THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL A TARGET OF THE CIA

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The Fourth International a Target of the
By David Frankel
Maker and breaker of governments,
sponsor of private armies, source of the
most sophisticated instruments of torture
and of the most sensitive electronic surveil-
lance devices, the Central Intelligence
Agency pollutes the political life of six
continents.
Now, the CIA has been forced to hand
over hundreds of documents on its secret
operations around the world to the Social-
ist Workers party (SWP) and Young
Socialist Alliance (YSA), The CIA docu-
ments were made public as a result of a
suit initiated by the SWP and YSA against
the U.S. government's illegal surveillance
and harassment of dissident individuals
and organizations. The SWP and YSA are
.demanding an injunction against further
government abuses and $40 million in
damages.
Only a tiny portion of the CIA's massive
file on the world Trotskyist movement has
been released so far. Adopting the same
method employed by Richard Nixon to
hide the truth from the masses of people,
the CIA insists that release of many of its
files would endanger "national security."
Even those that have been turned over to
the SWP and YSA have been heavily
censored. Nevertheless, what emerges from
the documents is a vast campaign to
disrupt and destroy the Fourth Interna-
tional.
Further information has been obtained
through the sworn statements of CIA
officials. Acting under court order, a
number of CIA officials, including CIA
Director George Bush, have been forced to
answer questions about some of the
activities of the agency in regard to the
SWP and YSA. According to this sworn
testimony:
? CIA burglars carried out break-ifs
directed against SWP and YSA members
travelling abroad. These operations, deli-
cately labeled "surreptitious entry" by
Bush, are illegal by whatever name they
are called. With this in mind, .the CIA has
refused to name the countries where the
burglaries took place or say when they
occurred. Perhaps the agency 'hopes to
save embarrassment for friendly govern-
ments and police forces that may have
cooperated with ? it in breaking their own
laws.
? Electronic surveillance was used
against SWP and YSA members travelling;
abroad. Most countries have laws against
this type bf activity, and again, the CIA
has declined to say when and where it
used' this technique to gather information.
? A mail cover was maintained on some
correspondence to and from the American
Trotskyists. This. included the opening and
copying of letters, in clear violation of the
law.
? Information on the SWP and YSA was
obtained by the CIA through the use of
informers.
? Although it refused to supply any
information about the countries involved,
the type of information sought or obtained,
and what was done with this information,
the CIA did admit that information on the
SWP and YSA was both given to and
received from foreign governments.
? Finally, the agency admitted that it
"has engaged in the collection of informa-
tion concerning the Fourth International."
It refused to say what type of information
on the Fourth International was obtained,
how it was obtained, or when it was
obtained.
However, the general approach of the
CIA was outlined by one official, Paul F.
Ilaefner. Interrogated-by lawyers for the
SWP and YSA, Haefner at first refused to
answer the question: "was the overseas
office [of the CIA] limited in any manner
in the methods it was to pursue?"
In November--five months after the
original interview-the government had
second thoughts and decided to submit an
answer to the question. A sworn affidavit
from Haefner explained that "the senior
CIA officer in any country abroad is
always obligated to use his best judgment
love w~p~~
as to whether specific operational actions
or methods can be initiated and carried out
securely, without adverse problems for
either the host country government or the
United States Government and consistent
with the authority given to the CIA by
law."
In other words, it is up to the official in
charge of each CIA office to keep his
operations secret and to avoid any embar-
rassing scandals.
As for the injunction that CIA actions
must be "consistent with the authority
given to the CIA by law," this would be
laughable if the reality was riot so grim.
The CIA, after all, plotted to assassinate
the heads of at least five foreign govern-
ments, and when the truth about these
operations finally came to light the U.S.
attorney general ruled that no American
laws had been broken.
The French Connection
For a closer look at the' CIA's war
against democratic rights, it is necessary
Jo turn to the documents obtained by the
SWP and YSA through their suit. In CIA
jargon, these documents have been
"sanitized"-that is, they have been cen-,
sored in order to remove all traces of the
agency's illegal conspiracies against the
exercise of democratic rights. around the
world.
Paragraph after paragraph in the docu-
ments released by the CIA is blanked out
and marked "classified information per-
taining to intelligence sources and meth-
ods," "classified matter," "administrative
matter," "CIA internal organizational
data," or "material not related to subject,"
But virtually all of the CIA's activities are
directed against the democratic rights of
the working people around the world.
