MORNING BULLETIN: DEFECTOR FLAP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000201150003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 28, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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New report:
An analysis recently com-
pleted on behalf of the CIA is
titled: "Expelling America - A
New Coordinated Radical
Strategy."
Defector flap
Students of the Soviet disinfor-?
mation effort never fail to be
amazed by the frequency with
which Western volunteers come
forth to besmirch the reputations
of Soviet enemies. Defectors are
under particular pressure to
prove their bona fides. There
have been a number of "quality"
defectors in recent years who
have caused their former mas-
ters so much acute embar-
rassment and harm by their
public revelations it is unlikely
that they have secret loyalties to
the Soviet system. One is Arkady
Shevchenko, former under secre-
tary general of the United
Nations and the highest ranking
Soviet diplomat to defect to the
West. Now comes journalist-
author Edward Jay Epstein to
add Mr. Shevchenko to the
Nosenko, Golitsyn, et al contro-
versies of the 1960s and early
1970s.
The Epstein technique is remi-
niscent of the new "McCar-
thyism" we have been seeing in
the U.S. Senate, where the credi-
bility of presidential nominees
who have been serving their
country with distinction
are attacked on the basis of a
memory lapse regarding some
event many months or even years
ago. So what? Who can remem-
ber precise details of routine
events of last month, let alone
five years ago? In Mr. Shevchen-
ko's case, Mr. Epstein has set
forth mercilessly with forceps
and scalpel to slice up not sworn
testimony, but Mr. Shevchenko's
autobiography
WASHINGTON TIMES
28 June 1985
Mr. Epstein has shown an odd
sense of timing. His attack has
appeared only a month after the
Senate Intelligence Committee
issued a report on Soviet use of
the United Nations Secretariat
for espionage purposes. Mr.
Shevchenko has been discussing
his personal experiences of
Soviet abuse of the U.N. for intel-
ligence purposes in interviews
and in his best-selling book,
Breaking With Moscow He also
tells the story of how he, a
privileged member of the Soviet
elite, became disgusted and dis-
enchanted with the Soviet sys-
tem. _
Washington's intelligence
community wants to know who
prompted Mr. Epstein to this dis-
service. Some believe it
originated with embittered,
Byzantine old enemies of former
CIA director Adm. Stansfield
1Lrner, on whose watch Mr.
Shevchenko chose to find free-
dom.
The CIAs routine "no com-
ment" rule was broken
/yesterday: "Shevchenko pro-
vided invaluable intelligence
information to the U.S. govern-
ment:' said the CIA spokesman.
"The CIA had nothing to do with
writing his book" - as Mr.
Epstein charged.
Advance man
Correspondent Stephanie Nall
files this from the White House:
President Reagan has named
James L. Hooley as one of his
special assistants and director of
his advance team. Mr. Hooley,
32, has worked for President
Reagan, either at the White
House or on a campaign staff,
since 1978, when he became a
consultant on the 1980 election.
Since November 1983, he has
been deputy director of pres-
idential advance. That office
plans the president's trips.
And:
President Reagan has chosen
Charles A. Trabandt to be a mem-
ber of the Federal Energy Reg-
ulatory Commission. If
confirmed by the Senate, he
would succeed Georgiana H.
Sheldon, a Republican who has
served in the post for two terms.
Mr. Tabandt 44 formerly
sere Viand as chief
coups= eon the Senate Committee
on Energy an Natural-
Resources. He now is counselor
tote controller at the Interior
Department and is a 1963
graduate of the U.S. Naval Acad-
emy.
- John Elvin
Staff writer Jim Clardy contri-
buted to this column.
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