HFA STAFF BRIEFING ON THE MIDDLE EAST

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Approved For Release 2008/08/21 : CIA-RDP90B01370R000300490006-0 l.V1Vr 1LLILN 11LiL P"n tx_..:rti.::.JV td' OLL 84-1568 17 April 1984 SUBJECT: HFA Staff Briefing on the Middle East 1. On 17 April 1984, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers Thomas Smeeton and Marian Chambers along with George Stephanopoulos of Rep. Edward Feighan's (D., OH) staff and Bob Dobeck of Rep. Larry Smith's (D., FL) staff were briefed on Middle East drug trafficking patterns. The briefers were of DDI/OGI/ISID. Briefing material was held to the SECRET level. 2. Ms. Chambers explained that the House Foreign Affairs Narcotics Task Force was planning to hold public hearings sometime between May and July 1984 on Middle Eastern involvement in the drug trade. The briefing consisted of a general overview of the flow of drugs from Pakistan-Afghanistan through the Middle East to Europe and the US. The entire cycle from the growing of crops to the manufacture and distribution of narcotics was discussed. The Hill staffers were particularly interested in the role played by Syria and were told that there is insufficient evidence to depict Syria as an increasingly major player in the drug ring, although Syrians have long participated as traffickers. The briefers agreed to evaluate the content of press articles (attached) dealing with the Middle East and drugs and will provide comments in the near future. The briefers were unable to suggest possible witnesses to testify at the planned public hearings. Distribution: 1 - OLL Record Copy 1 - OLL Chron Copy OLL/LD (20 Apr 84) Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90B01370R000300490006-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 Western Front DEDICATED TO A RENAISSANCE OF WESTERN CULTURE Post Office Box 27854 Hollywood, CA 90027 Vol. 17'- No. 216 LEBANON This is a story that should have been disclosed to the entire world years ago and although we are positive that the government of the United States knows of all the in- sidious, treacherous traitors involved in this exposure, they do nothing about it. Our informant,a journalist who has been a professional correspondent for almost ten years reveals that he has been informed reliably by Western journalists who have covered the civil war in Lebanon that it is "suicide" to write about the 'true story of Lebanon'. Inas- much as the U.S. media will not touch it and knowing of our reputation of bringing oul- readers the 'facts' regardless of the consequences -- we are proud to participate in dis closing this TRUTH to readers throughout the world. This is a true story about hashish and what it is doing to Lebanon, where the drug is made. Lebanon is one of the world's hashish capitals, if not the largest. The Lebanese civil war is fed, nourished and heightened by payments from the hashish trade. United States Marines are being killed by bullets bought with Lebanese hash . On Sunday, October 23, 1983 a driver crashed.'a truck he was driving loaded with high explosives into the Marine headquarters in Beirut. Another driver with a similar truck with explosives crashed the French unit, attacked in the same way at the same time. The world knows of it as the Lebanon Massacre with a total loss of lives 305 to 310 at this writing. But what the world doesn't know is that both drivers were loaded with hashish yet the media just refers to them as suicide drivers. Military reports the same. There has never been an expose that detailed the nature of the Lebanese hashish economy. Nor has this correspondent ever known of a story that traced the connections between the hashish trade and political leaders in Lebanon -- and in Israel. The journalist mentioned above was warned that he would be killed if ever he returned to Lebanon. That is why almost everyone quoted in this story must remain anonymous. The sources are Israel police and drug dealers, Western intelligence officers, Lebanese citizens, and journalists who have covered Beirut and the Bekaa, the valley where almost all the Middle East's hash-- ish is grown. Some of them deal with Lebanese officials who are deeply involved in the trade. The hash trade is organized so that everyone can get a cut: the Syrians who control the marijuana fields, the Palestine Liberation Army and the Syrian-controlled Palestinian army, the A-Saika, which provide convoys, and.the various factional militias -- Christian, Druze, Moslem, rightist, leftist, Falangist, Communist -- are paid off in money or hash when a con- voy passes through their territory. Convoys and individual truckloads go out of the Bekaa (the name means "valley") to what are known as "illegal ports." Without a central authority to collect taxes or import Over mOCIS dttdei A lads earectio edorermvtt dIldal amumated that the hashish cep had tb a,sa,d l to tins a von ~etatt ?03 with moth step of the tlistrlbutha so the 'Z Milian still get the amahJ ahaia e~`e Hashish flartsh. IN the bier ?y Rana bomww of a climate twat is elides, among other thiop, )um the ' ,it anoint of morning dew. . -We have no dl like Saudi Atshl-I=?d- sid a young basIlsb trade wte grew up in a maintain tillage and who hu I esatamo~ Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 A,QS$p1C1 THE NEW YORK TIMES LEBANESE HASHISH' IS INVADING ISRAEL Rise in Arrests of Traffickers Has Not Reduced the Flow - Surplus Cuts Prices 4,W.7%.