U.S. WON'T PROSECUTE JANE FONDA

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Approved For ReleaseWRI11170%11: 6/URRIM910) 26 AUG 7972 _ Won't Prosecute an,e By Sanford J. Ungar Washington Post Staff Writee The Justice Department has no intention of prosecuting ac- tress Jane Fonda for her broadcasts to American serv- icemen over Radio Hanoi, sources in the department?and on Capitol Hill said yesterday. ? Although the department's Internal Security Division is conducting an "inquiry" at the request ? of the House. Internal Secu ty Committee, the sources said, there is no plan .for a federal grand jury inves- tigation of. the -antiwar activ- ist. . The State Department ini- tially reacted angrily to re- ports of Miss Fonda's broad- casts during a visit to Hanoi in July. - Justice Department lawyers have apparently -concluded, however, that. she did not vio- late -any statutes?including 'the law intended to punish any- you knew the Vietnamese one who "advises, counsels, . under peaceful conditions, you urges, or in any manner would hate the men who are causes or attempts to cause in- sending you on bombing mis- -subordination, disloyality, sious." tiny, or refusal of duty by any 0 "Have you any idea what your bombs are doing when member of the ? military or pull the levers and push riyal forces of Atte United you , . the States"buttons?" ? 0 "Should you allow these same people and same liars to define for you who your enemy is?" Ichord said his own commit- tee staff 'is carrying out a ,similar but separate analysis :of her broadcasts and other ? ?activities ? during the trip." to Hanoi. But committee sources said? that even this investigation is likely to be dropped without ever subpoenaing Miss Fonda . to testify, as originally urged by Republican Reps, Fletcher Thompson of -Georgia and .,John G. Schmitz of .California, ? presidential candidate of the American Independent Party. The committee voted 8-1 on August 10 to put off the sub- poena question until it had re- -ceived the Justice Department ? ? report. Iehord is opposed to calling -Miss Fonda before the com- mittee, the sources said yester- day, because he fears ii Would ? .provide a forum for her strong views against American in- volvement in Southeast Asia. known as the House Un-Amer- ican Activities Committee; re- vived the Fonda controversy yesterday with a statement an- nouncing it had received for- mal notice of the Justice De- partment inquiry front A. Wil- lianf Olson, assistant attorney general for the Internal Secu- rity Division. Committee Chairman Rich- ard H. Ichord (D-Mo.) used the occasion to release selected quotations from transcripts of Miss. Fonda's broadcasts to GIs, provided by the- Foreign Broadcast Information Scrvic of the Central Intelligence Agency.. ,1 Among the statements at- tributed to her: . "Tonight when you are alone, ask yourselves: What are you doing? Accept no ready answers fed to you by rote from basic training . . . know that if you saw and if That iS expected to be the Justice Department's advice- in its 'report to the House com- mittee. ? : Thb House panel, formerly' ? ? Both .congressional and Jus- tice . Department sources said that if anything comes of the Fonda broadcasts, it could be a push for new legislation .to deal with such situations. They rejected the earlier suggestions of.. those angered by the Fonda broadcasts that her remarks were comparable to those of Iva Toguri D'Aguino, known as "Tokyo Rose" for. her broadcasts to American servicemen over Radio Tokyo in World War After a 56-day trial on.trea- son charges?the longest in ; American hist or y ?M r s. D'Aquino was convicted in federal court in San Francisco in 1949 and sentenced to 10 years in prison , and a $10,000 fine.? She was paroled in 1956 after ',serving more than six ? , years ' in the Federal Re- .. :formatory for Women in Ald- erson, W. Va., and later sue-' cessfully resisted deportation proceeding's. After Miss Fonda's return from Hanoi, Thompson urged that she be prosecuted in a similar manne r. "Declared war or undeclared war, this is. treason," he said last month. But the Justice Department has Interpreted the matter dif- ferently and hopes the .contro- versy will subside. The Nixon administration has not. indi- cated what. its position would be On newl.egislation. ? Approved For Release 2002/01/03: CIA-RDP80-01601R000100030001-0 WATAING TON S Approved For Release 2002/01/03 : CI -RDP804)71,618Rfa1 - 18 JUN r.7 c-..7 .1) 0 11 [I 74'1 ? By ORR, KELLY . H Star Staff Writer r anoi R-adio complained re -; I u 13 ? , tl 6e:a k eat, peatedIy during the period' -when unauthorized air raids were being made against North Vietnam