JACK ANDERSON ISRAELIS INFILTRATE ARAB REGIMES

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THE ISRAELIS have out-
maneuvered the Arabs not
only on the battlefield but in
the bazaars and back alleys -
where Mideast Intrigue has
been practiced for centuries.
Israeli 'agents-immigrants
whose families had lived in
Arab lands for generations-
have a perfect knowledge of.
Arab dialects and customs.
They have been able to infil-
trate Arab governments with
ease, gaining access to the in-
nern7ost, circles.
Egypts' President Anwar
Sadat, for example, seldom
makes a move that goes unre-
ported to Israeli intelligence.
The death of his predecessor,
Gainal Abdel Nasser, was
known in Tel Aviv before it
was announced in Cairo.
The Israelis are also skill-
ful at exploiting Arab rival-
ries and turning Arab against
Arab. Every month, for exam-
ple, a secret Israeli, envoy
stills into the mountains in
northern Iraq to deliver
$50,000 to Mulla Alustafa al
Barzani, leader of the Kur-
dish tribes. The subsidy in-
sures Kurdish hostility
against Iraq, whose govern-
ment is militantly anti-Israel.
The Central Intelligence
Agency, reporting on a typi-
cal tryst, gives this secret ac-
count:
"An Israeli intelligence of-
ficer :'.. regularly delivers to
al Bar.zani Israel's $50,000
monthly subsidy ... Upon his
return to Tehran, (the agent)
reported that al Barzani was
continuing to gather men and
equipment together in antici-
pation of a probable encoun-
ter with the Iraqi Airily."
On at least one ? occasion,
Gen. Zvi Zamir, the Israeli
intelligence chief, called on
al Barzani in his mountain
stronghold.
"One purpose of General
Zamir's visit," reported the
CIA, "was to discuss the pos-
t
also was seeking assurance
from al Barzani of continued
Kurdish hostility toward the
Iraqi regime."
Unsung Iher'o
THE NAVAL ACADEMY
has produced hundreds of he-
roes whose deeds have
stirred the nation. This is the
saga of a gra.duate, dishon-
ored by the Navy, who dern-
onstrated a different hind of
courage:
Lt. Grant Kimball came
out. of the Naval Academy
more troubled than en-
thralled by the military pro-
fession. He had the courage
to renounce his teachings,
turn his back on war and de-
clare himself a conscientious
objector. This was such her-
esy that he was keelhauled
for three years by the Navy.
While Kimball was await-
ing his Conscientious objector
status, he refused to fight in
Vietnam. Ile signed an ac-
knowledgment that he had
received orders to go to Viet-
nam. But first, lie asked for a
lawyer to advise him. Tlie
Navy refused him legal coun-,
sel,. and then charged him
with "desertion." Ills signa-
ture was used its evidence
against him.
Facing a 1U ;year prison
term for desertion, he was.
provided with it Navy law-
yer, Lt. James Toms, who.
supported the Vietnam war..
But he still was determined
to give Kimball 'a good de-
fense.
In an affidavit In our pos-
session, Toms swears that the
court martial judge, Capt.
John Glecson, told him "that
If I persisted in my vigorous
advocacy in the case, he had
a good mind to hold me in
contempt of court and place
me in the Treasure Island
brig for, a few days."
THE CAPTAIN also told
Kimball outside the court=,
STATOTHR
the Navy and deserved con-
demnation . . ." Gleeson
added that "the type of think.
ing Lt. Kimball represents
would, if supported, bring
about. the fall of tha Ameri-
can ftcpublic." Gleeson then
secured a one page leaflet on
the fall of the Roman Empire
and ordered Kimball to read
it, Toms attests.
During the court martial,-
Kimball's lawyers were re-
fused essential documents.
Sol-lie of tlieir request's for
data were later discovered in
the prosecution's file folders.
One court martial member
who swore he had no prior
knowledge of the case, ac-
tually had custody of the pre_
trial investigation reports.
Even prior to Kimball's
court martial, Admiral Elmo
Zumwalt, then Vietnam naval
commander and now - the
Navy chief, expressly said he
didn't want Kimball in Viet-:
nani. But Zuinwalt's message
was not allowed into evi,
dence.