Thus, not even the heavy hand of the CIA
censor was able to totally erase the
damaging material in these files.
One thing that coin es through clearly in
the CIA documents is the complicity of
other governments in CIA activities. The
CIA demands its actions be kept secret,
from the masses of working people both
inside and outside the United States,. but
its burglaries, wiretaps, and agents are
well known to the governments allied with
American imperialism around the world-
including, of course, the imperialist democ-
racies in Europe.
The cordial relations between the CIA
and the French secret police, for example,
are indicated in a number of documents. A
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 March 1969 document cAl31xd)mW Par- Rel'@ewi-w2OftOWiISfr1Au[ D 1t315R0`ONOO (1? O~~SOpurposc of suppress'
muniste Internationalists, at that time the the heading "information provided by a ing politics assent is provided by a
French section of the Fourth-International, foreign government." telegram in the CIA files. Dated November
is almost completely censored. In three of It is also clear that the CIA returned the 1972, the telegram is from the American
the memorandum's seven parts, material favors of friendly political police organiza- consul in Martinique.
is deleted on the basis that it is "Classified tions elsewhere in the world. One CIA file "French authorit.ies," it says, "are expeli-
information ... and information provided on the Ad Hoe Committee to Support ing two Anncit [American citizen) members
by a foreign government with the French Workers and Students said: of the National Committee of the Socialist
understanding it would be held in confi- "Subject organization is a coalition of Workers Party for engaging in political
dence." several U.S. organizations which demon- activities in Martinique."
Material in a March 1975 document strated in June 1968 in support of striking Did American authorities protest this
dealing with the Trotskyist movement in French workers and students in protest of infringement of democratic rights? Did
France is also deleted, since, according to the French government's ban on public they ask for an explanation of why
the CIA censor, it was "information demonstrations, radical organizations, American socialists were being forbidden
provided by a foreign government." A and the arrest of political activists." to meet with advocates of independence f'r
document dated January 1972 advises CIA The demonstrations, the memorandum the French colony?
offices that "Available in the CIA Docu- notes, "were peaceful and orderly" with No, the U.S. consul was too busy helping
ment and Pictorial Services Division is a only one exception. (Police in Berkeley, the French police. The telegram explains:
seven-page review, in French, of the California, attacked and tried to break up "For purposes hearing, local French au-
activities of a Trotskyite organization, the a peaceful demonstration.) thorities request info about possible sub-
C'ynimunist League, in factories and other Peaceful protests, however, were appar- versive activities in which Thomas and
business enterprises." ently considered subversive by the CIA. Washington [the. two SWP members) may
In addition to receiving reports from The memorandum included a breakdown have previously engaged including any
French police agents on the trade-union of the U.S. demonstrations by city, along involving illegal black power groups.
and political activities of the French with identified sponsors and demonstra- Information may either be unclassified or,
Trotskyists, there are indications that the tors. Additional censored material ap-- if appropriate, handed over to French
CIA had its own agents at work collecting posted with each name and organization. authorities by consulate in confidence."
information. An April 1973 report on the Can there be any doubt that a report was Unfortunately for the image of French
"rule of the Trotskyist Communist League dispatched to the appropriate French democracy, Thomas and Washington had
in organizing student demonstrations; police agency? not been engaging in any illegal activities,
tactics of French labor with regard to Another example of the collaboration either in the United States or in Marti-
students," is censored under the heading of between the French and the American pique. The colonial regime had to expel
An Appeal for International Solidarity
(The following appeal for international
support was issued January 12 by the
Political Rights Defense Fund. Initial
signers of the statement include Nobel
IAtureate-Linus Pauling, linguist Noam
Chomsky, feminist Gloria Steinem, and
antiwar activist Philip Berrigan.
[Those wishing to add their names to
this list should send a signed statement
to that effect to: Political Rights Defense
Fund, Box 649 Cooper Station, New
York, N.Y. 10003. Donations for legal
expenses can be sent to the same ad-
dress.]
For decades the U.S government has
systematically violated the democratic
rights of people around the world.
? Through its agents, the U.S govern-
ment has subjected its political oppo-
nents to spying, harassment, burglaries,
and assassination plots.