that 1152 bomb- ers and naval gunfire were striking at targets In the northern half of the demilitar- ized zone. The Air Force acknowledged 'last week that Gen. John 1). Lavelle had permittted his pi- lots to carry out 28 unauthor- ized "protective r cacti() n" -missions, involving single at- tacks by 1.47 planes, against _targets in North Vietnam be- tween Nov. 8, 1971, and March 8, 1972. Pentagon officials, asked. last week about the North Vietnamese charges, insisted that B52s did not attack tar- gets in the North between the bombing halt in 1968 and the 'resumption of bombing in -April 1972 after the beginning of the current enemy offen- sive. Big-bomber attacks like these described- by the North Vietnamese would have gone ._ beyond the concept of "protec- tive ?reaction" and would have violated the "understand- ings" that ended the bombing in 1963, - The officials did acknow- ledge, however, that the rules . covering "protective reaction" had been relaxed in the months preceding the current offensive to permit large-scale attacks not only on offending -antiaircraft sites but also upon surrounding ? barracks, fuel dumps, trucks and other mili- tary installations. But they insisted that the Investigation of the Lavelle ? case, who was dismissed as _commander of American air forces in Southeast Asia be- cause he exceeded the rules on bombing, had uncovered no evidence of violations in- volving the B52 bombers or collusion by the Navy in the violations. As commander of the 7th Air Force, Lavelle had direct com- mand over Air Force fighter-bombers based in South Vietnam and Thailand. As deputy for air in the overall American military command in South Vietnam he had oper- ational control over thR kkk, tegic Air Command T11132". bomber force based in Thai- ? II ?,.) 9 ri - -3rrf(s. (7): .. . land and on Guam, and coordi- limited-duration attacks from wiled Navy and Air Force op-: Dec. 26 tof-)0 and on Feb. 16 ertions. - and 17. eNavy planes participated in Discrepancies Found about half of the attacks dur- A review of broadcasts by jug the periods of concentrated Hanoi Radio, published here t'oml-dug. But Pentagon ?f?fi" by the government's Foreignjials insisted no evidence had Broadcast Information Serv Ken uncovered that the Navy ice, showed that there was a had either violated the rules of broad correspondence betv,Teen engagement or falsified re- American announcements of ports ? the two violations that "protective r e a c t i o n" air led to Lavelle's dismissal and strikes and North Vietnamese retirement. complaints about attacks on their country. There was fre- quent disagreement over the type of targets and the /num- ber of planes involved, but general agreement on - the time and place that some- thing had happened. The difference between the Air Force and Navy opera- tions, one Pentagon official ex- plained, was that the Air Force planned and carried out attacks regardless of whether there was enemy-initiated ac- tion that would justify an America reaction. The Navy Tile maim' dim...Pc-41U inh was always careful that it volved the frequent complaint could justify its ? reaction be- by North Vietnam that 1352's fore attacking. were hitting in the northern As the evidence of the ene- portion of. the Demilitarized my's inent spring offen- Zone -- the area they call the sive into South Vietnam be- "Vinh Linh Special Area." came increasingly apparent, On some occasions, the re- the rules of engagement were ports of raids in the northern relaxed to permit heavy reac- part of the DMZ came on the tion raids, officials said. Pilots same days that. the American were permitted to attack not command reported .raids in only the gun, missile site or the Southern portion. On other radar that had threatened days, however, there were no them, but also other in.stalla- U.S. reports of B52 activity tions in. the area that could be near the border, said to support the gun, mis- A comparison of North Viet- silo, or radar. namese and. American state- A nen nte rpretation was merits at the time, and recent also permitted of the time in conversations with Pentagon which the reaction could take officials also revealed these place. Both American and other aspects of the air war North Vietnamese accounts in- during that four-menth period: .dicate that reinforcements et Major air raids were eon- from the fleet offshore were ducted in the first 11 days of 'called in to help out. March, 3.972, but vere report- On Jan. 19 and again on ed only as 25 distinct "protec- March 6, for example, the tire reaction" missions. The Navy planes staged major at- U.S. command refused to re- tacks on the Quang Lang air- veal the number of