~ T.%T~ YE R USALEM. Jame 13 - In the Year since the tonell tavaeton of tat non the heavy. loosely mvt:ol)sd trams lath sacs the brwde 6s allo.ad an tsharess grvwa hashish to coma south that the polios my It is mores abmdant here now than M has been TLe basb1a>4 frrn the the Bckat~ S trolled moon of wastan valley. has made Itself evident in two ways: an increase In arTSts of amug(den and dealer cad a deveaw in lice drugs ma" p-1a . A v ie an said the' bd*- sa t pAaa d bashlah bad fallen !rata share 91,1111) a pamd before the war to k:n than hall that now. He W d this was a 'brat 1rdJOtor of the atgnihaant rim to the supply of haahlah to the Iotal bisri martat- police operanmr agatoet drug rtap b. we been swasstul receothy. bringing to tore of basbisb and dram of smttg- test. Dirt Yehakei Carth y, Odd of pp~nis!~ 1nvsatlpthors for the bumeil IVada+ai Polloe, said to an tntrsvtew this wwedt: We feel Lilo. Stsypbaa. We otrh and catch and eatcb cad catch cad ppi.~tt to petso4 and they emmtaus to oar dret~' De said: "The temptatlm is an suing and the prvtht is so great that than Y an vacan= there, Ono gate, caatbc an chrism him tmmadl. r$S MAIM TILL 0071 MIV TORE TDM JUN 14 1983 D' secdoo of chi Bekaa the biggest e>mtar d hashish pradacriao to the watAd_ as Bald the hashtah moos beely down to the lebanea-lsreell brndes with no trhaase collet toterfeaenaa aaap at ghlc(g metbods are so cT>enlog and othrse no dmpia that much bshtah gm tL vl~ taxed Same smugg)e: a d=fo plastic bap Sued with basbiab over the the boundary faces to aommpUcse an either side. Farman cant' sarla of hashish tends the watermdms arpots- ms to their uvcb, knowing that the pa ice, a~at shed trail list week, ^ Ilatre adfiac to t6s Ts- reati Army was arrsredt+oalltlatg with 34 what Mr. Carte aliad 'tbe bttgst drug ring to farad! btsuay Ma ring wuarP to sod pa tsc?lad bra -1- belas load mbe ranLki& Ise, pollee say a et haahis4 a tsgtt.alred slics- three W tar 91! an the lanadi =A= Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 ington Post - I Bekaa Va l lei' In other words, the Lebanese ally winked at the lucrative, illicit. farmers are harvesting their crop traffic. It is an irony that the has'his'h right now; at least they-re trying to trade has been one of the principal. Becomes New The intelligence experts say this areas of clue cooperation betwee)- year s hashish crop is not nearly as Moslems and Christiana invasion. But no one can guess the ct i exa s ze of the crop because, as one The military focus in the Middle report notes, `the flow of narcotics East has shifted from Beirut to the intelligence from Lebanon has been Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, seriously curtailed because of the w ere yria and Israel are building turmoil there.'. up their forces. At stake is one of the Anywhere from 9,000 to 13,000 Middle East's most fertile areas. But acres of the Bekaa Valley are devot- the most important crop isn't melons ed to cultivation of cannabis, the or wheat, it's hashish- plant that produces marijuana and Intelligence sources in Israel, Leb- hashish- Because of the valley's lush- anon sand Washington agree that Hess, an acre yields a -3,080-pound production has i creased crop. This can be sin e transformed into I , w en the Syrians occu- more than a ton of marijuana, or 35 Pied the Bekaa Valley as a United to 60 pounds of hashish. Nations' peace-keeping force. Some . When the : -: . s movd e in, sources suggest that hashish is one 'some of the abandoned by reason Syria wants to stay there. Christian A classified 'narcotics intelli nce by Moslemfaarmersw and confiscated estimate,' prepay wr a help of cannabis cultivation,' the narcotics the CIA and shown to my associate estimate reports. It adds that "the Dale Van Atta, estimates that the livelihood of two-thirds of the val- valley e annual producti f h h ' on o as ish was 230 to 260 tons, almost double whs. it was before a Syrian occu? pation. Nearly 75 percent of the crop has been going to Egypt each year, .the report notes. `Generally, only one crop is grown per year," the nar- cotics report explains. 'It is ... har- vested from mid-August to mid- September, before the advent of the rainy season.' "Traditionally. Christians have controlled most of the busineis 'arid financial arrangements of the' hash)' ish trade, (including control of) tv/d= of the major hashish export cities in the north," says a classified report? 