Such rulings convinced
Kimball he was before a
hanging court, which might
-lock him tip for 10 years, So
he reluctantly agreed to
plead guilty to lesser charges
on the promise there would
be no prison term.
Now he is citing prejudice
by the Navy in an effort to
get the Navy Records Correc-
tion Board to wipe out his
dishonorable dismissal. When
he sought Navy records
for his appeal, the Navy
at first refused many of
them. Sen. William Spong,
(D-Va.), got some data cut
loose.
Clearly, the Navy prefers
war heroes to peace heroes.
Footnote: Captain Gleesott
has retired from the Navy
and moved to Rome. We sent,
him a copy of the pertinent
parts of Toms' affidavit, ask-
ing for comment. But we re-
ceived no answer. The Navy
has said it has "carefully, de-
liberately a ii d impartially
weighed" the evidence in the
Kimball case and was stick-
ing to its guns.
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These Soviet Moes
Concern the S)?
Behind the scenes 'the 'U.S.S.R. Is demonstrating again
how beautifully it plays both sides of the street. Unrevealed,
Iran is the current proof-likewise proving the truism that
the Communists' never do anything openly that they can
achieve by stealth.
The Kremlin proceeds like a good gen-
eral moves on the battlefield, taking one
pivotal position to dominate the next pivotal
position. And immense Iran is a vital pawn
in the Soviet's Mediterranean penetration.
Britain's influence in maintaining stahil-
ity in the Middle East has all but vanished.
The British have abandoned states and
rulers that they established and supported.
The exoanded Soviet Mediterranean fleet
A.xa.r. has turned what had long been a British
lake into a potential focal point for nuclear confrontation. We
have heard much about' this. But the erosion of the Mideast
situation and the subversion of existing regimes in. oil-rich
Arab countri6s is the current intent.
THIS IS NOT VISIONARY. The Arab governments are
shot through with individuals whose real loyalties are to
dissident Jactors. And most Arabs are willing to pay high
.for what they call ''akhad taro" -- their revenge.
Iran Is the bitter. foe of Iraq. That nervous country, more
than twice (lie' size of Utah, stands beyond Iran in the
sequence of continuous pivotal places to be dominated in
changing the geopolitical balance in. the vital European-
Mideast'area.
The Kremlin's subversives are at work in Baghdad, Iraq's
capital, burrowing everywhere like fiddler crabs busy at
their hidden business in the sand. And from what I myself
have seen of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, ha is about
as reliable as a skid-row alcoholic. .
Our Central Intelligence Agency has reported to Secretary
of State William P. Rogers that the Soviet subversion results
have so frightened President al-Bakr that he has secretly
agreed to place an estimated 12,000 troops in Jordan and
another 6,000 in Syria as part of the general Kremlin-supported
confrontation with Israel. Further, he has accepted new oil
development loans from the U.S.S.R. Meanwhile, Iraq has
publicly .signed a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.
IRAN IS the world's fourth -largest oil producer an e
Soviet could sniff out in a twinkling Iran's four main ports
and its new $02 million Kharg Island oil-loading station on
the Persian Gulf. The Soviet fleer is moving into the vacuum
created by the British Navy's departure from the Persian
Gulf and this will give the U.S.S.R. a firm hand on the
area's oil faucet.
As a result the Kremlin has tucked under its belt a
contract to build near Isfahan Iran's first steel mill. The
government's Iran National Oil Company has made a'$10
million contract with Techno-Export, a Soviet firm, to develop
and exploit an oil field in southern Iran. The Shah has
authorized the purchase of Soviet aircraft, military equip-
ment, etc. -
All. this. is highly relevant to our future. The Kremlin's
current behind-the-scenes pressure on the Shah of Iran is
the frontal push against a Soviet Mediterranean strategy
dedicated to a military-political outflanking of NATO and
all of Western Europe, -
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" INSIIALLAII" (God willing) is. the' key word and phil-
osophy in the Arab world and this was President al-Bakr's
utterly unsatisfactory answer to these actions, reports the
CIA to Secretary Rogers.
Thus the pro-American Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza
Pahlevi, is caught anew in the Soviet nutcracker.
