COMMUNISTS FLOCK TO U.N. CONFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201110081-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: June 19, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HUMAN EVENTS
19 June 1982
Communists Flock
rIO U.N. Conference
At long last, the major American news media
have finally alluded to the Soviet role in the world-
wide, anti-nuclear movement. They would have
preferred, of course, to ignore the issue, but it was
thrust upon them when a major controversy arose
over the granting of U.S. visas to hundreds of for-
ei j n "peace activists" associated with organi-
zations with Communist ties.
The State Department identified the activists as
members of the World Peace Council, its affiliates
and other Soviet-dominated organziations that
were "seeking to exploit" the United Nations Sec-
ond Special Session on Disarmament, which is
now in progress. Many of these activists were also
planning to attend the anti-nuclear rally which was
held in New York last weekend.
Although officials of the World Peace Council
(WPC) have made no big secret of the fact that
tiley follow the Kremlin line, reporters such as
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