USSR STEPS UP CIA-TERROR CHARGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000201300061-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: February 3, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
3 FEBRUARY 1981
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USSR stvo%ps up,CIAntlerror charges
Moscow (UPI--The Soviet Union today stepped
up charges that the United States'was the major
terrorist power in the world and said the CIA was
behind a--series of assassinations, including the
murders of President John - F ' Kennedy and his
brother Robert. The Soviet attacks followed charges last week by
Secretary-'of State Haig, that. the Kremlin was
training, funding and equipping 'international ter-
rorists and by President Reagan that the Soviets are
bent on an international Communist state.
'The official Tass news agency, in commentaries
last night and today, said the Reagan administration
was using the charges to launch "a new anti-Soviet
hostile campaign.
"Any allegations about the Soviet Union's invol-
vement in .terroristic activities represent a: gross
and malicious deception," Tass said. "They cannot
but cause feelings of indignation and legitimate
protest in the Soviet people."
-In the first commentary last night, Tass charged
that the CIA had assassinated the Kennedy brothers,
Martin Luther King Jr., former: Congo leader
Patrice Lumumbar Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana,
Chilean leader Salvador Allende and former Italian
Premier Aldo Moro: -
But the news agency today omitted the Moro
charge, possibly in response to quick. denials from
Italian political leaders. Even the Italian Commun-
ist Party newspaper L'Unita chided the Kremlin in
an editorial titled, "Lets Stick to the Facts."
Tass said the charges by the Reagan White House
that the Kremlin is at the center of international
terrorist activity are "unbridled slander anti-
Soviet psychosis."
-ir'The agency said that "it will not be difficult to
discover the center that controls international
.terrorism.
"It is an open secret that whenever various
'circles resort to terror in this or that area of the
world, the tracks of the criminals lead to the-United
States, and first of all to the Central Intelligence
Agency . . . which is the main center for the
organization of terror, subversion and- provoca-
tions." ..:_
The Soviet' agency's 1,600-word `commentary
'traced a tale of relentless terror during the last 20
years, with all of the crimes allegedly carried out by
the CIA. ^ I
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