, the military, take-over was directed by civilians in the Khalq and Parcham . parties, and not by military officers.13 Only a few days after the take-over, which began the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Noor Mohammed Taraki, a civilian, was elected Chairperson of the Revolutionary Council and then appointed Prime Minister. Taraki had a long history of opposition first to Zaher Shah and then to the Daoud re- gime. In fact, during the days of the take-over, Taraki was in prison. He was among the founders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) in 1965. The PDP, generally known as Khalq Party, was involved in numerous strikes and demonstrations in the 1970's , and it was also instrumental in the mass protest against the visit of Richard Nixon's Vice President Spiro Agnew in Kabul in 1970. The Khalq government quickly en- acted drastic-land and water-rights reforms-in favor of the country's peasants who make up most of the population and stepped up an im mense literacy campaign for men. and women. In addition,- it abolished the death penalty for peasants and the system of usury by which moneylen- ders exploited peasants who by being forced to borrow against future crops were left in perpetual debt . Other. programs- included,the promotion of equal rights for men and women, the separation of state. and religion, im- provement of health care, increased taxation,of foreign corporations (some leave the country after they paid their tax debts), and the elimination of some foreign insurance and trade companies. Not surprisingly, Taraki's- foreign (he signed a friendship treaty with .the Soviet Union, and Afghan civilians and military officers began being trained by Soviet advisors) and internal programs ("We demand bread, food; we demand clothing; ... we demand participation of, all-sectors of society in social and political affairs; we demand our social rights; ... " 14) drew comments in the U.S..press.such as "Afghanistan has lurched violently to the left",1S "Now? we have a whole set of leaders who clearly have ?a Communist backing", 16 and "Afghanistan takes a socialist road. 7 Taraki and other governmental offi- cials were portrayed as not 'much more than Soviet puppets; the Khalq Party- was labeled "Communist", and Afghan- J.stan was put in the "Soviet satellite:' file". Soon, anti-Khalq news began to appear also in the FRG, England, Egypt, .and other Muslim countries. In February 19 79 , Afghanistan was again in the headlines in the U.S.: .. the -U. U.S. Ambassador in Kabul, Adolph Dubs, had been kidnapped on February 14. On the way to work, Dubs' car stopped at a red traffic light, and a man dressed as a police sergeant approached it and asked to inspect the car. Dubs - agreed and unlocked the doors. The "police sergeant" and three other men forced their way into the car, threatened the chauffeur with a revolver and ordered him to follow their directions. To this point, the State Department has never explained publicly, why Dubs rode to work without any bodyguards or under the protection of Afghan police officers who had been offered by'Afghan.author- it ies.. Dubs.was virtually unprotected.,, Adolph Dubs wastaken to one.ofthe the. biggest hotels in Kabul. According to_, :-; Newsweek, the kidnappers, who de- manded the release of several Muslim leaders, belonged to."one of corporate officials were only. allowed to - the 10 Islamic guerilla bands. that Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 have been resisting, with minimal success, the Marxist regime of Prime Minister Noor Mohammed Taraki".18 In the hotel where Dubs was being held, one of the four kidnappers was arrested by Afghan police; and Afghan, U. S. , and Soviet officials who were present debated the possibilities of freeing Dubs. Reports on what happened after that differ widely. Afghan officials in- sisted that the Muslim leaders the kidnappers were demanding, were not at their disposal. Finally, some three hours after the kidnapping, U.S. Em- bassy officials were informed about a 1:00 P.M. deadline. 19 At 12:40, according to the Washington Post , Afghan police officers asked Bruce Flatin, a political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Kabul who was present at the hotel, to shout to Dubs in German (a language both Dubs and Flatin understood) "to go to the bathroom or to drop to the floor in ten minutes"20, but, the Post article goes on, "Flatin refused, recognizing that the Afghans were readying an assault". Newsweek gives another "explana- tion" of why Flatin refused to give what could have been a life-saving message to Dubs: "Flatin refused, reasoning that the kidnappers may have under- stood German." 21 Ten minutes later Afghan police attacked the room where Dubs was being held. "At exactly 12:50, very heavy gunfire broke out in the corridor, in the room and from across the street." 22 When the police and U.S. officials entered the room, Ambas- sador Dubs and. his kidnappers were The U. S. Government was quick to pin the blame for Dubs' death on Afghan officials and partly on the "Soviet ad- visors" at the scene, who, according to accounts in the Washington Post and _Newsweek , had disregarded pleas of U. S. officials who were asking that an attack on the kidnappers be avoided in order to save Dubs' life. The fact that security measures on the part of the U. S. Embassy were practically non- existent before the kidnapping, is not mentioned at all in State Department reports. Newsweek correspondent Ron Moreau, who was in a Muslim rebel camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, at the time of the kidnapping came up with an ex- planation of why the kidnappers chose Dubs as their victim. "The theory making the rounds here among Pakistanis and Afghan exiles is that the kidnapping and killing of Dubs was a put-up job by the Kabul regime and the Soviets. ... The Kabul government feared that the U.S. might start supporting the rebels through 'a third country.... The affair may have been a conspiracy to insure that the U.S. would not heed the rebels' pleas for aid." 23 The News- week article goes on quoting unspeci- fied "U.S. -congressional sources " that "the Russians had wanted Dubs to die. The ambassador had been trying to wean the Afghans away from Moscow, and his death guaranteed that signifi- cant inroads would not be made for months - if ever." 24 In light of the situation in Afghan- istan before and especially after the death of Adolph Dubs, theories like the ones offered by Newsweek and the Cold War warriors quoted as "U.S. con- gressional sources" are almost gro - tesque. According to the Washington Post , the assassination of Dubs con- vinced,certain sectors of the Afghan society "that the counterrevolution had started"25. For the Khalq government, the killing of Dubs presented one of the biggest difficulties in their relations with the U. S. , and, in fact, "as a result of the incident, the U. S. con- siders Afghanistan as a communist country past recall" 26, Cynics could say that the U. S. Government used the death of one of its ambassadors to make politics. One could even go so far as to suggest that the U.S. Government worked hand-in-glove with the kidnappers; in exactly the way they had planned. The 11 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 U.S. Government did take Dubs' death as a reason for changing re- lations with Afghanistan and for de- nouncing it as a "Communist regime", controlled by the Soviet Union. Washington named no replacement for Dubs, terminated almost all economic aid agreements and repeatedly charged the Afghan government with violations of human rights. Of course, 1 the the western press went along U.S.. Government position, blaming the Afghan government and "Russian advisors" for Dubs' death. And, con- veniently, most press accounts pointed to the existence of a Muslim rebel movement as a force fighting .the government in the name of free- dom. (It is highly interesting to. com- pare the descriptions the U.S. press is giving the Muslim rebels in Afghanistan and the Muslim oppo sition movement. to the deps tdnd Shah o of Iran the Afghan Muslims be described as freedom fighters while the Iranian Muslims are labeled often as terrorists, ultra con- servative , and anti-democratic.) Dubs' death provided the U.S. with a reason to begin to change re- lations with Afghanistan. The Muslim kidnappers achieved their goal: to draw attention to the situation in Afghanistan, to worsen U.S.-Afghan relations, and to bring the U.S. Government closer to aiding the trayed as a struggle of the Afghan people against a pro-Moscow government. In December, 1978, the U. S. conservative mouthpiece U S News and World Report admitted that although "not directly in- volved", the U. S. has "big stakes in a struggle pitting Moslem conservatives against Moscow-backed rulers" because of "far reaching implications for the U.S. and the West" . 2 7 Since then, the fighting which had been only sporadic over the summer (1978) months, has intensified. Attacks by the,so-'called rebels are mainly carried out from outside the country: In fact, thousands of Afghans opposed to the Khalq government have left Afghanistar mainly for neighboring Pakistan. At a press conference in February 1979, Pakistan's military ruler,Za ul-Haq stated that there were over 20,?0000 Afghan refugees in the country. Estimates now range as high as 100,000. It is from Pakistan that most of the attacks are launched. A conference.of rebel leaders was held in Lahore, Pakista on January 18, 1979, and later meetings took place in other cities to which cer- tain foreigners were invited to attend. rebels. The activity of the Muslim rebels had started a few months after the Khalq Party took power. It was, and is, mainly inspired and supported by former landlords, conservative clergy (often they are orga ments or organizations which began to run at least 5, 000 people died in Herat in mid-March. Newsweek reported, a small scale but constantly escalating noting unspecified but "well placed war against the army, a war that has in- q tensified to the point that the U. S. press American officials" (?) that "Soviet is calling it "Moscow's Vietnam". military advisors were among the casual- News about heavy fighting in Afghan-, ties" 30. Washington Post writer Jonathan Randal went to great pains to- ist'an between rebel forces and the Afghan military .has been reported in the U.S. ? describe in detail what he thinks since fall, 1978. The fighting is por happened in Herat. He writes that it 12 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 The fighting has affected almost all of Afghanistan's 28 provinces, and has been mainly in the countryside. However, Herat, Afghanistan's third largest city, which is only 70 miles from the Iranian border; Mazar-i-Sharif, jalalabad, and in a limited way -Kabul have been affected. At one point, the rebels captured three towns in the province of Razmak. They established Islamic Courts and -killed over 30 Khalq members 29 within a few days. According to the Washington Post , Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 is a "favorite tactic of the Islamic tribesmen .. to torture victims by first cutting off their noses, ears, and genitals, then removing one slice of skin after another" . Randal has a "diplomat" comment that this is "a slow, very painful death". According to him, it was the "Russians" living in Herat who were "hunted down" by "specially assigned assassination squads" that went "berserk" and in dulged in "wholesale slaughter".. Randal also points out that rebel groups are carrying out daily "terrorist" activities against members of the Khalq Party and soldiers. In retaliation, he says, the army actions against rebels have been "barbaric". But what is really going on in Afghanistan ? Is this country a Soviet satellite ? Does the government of the Soviet Union see the ruling of the Khalq Party as part of a "gradually closing pincer movement aimed at Iran and the oil regions of the Middle East" , as charged by Robert Neumann, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and now senior associate of the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, an institution closely linked to the CIA ? And, is the "Islamic re- bellion" an internal affair of conser- vative religious Muslims fighting a holy war ("Marx vs. the Mullahs"33) against a communist, godless govern- ment ? The first two questions have been partly answered: the Soviet Union was not instrumental in the events of April, 1978, which led to the ouster-of Daoud and the beginning of the Demo cratic Republic of Afghanistan, and although there are now several thou- sand Soviet advisors in Afghanistan, they are not determining what happens there. This became especially clear- in the mid-September shake-up in the Afghan government when Noor Mohammed Taraki was replaced by Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin as President. just a few days before he was replaced, Taraki was welcomed in Moscow and assured continued support from Soviet leaders, who ob- viously could not predict the rapid change in Afghanistan following his visit. (As of now, it is still unclear whether Taraki resigned for health reasons, as reported in the Afghan News Agency, or whether he was seriously wounded and later died in a "violent palace revolt ", as claimed in the U.S. media.) Charges that the present fighting in Afghanistan is a "holy war" of rebel Muslims who are fearful that the "pro-Russian government" will curtail their religious freedom have never been substantiated. In fact, publi- cations portraying the fighting as religiously-motivated seldom give any evidence for their presumptions and in September 1979, after one., and a half years of the "godless" government, the pro-Western- Econo- mist reported that "no restrictions had been imposed on religious prac- tice" 34.. Obviously, reasons for the fighting and the terrorism lie else- where. In Afghanistan, Islam has always been tied closely to a social, political, and economic system of feudalism and semi-feudalism. Hence, the dissolution of the huge estates owned by the old aristocrats and feudal masters, and the partial de- struction of the prior economic system by the Khalq Party has been interpreted as an attack on Islam. In addition, many of the rich landowners were in fact Muslim clergy 35 and financial losses for the mullahs cer- tainly motivated their propaganda about the "godless" communists. Hence, it is not a religious war . such as the western media is fond of creating to hide the truth. It is a struggle between the exploiters and the exploited. And, in this case, as in feudal Europe, religious leaders are largely in the exploiter's class which "fact facilitates the creation of the re- ligious war myth. 13 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 There have been cases of poor pea sants who had been living almost as slaves on the estates of the landlords re- fusing to take land given to them or to go along with other reforms for fear of retaliation by the landlords.. Having a long history of dependency on the mullahs and of being conditioned to listen to them as religious leaders, some of the peasants could well be con- vinced of the need of a "holy war" against the Khalq Party and the Soviets living and working in Afghanistan. Some- times, however; Khalq officials .gave the mullahs good openings for their pro- paganda by being insensitive to tradi- tions and moving too fast with their re- forms. Commented a conservative Afghan to CounterSpy: "They [he Khalq Party] could have done everything they wanted A U.S. institution which has had close ties to the CIA in the past is 'still active in Afghanistan: the Asia Foundation. According to Joel W. Scarborough, Asia Foundation's representative in Afghanistan (box 257, Kabul), the Foundation "has closely collaborated with other American governmental agencies in Afghanistan, especially ICA, [International Communication Agency and? AID. . . " . At the same time, Scarborough complains that "a favorable environment for accom- plishing a great deal does not exist" (in a letter to the author on 6/18/79).