STILL ANOTHER COVERUP ON THE HILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201200002-4
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 30, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ART I CLI APP?IL D
ON TAM
M. STANTON EVANS
A few more days back this col-
umn noted the peculiar
blindness that afflicts some
people in our country where
Moscow's conspiratorial actions are
concerned.
In that discussion we recounted
the efforts of the Soviets to influ-
ence and guide the so-called "peace"
movement in the United States, and
the willful distortion of two differ-
ent FBI reports about those efforts.
Also mention in passing was the
cover-up of data showing contacts
between agents of the Soviet-control
led World-Peace Council and mem-
bers of the United States Congress.
This latter mind-boggling story
is worth developing in detail, since
it reveals both the wide-ranging
nature of Soviet influence opera-
tions, extending into the very halls
of Congress itself, and the kind of
cover-up that is occurring on such
issues to keep the facts of the case
from the American people - a pro-
gram of concealment that also
extends into the halls of Congress.
The World Peace Council, which
is the focal point of this remarkable
tale, is a well-known Soviet front
group, headquartered in Helsinki,
Finland. It is nominally run by an
Indian Communist named Romesh
Chandra, but according to numer-
ous reports from U.S. authorities
including the FBI and CIA, it is con-'
trolled lock, stock and barrel by the
Kremlin.
The World Peace Council is a slav-
ish follower of the Soviet Union on
everything - up to and including
an endorsement of the Soviet inva-
sion of Afghanistan. Despite this, it
likes to foist itself off as an inde-
pendent voice for peace, the better
to orchestrate propaganda drives
against the West. Overwhelmingly,
WASHINGTON TIMES
30 June 1983
Still
another
coverup
on the Hill
these efforts are directed at halting
U.S. weapons development, as in the
"neutron bomb" campaign of 1978
and the nuclear -freeze" campaign
today.
lb enhance its image of independ-
ence and carry its war against
America into the very heart of our
nation, the WPC arranged a visit to
Washington, D.C. in 1978. At meet-
ings in the Capitol, Chandra and
other agents of the Soviet KGB min-
gled with and were greeted by mem-
bers of Congress, as well as by
certain spokesmen for organized
labor and members of the District
of Columbia city government.
According to Chandra's report, the
people hosting and meeting with the
WPC delegation included William
Winpisinger, head of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists,
Hilda Mason of the D.C. City Council,
and Walter Fauntroy who represents
D.C. in-the Federal Legislature.
Chandra further stated:
"The wide interest in the work of
the WPC bureau and the dialogue
was indicated by the participation
in the sessions, and also in special
meetings inside the U.S. Congress
itself of several bureau members
with several Congressmen, among
which were Congressmen John
Burton, Ted Weiss, Ronald Dellums. I
John Conyers Jr., Don Edwards.
Charles Rangel and others."
Other references to meetings with
congressmen - including pictures
- appear at numerous points in
Chandra's report. All in all, a pretty
clear portrayal of some American
Congressmen hobnobbing openly
with spokesmen for the world's most
notorious Communist front, lending
credence to its phony -peace"
crusade.
What makes Chandra's account of
the WPC Washington meeting espe-
cially intriguing is that it was later
reproduced in a report of the House
Intelligence Committee discussing
Soviet "active measures" spreading
Communist propaganda in this
country. The Chandra document was
reproduced as an exhibit showing
the extent and nature of WPC
activities.
The only problem was that. as it
appeared in the House report, the
document was crudely censored: all
references to meetings with U.S.
Congressmen, and the names of
those Congressmen, were carefully
deleted. Moreover, this was done in
such a way that the reader is unable
to tell that something is left out.
These strange omissions don't
seem to have occurred for reasons
of space, since the committee
reprints more than 30 pages from a
40-page report. A more likely expla-
nation is that the Democratic major-
ity on the House committee was
covering the tracks of its Congres-
sional colleagues named in the
report, all of whom are liberal
Democrats. I have called the office
of the committee and its chairman
for an explanation, but have yet to
get one. Unfortunately, this episode
speaks all too clearly for itself.
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