EXPOSING A LIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000301900027-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: October 7, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/11/08 :CIA-RDP90-009658000301900027-3
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:A Lie .
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-With the Lwo~superpowers-approach-
:ang cold war, .tie Soviets are waging- a
+disinii~rmetion-campaign that has been
curiously immune from .political .and : ,
aned+a attention.-Considering that its re- '
xent victims'include';U.N. Ambassador
.Jenne Kirkpatcick,~'amed foreign opera-
tive Irving $mwn of the AFL-CIO and ,
ir-umenws ,American diplomats abroad, ~
this indifference.isdamaging tothe West, i
and.feeds the rising tide.of Soviet, deceit:-
.A confidential letter from a Jewish
emigrant who.min3culously escaped .the
death sentence.of a Bulgarian court may
end that. indifference,. Now an .Israeli
citizen, Dr. Henry~Spetter wrotea letter
on Aug. 31 letter?te Zbigniew Brcezinski, ~
Jimmy Carter's"national security advis- j
er, that ck>des the circle on an ugly series i,
ofevents: It also exposes exactly howthe -?
wheels.~_of,;~LSoviet -idisinformation turn, : i
c4ushing "'innocent ~aargets to create a i
false picture of Soviet purity. ~
Writing irum Tel Aviv, where he is
an economic. consultant, Spatter said
that he had read a recent article in
izvestia, the Soviet government's news-
paper, under the head: "The 'Bulgar-
ian Trace' of Zbigniew Brzezinski.",
The article alleged that during a visit
to? Sofia as a guest of the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences in -the early
1960x, Brzezinski "contacted aBulgar- ~
Ian citizen witht.he nickname'Andrew' ~
-whom he instructed to collect informa-
tion on behalf of the'CIA."
""Since f am the person {Andrew) in
question;"-Spatter .wrote; the "follow-
ting'facts" should be~ understood: that'
on one occasion, some 20 years ago; `he'
had been'_asked.to drive Brzezinski in
Sofia frorri.the academy to his hotel-
:because he could speak English; that
"'this was my only meeting" with
Brzezinski; that, as a result of the brief
.encounter, he had been arrested 'hy the
Bulgarian secret police in 19 7.I and tor- ,
-tared to "confess" his recruitment TO
years earlier:~by Rrzezinski, who was
then an. occasional consultant 'to the
State Department.
WASHINGTON POST
7 October 1983
Spatter was sentenced to death by a
Bulgarian court, then released from-the
hrumped-up charges and allowed to
-emigrate to Israel in the summer of
1974. There the matter rested-until
the assassination attempt on Pope
+,)dhn Paul II in 1981 and the ensuing
allegations charging Bulgarian cum-
; piicity yin the shcx~ting.
Only after thoBe charges of a "Bulgar-
`-aan a>nnection"-7vith.the attempted as-
'::easstnatnm of zthepope did -Izvectia
dredge up the old smear against Brzezin-
"ski, using- :Spatter as the fc)il. Both
Brzezinski -and 'Henry Kissinger had
publicly raised questions.about the Bul-
garian connection and the complete con-
`' trot Hof $ulgarian~'intelligence by the
Soviet`KGB. -one way to convince the
world?thatneither the~Bulgarians nor
the Sovietsha8 a hand in .the ahartout
in ~St: -Peter's `Square was to portray
Brzeiinski as a longtime conspirator fur
' Llie CIA inside Soria.
The Soviet disinformation net is cast.
wide. Early'this year a bogus speech re-
putedly made by Kirkpatrick was
printed Sn far-left 'Indian newspapers.
Aiccording w the speech, Kirkpatrick ad-
vocated apolicy -of "Balkanization" of
'India. 'Communist -rr~mbers used it
e~ainst~ the United States in their
speeches in the Indian parliament.
Irving Brown,' for decades the top
AFL-CIO operative abroad, way the vic-
tim last March of a forged letter carrying
his signature a'rxf published in an Malian
newspaper: The letter implicated Brown
in ,the eecret.use of AFL-C10 money to
finance=the outlawed Solidarity move-
?inent in Pnl~nd through an Italian labor
'. official kii