SOVIETS MAY DISPUTE CARTER CREDIBILITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600230095-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: March 7, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2004/07/08 : CIA-RDP81 M00980R000600230095-7
WASHINGTON POST
PAGE t '-F-
99"
Soviets May Dispute Carter Credibility
Anatoly Scharansky's Chief Accuser Now Linked to the ' CIA
By Murrey Marder
Washington Post Staff Writer
Administration officials are highly
concerned that the Soviet Union will
attempt to challenge the credibility of
President Carter in the celebrated
case of dissident Anatoly Scharansky
with evidence that Scharansky's chief
accuser was in fact once a CIA agent.
It was confirmed yesterday that the
accuser, Dr. Sanya L. Lipavsky, a Jew-
ish doctor, did work with the CIA in
1975, volunteering his services. Lipav-
sky, later a roommate of l5charan-
sky's, has charged that Scharansky
also was a CIA agent. The first public
corroboration that L i p a v s k y was
linked to the CIA appeared in the cur-
rent issue of Time magazine.
Although American officials see
that as a highly tenuous link to Schar-
ansky at best, it could be used in a So-
viet trial to challenge Carter's public
insistence that Scharansky never "had
any known relationship in a subver-
sive way or otherwise with the CIA."
A Scharansky trial, on charges of
treason or espionage, long has been
seen not only as a potentially explo-
sive Soviet challenge to the Carter hu-
man rights campaign, but also as a
flashpoint for American-Soviet de-
tente policy. Detente is now at a pre-
carious point over American outcries
against Soviet military involvement in
the Horn of Africa warfare between
Ethiopia and Somalia.
President Carter and other top offi-
ANATOLY SCHARANSKY
... action in case expected soon
cials repeatedly have cautioned the
Soviet Union, privately and publicly,
about the American political conse-
quences of bringing Scharansky to
trial:
What is at stake is not only the fact
that Scharansky, 30, a Soviet computer
specialist, was one of the leading Jew-
ish activists in the Soviet Union, and a
major figure in the now-shattered
group of dissidents monitoring Soviet
m
DATE
compliance with the Helsinki human
rights accords. Beyond that, a Schar-
ansky trial has been seen as a poten-
tial Soviet attempt to link together
American diplomats, Soviet-based U.S.
journalists and the CIA in a wholesale
plot. The premise would be that the
entire dissident movement in the So-
viet Union is foreign-concocted.
It is not known, American officials
stress, whether the Soviet Union will
decide to risk the international conse-
quences of a dramatic "show trial"
against Scharansky to parade such
sweeping accusations. There are nu-
merous lesser choices of scope and ac-
cusation which the Kremlin may
choose.
Soviet legal preparations, however,
informed sources said, now indicate
that action is soon to begin against
Scharansky, arrested last March and
held incommunicado in Moscow's Le-
fortovo Prison. The Soviet Union was
believed to be suspending its move
until the completion of the Belgrade
conference on European security and
human rights, now in its final days.
Until now, there had been no public
disclosure that the Soviet accusa-
tions against Scharansky could be
seemingly buttressed by the Lipavsky
CIA link.
Lipavsky, portraying himself as a
"repented" dissident,' last year had
claimed that he once was a CIA agent,
in addition to charging that American
diplomats had recruited Scharansky
See SCHARANSKY, A18, Col. 1
 ?wmo~GO mf0o~mom moo m ?' o
1-3
%
w m Y rr _ m y d m s9y m G
C? .n is 'C n t`'] P? C L1'd' m ? _ n. ts' N A
N !! C ? C A' 9 y r
t-4 0
~? o o p
m
a??bpn~ maw
gm~
m s ~o ,..m C a w ~~~ t`3 o w b
CD 0_, o o'a ~`C n 1 w P (A m ra " fi m
^c ' n o a. A my Sb r" w
G E 11 r ?~ P .CD 0 En
E~v .2 R . m o 5 4t P ty m E
p ie ty ~ ~r ~ A ~ ~. ~ o K
o ~, y K a0cm rs~ m k~ ~, m m r? m b m
zo.
m~ z
~t~w'ae ~Pp'm~~?0 0 ~~aSZ~mR O
m.P d~ o ~o ~. ~a ~?on ~?~? ~ m- ~ o m ~ ? m K7 ~ t- tie
pM o w -~ g'.0 0 m w pmt w p
~?~~am~ mpO re~P't r? y
o~C`~~~Q?y~?~A~~ ~~ yaw R ~r~G o
t:r
n ~ H
~~ w a+ ~ K~ o p, a bid cyo C~ p 0 fy? ~ o ~~~ ~n R i m?
rr P
h j r+ r ~~d 0 C y r A~ p
A~ fD At e?r G p Al f'+. ''1. t'" p7 fA ~py7 ~-* A7 R m m
GOO ~yN Nny ~y ~Oep 5b'O~N ~ ~ i`' ~~ ~r~ G P
~~rtse+~mP~CM~vin(a~Pt/m$me~r
P ~+ ati? .+? G G y
c ?'m nD p?,`Cy rr~~y coo ia~ w?+ coo r o~ m
m p faD p? O lb N ID A e~* 5D
Aq o m ~Cf r~+? f~'7 N y~
eCO h~~ ~?m~ 90=" ~i P-
AM m a W m 0 e ? i m
C
m ?0oacooas~~.C~ p~ (D to m
"E 2.
5. O w C ts m C1 `C re o ra r?? .my . r+ '0 ,j 5* 5 4:
mir n~~`*rry N.o .fGm CQ4?~~. ~Q.m fnpKS +"_
~~4t. 0 0 0~'~r?'c?~~'r%, 9 w 1 G Ddb -c o
AOAOQ- 6-0,%30095'-7