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• Publication Date: July 21, 1971
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td]ipment, according to 3.07r. Ilelms, suddenly 'would
become important to the United States, 'Zile Masten:-
? Owl cited here would lea ne to believe the Ca
? goes loo!iing for trouble.
. Of 21101'3 ill?..17?.Caiate CalleC!rn is what the C.T.A. la
? rec,,ent years. 1
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d fr?0.e earliest o approv luaio?
. 2ninir4raticni to tell Congress what the military and
, days ef our TOpuldie. 1'17n-41(1cl:it rolh, for example, the CIA aro doing in
' bad a showdoWn. WICA Congress in 1848 about ac-
?l'e several 'proposal's row S-
coumfing fol, nie. fun 3n
ds lic iiSea. "to 9plwt - po - - ate, a1l1.11f.TO before the on
ruate,d to the future, operations of the CIP, '
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nals for the p14.poses of obtaining informati011." I? Avhjeh we bciieve (iesenve i.,4m 1.11)1101 t otailit, booy.,
th-, CiN7ii Iiiar, the North hired the Pinherton Agency' Senator John flinr?-,92
to expand its intelligence services. , CIA 113 r?equired to .make 3...egula.r and special.
I : ports to responsible Senate anti TIonse CC flu
Lit the ti.le 0)1, today. Feem:?;.1 to have gone far be- 8euttior Gcoro-arjec-',.-- ?C11 v, ould recpure, CIA ex.
;yoitt, its origmal purpose f.C: otininea ?.1,,,n it, /;?,...vi penditureS and appl'OrriatiOn!:; to appear aS a 510013
creaf4.,,d inn...171,as a result Of the esperjeTice ef pearl line item in the budget rather than being hidden in
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Con of information in the government, it would have:
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, Congress.
been more difficult, if not impossible, for the japa-
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hese to succeed in the ah stic at tach ..? In those
days, the mi1li4ry did not hnow everything the fg.9 t43
Department lorew, and the diplomats did oat have -
access to all the AritlY and Navy hnew. "Phe Army.
And Y.,,l'avy, in fact, hail only a very informal CT-
. raugenicnt to l?zecp each other informed as to their
Plans." i
There is a feeling now that; the CIA' is an invis-
ible government --a law' unto itself, engaged in
provocative cOvert activities rcpup;uant to a demo-
errata society and. subject to no controls. ri'here
i, probably is nO isolated part of the world today
where CIA agOts aren't pohiug around in another;
in / nation's business,c
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, Some of th 'CIA's activities appear to approach :
the ridiculous : tage at times, such as an illustratio?
recently cited an address by the agency's own.,
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director, Riehaira Eicbus. Fie told how if; was vital to,
the 'United States to know how doe.p is the water'
alongside the docks in Djibouti. lay? Well, Mr.
Ilelms said 0141: if France Should- one clay grant
? independence 6 French Somaliland --, now formally.
the Terfritory Oi.' the, Afars and Issas --the area-
would almost 'Certainly b0 a source of contention
between EthloPia, which loolis to the United States
,. for support, and Somalia, which is highly dependent
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ack Anderson
oviets, Syrians
Fight Peace Bid
INTELLIGENCE reports
c1M'm? that the Soviet Union's
conspiring with Syria's Pres171
dent Hafez Assad to block 1
Egypt's President Anwar I
Sadat from achieving a Mid- I
dle East peace. settlement. I
By expelling Soviet forces
from: Egypt, Sadat had ma- I
neuvered into position to get '
some concessioris from Israel.
Indeed; there were signals
from Tel Aviv that Israel
would be generous about re-
turning captured territory. .
The Israelis .made it clear,
however,- that they intended
to keep the strategic. Golan
Heights which they seized
from Syria. 1 The Syrians;
therefore, would have noth-
. ing to gain from a peace set-.?-'
tlement.