planes in- field area north of Vinh. Hanoi volved. Radio reported that "many - A North Vietnamese group, waves" of planes were in- the Commission for Investiga- volved in the Jan. 19 battle in tion of the U.S. Imperialists, which the Navy claimed the War Crimes in Vietnam, is- destruction of a Mig21 fighter sued a special communique on plane. March 16- in which it said 300 o During this period, both the sorties had been flown against Navy and the Air Force pm-ac- targets in the DMZ and three ticed a form of selective "pro- provinces between March 1 tective reaction" according to and 10. Pentagon officials. Recoil- Large raids were also imp- naissance planes flying over parently carried out on Nov. 7' North Vietnam were fired and 8; Nov. 21 to Dec. 5; Dec. upon with increasing frequen- 1.8; .Tan. 19 to 30; Jan. 31, Feb. . cy, but the reaction would of- ttir, crc were announce 'hiferl 6a4110 ctitical areas ? such as the Quang Lang airfield ? that the military commanders were ? eager -to hit. o Reports from Lay elle 's headquartersnot rily falsified the enemy actions but report- ? ed some attacks as having been carriea out against one ' target when the attack was actually aimed at another tar- get, Pentagon officials said. A report; for example, would de- scribe the target as a missile site when in fact the primary target was a nearby fuel dump. et Congressional sources said the numbers of sorties report- ed, by Hanoi Radio during some parts of the four-month period were much larger than the number of sorties reported in a classified document to members of Congress. The number of sort i. c s flown against targets in the north was not publicly announced in the past but is being ?an rimmeed dating the current bombing campaign. o Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird ended a 'isit to Sai- gon on Nov. 6, just before Lav- elle's unauthorized raids re- portedly began. Hanoi Radio complained on Nov. 8 about attacks by "many planes" and blamed the increase in air ac- tivity on Laird. Pentagon offi- cials have insisted, however, that Laird remained unaware of the unauthorized raids until a sergeant wrote to. Sen. Har- old Hughes, D-Iowa, and be- an Air Force investiga- tion. ? Pentagon officials say they know of no explanation for the . continued North Vietnamese complaints about 1,152 attacks on the ? northern portion of the. DMZ. ? During the period before 1352 I attacks on North Vietnam were authorized in April, they. said, the policy was to keep the big planes away from areas where the surface-to-air missiles were located. ? On Feb. 8, however, the war. crimes commission said in a, broadcast that the big planes had carried out 47 sorties and dropped 1,410 tons of bombs in . 0#0View) bombings" ._ 18THI of the DMZ -during January. And on March 7, it said the 1132 attacks were Z. xolix T U-ES Approved For Release 2142/11431P4A-RDP80-01601R000100 STATSPEC ? PEKING TAILORED NIXON TRIP NEVIS 'Reports to Indochina Kept - to a Bare Minimum By TAD SZULC Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, March 11? A survey of Peking's recent in- ternational broadcasting shows that President Nikon's visit to the mainland posed problems for the Chinese involving rela- tions with their allies. The Pekin* radio never told monitoring of broadcasting. Tailored to the Audience In the judgment of American analysts, Peking had to, tailor its reporting on the reception given Mr. Nixon to the listening areas. The silence on the Khmer- language service was seen as a gesture to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, whose government in exile has had its headquar-. ters in Peking. It encourages insurgency in Cambodia against the American-supported Gov- ernment in Pnompenh. The low-key reporting in the yietnamese-language service was believed to relate to Agency specializing in theilianoi's displeasure with the its Cambodian listeners in the Khmer-language service about the Presidential visit and kept to a bare minimum the reports beamed at North Vietnam and Laos. In contrast, Peking's inter- national service in English carried fully daily accounts, in- cluding he text of the final Chinese-American. communiqu? Broadcasts directed at South- east Asia and South Asia in Malay, Thai, Hindi, Bengali and Urdu offered reports. The survey was made avail- able by the Foreign Broadcast InformatiOn?Service, a bureau, of the Central Intelligence International ? Chinese decision to deal with Mr. Nixon while the Vietnam war goes on. Hanoi never told the North Vietnamese that Mr. Nixon spent a week in China, but it criticized the communi- qu? Peking devoted two broad- casts in Vietnamese; totaling' seven minutes, ,to