REPORT SAYS U.N. BUREAU DOES KGB'S WORK

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2010
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• Publication Date: March 1, 1984
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WASHINGTON TIMES
1 March 1984
Report says U.N. bureau,
does KGB's work
By Timothy Elder -
MMSINNCiTON TIMES STAFF ~ .
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I~GB t)roDBaaIlda..Q,itPrat~ons directed
through the t T^:*...+ Nnr;nns Information ?~
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The report was written for the Heri- ~
tage Foundation by Roger A. Brooks,
who heads the conservative research
group's United Nations Assessment
Project as a Roe Fellow in United Na-
tions Studies.
Deputy U.N. Ambassador Charles M.
>:ichenstein told The Washington Times
the report was "substantially on target"
and called for the Congress and the Rca-
? gan administration to exercise tighter
control over U.S. contributions to the
~U.N. .~
The United States provided 516.3 mil-
lion, or 25 percent, of the department's
budget for 1982-83.
The U.N. Department of Public Infor-
mation "betrays the original vision" of
the U.N. and "has become a source of
propaganda m further ...anti-Western
' and anti-free enterprise ideology" as
cording to the report.
The 19-page report quotes former
U.N. Undersecretary General Arkady
Shevchenko as saying "the whole 1Pub- I
' lie Information) Department is mobs-
lized"for the benefit of a disinformation
campaign carried out by the Soviet
Union through the U.N.
Thet_ p Sc-viet di l~xnat in the do~a~rt-.
ment, externs re alto-n~ivtsto~c~f
nato rt w o r. ~ v-
chenko, who defected to t e United
fates to 9 K, as identi i ?d as a.coloncl
tote trects t c c ort tom u-
en~c t o operations o- t c c artment
tovrar ovtet Interests, i c rc ort sa ~s.
n ctK t-paKc response Issue y t c ~
United Nations does not attempt to ad-
dress the charges against Mr.
Mkrtchyan.
"That ~ti~ould be very diffi~ull for
them to do, because we have assertions
from other people familiar with the So-
viet system that he is involved with the
KCR;' Nlr. }3rooks said after learning of
the contents cif the U.N. re~ponsc. ~
i
The inTorma- t--to~epartmc:nt "is too ~' ~ "We should step up our manitorinK of
' often non-professional and tendentious ~ these I U.N.I activities ...and ask our-
in its work" Mr. Lichenstein said. selves -within the charter - hctw wc'
- `Although the department ?r~ust act might reduce our inw.~ctment " Mr. Lich-
within guidelines issued by the Deneral ~ cnstcin said.
' ~ Assembly. "there .is no directive to be Mr. l.ichenstein further chargccf that
' biased. partial and tendentious" Mr. "hu(lgct increases fitr the I)1~l have run
Lichenstcin said. i ? far ahead of increases far the rest of the
~_ secretariat" and said the department
Mr. Brooks outlined a number of dc-cs not have an internal auditing sys-
' abuses by the information department, tcm to assess the cffecaivenexs of the
including efforts to lobby Congress - in pre-~ects it undertakes.
possible defiance ofU.S.law-pc-rtray- ! Mr. Lichenstein did not rule gut the
ing Western industrialised democracies pc-ssibitity that the United States - as a
as frustrating U.N. efforts to attain its result of dccisiuns by Cangress or the
goals and the prc-mation of centrally administration -- would withhc-ld cc-n-
planned cK~onomies as models for dcvcl- tributions from certain functions of the
oiling countri~~. information department.
"Close cooperation with almost 3U na=
tional broadcasting organizations
' throughout the world and almost all ma-
jor news ,organizations allav-?s Dl'1 to
convery the distortod image of the world
that is portrayed at the United Nations;'
...the repc-rt says.
The"distorted image" includcs"rail-
ing against wialations of the human
rights of Marxist 'liberation' groups
while ignoring human rights violations
throughout the Soviet empire. and pro- ~~
noting ? the economic development ..
ttiodcls of centrally planned economies
to the exclusion of other models;' the
.. report says. ~ -
Whilesuch problems have been noted
by a number of critics in other parts of
the U.N. and its affiliate agencies, Mr.
Brooks singled out the information de-
partment.
The "predc-minance" of such prob-
Icros "in the work of the I)PI may be far
mare damaging to the interests of the
United States and its allies than even the.
problems of the (:encral Assembly and
its various c:ommittces;'the report said.
'fhc U.N. respi-nsc attempted to rebut
22 specific charges made by the report
-many involving charges of biasaf re-
porting. It did not, however, appear to
address what many observers saw as
the central charge of the rcpc-rt -that
the department is unnecessarily hissed
against Western industrialized cx-un-
tries in its wc-rk..
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