? U.S. agents have infiltrated labor
unions, including the teachers and elec-
trical wo-kers unions in the United
States, set up phony, CIA-backed union
federations and labor publications, and
disrupted genuine attempts to organize
workers for their own benefit. U.S.
agents have also attempted to entrap
unionists and other progressives through
the use of agents provocateurs.
? U.S. agents have attempted to sub-
vert the principle of freedom of the press
by bribing newspaper editors and repor-
ters and by planting doctored articles in
the world press.
? The U.S government has aided some
of the world's most vicious dictatorial
regimes in the task of holding down and
victimizing those struggling for demo-
cratic rights and progressive social
change.
? U.S. agents have violated the laws of
countries throughout the world, often
with the complicity of local officials.
When the CIA has been unable to buy
governments, it has often attempted to
bring about their overthrow.
A number of the disclosures about
Washington's operations abroad have
resulted from the lawsuit brought by the
Socialist Workers party of the United
States and the Young Socialist Alliance
against the Central Intelligence Agency,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
National Security Agency, Military Intel-
ligence, and other U.S. secret police and
spy. agencies. The suit, despite the efforts
of these agencies, promises to produce
many further disclosures that can help to
curtail their activities. The suit demands
that the U.S. courts forbid the govern-
ment from spying on and attempting to
disrupt the . SWP, the YSA, and the
Fourth International anywhere in the
world.
The information produced by this suit
is of immense value to advocates of
social justice around the world. It will
help to expose the crimes of the U.S
government and its fellow conspirators.
in other countries. Victories in the laws
suit can open up opportunities for further
actions against CIA crimes.
Therefore, we the undersigned endorse
the efforts of the Political Rights Defense
Fund, a nonpartisan civil liberties orga-
nization set up to raise funds for the suit
brought by the SWP and YSA and to
publicize the issues-the suit raises. This
endorsement does not necessarily imply
political agreement with the political
views of the SWP, the YSA, or the Fourth
International. But it is a recognition of
the importance of the fight being con-
ducted by these organizations against
activities of the U.S. government that
pose a grave danger to the rights of us
all.
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 them simply for attending. a political in 1967 directed against domestic which received 25 Oct, will not raise
mee'*Ing. And in fact,
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the two socialists a a mg, e Frenc a suggestive name o peration up action t is case. However, will pass on
authorities violated their own laws. Chaos." . any info which (CIA source) may volunteer
Of course, the CIA did not confine its so- In this regard, it is worth quoting an. on subject to headquarters and (foreign
called counterintelligence activities April 13, 1971, cable to an overseas CIA city). (Administrative matter) (Administra-
against the Trotskyist movement to station: tive matter)."
France. The documents turned over to the What type' of "follow up action" was
SWP and YSA so far deal with about 1. (censored] 24 April demonstrations are rejected in this case-and not rejected in
being sponsored by the National Peace Action
-twenty countries. Coalition (NPAC), which is dominated by others? How much "info" was passed on to
It was apparently standard procedure Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Franco's fascist police? Were communica-
for the CIA and the Federal Bureau of SWP's youth organization Young Socialist Al- tions with the Franco regime's repressive,
Investigation to cooperate in monitoring liance (YSA), and the YSA influenced Student apparatus considered "administrative mat-
forms labeled "FBI Liaison" in the CIA Vietnam....
files contain travel plans of SWP leaders- 2. Only SWP member recently in your area,
including vacation plans. Sometimes the best IiQs knowledge, is Peter Camejo [censored)
FBI requested the CIA to spy on socialists 3. [three censored lines] action [censored].
travelling abroad. In other cases, the CIA What was the local CIA office supposed
acted on its own. to do about; the `only SWP member
Antiwar Movement a CIA Target
What was the CIA so interested in? To
begin with, the movement against the war
in. Vietnam was a prime target of the CIA
spies. The CIA maintained files on all
leaders of the American antiwar move-
ment. For example, a number of SWP
leaders are listed in documents headed
"National Mobilization Committee Person-
alities." (This was the name of one of the
American antiwar coalitions.)
One such document, dated 'March 6,
1969, reports that "Barry SHEPPARD,
Editor of 'The Militant', visited Saigon,
Tokyo, and several Western European
countries for the announced purpose of
reaching GI's in Vietnam and at bases
around the world with the anti-war pro-
gram of the SWP."
