'COUNTERSPY' COUNTERATTACKS

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CIA-RDP90-00845R000201230007-3
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July 28, 2010
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October 17, 1981
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/28: CIA-RDP90-00845R000201230007-3 rRED 0:`I _ AGE HU_ T r ENT'S 17 OCTOBER 1981 Red Faces at the `Journal'? 'CounterSpy' Counterattacks In a startling admission, the anti-CIA publica- tion, Counterspy, has said that it was behind at least 15 stories on intelligence matters and interna- tional econommtc issues that appeared in the influen- tial Wall Street Journal over the last year. The admission came in the wake of the expose by HUMAN EVENTS of'CIA defector Philip Agee's role in a Journal story by Jonathan Kwitny attack- . ing the State Department's White Paper on El Salvador, and the revelation by the Journal's ex- ecutive editor, Frederick Taylor, that I rritny and a deceased colleague, Jerry Landauer, had used John Kelly of CounterSpy as a confidential source, too. Despite the admission that Kelly had been a "longstanding source" of Landauer's on "intelligence matters," we could only identify one story in the Journal which apparently derived from this relationship. HUMAN EvENTS reporter Cliff Kincaid noted (Sept: 5, 1981) that a Dec. 3, 1980, Landauer story on a secret N\orJd Bank memo on the Philippines had been published on the same day that CounterSpy and a Filipino dissident group released the memo at a news conference 'in .Washington. When asked about this at the time, Landauer threatened to sue if he was linked to CounterSpy. John Kelly, in an interview with HUMAN EVENTS, refused to say if he gave Lan-. dauer the memo. CounterSpy, however,.has now confirmed that it was the source not. only of the story about the Philippines,-but of stories. about South Korea, In donesia and the CIA. -The confirmation came at an October 2 Washington news conference, which had been called to release more "secret" docu- ments on Communist China and the Philippines. The news conference featured Counter- Spy's Jobn Kelly And Walden Bello, a mem- ber of a dissident Filipino group called the Congress Task Force. Bello, who said he was not a "member" of CounterSpy but was "very sympathetic to the sort . of exposes that it has been carrying out," said, "I would like to begin this press conference with a protest. The Wall Street Journal [published] on this Tuesday [September 291 a lead, long editorial attacking CounterSpy, making it responsible, it says, for th Kirkland wa! the conferen, ty ]" - _, "Now thei protect thi "Unfortunat tacked one of its major sources of information. The Wall Street Journal has been dependent on CounterSpy : and. the Congress Task Force for about 15 to 16 stories over the last year, which detail World Bank-IMF [International Monetary Fund] apprehension over a lot of Third World economies. CounterSpy_ and the Congress Task Force have released to the press the documents on the Philippines, South Korea and Indonesia. And { CounterSpy has made a number of independent releases on the Central Intelligence Agency." "Why does the Wall Street Journal come out-: with this attack ~n one of its sources of informa- tion?" Bello asked. "The reason for this," he said, "is that it has been under heavy attack from the right, from HUMAN EVENTS, and this was one way by which the Journal was trying to distance itself from one of its sources. Unfortunately, it's too transparent." Bello added: "We believe the. World Bank represents interests very deterimental to the development of Third World countries. This is not, of course, as HUMAN EVENTS might put it, a far left view." He said this is "in fact a view that is now shared by many people within the World Bank . itself-dissident technocrats," who, he said, have been providing the secret documents. - Asked what countries followed his prescription for-economic development, Bello cited Chile under the Marxist Salvador Allende. Referring to the overthrow of Allende by a popular coup,. Bello said, "What happened in Chile was an effort on the part of the World Bank, the big banks, and the United States to sabotage this process that was go-. ing on." ~::... Asked to name other countries that followed his recommendations, Bello said, "Maybe we ought to . have other questions. I think you would like me to name the Soviet Union or Cuba. But I certainly think there are other countries aside - from the Soviet Union or Cuba or other countries that are tagged 'Red' that are trying to follow independent economic paths." He then - named two pro- Marxist, one-party states:in Africa, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/28: CIA-RDP90-00845R000201230007-3