Egypt and Syria are part-
ners, with Libya, in an Arab
tycOnfederation. But the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency,. ine
secret reports from Damas-
cus, has quoted President .ssad as making derogatory]
remarks about the Egyptians.
Not long after the expul-
sion of the Soviets ,from ?
Egypt, the -Kremlin sent an
urgent, hand-carried mespge.e '
to Assad.. The message,. ac--,
cording to the CIA, warned
that Syria couldn't afford to :?-?
follow Egypt's example ? and
strip the: country of Soviet.
protection.. This would_ leave
Syria vulnerable to. an-Israeli
attack, the message report-
edly declared.'
Not only..did Assad heed
the message and keep his So-
viet advisers, but he agreed
to bring more Soviet military
-
equipment and technicians
into the country.
The intelligence reports
suggest that the Kremlin
seeks to blpek an Egyptian-Ise. ,
melt accord?because it 1
could only be arranged by
U.S.. mediation. This would ? I
increase American influence
iu the area and leave the So
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*Oats out in the cold. -
THE SOVIET overtures to
Syria, incidentally, have also
has a side effect upon Syri-
an-American relations. Pre-
ApproatediForfaeleasei20
viously the Sy:dans had
prove their relations with the-
United States.
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- An intelligence report tells,
for example, how the Syrians
in July, 1969, communicated
with U.S. Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs
(13NDD) agents in Beirut
through an Italian diplomat
that they would agree to a re-
sumption of cooperation with
the United States on narcot-
ics matters... .??
Subsequently, according to
the classified document, "two
visits to Damascus by BNDD
agents were conducted car. ,
dially and an exchange of in
formation was initiated.".
American diplomats from.
Lebanon and Jordan Twern
also allowed . to travel.
Syria. But suddenly, on Sept.,
9, -.Maj. Richard Barrett, an
assistant U.S. 'nailitarY
tache in Jordan, was arrested
as he was driving through)
the Syrian countryside. -
And David McClintoch,a!
chief of the political section
at the U.S. embassy in Jor-
dan, was manhandled by Syr.
Ian border guards when bet.
tried to cross the border. He
was turned back and had 'to
be driven out of Syria; an
Italian embassy car.
Castro's Denial
- WE - RECENTL o
Y : :quted..
. . . . .
Cuba's' Prime Minister Fidel:::
Castro as saying that Chile's'.
President Salvador - Allende-e ,
was "physically sPent"- and-e I
that other Chilean. leaders:
"live ton well."'
This' has brought a roaring .!
denial. from Castro, whose.
private opinions of Allende '.
weren't intended for outside-.
ears. The .two leaders, ?after -!
all, are supposed to be Marx-
ist comrades.
We copied - Castro's - re,..
marks verbatim from a secret..
Intelligence ' cable, a which':
gave a detailed account of his-
meeting with pro-Castro lead-
ers in Chile last winter.
"During the morning of .3..
December 1971," began - the
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cable, "Fidel Castro and Ar- "
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met with a very few nationals
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who are strong sympathiz-
ers of the Cuban revolution .
in the residence of the Cuban ;
ambassador in Santiago.' II
As we reported . earlier,
'Castro said he is worried-,
about .Allende- because the':
latter is physically spent. CaS-::
tro also observed that UP
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[Allende's 'popular unity-;
governmentl'leaders live too
well and are not under suffi-
cient tension to take? the -!of-',:
fensive.