The worried Shah's country is larger than Alaska, In
fact, it is nearly as large as all America east of the Missis-
sippi. Iran,, derived from Aryan and long referred to as
Persia, borders on the U.S.S.R., Afghanistan, Pakistan and
It. Soviet border is more than 1,000 miles long, The
Trans=Iranian railroad has 4,100 bridges and 54 miles of
tunnels. These mean easy crippling by an enemy. Its air-
ports at the capital, Teheran, and at Isfahan, Shiraz and
Abadan are totally vulnerable.
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A Short History
of ClAintervention
in Sixteen
Foreign Countries
In July, 1947, Congress passed one of the most significant
pieces of legislation in the history of America in peacetime. The
National Security Act of 1947 created The National Security
Council, the Department of Defemr .the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the
United States Air Force and, not least of all, the CIA. This act
provided the Agency with five principal duties:
1. To advise the National Security Council on matters concern-
ing intelligence.
2. To make recommendations for the coordination of such intel-
ligence matters.
3. To correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to national
security and disseminate it to other government departments.
4: To perform "such additional services of common concern as
the National Security Council determines can be more efficiently
accomplished centrally."
5. To perform "such other Junctions and duties as the NSC
would direct.'."
In 1949 Congress passed the Central Intelligencc Agency. Act,
allowing the?agency'to disregard laws that required disclosure
of information concerning the organization, to expend funds
without regard to laws and regulations governing expenditures
with.nq other accounting than the Director's vouchers, and to
make contracts and. purchases without advertising.
With such unprecedented au-
thority, with unlimited access to
money,. with liberty to act with- f
out regard to scrutiny or review
by either civilian or governmental
organizations, the CIA -has become a self-
contained state. One observer ranks the CIA as
the fourth world power, after. the U.S., Russia, and
China.
Partly because of the CIA's special "secret"
status and partly because of the laziness of the press,
the total history of CIA intervention in foreign coun-
tries has never been reported. What you read instead {
are fragments-an attempted bribe in Mexico last
July, an assassination in Africa last November.
What emerges here is an atlas of intrigue but
not a grand design; on the contrary, the CIA's
record is as erratic and contradictory as that of
any 'bureaucracy in the Federal stable. But you
.do begin to comprehend the enormous size of the
CIA and its ruthless behavior. The rules permit
murder, defoliation, and drug addiction for
political ends. Look at the record:
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By R_"I'LLPI-al JOSEPH
TEHRAN--The unceremon-
ous dismissal of Gen. Hardan
(The Tank) al-Takriti from
'Baghdad's ruling junta marks
a new stage in the. power
struggle among the Iraq's
Ba'athist rulers. But it ha rdly
comes as a surprise. The in-
fighting among the junta
memb ers has been an open
secret almost from the (lay the
new rulers came to power in
,..July 1053.
would in theory serve any re-
gime, and were just the type
Saddam Hussain was looking
for.
Saddam had a dual purpose
for weakening al-Takriti and
Ammash. Both, known as the
"butchers of Kurdistan," were
hated by the Kurds and their
presence in the cabinet was
thought to be making it diffi-
cult to conclude a peace treaty
with Kurdish leader Mulla
Mustafa Barzani. Saddam's
reasoning seemed to be to gain
a respite from. the Kurdish
war in northern Iraq, in order
to strengthen Ba'athist'posi-
tions against their Arab oppo-
nents.
Assassination Attempt
Secondly, Saddam, a nephew
of President al-Baler, seemed
to be maneuvering rivals of
Pis uncle out of power, to en-
sure that al-Bakr remained on
top of the heap.
Harclan al-Takriti was astute
enough to see what was doing
on and last month (perhaps
too late) apparently attempted
to have Saddam assassinated.
Saddam hit back by calling a
meeting of the Revolutionary
Command Council, the coun-
try's ruling body, and demand-
ing the trial of al-Trakiti and
his clique. He accused the air
marshal of having plotted to
overthrow the regime with
the help of pro--Egyptian offi-
cers and retired Chief of Staff
Torahim Faisal a!-Ansari.