-. In the past, the Asia Foundation has arranged for numerous Afghans to visit and to be trained in the U.S. and has financed various projects in Afghanistan. One such project is the Afghan Women's Institute, headed by "the very capable Ma- dame Kobra, president of the In - . stitute and a former Minister of Public Health" (Asia Foundation News , Nov.,` Dec. 1977, p. 4) . if they had done it slower . " The third question raised above - is the fighting in Afghanistan an internal affair ? - seems to be central. In March 1979, State Department spokesperson Hddding Carter III pointed out that the U. S. Government "would regard external involvement in Afghanistan's internal problems as a serious matter" 36. In his statement which was interpreted as "one more sign of sensitivity to the increased Soviet maneuvering in a wide area stretching from the Horn of Africa through Yemen to Afghanistan" 37by-the Washing- ton Post, Carter directed his "warning" to the Soviet Union and pointed out that "the U.S. has not interfered in the in- ternal situation of Afghanistan". 38 By calling the fighting an "internal affair" Carter is hiding the U.S. Asia Foundation money was given to the institute to organize secre- tarial training courses for women and to strengthen its Cultural and Foreign Relations Department. Contributions to the Asia Foun- dation come mainly from U.S. gov- ernmental grants and, to 'a lesser degree, from corporations. The Foundation, a "non-prof it organi- zation", works to create an infra- structure favorable to corporate in- vestments in Asia, and to improve relations between corporate offi- cials and Asian governments. For example, it gave a reception in the U.S. in'the fall of 1977 for Sayad Waheed Abdullah, then Minister-in -charge for Afghan Foreign Affairs, which was well attended by corpo- rate and State Department officials. Whether the Asia Foundation still works with the CIA or not, it is per- forming the same functions as in the past: promoting corporate interests in. Asia. 14 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA R D P90-00845 ROOO 100 150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 interests in intervention in Afghanistan Afghanistan include statements in the and is ignoring massive, direct inter- Lebanese weekly, Al Kifah al Arabi 40 vention by U. S. "friends". Further, and in various Eastern European publi- given the long history of U. S. meddling cations. 41 These statements have been in Afghan affairs, especially through the denounced as "slanderous and base- former Shah of Iran, Carter's statements. less" 42 by U.S. Government spokes- are highly hypocritical. persons. After the defeat of U. S. economic, Interestingly, two of the Afghan strategic, and political interests in Iran rebel . leaders, Ziya Nezri and Zia and the dissolution of CENTO (a military Nassery, are in fact U.S. citlzenc anrd i all ance of Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan aided by the U.S.), the U.S. Govern- ment is very sensitive about the Piddle East and South Asia region. Assistant Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, expressed that sensitivity during his trip to Turkey in spring 1971 where he negotiated for U.S. intelligence stations Ronald Lorton and other State Department and explored the possibility of establi- officials as well as with representatives shing a successor to CENTO. For an of Senators Frank Church and Jacob alliance like, that, it would be "helpful" Javits, who is known for his friendship to have a government friendly to the U.S. with the former Shah of Iran. In an in Afghanistan. Besides that,. Afghanistan interview, Lorton refused to say whether would be an excellent place for intelli- he and Nezri had discussed arms ship- gence st ti i a ons a med at the Soviet Union. Given what is at stake for U.S. long- term planning in the Middle East and South Asia region, it is certainly an illusion to believe that the U. S. is keeping its hands off Afghanistan. At this point, it is not clear how much the CIA is involved in Afghan affairs beyond the regular monitoring of activities of military and rebel movements. Although this is limited right now because "sophisticated electronic intelligence gathering is ... useless since there is little radio communication between rebel groups that can be intercepted and analysed".. 39 Another U. S. intelligence agency which is highly active in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Comprised partly of "former" CIA officers,. the DEA has rarely limited itself to "pure" prosecution of drug trafficers. Evidence in the foreign press that the CIA is directly involved in the .training of Afghan rebels in Pakistan camps and is in contact with them in the State Department is in touch with at least one of them. Ziya Nezri, a suppor- ter of the deposed monarchy, visited the State Department in early March 1979, just before the attack on Herat, to ask for U. S. support. Nezri had lengthy dis- cussions with Afghanistan Desk Officer ments to the rebels because "Mr. Nezri is an American citizen". Church and Javits also declined to answer in- quiries about their talks with Nezri. The other U.S. citizen involved in -the fighting in Afghanistan, Zia Nassery, is a member of the Afghan Islamic and Nationalistic Revolution Council based in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Peshawar is of strategic importance it is the closest city to the Khyber Pass, the only road over the mountains from Afghanistan to Pakistan.) Nassery was interviewed in the New York Times in April 1979, where he claimed that his group has "150 000 fighting men in Afghanistan". 43 In a comment in the Washington t r , Charles Bartlett noted the ob- vious, viz., that "the impression is strong in informed circles [the Washing- ton Star ? the State Department ? the CIA ?]that the U.S. Government has given no arms or substantial [emphasis added] help to the insurgent Afghans..", but, "covert aid would of course be secret". Bartlett goes on to say that the U. S. will "pay a high price if we refuse 15 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 III Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 to be involved in situations like the one military government is aiding the Afghan in Afghanistan". 44 A similar line is put rebels seeking refuge and operational forward by General Alexander Haig , the bases in Pakistan. Officially, Pakistan former Nixon aide and NATO Supreme /, (like the U.S.) is "not interfering in Allied Commander in Europe, who told Afghanistan's internal affairs", as the Belgian daily I, oir that it is im portant to respond to "the emergence of Afghanistan, South Yemen, and Ethiopia as states to the Soviet Union". 45 stated in the Pakistani paper Nawa-i- Wagat . The paper goes on, "if re- fugees crossing the border are given food and shelter, that is. from purely Unlike Afghanistan, Pakistan has de- humanitarian considerations" . 46 How- veloped into a "paradise" for agents of foreign governments who want to inter vene in Afghanistan, and the Pakistani government is eagerly supporting them. ever, the Neue Zuericher Zeituna article documents that the Pakistani care for the "refugees" goes far beyond "humanitarian considerations". The In a revealing article in the Swiss daily Pakistani military rulers gave the re- Neue Zuericher Zeituna in February 1979, fugees a sum of 20 million rupees, it is documented that the Pakistani and never publicized this fact. in the While carefully exploring foreign Another region that has been intervention in Afghanistan, this ar- seeking independence from Pakistan ticle - due to the complexity of the is Baluchistan, the largest of Pa issue and lack of space - does not kistan's four provinces. In 1972, analyze one important aspect deter- the Baluchs launched a massive re- minining Pakistan's support for the volt against the regime of then- Afghan rebels: a long-lasting. con- Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, flict between Pakistan and Afghan- who answered by crushing the re- istan caused by the arbitrary bor- volt with 70, 000 Pakistani soldiers der division set up between these and helicopters and pilots supplied two countries at the end of British by Iran Time, 1/15/79, p. 32). colonialism, in the region. Since then, Baluchistan has been Several times since 1947, when virtually occupied by Pakistani the British left the area, the Kabul soldiers from the eastern pro- government has challenged Pakistan vinces. by claiming that the Pushtuns, a Baluchs also live in Iran and substantial ethnic group whose mem- Afghanistan,' and the ?Khalq govern- bers live in northwestern Pakistan ment has been sympathetic to their as well as in northeastern Afghan fight for independence and has been istan have the right to decide accused of aiding them militarily. Be- their own future and that the Afghan,. cause the Marxist Baluchistan -Pakistani border should not be People's Liberation Front is part of internationally recognized. In the this independence movement, 1960's, this conflict escalated so "'some . Western analysts fear far that the Afghan-Pakistani border that future upheaval in Pakistan was closed for' almost three years could lead to an extension of Soviet After the loss of Bangladesh, Pa- influence south to the Indian kistan's government has been very .7 Ocean". ime, 1/15/79, p. 32) sensitive about any -kind of indepen- dence movement such as that of the Pushtuns . Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Pakistani press. At the same time, like Egypt, as well as the Muslim the Neue Zuericher Zeitung exposed Brothers, an arch-conservative society a fact which is certainly not news to of Muslims, are highly sympathetic to the Pakistani government , viz. , that the Afghan Muslim rebels. Leaflets signed the "rebels use all their money to buy by the Islamic Brotherhood have been dis- weapons" . 47 tributed in the Pakistan-Afghanistan U.S. papers and news agencies border area stating that "Iran has agreed whose reporters have visited the rebel to help the Islamic rebels bels fight against camps in Pakistan also repeatedly the Communists". 53 carried articles about rebels pleading An article regarding foreign inter- for help: "Don't send us bread, send vention in Afghanistan which appeared in us arms and ammunition.',' mmunition. " 48 Accor- the Canadian McLean's magazine reports ding to the Neue Zu rich r Z it n , that American drug enforcement agents another important fact about these discovered Chinese men in Pakistan camps needs to be understood: "It is near the Afghan border. First they sus- very striking ... that practically all pected that these could be "Hong Kong of the people who flee to Pakistan Chinese heroin dealers ... planning to are male adults ." 49 buy up the area's huge poppy crop". But Beyond all doubt, it is in these camps later what they saw "emerged as one of in Pakistan that the real strongholds for Pakistan's most dangerous and best kept the rebels are located, and they are secrets: the presence on Pakistani soil aided by the Pakistani government in of Chinese army officers and instructors. many ways. they receive money; they They were here to help train and equip are allowed to cross the border to right-wing Afghan Muslim guerillas for Afghanistan freely; they can receive their 'holy war' against the Moscow- training in the camps (see below); and backed Kabul regime of Noor Mohammed Pakistan's ruler Zia ul-Haq also pro - Taraki.... The intriguing question now motes their case internationally. He told is this: Why is Pakistani strongman the Saudi Arabian paper Ukaz that "Afgha- General Zia ul-Haq risking a fight nistan is an Islamic country presently with Afghanistan when he already faces ruled by Communists" and demanded a violent rumblings among his own people "common strategy of the Islamic nations ? ? ? ? Sources in neighboring India to counter Communist activity in their believe that it is all part of the tangled countries" 50. plan Zia has for building his own Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran agrees and nuclear bomb which recently led to seems in this respect to be continuing the cancellation of U. S. military aid. the policies of the former Shah of Iran, They suspect that China has now who was always willing to help the re- offered to help in return for Pakistani actionaries of Afghanistan. Khomeini's aid for the Afghan rebels. " party has a close friendship with the McLean's goes on to report-that the Afghan Islamic Party which accused rebel's war is partly financed through Taraki of being "an agent of the KGB' 51 the sale of illegal opium. "Feudal land- Also Ayatollah Shariat-Madari, "number lords whose holdings are threatened two in the Shiite hierarchy, has appealed with confiscation by the Taraki govern- 'to all Muslims throughout the world to ment are bringing the produce from support the Afghan Muslims"' 52. The their poppy crops into Pakistan, and Afghan Embassy in Teheran has been attacked by Afghans and Iranians protesting the Khalq government, which, in turn, has accused the Iranian use the proceeds to buy rifles, ex- plosives, and other weapons. Pakistani arms merchants report ... that their new customers come in daily and mullahs of aiding the Afghan rebels even. business is booming ." 54 militarily. Also, other Islamic states Another report by the Japanese i 17.E Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 KYODO news agency indicates that "1, 000 Chinese-trained Pakistani guerillas expert in ultrasubversive activities have been dispatched to carry out flash assaults on. Afghan troops guarding the Pakistan-Afghan istan border and give protection to the Afghan rebel forces ". KYODO also states that, according to Indian .intelligence sources, "the guerillas were sent from their training bases .around Khasgar in Xingjiang Province Cin China] to the sensitive areas bor- dering Afghanistan". 55 In the same news dipatch, KYODO reports that "Indian intelligence monitored "the movement of Lt. Gen.. F.A. Christi, corps commander in charge of Pakistan's northern division ... , who recently visited the border area and said that he had a series of meetings with Chinese commanders of the area: 'Lt.Gen. Christi discussed issues like strategic posting of the guerillas, supply route of the already agreed Chinese military hardware, and exchanged ideas on a joint effort to keep ready a task force to subvert possible Soviet military help to Afghanistan ... ' " . 