EGYPTIAN ARMY UNREST TESTS SADAT DIPLOMACY

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Army
unrest tests
Sadat !orntacy
By John K. Cooley
Staff correspondent of
The Christia-a Science Monitor
Beirut, Lebanon
Last week's reported Egyptian Army un-
rest in Cairo was a relatively minor incident
with possibly major future implications for
President Anwar al-Sadat's government, in-
formed observers here believe.
President Sadat might clarify the situation
In a major speech, which Cairo Radio said
was scheduled Oct. 25, these observers
thought. Meanwhile Egyptian Government
sources and travelers from Cairo did not
confirm initial reports Oct. 21 and 22 from the
British Broadcasting Corporation of a major
coup attempt by several hundred Army
officers said to have driven into Cairo at the
? head of two or more columns of armored
personnel carriers a week earlier.
They did, however, indicate that at least
one junior Army officer, described as a
captain, led several armored cars to Cairo's
Al Hussein Mosque. The captain delivered a
fiery oration demanding immediate war
' against Israel to end the stalemate along the
Suez Canal, where he said Egyptian soldiers
were "eating the bitter sands of Suez."
He and a few followers are said to have
been arrested immediately.
The incident, its rarnifirAtons, and the
number and rank of offlc.!r.; linplicated are
all in doubt at this writing. W is certain is
that it reflected the profr,ur.,! state of dis-
satisfaction in the Egyptian armed forces.
Neither President Sadat's dii or.attc et-
forts to end the state of "no war, no peace"
with Israel, his removal of Soviet military
advisers last summer, nor his current efforts
(begun by Egyptian Prime Minister
Sidky's visit to Moscow last week to improve
tics with the Soviets have chamzed this.
Neither the United States nor Western Eu-
rope have responded to President Sadat's
hopes for moral, diplomatic, and economic
support ? hopes which President Sadat again
expressed publicly in art interview appealing
? for West European understanding of Egypt's
position, broadcast by the French state
television network Oct. 21.
Its men were said to be clamoring for
Immediate action against Israel in retaliation
for Israeli attacks on Lebanon in September.
Miles Copeland, former U.S. diplomat and
Central Intelligence Agency official in the
Middle East, said in an interview here that
senior Egyptian officers "have been suspect-
ing this sort of thing was coining for some
time."
President Sadat's security men, Mr. Cope-
land speculated, may have deliberately led
on or provoked the "coup" attempt in order
to pinpoint dissident junior officers "whose
names nobody ever heard of.':
Discipline lag seen
Mr. Copeland, once a friend of the late
President Nasser and author of the best-
selling book, "The Game of Nations," about
U.S. relations with Mr. Nasser, said that
under President Nasser "discipline in the
14:yptian Army was very, very good. It has
broken down recently, not so much because
of people genuinely wanting to fight Israel,
but because they have lost their pride.
President Sadat knows this very, very well.
He's taken all sorts of measures to try to
reinstate some pride in his Army."
Mr. Copeland recalled that President Nas-
ser in late years "got very, very suspicious of
those around him, particularly senior Army
commanders." President Nasser, according
to Mr. Copeland, began to develop young
officers as a counterweight to the more
senior ones.
In Mr. Copeland's view, these younger
officers were like "time bombs" planted
within the Egyptian system, which President
Sadat now wants to flush out and defuse.
Mutiny reported
The incident at the Al Hussein Mosque
about Oct. 16 and ensuing special security
measures in Cairo came about three weeks
after the reported mutiny of an Egyptian
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A Child's Guide to the Arabs
MILES COPELAND
The first play to be based on the life of President Nasser appeared last week in
Beirut, Lebanon, in a gymnasium-cum-auditorium called "The Theatre of Revolu-
tion." It will never reach Broadway; the audience was unenthusiastic?or perhaps
just bewildered; there were no cries for "author" (anyway, the author was
anonymous); it ran for only three nights and got only one review ("Elegant in
its simplicity," said an arty, left-wing French-language weekly). But there was
one line which I treasure: "If my people believe all I say," mused the play's
Nasser, "they are missing the point."
The author must have known Nasser personally, for Nasser spoke often in
these terms of the contradictions in "Arab" public opinion, and of the difficulties
they posed for any leader addressing his public. To attain power, the leader of an
Arab country must make bigger and
better promises than his rivals. Since no "unite" Egypt with it.) Or war with
/ one expects him to carry them out Israel. President Sada: must periodi-
\I (Israel, the CIA or some other outside catty assure his people that Egypt will
force can be counted upon to inter- "never" make peace, and that his armies
vene), the sky is the limit. Once in are poised on the border ready to go.
power, he may invent the outside force But suppose those youngsters shouting
if it doesn't appear, or he can make hawkish slogans in Cairo's Liberation
substitute promises, or merely forget Square were to wake up one morning
the old ones. Despite what they are to learn that their President had actu-
fond of saying of themselves, "Arabs" ally ordered the Egyptian army to cross
have amazingly short memories. the Suez Canal, what then? Would they
proceed to the nearest recruiting offices,
making lines two blocks long like those
we saw in American cities after the
BUT that's not all. The leader of an
Arab country must make his promises
in terms which the members of his
audience think they accept, but really
don't. He must have the knack of
speaking passionately and earnestly in
one set of terms, while allowing his
audience to understand that they may
add up what he says in quite another.
Take Arab nationalism, for example.
No leader of an Arab country could
attain power, or hold it for long, were
he not to manifest fervent support to
the notion of Arab unity. But how long
would, say, President Sadat of Egypt
last were his people really to believe
that he intends to unite Egypt with
other Arab countries? (His colonels
may figure some way of annexing
Libya before "U,-Da.f:_in September
1973, but only atiV.RWVACIpFACtRelease
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bombing .of Pearl Harbor?. Dr would
they quietly agree with the Egyptian
chief of staff who, just after Sadat made
a few too-specific threats against Israel,
said, "This time the idiot has gone too
far!" and remove themselves from the
streets?
