YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505110055-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: June 11, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE .I9 11 June 1981+
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for has assembled massive evidence Look fora tightened up race, and a such unethical tapingo ?'Federal
that the Bulgarian secret service squealer on July 23d, with a subse- . crime.
Obviously under orders of then= quent push for a coalition govern- At a steak house in Washington the
KG.B. chief Yuri Andropov - ar-' meat. other day, Charles Wick came over to
ranged the attempted assassination The Erosion Explosion my table and said "Safire, you're a
of the Pope. , The Mondale story is now "It's all hell of an adversary." As he extended
From the start, this story was mini- over, and Gary Hart need not pull out his hand, he inadvertently knocked a
glass of ice water into my lap. I be-
mized and ridiculed by our C.I.A. The but he should be nice." That story
station chief in Rome, as well as inter- should last only a couple of weeks, lieve it was accidental; besides, in
ligence evaluators in Langley, Va., then the key word will become "ero- this heat, It felt good.
did their best to discredit the reports sion?" Can Mondale hold on to his
of Miss Sterling in the Reader's Di- fringe delegates, beyond those won in
gest and of Marvin Kalb on N.B.C. Primaries, if polls show Hart to be a
Now that the proof is about to be stronger candidate against the Presi-
laid on the table, this question arises: dent? Much will be made of any
what is the President's Foreign Intel- switches, as news-parched pundits
ligence Advisory Board doing to find seek a counter-trend to take a column
out why president Reagan was on. "Erosion" is' Mr. Mondale's
misled by the C.I.A. on the most im- worry-word, and "electability" is the.
portent terrorist plot in modern histo- name of the Hart endgame.
ry? Certainly Clare Booth Luce, a The Two-Eye League
PFIAB member, should press for the Americans find it difficult to choose
appointment of a "team B" to inde- between Iran and Iraq in their war
Oaently establish the reasons for because there is only a one-letter dif-
poor covert intelligence and our ference in their names. The side that
inept evaluation, will win is. the one with the "n."
Senator Barry Goldwater should' The Rea an
also look into the blunder: one of his g position into resolutely
intelligence committee staffers was refrain from mixing in unless the
present when a C.I.A. man Arabs say "please," at which time we
in Rome will send Cap Weinberger to Riyadh
tried to belittle the Italian investiga- _ to beg for permission to use the Saudi
Lion. (After a recent barb in this landing field from which to bomb
space about his lack of alertness. in their enemies. That would be the
picking up testimony on the mining of most foolish U.S. intervention since
Nicaraguan harbors, the Senator we stopped Israel from driving the
wrote to tell me "You go your way P.L.O. and Syrians out of Lebanon.
and I'll go mine." Sorry. about that;
he is the last of the lively letter-
writers.)
Shamir Bis Du Schoen.'
The election campaign in Israel
should liven up in the next :month.
Opinion Polls show labor well in the
lead, but many Israeli voters contean-
plate 400 percent inflation the way
Americans look at a $200 billion defi-
You're On Your. Own
enter the News Doldrums -that mid- to be horrifi
X *ASHIN'GTON 1 June '10 - As
r By William Safire
--r-- ---?~?~ atevenson or Israel, is trying to keep whether or not to proffer charges. My
. For readers who may attention centered on the economy. unsubstantiated
closes down guess is that the
need quid opinion fixes over the ? ms opponent, the Likud's low key prosecutor is aware- that this could
coating weeks here are a few mini- Yitzhak. Shamir, has not yet coon- embarrass the president in an elec-
tered with what could be his most ef- Lion year. Meanwhile, Senators Met-'
C.I..'s Biggest Flop festive
charge: that if Labor takes zenbaum and Bumpers are testifying
again, therq
Claire Sterling reports in The New control . goes Israel's before a Senate (Judiciary subcom-
York Tim
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Turn Down An Empty Glass
Two weeks ago, a'lawyer and an in-
vestigator from the Los Angeles Dis-
trict Attorney's office came to Wash-
ington to interview U.S.I.A. Director
Charles Wick, Senator Charles
Percy, Interior Secretary William.
Clark and seven others. Their pur-
pose was to determine whether a ?
California state law was broken when
we really ought calls while in California, The?Los An-
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