GREENPEACE IS FEARFUL OF LINKS TO TERRORISM

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• Publication Date: October 1, 1985
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WASHINGTON TIMES
1 October 1985
Greenpeace is fearful'
of links to terrorism
By Peter Almond
THE WASHINGTON TIMES FOREIGN SERVICE
LONDON - Enormous publicity
has attracted ever more money and
members, but the sinking of the
Rainbow Warrior may link Green-
peace in the public mind with politi-
cal scandal, sabotage and terrorism.
Other tenants in the building
where Greenpeace maintains its
offices have signed a petition to evict
Greenpeace. The tenants are afraid
they'll be bombed by someone look-
ing for the activists.
"I'm afraid we will get tarred with
the same brush as abortion clinics in
the States,' says Stephen-Sawyer, the
AmericanGreenpeace leader..who is
directing_:the anti-nuclear project
against Prance inthe'Pacific.
"They s~tffered: pa of bomb-
ings and got connected. itt some
unfortunate political .assocjAiions.
We are non-violent andnon-political.
The nuclear issue is only part ofour
concerns:'
In the United States, new, atten-
tion is being paid to Greenpeace ties
to militant groups and organizations
that campaign not only against
nuclear testing and President Rea-
gan's Strategic Defense Initiative,
commonly called "star wars;' but for
the unilateral disarmament by the
United States.
According to Information Digest,
a conservative periodical which'
monitors worldwide political and
social movements, the founding of
Greenpeace "marked the birth of a
new political force."
A profile of Greenpeace, in the
Aug. 16 issue of the Digrest, reports
that the group blends "extreme envi-
ronmentalism with the disarma-
ment cause and the `solidarity'
movement with Third-World terror-
ist, `anti-imperialist' and `national
liberation' organizations. Disarma-
ment remains the key Greenpeace
thrust:'
Information Digest notes that
Greenpeace has allied itself on occa-
sion- such as during the 1982 "rally
for a Nuclear Freeze and Disarma-
ment" - with groups which oppose
American policy, including the Com-
munist Party, U.S.A., and the "Soviet
controlled World Peace Council:'
Far from protesting merely the
French nuclear testing program at
Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific,
Greenpeace is "one of the organiza-
tions central to the "nuclear free
Pacific" campaign, the Digest says.
That involvement included the
Rainbow Warrior's evacuation ear-
lier this year of more than 320 resi-
dents of Rongelap Atoll in the
Marshall Islands, part of the U.S.'
Micronesian Trust Territories. The
islanders had decided to abandon
their lands out of fear that radioac-
tivity from U.S. nuclear tests 30
years ago could pose a medical haz-
ard.
In doing so, the Digest said,
Greenpeace helped enhance the
fears and suspicions of Marshall
Islanders against the United States,
which will soon terminate the
trusteeship relationship. In its place
the United States hopes to enter into
a new compact with Micronesia
which will give full military and
defense authority to the Pentagon
for up to 50 years.
Included in that agreement would
be provisions to allow the United
States the continued use of Kwaja-
lein Atoll - a past test site for
nuclear weapons and now a key loca-
tion for testing of inter-continential
ballistic missiles and "star wars"
anti-satellite warfare technology.
Information Digest said that by
"actively urging its members to
become active in lobbying against
the compact and for an end to
defense tests at Kwajalein:' Green-
peace activities in Micronesia
"could be expected to increase Mar-
shallese suspicion of the U.S. and
harden attitudes against the com-
pact:'
Nevertheless, Greenpeace insists
it is for "everyone;' regardless of
politics.
Greenpeace officers say they
have nothing to do with any of the
Green political parties of Europe, or
with any others.
Brian Fitzgerald, coordinator at
Greenpeace s international head-
quarters in ewes, England,
acknowledges t haatthiis organization
and its membership are left of cen-
ter, but insists that Green ce is
the object of interest to both the
CIA
and the
KGB.
STAT
Greenpeace has attracted the
sympathetic involvement of at least
one prominent American Democrat.
Lloyd Cutler, chief White House
counsel to President Carter in.
1979-80, active in the 1984 Demo-
cratic Presidential campaign and a
partner in the Washington law firm
of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, has
offered his services to Greenpeace
free, he said, with an expectation of
part of the multi-million dollar dam-
ages he and other lawyers in London,
Paris and New Zealand hope to win
for Greenpeace and the family of the
photographer - a Portuguese-born
Dutchman with ties to far-left ter-
rorists in the abortive Portuguese
revolution - who was killed when
the Rainbow Warrior was sunk. He
had been a photographer for a Dutch
Communist newspaper.
Mr. Cutler said he is not a member
of Greenpeace, and does not agree
with all Greenpeace views.
"I don't think of this as a political
expression;' he said. "I saw that they
were the victims of a terrorist
attack:'
Mr. Cutler, who presented the
SALT II 'hheaty to Congress, said he
does not oppose the bench indepen-
dent nuclear deterrent, or nuclear
weapons in Europe, but says agree
that nuclear testing in the Pacific is
wrong. "I think they [Greenpeace]
are right to demonstrate:'
That is not the general view of
Greenpeace, said Mr. Fitzgerald, but
he insists that even conservative
Republicans are welcome in Green-
peace,
He said Robin Heide, the Colo-
rado Greenpeace member who
parachuted off a smokestack in Ohio
in 1983 in an anti-acid rain stunt, was
one who held "firm Republican
views"about nuclear weapons.
Formally incorporated in 1971,
Greenpeace was the outgrowth of a
Vancouver-based group of
ecologists - the "Don't Make a Wave,
Committee" - which in 1970 and,
1971 campaigned against proposed
U.S. atmospheric nuclear bomb tests
on Amchitka Island, Alaska, as ;
much because of the fear of a tidal
wave as opposition to nuclear weap-
ons.
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Between 1972 and 1974 Canadian
businessman David Mc'Ihggart -
who, then as now, is the chairman of
Greenpeace International - sailed'
twice to Muraroa Atoll to protest
French nuclear testing. He was
beaten up by the crew of a French
warship which rammed him in inter-
national waters.
In 1975, Greenpeace first used'
"human barrier" techniques to stop
Soviet whaling fleets off California.
The next year it launched its first:
anti-seal hunting campaign in New-
foundland, spoiling the pelts of baby
seals with indelible green paint
before they could be killed..
In 1978, the inflatable rubber din-
ghies which were becoming Green-
peace's trademark, first tried to stop
ships dumping nuclear waste in the
Atlantic. Greenpeace members
stopped a hunt of gray seals on the
Orkney Isles off the north coast of
Scotland, and exposed a pirate Span-
ish whaling ship.
In 1981, it forced nuclear dump-
ing ships to turn back in the Atlantic,
and publicized the slaughter of pilot
whales.
In 1982, after criticism that their ?
anti-nuclear campaigns were
directed more against the West than
against the Soviet Union, Green-
peace officials sought an invitation
from the Soviet's "Peace Commit-
tee:' The Soviets allowed the ship
into Leningrad Harbor. Flashing
"Stop nuclear testing" T-shirts
under their outer clothing, they met:
members of the committee, then,
sent anti-nuclear messages in bal-
loons over the city. They were hus-'
tied back out of Leningrad Harbor.
This article is based in part on staff
reports by Dave Doubrava in Wash-,
ington.
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