President Nixon's arrival and his meet- ings with Chairman Mao Tse- ttin'g and Premier Chou En-lai subsequently news relating to Mr. Nixon followed the main topics. American experts, saying that North Vietnamese in the urban centers could have been reasonably well informed on the trip, explained that many listen regularly to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Saigon radio and the Peking radio's English-language serv- ice. The limiting of the reports in Vietnamese, they added, would have chiefly affected listeners in rural 'areas. Approved For Release 2002/01/03 : CIA-RDP80-01601R000100030001-0 ? N ? SAN DIEGO, cingroved For Release 2002/01/03 : CIA-RDP80-0160 STATSPEC UNION MAR 5 1972 ? 4H. - 139,739 S - 246,007 , 4 'T.-Ts-v.7,r 77-0c-1-7 9.1 SPACE AGE REPORT usslans Review esigns ,For Earth many; Lir ft ? ? 1By FRANK MACOMBER Military-Aerospace Writer It 'Copley News Service. There can .be no dress re, ? tearsal for a U.S.PSoviet link- ? 'up.. of manned spacecraft, ?,now tentatively schedtiled for . ? 71975. Thus the Russians have 'decided . to do the next best 'thing ? resume manned earth. Orbital flights this year in advanced Salyut and rede- . Signed. Soyuz space ? ye- ' hieles. This. is apparent from re- ?cent reports by the Foreign ? Broadcast Information Ser- vice, a U.S. gm'erriment ae- tivity which picks up broad- casts from other countries for . the State Department and the Central --44114gen- e.Y,, ? ? ? The Soviet decision to try ? . another Soyuz-Salyut flight ' ,,with. three cosmonauts ' ?aboard.grows out 'of two de- velopments: (1) a deter- ? mination to correct the flaws which contributed to the deaths of three Russian spacemen last June 30 as they descended to earth in their Soyuz 11 craft after a record 231/2-day mission and (2) to prepare for. history's ? first international manned space mission if it should 'come off. ? ? ? REDESIGNED SPACECRAFT The Russians are designing and building the new Salyut earth-orbiting spaceship to eliminate some of the so- called "housekeeping" chores which take time away from space-borne scientific ex- ?. periments. Salyut is being patterned also to adapt a "compatible" docking system which would couple the earth- orbiting craft with a surplus ? American Apollo spaceship, ? Each craft would carry three spacemen as -they liakedup in orbit about 185miAllEkrmve earth, So far there is no firm agreement on the U.S.-pro- posed 1975 space spect arm President Nixon may tkt up the loose ends during his visit to Moscow this spring. But his fisf,0,1?1.972-73 space budget contains no funds specifically for such a mission. The clock- ing system alone would cost about $50 million. Of more urgent concern to the Russians than the pro- posed linkup is a solution to the problems which beset. the. Soyuz 11 craft as it sprung a hatch leak and broke the vac- uum which had given three Soviet cosmonauts an earth- like Atmosphere in space. Georgi T. Drobovolsky, Via- distal; N. Volkov and Viktor I. Patsayev died from the, loss of cabin pressure only 30 min- utes away from touching down after nearly 24 days in space. (The cosmonauts had been launched aloft in the Soyuz 11 craft, then fastened on to the Salyut for the record spin around earth, transferring back to Soyuz 11 for the ill- starred ride back home.) Konstantin Feoktistov, a chief designer of both the So- yuz and Salyut craft and a cosmonaut himself, disclosed some of the spaceship prob- lems during a recent dis- cussion of the Soyuz-Salyut mission. ? For one thing, the cosmo- nauts had to spend so many hours maintaining their Sal- yut spacecraft that. valuable scientific research time was lost, according to Feoktistov. Moreover, weightlessness hampered their efforts to op- erate delicate instruments. Even so, the cosmonaut- physicist said, advanced Sal- yut craft will carry more sci- entific apparatus than the previous one, so cosmonauts Kre91M8 40OrgatC1 ,resources, space phenomena and biemedical studies. TIME FOR EXPERIMENTS New automatic controls will be built into the 'new Sal- yut, to, give cosmonauts more hours for experiments and less time for manual oper- ation of their spacecraft. The decision to increase rather than reduce scientific experiments during the. next Salyut-Soyuz mission came after long debate within the Soviet Academy .of Sciences and at a time when morale in Russia's. space program was low. The death of three cosmo- nauts shook Russian con- fidence in the Soviet, space venture. just as Americans were shaken when three U.S. astronatits died in flames on an Apollo launch pad in 19S7. The academy debate re- volved around -the' future roles of man in his spacecraft rather than