Another document shows that a CIA
informer attended the World Assembly for
Peace,. held in France in 1972, and made a
detailed report on the events there and the
persons involved.
A 1973 CIA report on the Fourth
International said:
Although tactics and activities vary from
country to country, depending on local condi-
tions, the international organization is capable
of coordinating activities of its, member sections
to provide greater impact on world opinion. Prior
to the planned [antiwar] marches on Washington
and San Francisco in April 1971 by the Socialist
Workers Party (the American section of the
United Secretariat), the International Executive
Committee sent letters urging groups throughout
the world to demonstrate their solidarity with
the anti-war movement in the United States.*
Subversive action indeed!
'Operation Chaos'
There are indications that the CIA did
not simply stand by and observe the
development of the antiwar movement.
,Under the direction of Lyndon B. Johnson,
it began a "counterintelligence" program
recently in your area"? What type of
"action"-a word that was apparently left
in the document inadvertently-was sug-
gested? These are the type of questions
that the SWP and YSA will be bringing up
as their suit proceeds.
As part of Operation Chaos, the CIA
spied on the activities of American Trots
kyists in Mexico,: Argentina, and Chile.
For instance? Linda Jenness, the SWP's
1972 presidential candidate, came under
surveillance when she travelled to. Chile
during that election campaign.
"Believe it very possible that American
Trotskyists may travel to Mexico (classi-
fied matter)," a February 1972 document
says. It continues: "Would appreciate
receiving any info (classified matter) Peruvian Mission but were unable to do
concerning such travels/contacts. Suggest so." Also listed is an April 1967 news
that likely candidates are: Joe HANSEN, release "calling for amnesty for all politi-
Barry SHEPPARD, Jack BARNES, and cal prisoners in Bolivia. It requested that
possibly (information does not pertain to letters and telegrams be sent to the
subjects) (classified matter)." President of Bolivia asking for better
The CIA was also interested in events in treatment of political prisoners,"
Spain, as a September 1975 report titled Especially upsetting to the CIA was the
"Tension Over Basque Death Sentences first issue of the USIA Reporter. "The
Mounts in Spain" indicates. An October intended purpose of the bulletin was to
1972 document 'on Spain, labeled "Eyes disseminate information, as complete as
only (CIA employee) (Sensitivity indicator possible, relating to all political prisoners .`!
Operation Chaos),'." reports: in Latin America and to activities of the
"On 13 Oct 72, per Ref A suggestion, USLAJC."
(CIA source) was alerted to the arrival of The CIA documents turned over to the
Peter Camejo (classified matter) in Barcel- SWP and YSA deal with at least eleven
ona 'possibly to contact Spanish Trotsky- Latin American countries, but by far the
ist leaders' there.'(CIA source) was asked most extensive coverage was devoted to
to keep us informed on subject's activities Bolivia during the period of 1965-68.
there." During this period the dictatorship of Gen.
After recording information obtained Rene Barrientoe, which was closely tied to
from this CIA informer, the memorandum Washington, had to contend with intense
says, "In line with Ref B instructions social unrest among the Bolivian masses.
1-f h 1 th B .
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International; reactionary legislation passed in
1940 forced the American Trotskyists to sever
ters"?
A Helping Hand In Bolivia
Latin Americ, is another area that the
CIA pays particular attention to. SWP
leaders Joseph Hansen and George No-
vack, for example, are both singled out
because of their role in aiding the defense
of Latin American political prisoners.
A September 1968 CIA memorandum
credits Novack and Hansen with initiating
the U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin
American Political Prisoners (USLA, or
USLAJC in CIA parlance). "It was orga-
nized in late 1966 in order to seek amnesty
for Hugo BLANCO, a Peruvian revolution-
ary fighter, and to combat the arrests of
revolutionaries of Latin America," the CIA
memorandum states.
