OPPOSITION LEADER ANKER JORGENSEN ATTACKS FOREIGN MINISTER FOR ALLEGED REMARKS ON SDI

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2010
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• Publication Date: February 14, 1985
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E.O. 12356: DECL: OADR
TAGS: PARM, MNUC, DA
SUBJECT: OPPOSITION LEADER ANKER JORGENSEN ATTACKS
FOREIGN MINISTER FOR ALLEGED REMARKS ON
SDI
REFS: (A) COPENHAGEN 1123; (B) COPENHAGEN 1125;
(C) 84 COPENHAGEN 3044 (ALL NOTAL)
1. CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT.
2. SUMMARY: SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN ANKER
JORGENSEN LOST NO TIME IN ATTACKING FOREIGN MINISTER
ELLEMANN-JENSEN'S ALLEGED REMARKS IN SUPPORT OF SDI.
SAYING INTER ALIA THAT SDI THREATENS TO PREVENT THE
GENEVA TALKS FROM BEING SUCCESSFUL. ELLEMANN-JENSEN
DENIED THAT HE MADE THE STATEMENTS HE WAS ALLEGED
BY THE PRESS TO HAVE MADE AND SAID THAT HE HAD CONFINED
HIMSELF TO SUPPORTING SDI RESEARCH, SINCE THE SOVIET
UNION HAS SUCH A RESEARCH PROGRAM, AND SAYING THAT
HE AGREED WITH CHANCELLOR KOHL THAT IF SDI IS REALIZED,
THERE IS A DANGER OF DECOUPLING UNLESS EUROPEANS ARE
INVOLVED. THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ARE ON THE DEFENSIVE
IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNEMPLOYMENT FUND SCANDAL
AND THE LEFT IN THE PARTY WILL NO DOUBT HOPE TO USE
SDI TO ACHIEVE NEW UNITY WITHIN THE PARTY ON SECURITY
POLICY WHILE DRIVING A WEDGE BETWEEN ELLEMANN-JENSEN'S
LIBERAL PARTY (WHICH HAS LED THE ATTACK IN THE
UNEMPLOYMENT FUND SCANDAL) AND THE PRIME MINISTER'S
CONSERVATIVE PARTY. END SUMMARY.
3. SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (SOP) LEADER ANKER
"JORGENSEN LOST NO TIME IN ATTACKING FOREIGN MINISTER
ELLEMANN-JENSEN'S REPORTED STATEMENT (REF A) THAT
HE SUPPORTS THE U.S. SDI PROGRAM. ACCORDING TO PRESS
REPORTS, JORGENSEN SAID ON FEBRUARY 12 (INFORMAL
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TRANSLATION): "FOREIGN MINISTER ELLEMANN-JENSEN'S
CLEAR ADMISSION THAT HE SUPPORTS THE U.S.A.'S STAR
WARS PROGRAM APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE MISSTATE-
MENT. THE MISSTATEMENT APPLIES BOTH TO THE PROGRAM
ITSELF AND TO THE POINT IN TIME WHICH ELLEMANN-JENSEN
CHOSE TO STATE HIS VIEWS. THE STAR WARS PROGRAM
APPEARS TO BE THE ELEMENT WHICH ALREADY FROM THE
START AND IN ANY CASE IN THE COURSE OF THE GENEVA
NEGOTIATIONS CAN BE THE CAUSE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS
BETWEEN THE U.S. AND THE SOVIET UNION LEADING TO
NO RESULT. THE FOREIGN MINISTER'S STATEMENT THAT
IT WOULD BE NATURAL FOR DENMARK, THROUGH THE INTEGRATED
COOPERATION IN NATO, TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN
PROJECT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN MADE COMPLETELY WITHOUT
KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRACTICAL COSTS THIS PROJECT WILL
ENTAIL. THE DANISH CONTRIBUTION TO NATO'S
INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM WILL BE NOTICEABLY GREATER
IN THE COMING YEARS AND IT WOULD BOTH BE UNDESIRABLE
AND IMPOSSIBLE TO AGREE THAT THIS PROJECT SHOULD
BE PAID BY NATO."
4. ACCORDING TO THE FEBRUARY 13 RADIO NEWS, ELLEMANN-
JENSEN SAID IT WAS NONSENSE TO CLAIM THAT HE HAD
SAID THAT NATO SHOULD MAKE A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION
TO SDI. HE BLAMED JOURNALISTS FOR THE MISUNDERSTANDING
BY USE OF THE HEADLINE "ELLEMANN SAYS YES TO STAR
WARS PLANS:" ELLEMANN-JENSEN WENT ON TO SAY THAT
WHAT IN FACT HE SAID WAS THE FOLLOWING: A) THAT HE
SAW NOTHING WRONG IN GOING FORWARD WITH RESEARCH ON
SDI SINCE THE SOVIET UNION HAD A RESEARCH PROGRAM
OF ITS OWN. B) IF THE SDI RESEARCH IN FACT DEVELOPED
INTO A CONCRETE PROGRAM, HE AGREED WITH CHANCELLOR
KOHL THAT THERE WAS A GREAT DANGER OF DECOUPLING
IF THE EUROPEANS WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT.