One could go on and on. The leader
of an Arab country attains and holds
power by denouncing the United States
and praising Russia, yet he spends a
fair percentage of his waking hours try-,
ing to figure ways of making secret
deals with the United States, or with
private American interests, showing
clearly that he values his deals with the
Soviets mainly for what they are worth
as leverage in negotiating alternative
sources of aid. He pours praise on the
Palestinians, addressing them as "our
Arab brethren," yet he treats them as
foreigners, and second-rate foreigners
at that. (The Libyan government
allowed some four thousand Palestinians
to become Libyan citizens, but has
since rescinded the decision, and is
currently working out a deportation
scheme which will be much less con-
spicuous than [hat of Uganda's against
its Asian population, but just as
thorough.) Most important, the leaders
of Arab countries must constantly talk
"revolution," yet their various "Revolu-
tionary Command Councils" talk and
think in terms which would have been
considered reactionary in the days of
the Ottoman Empire.
SO now does a young diplomat or
international businessman prepare him-
self for an assignment in the so-called
"Arab world"? What does he read?
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Nasser, Arab Firebrand or-Humanitarian?
By EDMUND FULLER
In July, 1952, a group of Egyptian army of-
ficers carried out a coup that deposed King
Farouk and proclaimed a military govern-
ment under the titular leadership of General
Mohammed Neguib. In fact the principal
leader of the revolution was Lt. Col. Carnal
Abdel Nasser. On the eve of the coup, he
found'one of his associates in an overly emo-
tional state and said to him, in English, "To-
night there is no room for sentiment, we must
be ready .for' the unexpected." Asked why he
had spoken in English, "Nasser replied .svillaa
laugh that Arabic was not a suitable language
?to express the need for calm." '
Even so slight an anecdote reveals more
than Most Americans have known about the
man who ushered
Egypt into the mod-
ern world and altered
the bilabces of power
In the Middle East.
The American. public
has seen him genes-
ally as.a strident na-
tionalist, a Pan-Arabist and a mi14ary adven-
. twist. Countering this, the anecdote offers a
glimpse of the range of his education, his cool
deliberateness and his humor. It exemplifies
"the numerous surprises in Anthony Nutting's
biography, "Nasser" (Dutton, 493 pages, S10),
a book crammed with important historical-Po-
litiell information and at the same time full
of human interest.
It would be, hard to find another man so
well qualified to write such a book. Anthony
Nutting is a scholar and diplomat with partic-
ular expertise in the tangled Middle East. He
served EnIand as Under-Secretary of State
fox Foreign Affairs in 1951. negotiated With
Nasser the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1954,
and was later Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs and leader of the U.K. delegation to
,the General Assembly of the U.N.
? It is fair to ask if an Englishman of such
.background could write -with detachment
;about events in which he participated, in an
.arena in which his country had been an impe-
rial power. Putting aside the fact that nobody
can write .really objectively about anything,
Mr. Nutting does bring remarkable detach-
ment to materials involving some of the most
Inflammatory political passions of the cen-
tury. He resigned from his government post
In 1956 in protest against the English-French-
Israeli attack on Egypt in the Suez crisis.
Mr. Nutting begins his book with a needed
brief review of Egyptian history, noting that
.Nasser became "the first true Egyptian to
rule Egypt since the Persian conquest nearly
2,500 years before." The dynasty which ended
with Farouk was Turkish. After "two and .a.
half thousand years of taking orders succes-
sively from Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzan-
tine. Arab, Kurdish, Turkish, French and
.British proconsuls, the people of Egypt were
at long last to regain their national state-
hood." Without awareness of these centuries
Bookshelf
of subservience and impoverishment the na-
tionalistic emotional force behind .Nasser's
reign cannot be understood.
Nasser, born in 1018 in Alexandria, was the
son of a post-office worker who dame from a
proud clan of 'Upper (Southern) Egypt. He ed-
ucated himself zealously and was a prodi-
gious reader in his teens, including such writ-
ers as Voltaire, Rousseau and Dickens. He
studied the lives of Alexander, Julius Caesar,
Napoleon and Gandhi. He became a fervent
nationalist. As the son of a fellah he was
barred from the Military Academy, his best
hope of more advanced education, but by per-
sistence he gained admittance.
Early he became convinced that the mili-
tary structure, rather than subterranean po-
litical parties, would be the path to power and
revolution. At iio time, even when playing the
Soviets against the West, was Nasser ever
Communist or interested in leftist ideology.
The rise of Nasser is the history of modern
Egypt. Mr. Nutting traces this closely in a
book that is fascinating but densely textured
and demanding. American readers will have
special interest in the treatment of the Aswan
Darn affair, the Suez. Crisis, and the Six Days ?
War of 1967. ?
Mr. Nutting is harsh in his judgment of his
own Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, whom he
believes to have badly mismanaged Middle
Eastern policies. 'He is equally severe about
John _Foster Dulles on many detailed counts.
By his "renege" on the Aswan High Dam,
Mr. Nutting charges, "Dulles bad . . . pulled
down the pillars of the temple on Western in-
fluence not only in?Egypt, but throughout the
Arab world as well." He shows Nasser as
driven reluctantly toward the Soviets when he
preferred Western alliances. He had no illu-
sions about the Russians.
Mr. Nutting takes no notice of the ironic
aspects of the Aswan High Dam, which has
not been able to bring the hoped for agricul-
tural and economic advancements, and about
which increasing suspicions arise that it may.
be ecologically disastrous to the whole East-
ern Mediterranean. As lightweight but pro- .
vocative collateral reading I recommend the
current "Aswan," by Michael Hein) (Knopf,
275 pages, $6.95) which is chilling .science-fic-
tion in a simulated documentary style.