56 Another high- ranking Chinese military delegation headed by the Commander of the Air Force, Chang Ting Fa, visited Pakistan in spring 1979. This delegation also went to the Khyber Pass and a number of areas directly adjoining the Pakistan -Afghanistan border. "In view of America's (WP), obvious p. A-43 interest in the security and 'stability, 2) The Afghanistan Desk 5/10/79, of the whole region, it would seem . State Department in a letter of 5/22/79 desirable that the U.S. Government 3) U.S. News and World Report consult and work with. both Iran and 12/11/78, p. 56 Pakistan ever more closely. A quiet 4) Newsweek , 2/26/79, p. 27 but visible demonstration of our sharing S)' WP , 4/13/79, p. C-i of their concerns would reassure them 6) Current History, June 1979, p. 172 while serving as an implied warning if 7) cf supra, # 5, p. C-5 the new Afghan government tries to make trouble for its neighbors "57 writes a senior associate of the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies in July 1978. By now, it has become clear that 18 Afghanistan is not "making trouble" for its neighbors. On the contrary, it is the neighbors who interfere in Afghan affairs and support a conservative, religiously covered movement against the ruling Khalq Party. As of now it is impossible to predict when and how the fighting in Afghanistan will end. The western media is eagerly painting a gloomy picture, and for a while they made it look like the Khalq government would fall within a few days. However, re- ports like "15 000 rebels have almost reached Kabul, and are hiding around the city. They are just waiting for the planned offense" 58, proved to be incorrect - wishful thinking of con- servative and reactionary journalists. On the contrary, by now it looks as if the Kha.iq government is strengthe- ning its base among the people and also winning militarily over the rebels. But given the mountainous landscape, the on-going military and ideological support from Pakistan, China, and Iran for the rebels and the U.S. Government's "benevolence" towards them (and possibly more than that), the Afghan people are in for a long, costly struggle. FOOTNOTES 8) Newsletter. on Civil Liberties.and Police Development (CILIP), West Berlin, Feb. 1979, p. 33 9) Der Spiegel, no. 12/79, p. 162 10) cf supra #,6, p. 173 11) cf supra #,5., p. C-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 12) Christian Science Monitor (CSM), 5 47) cf supra # 28 /1/78, p, 6 , 13) Kh b 48) NYT, 4/16/ 79 P A-4 y er Mail, 5/7/78, p. 1 14) T k , . 49) cf supra # 28 ara i in 1951 (!) in the paper Angar ; as quoted in Politi , 50) quoted as in Drit to ~v It Nlara i cal Aff ins , Jan. 1979, T z n, 4/79 p 6 pp - 12, 13 , . 15) cf supra,# 12 16) a "Carter administration official" 51) WE, 5/2S/79, p. A-1 52) The Guardian Weekly , 5/6/79, p. 12 quoted in CSM , 5/9/78, p. 5 17) CSA.4, 11/14/78, P. 3 53) quoted as in FBIS, Middle East 18) cf supra,# 4 and North Africa, 4/18/79, p 21 19) WP, 2/22/79 A-13 54) McLean's 4/30/79 , p. , p. 24 20) ibid. ~5) cf supra, # 53 21) cf supra, # 4 56) ibid. 22) cf supra, 19 57) cf supra, 32 23) cf supra, # 4 58) FAZ, 8/14/79, p. 2 24) ibid. 25) WP , 6/11/79, P. A-21 26) The Guardian Weekly, 4/29/79 p 13 , . 27) cf supra, # 3 , p. 55 28) Neue Zuericher Zeitung 2/7/79, p. 4 29) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ 8/21/79, p. 2 30) Newsweek , 4/2/79, p. 47 31) WP , 5/11/79, p. A-23 32) Washington Review of Strategic and International Studies, July 1978, p. 117 33) Newsweek., 3/5/79, P. 66 34) The Economist , 9/11/79, p. 44 35) Newsweek, 4/16/79, p. 64 36) WP, 3/24/79, p. A-12 37) ibid. 38) ibid. 39) WP-, 4/23/79, p. A-16 40) quoted as in Foreign Broadcast Infor- mation Service (FBIS), Soviet Union, 4/23/79, p. D-1 41) Pravda even published names of CIA agents and "masters of subversion", for example, L. Robinson, R. Brock, and V. David who are aiding the rebels (4/10/79, p- 4) 42) WP, 4/3/79, p.. A-12 43) . New Kor,c Times .i P. A-4 44) Washington Star P. A-11 45) quoted as in FBIS, Soviet Union, 1/23/79, p. D-1 46) Nawa-i-WaQt, ,"t,b ted as in FBIS, Soviet Union, 5/30/79, p. D-1 (WS), 4/30/79, y would never consider selves to be "agents" , yet the thousands of analysts, academicians, and researchers who do "intellectual" work for the CIA provide the Agency with all the necessary groundwork for its, more notorious operations. They come from the private sector, the State Department, the Agency for International Development, corporations, "think tanks", and research centers of every description. The CIA depends on them, and they often become an in- tegral part of the CIA machinery. Rand Corporation, for example, listed the CIA, the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence and the Defense Intelligence Agency under the category of "Major Sponsors of Rand Research" in its 1977/78 report. The document excerpted below is an example of a CIA solicitation for this kind of research. (A full-length copy of the origincal CIA paper is available from CounterSpy.) Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 19 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Subject: Request for Proposal for a Study on Nutrition, Health and Food Science and Technology Capabilities of Key Countries (RFP-6-78N) Gentlemen: Your technical and cost proposal is solicited for a study in accordance with the Statement of Work set forth herein. This letter and the matters addressed are unclassified, however, access to this material should be restricted to those judged to have a need-to-know. Your proposal should be in accordance with the requirements of this Request for Proposal No. RFP-6-78N, which are contained in the following sections: Section I - Solicitation Instructions and Conditions Section II - Statement of Work (Under Separate Cover) Section III - Evaluation Criteria Section IV Contractor's Certifications and Acknowledgements Offers will be received until 5:00 PM, prevailing Washington, D. C. time 26 May 1978. Your attention is invited to the Late Offers and Modifications or Withdrawel, Provisions set forth in the Solicitation Instructions and Conditions;. Paragraph 7. The address for receipt of offers is: William P. Yeatman Post Office Box 2034 Main Post Office Washington, D. C. 20013 The proposal must be submitted in the format described in this RFP. Offerors are requested to furnish four (4) copies of all proposals to facilitate the evaluation effort. The type of information available to intelligence analysis will be described in detail by the Sponsor's Project Officer. A final report presenting the results of this analysis will be required. A draft copy of the final report will be submitted to the sponsor for approval- and comments prior to the submission of the final report. It is anticipated that this effort will take approximately twelve (12) man- months of effort. Contractor may propose any type of contract for bidding purposes. Requests for additional information or guidance concerning technical matters are to be addressed to, the COTR, Dr. Julian Hoptman, who may be reached on (703) 351-6211, and administrative contractual questions are to be 'addressed to the Contract Negotiator, Mr. Brian MacDonald, who maybe .reached on (703)351-6173. Very truly yours, (signed) William P. Yeatman Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 SECTION II STATEMENT OF WORK Nutrition and Health, and Food Science and Technology Capabilities of Key Countries Studies will evaluate national nutrition and health problems and strengths and determine the potential limits for S&T, as they affect food availability and consumption requirements of key less developed countries and regions. Countries to be studied are Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Nigeria, and the Philippines. Each country study will answer the following terms of reference: 1. What are the nutrition and disease factors related to food availability and utilization ? What is the impact of the biological/ ecological/cultural environment on nutrition, health and disease What is the impact of illness related to dietary deficiency diseases ? What is the impact of national food needs and demands which result in parallel incidence of debilitation and crippling diseases in the labor force ? What is the nutritional status of the population as com- pared with its requirements ? 2. What conventional and unconventional food systems are available which apply to its problems ? Which alternative or substitute food could be developed and utilized ? 3. With scientific -technical input what would be the increment in food production, availability and utilization of current types of food ? What modern technologies are needed to upgrade present food resources or to achieve self-sufficiency in major foods ? What national or international research and development would be applicable to its food problems ? What are the food quality control and assurance requirements-and the capabilities for processing, preservation and storage ? 4. On the basis of the preceding terms of reference, for each country make qualitative projections of the balance between future needs and capabilities in the light of government policies and pre- vailing issues. Estimate the extent to which problems are solvable on a.national or regional scale. Estimate potential demands or competitive pressures on US or foreign S&T resources. 5. The contractor will deliver 5 final country reports, using the terms of reference outlined above, over a period not to exceed 12 calendar months. Progress reports will be submitted every two months and a final report will be submitted at the end of the contract period. The level of effort should total one (1) man-year. The data base for this contract will be-unclassified and will be derived from public and professional sources. 21 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 When asked about the result of this solicitation for research, CIA officer Dr. Julian Hoptman, the man respon- sible for the technical aspects of the study, refused to answer any questions. A second officer, Brian MacDonald, ad- mitted that the solicitation CounterSpy had obtained was initiated by the CIA's program office. However, MacDonald stated, "they never went ahead with the thing". Whether this-is true or not, the solicitation shows how far the analysts of the CIA's program office are willing to go in planning to control other countries. In the cases of Mexico and Nigeria, such a- study could con- ceivably provide data for a strategy of withholding food aid and taking eco- nomic 'measures harmful to the national food system as a form of blackmail to procure oil resources. In Brazil and the Philippines the threat that popular movements pose to the present "favorable climates" for multi- national exploitation would be- a moti- vation for researching use of the food weapon. A study of Cuba would give information. about the effects of the US blockade and suggest future options for continued US subversion of the Cuban revolution. The solicitation takes on even more ominous implications when placed in the context.of a previous CIA Report entitled "Potential Implications of Trends in World Population, Food Production, and Climate" (discussed in CounterSoy, Winter 1976, pp. 8,' 9). The report states that serious world food shortages could "give the US a measure of power it had never had before - possibly an economic and political dominance greater than that of the immediate post World War Two years" . The re- port continues. "Washington could ac- quire virtual life and death power over the fate of multitudes of the needy. Without indulging in blackmail in any, sense, the US would gain extra- ordinary political and economic in- fluence...". As incredible as it seems, there can be no doubt that people exist who are willing to contemplate such inhumanity as the use of food as a weapon. Already corporations import food from dozens of countries where the masses are mal- nourished without so much as a second thought about whether their actions are - at the very least - irresponsible. From such corporate practices to delib- erate use of food as a weapon it is only a very small step. THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS AND THE C ..I. A. by George N. Schmidt Available for $ 2 from: SUBSTITUTES UNITED FOR BETTER SCHOOLS 343 S. Dearborn St. Room 1503 Chicago, Ill. 60604. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 It may be that the true story of what happened in Indonesia on the night of September 30-October 1, 1965 (commonly referred to as "Gestapu") will never be told. The abortive coup by junior military officers was de - signed to prevent another preceived coup that the CIA-backed "Generals Council" was planning against the Sukarno government. In the early hours of October 1, six of the mem- ..hers of this council were abducted from their homes, taken to the rebels' headquarters outside Djakarta (Indo- nesia's capital), and then murdered later that morning. The mistakes these junior officers made: letting one Gen- eral Nasution escape, and leaving an- other General Suharto off their list completely, proved their undoing. In the following months, Nasution, using the pretext of the aborted coup would direct the extermination of- the In- donesian Communist Party (PKI), and Suharto would take over control of the government from President Sukarno. The exact motives of these junior offi- cers, their political allegiance and goals are unclear. What is established fact, however, is that within twelve hours their coup had failed. The Army, led by Suharto, was able to regain control of those in- stallations seized by the coup-makers, root out the dissident units who had participated, and apprehend their lead- ers. What is also established fact is that, following the events of the Ges- to u , the powers and ability of Presi- dent Sukarno to govern were curbed (within six months he had ceded all control to General Suharto), a US- trained military-civilian elite took over the day-to-day affairs of the coun- try, the PKI leadership was wiped out, and there began a mass murder of close to one million people. CIA involvement in the events of the Gestapu has never been documen- ted. Some of their machinations before and after October 1, 1965, however, are well known. CIA participation in the formulation of an American policy of "nation building" in Southeast Asia is extensive. 1 There is also evidence of the CIA's infiltration of right-wing stu- dent groups and anti-Communist trade, union federations which laid The ground- work for the massacres before October 1965. In a way, then, the question of what role the CIA played in those 48 hours of the Gestapu is peripheral. For, whatever it may have been, it pales be- fore their behavior during the coup's bloody aftermath." To the vicious murder of one million innocent Indonesian workers, students and peasants, the CIA never objected. Instead, it concentrates its efforts (and US taxes) on analysis of the coup whose main aim is to implicate the PKI in the murder of the six generals and to justify the Army's purge of the Indonesian Left. To speak out against the atrocities of 1965-67 in' Indonesia would put the CIA in a hypocritical and untenable position. For the beneficiaries of the new status uo in Indonesia are the very class interests which the CIA serves faith- fully. It would be surprising to read a "dog bites man" story where the CIA and the corporate class in America are con- cerned. Any discussion of CIA involvement in the September/October 1965 coup must begin by mentioning the CIA's own analysis of the events contained in its Indonesia-1965? The Coup That Back- Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Rai (1968). The book is important, not (C FR) Study Group'on Southeast Asia for its command of facts and events in US Policy all argued that the offi-- (in which respect it is a jumble of half- truths and contradictions), but for the circumstances which surround its publi- cation: Indonesia-1965 is the only study of Indonesian politics ever re- leased to the public on the Agency's own initiative. Further, it is the only study ever released by the CIA of a coup for "which there was reason to doubt the CIA's cence. The CIA own initiative a own proclaimed inno- never released of its study of its involve- ment in the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, for example. One has to ask the question, then, why the CIA went to the trouble to publish a history of the Gestapu affair, as it perceived it ? Related to the CIA's White Paper on the events surrounding Gestapu is its effort to quash the release of any study which questioned the CIA's con- clusion. In January 1966, members of the Modem Indonesia Project at Cornell University (originally set up in 1954 with a grant from the Ford Foun- dation) circulated a confidential paper pointing out the inconsistencies of the version of events coming out of Indo- nesian trials of PKI leaders and other "official". sources in Djakarta. Caught by surprise, the CIA was able to hold up publication of the Cornell Paper, for .five years; time enough to concoct its own study and allow it to become accepted history. NATION BUILDING VIA MILITARY ELITES US plans for so called "nation -building" in Southeast Asia through the creation of Western-trained military, elites grew out of a series of reports drawn up between 1958-60. 