'Moslem-% on the other hand, have been the hashish cultivators,' .' Clearly, this unholy alliance-is still.: operational, waiting only for the $yr:.. ions and Israelis to settle their .d f.. i ferences and let the hashish traffic _ get back to normal. Post-Election Purge: After the.. Nov. 2 elections, President Reaganis expected to authorize a major purr._ of Cabinet members and while House aides. The as will probably ' fall between Thanksgiving anllf Christmas, when most of Washin ' ton has its mind on turkeys, sugar-- plums and lame ducks -` r' Administration insiders say t}ioser' ley s population' depend pd headed for the block include Labe on hashish cultivation under-the Secretary 1(a)-mond J. Donovan,'In' Syrians Before the Israeli invasion, terror Secretary James G. Watt; Ea= the Bekaa Valley was controlled 'b ucation Secretary Terrel H. Bell arkl ?.. by Housing and Urban Development,- -Secretary Samuel R Pierce Jr. -in liars," each of which had its own the White House, Office of Manage' 'hell-armed, paramilitary force ment and Budget Director DavidJ~ whose arsenals reportedly contain Stockman. communications assist, automatic weapons and, in some David R Gergen and counsel Fred .. cases, tanks," the report states. F Fieldin . g are reported on th tut, e Lebanese authorities have gener- list. rr~'iuT?r~+t~-~.=t ~~' ~'^i s "`i.._:'.-.~ ?v. ^~ur ...~. _ ~_ ~. Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 War Is Giving a Drug Lift To the Syrian Connection T HE Syrians aren't clinging so stubbornly to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley just to protect their flank against Israeli attack. They're also protecting a multibil- Ifon-dollar drug traffic involving top-ranking Syrian military and ci- vilian officials. High-quality hashish and heroin are smuggled out of the valley through Syria to various Western capitals. The smugglers are given safe passage by the Syrian military - In exchange for lucrative pay- offs. From intelligence sources, my of- fice has obtained a confidential re- port that details the whole sordid story. Here are the highlights: - A pivotal role in the dope traffic is played by the feared Syrian secret service. A1.Istikhbar- att As-Souriat. It was the SS. as it is called, that brought in Turkish ex- perts to grow opium poppies in the valley. The secret service uses the money from drugs to bankroll ter- rorist attacks and to recruit and control spies - as well as to line its own pockets. - Like Chicago gangsters in the 1920s, Syrian generals have carved out their own exclusive territories to keep things pn a businesslike basis. One dust-up did occur be- tween two rival generals. Moham- med Ghanem and Ghani Kenaan. Terms of a "peace treaty" gave Ke- naan the take from smugglers in the Lebanese city of Shatura, while Ghanem exacts tribute at the Syrian border post of Al-Massna. - THE northern Lebanon truck routes are controlled by Syrian se- curity chief Rifaat Assad, President Hafez Assad's younger brother. His minions share income from the northern drug roads, with All Eld. an Alawite Moslem agent in the port of Tripoli. The drug convoys, under Syrian army protection, trav- el the bleak, sandy roads from Baal- bek, Lebanon, into Syria through the remote village of Sarghaya. - Syrian military helicopters have been used to ship tons of hash- ish from the town of Nlhaa in the Bekaa Valley to Syria. whence it goes to Europe. Drugs bound for Al- exandria. Egypt. are shipped from the Syrian-controlled Lebanese port of Anfa aboard the ship Hassan, under the watchful eye of Syrian agent Mustafa Al Farass. Last sum- mer. Egyptian officials seized 3,200 kilograms of Bekaa Valley dope. - THE list of officers enriching themselves from the drug trade is a veritable Who's Who of the Syrian army. The intelligence report lists names. - Also fingered in the intelli- gence report were Syria's defense minister, Mustafa Talas, and Army chief Hikmat Al-Shahaby. They were reported to be dealing with Syria's top drug dealers, Ahmad Mustafa Al-Lakkiss and Hussein Abdel Ghani Tleiss. - One top drug dealer, Jamil Abdel Karim Hamieh, from the Bekaa Valley village of Taraya, re- ceives full Syrian military protec- tion. "When his car passes through a Syrian checkpoint, the Syrian sol- diers do not dare stop it or question him," the report states. "Hamieh also has close ties to defense minis- ter Talas." - Drug arrests involving the Syrian-controlled traffic have been made over the last two years in Egypt. Spain. and Greece. Canadian and French Interpol agents have nabbed drug smugglers in Lebanon in an effort to stem the flow of dope to their countries. F'Zi*;;.V W "It's been proposed and seconded. No more bait biting until they act on acid rain." BLUNDER OF THE WEEK - More than a year ago, three F 16s fighter planes crashed and the cause has never been nailed down. One reason is that the planes were not equipped with flight-data recorders - the black boxes that are required on commercial airliners and help crash investigators figure out what happened. The crash prompted the inspec- tors-general of Air Force. Arm', and Navy to recommend develop- ment of a standard flight-data e- corder to be installed in all militarv planes. But some of the Pentagon brass are resisting this eminently sensible move, on grounds that it would be too costly. My sources suggest a different reason: that some military officials would rather not know if a crash was caused by defective equ;pment. That would embarrass not only the plane's manufacturer, but the Pen- tagon people who were supposed to make sure it was in