? One can barely suggest the scope and de-
tail of this historical-political biography. Nas-
ser is. presented in the round. Among many
surprising things is the close contact long
maintained with 'him by the CIA, chiefly
through the person of Kermit Roonvelt who
won Nasser's confidence on terms of true per-
sonal friendship. We see 'skilled American
diplomats in Cairo whose advice was ignored
by variosis administrations back home. -
The Egyptian leader had churns and also
grace under pressure. ? His humor was often
rueful. Sucked by misjudgment and misinfor-
mation into a long thilitary? entanglement in
Yemen, which sometimes involved half his
armed forces, Nasser called it "My Viet-
nam." Often at odds With Jordan's King Hus-
sein, Nasser said to him after the catastrophe
of the Six Days War, as the king was depart-
ing for America: "I got you into this mess, so
forget about my losses and go and kiss Lyn-
don Johnson's hand and ask him to give you
back the West Bank." . ?
He had handled himself brilliantly in the
Suez Crisis, had .erred badly in the Six Days
War and the Yemen affair. In his last action,
as chairman of the conference of Arab coun-
tries seeking to end the warfare between Hus-
sein arid the Palestine liberation forces in Jor-
dan in 1970, he was again at his best,?pronapt-
ing Mr. Nutting to cite "an old saying in the.
Moslem scriptures that those who are about
to die often speak and net with exceptional,
wisdom and vision." A few days later he was
dead?worn out.
Nasser had faults and made errors hut he
also had greatneas and did much for Egypt.
After Suez, "It would have required a man of
almost superhuman qualities not to, be carried
away by the idolatry with which Nasser was
nbw hailed by the Arab masses." He was car-
Tied away into his Pan-Arab adventurism,
dreaming of uniting the Arab world into One
political entity and failing utterly because "he
consistently failed to understand his fellow
Arabs." He emerged from that worst period
not in irresponsible rage, but wiser.
Mr. Nutting offers one exceptionally-in-
formed man's view of a span of history in-
volving major events and great passions. No
One will agree with all of few, perhaps,
will agree with none of it?but it is one of.the
more important current books. for thoUghtful
Americana to read and ponder.
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Ex.Cairo Publisher
Freed From Prison
BEIRUT, 'July .18 (AP).?
Mustafa Amin, once one cf. .
Egypt's . leading publishers,
was released from prison in
Cairo last night and trans-.
ferred to a hospital, the Beirut
newspaper An Nahar reported
today.
The report said President
Anwar Sadat ordered Amin's
release because of his health.
He is 59 and was sentenced to
life imprisonment in 1965 on
charges of spying for the U.S.
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By OSWALD JOHNSTON What interests practiced ob-
sun Stall Correspondent servers of the Egyptian scene
Cairo?Egypt is going through is not so much the facts them-
its most spectacular and most selves, but that they have been
publicized spy story in many made public all at once.
months
The latest installment in a clear. The Sadat regime has meographed leaflets in English , check and reached the same,
drama ..that has been playedbeen suffering a crisis of confi-
were distributed to newspaper conclusion.
as last July, when an attempted
Communist coup in the Sudan
provoked anti-Russian ? senti-
ment in the Arab world.
To most, the answer seems As early as last August, mi-
appearance on Dutch elevisiond
Some Western observers by
then suspected the Israelis
might be invoIxed, and the I
Egyptians have since claimed!
they sent agents to Europe to
across the front pages of Cai-
ro's 'semi-official press for al-
most a week now is the news,
blazoned in the newspaper Al
Ahram yesterday,. that a law-
yer and a university-trained
economist who headed a band
of dissident intellectuals had
access to President Anwar Sad-
at's offices and preached his
overthrow.
Kept in dark
Earlier in the week, Cairo's
citizens, usually kept in the
offices in the United States.
dence, unable to make war or But none of this surfaced pub-
peace with Israel, unable to get One of - the latter promised licly in Egypt until the student
the Russians or Americans help among other things that" th
?el dissent made it, in the view of
with either, and unable to forge Egyptian National Front will many, a useful weapon to re-
a coherent policy. fight Soviet imperialism till the store homefront docility.
Thus, faced with mounting very end with every means and j
Similar timing is involved in
the case of the American secre-
tary. The worhan, a blond typ-
ist in the American interest
section in Cairo who has been /
identified as? Sue Anne Harris. V
was implicated in two Cairo was arrested in Alexandria
bomb scares that for a time sometime during the fall. She
seriously bothered Egyptian se- had been chatting with Russian
curity forces, personnel near the Soviet-held
One of the bomb stories in_ West Harbor, according to one
volved a package of explosives account, and was accused of
planted in a shop in Zamalek, Wing. ,
the section where many Soviet Bv the time she was released
In the case 'of the student diplomats, military advisers and expelled from the country
dissent, the gambit could not and security personnel live. The about three months later, some
have been more obvious, the shop catered to Soviet business, details of the incident had cir-
students who were jailed were The bomb did not go off. ciliated in Cairo diplomatic cir-
released, and Mr. Sadat spoke About the same time, a canis- dies. .
rnollifyingly. But he also moved ter bomb with a crudely fash- By December, the story
criticism at home that already method available. Similar
resulted in students rioting n leaflets, in English and Arabic,
h
downtown Cairo last month, have been seen in European
Mr. Sadat has moved to declare capitals and in Beirut.
publicly that too much criticism By late September, the front
is tantamount to disloyalty, if
not treason.
To many long-time observers
dark about all such sensitive of Egypt, this is an obvious,
questions of national security, legacy of the police state as-
had been told: . pects of the Nasser era.
I. About two dozen intellec- Indoctrination, training
tuals had formed an under-
ground ring called "Arab Van-
guard Organization" and dedi-
cated to the overthrow of "re-
gimes in all Arab countries."
The lawyer and economist were
described as ringleaders and all
had been arrested. Ito establish a greater political, ioned fusing device triggered reached some members of the
2. Five people, including an- and military presence in the by acid was planted at the Nile permanent foreign press corps.
other lawyer described as the , universities through indoctrina- front headquarters of the Arab ; The government rigorously
ringleader, were arrested in tion and officer training cadres. I Socialist Union, Egypt's only: blocked any attempt to spread
Helwan, the industrial suburb, and he linked the disorders to I political party. It, too, did not 1 the story and threatened to re-
where labor unrest serously dis-; Israeli intelligence, citing the go off, taliate against at least one
turbed the -Sadat regime last I leaflets found on the three for- I By this time, there was al-mews organization if there were
September, and were accused meigners. !ready suspicion that the frontl any leaks. .
