MEDIASCAN SUMMARY & ANALYSIS 21 APRIL 1983 THURSDAY

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• Publication Date: April 21, 1983
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MEDIASCAN
SUMMARY & ANALYSIS
21 April 1983
Thursday
For the first time in more than a week, each network be n its program
with a different story Thursday night. ABC reported on/the Senate Budget
Committee's rejection of President Reagan's 1984 bud et, while NBC
focused onchrysler's highest quarterly profit in a company's history.
CBS' top stor\ was an exclusive. The network re opted that federal
prosecutors are`planning to seek the indictmervt of a retired Pentagon
intelligence analxyst for allegedly selling s'cret intelligence reports
about Egypt to armh smuggler Edwin Wilson,
ABC and NBC also rep4t
said that intelligence
accuses the PLO of prow
leftist rebels in El Sal
update of the evening on t
Brandon. Hall.
for president. The CB
networks waited unt
NBC used more fop
In his commenta
Democratic ca
or. J
ries early in their programs. ABC
ing assessed at the White House
support" for Nicaragua and for
C's David Hazinski provided the only
ndition of liver transplant patient
hn Glenn's announcement of his candidacy
No. 3 in the lineup, but the other
story was
much later
age of Glenn's
p their broadcasts to cover the story.
y, NBC's John Chance
idates who are trying
get labor's endorsement.
ABC had an exclusive report on former Nazi Klaus Barbie. Correspondent
John Martin concluded that Barbie could have been part of a "network of
Nazis" working in South America. ABC also reported that the vehicle that
carried the bomb intc the U.S. emoassy in Beirut was abandoned by the
driver--a timing, device apparently triggered the explosion. Another
exclusive for ABC was its report on Israeli settlements or. the West Bank.
CBS's coverage of the Soviet spy story was more extensive than that of
its competition. Correspondent Rita Braber was thorough in her
description of the incidents which led to the expulsion of the Soviets.
All the networks reported on the election of Jackie Presser as the new
Teamsters president, but only CBS' Ike Pappas noted that one of Presser's
goals is to organize retired Teamsters into "a political work force for
the next election."
NBC's Marvin Kalb reported on a disagreement between Secretaries Shultz
and Weinberger over the use of U.S. technology in Israeli fighter planes.
Correspondent John Cochran covered the emotional visit of some Jews to
Auschwitz.
James H. Roper
Managing Editor
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ech than did the other two networks.
for was highly critical of
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diplomats are being told to pack their bags and go home. At the
State Department., Barrie Dunsmore has details.
DUNSMORE: ABC News has been told that two Soviets are being
expelled from the U.S. for involvement in an effort to obtain a
recent presidential directive on U.S.-Soviet relations. In what
appears to have been a setup, an unnamed American met with the
Soviet military attache over the weekend in the Washington area.
The Russian was caught with eight rolls of film of classified
documents. Two days ago Lt. Col. Barmyantzev. an assistant
military attache of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, was
declared persona non grata by the State Department for
activities incompatible with his status as a diplomat.
Yesterday Aleksandr Mikheyev, a trainee at the Soviet mission at
the United Nations, was told to leave the country immediately.
In a related case. Oleg Konstantinov, a Soviet KGB agent, was
picked up April 2 on Long Island trying to get information on
aerospace technology. He has already left the country.
Officials will not comment publicly on these incidents, though
privately intelligence sources say the U.S. tool; action because
in recent months the Soviets have become flagrant in their
attempts to obtain secret documents. Barrie Dunsmore. ABC New:,
the State Department.
AP06 BOLIVIA/BA.RBIE BELL: Now the latest on Klaus Barbie. the Nazi war criminal
awaiting trial in France on mass murder charges. ABC's John
Martin's been following the story, and he now has new
information about allegations that Barbie had regular but
indirect contacts with the CIA during the 30 years he lived in
Bolivia. Martin reports from the Bolivian capital of Lapaz
where special U.S. prosecutor Allan Ryan is trying to piece
together the Barbie story.
MARTIN: American special prosecutor Allan Ryan is trying to
find out whether the American government protected Barbie while
using him for intelligence work either in. Germany or Bolivia.
At the interior ministry here. officials told Ryan they have no
documents showing how Barbie entered their country or whether he
worked for American intelligence. Bolivian army units took the
files in 1979, they said. INTERPRETER FOR GUSTAVO SANCHEZ
(Interior Sub-Secretary): All the documents that exist in the
ministry of the interior were stolen.
MARTIN: A Bolivian who said he purchased copies of some of the
documents before they were stolen produced a series of
photostats spanning 20 years of Barbie's life. Purchased here
in Lapaz by ABC News, the documents were shown to Justice and
State Department officers who verified their authenticity. One
shows Barbie used an Allied High Commission passport to reach
Italy under a false name in 1951. His Bolivian visa shows he
listed his sponsors as a Catholic priest in Rome and a
Franciscan leader in Bolivia. He also listed assets of only
$850, suggesting he may not have been as highly paid an
informant as some reports have maintained. In this 1973
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affidavit, Barbie denied he used an alias to escape or to become
a Bolivian citizen or that he worked for American intelligence
in Germany. All of these documents show Barbie shedding an old
identity, escaping Europe with the help of American officials,
yet none of them shows any connection between Barbie and the CIA
in South America, but. this man, an interior ministry official,
says Barbie regularly passed information on Bolivian communists
and leftists to CIA contacts at the U.S. Embassy using the
interior ministry as an intermediary. INTERPRETER FOR
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It's obvious that he contacted the embassy
with the transmit information.
MARTIN: One former senior Bolivian security official said here
in Lapaz that the CIA, while not employing Barbie as an
informant, knew that he was the source of some of their
intelligence reports, a vital question on prosecutor Ryan's
agenda here. RYAN: We've been hearing those reports since the
investigation began, and that's one of the reasons that I came
to Lapaz, to investigate them and to find out.
MARTIN: The Barbie intelligence connection may have been part
of a wider operation run out of houses in rural Cochabamba. A
former associate says that barbie held as many as six daily
radio conversations with Nazis spread across the continent. By
one account, Earbie's associates in Argentina, Chile, Peru and
Paraguay funneled to him similar intelligence about communist
activities which reached the Americans through the interior
ministry here in the capital. the first indication that Klaus
Barbie may have been part of a network of Nazis working in South
America. John Martin, ABC News. Lapaz. Bolivia.
AP07 LAWSUIT/ BELL: The federal government and the governme of California
TOXIC WASTE today sued 31 companies that have dumped toxi waste at the
Stringfellow Acid Pits. The pits are now 'ered and sealed
with a,,special clay. but experts say leas are endangering water
supplies. The suit demands millions of kcllars to clean it up.
reef: are clearing out i
are trying to beat q
ents have been ord
ous cleanup ca
e bankrupt
More o
Swartz Creek. Mich.,
midnight evacuation
red out so a lengthy and
begin at Michigan's worst
'Burlin and Farrell Liquid Waste
that from Joe Spencer.
Incineration Company:
potentially dange
toxic waste dump,
deadline. Resi
where residen
badly.
sudden, the
who've never h
respiratory pro
watched the destr
wastes has ruined t
opened just 300 yards,
her life, she says, un
midnight tonight. Verna
SPENCER: Verna and Vic
'damage must move out of their home by
ps lived here 27 years. the best of
away.
72 when a chemical disposal plant
erna says contamination from the
everyone here. VERNA: I've
'e lives of
tion of my qu
ems, tremendous
them before. neve
iidren, particularly t
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lity of life, a lot of
mount. It's unusual, people
in the family. All of a
e children, develop them
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