whether the Rus- sians shold turn more to un- manned, highly instrumented space probes. The decision of Russian sci- entists to continue with man- ned missions and even more scientific experiments was evident from Feoktistov's re- marks. He would not have ut- tered them ?without academy sanction. ? Stressing that the weight-' less problem was perhaps the most serious roadblock in the. way of man's ability to per- form scientific tasks in space, Feoktistov observed: "The (Soyuz 11) cosmo- nauts experienced a per- manent, shortage of time. Weightlessness did not play the smallest role in this, since, it materially complicated the work with instruments which (' EPOCH BEGINNING ' - 1. "It is very important that ' we understand this far-from- trivial characterisitc of re- search operations in space, discovered as early as the very first flight Of an orbital , station. "From this it does not fol- , Ilow that in the future we must retreat from the prin- ciple of scientific apparatus on an' orbiting station, -or from the concept of a satu- rated scientific program. "Actually, the epoch of de- tailed study of our planet and near space from manned spacecraft is only begin- ? ning." The Russians have had company in ,their problems with man's inability to per- form well in a. weightless state. U.S. astronauts have had trouble walking in space ? , during earth-orbital flights. They have fared better than the Russians in operating their spacecraft; however, be- causp American spaceships are mote fully automated than those of the Russians. demand fine and precise coordination of movements. 3 : CIA-RDP80-01601R000100030001-0 STATSPEC NEW YORX TIMES ? Approved For Release2290FM/V2CIA-RDP80-016 Hanoi Is Silent on Trip; Korean Reds Give News By TAD SZULC Mr. Nixon would go to China. Specie! to The New York Times Since last summer, however, WASHINGTON, Feb. 22:? North Vietnamese commenta- Two days after President ries have been full of oblique Nixon's arrival in China, the warnings that the United - North Vietnamese population States was attempting to split apparently remains unaware of Communist unity through its it?unless have heard individual citizens approaches to certain Commu- the news on the Pe- ? king radio or other broadcasts. nist states. As of noon today, the Nixon Most recently, this theme visit had remained unreported was sounded in an authorita- in the North Vietnamese press tive article, signed "Commenta- and radio, despite extensive an- tor," in the official North Viet- - nouncements in Chinese broad_ name Communist newspaper, casts this morning. There have Nha.1 Dan, a week ago. also been discreet items on So- But Hanoi has also gone out viet and North Korean radio services. 'The handling of , the Nixon visit by the Communist news media was made available here by the Foreign Broadcast Infor- mation Service, a bureau of the Central Intelligence Agency specializing in the monitoring of foreign broadcasts. ? Government analysts and for- eign diplomats here who spe- cialize in Communist affairs took the view that the way in which each Communist coun- try treats Mr. Nixon's presence in Peking in informing, or fail- ing to inform, its people re- flects the attitudes held by the individual governments toward the ndw Chinese-American re- lationship. ? Thus North. Vietnam, which Is involved in hostilities with . the United States, has decided -simply to ignore the Nixon visit, ,at least for the time being. Specialists here recalled that the Hanoi press and radio never actually announced that of its way to deny, indirectly, Western reports that Le Duc ? Tho, a senior member of the North Vietnamese POlitburo, would be in Peking at the same time as Mr. Nixon. Speculation in the Western press was that Mr. Tho might meet with senior American officials in Peking to discuss peace possibilities. Mr. Tho held several secret meetings in Paris last year with Henry A. Kissinger, Mr. Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser, who is now with the President in Peking. In a broadcast this morning. Hanoi radio said that Mr. Tho held a "cordial" meeting yes- terday with George Wald, a, biology professor at Harvard) University and a' 1967 Nobel ) Prize winner, who is visiting Hanoi. The Moscow radio told the listeners of its domestic and International services this morning that the "cool Wel- come" given Mr. Nixon in Peking was a "maneuver" by the Chinese leadership to dis- guise the Presidential visit in order to "save face" with the masses. This broadcast, however, was made before the appearance of today's issue of the official Peking newspaper slenmin Jib Pao, with detailed coverage of the Nixon visit, including pho- tographs