When the leak finally Oc-
curred, it came from none oth-
lets that on this occasion were I In early December, the group er than Mohamed flassnein
lomat"?later identified as ai used to discredit student dissent surfaced in Paris, and a self_ Heikal, President Sadat' S .confi-
secretary?had been arrested in, was a so-called "Egyptian: Na- styled leader of the group held dant and adviser and editor of
an espionage case late last tional Front," which the Egyp- a news conference. About this Al Ahram.
year. tians admit had been under time. the front also made an
. 4. Three foreigners, a Belgian surveillance for many months. ? ------- ---
father and son and a French The front apparently existed
student, had been caught ear- exclusively as a propaganda de-
lier this month distributing vice, operating outside Egypt
anti-regime and anti-Soviet leaf- as well as within. Anti-regime
lets and admitted having been leaflets attributed, to the front
recruited by Israeli intelligence, were found in Egypt as early
of setting up an underground
cell hostile to the regime.
3. An American "woman dip-
There was also a matter of was "fishy," a planted agaent
timing. The source of the leaf- !provocateur group.
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Egypt smashes U.S.-Israeli plot
CAIRO ? The semi-official Egyptian daily newspaper, al-Ahram
("The Pyramids"), said on Monday that Egyptian security police had
discovered three underground anti-government groups tied in with U.S.
and Israeli intelligence, and that charges were being prepared against
them. Al-Ahram said the leader of one of the groups, the so-called
"Arab Vanguard Organization" (al-Tali'a al-'Arabiyya), was Abdel
Shafei.Eiss.4, who was employed on the staff of President Anwar el-
Sadat as an economist. ?
Earlier, al-Ahram revealed that an American and several Belgian
and French citizens were involved in espionage and plotting against the
government. The American was identified as Sue Anne Harris, who
worked in Cairo as a "secretary" in the U.S. Mission (U.S.-Egyptian
diplomatic ties weresevered in 1967, but the U.S. maintains a Mission in
the Spanish Embassy in Cairo). Al-Ahram etiitor, Mohammed Has-
sanein Heykal, wrote that Miss Harris was caught "red-handed" in the
act of trying to obtain secret information on Egyptian air strength;
she was released last December, he said. She was a liaison agent for the
'U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Heykal wrote. . - - ?
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r CAIRO (UPI)?An American
Sivoman arrested last year by
gyptianauthoritiesfor
p
ying was identified yester-
ay by political sources as Sue
/
Anne Harris. She was released
end put on a U.S.-bound air-
Vane in December, the
purees said.
. The sources said she had
vorked here as a secretary for
the American mission, w1-.,-..1-1
is attached to the Spanish F.
1)assy here. The United Staes
and Egypt do not maintain full
Diplomatic relations.
..a. in Washington, the State De-
Partment refused to comment
even to the extent of revealing
Miss Harris' hometown.
1. News of the arrest last Sep-
tember and the subsequent re-
lease was first made public by
Mohammed Heikal, editor of
..
amed in Cairo
the semi-official Al Abram
newspaper, in his regular Fri-
ay column.
Heikal said the incident
sparked a diplomatic crisis
which Washington said could
obstruct Middle East peace ef-
forts.
Without naming the woman,
Heikal said she had been
caught "red-handed" in the
act of spying.
_ Political sources said the
woman met Russians at the
parties given by a wealthy
Egyptian of Greek descent at
his villa outside of Alexandria.
She showed only a general in-
terest in Soviet activities ? at
first, but later asked the Sovi-
et advisers specific questions.
Heikal said the woman was '
caught "trying to find out in-
formation about the new Sovi-
et planes in Egypt." She was
part of a "gigantic espionage
case" and served as a liaison
for an Egyptian agent of the
Central Intelligence Agency,
Heikal said.
Washington asked for the
woman's release, the editor
said, but was told an investi-
gation . Must be completed
first. The woman was released
after three months and put
aboard a flight for the United
States.
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1Party Votes
Sup ort for
Sadat's toiicy
?,
William Dullforce
Special to The Washington Post
:CAIRO. Feb. 18?President [Jarring refused to answer
Anwar Sadat tonight won the
vote of confidence in his lead-
ership that he had been seek-
ing
- An extraordinary congress
ol the Arab Socialist Union,
the country's only legal party,
passed a resolution at the clos-
ing session of a three-day
nieeting expressing faith in
the Egyptian president's lead-
ership and vowing to stand
solidly behind him.
.At the opening session on
'Wednesday, Sadat had offered
to ;resign at any time if the
cnuntry lost confidence in his
policies.
The congress also endorsed
Sadat's "postponement" of the
ennfrontation with Israel and
accepted his argument that
tbe timing of the resumption
of hostilities had to wait until
Xgypt was fully prepared.
reporters' questions about his
visit but did say he is not
going to Israel after his visit
in Cairo, Reuter reported.]
The United States mission
in Cairo remained silent on
charges made yesterday by
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal,
chief editor of the authorita-
tive Cairo newspaper Al
Ahram, that an American
woman diplomat had been de-
tained for involvement in a
CIA spy ring operating in
Egypt.
Informed sources said, how-
ever, that a woman member of
the U.S. mission had been de
tamed last year but later re-
leased.
[Diplomatic sources in Bei-
rut identified the woman as
Sue Anne Harris, secretary to
Eugene Trone, a U.S. diplomat
stationed in Cairo at the time,
Cnmmando Action the Associated Press reported.]
:Sadat told a closed session
of the congress yesterday that
it should be possible with bet-
ter coordination to step up
eommando action against Is-
rael, but he said that the deci-
sion to go to war would be
taken only when preparations
were complete.
;Answering a demand for ac-
tion against American oil in-
tprests in the Middle East, the,
president said that oil was a
d,ouble-edged weapon and that;
the Arabs had other, more!
effective ways, of bringing
pressure on the United States.
On the home front, Sadat
took a firm stand toward stu-
dents, who demonstrated last
month against his policies,
warning them that they would
not be allowed to stir up more
trouble and that they would
have to express their views in
an organized manner.