Among the subversive activities carried
out by USLA, the CIA report says, was a
November 1966 picket line where "demon-
strators tried to present petitions request-
ing clemency for Hugo BLANCO to the
c ose a arrientos regime
was to. American imperialism was indicat-
ed when Antonio Arguedas Mendieta held
a news conference in L
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formal ties with their international cothinkers. 1968. "Until one month ago," the New
Second, the April 24, r 1971, antiwar York Times reported August 25, 1968,
demonstrations--which drew 500,000 persons in "Arguedas was Bolivia's Minister of Gov-
Washington, D.C., alone-were not SWP opera-
tions, although the SWP participated in them ernment, one of the highest Cabinet
and helped to build them. They were sponsored offices, which combines the functions of
*Two lies should be noted in this CIA statement, by a broad coalition that included members of Interior Minister, Chief of Police and Chief
First, the SWP is not a section of the Fourth Congress. of Intelligence."
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his country, Argued pppio td Fl?tI flea
beans. "The declarations he made, if true,
would indicate that the Bolivian Govern-
ment for the past three years has been
little more than a mouthpiece for the
United States, notably the C.I.A.," the
Times article noted. (For a full account of
Arguedas' charges, see Intercontinental
Press, September 23, 1968, p. 770.)
The CIA's solicitude for the I3arrientos
regime was indicated in an April 1966
document on the "plans of the Bolivian
Trotskyist party for May Day." It reported:
The political bureau of the Bolivian Trotskyist
party (POR) met with the La Paz regional
committee of the POIt in La Paz on 18 April 1966
to formulate a program for the I May 1966
celebrations.
Those in attendance were [names listed]. At
the meeting it was revealed that the Bolivian
Workers Central (COIB) and the Democratic
Council of the People (CDP) planned to arrange
a parade and other demonstrations for 1 May. In
support of the COB and CDP effort, it was
decided that the 1'OR would do the following:
A. Publish a special issue of Masse (the POR
newspaper].
1'. Publish a manifesto addressed to the
.Itohvian workers and people.
C. Mobilize the entire POR for the May Day
parade. -
D. Publish and distribute 100,000 hand bills
commemorating May Day.
E. In collaboration with other political groups
belonging to the CDP, undertake demonstrations
against the military junta and organize defen-
sive shock forces to counter any governmental
offensive against them.
Following this report, an entire page is
devoted to unspecified "organizational
data," according- to the CIA censor. In
light of the context, it is hard to avoid the
coadusion that the CIA was helping the
dictatorship to organize the repression of
the 1-olivian people.
Covering Up the Crimes
According to its charter, the CIA is
supposed to operate only outside of the
United States. But, as Watergate showed,
it is impossible to resort to terrorism and
repression abroad without importing the
same methods into'the internal life of the
country responsible for their use.
Ci,: operations inside the United States
carne to light as a result of the Watergate
investigation. The news was too hot to sit
on. and on December 22, 1974, the New
York Times reported that "according to
well-placed Government sources," the CIA
"conducted. a massive, illegal domestic
intelligence operation during the Nixon
Administration against the antiwar move-
nient and other dissident groups in the
United States...."
In are attempt to prevent the American
people from learning the full extent of the
CIA's crimes, the Ford administration
appointed a "blue-ribbon" commission to
'investigate and report on the agency's
activities. Nelson Rockefeller, the head of
the most prominent ruling-class family in
the United States, who as governor of New
York ordered the Attica Prison massacre,
was chosen to preside over the whitewash.
"`T`here are things which have been done
which are in contradiction to the statutes,"
Rockefeller concluded after five months of
study, "but in comparison to the total
effort they are not major."
Even Senator Frank Church called the
Rockefeller Commission report "the tip of
the iceberg." In a June 11, 1975, editorial,
the New York Times called the CIA
operation in the United States that of "an
embryonic police state."
The ruling class, however, decided to try
to choke off further revelations. President
Ford, one White House aide explained,
considered investigation of CIA assassina-
tion plots "basically an historic exercise."
Material on such plots was deleted from
the Rockefeller report.
An overwhelming majority of the House
of Representatives endorsed Ford's cover-
up in January 1976, when they voted to
keep key sections of a House investigation
secret. When CBS News correspondent
Daniel Schorr obtained a copy of the report
and made it available for publication, he
was threatened with a citation for con-
tempt of Congress.
A more subtle approach was taken by
the Senate, which issued its own heavily
censored report in April. Although the
Senate report produced little new material
on the CIA, it promised an end to the
agency's abuses through the establish-
ment of a congressional oversight commit-
tee.