President al?-B akr, however,
d d ^ t d
The power struggle became
evident when Col. Abdul Raz-
zaq al-Nayef, who planned the
1958 coup in the first place,
found himself bundled out of
the premiership as an "agent
of the CIA." This left a triurn-
virate in power.
-Maj. Gen. Ahmad Hassan
al-Bahr, wiio was reported. to
be little more than a figure-
iiead, was.said to be a balanc-
ing factor between two other
mutual rivals in the triau mvir-
ate: Air Marshal Harden al-
Takriti, the de e,is ministe ,
and. Gen. Saleb h'iahdi al-
An, mash; the interior minis-
ter.
. While these two junta rivals
vere busy 'stren gthcning their
positions, the 32 ear-old
B a 'a t h party "ideologist,"
Saddam Hussain, was unobtru-
sively seizing, control by a
ruthless domination of the par-
ty machinery. Saddam Hus-
sain (who also happens to bear
the name al-Takriti, by the
way), set out by getting rid of
the "men of.'63"-that is, the
Ba'athist colonels who formed
the brief 12591 junta, under Ab-
dul Salam Aref.
Both I>ic xcrl U st irs Me as n. o or. or an
P asked Saddain to moot Ba'ath
Both Al-Takriti and Ammash party founder Michel Aflaq in
were prominent "men of '63." Beirut for a final ruling. Aflaq
and. Saddam, as secretary gen- is believed to have ordered
oral of the Ba'ath, succeeded al-Tall-ritl s ouster and a clos-
in kicking both upstairs last ing of ranks among the re-
year by making them vice mairing Junta members.
presidents under al-Baler and But the struggle wad a;Ipar-
stri:pping them of their cabinet ently not over yet. When at
portfolios. He then began pro- . the. beginninl. of October al-
FIew to Madrid
Al-Trakiti then flew to Ma-
drid where he reportedly tried
to secure sui wort from former
Ba'ath strongman, All Salah
as-Saadi, who is known to
heartily dislike both Bakr and
Saddam. The plot apparently
hatched was that al-Saadf
would act as party head, while
al-Takriti _ led the army to
throw out Bakr and Saddam.
The 'drama was getting
tense. Al-Trakiti's friends in
the army, cultivated when al-
Takriti was defense minister,
appeared to pose a real threat
to Saddani. He however acted
first by ordering some pro-
Takriti tank units to positions
away from the capital. Pre-
cisely what happened on Oct.
15, when al-Trakiti returned
from Spain, will of course be-
come knov:n only Iater,.but it
.was pro-Saddain tank units
who were in positions around
Baghdad, the reports say.
Meanwhile, al-Ta'.kriti's oust-
er seems to have brought Sad-
dain Hussain just a step or
two away from emerging as
Iraq's future strongman. His
uncle, al-Bakr, has ? been
chronically ill for some time
and-is still thought to be mere-.
ly a figurehead. .
niotirg lesser-known officers Takriti was sent to Carlo to'
to power. Among these were represent al-Bahr at Nasser's
Saadun Gheidun, now interior funeral he is believed to have
minister; Hammed Shahab '
now defense m,*nistcr, and Lb- tried to secure Egyptian bacl:-
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Irn toe Ba'athist3. They did not inspire' their Confi-
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Intelligence . Agency, istpthe
third in a series of selections
from "The Last of the
1. Giants," a new 4-volume of
memoirs of C. L. Sulzberger,
7 foreign affairs columnist of
The New York Times.
By C. L. SULZBERGER
Special to The Bulletin
Washington, August 7, 1956
r / . Dined and talked until the
V " early hours with. Frank Wis-
rier and Gates Lloyd. They
are in the same trade (CIA).
'c-'Frank said Allen Dulles (then
head of the CIA) was ex-
tremely 'upset by my column
criticizing American propa-
ganda..
Wisner told me
McCarthyism is, unfortunate-
ly, by no means dead in the
government, and, I should- not
forget this. M, who was sus-
pended' from the State Depart-
ment on a phony, trumped-up
charge, was finally forced
Fback by pressure.
But now two years later
he has been exiled to a con-
sular position at the fever-hole
._of Paraniaraibo, (then capital
,of Dutch Guiana), the nearest
post we have to Devil's Is-
land.
