PROTEST A MOVE TO HALT CRIMES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300130008-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 17, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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The March 10 demonstration against campus complicity with
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was a big step forward in
building a movement to hP It CIA and CIA-style crimes. It should
hasten the day that the CIA recruiters pledge, "We do not go where
we are not wanted," will be applied to Angola, Chile, Iran and
elsewhere throughout the world.
Less impressed was noted logician Stephen Karganovic, who
took up half the Monday Daily Student opinion page to rant and
rave about ]row horrible the Young Socialist Alliance is for helping
buuild the demonstration and working with the Committee to End
Campus Complicity with the CIA (CECCIA). He tells us that we
Trotskyists should be "grateful" to the CIA for not having murdered
us (not in the United States, at least, although the CIA's record in
other countries, notably Chile and Argentina, is less generous) but
"only" infiltrates and disrupts our movement. As a law student
Karganovic could at least point out that such domestic surveillance
supposedly is forbidden by the CIA's own charter. But he is too
busy lecturing us about "hypocrisy" to allow facts to get in his way.
With equally astounding logic, Karganovic tells us that we should
show our "gratitude" to the American government for
granting certain t' civil liberties by not fighting to expand those civil
liberties and by not opposing the governments abridgment of these
rights.
Karganovic accusses the Trotskyist movement of a "death
instinct" and charges it with "abstention" in the fight against
Stalinism and the KGB. Absurd! The Trotskyist movement was born
out of a struggle against Stalinism and its police state terror and
remains to this clay its bitter opponent. Trotskyists have campaigned
throughout the world against the Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia, in solidarity with anti-Stalinist upsurges in Eastern
Europe, for freedom for all Soviet dissidents, from Solzhenitsyn to
Pyotr Grigorenko and Leonid Plyusch, and for freedom for political
prisoners in Czechoslovokia. Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, China and
elsewhere. We have built rallies, demonstrations, petitions drives and
teach-ins in this effort. We do so, because we believe socialism and
democracy are inseparable and that the anti-Stalinist revolution in
the East will deal a powerful blow to capitalism in the West.
Karganovic raises the specter of Stalinism only to white-wash
the crimes of U.S. imperialism and police state agencies such as the
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CIA --- incidentally these crimes have been going on long before
there ivas a "Communist threat" bogeyman to "save" us from. Tie '?
doesn't like it being pointed out that the CIA is so cynical that it
even murders the errant U.S. hirelings in he Third World such as
Diem and Trujillo. There isn't much horror amont; the thieves
Karganovic apologizes for.
Where Karganovic - shows his true colors is on the issue of
Vietnam. lie justifies the sordid record of imperialist bloodletting in
Vietnam by bringing up the alleged 1968 NIX "terrorist" massacre
a: Hite -- a massacre which subsequently has been shown to he the
%..ork of U.S. bombers and artillery, the real practitioners of
terrorism in Vietnam. Kargar.ovic whines about the exposure of U.S.
war crimes in Indochina; `?fivery aspect of American conduct has
been discussed publicly (and magnified) in this rotten country
."
"Rotten country"? It's amusing luny fast K.arganovic's assessment of
the American people chances once they become upset over }
overnn,ental wrongdoing. Tk adds, "One of the culprits has even
been court-martialed." Our. Daily Student Kremlinologist hardly,
should need to be reminded that even the Soviets can produce
scapegoats when they are needed. The real culprits, or war
criminals to be more exact, are, men like Nixon, Kissinger, laird,
".tcNarnara and their like :vho walk the streets as free men.
Karganovic's justification for U.S. involvement in Vietnam
during his defense of the CIA is no coincidence. It was revelations
about the real nature of U.S: involvement in Vietnam which showed
many Americans that the "enemy" was not some foreign powerrhut
here at home and headquartered in Washington, D:C. Furthermore,
the "enemy" which the U.S. government hides its secrets from
turned out to be not some foreign power (they knew about it
anyway) but the American Public. When the people found out the
real nature of the war they forced the government to pull out of
Vietnam, and U.S. imperir:lism lost its first war. And very few
prersons, Karganovic among them, were terribly shook tip when this
happened. I suppose that's why lie calls the United States a rotten
country. And that is why the public has a right to know about the
CIA and other sordid police state agencies.
Steve Miller
for the Young Socialist Alliance
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