2 The Draper Report of 1959 (named after former Ambassador William H. Draper, Jr.) and its annexes written one year earlier, the Rockefeller Brothers Spe- cial Study Project'of-December 1959; and the Council on Foreign Relations' 24 . cer corps of under-developed countries, and Indonesia in particular, consti- tuted a naturally selected and morally superior elite best suited to lead their country's process of economic develop- ment. Each of the reports urged the US government to make use of the supposed organizational strength and leadership capabilities of the military to achieve American economic objec- tives. From the beginning, these blue- prints envisioned a scenario whose ultimate beneficiary would be US trade and investment. CIA -participation was evident throughout the gestation of this policy. One of the annexes to the Draper Report was written by the Foreign_ Policy Re- search Institute (FPRI) of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. The FPRI was -ad- vised in its report by Guy Pauker who, since joining the Rand Corporation in 1958 had worked closely with the CIA, and the Indonesian civilian; and mili- tary elite of which he spoke so highly. The FPRI, itself, was funded by the Catherwood Foundation of oil financier Cummins Catherwood. In 1967 it was revealed that the Catherwood Foun- dation "served as a CIA conduit to pay the salary of the National Student Association's (NSA) International Vice President. 3 A cursory glance at the participants of these study groups would turn up names such as retired (nominally, anyway) CIA-Colonel William Kintner, Admiral,Felix B. Strump (board chair- man of CIA's Ai'r America), CIA's Edward Land.sdale (responsible for the liquidation of the Huk people in the Philippines and the rigging of elec- tions in favor of Diem in- "South Vietnam in the late`1950's), Kenneth Todd Young (a Stanvac oil company official who, in October 1960 would become an "advisor" to Diem and later the US Ambassador to Thailand), and many others with CIA/corporate credentials. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 The culmination of the thoughts and recommendations put forth by these four reports took the form of a book written by Russell H. Fifield, Southeast Asia in United States Policy (New York, Praeger, for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1963). The book was the final version of the CFR's study group on Southeast Asia. Reflecting the CFR's domination of foreign policy formulation, the study group "coun- seled" Washington "to provide assistance to President Sukarno but at the same time to build up non- Com- munist and anti-Communist forces". 4 The ensuing five years in Indone- sia caused great consternation for the self-anointed nation builders. The military's inability to stem the rising popularity of the PKI caused Pauker and others to publicly rescind their pre- vious praise of the officers corps as "the best human material"to be found in Third World countries. By November 1964, Pauker's skepticism was full blown. He doubted whether Indonesia's anti-Communist forces '(i. e . , the mili--. tary) could summon up "the ruthless- ness that made it possible for the Nazis to suppress the Communist Party of Germany ... even though the enemies of the PKI ... are weaker than the Nazis, not only in numbers and in mass support, but also in unity, dis- cipline, and leadership" .5 ECONOMIC FRONT As with Chile eight years later, while relations between Washington and Sukarno continued to deteriorate, US military aid to the Indonesian armed forces was increasing greatly. From 1949-61, $29.5 million in military grants were extended. The four years 1962-65 saw $38.5 million in military aid. And, while the number of Indone- sian officers trained in the. US before 1962 was around 700, by 1965 that figure had jumped to 4, 000. 6 US oil companies, meanwhile, were forging stronger links with the nomi- 25 nally independent, state-run Indone- sian oil industry. Following the lead of smaller American oil companies, the majors, Stanvac (the Far East subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey and Socony Mobil) and Caltex (a subsidiary of Standard Oil of Cali- fornia and Texaco) signed a 60-40 production-sharing formula with Per- mina, the Army-run Indonesian oil company. Given the attitude of Sukarno and the Indonesian people toward foreign investment during this period, these ventures were risky to say the least, and could only be con- solidated by a total transformation of the Indonesian status auo . In both.these instances, the des- tination of US dollars, public and pri- vate, was not to Sukarno and the Indo- nesian government, but to forces allayed against him which were thus able to strengthen their control over the key sectors of Indonesian society: the military and the economy. Caltex officials. had a particular re- venge in seeking a turnaround in Indo- nesia. In 1958, it had financed, along with the CIA, the Outer Islands rebel- lion in which members of the pro-US Indonesian Socialist Party (PSI) and the modern Islamic Masjumi Party tried to get the islands of Sumatra and the Celebes to secede from Indonesia in response to the nationalizations of Dutch holdings by Sukarno. At the time, Caltex accounted for seventy per cent of Sumatran oil production , and future CIA Director John McCone owned $1 million worth of stock in Caltex's par- ent company, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia. The '58 Sumatran fiasco had led to the exposure of the CIA when its pilot, Allen Pope was shot down and captured by the Indonesians. McCone, Caltex and the CIA had all suffered igno- minious exposure and defeat in 1958. 7 Any threat, now, to their new investment in Permina would be protected with a vengeance. Hence, when oil workers seized the refineries of Caltex, Stanvac, and two other companies in March 1965, Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 it marked the beginning of the end for Sukarno. LABOR OPERATIONS For US governmental labor policy in Indonesia, the '65 coup constituted a qualitative success over previous set- backs. During the late '50's and early '60's, AFL-CIO attempts to create one national, unified, pro-Western labor federation in Indonesia had repeatedly failed, in part, because the AFL-CIO lacked a 'regional Asian labor center of its own such as the American Institute for'Free Labor Development (AIFLD) in Latin America. In one of the early attempts, the CIA-affiliated Interna- tional Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) set up a program to train Indo- nesian labor leaders from various trade unions. Funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, between 1956 -58 the ILGWU brought some 30 Indo- nesians to their US training institute. Five years later, close to twenty of these people were still active in the labor movement in Indonesia.8 In another campaign in October 1962, Dr. Kusna Purardiridja, chair- person of the PSI-affiliated labor feder- ation, the All Indonesia Congress of Workers (KBSI), visited the US under a State Department Leadership Program. Because he was also head of the Na- tional Railway Workers Union, Dr. Kusna met with Lester Zosel, Inter- national Representative of the Brother-. hood of Railway and Airline Clerks (BRAC). joining the talks was Donald Beattie, executive secretary of the Railway Executives Association (RLEA). Kusna "hailed the feeling of responsi- bility" shown by the US labor movement for world developments. He especially praised the training of young Asian trade unionists in US union methods, saying that upon their return home they had "used this training seriously" . 9 Although Zosel, himself,. has never been shown to- have worked for the CIA, ?the.BRAC was heavily. involved in CIA activities at the time. Through BRAC's International Trade Secretariats (ITS), the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), BRAC's Jack Otero worked as a "CIA agent for labor oper- ations" in Latin America.10 The ITS of the Communication Work- ers of America (CWA), which was also collaborating with the CIA at the time, the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International (PTTI) helped to train mem- bers of the Indonesian telephone and telegraph workers union, the SSPTT. When Jack Sessions, who ran the ILGWU training institute in the 1950's, travelled to Indonesia in 1962, the stigma of .having trained in the US was already being seen. "Communists, he recalled, denounced the SSPTT as an American socialist union. The man most responsible for forging links between Indonesian and AFL-CIO trade unionism was Harry Goldberg. Re cruited by Jay Love stone, who had worked with the CIA throughout his career as head of the Education Department of the ILGWU and as Foreign Affairs Chief of the AFL-CIO, Goldberg helped estab- lish the Asian Regional Organization of the ICFTU in 1951. Although he denies ever having worked for the CIA, Gold berg persistently tried to get the US government to support members of the PSI and Masjumi Party in their Outer Islands rebellion/fiasco. When leaders of these parties were exiled irr 1959, Goldberg served as a courier between them and Indonesian trade unionists. Following the 1965 coup,, Goldberg was the first Western trade unionist to visit Indonesia. And although he had mis- givings about the massacres, he urged student groups, "trade unions Anr1 ntharc to step up their purge of the PKI.12 Upon his return to the US, Goldberg lobbied the Johnson Administration to increase aid to the new regime. As. contradictions in Indonesian so- ciety increased during the 1963's-65's, the role of US-trained trade unionists be- came more significant. Gathering the names of workers who were-members or Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 even sympathizers of unions affiliated posed to their natural incompabilities. with the national labor federation SOBSI, From its inception, SOKSI was viewed by these trade unionist spies laid the the PKI as an attempt to liquidate in- throu h the in- g d groundwork for the massacres of 1965- 66 before the Gestapu ever occurred. 13 Goldberg, himself, has admitted that the military-backed United Workers Action Front (KABI) was undoubtedly in- volved in any "excesses" committed against members of SOBSI.14 which i a In the orchestrated hyster followed the Gestapu massacres of the attempting to cloud over the reality of the exploitation of workers by asser- "left" ended up being directed against the majority of Indonesian workers, peas- ting the unity o` interest between cap- ant "squatters" on estates, local PKI ital and labor, sowed the seeds of an Indonesian fascism. 17 members and most active trade unionists. In all of this, SOKSI spread The presidential decree of May 1966 In- AFL-CIO's company unionism to the In- banning all mass organizations -- speci- donesian masses. Trade unionism fically the PKI, BAPERKI (an organization according to George Meany has always of Indonesians of Chinese descent which was accused of having ties to the sought to de-politicize the demands of workers, to portray the production pro- Chinese communists), and SOBSI with its joint harmonious endeavour. 62 trade union affiliates -- effected some cess as a In Indonesia., this line of thinking in- ten million people. Any former members directly justified the murder of hun - of these groups were also subject to arrest and indefinite detention at any dreds of thousands of trade unionists; time. No specific charges needed to be as in the US it has resulted in the re- made against them and a trial was not peated selling-out of rank and file by guaranteed. Further, members and their their union leadership, a fact not lost families were ineligible for the "certi- on American workers. ficate of non-involvement" required for jobs and housing.15 The military's previous formation in 1962 of anti-SOBSI groupings of workers, students, and soldiers culminated in the creation of the national labor federation, SOKSI. With the help of the International Division of the AFL-CIO (a longtime CIA haunt) and the International Confedera- tion of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the army formed SOKSI in order to under- mine legitimate political groupings and ultimately cause a split in SOBSI.16 Its success in causing this break was due in large part to its ability to distribute government-subsidized commodities in short supply to its members. The corporate ideology of SOKSI. was directly opposed to the. militant trade unionism in SOBSI. It stressed the mu- tual interest that both worker and man- agement had in the production as op- e unions dependent tra timidation of workers. By making para- mount Indonesia's "national aim" of de- velopment along capitalist lines with an emphasis on foreign investment, SOKSI tried to smash the trade union move- ment as part of an ongoing class strug- gle. The concept of karva% an , in STUDENT AND CULTURAL OPERATIONS Efforts by the CIA, the Ford Founda- tion and others to coopt Indonesian intellectuals and the student movement in particular took ten years and were not realized until the coup. The cre- ation of an Indonesian elite 'whichwould one day steer the country's economy in a solidly pro-West direction began in the mid-1950's with the launching of field projects by American professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech o- logy (MIT) and Cornell University. These efforts culminated in courses'at the Army Staff and-Command School, SESK.OAD, in Bandung, Indonesia. These courses were taught by A`nerican -educated civilian economists. The students, by and large, were generals and senior officers who had been Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 trained in counterinsurgency at Fort rising), Sumitro kept in touch with his Leavenworth and Fort Bragg in the US. In 1954; the Ford Foundation funded a series of field projects at MIT and Cornell which "edpcated" a cadre of American scholars in Indonesian studies who have since dominated the field in this country. One of the first students through Harry Goldberg. During his six years in exile, he remained "chairman in absentia" of the school.21 Student organizations in Indonesia are closely tied to their sponsoring polit- -ical parties