? Frank told me that he was
astonished to discover, when
he went to Romania during
the war, that practically all
the agents furnished by Zas-
lani (later Reuven Shiloah),
.
- ant s nc woe a tie time i Kim was to charge of the
and not for the British, who theory that no man should
didn't know. ever be ordered to commit operation in Irate when we got .'
0 0 o suicide if captured and this rid of Nlossadegli in 1953. That
'Washington, July 23, 1958 was not in contracts with one was relatively- easy as we
Dined last night. at Wisner's. _agents. were able to calculate that if
Allen Dulles boasted to me The CIA thought there was We could produce an open
that CIA had been seeing de i more chance of a man's indi- fight between Mossadegh and
Gaulle regularly before he yidual nobility prompting him the Shah, the Shah would gain
came to power, through a to such an act if there were popular support. He did. The
French contact. Ile also said no such advance order. British had, tried to get tip to
they had an excellent agent Allen said Powers had done take the line of intervention
among the ultras who plotted nothing wrong and probably many months earlier, but we
in Algeria: Maybe, but it would have had a hard tir'ie waited until the local situation
seems indiscreet to say as committing was .right - unlike Cuba.
much, suicide either by Kim was on a secret mis-
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to. First he was parachuted later Eisenhower's -secretary
out and secondly he was in a
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Washington, July 24, 1958
Dined with Allen Dulles and
Fulbright's committee investi- Vwiles' Vie '
gates Dulles's CIA. They were .ever I
polite and friendly with each Ntheless, Dulles left me
other, but Fulbright made no w i t h ' the impression ' he
hones about his intentions to thought Powers should some-
make Dulles squirm. lie frl:: how have knocked himself off.
CIA should have known mor:. 1e said Powers had been
about the Iraqi coup in ad-Jhrai;~',vashed or brain-condi-
vance. tinned prior to the trial, It was
i The , military informatiu:;' clear he had told the Russians
and plans of the T at dad Pact. mare than emerged, because
that are now available to Nas. his previous "testimony" was
ser (and Russia?) are admit
teclly embarrassing.
Dulles thinks the way out
intelligence is set up is more.
logical than Britain's. We
have in one organization what
'they have in three and 'a half'
.It is better than way, and bet-
ter to have the organization
known.
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Washington, October 12, 1960
This `afternoon, saw Allen
Dulles in his CIA o f f i c e.
On the wall a map shows the
route of the Soviet ICBMs to
the Pacific from the general
region of Kirghizstan. Allen
said the takeoff point was de-
cumhcrsorae
'hirdly, . he
pr^ssur2' suit. - of 'the "Treasury. The mission,
was ?capturcrl. sent out by Eisenhower him-
pronto-on landing.
always reterreo to. had been in overthrowing
I gather Dulles is unhappy
;`lossadegh in 1953. Likewise,
but
with Powers' behavior but Kim told Fowles it would be
doesn't like to say-so. Poitiers useless to send him to Cairo.
had a specific, short-tempi con- At the time of the Iraqi rev-
tract with CIA and was paid glutton, Nasser sent a team
between S''S,n9`l and $30,000 a into Bagdad which grabbed all
year, abo~it ,i'rat a. good, civil- . the Bagdad pact intelligence
'
tan jet pilot gets.
Under the law, be must be
p mid as 1n- as his contract
self, sought to try and make
peace between Egypt and Is,
real. Anderson and Kim talked
to Nasser hour after hour'
There was a corollary mission
to Ben Gurion.
Chct Bowles (then under
secretary of state) offered
Kim these ambassadorial
posts; Tehran, . Cairo, and
Rabat. Kim pointed out that
he could not go to Iran be-
s
files --- well filled with Kim
name. ;
Were Kim to be our am- ;
runs, even though in Ian, to - _, _ 11 was jater freed in an ex- a position to blackmail him
and us by releasing such
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venient.
liberately changed on the plop, (Kermit) Roosevelt. He is now-./
for security reasons. vice president of Gulf Oil Co.
