LETTER TO WILLIAM CASEY FROM JOHN O'SULLIVAN

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• Publication Date: January 16, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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John O'Sul
Editorial Page
Editor
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210 SOUTH ST. ? NEW YORK. N.Y. 10002
January 16, 1985
Dear Mr. Casey:
I thought you might be interested
in a copy of an editorial which was based
partly on your speech to the Union
League Club.
I shall telephone) Lin
the next day or two in order to arrange
the lunch which you so kindly suggested.
Sincerely,
dV\
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RUPERT MURDOCH Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
ROGER WOOD Executive Editor
KEN CHANDLER, JOHN CANNING Managing Editors
JOHN O'SULLIVAN Editorial Page Editor
STEVE DUNLEAVY Metropolitan Editor
Soviets' vast empire f in s
rising tide of resistance
When U.S. troops landed 15 months
ago on tiny Grenada, a country with a
population half that of Yonkers, they
encountered in addition to the Cuban
"armed construction workers" 55 as-
sorted Russians, East Germans, Bulgar-
ians and North Koreans.
Why were these people so far from
home on this pleasant but out-of-the-
way island in the Caribbean?
What were North Koreans, not great
vacation-trippers by and large, up to in
sunny Grenada?
The answer is that they were colonial
officials doing their duty in a minor
outpost of what is now a worldwide
Soviet Empire.
HUGE INCREASE,
CIA chief William Casey pointed out
last week in New York that in the last
20 years the Soviet Union has become
a global power with bases and surro-
gates in Cuba, Vietnam, Ethiopia,
Angola, South Yemen, Mozambique,
Nicaragua and Afghanistan.
In the last 10 years, the number of
Warsaw Pact and Cuban troops, mili-
tary advisers and technicians stationed
in Third World countries increased by
an incredible 500 percent.
Examine some of the detailed figures
established independently by analysts
at the. Washington-based Heritage
Foundation:
? Syria hosts 3000 Soviet and East
European military personnel, of whom
210 are East German and 130 Polish.
? South Yemen has invited in 1100
Soviet and East European military per-
sonnel and 2700 economic technicians.
0 Mozambique is occupied by 550
Soviet and East European advisers and
1800 economic technicians.
0 North Korea, a small and impover-
ished country, has 240 military techni-
cians in Ldbya, 35 military instructors
in Uganda, 134 military instructors in
Zimbabwe (who trained the Fifth Divi-
sion, blamed for last year's massacres
in rebellious Matabeland), 140 military
personnel in South Yemen, 33 military
instructors in Malta, the Grenada of the
Mediterranean, and military personnel
in 14 other countries around the world.
CUBA LEADS ALL
But this imperialist performance
pales in comparison with that of Cuba,
which, though it is an economic disas-
ter area living on massive subsidies
from the Soviet Union, manages to
maintain 23,000 troops, plus 6500 eco-
nomic technicians (armed economic
technicians, perhaps?) in Angola,
3000 troops in Ethiopia, 1000 military
personnel in Mozambique and 3000
military personnel and 4000 economic
technicians in Nicaragua.
Heritages total figures for Soviet
bloc military involvement in the Third
World, excluding the Soviet occupying
force of over 100,000 In Afghanistan,
are:
Soviet Union .............................16,280
Eastern Europe ..........................1925
North Korea ..............................:1151
By contrast, tC ritIsii acquire a
vast Indian empire with a force of 900
European soldiers and 2000 Indian re-
cruits.
But the situation is changing - and
deteriorating -- all the time. Since
those figures were compiled, North
Korean troops have been arriving in
large numbers in Angola to help
counter the successful campaign of
anti-Communist UNITA guerrillas.
Not all of the countries which ac-
cept Soviet military personnel are
under their heel, But some are in ef-
fect colonies, others are reduced to
client status and still others are well
on the way there.
Thus the specialty of East German
military advisers is to get control of a
Third World country's secret police
and intelligence services so that any
later request by the country's ruler
that they leave can be ignored. In-
deed, the ruler himself can be ign-
ored, for he is no longer the ruler.
DUEK L 5'
In 1968, Dubcek's rebellious Czecho-
slovakia was invaded by the neigh-
boring countries of the Warsaw Pact
under Soviet direction.
Today, the Soviet Union possesses
the same capacity on a global basi4
A man in a Moscow office can pick
up the telephone and instruct the
North Koreans to send troops to
shore up a crumbling client regime in
Angola. He can request the East Ger-
mans to relieve hard-pressed Cubans
in Ethiopia. If an anti-Communist re-
bellion threatens anywhere in the far-
flung Soviet Empire, he can move in
foreign troops from another province,
unsympathetic to the local insur-
gents, to restore the status quo.
Despite the odds against them, how-
ever, brave men will still fight for
freedom.
REAL PATRIOTS
As Casey pointed out, today in
Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia,
Ethiopia, Nicaragua and elsewhere
hundreds of thousands of volunteers
are fighting irregular wars against
the Soviet army and Soviet-supported
regimes.
. These are genuine wars of rational
liberation against a global tyranny.
The freedom fighters engaged is them
do not expect the help of U.S. personnel.
But they do hope for U.S. aid in the form
of money and modern military hard-
ware - none more so than the Nicara-
guan Contras who are struggling to
overturn the first Communist tyranny
on the American mainland.
This is the underlying truth on which
the Senate and House Intelligence and
Appropriations Committees must pon-
der when they vote on funding the Con-
tras. And if these committees appear
to be forgetting it, Don Regan'rs new
White House team must remind them
of it with chapter and verse on the new
Soviet Imperialism. History :~ a.act not
record that the Soviet Union gained an
ernipire en .Which; the sun ne~7_:. sets
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