C) IT WAS CLEAR THAT SDI IS PART OF THE GENEVA ARMS
CONTROL NEGOTIATIONS AND, IF THESE NEGOTIATIONS ARE
SUCCESSFUL, AN AGREEMENT MIGHT BE REACHED WHICH
MAKES SDI UNNECESSARY. THIS WOULD BE THE PREFERABLE
OUTCOME. 0) THERE IS NOTHING IN THE MAY 3
PARLIAMENTARY RESOLUTION (REF B) OR ANY OTHER
PARLIAMENTARY RESOLUTION WHICH PREVENTS DANISH
POLITICIANS FROM DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITIES OF SDI.
(COMMENT: THE MAY 3 RESOLUTION DIRECTS THE GOVERNMENT
INTER ALIA TO "PARTICIPATE IN EFFORTS TO OBTAIN AN
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT BANNING THE DEPLOYMENT OF
NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN OUTER SPACE." END COMMENT.)
5. JORGENSEN REPORTEDLY SAID THAT ELLEMANN-JENSEN
SHOULD HAVE CLEARED HIS REMARKS BEFOREHAND IN THE
AD HOC PARLIAMENTARY SECURITY COMMITTEE DISCUSSING
THE DYVIG REPORT AND HE CALLED FOR ELLEMANN-JENSEN
E.O. 12356: DECL: OADR
TAGS: PARM, MNUC, DA
SUBJECT: OPPOSITION LEADER ANKER JORGENSEN ATTACKS
TO APPEAR BOTH BEFORE THAT COMMITTEE AND THE FOREIGN
POLICY COMMITTEE TO EXPLAIN HIS POSITION. JORGENSEN
SAID THAT THE FOREIGN MINISTER HAS "ONCE AGAIN
MADE MORE DIFFICULT THE EFFORTS TO REACH UNITY IN
SECURITY POLICY."
6. BEFORE ELLEMANN-JENSEN'S REMARKS ON THE RADIO
HAD BEEN AIRED. ON FEBRUARY 13 THE HEAD OF THE
CHRISTIAN PEOPLE'S PARTY (PART OF THE GOVERNMENT
COALITION) FLEMMING KOFOED-SVENDSEN TOLD EMBOFF HE
REGRETTED ELLEMANN-JENSEN'S HAVING SPOKEN OUT ON SDI.
HE SAID HE FULLY AGREED WITH ELLEMANN-JENSEN ON THE
SUBSTANCE OF HIS ALLEGED STATEMENTS (AS REPORTED
IN THE PRESS) BUT THAT IT WAS A TACTICAL ERROR TO
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HAVE COME OUT WITH THEM PUBLICLY AT A TIME WHEN
THERE IS AN EFFORT TO REACH AGREEMENT WITH THE SOCIAL
DEMOCRATS ON SECURITY POLICY. KOFOED-SVENDSEN SAID
THAT WORK IN THE AD HOC COMMITTEE (OF WHICH HE IS A
MEMBER) HAS BEEN GOING FAIRLY SMOOTHLY BUT HE IS
CONCERNED THAT THE INTERNAL POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM
THE FOREIGN MINISTER'S STATEMENTS MAY MAKE THAT MORE
DIFFICULT.
7. COMMENT: AS WITH INF, SDI THREATENS TO BECOME AN
INTERNAL POLITICAL FOOTBALL IN DANISH POLITICS. THE
ARGUMENT THAT SDI MAY SPOIL THE GENEVA TALKS IS
LIKELY TO BE ONE THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO HEAR. THE
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ARE IN TROUBLE WITH SVEND AUKEN, WHO
MANY BELIEVE TO BE THE FRONT RUNNER IN THE RACE
EVENTUALLY TO SUCCEED TO ANKER JORGENSEN, UNDER ATTACK
FOR HIS ALLEGED MISDEEDS REGARDING THE UNEMPLOYMENT
FUND WHILE HE WAS LABOR MINISTER (REF C). SINCE
ELLEMANN-JENSEN'S LIBERAL PARTY HAS LED THE ASSAULT
IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT FUND-SCANDAL, AND SINCE ELLEMANN-
JENSEN HIMSELF (WHO LIKES A GOOD FIGHT) HAS ALWAYS
BEEN THE PRIME TARGET OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, THE SDP
HAS ANOTHER BASIS ON WHICH TO ATTACK HIM. AT THE
SAME TIME, THE LEFT IN THE SDP WILL NO DOUBT HOPE TO.
ACHIEVE NEW UNITY (ON THEIR TERMS) WITHIN THE SOP
ON SECURITY POLICY WHILE AT THE SAME TIME DRIVING A
WEDGE WITHIN THE COALITION GOVERNMENT BETWEEN THE
LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES. RUSSELL
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