NADER ESTABLISHES CLOSE LINKS WITH IPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100670063-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: February 19, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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for~the Study of Responsive Law, Nader held a p~~~~; ~ Textile Industry. Exploits Women
joie news conference with ? the Government ~ Ac- Workers"; and "Reagan Going All Out for Big
Nanu'bia in southw
Lured a representative of SWAPO, the Commu-
nist-backed terrorist getup fighting for control of
Naau-bia, who said that foreign corporations can
play no "useful role" for the people of that
In a move that could seriously undermine their ~~ny, .
image as protectors of the "public interest," Some headlines from recent articles in Multi-
Ralph Nader and his raiders have recently been national Monitor include: "Big Business Means
observed making alliances with the extreme left. . Waz"; "Trinidad Takes Over U.S. Oil F'ums";
On ]anuary 31, in his role as chief of the Center "Mozambique: Health Care Without the Com-
Nader Establishes Close
Links with IPS
countab~hty Project of the Institute for Policy ? Business:"
?Studies (II~S) to attack President Reagan for al-
legedly uaderstaffing the bureaucracy at the U.S
Department of Agriculture. The IPS, a collection
of radicals; Socialists and Marxists, has played a
key role over the years in apologizing for Commu-
nist movements and governments and working to
restrict the operations of U.S. corporations and
intelligence agencies.
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smearing businesses, labor unions, and U.S. gov- ; ~ a CIA agent before his murder by terrorists in
ernment agencies as fronts for the CIA. Its prac- ':, Greece in 1975. "Every oncx in a while you're
Lice of identifying the names of CIA agents, thus 'going to releast a name of somebody who may be ?
making them vulnerable to terrorist attack, was ;the tazget for somebody," he explained. "That's
recently outlawed by Congress, something that happens when you do investiga-
Three days later, on February 3, the editor of a
Nader-owned publication, Multinational Monitor,
held a joint news conference with the notorious
anti-American magazine, Counterspy, to blast the
U.S.-supported nucleaz power program in South
Korea. Counterspy, of course, specializes in
Nader's Corporate Accountability Research
Group, advertises itself as a magazine "for people
who believe that the decisions made by giant cor-
porations are everybody's business. "~
.'While conservatives don't necessarily hold a
brief for the multinationals, especially the big
banks that have Ient billions of dollars to the
Communist-bloc countries, the thrust of Multi-
national Monitor is that U.S. corporations aze a
negative force in the world today and need to be
restrained or controlled by the U.S. government,
foreign regimes and the United Nations:
The Jaaury 1983 issue of Multinational Monitor
attacked Jenne Kirkpatrick, the U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations, and the Heritage Founda-
tion, for criticizing U.N. attempts to implement
such restraints and.controls.
The same issue favorably reportedvn-a Wash-
ington conference which attacked the role of Brit-
ish, South.African and American corporations in ;
Ice ~ an interview, the editor of Multinational
Monitor, T'ua Shorrock, indicated that he was a j
Socialist who favors "publi~:docisions about
major economic po`licies." Fie ~ also? said that
socialism involves "deciding that we ?don't want to
have our CIA train the Koreaa-CIA to unleash its
violence against Korean worker getups. to keep
their wages low so American .multinationals and
Japanese multinationals can? come in .and exploit
Korean workers."
. In commenting on his connection to Counter- ,
Spy, ~ Shorrock defended the publication and said j
he favored the abolition of the CIA. He even de- .'
fended Counters
's exposure
of Rich
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On other? topics, Shorrock said, . "I don't think
the KGB is a threat," and "I support a lot of what
the Cuban government does."
Whether Ralph Nader approves of his editor's
association with Counterspy magazine remains an
open question. The self-styled leader of the "con-
sumer movement" was out of town and unavail-
able for comment.
But there should be no question about Nader's
sympathy for the IPS, which is openly pro-
Socialist and whose co-founder, Mazcus Raskin,
was once connected with Counterspy. Multina-
tional Monitor previously offered a free copy of
Global Reach, a book on multinational corpora-
tions by Richard Barnet, the other co-founder of
IPS, during a drive for subscriptions. In a recent
fund-raising letter, Nader himself praised Barnet
as a "leading scholar" on the subject of corporate
influence.
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