RABIN ON MATTI GOLAN BOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-161-7-9-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 27, 1976
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: RADIN' ON MATT'I GOLAN BOOK
REFS STATE 99517
N.UMdEK OF PEOPLE IN ISRAEL AND PERHAPS EVEN OUTSIDE Ti HAVE
RUN CRYING TO TAINT U.S?-ISRAELT RELATIONS SU AS TO
DAMAGE THE GOVFRWMENT"S CREUI3ILITY. THEY AHE `ESPECIALLY
nETERMINED TO HARM CERTAIN PEOPLE IN THE ISRAELI ti0VERNMFNT
VQL,.,V, NUMBER 74, PAGE N2w)
2p BEGIN TEXT: Q. YOU KEEP ASSERTING THAT THERE IS NO CONFRONTA-
TION IN U,S.*ISRAELI RELATIONS. IN THE CABINET YOU LLATMEU,
OR SO IT WAS REPORTED AND NOT DENIED* THAT THERE WAS A GROUP
Th'E.Rt STEO IN DISRUPTING AND OAMA5ING THE RELATIONS PETWEEN
THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL. IF YOU WERE REFERRING TO ASAD,
SAMAT, dRE7HNEV AND ARAF AT, PROOF IS UNNECESSARY. HDW+.
EVFR, IFF GOO FORBID, YOU WERE REFFKQING TO PEOPLE IN TSRAFL,
COULD YOU PLEASE IDENTIFY THEM 30 THAT WE KNOW WHO ARE THESE
.ISRAELIS CAUSING SUCH SERIOUS MISCHIEF?
3. AR I HAVE MORE REASON TU BELIEVE THAT FOR SOME `iIMF NOW A
A, 0 K. (ALSQ G iEO IN FRIS DAILY REPORT APRIL 15
WITH PRIME. MINISTER RAP IN APRIL 14 MAARIV RE1 Attf),1'NG MATH
1.0 FOLLOWING ARE RELEVANT EXCERPTS FROM DOV GOLDSTEIN ;NIFkVItrw
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AN!? THE AMERICAN ADMINISTNATTO~i. THE FIRST EXPRESSION
OF THIS TREND WAS THE GIVING OF CLASSIFIED MATERIAL. TO AN
!SPAELI JOURNALIST AHO PUBLISHED A BOOK ON THE i AbIS OF THAT
TNFOR ATION WITH THE ONLY TOo fl VIOUS MOTIVATION OF UMDi"P-
MINING rtELATIoNS AND HARMING CERTAIN KEY INDIVIDUALS,
ROTH IN THE ISRAELI GUVEQNMENT kNO IN THE U.S. AO'w{XNISTRATTON.
LE"' ME POINT OUT THAT THE MATERIAL HANDED OVER TO THAT NEWS-
MAN FUR THE PURLICATION OF A BOOK WAS INCOMPLETE ANtr TAKEN
OUT OF CONTEXT AND SOME SECTIONS ACTUALLY ARE DELIBERATELY
INACCURATE IN ORDER TO SERVE THE DAMAGING OBJECTIVFS I HAVE
MENTIONED? EVERY READER SEEKING TO OBTAIN A TRUE. PICTURE
f:F U.6.-ISRAFLT RELATIONS ON THE BASIS OF THE EVENTS RECOUNTED
IN THAT HOOK OBTAINS A DISTORTED PICTURE. EVER SINCE THE
HANDING OF THE MATERIAL TO THE NEWSMAN THESE PEOPLE HAVE
CLEARLY ENGAGED IN THIS DSJECTIVE. THEY ARE PRESENTING A
DISTORTED PICTURE OF THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RELATIONS
RgTK LN THE TWO COUNTRIES AND ARE INDULGING IN DISTORTED
, NTEPPRETATIONS', ALL IN ORDER TO FOUL THE ATMOSPHERE
AND TO DISRUPT RELATIONS BETWEEN THE.U'NNITED STATES ANL ISRAEL,
A. 0. YOU STILL HAVE NOW SAID,WHO THE PEOPLE ARE,
Au YOU 00-NOT EXPECT ME TO SPECIFY...
0, THE MATERIAL GIVEN TO THE NEWSMAN, DID IT REACH THIS
GROUP? WEIJF .THEY, THEMSELVES, AUTHORIZED TO SEE THE
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?
A. THE MATERIAL GIVEN TO THE NEi4SMAN HAS IN THE HANDS OF
A LIMITED NUMBER OF PERSONS,,
tdy IRAELIS?
AQ YE81.XSPAELTS.
no
PEOPLE IN OFFICE?
ISRAELI PERSONALITIES,
,HY DON'T YOU ASK THE LEGAL ADVISOR TO PUT THEM GN 'TkTAL?
