IS THERE LIFE AFTER 40 FOR THE U.N.?

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: January 6, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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~ January 1986
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Is there life after
40 for the U.N.?
mike the theme of the book
Life Begins at Forty, the
United Nations at age 40
has degenerative and ter-
minal illnesses. It has already lasted
longer than the League of Nations,
but that's only because the United
Nations's life is artificially pro-
longed by connections to the U.S.
'Treasury.
It's time to pull the plug of
taxpayer-funded life support from
an organization that has been brain-
and heart-dead for years: Even the
spokesman for the internationalist
wing of the U.S. government, Sec-
retary of State George P. Shultz, ad-
mits that "the United Nations is a
troubled i~rganization; we should not
kid ourselves:'
The chief functions of the United
Nations are insulting the United
States and spying on the United
States. The United Nations is domi-
nated by an intolerant majority of
arrogant, overpaid Third World and
Communist spokesmen who are
anti-American, anti-Western, anti-
private enterprise, and who -spend
much of their time conniving to de-
mand and drain U.S. resources.
In sheer numbers, the spy appara-
tus at the United Nations is awe-
some. The Soviet U.N. Mission in
New York has at least 295 accredited
diplomats. The U.N. Secretariat em-
ploys 333 other Soviet nationals.
This is in addition to the 500 Soviets
working at the Soviet Embassy in
Washington and the consulate in San
Francisco.
The Senate Intelligence Commit-
tee says the total of official Soviet
personnel in the United States varies
from 1,200 to 1,400, not counting
2,750 from the Soviet bloc. Accord-
ing to a Heritage Foundation report,
the number of Soviet-bloc personnel
in the United States is nearly 4,000.
The FBI says 35 percent of the
total are KGB agents, which means
the Soviet Union has 1,400 profes-
sional spies functioning in the
United States. Soviet defectors, in-
cluding former U.N. Undersecret-
ary-General Arkady Shevchenko,
believe the numbers are actually
much higher.
All Soviet and Soviet-bloc person-
nel who come to the United States -
whether on diplomatic or trade mis-
sions -are either KGB agents or
persons over whom the KGB has
control. That means they are all
spies or potential spies.
Soviet spies are looking for mili-
tary secrets and much, much more.
They also spy to get U.S. high tech-
nology, industrial processes, and de-
signs of military facilities.
They don't look for this informa-
tion only in the glass headquarters
on the East River. That's just their
base of operations and "cover" of
diplomatic status for a nationwide
network to gather information, re-
cruit U.S. traitors, and blackmail ref-
ugees from the Soviet bloc.
Reciprocity in the matter of
espionage-through-diplomatic-
status does not exist. Under the U.N.
banner, the Soviets have 628 officials
in New York, while we have none in
the Soviet Union because the United
Nations has no offices there.
The Soviets have -500 staff people
at their embassy in Washington and
consulate in San Francisco, and em-
ploy no Americans locally. The
United States has only 209
Americans in our embassy and con-
sulate posts in the U.S.S.R., while we
employ 252 Russians there in blue-
collar jobs.
Why, then, were we surprised to
discover that the typewriters in the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow had been
bugged with electronic devices for
at least a year? Why were we
shocked to hear that a chemical pow-
der was dusted on U.S. diplomats so
the KGB could monitor their move-
ments and contacts?
The Russian Embassy in Wash-
ington is located on high
ground, in one of the best lo-
cations in Washington, I}.C., from
which to conduct massive electronic ~
surveillance of our long-distance'
telephone calls. The US. Embassy in
Moscow is on low ground, where we
cannot listen in on Russian phone
conversations.
In the face of a steady stream of
recent spy scandals, why do most
proposed remedies request new reg-
ulations and restrictions on
Americans (such as lie detector
tests) and on our access to informa-
tion (such as reducing the number of
people with access to classified doc-
uments)? Why not clamp down on~
the Soviets? After all, they are the
ones profiting by the espionage.
We should limit Soviet. personnel
in America to the number of Amer-
ican personnel in the U.S.S.R. We
should control and monitor the
travel of Soviet personnel within the
United States the same way they
treat U.S. personnel in the U.S.S.R.
Phyllis Schlafly is a nationally
syndicated columnist.
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