SUMMARY FROM PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000100230065-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: October 24, 1978
• Content Type: CABLE

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1. US EFFORTS TO BUOY ITS PEACE INITIATIVES IN SOUTHERN
AFRICA AND THE TALKS BETWEEN THE US AND VIETNAM ON THE POSSIBILITY
OF ESTABLISHING FORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS ARE THE MAJOR STORI'ES
IN TUESDAY'S NEVSPAPERS. THE LEAD STORY IN THE WASHINGTON POST SAYS
THAT THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO PERSUADE KEY AFRICAN
LEADERS 10 GIVE THE INITIATIVES ON RHODESIA AND NAMIBIA MORE TIME
INSTEAD OF OPTING FOR A TOTAL COMMITMENT TO GUERRILLA WARFARE.
MEANWHILE, ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT KAUNDA STRONGLY CRITICIZED THE LATEST
BRITISH-AMERICAN PLANS FOR HOLDING A GENERAL PEACE CONFERENCE
ON RHODESIA, ACCORDING TU THE POST.
2. OTHER FRONT PAGE STORIES: A. DOUBTS ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS
OF THE LATEST MODEL OF PRESIDENT CARTER'S ANTI-INFLATION PROGRAM
ARE WIDESPREAD AMONG LABOR AND BUSINESS LEADERS AND EVEN WITHIN THE
ADMINISTRATION. B. SECRETARY OF STATE VANCE WILL MEET WITH
PRESIDENT CARTER TO DECIDE HOW TO PROCEED IN THE DEADLOCKED SALT
NEGOTIATIONS. C. AFTER FOUR DECADES OF HOSTILITY, CHINA AND
JAPAN HAVE SIGNED A NEvv FRIENDSHIP TREATY.
3. ON NETv.'ORK NEAS, CBS LOOKED AT THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND Ii
POLITICAL ISSu.iES tJHICH CAUSE NATO NATIONS TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT
US SALT NEGOTIATIONS KITH THE SOVIET UNION. EUROPE REPORTEDLY IS
LOOKING FOR A GREATER INPUT INTO FUTURE ARMS NEGOTIATIONS.
5. SUMMARY OF SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS
4. ACCORDING TO TASS, ADMIRAL TURNER "LIED" ABOUT SOVIET
COMPLICITY IN THE CURRENT EVENTS IN IRAN ON THE CBS "FACE THE
NATION" TE.LFviSION PROGRAM SUNDAY. THE SOVIET NEWS AGENCY CLAIMED
THAT UN ONE HAND ASHiNNGTON WOULD LIKE TO v,HITErASH AMERICAN INTER-
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FERENCE IN IRAN ANI) ON THE OTHER TOSLANDER THE SOVIET UNION,
TASS ATTRIBUTES THE CAUSES OF. THE CURRENT INTERNAL DISORDERS IN
IRAN TO AMERICAN OIL MONOPOLIES AND TO THE INUNDATION OF THE
COUNTRY BY US MILITARY AID AND "EXPERTS." (FBIS)
5. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS HAVE BEEN GRANTED PERMISSION TO DELETE
ROM, FORMAL CHARGES VARIOUS REFERENCES TO MEETINGS BETWEEN A CIA
OFFICIAL AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE PERJURY TRIAL OF AN
OFFICIAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION.
THE OFFICIAL ON TRIAL IS ONE OF TWO ITT EMPLOYEES CHARGED WITH
LYING TO A SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE DURING ITS
INVESTIGATION INTO ITT AND CIA'S ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN AIDING
FOES OF SALVADOR ALLENDE DURING THE 1970 CHILEAN PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION. (POST)
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6. EGYPT ASKED THE US YESTERDAY FOR "CLARIFICATION" OF THE
LANGUAGE OF THE DRAFT EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI PEACE TREATY. DETAILS OF
THE REQUESTS WERE NOT MADE PUBLIC, BUT THEY REPORTEDLY CONCERNED
THE LINKING OF THE TREATY TO FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS ON THE FUTURE
STATUS OF THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP. BOTH US AND EGYPTIAN
OFFICIALS STRESSED THAT THE CONSULTATIONS WERE PART OF THE NORMAL
NEGOTIATING PROCESS AND DID NOT IMPLY AN EGYPTIAN REJECTION OF THE
DRAFT TREATY. AMERICAN OFFICIALS BELIEVE THAT IF ALL GOES WELL,THE
FORMAL DOCUMENT COULD BE READY FOR SIGNING IN ONE TO TWO WEEK.
