BOLIVIA/BARBIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100370065-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: April 21, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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diplomats are being told to pack their bags and go home. At the
State Department, Barrie Dunsmore has details.
DUNSMORE: ABC News has been told that two Soviets are being
expelled from the U.S. for involvement in an effort to obtain a
recent presidential directive on U.S.-Soviet relations. In what
appears to have been a setup, an unnamed American met with the
Soviet military attache over the weekend in the Washington area.
The Russian was caught with eight rolls of film of classified
documents. Two days ago Lt. Col. Barmyantzev, an assistant
military attache of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, was
declared persona non grata by the State Department for
activities incompatible with his status as a diplomat.
Yesterday Aleksandr Mikheyev, a trainee at the Soviet mission at
the United Nations, was told to leave the country immediately.
In a related case, Oleg Konstantinov, a Soviet KGB agent, was
picked up April 2 on Long Island trying to get information on
aerospace technology. He has already left the country.
Officials will not comment publicly on these incidents, though
privately intelligence sources say the U.S. took action because
in recent months the Soviets have become flagrant in their
attempts to obtain secret documents. Barrie Dunsmore, ABC New:,
the State Department.
AP06 BOLIVI?,/BARBIE BELL: Now the latest on Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal
awaiting trial in France on mass murder charges. ABC's John
Martin's been following the story, and he now has new
information about allegations that Barbie had regular but
indirect contacts with the CIA during the 30 years he lived in
Bolivia. Martin reports from the Bolivian capital of Lapaz
where special U.S. prosecutor Allan Ryan is trying to piece
together the Barbie story.
MARTIN: American special prosecutor Allan Ryan is trying to
find out whether the American government protected Barbie while
using him for intelligence work either in Germany or Bolivia.
At the interior ministry here, officials told Ryan they have no
documents showing how Barbie entered their country or whether he
worked for American intelligence. Bolivian army units took the
files in 1979, they said. INTERPRETER FOR GUSTAVO SANCHEZ
(Interior Sub-Secretary): All the documents that exist in the
ministry of the interior were stolen.
MARTIN: A Bolivian who said he purchased copies of some of the
documents before they were stolen produced a series of
photostats spanning 20 years of Barbie's life. Purchased here
in Lapaz by ABC News, the documents were shown to Justice and
State Department officers who verified their authenticity. One
shows Barbie used an Allied High Commission passport to reach
Italy under a false name in 1951. His Bolivian visa shows he
listed his sponsors as a Catholic priest in Rome and a
Franciscan leader in Bolivia. He also listed assets of only
$850, suggesting he may not have been as highly paid an
informant as some reports have maintained. In this 1973
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affidavit, Barbie denied he used an alias to escape or to become
a Bolivian citizen or that he worked for American intelligence
in Germany. All of these documents show Barbie shedding an old
identity, escaping Europe with the help of American officials,
yet none of them shows any connection between Barbie and the CIA
in South America, but. this man, an interior ministry official,
says Barbie regularly passed information on Bolivian communists
and leftists to CIA contacts at the U.S. Embassy using the
interior ministry as an intermediary. INTERPRETER FOR
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It's obvious that he contacted the embassy
with the transmit information.
MARTIN: One former senior Bolivian security official said here
in Lapaz that the CIA, while not employing Barbie as an
informant, knew that he was the source of some of their
intelligence reports, a vital question on prosecutor Ryan's
agenda here. RYAN: We've been hearing those reports since the
investigation began, and that's one of the reasons that I came
to Lapaz, to investigate them and to find out.
MARTIN: The Barbie intelligence connection may have been part
of a wider operation run out of houses in rural Cochabamba. A
former associate says that barbie held as many as six daily
radio conversations with Nazis spread across the continent. By
one account, Earbie's associates in Argentina, Chile, Peru and
Paraguay funneled to him similar intelligence about communist
activities which reached the Americans through the interior
ministry here in the capital. the first indication that Klaus
Barbie may have been part of a network of 'Nazis working in South
America. John Martin, ABC News. Lapaz, Bolivia.
AP07 LAWSUIT/ BJL: The federal government and the government of California
TOXIC WASTE today sued 31 companies that have dumped toxic waste at the
Stringfellow Acid Pits. The pits are now vered and sealed
with a special clay, but experts say lea1I are endangering water
supplies. The suit demands millions ofj'dcllars to clean it up.
APO8 TOXIC WASTE/ BELL: The streets are clearing out,in Swartz Creek. Mich.,
MICHIGAN where residents are trying to beat a midnight evacuation
deadline. Residents have been ordered out so a lengthy and
potentially dangerous cleanup can begin at Michigan's worst
toxic waste dump, the bankrupt *Burlin and Farrell Liquid Waste
Incineration Company. More on that from Joe Spencer.
SPENCER: Verna and Vic. Cordamage must move out of their home by
midnight tonight. Verna has lived here 27 years, the best of
her life, she says, until 1972 when a chemical disposal plant
opened just 300 yards away. Verna says contamination from the
wastes has ruined the lives of everyone here. VERNA: I've
watched the destruction of my quality of life, a lot of
respiratory problems, tremendous amount. It's unusual, people
who've never had them before. never,in the family. All of a
sudden, the children, particularly the children, develop them
badly.
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