of the President with Mao Tse-tung. . ? In its Mandarin-language broadcasts beamed at China, ,the Moscow radio has been 'attacking the Peking leadership for weeks over the Nixon visit. Last Saturday, for example, a Mandarin broadcast ,thastised the Chinese for "ignoring Tai- wan" in the preparations for Mr. Nixon's arrival. The broad- cast charged the Peking lead- ers with setting aside their ? claim to Taiwan in what it described as a move to placate Mr. Nixon. North Korea's Pyongyang radio, citing "foreign press re- ports" as its source, today told its public that the American President was in Peking. The dry and factual account of Mr. Nixon's activities included his conference with Chairman Mao and his attendance at the ban- quet given by Premier Chou En-lai.. Last August, Premier Kim Il Sung of North Korea said in a speech, rebroadcast later by Pe- king, that Mr. Nixon was going to China with the "white flag of surrender." Last Sunday the Pyongyang radio, reporting on the Nixon trip, remarked that the Presi- dent. was going to Peking with "a white flag in one hand and a beggar's bowl in the other." Approved For Release 2002/01/03 :.CIA-RDP80-01601R000100030001-0 1311.1.14IVRE SUN_ Approved For Release 2021MN I97aa-RDP80-01601R0001 ...? Ric Iturcl Wilson ? 111.1,f. II The Times withholds rebuttal to a erue Washington. itself in tins case to publish. A, -cruel deception is being ing merely a summary of the perpetuated by heedless men exclusive statement it re- to effect that all Presi- dent .Nixon need do to secure the release of prisoners of , war .held in North Vietnam is to,declare a specific date for the complete withdrawal of all American forces. The depth of this deception ceived from Hanoi, and did not relate this response to the questions it had asked except to say that none had been answe.red directly. Nor, it was indicated, would the, Times have done this much had it not been for the fact that the Foreign Broad- is emphasized in a response. cast_ information Service of to questions submitted to the ? the Central Intelligence Agen- Hanoi government by the cy had published in its week- New York Times, which the ly report the substance of the .neWspaper decided not to exchange in its regular tune- publish. The reasons leading to ,this decision are curious. tion of monitoring Hanoi's : public communications. page 10 of its January ' 21 editionunder a headline Furthermore, a good many , saying "Hanoi's Cable. to readers would conclude that Times Cites Peace Aim," the the Hanoi response confirmed ? ? Times gave this main reason beyond any shadow of doubt for not Publishing Hanoi's re- the Nixon administration's , sponse to the questions sub- claim that North Vietnam has ? mitted by its managing edi- flatly turned down a prisoner release in exchange for a firm withdrawal date. tor: The response was no differ- ent than previous positions stated at the Paris peace nego- Senator George McGovern tiations by Hanoi's represent- (D., S.D.), a -candidate for atives, and published at the president, has, in effect, time inthe Times. called Mr. Nixon a liar for ? This, excuse for not publish- making that claim. big -Honors responSe can be Aside from revealing the questioned for several rea- hazards of a newspaper sons. First, the cable was an trying to conduct, or at least official statement direct from influence, foreign affairs, the Hanoi and. not filtered incident of this unpublished through the North Vietnamese document from Hanoi nails delegation in Paris. down hard what the Commu- nist government will settle for. It will settle for the humilia- tion of the --United States, complete renunciation of the Thieu government, and an. end to all support for the elected government of South Vietnam. Then?maybe? it will release American prison- ers of war. ' Second, the Times, in an interview earlier with the head of. the Communist dele- gation, had spread the pression that releasing prison- ers of war could be separated ' from other issues at the Paris conference. . And, third. the Hanoi re- sponse might have helped to clear the minds of those who . cultivate the deception that _ the. prisoner of war question can -be separated from North Vietnam's insistence that all ? troops must be withdrawn, all support to the Thieu govern- - ment'cut off and the policy of Vietnamization abandoned. The Times could have placed these facts in high ? relief by publishing its ques- tions and Hanoi's cabled re- sponse, but it did not do so. ? Senator McGovern and, The Times often has pub- more recently, Senator Mike lished, and makes a special - Mansfield (D., Mont.), persist . point of publishing, important in the notion