A-I condition. The can of the missing black boxes will come up at hearings 5% the House Government Operations Committee. CONFIDENTIAL FILE - A re- port from an anti-Khomeini exile group in Paris offers grisly evi- dence that the ayatollah's murder- ous tendencies have not abated after five years of butchery. The "People's Mojahedin" learned that 11 of their supporters in Tehran were executed In November. When relatives were allowed to collect the bodies three days later, the re- port states, "signs of torture were totally evident on all 11 bodies and the victims' blood had been drained before execution." - The Pershing II missiles are being deployed in Europe on sched- ule, but the peace movement will have other causes for protest in coming years. A Pentagon report lists 30 new high-tech weapons that will be ready by 1995 - and sug. gests putting them in Europe. Some of them are nuclear weapons capa. ble of inflicting heavy damage or Eastern Europe early in any con flict. Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/21 : CIA-RDP90B01370R000300490006-0 Cuban Radio Misuses 0 UILI1t1tM0 M UnNiZ aEato-id be" A i rwave NO ONE doubts the dedication of Cuban-Americans in South Florida to the anti-Communist cause or their love for President Reagan. Their commitment to la cause can ex- plain - but not necessarily justify - actions such as the radio mara- thon that raised $210,000 this week for Presi- dent Reagan and csagreessional can- a tree Cuba. Ac- Martian boas, which even if not illegal. are contrary to the way things are done in the United States. History explains much. For 25 years, the Cubans who fled commu. dam in their homeland have been trwtrated. They were frustrated because many of them had backed Fidel Castro's r*olution and then had to abandon their homes, prop- erties, and, In many cases, families to flee to the United States. Hopes of a quick return suffered a severe setback when the 1961 Bay of pigs invasion aborted. The reality that exile might last a long time started during the 1962 missile crisis. OTHER setbacks followed. Wa- tergate. Cubans supported Presi. dent Nixon to the bitter end. The prohibition against U.S.-based raids against the Cuban regime embit- tered many militant exiles. The fall of Anastasio Somoza In Nicaragua and the subsequent takeover by the Sandinistas was a shattering expe. rience. The Somoza government had provided launching bases dur- ing the Bay of Pigs invasion and supported anti-Communist efforts afterward. Twenty-five years of one defeat THIS evpldne the exuberance of the tbousasds who called three Spanish-language radio stadons Monday to donate more than $210.- 000 to the Coalition for a Free Cuba political-action committee. This ex- plains the vehemence of the radio eaeeouncers and newsmen who im- plored listeners repeatedly through. out the 19-hour marathon to eon. trlbWe to make sure "our Presi. dent" is re-elected and has the sup- port he needs to fulfill his promise on behalf of "our cause." Immediately came the critics. Some, among the most conservati ve Cuban-American leaders of the Re- publican Party, were upset that the fund raisers were using the Presi- dent's name to collect funds that also would be used to help Demo. cratic congressmen and senators. The Cuban-American Republicans bad a reason to complain. The fund raiser put them in a bad light and dried up some of their sources of fi- nancial support. The radii frees. tnon also sent a message to wash. ington that said: "Cuban-American voters are not necessarily Republi- can. They are one-issue voters who will cast their ballot for candidates of either party who support the Cuban cause." Others questioned the legality of the issue, though lawyers from three separate corporations and the political-action committee had ap- proved the fund raiser. Still another group said this was a throwback to politics Latin-style; where radio stations and newsmen respond to political parties or Ideol- ogles; where the principle of sepa. rating objective news from subjec- tive commentary is blurred. This last criticism, while flawed, is the most valid. It is flawed be- cause Partisan - or ideological - new , generation of older exiles died and a s organizations are not exclu-sively the new crop of Americans of Cuban Latin "banana ae epubdThird" The s. heritage was born and reared In Latin ba rcs. The sy South Florida. Cubans who still rem of newspapers, radio and tale. consider themselves expatriates live vision stations, and even news ser- vices poU&I augn to a partkWar - side by side with those who are c Asaericanized and would return to trarty o ?r f sowrnarent is wide. . only to visit. Still the anti- Communist cause, that sacred causa, binds the vast majority of them. President Reagan provides the first high that Cuban-Americans have had in many years. It is a Mount Everest high. The President provides support for la causa and Cuban-Americans sense that his re. campaign battle. After so many defeats, the taste of a amid vktory in November wW he an after another. Along the way a spread in much of sophisticated, modern Western Europe. Nonetheless the criticism is valid because the