- Here are some adclitionala
quotes which we didn't. in-
clude in our original story
-. "Castro commented., that !
there is an ideological weak- ?
ness Within the UP coali?
tion. The U.P.i. he said; does
not have a good grasp of the',
problems. which are involved.
in a revolutionary procss
"Castro stated that
Communist.- Party of Chile
(PCCH), which he called the
spinal-column of the Popular'
Unity government, was 'ton
conservative and said that it
must become more radical-.
and move to assume the role,
of the vanguard of the U.P.":-
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Coded 'Messages
At the height of the Olym-
pic drama, -when -the Black
September terrorists were
moving their Israe.li hostages
Si
to the Munich airport for the sored by one of these organi
Iunexpected shoot-out, guer- zations was alwaYs a Possibil--
rilla radio transmitters in itY'
"He added, however, that
Syria broadcast a number of Syria and Fatah were fully.
coded messages. agreed on a policy of no fur-
"From Samir to the eagle," titer provocations arainst-Joy-
began a typical message, "We clan and that Arafat had prom:
await your gift. The sky is ised to force the radical organ-
clear and the job well done." izations in Syria into line,'' ? ??
: There is other evidence that It may be significant that
the terrorists .may have re- the emphasis was on avoiding.
ceived orders from a clandes- trouble with Syria's Arab.
tine headquarters in Syria, neighbor Jordan, not on prc7..
However, the Syrian authori- venting ' provocative acts.
ties, while paying lip service against Israel.
to the Palestinian cause, have Talas was _quoted by :the
kept tight control over guer- CIA as saying: "We have had
rilla operations within, their enough of Arabs .shedding
borders. . Arab blood, The enemy is -is-
rad, and when. the time for
No Guarantee battle comes, then they, can
The Central Intelligence fight as much as they like
Agency has reported from Da- against the Israelis."
mascus that the Syrian author- The Syrian army .chief Te-
Ries reachdd an agreement ealled the military showdown.
with Yasir Arafat, leader of .between Jordan and the Pales.!
the largest Palestinian guer- tinian guerrillas in September,,
rilla organization, al Fatah, 1970, which spawned the Black:
"to rein in the extremist or- September movement. Jordan
ganizations and not allow :smashed the guerrillas and
them either to cause any fur- drove back Syrian tanks that
titer troubles inside Syria or had been sent to help the-.
to cause trouble with Jordan." guerrillas.
The CIA, quoting the pri- "We fought the Jordania!s:
vate.remarks of Syrian Army in September, 1970," Talas
Chief of Staff Mustafa Talas, quoted by the -CIA. "We loSt.
added: "He could not
guaran.. some tanks and men: they_lost
tee 100 per cent that there some tanks and men; nobody..
would be no further provoca. won. And for what purpose?. ,
We were taken in by the .fe-
tons by the .fedayeen against
Jordan, as neither (Syria) nor daYeerl In 1-970,111; we are ab-
Fatah had full control over soiutelY determined we will.
the extremist elements in the not allow such a thing to hap-
radical fadayeen organiza- ipen again."
tions, and .an 'accident' spon- I ?1972, UnIted Feature Syndicate
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The ViraWitgtort Merry...Go-Round
Ara4s
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By Jack Anderson
Arab leaders disagree, in
private, whethe to renew ; hos-
t/
ilities against I reel.
Their most secret conversa-
tions, picked u by the Cen-
tral Intelligenc Agency, re-
veal that Syri 's President
Hafiz al-Asad holds Egypt's
President Anwriit Sadat in con-
tempt for thre tenlng an of-
fensive he isn't 1 kely to start.
Even if Egypt should attack
Israel, Asad has told asso-
ciates, "I would lot expect too
much from the gyptians." lie
added fiercely that the Egyp-
tians "will never again pull
US into a war and leave Us in
the lurch."
Next time, he said, the Syri-
ans will be read,'. "When the
blow comes," he said,
"whether Egypt or Israel
starts it first, we
opportunity and
The secret in
port, telling of
Batton, emphasi
used the A
"l a m m a" w
"when," not "if."
will seize the
ight."
?elligence re-
sad's conver-
ed that he
'able word
ich 'means
? His army chic!, Gen, Mus-
tafa Tales, is also quoted In
the secret cable as telling his
military colleagUes tersely:
"There is no oth r choice. We
must fight and w will fight."
