UNMASKING THE RADICAL ENTENTE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200930002-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2010
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• Publication Date: March 14, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
14 Marcn 19b5
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4 RNOLD BEICHM N
The biggest and as yet uncom-
prehended geopolitical
story of the decade is that
five radical countries -
Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, and
Syria - are now operating an open
political-military alliance to achieve
as quickly as possible:
? Isolation and expulsion of the
United States from key regions of
the world, namely Western Europe,
the Pacific Rim, the Middle East,
d Africa;
an
? Extinction of the era of
capitalism and, by extension,
cra
d c'
unmasking the
adical Entente
We're their No. l target
emo
J.
Comprising what can be called
the Radical Entente, this core coali-
tion of five countries has the quiet
'backing - thus far at least, as their
arsenal - of the Soviet Union.
Beyond that, there is presently no
visible Soviet "smoking gun;' other
than the power of Soviet political
support and its worldwide propa-
ganda machine.
Although their ideologies -
Islamic fundamentalism vs-
Marxism -Leninism - seemingly
ought to clash. the Radical Entente
shares a common world view:
? Without U.S. support, the demo-
cratic world would crumble;
therefore the United States is the No.
I target.
? Global strategy: stretch thin
American political and military
resources by instigating - if possi-
ble, simultaneously provocative
and premonitory pa
actions in widely separated world
areas:
What is astonishing about this
effort to stifle projection of U.S.
power is not.merely that it is work-
ing. Rather it is that leaders in Con
gress and West European governing
circles act as if they are unaware of
the existence of the Radical Entente.
They seem to regard events such as
overthrow of the shah of Iran or the
Somoza dictatorship, the campaign
against the unpopular Marcos
regime in the Philippines, the March
1983 Libyan bombardment of
Omdurman in the Sudan, and terror-
ist actions against U.S. Marines in
Lebanon and American soldiers in
Greece or Germany as discrete hap-
penings, rather than as events
planned toward achieving an openly
avowed geopolitical goal.
What can be stated with some cer-
tainty is that the Radical Entente as
an existing fact of international life
very much concerns President Rea-
gan, Secretary of State George
Shultz, and CIA Director William J.
Case Mr. Shultz's recent speeches
on how to deal with terrorism and
President Reagan's hard line on the
Sandinistas are an indication of their
awareness of the Radical Entente's
peril to the Free World. However,
they also know that pre-emptive
deployment of American military
power at times and places of the
president's own choosing may now
be out of the question in the face of
a pacifist-isolationist Congress and
the fear of the U.S. military that too
many overseas commitments would
exceed our present capabilities and
projected resources.
These reasons exist as to why the
United States is Target No: l of these
five anti-status quo powers:
? As leader of the Free World, the
United States has ideological pre-
eminence because, as a successful
consumerist post-industrial democ-
racy, it affords a competitive ideo-
logical example to that.part of the
world burdened by totalitarian dic-
tatorships.
? American military-industrial
power when successfully deployed,
as in Grenada, directly threatens
Radical Entente ambitions.
? Onl%- the United States stands in
the way of the Radical Entente's
aspirations to overthrow the demo-
cratic order.
? The Arab component of the
Radical Entente, namely, Syria and
Libya. hate the United States
because of its support of Israel and
moderate Arab states, such as Egypt
and Jordan.
The Radical Entente emerged
after 1978 as the result of the
Camp David peace process,
which, through U.S. mediation,
brought Egypt and Israel into suc-
cessful face-to-face negotiations.
Additional causes for the Radical
Entente's formation involved the fall
of the shah of Iran, the Sandinista
seizure of power in Nicaragua and,
above all, the election of Ronald Rea-
gan in 1980, which they correctly
foresaw would lead to a drastic alter-
ation of U.S foreign policy.
Evidence, which borders on the
irrefutable, for existence of the
Radical Entente has been adduced.
by Dr. Avigdor Haselkorn, senior
analyst at Analytical Assessments, a
division of the Eaton Corp. of
Cleveland.
For Mr. Haselkorn, terrorism is
but one of several Radical Entente
weapons of aggression against the
United States. For him the real ques-
tion to be asked is: Where does
"state-sponsored terrorism:' as it is
hued
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