But the CIA documents that have come
out as a result of the SWP and YSA suit
prove that the Senate investigation headed
Peters/Dayton Daily News
by Frank Church was as much a cover-up
as its predecessors. Government commit-
tees, for example, insisted that CIA spying
in the United States began in 1967. In fact,
the CIA files include material on the SWP
going back to 1949.
"According to a report dated 7 February
1951," one CIA memorandum says,
"Frank LOVELL, member of the National
Committee of the Socialist Workers Party
(SWP), charged that American interven-
tion in Korea was a 'most brazen act c;
imperialism."'
CIA surveillance inside the Unite,
States picked up during the late 1950s an-.-',
early 1960s. The CIA files contain report..
on the YSA from New York, Berkeley, ant;
Boston in this period. The CIA's Boston
field office filed a report in 1961 on a rallo
held to protest the murder of Congolc&,
leader Patrice Lumumbn.
Later CIA reports on the YSA came from
Utah. San Francisco, and Washington:
D.C.
Another facet of the cover-up is that net
one of the official investigations of thi
CIA ever mentioned the fact that the
agency was systematically spying on
Anicrican citizens travelling abroad. This
abuse was also uncovered by the SWP and
YSA suit.
Finally, the Rockefeller 'Commission
reported that the CIA stopped keeping files
on legal political activities of American
citizens in March 1974, when Operation
Chaos was ended. But the CIA itself listed
one cable to an unnamed overseas station
dated November 20, 1974-eight months
after the supposed March cutoff date-in
its dossier on Peter Camejo. The CIA
refused to release the cable on the grounds
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CIA spying inside the United States also
continued after March 1974. A document
dated May 3, 1974, said: "[Censored]
Scheduled attend private filming of docu-
mentary on life Trotsky on 28 April in New
York. SWP old timers George Novak (sic)
[censored] also scheduled be present.
Provided [censored] some general topics
for discussion with SWPers if opportunity
presented."
The CIA admits that it is continuing to
collect information on the American Trot-
skyist movement, claiming that this is
"incidental" to, or a "by-product" of, its
operations against the Fourth Internation-
al abroad. As former CIA Director William
Colby explained in January 1976, the end
of Operation Chaos "doesn't mean the end
of all counter-intelligence."
Trolskylsts `Targets of Opportunity'
Surmising up the activities of the SWP, a
1964 CIA document commented:
The SWP, in order to escape from its restrictive
isolation, promotes or penetrates organizations
which are likely to arouse some part of the
population. Causes taken up by the SWP in this
way are the Cuban question (through the Fair
Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) and the
Committee for Travel to Cuba), the integration
problem, civil liberties in general, and labor
problems... .
As the anonymous CIA commentator
saw it, "The SWP is calculated .to inflame
primarily the unbalanced, the dissatisfied,
the desperate, and those who do not care.
In special circumstances the SWP might
well create, or stimulate, serious prob-
lems."
The CIA, like the FBI, has gone to
extraordinary lengths in searching for
actions by the SWP and the YSA that
could be interpreted as justifiable reasons
for filing criminal charges against the two
organizations. The agency's concern was
reflected in a 1956 CIA document reporting
that the SWP "actually ran candidates for
the Presidency and Vice-Presidency in the
1956 elections."
But supporting civil liberties, inflaming
the dissatisfied, and running candidates in
elections are not crimes in the eyes of the
American people. The CIA has tried to get
around this fact by smearing the Fourth
International as a whole as a terrorist
organization. The SWP's contacts with the
Fourth international, it argues, justifies
the continuing surveillance.
Following the reunification of the Fourth
International in.Juno 1963, the CIA stated
in a memorandum, "We are presently
endeavoring to increase our coverage of Fl
activities throughout the world."
Referring to a person who was in
attendance at the Ninth World Congress of
the Fourth International, a September
1969 dispatch said, "information indicat-
ing that (foreign city) has had an opera-
relationship is worth reviewing with an from revolutionary violence and internal subver.
eye to possible re-establishment...." sion.