We talked- about Gary in charge of government rcla-
Powers. (U 2 spy shot dowi>~ Lions, but he is still linked
The CIA has a with the CIA.
over Russia)
Israeli intelligence boss, to the
British from Romanian Jews
in Palestine, were working for
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F,VERAI. areas in Asia, Africa and Latin America have
been the scene of reactionary plots in the first half of 1970. Behind the Cambodian C
One of them, in Camboclra, culminated rn a coup d etat. Thousands of kilometers separate Phnom Penh from
Information filtering into the press suggests that all the Allots can Khartoum and Beirut, but in Cambodia too, the aim was to
be traced to the US Central Intelligence Agency headquarters at sujitiort the aggressive forces. It was to be achieved by use of
Langley. the CIA technique.
Of course, the State Department consistently denies American Bogged clown in Vietnam, US imperialism has long been
complicity, and CIA guilt cannot always be pinpointed. In fact,' encroaching' pn Cambodia's independence and sovereignty,
it may well be ' that not all these conspiracies were directly trying to bring it under its influence and dragoon it into its
instigated and organised by imperialist secret services---in some Indochina gamble. One pressure technique was constant harass-
cases they may have joined at a later static. But this much is merit by US forces operating from neighbouring South Vietnam,
certain: everywhere the cloak-and-dagger operators have been They bombed and shelled Cambodian border regions an
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several times CIA agents tried to overthrow Prince Sihrutoul,
SupI [ Fortint ; Israeli a ;gression and set up a reactionary regime that would abandon the
A:f,..,..1 rr.,l ,,1 :4c .l;rro r; tv .... h the- Vintno.
The first three months of 1970 saw plots in Iraq, Sudan,
Lebanon and Cyprus. Some of the details have come to light.
The Lebanese, Interior Minister, for instance, announced that US
Intelligence had a hand in provoking armed clashes between the
. ultra-Right Katacb party and the Palestinian commandos. The
V
The Sudanese press points to ti- ? 'ink between the CIA and the Apparently, the US military command began to press for action
latest unsuccessful coup of the Ansar relig.,::;s sect and the in Cambodia when it found that the Vietnarnisation plan was no Al-Umma party, which speaks for Sudan's capitalist and landed working out the way it had expected. And apparently Sihanouk.':
interests. In Cyprus, the pro-fascist National Front which, the-
press says, operates with the encouragement of the Greek and diplomatic tour abroad was chosen as the opportune moment
US secret services, engineered an attempt on the life of Presi- for the CIA's "quiet Americans" to put through the plan.
dent Makarios. The Iraqi authorities arrested a group of army. Power in Phnom Penh is now in the hands of men who have
olticers and civilians charged with preparing a coup d'ctat. Theloined forces with the imperialists to halt the country's pro-
press says they had the assistance of CIA and Zionist agents. gressive development and suppress the Indochina liberation
Each of these attempted coups had its own distinctive features. movement. The first steps in that direction were made immedi-
?Iput all of them had one and the same political aim-to install ately after the coup. General Lon Nol's conservative regime has
pro-imperialist regimes and thereby strengthen the imperialist agreed to co-operate with the US and accept military "aid"
positions in the Middle East and, more spx;ciflcally, in thefrom it. With the consent and approval of that regime, Saigon
Eastern Mediterranean. forces, supported by. American aircraft, have invaded Cambodia
That aim, doubtlessly, follows from the alignment of forces rn an attempt to outflank the NLF forces and suppress popular
in this strategic area. The imperialists banked on the Israeli support. for Prince Sihanouk, whose followers are fighting to
overthrow the conservative government and keep Cambodia a
Blitzkrieg. They thought it would write )rrirs to the progressive
re',imes in the United Arab Republic and Syria p . That ho e did peaceful ul and neutral state.
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not materialise. Nor have Israel's subsequent aggressive actions
produced the desired results. They have not weakened the pro-
gressive regimes of these two countries. On the contrary, both
in the UAR and Syria the government has been strengthened by
the patriotism of the people, the assistance of the Soviet Union
and other socialist countries and the support of the world
Communist, workers' and national liberation movements.