ON THE. OTHER HAND, THE EGYPTIAN NEWSPAPER AL AHRAM HAS
REPORTED THAT PRESIDENT SADAT HAS ASKED FOR "FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES"
IN THE US DRAFT PEACE TREATY. SADAT IS SAID Tp WANT 'A CLOSER LINKAGE
8E1 EEN THE TREATY AND A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT OF THE ARAB-
ISRAELI DISPUTE.
THE ISRAELI PARLIAMENT MET LATE INTO THE NIGHT YESTERDAY. A
KEY TOPIC OF DEBATE VAS THE ISSUE OF "LINKAGE"--THE DEGREE OF
ISRAELI COVoMITMENT TO WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP SOLUTIONS, PRIME
MINISTER BEGIN SAID A DECISION ON THE DRAFT TREATY WAS POSSIBLE LATER
TODAY. (NYT) (FbIS)
7. LEFTIST-BACKED CANDIDATES WON MAYORAL ELECTIONS IN ATHENS
AND PIRAEUS, THE LARGEST PORT IN GREECE. ONE-TrIRD OF GREECE'S
9,3 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN THE ATHENS-PIRAEUS AREA, AND THE LOCAL
BALLOTING USUALLY INDICATES THE FUTUREPOLITICAL TREND ON A
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NATIONAL LEVEL. (POST)
S. BENJAMIN LEVICH, THE HIGHEST-RANKING SOVIET PHYSICIST
EVER TO APPLY TO EMIGRATE vvAS TOLD YESTERDAY HE HAS PERMISSION TO
LEAVE. THE USSR. HIS CASE AS TAKEN UP BY SENATOR KENNEDY WITH
SOVIET PRESIDEN1 BREZHNEVLAST MONTH. (POST)
9, HANOI RADIO CLAIMS THAT CAMBODIAN SOLDIERS HAVE STAGE[ AN
UPRISING AGAINST THEIR OFFICERS IN THE WESTERN MILITARY REGION
AND THAT REBEL FORCES HAVE OCCUPIED ALL ROADS LEADING TO PHNOM
PENH. IN ITS LATEST BROAOCAST, HANOI SAID CAMBODIAN TROOPS HAD
ATTACKED AND GAINED COMMAND OF AN AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER IN THE
KAMPONG CHAM PROVINCE, THE BANGKOK POST REPORTS THAT ACCORDING
TO THAI MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SOURCES, SIX VIETNAMESE DIVISIONS
HAVE OCCUPIED STRATEGIC AREAS EASTOF THE MEKONG RIVER IN CAMBODIA.
(FBIS) (REUTER)?
10. THE NATIONAL $CIENCE FOUNDATION HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE
US AND CHINA.HAVE AGREED TO EXCHANGE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FOR STUDY
BEGINNING THIS WINTER. THERE HAS BEEN NO FINAL AGREEMENT, HOWEVER,
AS TO WHICH CHINESE AND US UNIVERSITIES WILL BE CHOSEN TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM. (POST)
11. A DOSSIER OF FBI EVIDENCE ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
ORLANDO LETELIER SUBMITTED BY THE US TO CHILE CONTAINS IN-
FORMATION THAT THE CHILEAN SECRET POLICE SENT CUBAN TERRORISTS ON
UNSUCCESSFUL ASSASSINATION MISSIONS AGAINST PROMINENT CHILEAN
LEADERS. OTHER EVIDENCE CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENT SUGGESTS THAT
MICHAEL TUvNLEY'S VISITS TO OTHER SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES HAD
COINCIDED v,ITH VARIOUS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS, PLUS A MURDER
SIMILAR TO THE LETELIER CASE. (POST)
12. JACK ANDERSON RECALLS SOME OF THE DETAILS BEHIND THE
ALLEGED CIA-MAFIA PLAN TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO, WHICH BACK-
FIRED, LEADING TO THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. THE
STORY IS BASED MAINLY ON THE CONVERSATIONS MAFIA HIT-MAN JOHN
ROSELLI HAD WITH HIS ATTORNEY (POST) E2 IMPDET. >
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