AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN BOYER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100390022-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 29, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BOYER: Well, this is what we are saying. The Afghans
PROGRAM Braden & Buchanan
DATE October 29, 1980 6:08 PM CITY Washington, DC
SUBJECT An Interview with John Boyer
PAT BUCHANAN: ...Mr. Boyer is an adviser, both military
and political, to the Afghan freedom fighters and, here in the
United States, is the president of an organization, I guess,
called Freedom in Action.
Can you telI us about your organization, your purpose
in this country and the situation in Afghanistan?
JOHN BOYER: ...Well, its to try and alert the
Western world, and the leader of the Western world, America,
as to the vital significance of Afghanistan to Western security.
And my little group, Freedom in Action in London, is not only
assisting the Afghans, but also it is ready to advise and help
to make an Issue of communist oppression worldwide.
Afghans?
BUCHANAN: All right. How are you assisting the
BOYER: At this moment, we are relaying their cause
and what is happening out there on radio, television and?the
press right here in the United States and back in Britain, and
endeavoring to arrange meetings for them with members of govern-
ment and to try and persuade the administrations on. both sides
of the big pond to stand firm behind the Afghan resistance,
which represents 99% of the Afghan people now.
BUCHANAN: If it represents 99%, how successful is It?
Has the Soviet Union just become strictly -- how can 85,000
Soviet troops hold down a country of --.what? -- 115,000,000
people?
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