MISCELLANEOUS PRESS MATTERS

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• Publication Date: August 24, 1976
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24 August 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Andrew T. Falkiewicz
Assistant to the Director
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Press Matters
Playboy Article Replayed in the London Daily Telegraph
As I have already reported to you, the story was. filed
and somewhat embellished by the paper's New York correspondent.
We have discussed the matter with him as well as with his
more careful colleagues here in Washington.
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This publication is a semi-monthly adjuncko the ven'lJ
American Mercury quarterly (circulation 12,000). Its prince al
editorial line is anti-communism. They certainly did not get
any information on any Carter briefings from here, and since
their facts are all wrong, presumably they did not get the
information from Governor Carter either.
George F. Will
I talked to Will this afternoon on the telephone and told
him that we regretted his uncalled-for reference to you in his
Newsweek column of August 23. He said that "on the basis of
what people had told him, his comment was both relevant and
correct". I pointed out that he had not talked about this to
anyone in CIA. He said that he would be returning to the
topic of his column again during the campaign and might well
take us up on the offer to talk to him. I told him that,
contrary to whatever he may have been told by his sources, the
was no 'apolitically convenient" report inspired or directed by
George Bush at any time and that his reference to this was
completely untrue. I expressed the hope, and he concurred, th
we would have a chance to discuss such matters in th
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There will remain between 14,000 and 17,000
Cuban troops in Angola,according to Bush. The
number of troops has remained stable because
replacements are ferried in by air by the Soviet
Union, which has assigned 200 Russian pilots and
a flotilla of Soviet cargo planes to the job.
A steady stream of planes maintain daily and
oftentimes hourly communication between Luanda
and Havana, according to Bush.
Castro's sudden Napoleonic complex serves him
many purposes. It not only locks in continued
Soviet support of the tottering Cuban economy
but it. removes tens of thousands of Negroes from
Cuba and cuts the surging Negro birth rate there.
Virtually all troops sent to Africa are Negroes;
Central Intelligence Agency di-
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the \Vhites are staying borne drinking runt and
coca-cola. At least 500 conscientious objectors who
refused to serve in the Cuban expeditionary force
sent to Angola, however, hav' been imprisoned.
Many others have tried to escape the island and
a definite increase in refugees from Cuba has
been noted by U.S. -tut'norit-es.
In addition to Castro 's opera: io--s in An ;ola, he
now has "several hundred" advisers Y nd military
technicians in Peru, as well as espionage agents
in virtually every Latin American country, and he
operates several training schools for Puerto Rican
terrorists.
Castro's role as the =main l;a e for Soviet naval
operations in the S tlintic cannot he discounted.
Soviet subs armed with .-uclrar-tipped missiles
are tethered to Cuban bases and the Kremlin has
also implanted nuclear missiles in a vast network:
of concrete undersea silos off the coast-
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August 26, 1976
.Howar.d.Bray,..free lance, called today saying that
he was doing an article on "his favorite subject", the
relationship-between CIA and journalists, for the
Columbia Journalism Review.
His first question concerned the recent Soviet
-----accusation-- .against. 3. American newsmen in Moscow. Bray
said-that Al-Friendly had told him that I had written a
-letter-to Newsweek. regarding this-matter, but that News-
week would not. let. him ..see- the letter. Bray said t amt
shad - asked: both Mel..Elfin ' and.. the Newsweek lawyers in
-New---York - about. the-.. letter.,- but was to t at the letter
was marked personal and that they would not divulge its
contents. Bray said that he had indications (presumably
from Friendly) that the letter was 'not a clear denial of
Friendly's association with CIA. Bray asked me if I
would tell him what was in the letter. I told Bray
that 'I was in full agreement with the position taken
by the recipient of the letter. I` pointed out to Bray
that he had. a clear choice in accepting the veracity
of a Soviet allegation on the one hand and a clear
denial by Mr. Friendly on the other; he also had the
clear statement by the DCI on February 11.
Bray's second question referred to the fact that
the National News Council had held-,a press conference
after their meeting with CIA officials, at which time
the--Council-announced."modificati.on" in CIA policy
toward-journalists " Bray.wondered~why such a statement
came from the Council and not.from CIA. I told Bray
that we had had a "good meeting" with the representatives
from the Council, in_which~ they__s.ought and hopefully
received- some.. clar..ification.of.-.questions of interest to
them. As far as CIA policy was concerned there was no
need for any further statement.
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