SOVIET CAUTIONS NBC ON POPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505120079-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: February 17, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Soviet Cautions NBC. on P.ope,-
MOSCOW, Feb. 16 (AP)-Tbe Soviet-
Foreign Ministry has warned NBC'
News to stop broadcasting allegations
went is the sboottng of P epee 3oba Pant
Ii, the networ'k's Moscow bureau said
today.
Gene RandaI1 the NBC News eorre-
r ~ Tmada9 during tdghooe
call from the Foreign Ministry.
He quoted - the Soviet statement as
..Contrary to the fact and posing"
the appropriate statements of the
Soviet side, NBC has again broadcast
an hourlong sjande:ves program.con-,
arming the Aeged involvement' of
Bulgaria sad the Soviet Union in the at-
temptm the Pope's Iife..
"We coos;der It.neoessary?to niID -.
the most aerbos warning that.. in case
NBC caathmse to act as a loudipeaissc
for spreading antSoviet iasamtiota
disinformation of slander. It cannot
? LW YORK TES
17 FEBRUARY 1983
but affect the conRacb of the company
sad its bureau in Moscow with the cep:!
pavpaiateSovietoamtimc." . :_:
The warning came in response to an
NBC News "update" en Jam 25 of an
boas ioeg doc p'1t fast aired in
September suggesting that the LG3.,
the Soviet #atdligeoce service, bad
paevla lmvwle4ge of the assassins.
tide attamp2. Manpdara also suggested
>in>a between -the K.G.B. and a pat ..
anud Plot to kill Lech Walesa wbeathe
labor ?3aader was wiskft s .
.Pope in 1tatg: ;
W. Randal said be bad been told by.
the Foreign Ministry that the . Soviet
smement was the official reactim to a
spedfic program and a "watatag for
the 1 :?' Soviet . affid:ls did not - wou'M take N' -
tioowas reppeestted, be said.
? NBC News Vetoes CoegiBaooe
NBC News issoed a staLeme t y esteR
day in New York saying that it was can.
fldeotin the acc aacyat Its reporting:
In -the st atemad.? . Rauven Frank,
Feddaot of .NBC- News, said, "We
stand by Alt storyy," and be added: "We
arecm kleatofoursouraes.Itwasare.
poodbie piece of f ooetlism.
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