THE PERISCOPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200790007-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 19, 1971
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

NEWSWIE;EK
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CASE.: OF THE CHANGEABLE DEFECTOR
The U.S. lost a skirmish with Seoul over that
North Korean pilot who crash-landed in the south
last December. North Korea demanded his re-
turn; Seoul refused, saying he had defected.
American Intelligence, however, agreed with the
pilot, who claimed lie simply got lost and wished
to go home. Despite U.S. urging that he he senti
.back, the South Koreans persisted After six
months in custody, the pilot now says he was
a defector and has accepted a commission in
Seoul's air force. The Americans are worried
about the effect this could have on attempts to
get back U.S. personnel captured' in North Korea.'
THE PENTAGON'S MAN TO SELL
The man to convince before any early U.S.-Soviet.
pact on nuclear - arms can be drawn is physicist,. John Foster, the Pentagon research chief. Foster,..
who has strong support from Defense Secretary
Melvin Laird, will take nothing less than ironclad,
verifiable guarantees that Russia will neither
deploy enough missiles to destroy U.S. land-
based ICBM's and bombers nor "thicken" their
existing air-defense missile system. Laird will in-
sist on vetoing any pact Foster disapproves.
MORE 'SECRETS' IN PiiIN T
More secret documents will hit the public prints
this fall in a book, "Washington Plans an Ag-
gressive War," based on interviews with some,
300 persons involved in Vietnam decisions, rang-
ing from Cabinet officers to field commanders,
many of whom volunteered documents and pri-
vate notes. The writers are Marcus Raskin, a
JFK White House aide (who was tried and ac-
-quitted with Dr. Benjamin Speck on anti-draft
charges), Richard Barnet, a JFK-era State De-
partment hand (and author of "The Economy of
Death") and Ralph Stavins, a former Reed Col-
lege professor. Their book will propose barring
war planners from "positions of public trust."
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