REAGAN FAULTS DISARMAMENT DRIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100130060-0
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: December 22, 1991
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE BALTIMORE SUN
G_v Pry. 22 December 1981
An e a g wuh, f 'a u I I s d i s a, r m a
backed groups take part, but that the Eu-
ropean peace movement" is a: broadly
based protest against the prospect of a nu-
clear war being fought on European soil.
President. Reagan's comment came in
an interview taped last week for the Pub-
lic Broadcasting. Serviceprogram, _".Ben.
Wittenberg at Large." The interview is to
be aired ? Friday night.A.' transcript was
made available yesterday. to the Associat-
ed Press....
The president was asked about the pro-
tests, such as that which?took place on De-
cember 5, when hundreds of thousands
marched in Denmark, Switzerland, 'Italy,
West Germany and Romania against U.S.
and Soviet arms policiesi
"Oh, those demonstrations," President
Reagan said. "You could have used news-
reels from the '60s in America. Those are
all sponsored bya thing called the World
Peace Council, which is bought and paid
for by the Soviet Union."
Thu Donald Peace Council was identi-
fied in 1980 testimony before the house
Permanent Select Committee on tern-
ence by John McMahon, a Central Intelli-
Agency o cia as a Soviet trrouor-
anization and "a liti action tool in
support of Soviet ores oa 'an
military stmt c n said i .
operated in 130 countries ? -
. peace group spo cesmen' did not
'quarrel with' that description, but with
President Reagan's'aserbon that "alI"
the demonstrations are spoasored by' the
on.. -
communist-front organiati
"He's all wet," said John 'A_ Sullivan,'
associate executive : Secretary of. the
? American Friends' Service Committee, a.
Quaker peace group.` "He ' shows a pro-
found ignorance of the peace movement of
the 1960s and what -American citizens
were up to and that seems to to me to. be
Washington (AP)-President Reagan.
ays the , disarmament demonstration:
hat sent hundreds of thousands of people
marching in the capitals of Western Eu-
rope this fall were all sponsored by an or-
ganization "bought. and paid. for by the
Soviet Union."
? President Reagan's statement, in an in. .
ervi ew ta. be broadcast- later this week.
brought an angry rebuttal.-from spokes-
men of. the American anti=nuclear weep,
ons :' movement. They. saidthat, Soviet-
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matched. by his. observaticns about the
peace movement in Europe today." .
!,:Mr. Sullivan said the European disar-
mament movement is supported by many,
organizations that are"religiocs and mod-
erate iapolitics" and added,:'Tbey are not
about to give away.the concern for.peace
to any bloc-'..:...
Dr...Eerbert Scoville, formerly a top;
CIA official. and assistant director of the
U.S. Arms ;.Control and Disarmament
Agency, also ` took issue' with President
Reagan ? ? ' ;
-%"I believe-that President Reagan great-.
ly. underestimates the strength and ;
breadth of the anti-nuclear-movement in
Europe," said Di Scoville, now president !
of the Arms Control Association. "It is not
just?'composW of . communi3t.supported
.. :'., ? ':. i :1:. ~ ~ ... ? .
youths.
"Responsible ? people ' of all .ages-
throughout Western Europe are extremely
worried by the possibility of a nuclear war
being fought.on their-;lands: These fears
brave been accentuated by'rash statements;
.by American leaders. implying that a Eu-I
ropean' nuclear war .would not necessarily
.extend to the United States, - J
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