Jarring In Cairo
Meanwhile, both Soviet De-
fense Minister Marshal Andrei
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CAIRO 111P1) ? A U.S. woman diplomat was
caught red-handed and arrested as a spy, an
aide to President Amyx- Sadat said today.
Mohammed Hassar4n Heikal, wriging in his
semi-official newspaper Al Ahram, said the
unidentified woman, acting with an Egyptian
agent for the CIA, was trying to get informa-
tion on Russia's fighter plane, the MIG-23.
SERIOUS INCIDENT
He said the woman's arrest last September
created a serious incident with Washington
which threatened to discontinue its Middle
East politica] efforts. He indicated the United
States later admitted the woman was guilty
She was later released, Mr. Heikal said.
Mr. Heikal said the woman was part of a
"gigantic espionage case."
Cairo told Washington at the time the wom-
an would be released only after a thoro inves-
tigation, he said, but the United States "per-
sisted in asking for her deportation in accord-
ance with diplomatic tradition.
Washington's persistence turned into pres-
sure. President Sadat dismissed pressure- until
investigations were complete. ?
Mr. Heikal said: "Washington then said,
'supposing there was an espionage case, the
operation ? assuming it happened ? was not
aimed against Egypt but against the Soviet,
Union with which we are engaged in an inter-
national struggle.
'Our purpose was to learn something about
the new Soviet planes in your country. You
can rest assured that nothing of what we have
learned will be conveyed to Israel.'"
President Sadat today revealed that two Bel-
glans and a Frenchman were arrested here
recently as Israeli agents.
He said the rr.-2-. had milaed thousand S of
anti-Soviet, arti-1.7gyp'lan leaflets in Cairo and
had attempted to c-q.)!oit recent student unrest
to "split the home front,"
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From sews Dispatches
CAIRO, Feb. 17?An Ameri-
can women diplomat was ar-
rested here on spy charges
late last year, the editor of the
influential newspaper Al Ah-
ram said today, Reuter re-
ported.
The-woman was not named,
and the editor, Mohamed Has,
sanein Heikal, Ci-d--not make
clear whether she was still
being detained.
[A State Department spokes-
man refused to comment on
the report. "We never com-
ment on allegations like that,"
the spokesman said.]
Heikal said the woman was
arrested with an Egyptian
man of Greek origin when a
"huge spy ring" involving the
U.S. Central Intelligence
i/ Agency was uncovered.
Heikal said Washington had
Insisted that the woman be re-
leased immediately and repa-
triated to the United States,'
but Cairo had replied that in-
vestigations must be carried
out first.
In a further exchange of
messages Heikal wrote, the
U.S. government said the
alleged espionage was not
directed at Egypt but the
Soviet Union. The aim was to
obtain details on new Soviet
aircraft sent to Egypt.
It was not clear when these
exchanges took place.
Helkal. in his weekly article
for Al Ahram, said the Egyp-
tian, the manager of a large
company in Cairo, was the
chief defandant in the case.
The Egyptian was not named
either. But Heikal said his CIA
contact was the American
diplomat, who was caught red-
-handed.
In another espionage case,
Washington Post correspond-
ent William Dullforce wrote
from Cairo that President An-
war Sadat said today that three
Eurpoeans had been arrested
for acting as Israeli agents
and stirring up trouble during
studeht demonstration in Janu,
having been recruited by Is-1
raeli agents to distribute leaf-
lets among students.
The president also answered I
questions on Egypt's military;
capability and the prospects
of greater domestic democracy.
Al Ahram reported this
morning that the three ? men
arrived in Cairo a few days
after the beginning of the
student sit-in. Sadat said ti-solf
leaflets incited the students
to overthrow their govern-
ment. criticized the Soviet
Union and praised Sudan for
getting rid of its Communists.
Sadat emphasized that the
students themselves had been
in no way involved in the
plans of Israeli intelligence.
The president, siho in his
opening speech to the special
meeting yesterday offered to
resign if the people at any
time lacked confidence in his
leadership, was thanked yes-
terday evening by a delegation
of students from all Egyptian
universities for releasing the
last of their comrades de-
tained since the January dem-
onstrations. ?
All indications so far are
that Sadat will get the vote of
confidence he has been seek-
ing from the national congress
which finishes its three-day
.meeting Friday evening.
[United. Press International
quoted Cairo's state-controlled
newspapers as saying that the
council's various committeeg
"expressed full support" for
Sadat today. UPI said political
sources predicted that the en-
tire membership of the party
would endorse the president
at the end of the special meet-
ing Friday.]
The end of the meeting will
coincide with the arrival in
Cairo of Soviet Defense Minis-
ter Andrei Grechko and U.N.
mediator Gunnar V. Jarring.
An announcement this eve-
ning said both visitors were
expected to stay two days.
ary.
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How Leaders From ideast
member of Israel's parlia-
ment, a fierce opposition
leftist. As expected, he asked
a parliamentary question
about it on November 9.
Met In Secret Peace Talks
BY EDWIN ROTH
News special correspondent
1 )NDON
? ONE OF THE most
dramatic cloak-and-dagger
diplomacy operations in
world history was the top-
level peace conference be-
tween Israel, Jordan, - and
Egypt around a table in
London. immediately before
Christmas 1970. It was the
Erst formal Israeli-Arab
meeting since the 1949 armis-
tice talks on the Greek island
Rhodes ? and it' had im-
mensely important results,
which still exist.
'A' few days before Christ-
mas 1970, I met by chance in
a:. London restaurant an
Israeli who, because of the
very, special position he had
htld .in 1967, had witnessed
fascinating secret ? historic
events ? and knows all of
Israel's most important state
secrets. I asked him whether
he could spare the time to
meet me for a lengthy talk ?
"historic research rather
than journalism" ? and we
arranged to meet on Deceni-
ber 26, which is a holiday in
Britain;?
