BLITZ INTERVIEW WITH AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96R01136R002605160063-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: March 7, 1980
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: BLITZ INTERVIEW WITH AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER
IFOLLOWING SENT ACTION NEW DELHI INFO CALCUTTA MADRAS
FROM BOMBAY MAR 06 IS REPEATED
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SUBJ: BLITZ INTERVIEW WITH AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER
1, BLITZ, THE SENSATIONALIST LEFTIST BOMBAY BASED WEEKLY,
IN ITS MARCH 8 EDITION (DISTRIBUTED MARCH 5) FRONT PAGES AN
INTERVIEW WITH AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER BABRAK KARMAL, THE STORY
BYLINED BY A. RAGHAVAN, WHO WRITES THAT THE INTERVIEW WAS
GRANTED QUOTE BEFORE KABUL WAS PLUNGED INTO THE WORSE CRISIS
WHICH HIS GOVERNMENT HAS TIDED OVER ...UNQUOTE THE TEXT TAKES THE
FORM OF A SERIES OF Q AND A'S, THE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHICH ARE AS
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-? IN RESPONSE. TO A QUESTION WHETHER THE SOVIET MILITARY
PRESENCE WOULD BE WITHDRAWN IF A QUOTE CREDIBLE GUARANTEE
UNQUOTE WERE AVAILABLE, BABRAK KARMAL STATED THAT THE
.US HAS MADE PAKISTAN A SPRINGBOARD TO DESTROY THE SAUR
REVOLUTION AND THE AFGHAN PROBLEM IS ONLY A FACET OF THE
GLOBAL PROBLEM. QUOTE MY COUNTRY IS ONLY A SCAPEGOAT, A
PRETEXT FOR THE US AND CHINA TO PLAY UP THE SOVIET TROOPS
(WHICH CAME TO DEFEND OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY) ,.AGAINST THE
ONSLAUGHTS FROM PAKISTANI BASES. ONCE THESE STOP, THE SOVIETS
WILL WITHDRAW. UNQUOTE.
--ASKED TO QUOTE SPELL OUT CONCRETELY' UNQUOTE WHAT HE MEANT
BY QUOTE CREDIBLE GUARANTEE UNQUGTE THE AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER
'STATED: QUOTE THERE IS NO OTHER RELIABLE GUARANTEE EXCEPT THE
ABSOLUTE AND COMPLETE CESSATION OF INTERVENTIONIST POLICIES,
AND UNLESS ALL THE BASES -AND TRAINING CAMPS IN WHICH THE CIA,
CHINESE, BRITISH, EGYPTIANS AND ISRAELIS ARE INVOLVED JJE
'WOUND UPN AND THE FLOW OF MILITARY HARDWARE AND RESOURCES
CEASES, THERE CAN BE NO PEACE. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, PAKISTAN
SHOULD TAKE ITS HANDS OFF AFGHAN AFFAIRS, OTHERWISE, NO
GUARANTEE WILL BE WORTH THE PAPER IT IS WRITTEN ON. UNQUOTE
--IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION WAS TO hHETHER AFGHANISTAN WAS
INTERESTED IN A CONFERENCE OF CONCERNED PARTIES TO DECIDE ON AN
AGREED BORDER FORCE TO POLICE THE AFGHANISTAN FRONTIER,
BABRAK KARMAL IS QUOTED AS STATING: QUOTE WE SAY 'YES'- TO
ANY NOBLE INITIATIVE. UNQUOTE HOWEVER, SUCH AN INITIATIVE
SHOULD BE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE UN CHARTER AND QUOTE THERE
SHOULD NOT BE THE SLIGHTEST MEDDLING IN OUR INTERNAL
AFFAIRS. UNQUOTE
-- THE PRIME MINISTER STATED THAT CURRENTLY THERE ARE SOME
30 REBEL BASES AND TRAINING CAMPS IN PAKISTAN. FURTHER, QUOTE
THERE IS EVIDENCE OF PAK OFFICERS DISGUISED AS AFGHANS, AS
WELL AS THE US, CHINESE, EGYPTIANS AND ISRALI OFFICERS
INVOLVED IN THE DIABOLIC PROJECT. UNQOTE
-- IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION INVOLVING THE POSSIBILITY OF AN
ATTACK BY AFGHAN REBELS FROM PAKISTAN, THE PRIME MINISTER
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SAID THAT INCURSIONS HAVE OCCURRED SINCE THE START OF THE
SAUR REVOLUTION AND HAD INCREASED IN RECENT MONTHS, THESE
AT1ACKS QUOTE HAVE BEEN REBUFFED WITH SOVIET SUPPORT.
LIMITED CONTINGENTS OF SOVIET TROOPS ARE IN AFGHANISTAN ONLY
AS A RESERVE FORCE TO PREVENT A LIKELY AGRESSION FROM THE
PAKISTANI SIDE OF THE BORDER. UNQUOTE
ww THE PRIME MINISTER ALSO CLAIMED, ACCORDING TO THE INTERVIEW,
QUOTE THE CIA HAD A BLWCK SCHEME UP ITS SLEEVE? THE DIS-
MEMBERMENT OF AFGHANISTAN, UNQUOTE WHICH WOULD HAVE DIVIDED
THE COUNTRY BETWEEN PAKISTAN? CMINA AND OTHERS. FURTHER,
HAFIZULLAH AMIN A CIA AGENT, WAS TO RULE OVER KABUL AND
AFGHANISTAN WAS TO BE TURNED INTO AN ANTI-SOVIET BASE, AS
PART OF THE CARTER DOCTRINE. QUOTE BUT THE NEW PHASE OF THE
SAUR REVOLUTION HAS CHECKMATED THE CONSPIRACY, THAT EXPLAINS
THE AMERICAN FURY AGAINST US. UNQUOTE.
ROSENTHAL
AJNQUOTE
GOHEEN
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