BRZEZINSKI ASSAILS U.S. OFFICIALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505110012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 29, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE 29 October 198+
Brzezinski Assails U.S. Officials
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - Federal
officials have been "unwitting or in
some cases, perhaps, even witting
tools" of a Soviet campaign to divert
attention from a purported plot to mur-
der the Pope, Zbigniew Brzezinski, na-
tional security adviser to former Presi-
dent Jimmy Carter, said in an inter-
view broadcast today.
"What I find very troublesome over
the past two years," Mr. Brzezinski
said in the interview with the RKO
Radio Network, "was the frequency
with which senior officials, in fact, par-
ticipated in the campaign of pooh-poo
king what turns out to be a very serious
plot."
On Friday, an Italian judge indicted
four Turks and three Bulgarians on
charges of taking part in a conspiracy
to kill the Pope.
"I think it is absolutely scandalous
that some officials in the State Depart-
ment and some senior officials in the
.,ZA_ were unwitting or in some cases,
perhaps, even witting tools of that cam-
paign," Mr. Brzezinski said.
Reached by telephone today at his
home in Virginia, Mr. Brzezinski de-
clined to name any Federal officials or
offer any evidence to support his accu-
sation.
"I was -- referring to repeated in-
stances of trying to discredit these in-
vestigations by the Italians," he said,
stressing that the use of the word "or"
in his radio statement meant he was
speaking tentatively about the role of
Government officials.
Spokesmen for the State Department
and the 'Central Intelligence
sen~
aid they di di not have any comment on
Mr. Brzezinski's radio interview.
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