'COUNTERSPY' COUNTERATTACKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100120008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 17, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HUMAN EVENTS
ART _I C T,E A..PPR .RED 17 0CT0BEB 1981
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Red Faces at the `Journal'?
`CounterSpy'
Counterattacks
In a startling admission, the anti-CIA publica-
tion, Counterspy, has said that it was behind at
least 15 stories on intelligence matters and interna-
tional economic issues that appeared in the influen-
tial Wall Street Journal over the last year.
._The admission came in the wake of the expose by
HUMAN EVENTS of 'CIA defector Philip Agee's
role in a Journal story by Jonathan Kwitny attack-
ing the State Department's White Paper on El
and the revelation by the Journal's ex-
Salvador
.
,
.
ecutive editor, Frederick Taylor, that Irvitny and a Force have released to the press the documents on
deceased colleague, Jerry Landauer, had used the Philippines, South Korea and Indonesia. And
John Kelly of CounterSpy as a confidential source, CounterSpy has made a number of independent
too. releases on the Central Intelligence Agency."
Despite the admission that Kelly had been a "Why does the Wall Street Journal come out :
"longstanding source" of Landauer's on
"intelligence matters," we could only identify one
story in the Journal which apparently derived from
says, for the fact that [AFL-CIO chief] Lane
Kirkland wasn't able to get into Poland [to attend
the conference of the Polish labor union Solidari-
ty-l"
"Now there is a journalistic rule that journalists
protect their sources," Bello continued.
"Unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal has at-
tacked one of its major sources of information.
The Wall Street Journal has been dependent on
CounterSpy ; and. the Congress Task Force for
about 15 to 16 stories over the last year, which
detail World Bank-IMF [International Monetary
Fund] apprehension over a lot of Third World
and the Congress Task
CounterSpy
economies
with this attack ~In one of its sources of informa-
tion?" Bello asked. "The reason for this," he said,
"is that it has been under heavy attack from the
right, from HUMAN EVENTS, and this was one way
Kincaid noted (Sept: 5, 1981) that a Dec. 3, 1980, '1 by which the Journal was trying to distance itself
this relationship. HUMAN EVENTS reporter Cliff ,
Landauer story on a secret Wor,id. Bank memo on
the Philippines had been published on the same
day that CounterSpy and a Filipino dissident group
released. the memo at a news conference in
Washington. When asked about this at the time,
Landauer threatened to sue if he was linked to
CounterSpy. John Kelly, in an interview with
HUMAN EVENTS, refused to say if he gave Lan-.
dauer the memo.
from one of its sources. Unfortunately, it's too
transparent."
Bello added: "We believe the. World _ Bank
represents interests very deterimental to . the
development of Third World countries. This is not,
of course, as HUMAN EVENTS might put it, a far-
left view." He said this is "in fact a view that is
now shared by many people within the World Bank
itself-dissident technocrats," who, he said, have
CounterSpy, however,-has now confirmed that been providing the secret documents.
it was the source not. only of the story about the Asked what countries followed his prescription
Philippines,.but of stories. about South Korea; In-:. for economic development, Bello cited Chile under
donesia'and the CIA: The confirmation. came 1 at the Marxist Salvador Allende. Referring to the
an October 2 Washington news conference, which overthrow of Allende by a popular coup, Bello
had been called to release more "secret" docu-
ments on Communist China and the Philippines.
The news conference featured Counter-
Spy's John Kelly and Walden Bello, a mem-
ber of a dissident Filipino group called the
Congress Task Force.
Bello, who said he was not a "member" of
CounterSpy but was "very sympathetic to the sort
of exposes that it has been carrying out," said, "I
would like to begin this press conference with a
protest. The Wall Street Journal [published] -on
this Tuesday [September 291 a lead, long editorial
attacking CounterSpy, making it responsible, it
said, "What happened in Chile was an effort on
STAT
the part of the World Bank, the big banks, and the
United States to sabotage this process that was go-_ .
ing on."
Asked to name other countries that followed his
recommendations, Bello said, "Maybe we ought to
have other questions..I think you would like me to
name the Soviet Union or Cuba. But I certainly ~
think there are other countries aside from the STAT
Soviet Union or Cuba or other countries that are 'I
tagged 'Red' that are trying to follow independent
economic paths." He then named two pro-
Marxist, one-party states In Africa, Mozambique
and Guinea-Bissau.
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