practice of a news or- ganization dedicating itself to pro. moting a candidate or political Party is not the norm in the United States. When black radio stations ~- particularly Les Brown's - did something similar . in the Miami mayoral election last year, it was wrong. This Is one of the dangers. Would Miami's Cuban-American communf- ty like to see several English-lan. guage radio stations launch fund raisers or campaigns for candidates running against Cuban-Amerkans? What would Cuban-Americans do one, five, or nine years from now when a Democrat not sympathetic to the Cuban cause wins the Presi- dency and decides to even the score with Spanish. language radio sta- tions? Would they like to see subtle political pressure used to force their local Spanish-[anguage stations to do almllar promotion jobs for candi- dates or causes not le the best inter- est of a free Cuba? I do not question the patriotic fervor of colleagues who justify t~? open advocacy for,President Reagan with heart-felt convictions. But I do question if any local or na- tional political candidate, now or in the future, can trust their journalis- tic objectivity. I do not question the motives of the promoters or of the radio stations' owners. But I do question the wisdom of their ac- tions. Locally it can exacerbate divi- sions between Cuban-Americans and the black and white American majority of Dade County. White and black Americana will react and question its legality. In their minds. it is just another reminder of the alienation, of the foreignism, of the Cuban-American community in South Florida. Nationally, it can come back to haunt Cuban-Ameri- cans. The fact that Cuban-Americans believe the cause is right does not Justify the means that they used to further la causa. G-~u ... 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Art- dropov's drive to root out official malfeasance gained a new hero today when the Minister of the Interior of- fered what amounted to a public apol- ogy to a 29-year-old merchant marine mechanic who had been the victim of a five-year vendetta by the police . The minister, Col. Gen. Vitaly V. Fedorchuk, who Is a former head of the state security agency, published a let. ter on the front page of Literaturnaya Gazeta conceding that the prosecution of the seaman, Nikolai Rozovaiktn, had been "absolutely unfounded." Litera. tumaya Gazeta is a weekly newspaper often used to reveal wrongdoing that the authorities want corrected. In the latest case, Mr. Rozovaikin, a graduate of a merchant marine school in Odessa, set out 10 years ago to find out bow several thousand rubles belong. ing to students had disappeared. His ef. forts brought him 20 months In jail, dis- missal from the parry, and three years of work as a sweeper on the docks. . Friends' pleas finally caught the at- tention of someone at Central Commit- tee headquarters, and an inquiry began. Today, General Fedorchuk listed half a dozen policemen and lawyers who had been reprimanded or otherwise disci- plined, t;nd he described the outcome as a harbinger of what the public could ex- pect from Mr. %ndropov'r. drive "to strengthen socialist legality." Mr. Rozovaikin was said to have re- gained his party membership, work as a shipboard mechanic and admission to ,the seamen's academy. The inquiry into the missing money was said to have been reopened. , Some Russians may regard the case as something of 'an exception that proves the rule. Literaturnaya Gazeta acknowledged how heavily the odds ,counted against a person seeking re- dress, even at a time when Mr. Andro? pov has asked people to come forward with complaints about wrongdoing. Speaking- of Mr. Rozovaikin, the paper said: '.'He generated a wave, and the storm nearly destroyed him." His troubles began in 1973, when be graduated with honors from the mer- chant marine school. He led a group of students to the prosecutor's office to de- mand an investigation into the disap pearance of money earned in summer jobs after an " inquiry at school had dragged on for months. When he returned to Odessa after a period at.sea, he found that several in- structors sympathetic to the original in- quiry had been transferred or retired. Fresh attempts to revive the inquiry led to what the newspaper described as a smear campaign based on the fact that Mr. Rozovaikin had recently been divorced and on his subsequent dis- missal from the academy. He was 'also ~? anyone," the newspaper commented. dismissed from a paid job as an organ- After a six-day trial, the brothers izer at the Young Communist League. were finally acquitted. When he traveled to Moscow to seek Nikolai Rozovaikin was working as a redress, he was arrested by the police night sweeper on the docks when the after the Odessa police had asked for his return as a "dangerous criminal." For 20 months, he was in custody awaiting trial on charges of "parasit- ism" and "malicious- hooliganism." The case was based on an incident in which housing inspectors investigating a complaint against newighbors of the Rozovaikins were said to have been abused by Mr. Rozovaikin and physi. cally attacked by his brother, Viktor. "Whoever concocted this indictment knew perfectly well that Viktor Rozo- vaikin had been paralyzed since early childhood, was helplessly incapacitated and physically incapable of attarrking a watchdog body, took up the case. It fi- nally acted against the policemen, or- dering the reprimands, transfers and demotions that were announced today. Referring to the Odessa police, Gen- eral Fedorchuk, the Interior Minister,: said, "Their inquiry was conducted in a superficial manner and on a low profes- sional level that produced gross viola- tions of socialist '.,!gality. Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 ^ Approved For Release 2008/08/21 : CIA-RDP90B01370R000300490006-0 0 ILe to d a liter ran Uvercorne EconOmic Problems Freiidt, Leader: Seeks Support fur fly Michael Ihtbl W;A%),I,UCI,)u Hvvt F'.w,I fl lrrrke 3~ PARIS, March 23:-A day after trimming Iris Socialist government to an inner core ,of 15 ministers, President Francois Mitterrand .onight warned French .citizens of a tough ;truggle as they seek to overcome France's growing economic problems. SI)eaking in a rare nationwide television broadcast, Mitterrand emerged from a lengthy period of self-imposed silence to de- '?Iend the economic policies of his 22-month- )Id administration of Socialists and Commu- jtists. He appealed to citizens to help the pew government win 'an economic battle on ;.three fronts-inflation, unemployment and foreign trade-by saving more and buying `trench goods rather than foreign products. The 14-minute broadcast from the Elysee Palace evidently was designed to. reassert 01%litterrand's leadership following a setback h' nth and IM _ ernment headed by Prime 'Minister Pierre Mauroy, who led the last government and was. reapkoointed by Mitterrand yesterday. 't'he package is expected to include measures to cut imports and reduce French families'. purchztsiing power. The tone of Mitterrand's speech tonight, together with the composition of the new- government, reflected the difficult political and economic compromises he is making. As, ,the sense of political vacuum that was cre- ated here during the past two weeks while he was pondering the government shake-up and France's future economic.cot.rse. "It is high time to stop this infernal ma- chine [inflation[ .... That `N why I shall struggle, and the government.. with me, against this evil,, and I shelf mobilize the country to this end," Mitterritid said. Details of a new austerity package to ac- company the franc devaluation are to be re- - 1-A Friday at a meeting of the new gov- in municipal elections earlier. L is mo a string of economic failurei, culminating in the devaluation of the . franc earlier this week The presietent seemed, eager to dispel `Plait of Rigor Adapted to the first Socialist leader ut r rance in more- than two decades, he is torn between polit- ical pressures from his left-wing electorate to protect working-class living standards and the demands of bankers-and industrialists. for more rigorous economic policies. Political commentators here said that., while Mitterrand is aware of the scale of France's economic problems, he also is: convinced, that nothing can be achieved -without support of the trade unions and left-win activists. Mitterrand tonight insisted that greater social progress had been achieved under his administration than in the previous half cen- tury. But he also acknowledged that priogress'. in reducing inflation, which is running. at about 2 percent, had been unsatisfactory. "Yes, this policy is right ... in spite of the difficulties we have made way on this ardu- ous road and carried out more reforms in a few months . . . than France has known for half a century," he said. As if to underline the urgency of the new government's task, figures were issued today showing that France ran up a trade deficit of more than $1 billion in February. Although .this was all improvement over .January, it was still far short of the government's objec- tive of reducing the.deficit to tiG billion this year and eliminating it by tine end of 1084. Miit.lerrand said that hraiwe had no inten- tion of isolating itself front, the rest of Eu- rope or forgetting .*its i,hli atioins to the North' Atlantic 't'reaty' Organization. This passage appeared to he designe4l to dispel fears among other Europeans, particularly Nest Germany, that France night he tempted to follow more protectionist policies as a way out of its economic difficulties. .Describing the ;government's economic program as "a plan of rigor adapted to the tines," Mitterrand said it would include measures to reduce the trade imbalance, cut inflation, keep the social security system in balance, develop savings and maintain a hold on government spending. the, 1 tnl.es' Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90B0l370R000300490006-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/21 : CIA-RDP90BO137OR000300490006-0 Syrian border and long the market for think they're as crazy as Qaddafi," the \~(r, cars stolen in Lebanon and sold in Syria. colonel who rules Libya. 