that it is all public documents. It conkilisfirlo4N1FOItuikeiWatMe2W2901 /03 : CIA-RDP80-01601R000100030001-0 plete withdrawal and Hanoi will interpret that as letting the Theiu government go down the drain and promptly , release, the prisoners. The war will then be over. Hanoi's cable makes it a lot clearer: President Nixon .,imist pull out of Vietnam to- tally stop backing the Ngliyen Van Thieu bellicose cliquc and conform to alt seven points of Hanoi's peace pro- posal, which would accom- plish the complete humiliation of Mr. Nixon in his attempt to achieve a constructive end to the war. ? Approved For Release 2002/01/03 : CIA-RDP80-01601R0001 SALT LAKE CITY, UTArt TRIBUNE N, 3 1971 ? " M - 108,270 S ? 188,699 STATSPEC It's Only Fair New ? York Times managing editor A. M. Rosenthal, in an effort to clarify North Vietnam's position on the release of American prisoners of war, cabled eight questions to Thmier Pham Van Dong. Upon receipt of Hanoi's reply, the Times ' decided, after what it says was much consideration, not: to publish the reply, since, as the Times messaged North Vietnam, "its content is identical to previ- ous statements made by your government and subsequently' ? printed by the New York Times." ? Mr. Rosenthal cabled the paper's. de, ? cision to Hanoi on Jan. 17. On Jan. 20, and we quote from the New York Times Service report, "The Times decided to re- port on the exchange after it was. learned that the United States government had obtained Hanoi's reply to the paper as well as the paper's questions and that a ?brief summary of the exchange was ineluded in a weekly report distributed for government use by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a bureau of the Cen- tralelligence Agency. The reportels macre available to newsmen covering the State Department." Seemingly, the Times still prints all the news that's fit ? even on second thought. But, considering the huge controversy that erupted when the Pentagon Papers were "leaked" to the Times, we wonder who "leaked" the Times' "Hanoi Papers" to the CIA. It would appear the Times and federal government are about even. Truly, turnabout's fair play.' Approved For Release 2002/01/03 : CIA-RDP80-01601R000100030001-0 STATSF'EC TilE ILNDON rAnY rrancru..77, Approved For Releaft 211112/0.9tri$ : CIA-RDP80-016 AL rE21E CcDa As British influence in Africa declined, so did British secret serv , sending hundreds of agents to African capitals like Accra, Lag to buttress "sensitive" states against communism and protect E. H. Cookridge continues his exclusive series on the CIA HE adventurous operations often bordering on the bizarre which the Central Intelligence ? Agency pursued in many parts of the world are usually / ascribed to one man: Allen Dulles. J They culminated in the abortive in- vasion of Cuba in 1961. When Dulles departed from the directorship of CIA after the Bay of Pigs debacle, he certainly left an indelible stamp of his influence as the architect of the mighty CIA edifice and its worldwide rami- fications. The policy of his successors has, however, been no less forceful. CIA acthrities under its present director, Richard McGarrah Helms, may appear less aggressive because they are being conducted with greater caution and less publicity, and because they have been adroitly adjusted to the changing climate iri international poli- tics. In the past CIA gained notoriety by promoting revolutions in Latin American banana republics, and sup- porting anti-communist regimes in South-East Asia. Its operations in Africa were more skilfully camou- flaged. For many years they had been on a limited scale because the CIA had ? relied on the British secret service to provide intelligence from an area where the British had unsurpassed ex- perience and long-established sources of information. But with the emergence of the many African independent countries, the wave of "anti-colonial- ist" emotions, and the growing in- filtration of Africa by Soviet and Chinese "advisers", British influence declined. Washington forcefully stepped, through CIA, into the breach; with the avowed aim of containing communist expansion. ? . ? Financial investments in new in- dustrial and mining enterprises, and lavish economic aid to the emerging governments of the "underdeveloped" countries, paved the road for the influx of hundreds of CIA agents. Some com- bined their intelligence assignments with genuine jobs as technical, agri- cultural and scientific advisers. ? The British Government ? parti- pularly after the. Labour Party had come to power in 1964 ? withdrew most of their SIS and MIS officials from African capitals, though some f" CS is- t Cy r ?01" - _ - t