MOSCOW COMPLAINS SAKHAROV 'BLABBED' ABOUT VITAL SECRETS

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• Publication Date: January 24, 1980
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MOSCOW "COMPLAINS
SAKIIAROVILABBED'
ABOUT VITAL SECRET
Asserts. Dissident Leader Ignored
Warnings and Was=Therefore
Ordered Out of Capital'
NEW YORK TIMES
21i. JANUARY 1980
competent organs decided to evict him I
{ from the city limits of Moscow in accord- i
ance with administrative procedure."
Another noted dissident, Lev Kopelev;
protested that Dr. Sakharov and his wife
j had been "unlawfully banished from
Moscow." But Mr. Kopelev, like many
others in the dissident movement, which
appeared shattered by the loss of Dr. Sa-
kharov, was shaken by the abrupt- move
against the physicist.
French Aide Quits Soviet Early
shment
In order; the protest leader of against the the French baniNational
Assembly, Jacques Chaban-Delmas,
Mr. Chaban-Delmar was received yes-
terdayby Leonid'I. Brezhnev, the Soviet
Communist Party leader and chief of
state, in a meeting officially described as
"open and friendly." He was to have
toured the country until next Wednesday.
"As aguest of the Soviet leaders, I can-
not intercede in this case without inter-
fering in the internal affairs of the
U.S.S.R.," Mr. Chaban-Delmar said
today. "Being unable either to speak or to
keep silent, I consider myself personally
obliged to return to France as soon as
possible."' As apprehension spread through the
dissident community some of Dr. Sakha-
1 roe's admirers speculated that the-dissi-
dent leader, by calling for "withdrawal of
Soviet troops from . Afghanistan, had
given hard-liners in the Soviet power
strticture the pretext they had been look-
ing for to move against him.
"Andrei Sakharov incarnates the con-
science of Russia," Mr.. Kopelev, a
writer, said. in.- a statement. "A great
scholar and a great lover of humanity, he
selflessly and tirelessly defended all the
unjustly persecuted."
Dr. Sakharov won the ? Nobel Peace
Prize in 1975 for his efforts on behalf of
human rights: He was removed from
Soviet nuclear weapons work in 1968 after
a sharp challenge to Soviet intellectual
and political repression, but remained a
member of the Academy of Sciences with
`the title of academician.
There was the gnawing anxiety among
dissidents that with Dr. Sakharov gone
and relations with the United States
strained, the Soviet authorities may have
nothing more to fear in stamping out the
vestiges of open dissent. and struggle for
human rights by using similar "adminis-
trative" measures.
Mr. Kopelev said: "The authorities
who trample on human rights and perse-
cute all those who try to preserve those
rights found the truth spoken, by Andrei
Sakharov and Yelena Bonner unpleasant,
! and so sent them away."
In its remarks, Izvestia said
MOSCOW, Janr 23'- The Soviet Gov-
ernment said today" hat it evicted Andrei
D. , Sakharov fromMoscow yesterday;;
under an. administrative. order - by-
"competent organs, ;.a euphemism used
for the state security police. and charged-
that. he had: been- divulging-Soviet mils
tary secrets to foreigners*'-,
Dr. Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bon-
ner, were put aboard an. airliner yester-
day and told that their destination'was
Gorky, a military industry city 250 miles
east of Moscow. -The city is closed to for-,
eigners.
{In Washington, the president'of the'
National Academy of Sciences said that
Soviet measures against Dr. Sakharov'
had raised 'strong doubts that. Soviet.
American scientific exchanges -could
continue. Page AS.]
Telegram From Sakharov's Wik
Ruf,Bonner,,the mother of Dr. Sakha
mv's:.wife,. today. received:'a telegram,
over.her- daughter's 'name.reporting that
they, had -arrivedi safely. and: indicating!
that they, had! been assigned, an apartmeat-
"Everything alli right," the telegram
said: "Warm, though- cold' outside.' Just'
strange:-.Feet':wel3 Address:-Gorky,
Shcherbinka 2 Gagarina?2i4, Apt43.tt
Shcherbinka is, a suburb of Gorky and.
Gagarin is -a street'named: for _ the .first
titan into space:YthI& Gagarin:
? The. telegram, marked urgent, took
five hours for delivery.,.,.,,... _ , .
"The postman rang the bell but said,
'Don't worry, it's -a` good telegram'.' Mrs: Borer's mother related. - -
Izvestia published.a long article accus.
ing Dr. Sakharov of divulging state se-
crets to foreign diplomats and ;ournalists
and also of slandering the Soviet Union. ii
. The Izvestia, article concluded: "The
By CRAIG R. WHITNEY
"Sakharov had embarked on the path
of direct betrayal of the interests of our)
motherland and the Soviet people, turned
into a sworn enemy of the Socialist sys-
tem and crossed over to the camp of mili-
tant anti-Communists."
"Feelers were put out to Sakharov,",
the paper went on. "Intensive unofficial
meetings began between the Academi-'
cian and Western diplomats, mostly
American, as well as journalists, includ-
ing some chiefly interested in Sakharov's
past.work relating to the. defense of our
country." '
'Sakharov Repeatedly Blabbed'
in conversations with them," Izvestia
charged, "Sakharov repeatedly blabbed.
about things that any state protects as
important secrets. Debates on -these
topics also raged in the American Em-
bassy, which he visited regularlt"'
Dr. Sakharov did have frequent con-
tacts with American diplomats, most re-
cently in connection with applications by
relatives to emigrate to the United
States.-He got a letter of support for his
human rights activities here from Presi-
dent Carter early in 1977, and his frequent,
meetings with Western journalists were
almost always devoted to rights issues.
Soviet authorities twice refused him
permission to'travel abroad, refusing to
let him go to Norway to receive the Nobel
Peace Prize on-the ground that he was
still in a position to betray state secrets
from the period in the 1940's and 1950's,
when he worked on the hydrogen bomb:
and in other areas of nuclear weaponry. ,
An order bearing the name of Leonid I.
Brezhnev, in his role as the chief of state,
deprived him of his title Hero of Socialist
Labor and his three-Orders of Socialist
Labor, along with other Soviet decora.
tions. ;
Izvestia said the withdrawal of his
honors and his banishment from Moscow
were "measures justified and made nec-
essary. by his entire behavior, necessary
ones, too, since Sakharov was beginning i
to be used as a channel through which the
special services of the imperialist powers
gleaned important state secrets of the
Soviet Union."
Izvestia's article did not use the Rus-
sian words in legal' language for banish
ment or enforced residence in internal-
exile - vysylka br ssylka - to describe
the Sakharov case..
According to Soviet law, "such punish-
ments may be imposed only by a court,
after a criminal trial."
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