EXPOSING A LIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100830005-6
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 7, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Rowland Evans
And -Robert Novak
:Exposing
A Lie
With the txv&'superpowersapproach-
.ing' cold' war, ,the Soviets are waging- a
disinformation-campaign that has :been
curiously immune from political and.....,
media attention.-Considering that its re-
cent victims:indlude"d.1.N. Ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick,lamed foreign -
opera-tive Irving Brown of *Oie AFL-CI0..and....
numerous American -diplomats abroad,
this indiff'erence.isdamaging tothe West,
and.feeds the rising tide. of Soviet. deceit:-
.A -confidential letter from a Jewish
emigrant who.miraculously escaped The
,death sentence .of.a Bulgarian court may
end that. indifference. Now an Israeli
citizen, Dr. HenrySpetter wrote.a letter
on Aug. 31-letter tip Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Jimmy Carter's-.national security advis=-
er, that closes the circle on an ugly series
ofeVents" It-also exposes exactly how-the -
wheelsr?of. Soviet -disinformation turn,
gushing-`innocent targets to create a
false picture of Soviet purity.
Writing from Tel Aviv, where he is
an economic".consultant.Spetter said.
that he had read a recent article in
Izvestia, the Soviet government's news-
paper, under the head: "The 'Bulgar-
ian Trace' of "Zhigniew Brzezinski.",
The article alleged that during a visit
to-Sofia as a guest, of the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences in the early
1960s. Brzezinski "contacted a Bulgar-
ian citizen with the nickname 'Andrew
-whom he instructed .to collect informa-
tion on behalf of the'CIA."
"Since I am -the person Andrew) in
question,"-.Spetter wrote,- the "follow.
ing'facts" should be understood: -that'
ion one occasion, some 20 years ago; be,
had been'.asked.to drive Brzezinski in
Sofia from.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 'by the
Bulgarian secret police in 1973 and tor-
tured to "confess" his recruitment 10
years ,earlier-'by Brzezinski, who was
then an. occasional consultant -to the
State Department,
WASHINGTON POST
7 October 1983
Spatter was sentenced to dea
Bulgarian court, then released frog i e
,trumped-up charges and allowed to
-emigrate to Israel in the summer of
1914. There the matter rested-until
the assassination attempt, on Pope
.John Paul II -in 1981 and the ensuing
-allegations charging Bulgarian com-
plicity:in the shooting.
Only after those charges of a "Bulgar- _
an aonnection"-with.the attempted as-
,eassination of `tie 'pope- did .Izvestia
, dredge up the-old-smear against Brzezin-
ski, using-`Spetter as the foil. Both
Brzezinski -end Henry Kissinger -had
publicly raised questions.about the Bul-
garian connection and the complete con-
"tre1- of Bulgarian' intelligence by the
Soviet KGB. One .way to convince the
world `that .:-neither the-Bulgarians nor
the Soviets--had a :hand in the shootout
in -St.-Peter's -Square was to portray
Brzezinski as -a longtime conspirator for
the CIA inside Sofia.
The Soviet disinformation net is cast
wide. Early-this year a bogus speech re-
putedly made by Kirkpatrick was
printed in far-left Indian newspapers.
According to the speech, Kirkpatrick ad-
vocated a policy --of "Balkanization" of
India. 'Communist -members used it
against the United States in their
speeches in the Indian parliament.
Irving Brown,' :for decades the top
AFL-CIO operative abroad, was the vic-
tim last March of'a forged letter carrying
his signature and published in an Italian
newspaper: The letter implicated Brown
in -the secret .use -of AFL-CIO 'money to
f'mance -the outlawed "Solidarity move-
ment in Poland through an Italian labor
oflicial known to be an agent. of Bulgar-
ian intelligence. Thee object was to stig-
-inatize -the United States -arid cleanse
both KGB and Bulgarian intelligence
L services. ' "
-Specter's dramatic rebuttal-"Since I
ain the person in question"-was an un-
usually swift knockdown of the false lzv
estia charge against Brzezinski. But
-other Soviet disinformation, scattering
puieoned -'seeds - against the United
States, fiourishes undetected in a cam-
paign that has become a prime policy in-
strument of Moscow, growing every day
inbildnes and intensity,
cim. I-ielc Enterprises, inc
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