'hey are just Moussawi took exception to the Army another occupation army," the teacher ~hh on grounds that it was being trained by sighed. The larger occupation forces-the U.S. marines instead of fighting the Is- Syrians and Israelis-were reported to be ositions 25 miles fur- lt it should i h f h li r p e e e s as forcing t rae . rein Last Nov. 22, Moussawi had celebrat- they south. NATO Officials end Meeting ed Lebanon's national day by ,storming" uWar is inevitable," said an employe at the government office in Baalbek, tearing the Palmyra Hotel, opposite the Roman down President Amin Gemayel's official ruins. It once cateied to the rich and prrtrait and unsuccessfully attacking the powerful of the world but now is all but Army barracks there. - deserted, Leafing through the book of His Iranian allies for the most part distinguished visitors, from Kaiser Wil- Brital been less turbulent-except for the helm to Charles de Gaulle, he said for- Brital affair-although not as lamb-like lornly, "Sooner or later an Israeli general as the Iranian ambassador claimed when. " ?. he inaccurately insisted recently they had will sign his name. -.luru-Ihun Ruru(ul been invited by former president Elias . Sarkis and were unarmed. Last month someone blew up the stat- ue of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian and pan-Arab Sunni Moslem leader, and - daubed - its desecrated -ped- estal with Islamic slogans. Ensconced' in two mosques-one pro- claimed "Martyrdom Headquarters"- and a rented building on Baalbek's main street, the Iranians have treated Baalbe- kis to a profusion of poster and mural art extolling Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and condemning his enemies. "Death to the Americans, death to Is- rael, death to the Russians," proclaims a large wall inscription next to a powerful fist on a mural. Khomeini's name now grace. a central square where the Leb- anese police headquarters is located. Outside their own headquarters, a rev olutionary guard with a submachine gun looks out from -a sand-bagged position .toward the street gate, which is decorated with upended canisters of American- made cluster bombs dropped- by the Is- raeli Air Force. A revolutionary guard "pirate" radio station daily broadcasts eight hours of revolutionary songs, Islamic propaganda and enthusiastic interviews in Arabic. But few Baalbekis appear to listen. By George C. Wilson States' forgoing the planned, deploy- Washington Pau st.trr writer mint of 108 Pershing II and 464 VILAMOURA, -Portugal, March cruise missiles in Western Europe. 23-A meeting of North Atlantic Luns said today that "the reason I Treaty Organization defense minis- expressed some doubts" about the ters that saw pressure build for an viability of the zero option "was the interim proposal on- nuclear missiles completely negative attitude of the in Europe wound up here today. - Soviet Union." He added that "there U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar W. might be an interim solution which would finally, we hope, lead later to Weinberger and NATO Secretary the zero option." General Joseph Luns indicated, how- ? If there is 'an interim proposal, ever, that it would be some time be- said Luns, "it can obviously only be fore such a proposal is forthcoming. 'made" after the new round of U.S.- Luns, who on the eve of this con- Soviet missile negotiations recon- ference had- called Reagan's pending venes in Geneva. The current session zero option proposal "not attain- - is scheduled to recess next Tuesday able,"-today said it would be two and reconvene 60 days later., months before the president could Weinberger is expected to put up h . submit a different one to the Soviets, if "he chooses to do so. The zero option calls for the So- viets to retire their entire force of SS20 and other medium-range mis- siles 'in exchange for the United a fight against any sudden switc from the zero option when he re- turns to Washington Friday. After the talks here, We flew to Madrid for talks with Spanish offi- cials. Approved For Release 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP90BO1370R000300490006-0 C ? e , 7- u Approved For Relea a 2008/08/21: CIA-RDP9OBO1370R000300490006-0 V irwaves f. i . ? A. W\/i. \/L i V . V . i AJ ?~ AJ V A.J A. T ,=10 NTAUIL l r d'. eLERMO MARTINEZ Editorld snub thon also sent a message to Wash- ington that said: "Cuban-American voters are not necessarily Republi- NO ONE doubts the dedication of can.. They are one-issue voters who Cuban-Americans in South Florida will cast their ballot for candidates ? to the anti-Communist cause or of either party who support the their. love for President Reagan. Cuban cause."- Their commitment to la cauaa t,an ex- plain but not ' necessarily justify - actions such ai., the radio mara thon that " raised $210,000 this week for Presi- R d d Others questioned the legality of the Issue, though lawyers from three separate corporations and the political-action committee had ap- proved the fund raiser. Still another group said this was a throwback to politics Latin-style; where radio stations and newsmen respond to political parties or Ideol- ogies;.where the principle of sepa-, ent eagan an oongresmlonal can- rating objective news from subjec- spread In much of sophisticated, modern Western Europe. Nonetheless the criticism is valid because the practice of a news or- ganization dedicating itself to pro- moting a candidate or political party Is not the norm in the United States. When black radio stations - particularly Les Brown's - did something similar in the Miami mayoral election last year, it was also wrong. This is one of the dangers. Would Miami's Cuban-American communi- ty like to see several English-lan- guage radio stations launch fund raisers or campaigns for candidates running against Cuban-Americans? _a+w_aa..