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A. I CANNOT CLAIM TO HAVE LEGAL EVIUENCE 10 HAVE THEM TRIED.
n. TO THE PEST OF YOUR 0O1iLEOGE, ARE THEY STILL AT IT?
Ap RELENTLESSLY. END TEXT
S. ALTHOUGH PARIN DID NOT MENTION GOLAN BY NAME IN ABOVE INTER"
vX'FFtir GOLAN IN HAARETZ APRIL 26 MADE THE FOLLOWING
-C"OHMENTS IN AN ARTICLE EW!TIT!LFD URgF3IN HAIJNTED BY CRITICISM."
BEGIN TEXT= WHEN RABIN FIRST SPOKE TOFEPEOPLE wHO TOOINC
SABOTAGE U.S.. ISRAEL RELATION So
ALOUD DR PERHAPS EVEN A SLIP OF THE TONGUE; M HEN HE SAYS IT
OVER ANU OVER AGAIN ON ALL KIND OF QFFILIAL AND Lk55 OFFICIAL
OCCASIONS, ONE GETS WORRIED ABOUT HIS THINKING. HE SEERS TO
SE FINING ACCUSATIONS AT RANDOM WITHOUT PRODUCING EVEN A
SHADE OF EVIDENCS. ASKED IN HIS INTERVIEW IN MAARIV OF
APRIL 14 WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE, HE REPLIES: "SURELY YOU 00 NOT
EXPECT ME TO MENTION t+iA -FS?"e THE INTERVIEWER, WHO IS ALSr
t4R. RABINI$ OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHER (DOV GOLDSTEIN), DXU NOT
PRESS FUR NAMES OR FOUR SPECIFIC INOICA i IUNS UF THE DAMAGE
BEING DONE TO TSRAEL-oU.S. RELATIONS. IT IS THE KIND OF
WRITING OF WHICH MR. RABIN HAS BEEN COMPLAINING RECENTLY
Wt;PRE HAAHETZ 13 CONCERNEO. IN PRIVATE CONVERSATION, HE
HAS EVEN SAID THAT PAARETZ IS OUT TO BRING HIM COMM...WWAT
TS INTERESTING A80UT IT ALL, IS THE WAY HE IDENTIFIED THE
GROUP THAT ALLEGEDLY HANTS TO SARUTACE U,S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS
WITM THE PF.UPLE WHO ARE OUT TQ GET HIM. TO HIM THAT IS
THE SAME THING. LISTENING Ti) HIM. ONE CONCLUDES THAT WHOEVER
CRXTICUES RABINR DAMAGES ISRAEL-U.S. RELATIONS.
6' THE PLOT AND PLOTTERS, THOUGH, EXIST ONLY IN MR. PAPIN?S
IMAGINATION. EXCEPT FOR SOME MARGINAL EXTREMISTS, WHAT ISRAELI
IN M15 SENSES WOULD WANT TO SABOTAGE - RELA I IUNS MMI TH TriE ONLY
POWtR THAT SUPPORTS ISRAEL? SOMETHING HAS EVIDENTLY GONE
%4RONG WITH MR; RABINYS VOCABULARY WHEN ME MIXES Uid "CRITICTSM"
AND "SA60TAGE."
70 TN THE MATTER OF RELATIONS WITH THE U.S. MR. RAIN HAO
BETTER LOOK TO HIS OWN ACTIONS bEFORE ACCUSING UTHEKS T
L NUT LIKE
THATADIDASERIOUS-
THTO TAKE E INTERIM S AGREEMENT AND IT
L.Ei"O C) HIM AdOUOU
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nAMArE TO THE RELATIONS RETr'1EN THT TWO COUNTRIFSf BUT THERE
ARE ENOUGH OTHER INSTANCES OF '"MMIS1,Ut4DERSTAO1NGS" t EIWEEN
RABIN AND UQS, AnMINISTRATION HEADS, WHAT RABIN, IS UOING
NUW TN SPEAKING OF A GROUP OF SABOTEUKS,, IS TRYING TO
Sh7FT THE ''4LAME FOR THE nE,TERIORATTON IN IRAEL-U.5,
RELATIONS TO OTHERS,
A. INSTEAU OF CHASING GhnSTS, IT IB TIME RABIN UNDERST000
THAT THERt ARE NO DIFFERENCES OF INTEREST BETWEEN HIMSELF
AND THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE HE HINTS ABOUT, WHERE ISRAELI $
WELFARE AND SECURITY ARE CONCERNED. AT MOST THERE ARE
.nIFFEKENCES OF OPINION AR-JUUT THINGS THAT SHOLD OR
SH0 D NOT RE DONE, AND ONE IS NOT NECESSARILY AN ENEMY
OF THE PEOPLE AND OF ISRAEL-U.S. RELATIONS FOR NOT AGREEING
TO T'Ht~ PRIME MINISTERS' S EVERY SINGLE ACTION, E,ND TEXT
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