CIA officials refused to answer when Let's examine this tissue of lies more
asked by lawyers for the SWI' and closely. First, the CIA claims that the
LYNDON JOHNSON: He was responsible
for 'Operation Chaos:'
YSA: "Are ,you aware of any cases in
connection with Operation Chaos in which
the overseas offices of the CIA attempted
to disrupt activities of the Fourth Interna-
ti.onal?"
however, a November 1973 report on
"the status'of the international Trotskyist
movement" noted: "While operations
against Trotskyist organizations am not of
high priority; we encourage field station
attention to targets of opportunity in this
field."
'A Threat to, the National Interest'
During the course of the court proceed-
ings, the CIA submitted a statement in
defense of its attempts to disrupt the
Fourth International. According to this.
statement:
The Fourth International is a revolutionary
Trotskyist organization which has supported
international terrorist movements and whose
constituent sections, such as that in Argentina,
have engaged in notorious acts of murder and
kidnaping to achieve their ends. Furthermore,
the Fourth international has taken part in
revolutionary violence to overthrow democratic
governments such as its. admitted role in the
Paris riots of May and June 1968 and has
supported guerrilla warfare in Latin America
against governments friendly to the United
States. Finally, the Fourth International has
assisted Communist regimes hostile to the
United States in worldwide propaganda cam-
paigns against the United States and its allies.
Thus, the Fourth International is a threat to the
Fourth International "has supported inter-
national terrorist movements" and that its
sections "have engaged in notorious acts
of murder and kidnaping. . , ."
First to he noted in this charge is the
hypocrisy of the agency making it. The
CIA's assassination plots against heads of
state have made headlines around the
world. And the CIA was also responsible
for the "Phoenix" program in Vietnam,
under which some 20,000 persons were
murdered because of their political views.
Doesn't this qualify as. "notorious acts of
murder and kidnaping"?
It is noteworthy that Argentina is the
only place named by the cloak-and-dagger
agency in its claim that the Fourth
International supports terrorism. Appar-
ently, they are referring to the Ejercito
Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP-
Revolutionary People's Army). But the
ERP never claimed: to be a Trotskyist
organization, despite the fact that the
capitalist press chose to identify it that
way at various times. Nor was the ERP
associated with the Fourth International.
In fact, the Partido Revolucionario de Jos
Trabajadores ' (PRT-Revolutionary
Workers party), which sponsored the ERP,
broke with the Fourth International and
asked the world press to stop calling it
"Trotskyist," since it was not Trotskyist.
The CIA, of course, was well aware of this
fact. One of the documents turned over to
the SWP and YSA was a report on the
news conference at which PRT leader
Roberto Santucho announced his break
with the Fourth International. .
Mandel's Answer to 'Terrorist' Smear
The CIA's attempt to equate revolution-
ary socialism with terrorism is hardly an
original device. Similar smears-often
planted by the CIA-have been appearing
in the world press-for years. In 1972, for
example, Newsweek magazine ran - an
article labeling the Fourth International
as a "terrorist international."
Ernest Mandel, the Belgian Trotskyist
leader, answered the smear at the time,
although Newsweek declined to print his
letter. The Fourth International, Mandel
said, "is not a terrorist organization but
has always rejected the philosophy and
methods of terrorism, opposed to the
Marxist principles it stands for.'
. we do not fight by means of
dynamite, bombs, or the like."
Taking up the intent behind. the smear,
Mandel said: "Nobody should be surprised
that terrorists who happen to wield state
power and, in that position, pursue their
political goals by murdering thousands of
innocent people ... call their opponents
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facilitate and justify in advance mass
repression, mass persecution, mass torture
and, if necessary, mass killing of political
opponents ... .
"Police informers and other profession-
als in the noble art of curtailing freedom of
thought, speech, organization, and travel
the world over are experts in this type of
frame-up. They cannot understand this
simple truth: that society can only he
changed through the efforts of millions, of
broad social forces, and that it is ridiculous
to attribute to Marxists the wish to
'conspire' and to build socialism without
the conscious resolution of the majority of
the toilers."
The CIA, however, cares nothing for the
truth. Its job is to give the most sinister
and twisted interpretation to every event
in hopes of being able to arrange the
victimization of any who struggle for
progressive social change. Thus, the CIA's
statement in court defending its attacks on
the Fourth International argues that "the
-Fourth International has taken part in
revolutionary violence to overthrow demo-
cratic governments such as its admitted
role in the Paris riots of May and June
1968 and has supported guerrilla warfare
in Latin America against governments
-friendly to the United States."
