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

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1984
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1 March 1984
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By Timothy Elder
MMSNMIGTON TNAES STAFF
US. taxnav are helomr to fund
KGB Drooaoanda nneratinne directed:
through the United Nations information
officeagainst W democracies nd?i
ree ente - s, report on h w r I
concludes-
The report was written for the Hcri?
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.
L-ichenstein told The Washington Times
the report was "substantially on target"
and called for the Congress and the Rea-
gan administration to exercise tighter
control over U.S. contributions to-the
U.N.
The United States provided $16.3 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 to further ... anti-Western
and anti-free enterprise ideology" ac-
cording to the report.
The 19-page report quotes former
U.N. Undersecretary General Arkady
Shevchenko as saying "the whole IPub-
lic Information] Department is mobi-
lized" for the benefit of a disinformation
campaign carried out by the Soviet
Union through the U.N.
Thetop Soviet diplomat in the do art-
ment, external relations ivision chief v rte van. who Mr. S ev
chenko, who defected to the United
talcs to 198. has identified asa colonel
tote directs the effort to to u-
ence the o erations o the department
towar ovtet interests, the report sa s.
n eik t-page response issue y t e
United Nations does not attempt to ad-
dress the charges against Mr.
Mkrtchyan.
"That would be very difficult for
them to do, because we have assertions
from other people familiar with the So?
vict system that he is involved with the
h(; B;' Mr. Brooks said after learning of
the contents of the U.N. response. I
The in~)rma tti n department "is too I - "We should step up our monitoring of
often non-professional and tendentious these I U.N.I activities ...and ask our-
in its work;' Mr. hichenstein said. selves - within the charter - how we'
Although the department -rust act might reduce ourinvestment;'Mr.Lich-
within guidelines issued by the General , enstein said.
Assembly, "there is no directive to be Mr. l.ichensiein further charged that
biased.' partial and tendentious" Mr. "budget increases for the 1)I'i have run
Lichenstein said. far ahead of increases for the rest of the
secretariat" and said the department
Mr. Brooks outlined a number of does not have an internal auditing xys-
abuses by the information department, tcm to assess the nd effectiveness of the
including efforts to lobby Congress - in projects it undertakes.
possible defiance of U.S. law - portray- Mr. l.ichenstein did not rule out the
ing Western industrialized democracies possibility that the United States - as a
as frustrating U.N. efforts to attain its result of decisions by Congress or the
goals and the promotion of centrally administration -- would withhold con-
planned economics as models for devel- tributions from certain functions of the
oping countries. information department.
-'Close cooperation with almost . na-
tional broadcasting organizations
throughout the world and almost all ma-
jor news. organizations allows 1)1'1 to
convey the distorted image of the world
that is portrayed at the United Nations"
the report says.
The"distorted image" includes"rail-
ing against violations of the human
rights of Marxist 'liberation' groups
while ignoring human rights violations
throughout the Soviet empire, and pro-
moting -the economic development
models of centrally planned economies
to the exclusion of other models;' the
report says.
While such 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 "predominance" of such prob-
lems "in the work of the DPI may be far
more damaging to the interests of the
United States and its allies than even the.
problems of the General Assembly and
its various committees:' the report said.
The U.N. response attempted to rebut
22 specific charges made by the report
- many involving charges of biased re
porting. It did not, however, appear
address what many observers saw as
the central charge of the report - that
the department is unnecessarily biased
against Western industrialized coun-
tries in its work..
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