I knew then that Israel's
(^reign minister Abba Eban
and King Hussein of Jordan
had been in London at the
same time immediately be-
fore Christmas, and mention-
ed recent stories about earli-
" meetings between Eban
and Hussein. The Israeli to
thorn I mentioned this dur-
tfne our talk on December-26
mt a good poker player,
and I could see that my
remarks worried him very
8114(h. He suggested that env"
rsanalistic speculation about
ft' might do tremendous
and cost many lives.
I didn't speculate
good reasons why telling the
story now cannot do any
harm ? though it may be
officially denied until either
one of the three governments
directly involved, or the 1.7.?
S. administration, or the
British government, will
want to release it officially.
In this context, it is signifi-
cant that after more than
fifteen years none of the
three participating govern-
ments has yet publicly ad-
mitted the historic fact of the
top-secret conference be-
tween Israel's Prime Minis-
ter David Ben-Gurion,
Israel's Chief-of-Staff Gener-
al Moshe Dayan, France's
Prime Minister Goy Mollet,
and Britain's Foreign Secre-
tary Selwyn Lloyd in the
Paris suburb Sevres in Octo-
ber 1956 ? which decided the
Israeli-British-French Suez
Canal WRY against Egypt.
Fall of 1970
IN THE FALL of 1970, two
immensely important events
happened ih the Middle East,
King Hussein of Jordan won
his civil war against the
Palestinian guerrillas, and
his throne?probably also his
life ? was saved by Israel's
concentration of mobilized
armored and infantry forces.
in 'Northern Israel, which
caused the invading Syrian
tanks to withdraw from Jor-
dan. In Egypt, Gamal Abdel
Nasser died, and his succes-
sor Anwar Sadat was very
weak.
President Richard Nixon
and Secretary of State Wil-
liam Rogers wanted to avert
the danger of a new Middle
East .war by bringing ,top-lev-
el representatives of Israel,
Jordan, and Egypt to the
same table ? which could be
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curity reasons, and security
?censorship prevented its pub-
lication in Israel, and its
transmission abroad by for-
eign correspondents. But it
was heard by about 250
ordinary people in the public
cy. The Central laelligence
Agency's seji7r-diplilmacy.
sertion was told to arrange
this conference, which be-
-came one of its most success-
ful coups.
London waS chosen as the
venue, because King Hussein
and Abba Eban could find
good ostensible reasons for
-visiting London. -
When Eban and Hussein
had met in London in 1968,
London's Israeli embassy
had made a planning mis-
take for which it Was not to
blame. Hussein was known to
be at London's most expen-
sive private hospital, the
London Clinic, where he was
treated for his chronic nose
ailment. Eban's visit to Lon-
don at the same time was to
be top-secret.
But when Eban arrived at
London airport, he walked by
chance into a crowd of news
media representatives wait-
ing for another news person-
ality ? and was recognized
by them. He told them he
had come privately to see his
mother who lives here, but
his arrival got publicity
which he and Hussein had
wanted to avoid.
The- ingenious camouflage
for the London meeting in
Christmas Week 1970 be-
tween Eban, Hussein, and
Egypt's Foreign Minister
Mahmoud Riad was to be
that Eban's and Hussein's
movements before the con-
ference would be enormously
public.
There was an. additional
diplomatic safeguard. Early
in November 1970, the Israeli
-government leaked- the story
of the dramatic meeting be-
tween Hussein and Israel's
deputy prime minister \lag
Allon in a car in Israel's
gallery. In Israel, this meant'
that the entire population
knew it within 48 hours.
On December :1,:i(ing Hus-
sein arrived in London at the
start of a western capitals
'tour during which he also
visited Washimtton, Paris,
and Bonn. The main purpose
of this tour was to provide
camouflage, for the coming
London Christmas confer-
ence with Eban and .Mah-
moud Riad. Throughout it;
he denigd the story of his
previous meetings with Eban
and Alton.
King Hussein's wife and
children had been living in
Britain since the slimmer for
their Safety. Hussein had not .
met his family since June.
To ensure maximum press
and TV coverage, Hussein's
two-year-old twin daughters.
were taken to London airport_
by their British-born mother
Princess Muna, and all posed
for happy family pictures. .
?
Hussein meets Heath
ON DECEMBER 4, Hus-
sein very publicly met Brif-
ain's Prime Minister Ed-
ward Heath. On the same
day, the British Foreign Of-
fice announced that he would'
return to London on, Decem-
ber 20 for further talks with
Britain's Foreign Secretary
Sir Alec Douglas-Ho*,
On December 7, Hussein
flew -to Washington, where he
met President Nixon ? and
got much publicity. Then he
flew to Paris, where he met
President Pompidou ? and
got much publicity. Then he
?
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An analysis of the work of the Central
Intelligence Agency begins on page 10.
The compiler of this three-part report
is E. H. Cookridge (left), who is the
author of 16 books on espionage. Re-
cruited into the British Secret Service
on graduating from the University of
Vienna in 1934, he has spent his
time ever since in intelligence work,
or writing about it. "I am M the
position of the dumb blonde in Holly-
wood films. Once you are it you
cannot stop. I am tired of writing
about spies." But his network of
contacts built up over the years is
unique; and ensures that he will be
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LONDON (AP).?The Arab Martinez Fernandez from
? skyjacking of four Western Colombia. A fourth was a
airliners last year was part of Costa Rican student, Alvara
a worldwide Communist plot ; Fuentes Iglesias, the book
that delivered secret Atlantic
! Alliance documents to the So-'
; viet Union, a British spy book ' Even Leila Khaled, the girl
I claimed Mondav. guerilla briefly jailed in Bri-
Pouches containing top tam n after she failed to cap-
' secret reports on a NATO air- ture an Israeli El Al plane
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ways jumbo jet, hijacked to canceled.
Cairo on a Sept. 7 flight from
Amsterdam to New York,
"they captured' a mass of
NATO documents concerning
eft
ert A.)a
From a Trans World
lines 707, hijacked and blown
up in Jordan, the skyjackerS'
took NATO . documents
route from Supreme Head-
quarters Allied Powers in EP-
rope (SHAPE) to the Pentag-
on in Washington, the book
s i .