While giving the Israeli aggressors every assistance-modern
armaments, generous loans--the US and other imperialists are
relying more and more on their espionage and subversion
mach :-e. The events in Iraq, Sudan and Lebanon show that
they are using it to hamper the growing unity of the Arab states
in the fight to liquidate the consequences of the Israeli aggres-
sion. The idea, obviously, is to generate more friction, distrust
and antagonism. That was the purpose of the CIA in Lebanon:
armed conflicts were to provoke a major political crisis that
would isolate the country from the progressive Arab states,
place it under a police regime and impede, if not halt altogether,
Palestinian commando action.
The aim was very much the same in Iraq and Sudan. But the
imperialists were also out to undermine the rear areas of the
Arab states directly confronting Israel. Coups in Baghdad and
Khartoum would greatly complicate the UAR's and Syria's
strategic and political position. To a certain extent the same
aim was pursued in the Nicosia plot. There have been many
press re ports that the~~mpe tI' is are a t i ups to ove throy,
Makari rov d1tra0F, a a- Q1Q?1 Ae:cW
intervention in Cambodia where, as in South Vietnam and Laos,
US troops are applying scorched earth tactics against the peace-
ful population. This fresh aggression by Washington brings out
even more saliently th clink between the coup d'Etat in Phnom
Penh and imperialism's far-reaching neo-colonialist plans in
South east Asia. To all practical purposes, Cambodia is being
turned into a "third Vietnam", the second being Laos, where
more than 12,000 American military "advisors" are involved in
the war against the patriotic forces.
It can be safely said that neither the Saigon puppets nor the
Laos and Cambodian reactionaries provide America with any-
thing like a firm support base for its reactionary war in Indo-
china. And certainly they cannot fight that war with their own.
armies, even if given the latest American weapons. Conse-
quently, the neo-colonialists will have to rely mainly on their
own troops and extend their operations to the whole of Indo-
china. But the experience of heroic Vietnam has shown that
half a million interventionist troops, armed to the teeth, cannot
impose imperialism's will on a people determined to uphold iu
independence, sovereignty and freedom; a people, moreover
that enjoys wide international support.
New tactical clcrnents
Has anything substantially new been added to the technology
mnerialist lots and their political orientation, compared with
11
80-t01t 1dt 000?6QOr40DOi-r 4rmation-the: bulk of
it, naturally, is kept secret--for a categorical affirmative answer
We can only judge by the tip of the imperialist subversion ice.
and turn it into a NATO war base spearheaded against the
Arab states and serving the Israeli aggressor.
these in their fight to repel the aggressor.
With the US army facing increasing difficulties in Vietnam
the Pentagon decided to step up its activities in Cambodia. The
plan, according to press reports, was to use Cambodian territory
for operations against the South Vietnam National Liberatior
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(Ihe Pentagon has received unevaluated rcpr,rts ,.
lof preparations for large-scale insurgency and ter-
riorist activities in Guatemala; Castro's Cuban
saboteurs are training and equipping Cuatcmalian
guerrillas known as the Rebel Armed Forces'
(FAR), whose objective is to disrupt the presi-
dential elections in March by encouraging violence
among contesting factions thus creating chaos in
the country. Plans call for assassinations and kid-
nappings of U.S. Embassy officials.... Soviet pro-
vocateurs are infiltrating Hong Kong to settle
permanently, according to U.S. military intelli-
gence..... A C:IA center has been uncovered in
Bolivia. The Bolivian government discovered in
a raid that a downtown business office. ,i,n. La Paz
was a CIA front;' the CIA has even infiltrated
the Bolivian secret service. CIA interference in
Bolivian affairs has been a hot issue since 1967.
... Iraq has executed a total of 37 alleged Zionist
and CIA co-conspirators.... France has scrapped
its own strategic nuclear missile program in order
to concentrate industrial facilities and skills in
:manufacturing armaments for both Arabs and'
Israelis.... The State Department is negotiating
a treaty to open Swiss banking establishment for
inspection of American citizens' accounts by. U.S.
Tnleroal Revenue Service agents.
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Retired Police Aide
Is Executed by Iraq
In Conspiracy Case
Sptela2 to The NOW York Tlmen
BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 2-
The official Iraqi news agency
broadcast today that a retired
Iraqi police officer was exe-
cuted yesterday by a firing
squad in Baghdad immediately
after a military court convicted,
him of complicity in the abor-
tive attempt to overthrow the
Iraqi regime last January.