which, in some cases, exert a paternalistic control over their people to go through this program was students. Upon graduation from univer- the irrepressible Guy Pauker. Although sity, student leaders often go on to po- Pauker denies having worked for the sitions of power in their respective par- CIA before 1958, the Center for Inter- national Studies at MIT -- from where these field projects were run -- was a CIA think tank of-Max Millikan and W. W. Rostow, literally created and fi- nanced by the CIA in the early 1950's. After training this core: team of American scholars, Ford began re cruiting screened Indonesian intellec- tuals and sent them to the University of California to study under Pauker at the newly-created Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies at Berkeley, another recipient of CIA funds. Mean- while, American professors were back in Djakarta transforming the Faculty of Economics into an "American-style school of economics, statistics and business administration". One team member, recalls that when Sukarno complained of there being too much -emphasis on Schumpeter and Keynes, ties. 22 The ability of the CIA to in- . fluence student politics is, thus,neatly the staff "put 'socialism' into as many course titles as we could... but basi- cally Cwe] tried to preserve the aca-19 demic integrity of the place". The"integrity" of Indonesia's "best human material" (see above) was put on international display in 1958 dur- ing the CIA-backed Sumatra fiasco. One of the leaders of the rebellion, Sumitro accomplished through the infiltration and cooptation of the students' party-spon- sors. The history of the Islamic Student Association (HMI) is a case in point. The HMI was.closely associated with the Masjumi Party, which was involved in the CIA's Outer Islands rebellion. De-. spite the banning of Masjumi in 1959, its. contacts with HMI were never broken. Leaders of Masjumi, PSI (many of whose members had taken .up faculty posts after. their Berkeley training), and the. orthodox Islamic Nahdatul Ulama (NU) party fed their students to a steady diet of anti- communism. Most of this propaganda was directed against members of the PKI -led CGMI, the. most popular student federation with over 30, 000 student- r',I members by mid-1964.23 ;sm Two weeks before the Gestapu , lead-_ ers of the CGMI were able to get the internationally recognized Federation of Indonesian Student Associations (PPMI) to issue a statement demanding the dis- solution of HMI for its associations with the CIA. 74 But, as in the case of the oil workers' demands for nationalization of the oil industry, this move came too late. Following Gestapu, these right-wing Djojohadikusomo, had contacts with MIT student groups burnt down the PKI head- and the CIA dating back to 1954 when he quarters and the home of Party c'hairper- "participated in the [American] team's son D.N. Aidit; in the following days, briefings before they left Cambridge"20 they also burnt down the central offices for Indonesia.* At the time of the 1958 re- of the Communist Movement of Indone- bellion, Sumitro was minister of finance sian Women (GERWANI) and, the People's in Sukarno's cabinet and dean of the Youth (Permuda Rakj at) , both of whom Faculty of Economics at the University of they accused of murdering the six gener- Djakarta. During his exile to Singapore' als on the night of October 1; and final- In 19 59 (for his part in the Sumatran up- 28- ~ _ly, they laid siege to the SOBSI head`,_ quarters. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 test the US-Belgian joint "rescue opera- tion" in Stanleyville which resulted in the killings of thousands of innocent Congolese citizens. In March of 1965, students occupied the US Embassy in Djakarta to protest the murder of Mal- colm X in New York City. They read a petition which demanded the ouster of Ambassador Howard Jones, the closing of all remaining USIS libraries, and the departure of all Peace Corps Zrolunteers from Indonesia.28 It was the actions of Indonesian work- ers, however, which brought home to the CIA the need for some kind of immediate action in Indonesia. In March of 1965, unions cut off gas and electricity to the US embassy appartment building, the communist hysteria and accusations home of the American naval attache, Lt. were given substantial support by the 'Col. Victor A. Armstrong, and the offices military. The Army frequently lent KAMI of both the Indonesian-American Friend- On October 25, 1965, these right- wing student groups met at the home of the Minister of Higher Education and Science, Major General Sjarif Thajeb, to form a new student organization, the Action Command of Indonesian Students, KAMI. 25 (KAMI leaders had previously participated in American Field Service exchange programs and "Foreign Student Leadership Projects" sponsored by the CIA-financed National Student Associa- tion . 26) KAMI demonstrations accused the PKI of participation in the unsuc-. cessful coup, and they provided the ideal method for circumventing govern- ment-controlled means of communica - tion, which, at the time, had not im- plicated the PKI. KAMI's spread of anti- ship Society and the Associated Press 29 Although emergency generators soon re- stored power to the facilities, the afternoon and evening English classes for three thousand Indonesians had to The CIA's Congress for Cultural Free- be cancelled. The symbolic effect of dom was also active in Indonesia ,forging isolating embassy personnel from their links with PSI and Masjumi Party mem- US contacts (the Friendship Societywas bers. In May 1964, the congress pub-' a well-known meeting place for Ameri- lished a pamphlet entitled "Indonesia in can intelligence officers and their Indo- Travail" which spoke of Indonesia's im- nesian assets) angered the US and frus- pending "crisis" .27 The pamphlet was trated their efforts to vein over a seg- written by 25 PSI and Masjumi anti- ment of Indonesian society. Sukarno intellectuals. One of the authors . During the same month, the Indo- Mochtar Lubis, was Harry Goldberg's nesian postal union imposed a mail loudspeakers and transportation. And, students in KAMI could count on Army protection if they were attacked by hos- tile groups -- frequently members of the military itself. favorite Indonesian journalist. At one point, Goldberg even tried, unsuccess- fully, to help Lubis import a printing press. and telegraph boycott on the US Em- bassy and refused to handle traffic for American news agencies.30 This sec- ond action represented a greater dan- The purpose of the CIA's efforts in ger to American plans. At a time of this regard was to counter a rising anti- growing anti-Americanism and with the Americanism on the part of the Indonesian visit of presidential representative people which was evidenced by the suc- Ellsworth Bunker approaching, the pros- cessive sackings and closings of three pect of not being able to present events US Information Service (USIS) libraries in Indonesia in a "favorable" light in late 1964 and early 1965. These at'- threatened to derail a US scenario for tacks on centers of US propaganda dis- intervention. News management re- semination reflected the rising conscious- quires more than the reporting of ness of Indonesians, workers in particu- events. It demands the creation of a lar. The seizure of the USIS library in consumable commodity. In the case of Surabaya in December 1964, was to. pro- Indonesia, packaging anti-American Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 "hostilit Approved For Release 2010/06/03 : Y was a prerequisite for gaining the American people's counte- nance of covert actions by their govern .ment. CONCLUSION tnis clay -- the CIA and its apologists have never deviated from their "offi- cial" portrayal of the carnage which followed the coup as a spontaneous, mystical act, a Holy War carried out against godless Communists.37 But the on-going tragedy, the continued op- pression of an entire people by a local elite sponsored, financed and made in the USA speaks to a different madness; one which is systematic, planned,. and an automatic corollary of a "healthy" investment climate for US corpora - tions. `' The CIA and its clien`s have hidden behind their Indonesian "smoke- screen" for too long. To the deterrence of future massacres, CounterSpv is publishing the names of those CIA agents, Public Safety Advisors and other involved persons who were in Indonesia at the time of the Ge, and who acquiesced the bloodbath and helped to consolidate its grizzlygains. With the coming-to-power of Suharto and the US-trained military- civilian elite, the Indonesian "miracle" was achieved. The country. was launched on a pro-Western course of development. The CIA, whet ier it chose to or not, could claim another "success" American unfettered access to Indone- sia's vast mineral wealth was restored. The island-nation was once a again an imperialist- El Dorado. The hubris of American officials and their propagandists echoed the propi- tious turn of events. Scholar Richard Nixon (still a year out of office) used the Council on Foreign Relation's pub- lication, Foreign Affa r , to speak to. "the test prize in the Southeast Asian area" being rescued from. "the Chinese orbit".32 Then-Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, testified to the Senate that, in retrospect, US military aid during the 1965-66 period had been "well jtified" and had paid divi -- dends. US Ambassador to Indonesia, Marshall Green, repeatedly told audi- ences in Australia -- where he was the Ambassador from March 1973 to August 1975 -- that "we did what we had to do and you'd better be glad we did be- cause if we hadn't Asia would be a different place today". 34 The reaction of the American press to the turnaround in Indonesia was equally self-serving. Making no men- tion of the bloodbath which followed, CIA mouthpiece, C.L. Sulzberger greeted the coup as a "positive achievement". 35 -Another -New York T' es columnist, James Reston, made no mention of the mass murders, referring, Instead, to the.changes which occurred as "significant" and "hopeful". 36 Throughout the massacres -- and to. 30 BREWSTER, Robert G. (born: 10/24/26) Brewster has been stationed in Indone- sia from 6/65-5/67. He is a CIA offi- cer. ( other known assignments: Thai- land, Malaysia) DAYTON, John Winthrop (born: 10/22/2 ) Dayton.is a CIA officer who served in Indonesia daring the Gestapu.( Jordan, .Somalia, Japan) - EMORY', Orville J. (born: 2/27/33) Emory was in Indonesia from 11/63- 12/67. He is a CIA officer. (Philippines, Thailand) ICHIKAWA, Grant H. (born: 4/17/19) Ichikawa is a CIA officer. He served in Indonesia from 1963-68. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 LAZARSKY, Joseph E. (born: 10/21/71) Lazarsky, who is a CIA officer, was in Indonesia from 12/64-7/67. (Burma, India, South Korea) LEVY, Frank A. (born: 1/24/19) Levy was assigned to Surabaya in 7/64. He is a CIA officer. MASTERS, Edward Eugene (born: 6/21/24) Masters, head of the political section of the US Embassy at the time of the coup, has an extensive background of intelli- gence work, including that of intelligence research analyst and Deputy Chief of the Indonesia-Malaya Branch in the Office of Intelligence Research-Analysis in the State Department. McAVOY, Clyde Richard (born: 3/2 7/2 6) McAvoy served in Indonesia from 7/61- 4/66. He is a CIA officer. (Laos,Burma) NICOL, Donald J. (born: 7/17/31) Nicol is a CIA officer who has worked in Indonesia (2/65-4/68) and South Korea. SNYDER, Royce W., Jr. (born: 4/25/32) Snyder served twice in Indonesia: at the time of the coup and in the early 1970's. He is a CIA officer. (Malaysia, Vietnam) STEIN, Arthur (born: 11/2/26) Stein has worked as police advisor in a university and as "public safety advisor" in Cambodia and Indonesia (1/64-8/65). STRONG, Henry (born: 10/6/23) Strong is a CIA officer who was in Indo- nesia during the coup. (Belgium, Nether- lands, Denmark) TOVAR, Bernardo Hugh (born: 12/2 7/2 2) Tovar was CIA Chief of Station in'Indo- nesia from 5/64-9/66. Peter Dale Scott calls him "a clearly activist Chief of Station... who has spent years in the Philippines with the CIA's Edward Landsdale in the early 1950's '. (Ten Years Military Terror in Indonesia , Spokesman Books, London, 1975, p*. 243), Subsequently, Tovar became Chief of Station in Laos (1970) and Thailand (1973). WATERS, Hugh Richard (born: 9/17/29) . , Waters was assigned to Surabaya in 8/65.. He is a CIA officer. YU, David C. L. (born: 6/29/24) Yu is a CIA officer who was in Indonesia during the coup. 1) See Peter Dale Scott, "The Vietnam War and the CIA-Financial Establish- ment" in Mark Selden (e.d.), Remakiqa Asia: Essays on the American Uses of Power, Pantheon, New York, 1971 . 2) Peter Dale Scott, "Exporting Military -Economic Development: America and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67", in Malcolm Caldwell (ed.), Ten Years' Military Terror in Indonesia, Spokes- man Books, London, 197 . 3) Ibid. , p. 253 4) Russell H. Fifield, Southeast Asia in United States-.Policy I Praeger, for the Council on Foreign Relations, NewYork, 1963, p. 308 5) Guy J. Pauker, -Communist Prospects in Indonesia , the RAND Corporation, RM-4135-PR, November 1964, p. 22 6) cf supra, # 2, p. 236 7) See David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, The Invisible Government Bantam Books, 1964, pp. 145-156. Also, L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team , Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ , 1973, pp. 323-328 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 8) Lenny Siegel, "Asian Labor: The Amer- ican Connection", Pacific Research and World Emoire Telegram , July-August 1975, p. 8 9) Citation unavailable at press time. 10) Philip Agee, Inside the Company : CIA Diary-, Stone Hill, New York, 1975, p. 616 11) Jack Sessions, "Indonesia: the Fight for Democratic Unions", American Feder- ationist-, February 1963 12) cf supra, # 8, p. 9 13) Philippe Gavi, "Contre-Revolution en Indoriesie", Les Temps Modernes, January 1969, pp. 1179, 1183, 1203 14) cf supra? # 8, p. 8 15) Elaine Capizzi, ".Trade Unions Under the New Order", Repression and Exploitation in Indonesia , Spokesman Books, Nottingham , 1974, p. 37 16) Daniel S. Lev, "The Political Role of the Army in Indonesia", Pacific Affairs , Winter 1963-64, p. 361 17) cf supra, # 15, p. 40 18) See David Ransom, "Ford Country: Building an Elite for Indonesia", in Stephen R. Weissman (ed.), The Troian Horse: A Radical Look at Foreign Aid, Ramparts, Palo Alto, 1974. 19) Ibid., p. 99 20) Ibid. , P. 97 - 21) Ibid., p. 99 22) See W. Bachtiar, "Indonesia", in Donald K. Emmerson (ed.), Students and Politics in Developing Nations , Praeger, New York, 1968 23) Ibid., p. 189 24) Ibid. 25) Ibid. , p. 192 26) cf supra, # 18, p. 106 27) Robert Shopler, Time Out of Hand: Revolution and Reaction in Southeast Asia , Harper, New York, 1969, p. 73 28) New York Times , 3/1/65, p. 1:8 29) New York Times , 3/19/65, p.1:7 30) Newyork Times, 3/23/65, p.1:3 31) John Taylor, ."The Economic Strategy of the 'New Order"', Repression and Exploitation in Indon sia Spokesman, Nottingham, 1974, p. 18 32.) Richard Nixon, "Asia After Vietnam", Foreign Affairs , October 1967, p. 11 33) see Peter Britton, "Indonesia's Neo- colonial Armed Forces", Bulletin of Con- cerned Asian Scholars, July-September 1975. 