These were given to Ru!s-
sian agents in Damascus, -arid.
Cookridge comments: "It
was a good catch: They con,
tallied a complete set of '
documents of the NATO mili-
tary budget for 1971."
"The great skyjack ?Per-
ation of September 1970, -is'
already half forgotten," cap-
tioned Cookridge. He warned
that "in the area of intelli-
gence and military limbs of
government the drama _re-
mains an ominous pointer to
the future."
the precise purposes of the -- ?
alleged ? Communist plot. But
he said one effect of the hi-
jacking was the seizure of the
secret NATO papers.
From a Pan American Air-
I, were taken off the ? -Hi-- English --Channel !
over e . tori-secret plans for the corn-
budgetsea exercise and the military
, planes before they were blown may have been born in Hon- bined NATO air and naval
i up at Cairo airport and in the duras, Cookridge indicated, exercises code-named `Win-
sands of the Jordanian desert, The name on her passport, he tex'," set for 1971,, said
says "Spy Trade," by Edward said, was Maria
H. Cookridge, a Vienna-born Chaves, and she speaks Span- The Central.Int
ine, who did the job. The or- a professional
,?elligence
espionage specialist. ish. . Aeency, he went on, later dis-
,,,.......,
The September skyjackings? Leila's accomplice, shot covefEd that the Wintex plan
and a fifth attempt which dead b.,- Israeli security had been delivered to Col.
failed in a blaze of gunfire guards while the plane was in Samih Sharraf, the Egyptian
above the English Channel? flight, Was Nicaragua - intelligence chief, and given
flashed the world spotlight on Patrick Anguello, an Ameri- to the Soviet Embassy in
Marxist-Maoist Popular Front "He had nothing to do with
, id Cairo.
the Arab guerillas of the . can citizen. The papers were photogra-
for the Liberation of Palest- , Arab nationalism . . . he was phed and the pouches slashed
and burned to resemble ex-
Communist
ganization has now virtually agent and his involvement
. . d 1 Lux Cookridge
, - , plosion damage. Then they
were delivered to the Amer--
with the PFLP was only inci-
, can Embassy in Cairo with
dental," the book says. ! formal Egyptian regrets. The
Cookridge did not specify Wintex maneuvers were
vanished from the Arab scene.
I The air piracy had little to
:do! with Arab nationalism, ,
claimed "Spy Trade,". which
contended: "It was, in fact,
part of a worldwide Commu-
nist conspiracy, although not
necessarily stage-managed
from Moscow.
"Hardly any of the actual
skyjackers were Palestinians
or Arabs," said Cookridge.
The book is likely to pro-
yoke Arab denials from the
Middle East, where thei
skyjackers are regarded as
Palestinian heroes and bona-
fide Arabs.
Two of the air bandits were !
Africans from Senegal, said
Cookridge, a World War II
intelligence agent and author
, of half a dozen books on
spying. ?
Another was Miss Cecilia
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?? ITEM: On Juno 23, 1935, Chou Eis-lai told
:Gamal Abdo' Nasser over dinner in Cairo
that he did not want President Johnson to
withdraw, troops from Vietnam; rather, he
-wanted yore Americans sent there. Why?
Becatss.e "we are afraid that some American
militarists may press for a nuclear attack on
China" and therefore ? American Involve-
anent would be !`an insurance policy against
an. attack" because the U.S. troops would
be "so close to us they will be our hostages."
Item: In 1959 Nikita Khrushchev wrote
*Camel Abdel Nasser that the Soviet Union
- bad "feared" a year earlier to offer unlim-
ited support to Egypt?"knowing your lin-
,pulsiveness." In 1937, just before the Six
Day Wax, Alexel Kosygiu counseled Egypt
to "compromise, to work politically" after
Nasser had closed the Straits of Tiran.
Item: -Nasser had an "instinctive dislike"
? for President Johnson because he had stud-
ied photographs of the new American Presi-
dent and was "shocked" at those in which
Johnson had his feet on his desk and was
showing off his operation scar. When the So-
viet ambassador arrived In the middle of the
?night to deliver a Johnson message sent via
Kosygin, Nasser took it as an effort to "neu-
tralize" the Soviet Union in the Middle East.
- cese
?
?
THESE FRAGMENTS, and much more,
are to be found in a forthcoming biography
' of Nasser by his friend end confidant, Mo-
hemmed Heikal, the highly influential editor
of Cairo's Al Abram; Excerpts from the
book, to bo published next year, have been
running for some weeks in the London Sun-
- day Telegraph. The items mentioned here
are from those excerpts and while some of
Ileikars reporting may be open to clues:Lion,
- much of it has the ring of truth.
Of all the middle rank nations none has
had greater importance for and influence on
- the superpowers than Egypt. Heikars ac-
count is both revealing and chilling. It is re-
vealing because It includes much new infor-
mation. on the Soviet attitude toward Egypt
.as . well, as some details of Kennedy and
Johnson diplomacy in the Middle East plus
, a great deal about inter-Arab relationships.
It is chilling because Heikal suggests that a
sense of conspiracy and emotion rather?than
?bard facts and analysis governed Nasser's
critical decisions. What -this implies for the
current Sada regime can only be guessed,
Heikal's role today is es important as It was
In Nasser's years.