= r'4' . i didates? who favor;: >r Uve commentary is blurred. What would Cuban-Americans do a free Cuba. Ac- r Martinez ?' This last criticism, while flawed, one. five, or nine years from now .tions, whlnp even If not Illegal, are ' is the most valid. It Is flawed be-., when a Democrat not sympathetic contrary to the Way things are done I cause. partisan - or ideological - to the Cuban cause wins the Presi- 1n the United States.. news organizations are not exclu- History explains much. For '25 sively the vice of Third World or years, the Cubans who fled commu- Latin "banana republics." The sys- nism In their homeland have been tem of newspapers, radio and tele- frustrated. They were frustrated vision stations, and even news ser- because many of them had backed vices aligned to a particular politi- Fidel Castro's revolution and then , cal party or government is wide- had to abandon their homes, prop-, to flee to the United States. Hopes of a quick return suffered a severe setback when the 1981 Bay of Pigs invasion aborted. The reality that exile might last a long time started during the 1962 missile crisis. OTHER setbacks followed. Wa- tergate. Cubans supported Presi- dent Nixon to the' bitter end. The 7 prohibition against U.S.-based raids against the Cuban regime embit- tered many militant exiles. The fall of Anastasio Somoza In Nicaragua and the subsequent takeover by the Sandinistas was a shattering expe- rience, The Somoza government had provided launching bases dur- ing the Bay of Pigs invasion and supported anti-Communist efforts High-quall?y hashish and 'heroin , army. The. Intelligence report lists afterward. are smuggled out of the valley. 'names. Twenty-five years of one defeat through Syria to various Western .-. Also fingered In the Intelli- after another. Along the way, a capitals. The smugglers are given gence report were Syria's defense generation of older exiles died and a new crop safe passage by the Syrian military minister, Mustafa Talus, and Army of Americans of Cuban - In exchange for lucrative pay chief Hlkmat Al-Shahaby. They heritage was born and reared in offs. were reported to be dealing with South Florida. Cuf Approved For Release 2008/08/21 : CIA-RDP90BO137OR000300490006-0 dency and decides to even the score with Spanish-language radio sta- tions? Would they like to see subtle political pressure used to force their local Spanish-language stations to do similar promotion jobs for candi- dates or causes not in the best inter- est of a free Cuba? I do not question the patriotic fervor of colleagues who justify their open advocacy for President Reagan with heart-felt convictions. But I do question If any local or na- tional political candidate, now or In the future, can trust their journalis- tic objectivity. I do not question the motives of the promoters or of the radio stations' owners. But I do question the wisdom of their ac- tions. Locally it can exacerbate divi- sions between Cuban-Americans and the black and white American majority of Dade County. White and black Americans will react and question Its legality. In their minds, It is just another reminder of the allenation, of the foreignism, of the Cuban-American community in South Florida. Nationally, it can come back to haunt Cuban-Amerl- cans. The fact that Cuban-Americans believe the cause is right does not justify the means that they used to further la causa. ar Is Giving a Drug Lift To the Syrian Connection By JACK ANDERSON T ?~ exandria, Egypt, are' shipped from the Syrian-controlled Lebanese port of Anfa aboard the ship Hassan, under the watchful eye of Syrian agent Mustafa Al Farass. Last sum- mer, Egyptian officials seized 3,200 kilograms of Bekaa Valley dope. HE Syrians aren't clinging so stubbornly to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley just to protect their flank against Israeli attack. They're also protecting a dtultibil- lion-dollar drug traffic Involving top-ranking Syrian mWtary and cl- - THE list of officers enriching themselves from the drug trade is a veritable Who's Who of the Syrian BLUNDER OF THE WEEK - More than a year ago, three Fl6s fighter planes crashed and the cause -has never been nailed down. One reason is that the planes were not equipped with flight-data recorders - the black boxes that are required on commercial airliners and help crash Investigators figure out what happened. The crash prompted the inspec- tors-general of Air Porce. Army, and Navy to recommend develop- ment of a standard flight-data re- corder to be installed in all military planes. 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