They think, perhaps, that the world has
forgotten the CIA-engineered coups re-
sponsible for the dictatorial regimes in
Iran and Chile. The CIA, which tried to fix
elections from Italy to Japan, and which
trains secret police in the arts of repression
and torture from Korea to Brazil-what a
supporter of democratic governments!
As for the French Trotskyiste, they
certainly did take part in the demonstra-
tions of May-June 1968. So did 10 million
to 12 million other French workers, stu-
dents, and peasants. The only violence
that took place was the result of police
attacks on the demonstrators, and the
attempts of- the government to suppress
and evade the clearly expressed will of the
people.
What about the CIA's charge, expressed
in the same statement quoted above, that
the Fourth International "has supported
guerrilla warfare in Latin America against
governments friendly to the United
States"?
Once again, the charge is ironic, coming
as it does from an agency that has
supported private armies all over the
world. As the House Committee on Intelli-
gence reported. "A huge arsenal of wea-
pons and access to ammunition have been
developed by CIA, giving it a capability
that exceeds most armies of the world."
But what is really at issue is a basic
democratic right. When the oppressed and
exploited are denied the right to effect
peaceful social change, they have the right
to take up arms against their oppression.
This is a principle that was affirmed in
derive "their just powers from the consent
of the governed," that they are instituted
to secure certain inalienable rights, aiid
that "whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government, laying
its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness."
't'his well-known subversive document
on the democratic ri,=lit of a people to
overthrow their government adds that
,,when a long train of abuses and usurpa-
tions ... evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute Despotism, it is their right,
it is their duty, to throw off such Govern-
ment, and to provide new Guards for their
future security."
Unfortunately, the United States govern-
ment today stands on the wrong side of
those struggles in which the people of (lie
world are attempting to throw off the yoke
of oppression. - It is, in fact, the prime
supporter of inequality and exploitation
around the world.
International should be viewed. The
Fourth International, the CIA says, "has
assisted Communist regimes hostile to the
United States in worldwide propaganda
campaigns against the United States and
its allies."
According to the McCarthyite logic of
the CIA witch-hunters, the movement
against the war in Vietnam and for the
right of the Vietnamese people to self-
determination was one of these "world-
wide propaganda campaigns against the
United Slates and its allies."
No doubt the CIA considers the world-
wide campaigrt?s in defense of political
prisoners in Chile, Iran, and South Korea
in the same category. After all, these
dictatorial regimes are certainly "govern.
ments friendly to the United States."
The American Troiskyists, howevr
have a different view. The SWP and YS,,.
refuse to support butchers like Pinochet or
the shah of Iran, even if they are "friendly
to the United States" government. And, as
Patrick Henry declared during the Ameri-
can Revolution, "If this be treason, make
the most of it." 0
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Park Dictatorship Sentences
Kim Chi Ila, an internationally-known
South Korean poet and opponent of the
Park dictatorship, was sentenced to seven
years in prison December. 31. Presiding
Judge Shim [loon Jung found him guilty
under the country's notorious anti-
Communist laws, claiming that his writ-
ings proved that he was aiding and
encouraging the North Korean regime.
Since 1970, Kim has been arrested four
times for his defiant writings, in which he
criticized corruption, social inequality, and
Park's undemocratic rule. In July 1974, he
was sentenced to death by a military
tribunal, but international protests forced
Park to commute the sentence to life
imprisonment. In February 1975, he was
released on conditional amnesty.
Despite threats to reimprisun him, Kim
published a series of articles describing the
methods of torture used. by the Korean
Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), tie
also denounced the trial of twenty-two
alleged members of the outlawed People's
Revolutionary party (['RP) as a frame-up.
(Eight of the defendants in that case were
later executed.) In March 1975, the KCIA
rearrested him, charging him with aiding
the PRP and being "a Communist who
infiltrated the Catholic church." The
earlier life sentence was reinstated.
In order to "prove" its charges against
Kim, the regime produced a written "con-
Kim Chi ' Ha
Cession" from him claiming that he was a
"Communist." But in August 1975 Kim
smuggled a 12,000 word "Declaration of
Conscience" out of prison denying that he
was a Communist and repudiating the
"confession." Several students and at
least one priest are serving prison terms
for distributing the declaration. 17
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