What, for example, is one to believe about
vine tales of CIA intrigue recounted by HO-
Ical? He writes a a CIA "leak" to Nasser
- that at the time of Suez, Anthony Eden was
suffering a physical breakdown; of $3 mil-
lion paid by the CIA. to Gen. Naguro to con-
struct a communications tower in Cairo; of
how the CIA induced a Russian Sailor on a '
Soviet ship bringing the first arms to Egypt
? to defect and now the sailor was shipped out
'of Egypt in a dipeorpatic o,L Keeinit,
Roosevelt's well ?%ePPRIVrnakrilrs,0?0,1
and how Americans, unnamed, tipped Egypt
that the British had named a commander for
the Mg ineyncirm
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THERE is an intriguing account of the. Heikal also recottrita- thaf-China Strongly
gin of the 1955 Soviet arms deal,
one of the monumental events of our times. As Helkal
opposed Nasser's acceptance of the cease-
fire after the Six-Day War in 1957: Mao, re-
tells it, President Eisenhower was talked out
of aiding Egypt by Prime Minister Churchill portscfacaIoilegat, "sent Nasser a military plan '
that called for breaking up the
E
though John Foster Dulles was sympathetic . -
to Nasser's request.. But when Dulles tem- gyptian army into guerilla brigades "which
porize.d and worried about Nasser going to should lose themselves in the population.?
the Bandung Conference, it was Chou Metal Nasserth had to explain to the 'Chinese that
who set up the deal. At a step in Rangoon 7 e Sinai was no place for such tactics "hut
??
till the Chinese were not convinced."
en route to Bandung. Nehru introduced Nas- s
Sfeere also is an account of a Nesser-
ser to Chine and Nasser asked the Chinese ore, ad. mission to Peking around this time
Premier if he thought Moscow would supply to esk for Chinese help "in making a break--
him with arms. This, Arites Heikal, was the'
"first overture cif the Soviet arms deal," ? throuah in nuclear techniques," as Heikal
describes it. Chou received the delegation
The result was a call on Nasser by the So- kindly out explained that "nobody was go,
viet .ambassador in Cairo on May 21, 1955,
and later a %-isit by a Russian colonel. Hensel Ing to give anybody anything as a If
the
says that Nasser told American Ambassador Eg,yptiens wanted 'to step into the atomic
they would haVe to do it themselves"
Byroade on May 22 that he had a arm so- . field ?
as China had done: ?
viet orfer. But Dulles was later to claim he . , ?
had no ? solid infOrmation prior to the sum- /lw men HelK,1 \g d
ill .iscl'ne of J-CosL
mit conference that July and therefore an., gin's diplomacy I-creel:is to be seen hut theee
eenhower had not raised the matter with is plenty about Khrushehev's way of doing
Bulganin and Krushehev at Geneva. -business. There is, for example, his remark
? The Oct. 17 installment included State-, to Nasser that Tito is "not a Communist, he
ments by Chou to Nasser in 1S35 that ? some is a king." More chilling is Khrushchev's
American troops were beginning to try statement to Nasser in the Kremlin in 1.950,
ophire."and we are helping them" by "plant- just after the coup in Iraq, when the Arabing the best kinds of opium especially for-nvorld expected an American invasion .ot
the American soldiers in Vietnam.", Chou, Iraq, that "frankly, we are not ready for a.. -
as Heikal (els it in direct quotations, ex-
? plained that the West had long ago imposed
opium on China and, "we are going to fight
them with their own weapons." Prophetical-
ly-, Chou added?end this was in 1935 when
the American troop involvement on a grand
scale was only just beginning?that "the
effect which this demoralization" through
drugs "is - going to have" on the United
Stales "will be far greater than anyone
realizes."
Reikal reports that Nasser subsequently
told Averell Hairiman of the first part
-of Chou's remarks but not about the drugs.
It was, says Heikal, the only time in the
two-hour Nasser-Harriman meeting that the
American "showed any real interest" in the
talks.
.
Chou's bitterness toward the Soviet 7relnicn
? also is deeply reflected in the Heikal ac-
count. When Nasser said the Soviets Were
helping Egypt,. Chou replied that "they are.
not going to help you. They are only in-
terested in helping ? themselve.e." The Rus-
sians complained that Nasser was getting
too friendly with China: and all unnamed
Russian leader, says Heikal, recounted an
"insult" to the Soviet Union: Mao Tse-tung
had gent his two sons to Moscow for train-
ing but when they returned to China, Mao
asked what they had learned- and when they ,?
told latealec,lared t "IteeevIl _non-
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confrontation. We are not ready for World- .
War III." The most Khrushcher would .
promise by way of help, to the Arabs was to
announce Soviet maneuvers on the Bulgari-
an-Turkish border "but don't depend on any-
thing more than that."
Nasser would not accept the idea of Israe-
li cohesion with Britain, and France in 1935
though his Paris embassy had paid an un-
named Frenchman for just such advance in-
formation. By the time of the Six Day War,
however, Nasser was ready . to believe in
American collusion with Israel. As Heikal
tells it, what eonyinced Nasser was an over-
flight of two American planes and a Johnson
message via Kosygin delivered by the Soviet
ambassador that the planes were on their
way to help the American spy ship Liberty. "
Nasser even was affected by an American
press account that President Johnson had
remarkedto his wife that "we have a war on
our hands." "We" was equated with collie
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13 SEP 1971
'NEWSPAPER REOPENS
EGYPTIAN SPY CASE ?
Special to The New York Timea
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept 12?
An Egyptian editor, now serv--
ing life imprisonment for spy-
ing for the -United States, has
stated that he was falsely ac-
cused by a former Egyptian in-
telligence chief and that he had
kept in touch with the Ameri-
cans because the late President.
Game! Abdel Nasser( asked him
for information about activities
by the United States Embassy
in Cairo.
A leading newspaper here,'
Al Anwar, today reopened the
.case of Mustafa Amin, the
founder, of Cairo's . prominent
Akhbar Al Yom publishing
house, who was sentenced to
life imprisonment in 1965 after
being found guilty of providing
the United States Central In-
telligence Agency with secret
information bearing on Egyp-
tian security.
Al Anwar, which now em-
ploys Mr. Amin's twin brother,
*Ali printed the text of a letter
ithat Mr. Amin sent to President
Nasser in December, 1965,
pleading his innocence and ac-
cusing the intelligence chief at
the time, Salah Nascr, of sub-
jecting to torture. The message,
however, never reached. the
President.
The letter suggested that Mr.
/Naser falsely accused Mr. Amin
after hearing that President
Nasser intended to make him
ithe new intelligence chief. Mr.
laser himself is now serving
15-year prison sentence. He
c'was convicted by a Cairo mili-
tary court after the six-clay war
with Israel in 1967 .as im-
plicated in a conspiracy to
'overthrow President Nasser.
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