34) Ibid. 35) C.L. Sulzberger, "As the Shadow Lengthens", New York Times , 12/3/65, cited in Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Hermann, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism , South End Press, Boston, 1979, p. 205 36) James Reston, "A Gleam of Light", NewYork Times, 6/19/66, cited in Chomsky and Hermann, ibid, p.403 37) cf supra, # 13, p. 1161 38) See Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Hermann,-The Washington Connestion and Third World Fascism , South End Press, Boston, 1979, p. 205-218 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 AI aft ra age Norway to Americans is an "iceberg of the mind"; a small, frozen country in fore the NATO Treaty went into effect. Two years later, it was qualified by the Nor- wegian Minister of Defense, Hauge. He stated that in spite of the "no foreign bases policy", Norway would open up bases for allied forces in case of an armed attack or threat of armed attack. Hauge also made clear that Norway would participate in NATO exercises, would allow allied forces brief visits, and that Norway would even construct "such military facil- ities which may be necessary to receive ..and support the allied forces which are necessary to assist the defense of the country" .3 In the late 1950's, the Norwegian Government added another restriction to its military policies: no nuclear wea- northern Europe without any political, pons could be stationed in Norway. economic or military significance. How- (The main reason for the "no nuclear ever, for NATO and the CIA, Norway is the weapons" and the "no foreign bases" most important part of NATO's northern policies is simple: Norway wanted to flank because of its 196 km. borderwith avoid any provocation of the.Soviet the Soviet Union and its potential is a Union.) Despite the flexibility of Nor- new source of oil and natural gas. way's policies, they still have been Based on recent revelations, the violated by the US military and intelli- following' article examines this'growing gence, sometimes without the know- interest of the US Government in Norway. ledge of the Storting (Norwegian par- It documents cases of US intervention liament) and always without the know- which violated Norwegian law and en- ledge of the Norwegian people. Nuclear dangered the lives and security of the weapons have been transported through four million people living there. Norway; US Navy vessels with nuclear Very little was known by the Nor- delivery vehicles have surreptitiously wegian public about operations of the CIA, visited the country. Nuclear powered the US Navy and the National Security submarines, like the "hunter-killer" Agency (NSA) in Norway until very re- USS Seahorrse ("hunter-killers" are cently - more precisely, the summer of used for attacks on ships and other 1977, which could be called today "a submarines) have also passed through, summer of leaks". 2 In that summer, gov- as in April , 1976, when a visit was 4 ernmental documents dealing with "secret" made to a naval facility near Bergen. US installations in Norway were revealed As for foreign bases, although none and the true functions of some US mili-- officially exist at this point, certain tary and intelligence stations were made facilities have been used almost ex- known. clusively for US military and intelli- Revelations about these installations gence purposes and US intelligence which serve primarily foreign (US) military operations continue to be run out of and intelligence interests caused a public these bases. furor because according to Norwegian The history of US intelligence in policy, foreign bases are not permitted Norway begins as early as 1943 with to exist on Norwegian soil.' This strict the Office of Strategic Services'(OSS) "no foreign bases" policy was estab- support of the Norwegian resistance lished in February 1949, six months be- against the Nazi.occupation. The early 33 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 contacts were problematic, and it took the OSS a long time until they were able to get involved in Norwegian operations because "the British had determined to keep the American amateurs from up- setting their own? difficult relations with the Norwegian resistance" 5. At the end of 1944, the OSS sent a mission to impede German railroad movements. The command of the opera- ,tion was given to William Colby, a "short, wiry Minnesotan and pre-law graduate of Princeton who had dis- tinguished himself as a Jedburgh in France".6 The operation was almost a complete. failure with 10 people. killed and two planes destroyed.. Unlike the Soviet Union, which took its troops out of Norway after the war, the US moved in and stayed. From that point on, Norway's dependence on the,US increased tremendously, and. it has been freely used as a base for intelligence and military operations. As an important indication of this growth of US involvement,' it is inter- esting to note the increase of personnel and budget of the Norwegian police force, its technical modernization, and ,the change in its structure from extreme .,decentralization to more and more centralization since World War II. The reasons for the development of the Nor- wegian police force are very complex, but a main reason certainly is the need to- protect US. interests in Norway' and to -suppress opposition. against Nor- way's .present' pro-US and pro-NATO policies. While Norwegian police expendi- tures in 1950/51 were 30, 026 million Crowns-per year (0.22 % of-the GNP), they increased to 178, 772 million in 1965 : (0. 32% of the GNP),, and to 463,772 million in 1973 (0.42 % of the GNP).. 7 Since 1950, there has also. been, a remarkable shift of police con-, centration into the urban areas "which corresponded to actual population shifts only in exceptional cases" 8. For example, in Oslo, the capital, the number of police increased by 47. 6 % from 1950 to 1976, while the population increased only by 6.9 % to 464, 900.9 There has also been a tremendous in- crease in funding for "transportation and material" (including billy clubs, pistols, gas grenades, and machine guns). From 1975 to 1977 alone, the budget for "transportation and material increased by 122%.10 In addition, "Anti-Terror Squads" have now been established in Norway, in spite of the fact that no "terrorist incidents" have occured in Norway be- sides the assassination of an alleged PLO member by Israelis in the so-called "Lillehammer Affair". These squads exist in every major city and number several hundred persons. The Norwe- gian Minister of justice has issued directives, that the Anti-Terror Squads may also be used against persons who are "dangerous to public safely" as well, as to quell "domestic- unrest" . The task of "quelling domestic unrest" may also be carried out by the Norwegian army. Norwegian military officers have been trained since 1969 in the Schule fuer Nachrichtenwesen der Bundeswehr (school for military intelligence) in Bad Ems, West Germany. In courses re- commended by the Pentagon and the CIA, Norwegian officers have been trained in psychological warfare, mass psychology, fighting mass demonstra- tions, and internal surveillance. Like every other NATO member, Nor-. way has several intelligence agencies which keep files on more than 250, 000 persons and constantly-surveil some 7, 500 persons 12 Norwegian intelli gence agencies illegally spy on legal activities of various political organiza- tions and parties. Information about Norwegians is also passed on to the CIA. The former head of Norwegian intelligence, Vilhelm Evang, confirmed that there has always been very _ close cooperation between the CIA and the Norwegian intelligence 13. Invari- ably, Norwegian military and intelli- gence operations have been targeted against Norwegians opposed to US.and. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 NATO interference in Norway. Other examples in Norwegian history reveal that the police and intelligence are not the only sectors of Norwegian society serving US governmental interests. There have been several cases where the University of Oslo collaborated with the US Air Force. In 1954, the University's Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics signed a con- tract with the USAF for solar research. It is clear that the interest of the USAF in this research was not academic but mainly military. Between 1959 and 1968, the University of Oslo also operated a Baker-Nunn Satellite Tracking Camera" which is part of the Space Detection and Tracking System (SPADATS) of the USAF. SPADATS has several functions including "that of generating targeting data about non-US satellites for US satellite weapon systems" 14. It is also a principal source of "intelligence on Soviet space programs" and "is the only body of US compiled information about the total population of orbiting ob - jects" . (When this program ended at the University of Oslo, a Baker-Nunn camera was installed on Mount John, New Zealand, and operated by the USAF under the auspices of the University of Canterbury. Unlike Norway, a public debate began in New Zealand, and the University of Canterbury had to re= nounce its contract - however, this did not prevent the USAF from continuing to operate the station at the same place.) Another case where the US used Nor- wegian facilities for military and intelli- gence purposes was dramatically re- vealed in May,, 19 60 , when CIA pilot Gary Powers was shot down during a spy flight over the Soviet Union: the CIA had used Bod9S airport (near Narvik) for its spy flights over eastern Europe for years. The CIA and the Pentagon have also shown their "concern" for the Norwe- gian Air Force. In 1967, then Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, promised Norwegian officials that the US Govern- ment would "provide them with some new air defense equipment costing several million dollars"16. Since the US was heavily "involved" in Viet Nam at the time, and the equipment was not available in the Pentagon inventory, McNamara ran into financial problems with his generous promise. It was de- cided that the Pentagon would ask the CIA for the money needed to purchase the equipment. The White House agreed, and the CIA transferred the funds secretly. Amidst all these covert and overt operations of the CIA and the US military, there are two which are outstanding= the establishing of two Loran C and one Omega navigation stations in Norway. Both Omega and Loran C are naviga- tion systems for aircrafts, ships, and submarines. According to the Navigation Dictionary of the US Navy, Loran C (Loran= LOng RAnge Navigation) is a "medium frequency radio navigation system by which hyperbolid lines of position are determined by measuring the difference in the times of reception and synchronized pulse signals from two fixed transmitters" 17. In the 1950's and early 1960's, Loran C was the most ad - vanced navigation system. On May 19, 1958, the US Government contacted the Norwegian Foreign Ministry to explore the possibility of establishing a Loran C installation on Norwegian soil. A few days later, Councillor Raynor from the US Embassy in Oslo made clear that this Loran C station would serve "special and for the time being purely American needs" 18. Later on, he added that the establishment of Loran C "must be treated strictly on a 'need to know' basis" and that "NATO [was] not to be informed about the plan'.'. The real mili- tary nature of the Loran C station was to be kept secret from the public, as US Embassy official Fisher Howe (who is a former OSS officer and has maintained close contacts to the CIA) stated: "The US desires that any answers Cto questions about Loran C] should avoid references to the military nature of the facility. " In 1959, the US Embassy in Norway Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 35 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 also raised the question of a second Loran C facility on Jan Mayen Island. In debating the need for this second station, the US Ambassador had to admit that the Jan Mayen Loran C station was to be built "with a view to deploying Polaris submarines [nuclear missile carrying sub- marines j from ['the Norwegian Sea] ". At the time, there was already a monitoring station for Loran C on Jan Mayen. It was quite difficult for the Norwegian Government to construct an additional Loran C station-"serving purely Ameri- needs" on Jan Mayen without ques- can tions from the public, and on July 6, 1960, then Deputy Minister of Defense, Erik Himle, stated to the Foreign Ministry that "it. would be difficult to hide the direct US involvement and interest in the construction of this station ". However, eventually the Storting approved both Loran C stations and an additional moni-- toring station in Bjugn without any major public discussion about the military use of these installations As the US Govern- ment had requested, "references to the military nature of the facility" were. avoided. The Norwegian Government had hardly. given its approval to the two Loran C stations, when the US Navy asked them to agree to the installation of yet another navigation station - Omega, which is a "world wide 'radio .navigation system providing moderate accuracy by phase comparison of very low frequency continuous wave radio sig- nals"-19; it transmits radio waves of 10 -14 kHz in. 10 second intervals. The research on Omega was started in the middle 1940's under conditions of absolute secrecy. Several reports were not declassified until-the-late 1960's or early 1970's, one of the first reports ,being published in 1966..20 A .comparison of the abilities of Loran C and Omega indicates the ad- vanced sophistication of Omega. The very low frequencies, employed make "Omega usable by completely submerged submarines.. It is the. only radio navi- gation. system of which ' this' is true . _36 Omega is therefore unique in a number of respects"21. In addition, only eight Omega stations, planned for Japan, Liberia, North Dakota, Argentina, the La Reunion Islands,Hawaii, Australia, and Norway are necessary for global coverage compared to 90 Loran C stations. 