This brought to 42 the num-
ber of Iraqi army officers,
policemen and civilians exe-
cuted since the foiling of the
attempt was announced on
Jan. 2:1.
The police officer, Muften
Jarallah, was arrested Feb. 5
along with five others, all of
whom, had gone into hiding
when the conspiracy was first
reported. Reports earlier in the
state-controlled press said that
the five were to he tried with
Mr. Jarallah, but the Iraq News
Agency did not mention their
fate today.
The three-man "special court"
which was not 'UP OR aclnlly
to try the men accused of in-
volvement in the plot, yes-
terday also sentenced three
other Iraqis to death in their
absence, the agency added.
The three were a former:
Premier, Col. Abdel Razzak'
al-Nayef, an army officer, Fire
Lieut. Taha Jaber, and a civil-
ian, Abdel Jabbar al-Ragi.
The court said in its verdict
that it had in its possession
evidence that the three played
a role in the attempted coup
and that they, like the other
conspirators, were working forj
Iranian and United States intel-
ligence services.
The Iraqi Government has
formally accused neighboring
Iran of masterminding the plot
in cooperation with United
States Intelligence Agency.
The Iranian Ambassador in
Baghdad and four of his staff
have been expelled. Iran re-i
taliated by expelling the Iraqi
Ambassador in Teheran.
The former Premier and a:
number of other condemned
Iraqis are believed to be living'
in Iran. They include a retired
major general, Abdelghani Al-
rawi, who was identified by
Baghdad in January as the
leader of the plot.
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iii1,~~ that such mass executions,! foreign state allegedly in- ,; If tiny kind of military
within such a short period of bolved in the plot against lire r.'. movement should take place
k.Ira i regime.
w+++ M time had never, happened any- ,' q in elthe'r of the two countries,
where in the Arab world. According " to 'an 'official the likelihood is that it will
The discovery of the alleged ,Iraqi spokesman, the United also be a Baathist movement
plot brought relations between States had given promises of either
Iraq and its neighbor, Iran, to support to the "conspirators one step to the left or
rock bottom. The Baghdad re- trite idea, lie. claimed, was to ,.. R ee step to the right of the,
U y gime has accused Tehran of ; rrsent rertimes.
{ . strengthen the southeastern'.
r "I'
l;
masterminding the plot flank of, the North Atlantic Most of those who were exe-
ization and the cuted in Iraq recently were
h the Iranian ambassa-1
''t
O
rgan
, Treaty
hroug
.dor? in Baghdad and four of his. Central Treaty Organization. '.known to have held civilian
~tra@B
is
aides. .~, The seven Iraqis executed on', , and military positions under
h
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e n)onarc
y regime. In o
.h-
?` When Iraq expelled the Ira- Jan. 22 on. charges of working
Winn timbassador and the four, for the CIA had been stun ; or words, as an Iraqi' spokes- i
aides conecrncd, Iran retali- 'tenced to death last Novcm- , put it, "They were agent
ated by taking a similar mea- .I ber, but the execution of the 'rightists who wanted' to get
sure, ,;But, significantly, net sentence was, withheld without. Iraq aback tothe years before
1 ther. . officially announced a ~'.. explanation.
breaK in arpiomauv iulnuvna ?' . Details et the plot, as nar-
with the other. AVM 0 Both Ir and Iran have en- rated ; by the official Iraqi !
gaged !an hostile activities. :yspokesman suggested that all
uled nn:!,
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By By T. A. MISHLAWI
BEIRUT (CNS) - The Arab
Baat.li (rebirth) Socialist par-
lv once again has shown its
proclivity for bloodshed and
violence.
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against each other. The Iraqi that the ploders epe
government liad'ex-Maj. Gen.. +wasa number of retired army:,-
Tcymouc I3al~htiat'; the ,fornieraod';polico of9ieers. These offt ,
Iranian chief ef' secdrity, sit-" , r
cots had been`out 'of service ing'
ln. tear d to be hdad~ r;