Ho acknowled ed that "all
the Arabs co 1.1s1.ned are
weaker than Isr el." But he
vowed the Syrians, at least,
would fight anyway "if not to
gain a victory, at least to keep
the war case ho between us
and Israel." ?
gree on
As he, put it: "If the Arabs
had continued to fight Israel
after their successive defeats
in 1948, 1056 and 1967, rather
than turning their backs in de-
feat, many world leaders would
have changed their policies"
toward the Arab-Israeli dis-
pute.
Military Moves
Significantly, Syrian troops
and armor have been spotted
moving "through Damascus
heading south," and the Syri-
ans are reported to be "seri-
ously preparing for new hostil-
ities with Israel."
The Egyptians, meanwhile,
have been shouting the loud-
est about resuming the war.
But in private, Gen. Mahmud
Tuhami, the Egyptian-army's
operations chief has told inti-
mates that "any major at-
tempt at crossing the Suez
Canal is bound to fail."
Declares a secret cable: "Tu-
hami said that President
Anwar Sadat, when threaten-
ing Israel with an all-out war,
was bluffing and ... informed
the army of this."
Tuhami suggested that the
army might "carry out small-
scale commando attacks" but
that these raids "would be
carefully controlled so as not
to cause over-reaction from
the Israelis."
The Egyptian high com-
mand, he said, was "very con-
cerned that Israel would take
advantage of Sadat's threats
to carry out a preemptive
strike which would destroy
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the Egyptian army and air
force."
The U.S. has renewed its
efforts, meanwhile to set-
tle the Arab-lsraeli dispute at
the truce table rather than the
battlefield. American diplo-
mats have spread the word, ac-
cording to a secret report, that
"we could not be complacent
about future Egyptian military
moves if no political progress
is achieved."
Footnote: The Syrians bent.
tie the Egyptians in private
but fight with the Jordanians
an intelli-
President
In the open. Yet
gence cable quotes
Asad as commenting wryly
"that perhaps the Syrian
army would find itself along-
side the Jordan Arab army as
ies which
the only two arm
would fight Israel fiercely."
Washington Whirl
Ulterior Welcome?Those
Welcome Wagons, laden with
bounties for new arrivals in
neighborhoods across the na-
tion, are under investigation.
The Federal Trade Commis-
sion has evidence the smiling
hostesses, in some cases, have
been doubling as private eyes
for the business firms whose
free gifts they pass out. Some
hostesses allegedly have been
reporting back the age and
make of cars, the condition of
carpeting and the financial af-
fairs of the families they visit,
Chairman Miles Kirkpatrick
has written Rep. Ogden Reid
(R-N.Y.) that the FTC is look-
ing "into the various practices
Of Welcome Wagon, Inc." The
company has denied that occa-
sional snooping by its cheery
young ladies is company pea
icy.
Top Secret Jokes?Whel
the National Security Agencs
is not clacking out classifiec
messages in code over in
closely-guarded teletype ma
chines, the electronic far(
tends to get a little gamy, Dur
lag .a recent slack period, dig
nified security officials west
astounded to see their tele
types rattling out more that
200 words of the vulgar olt
joke that begins, "Once upoi
a time there lived a man whi
had a mad passion for bean.
. ." The officials discoverec
that clerks had been tenth)
each other dirty jokes on nu
secret circuit when it was no
being used for transmittini
cryptographic intelligence re
ports.
Strange Econornics?Thc
laurpose of President Nixon':
economic program is to keel
costs clown. Yet the Genera
Accounting Office recent];
use the new economic reg,ula
lions to keep prices up. Tht
National Graphics Corp. of Co
lumbus, Ohio, was low bidde
on some government bindint
and printing contracts. ,Bla
the company, because of as
oversight, had failed to sign
pledge certifying it was in tint
with the President's economii
orders. Its low bid should hay(
spoken for itself. But instem
of giving National Graphics I
chance to correct its oversight
the GAO gave the contract 11
the second low bidder at a losi
to the taxpayers of $4,500.
Bell-McClure Syndicate
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