22 By 1976, only about one seventh of the earth's surface could be covered by Loran C , which is also used for strategic nuclear submarines23 In all submarines, the basic navi- gation is pe rformed by the Ship's In- ternal Navigation System (SINS), a "self-contained dead-reckoning de- vice. A set of gyroscopes and accele- rometers measures changes in the sub- marine's velocity and-direction. This "information is supplied to computers which continuosly plot the course and the position of the vessel"24. Since errors accumulate in SINS, on-land radio navigation aids like Loran or Omega are used as correctors. The nature of Omega indicates clearly that it is, of particular impor- tance to submarines, especially since Omega signals can be.reached up to 50 feet below the water surface, and. "one of the primary motivating forces behind the development and the. implementation of the Omega system is . the requirement of a navigational system for the [nuclear missile carrying] Polaris submarine" 25. Precisely this fact - that Omega will be used by submarines carrying- nuclear missiles like Polaris or the more advance Poseidon submarine - was denied by the US Navy, because it makes every country hosting an Omega transmitter a very likely first- strike target in case of a nuclear war. Destroying the land-based Omega navigation station is the only way - . if it can be done at all - to hamper the-7 effectiveness of nuclear missile. carrying submarines, as Albert Langer states in an article in "the Tourna 1 of Peace Research: "By striking the very low frequency navigation and communi-., cation facilities, an enemy would sub Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 stantially increase the vulnerability of prevention of the thesis' distribution be- missile carrying submarines (from near cause it "could harm relations to zero to a small but finite vulnerability). foreign powers and provide foreign intelli- ...Such a strike would be very likely gence sources with useful information"30. for this purpose, since there is very The University refused, and Hellebust little else that can be done to increase replied that his thesis was based exclu- the vulnerability of these submarines26". sively on public sources. Otherwise, submarines like Polaris and After several correspondences, Gundersen Poseidon are virtually "invulnerable to instituted a criminal investigation. Police detection and constitute one of the main- interrogated Hellebust and a journalist in- stays of America's nuclear 'deterrent' volved in the case. They discovered that the force "27, publication of material from the thesis had US officials have also tried to play been cleared by the Ministry for Defense and down the military significance of Omega the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Thus, they by stating that it could be used by dropped the case, but not without advising civilian vessels and vessels of other the journalist, not to write about the inves- countries as well. This might be true in tigation. But the. journalist did write., peacetime, but there is nothing which and also filed a complaint with the Norwe- technically prevents the transmission of gian Union of Journalists. The police action, end-to-end coded messages to selected coupled with publication of Gundersen's vessels in case of a war. 28 And it is letters to the University, added to the credi- more than obvious that in a crisis situa- bility of the thesis. Hellebust's image of tion the navigation stations would send integrity was further improved by an attempt out coded messages which could only be to transfer him to the Northern Finmark decoded by US vessels. (Norway's "Siberia") which was prevented Until recently, there were two ver- by a military Ombudsman. sions about how. then Omega navigation News of the thesis also prompted the stations were established -a public one, appointment on April 4, 1975 of a Royal in which the real military purpose of Commission to begin an investigation of Omega was not mentioned, and a secret the establishment of Omega and Loran C one, which contained all the "interesting stations in Norway. Supreme Court Judge details". During "the summer of leaks" Andreas Schei was appointed as its chair- (1977), the secret version was finally person. (The commission is generally re- made public. ferred to as the "Schei Commission") In De- However, a public debate about the cember, 1975, its report was released. It Omega station in Norway had already be- turned out to be an almost complete white- gun earlier, when Anders Hellebust,: a wash, playing down the whole affair. Not Norwegian military intelligence Captain, released to the public was a classified ver- wrote his thesis on Omega and came to sion of the Royal Commission Report con- the conclusion that it was built "to pro- taining secret documents. This report was, vide American nuclear submarines with however, reviewed and- approved by members navigational data"29. Hellebust also of the Storting in a secret session of June, criticised the lack of openness in the de- 1976, even though it contradicts the. public fense policy decision-making of the Nor- version. _ wegian Government and the way that de- Two members of the Storting, Berge Furre, visions about Norway's integration into a well-known historian at the University of NATO and into the US gobal military Oslo, and Finn Gustavsen, both of the So- system were made. Hellebust's -thesis cialist Left Party (SV) did not want to be a prompted the Norwegian Chief of De- part of this "secret and silent" Storting, fense Staff, General Zeiner H..F. Gun- and released the secret report to the public., dersen to write to the University of In the course of their action, they publicly Oslo.on April 17, 1975 demanding the defended the peoples' right to know. ' (After Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 -37 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 releasing the secret documents, Furre and Norwegian Foreign Ministry repor- Gustavsen were threatened with impeach- ted in a memo on October 19, 1964, that ment, and only a few months ago, the Odel? Colonel R$ rholt had told him explicitly sting, a very large subcommittee of the that "Omega cannot be said to have any Storting, voted not to start an impeachment trial. Interestingly, the SV members of the Odelsting voted in favor of the impeachmen trial, in order to provide Furre and Gustav- sen with a chance to defend themselves.) Almost all major Norwegian newspapers and wireservices refused to publish classi- fied parts of the report. The full report, however, has been printed by the Norwe- gian publishing house PAX, and some 15, 000 copies were sold despite a ban on its distribution by many bookstores. The classified parts of the Schei report make clear that some Norwegians, and, of course, US officials, were fully aware of Omega's function and withheld this in- specific importance for the Polaris submarine". The same lie was repeated later, on November 20, 1969 - after intensive discussions and the publication of articles proving the contrary - by First Secretary Sellin of the US Em- bassy in Oslo: "... the Omega Naviga- tion System was not designed for and is not adequate for use by Polaris sub- marines. The US Navy does not have Omega receivers on any of these sub- marines, and does not intend to pro- cure or put Omega receivers on them. This also applies for the Poseidon sub- marine. " formation from the public. One of the classi In the following months, while fied parts of the report is, for example, a memo of Secretary stern of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, dated October 8, 1964, which states that there is no specific interest for Norway in Omega: "As I under- stand it is intended that Omega will serve purely American needs, and NATO consequently will not enter into the pic- ture ".0stern also concluded that "an- other important aspect is that the Omega system is to be used by the Polaris sub- marines". In a memo dated October 14, 1969, from the Norwegian Foreign concern is expressed as to whether or not an Omega station would harm rela- tions with the Soviet Union, pointing out that "any agreement to operate such a station lOmegaJ for the 'US Navy will place a considerable stress on our re- lations with the Soviet Union". Al ready at this time the US was pushing to hide the use of Omega for Polaris submarines. This was done main- ly through Colonel Rq'rholt, then head of the Norwegian Defense Communication Agency (NODECA). Rq/rholt himself had a history of personal involvement with Omega. From 1948 to 1949, he worked as a research assistant to J-.A. Pierce, the inventor of Omega, at Harvard Univer- sity. A high ranking officer from the 38 Omega trial operations were going on in Norway, the Norwegian Foreign and De- fense Ministry had extensive discussions about Omega and its actual use. Although it was agreed that Omega was of negli- gible application to Norwegian ships and aircraft, and that it could be used for submarines, many Norwegian officials believed the US Embassy and the US Navy that Omega was not to be used for, Polaris or other nuclear submarines, disi- regarding the extensive literature proving Ministry,, the contrary. Finally, on November 2, 1971, Omega was approved by the'Storting after more than five years of trial opera- tions in Norway. In the same year, the Norwegian Government allowed another US. installa- tion to begin to operate in Norway. This facility, called NORSAR (Norwegian Seismic Array) is a large seismic array which is designed to register under- ground nuclear explosions. NORSAR is financed by the US Department of Defense, and its operation is mainly undertaken for intelligence reasons. It is connected to the National Security Agency's (NSA) Seismic Data Analysis Center in Alexandria, Virginia. "Nor- wegian seismic data can thus only be analyzed together with other seismic Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA R D P90-00845 ROOO 100 150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 data (some derived from US military stations in secret locations) ... "31. Besides revelations about the US Navy stations, 1977 brought more care- fully guarded secrets to the Nor- wegian public. These included a story about Norwegian training of Finnish agents "to penetrate the Soviet Union for intelligence and sabotage pur- poses in the early 1950's " 32, material collected by a Norwegian investigative reporter about the Norwegian secret service and its connections to US intelligence stations, and detailed in- formation about CIA personnel in Oslo. Enraged about the Norwegian Government's denial of the fact that Norwegian intelligence had trained Finnish agents for operations in the So- viet Union in the 1950's, Major Svein Blindheim, then an intelligence officer and working in a secret mission to train the agents, revealed detailed infor- mation about his work which was part of a program controlled by the CIA and British intelligence, and masterminded by Nazi spy chief Reinhard Gehlen, who had joined with the CIA after World War II. When the New. Zealand Christchurch Press reported on June 14, 1968, that the US Navy planned to build an Omega station in New Zealand, it created a storm. This news provoked the biggest demonstrations in New Zea- land's recent history, and even though New Zealand was an ideal lo- cation for Omega, the US Navy was forced to abandon its hopes for such a navigation station in New Zealand. Since New Zealand did not work out the US.Navy decided to build its Omega station in the state of Victoria, Australia. In spite of massive protest there and statements like "anyone who believes;that.Omega is just a civilian navigation system does not understand what is happening... Victoria will be one of the major targets of the Soviets During this time, at least five bases in Norway were used for these penetration operations. 33 Blindheim's exposure, of what was one of the most unpleasant parts of Norway's history, led to criminal proceedings against him - rather than the involved Norwegian officials - , and finally, to a suspended prison sentence and a fine. Publications of information on Nor- wegian intelligence and its collaboration with US intelligence also led to the arrest of several persons. Ivor Johan- sen, a publishing executive, had done a lot of research on intelligence in his spare time - using telephone direc- tories, official public documents, and ingenious phone calls to military and intelligence officers; he also visited several listening sites in Norway. Finally, Johansen,with only public in- formation, suceeded in piecing together a list of spy bases in Norway, mainly ran by Norwegians but with US "liaison" officers. Johansen also obtained infor- mation on the little known Norwegian military intelligence FO/E. Johansen's work led other resear- in the event of a nuclear attack... (US Rear Admiral LaRocque, as quoted in Stop Omega . Omega at Woodside ), the Australian Government approved the Omega station. The lies that were told to the Austra- lian people almost outdo the ones told to the Norwegians: "Omega has no mili- tary functions (US Ambassador Mar- shall Green on June 26, 1973 in Sydney), and "there is nothing secret or classi- fied about Omega" (Australian Ministe r for Shipping and Transportation, Nixon, on July 25, 1977); Dr. Frank Barnaby of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute summarizes. the pro- cess of Omega's installation in Austra- lia: "... there is. a prima facie case that the Australian public has been seriously misled". Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 chers to examine the nature of US. faci- wegian journalists, who had been sen- lities in Norway, for example, the undersea tracking of Soviet subma- rines sailing from Murmansk past the Norwegian coast, which tracking is now so good that "Western intelligence can consistently pinpoint the wherea- bouts of individual .Soviet submarines in the northern ' seas.. "34. Some of the stations Johansen found were in northern Norway, extremely close to the Soviet Union and not ne- cessarily purely for Norwegian defense needs. All of these eavesdropping stations in northern Norway are supposed to be secret - even though they: are certainly known to the g.:)vern- .ment of the Soviet Union. Obviously,' the reason for their secrecy is not related to security. Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman comments that "it is inconvertible that the secrecy serves' only to avoid embarassing ` officials and some politicians whose tenced for their "activities" in publi- shing information on intelligence stations in Norway are appealing their verdicts. . The "summer of leaks" (1977) was followed by a "fall of revelations" of the CIA in Norway. On November 24, 1977, the daily NY Tid named five CIA agents who were in the country at the time: Quentin C. Johnson, David P. Hunt, Eugene S. Poteat, Charles L. Kindl, and Harry M. Zschack. On the same day, Ny Tid also published the "Key Intelligence Questions" (KIQ's), written under the auspices of Henry Kissinger and William Colby, and approved by the National Security Council. The KIQ's are a directive for CIA agents, and outline the type of. intelligence agents are supposed to gather. The KIQ's documented the interest of the CIA in Norway, parti- cularly in Norway's economic situation dishonesty is revealed by the lack of and its possibilities as an oil expor- accord between secret procurements and ting country. (Norway has. been expor- secret activities" . 35 ting oil since May, 1975, and by 1980, Claims by the Norwegian Government "estimated oil and gas production is ex- that the intelligence and navigation pected to be some 60 million tons of stations in Norway serve mainly Nor- oil equivalent, or more than six times wegian defense purposes have been dis- proved. In a first draft of a study on the intelligence stations in Norway the don estic consumption of petro - leum" ) Ny Tid also. reported that the CIA provided US and multinational (which include facilities to intercept corporations with information about High Frequency and Very High Frequency Norway's economic situation, and that communications), Owen Wilkes and the CIA uses multinational corporations Nils Petter Gleditsch came to the con- as covers. clusion that "not a single intelligence The CIA has revealed. its interest in installation Lin Norway] to be described Norway in other ways as well. In 1977/ [in the studya can be judged clearly de- 78 the Center for Strategic and Inter-' fensive on the basis of its technical capability alone" 36. The same Nils Petter Gleditsch of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo national Studies of Georgetown Univer- sity in Washington, DC hosted several events dealing with Norway, .s'ince ."Nordic security perspectives are (PRIO) has been indicted by a Norwegian troubled by rising levels of anxiety court for his revelation of the "secrets" . without corresponding latitude for ad- of some of the intelligence stations in Norway. -Like others before him, Gleditsch had obtained all'his informa- tion from public sources. Gleditsch is not the only one in. court. over these matters.. Ivar Johansen and two Nor- 40 justment" 38. As widely documented, CSIS has extremely strong CIA ties -,it might even be called a CIA front. 39 CSIS printed a booklet on Norway's base policy; and in May, 1978, it published Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 a report entitled "Allied Interdependency Trade and Cooperation in Military Equipment"-. This report "grew out of a meeting of the CSIS Transatlantic Policy Panel in January, 1978" 40; Paul Thyne s s , a member of the Storting, was part of this "Transatlan- tic Policy Panel". Other Norwegian participants in CSIS activities are Deputy Minister of Defense Johan Holst, and Torsten Stoltenberg, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. The question should be raised as to whether a CIA-linked institution, fa- mous for its Cold War theories and pro- paganda, is an appropriate place for Norwegian Ministers and a member of the Storting. In Norway, the people often are not informed about actions and decisions of governmental officials that suppo- sedly represent the people. Further- more, the examples of the installation of US intelligence and navigation stations in Norway shows that the Nor- wegian Government is often not serving its own people but the interests of the According to the New Statesman, former CIA Director William Colby said in a recent interview that "the Norwegian Government was as much 'in the know' about the CIA as it wished to be". 41 Given the change-. able nature of "truth according to Colby" this may or may not be the case What's unquestionably certain is that until the Norwegian Government has knowledge of all CIA activities in Nor- way it cannot fulfill its grave respon- sibility to protect the very people it has been elected to represent. Ironi- cally, rather than perform its duty, the Norwegian Government is re- pressing courageous Norwegians trying to expose harmful intelligence operations. Perhaps,- the Nor- wegian people- will re-examine its government in light of these facts. FOOTNOTES 1) During his visit to Norway in April, 1979; US Vice President Walter Mondale asked the Norwegian Govern- ment whether it would be willing to ship oil to Israel on a regular basis - a request that was denied by the Nor- wegians. 2) Gleditsch, Wilkes, Lodgaard, and Botnen: Norge i atomstrategien (English summary), publ. by PRIG, July, 1978, p. 1 3) Sverre Lodgaard, Nils Petter Gleditsch, "Norway, the Not So Re- luctant Ally", Cooperation and Conflict, vol. XII, 1977, p. 210 4) ibid. , p.2134 5) R. Harris Smith, " OSS" , University of California Press, 1972, p. 200 6) ibid., p. 201 7) Hakon Lorentzen, "Some D :1 the Development of the Norwegian l'6 ice" CILIP , Aug. , Sept. 1978, p. 15 8) ibid. , p. 14 9) ibid. , P. 14 10) ibid. , p. 16 11) ibid. , p. 16 12) New Statesman, 6/15/79, p. 851 13) Ny Tid , 11/24/77 1 14) Owen Wilkes and Nils Petter Gleditsch, "Optical Satellite Tracking: A Case of University Participati'r-n in Preparation for Space Warfare", Journal of Peace Research , no. 3, 1978, p. 204 15) ibid., p. 212 16) John Marks, Victor Marcher ?e CIA and the Cult of Inte1.ligencr >f, New York, 1974, pp. 63,64 17) Navigation Dictiong_QL pubs. by US Naval Oceanographic Office, Dept. of Navy, 1969 18) All the following quotes are, unless otherwise noted, as in: Nils Petter Gleditsch, "The Schei Report on Loran C and Omega", PRIO Pabl. , no. P-6/78 19) cf supra, 17 20) NITS Accession Number AD630900, May 1, 1966 41 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 21) "Navigation System, a Survey of Modern Electronic Aids", ed. by. G.F. Beck, Van Nostrum Reinhold Corp. , Ltd. , Lyndon, 1971, p. 118 22) ibid. , p. 121 23) New Scientist, 3/25/76, p. 672 24) ibid 25) C.S. Samek and.H.S. Price, "A Precise Electronic Navigation System Using Omega and a Synchronous Sa- tellite Network", Navigator, vol. 13 no. 2 26) Albert Langer, "Accurate Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Strategy", Lournal of Peace Re- search, no. 1, vol. XIV, 1977, p. 47 27) "Missile Submarines and National Security", Scientific. American , June 72 28) cf supra, # 3, p. 115 29) Arbeiterbladet , 2/8/75 30) cf supra, # 18 31) cf supra, # 2, p. 3 32) ibid., p. 1 33) Steve Weissman, "Norwegian Spy War", Inquiry, 9/18/78, p. 12 34) ibid., p. 13 35) Duncan Campbell, "Sabotage, Submarines, and the Secret Norway Connection", New Statesman , 6/2/78, p. 730 36) Owen Wilkes and Nils Petter Gleditsch, "Intelligence Installations in Norway: Their Number, Location, Function, and Legality", PRIO publ. , S-4 79, First Draft 37) The Banker, May 1977, p. 91 38) CSIS: Annual Report 77/78, p.91 39) Ray S. Cline, the Director of World Power Studies at CSIS, is a former Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA who has served for more than 25 years. CSIS's Director of Af- rican Studies is Chester A. Crocker, another former CIA employee; John Richardson, Jr. is CSIS Director for Public Diplomacy Studies. He ran Radio Fred Europe when it was a CIA propa - ganda operation. Two consultants for CSIS are Henry Kissinger and Walter Laquer, who worked for the Informa- tion Bulletin, ? Ltd., a now-defunct CIA operation. In addition, CSIS is con- stantly featuring past and present CIA employees. 40) cf supra, # 38, p. 22 41) cf supra, # 35, p. 732 0 ITELLGENCE: Guatemala %42 BLOCKER, V. Harwood Blocker is a CIA officer who.served in the Dominican Republic at the time of the US military intervention, in Brazil (Recife and Rio de Janeiro), and Peru. (born: 10/19/3 6) First Secretary Avenida La Reform a Zona 10 Guatemala City tel . 311541 FISCHER, Forrest (born: 1/2/2 5) Fischer has participated in CIA connect- ed propaganda operations in Mexico, Argentina, and during the US war in Vietnam (6/70-12/71). Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 ? q r tai I i Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 HARRISON, Lawrence E. (born: 3/11/32) Montagne Noire, Port-au-Prince tel. 7-0665 Harrison worked,in mihitary intelligence before he joined AID in 1962. HOLSEY, Leonard J. (born: 6/2 5/ 21) Pacot, Port-au-Prince tel. 2-1983 Holey is a CIA officer who served in Vietnam during the late 1960's. MEADE, Frazier (born: 7/17/28) Counsellor Debussy, Port-au-Prince tel. 2-4341 Meade has served as an intelligence research specialist,in the State De- partment and attended the Naval War College from 1971-72. France BURGSTALLER, Eugen F. (born: 12/2 2/2 0) Attache Widely publicised, Burgstaller is the CIA Chief of Station in France. He has served in Austria and Lebanon. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 CERRA, Ronald L. 3/6/43) Second Secretary Before he was assigned to France, Cerra worked in Switzerland. He is a CIA officer. COPP, Jean Tremere (born: 1/6/22) Second Secretary Copp has participated in CIA connect- ed propaganda operations in Vietnam from 1972-75. GIBSON, Barry R. (born: 10/28/39) Attache Gibson is a CIA officer. He also served in Brazil. JETON, Francis John (born: 4/1/2 6) Attache Teton is o CI ; officer who has been tattn in Syria, Senegal, Zaire, Tunisia., end South Africa. In August 1957, Jeton was expelled from Syria because of his participation in anti- government work. KELLY, John H. (born: 7/20/39) Firs t_ Secre tary) Kelly has an extensive background in military and intelligence related work. He has attended the Armed Forces Staff College. MONCZEWSKI, Matthew E (born: 12/9/34) Attache Monczewski is a CIA officer. He has worked in the CIA's "secret war" in Laos, in the Central African Republic, and in Ethiopia. 43 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 CLARK, Robert D. (born: 7/2 3/3 2) Attache 19-5, Sendagi-cho, 5-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo tel. 821-5174 Clark has an extensive record of intelligence and intelligence related work in Italy and in the US. COALE, George L., Jr. (born: 3/14/2 6) Attache Grew Apt., 4427 1-1, Roppongi, 2-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo tel. 583-6951' ext. 427 Coale is a CIA officer who has served in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Tokyo (1969-72) and in Vietnam at the end of the war. FLOYD, Walter I., Jr. (born: 4/4/39) Second Secretary Grew Apt., 3421 tel. 583-6951 ext. 428 Floyd is a CIA officer who attended the Foreign Service Institute in Yokohama in 1971 and has been in Tokyo since then. GRIMSLEY, William C . , (born: 4/2 0/2 7) Attache Connodor Apt. No. 610, 13-28, Roppongi, 5-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo tel. 586-6417 Grimsley is a high ranking CIA officer who was Chief of Station in India. -He has also served in Afghanistan and Nepal. 44 I-IERPY, David W. , Jr. (born: 3/10/38) Second Secretary 14-7; Ebisu, 2- chome Shibuya-ku, Tokyo tel. 441-7247 Herpy's biography in the State Depart- ment's Biographic Registers (incom- plete previous history, starting with R-6, political officer) indicates that he is a CIA officer. He served in Thailand before being transferred to Japan. SELIGMANN,. Albert L. (born: 5/26/25) Counsellor for Political Affairs 20-1 a, Hiroo, 2-chome Shibuya-ku, Tokyo tel. 400-3561 Seligmann, the highest ranking political officer in the US Embassy in Tokyo, has an extensive background of intelligence -related assignments. SHERMAN, William Courtney (born: 9/2 7/2 3) Minister-Counsellor 1, Azabu, Nagasakacho, Minato-ku, Tokyo tel. 583-4648 Sherman has been an officer in the US military government in South Korea (1946 -48), and has worked as an intelligence research specialist in the State Depart- ment and has attended the National War College. SHIMA, Terry T. (born: 1/20123) Attache 7-11,. Minami Azabu, 4-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo tel. 449-9565 Shima is a CIA officer, who has served in Singapore and the Philippines. ' . Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 HANNON, John C . (born: 3/2/38) Second Secretary (Political Affairs) Hannon, who is a CIA officer, has served iliKenya and Tanzania. ANDERSON, Burnett F. (born: 7/13/19) Counsellor for Public Affairs Hereford Lodge 139 Gloucester Road London S.W. 7 tel. 01-3/-3-9435 Anderson is a propaganda specialist who has served in the Mutual Security Agency, Iran, Sweden, Spain and France. He also attended the National War College in 1960. ASCHER, James Martin (born: 3/18/31) First Secretary (Public Affairs) 20 Croons Hill London S .E . 10 tel. 01-858-1940 Ascher has served in CIA connected pro- paganda operations in Vietnam and India. BLACKSHEAR, Tho:nas R. (born: 8/11/29) Assistant Political Attache 37 Circus Road St. John's Wood London N. W. 8 01-286-1684 Blackshear is a CIA officer who has been stationed in the Federal Republic of Germany, Bulgaria and India. EDDY, Condit N. (born: 10/14/2 7) First Secretary (Political Affairs) Eddy has served in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. He is a CIA officer. KEANE, Robert A. Assistant Legal Attache Keane is the FBI's liaison officer in London. KIMBALL, John W. (born: 9/2 3/ 3 3) First Secretary (Political/Military Affairs) 8 Edwardes Square London W.8 tel: 01-.602-6543 Kimball is a CIA officer who has worked in India, Liberia, and the F.R. Germany. McGHEE, William M. (born: 7/8/22) Political Attache 11 Chester Square London S.W. 1 tel: 01-730-5641 McGhee has served in the Philippines, Ethiopia, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is a CIA officer. NIBLO, Peter B. (born: 3/2 0/2 5) Narcotics Attache 30 Eaton Place London S.W. 1 tel: 01-235-0453 Niblo served in Vietnam for over five years. He was a "public safety advisor", a "program officer" and a "special assistant" with AID. Niblo is responsible for US war crimes in Vietnam. Syria ENGLE, Gerald Lloyd (born: 12/10/3 5) Assistant Political Attache Engle is a CIA officer. He has been sta- tioned in Switzerland, Bulgaria, and the USSR, PERLMAN, Alvin (born-..S/5/34) First Secretary (Public Affairs) 89 Camberwell Grove London S.E. 5 tel: 01-701-6939 Perlman has participated in CIA con - nected propaganda operations in India,. Vietnam, and Indonesia. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA- RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 45 PROCTG Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 , 1xi (born: 12/30/20) Political Attache Proctor is the CIA Chief of Station in England. He has been employed by the CIA since 1953, first as an econo- mist, and from 1971-76 as Deputy Director for Intelligence. STEVENSON, Rufus (born: 11/26/39) Stevenson is a CIA officer. He, has worked in Madagascar and Mali. ZASLOW, Milton S. Political Attache. Flat 5, Bryanston London ' W . l tel: 01-262-9379 Square Zaslow is an intelligence officer, prob- ably working for the National Security Agency. There is no sense 'in. asking the British government to, at a minimum, control the activities, of these US em- ployees. In addition to having anti-labor and,pro-corporate interests, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has foreign policy views that fit right into the CIA's cold war program. In fact, a person who has a long history of participation in CIA propaganda operations has been 7 and perhaps still is - one of her speech- writers. A "British Conservative" com- mented to the New Leader "Even those of us who agree with the Americans on most things don't like to feel the CIA considers us-coolies. When Margaret made her tough foreign policy speech, I applauded., But when I learned that it had been drafted by that fellow Moss I sniffed a bit. " (New Leader, 12/4/78, P., 13) "That fellow Moss" who wrote Thatcher's speech is also the author of the CIA financed book Chile's Marxist Experiment , in which he comes to the .conclusion that the 1973.military coup in Chile was necessary to preserve "the pos- that General Pinochet saved Chile from "what may well have been an impending 'night of the long knives"' . (Robert Moss, Chile's 1\4 rxist Experimnt, David & Charles, Ltd. , Newton Abbot, England, 1973, pp. ii, vi) . Pinochet's military junta was delighted about the book: they bought the complete second printing for use in their propaganda. Chile's Marxist Experiment is more than "just" a demagogic piece by a right-wing journalist. The idea to write the book was conceived by the CIA. They paid Moss an advance and "super- vised the content and progress of the manuscript" ,In ui , 9/30/79), p.9). Perhaps the CIA also thought it necessary to "supervise" the content of Moss' manuscript for Thatcher's speech. Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 KELLY, JOHN T -HE CIS. IN AMERICA Much has been written and published about the clandestine and illegal work of the CIA in foreign countries. This book describes and documents the extent to which the CIA has penetrated and attempted to influence the institutions of American society, and its widespread program of surveillance of American citizens. It presents biographical sketches of CIA directors and high offi- cials involved in this work, and it names and describes. the magazines, newspapers, publishers, educational institutions, trade unions, churches and prominent journalists, writers and politicians who have wittingly or unwittingly aided the- work of the CIA. 256 pages Fall 24 Burr Farms Road Westport, Connecticut 06880 (203/226-9392) Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 ISBN: 102-0 cloth: $12.95 ISBN: 103-9 paper: $5.95 Approved For Release 2010/06/03: CIA-RDP90-00845R000100150006-5 "CounterSpy is self-described as a source of analyses and information on the practices, organization and objec tive of U. S. intelligence." Federal Bureau of Investigation "shocking ... paranoic ... cynical" William E. 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