IGNORING THE 'TERROR NETWORK' RUN BY UNITED STATES

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• Publication Date: July 18, 1985
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,RED ----.
Letters
WASHINGTON TIMES
18 July 1985
the `terror network' run- by United States
Ignoring I
an
For years now Arnaud "Rug
Trader" de Borchgrave has been
harping on the alleged terror net-
work headquartered in the Kremlin,
with tentacles lacing through the
East Bloc nations, Syria, Libya, Iran,
Cuba, and now Nicaragua. This
notion, in the "Age of Reagan," has
been very profitable for Mr. de
Borchgrave and his fellow travelers
(Robert Moss, Michael Ledeen, and
Claire Sterling), but it conveniently
ignores the far more extensive ter-
ror network traceable to the United
States.
This "terror network" (never
identified as such) includes:
? The CIA's direct involvement in
the overt row o egitima e u not
pliant to U.S. will) governments in
-
Iran and Guatemala and the main
tetiance of security forces that ruled
by torture f r a^d mass murder.
? The CIA's indirect involvement
iii the over throw of the legitimate
governments of Chile and Indonesia.
? The CIA's assassination
attempts on Patrice Lumumba,
[TA's organizing and
9 The
trainin og f a Chilean network of ter-
rorists responsible for bombin s
an assassinatim s including those
? 7d\
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cessful) Fidel Castro (unsuccessful,
though not from lack of trvmg),
Rafael Trujillo (indirectly success-
and his wife (1977) and the unsuc-
cess u attempt on the e o er-
nar o eiQ ton an is wt e
? The Alliance For Proress and
Operation on or through w tch
the security and intelligence annara
tus in Latin America used disap-
prances"torture and systematic
ea
extermination of political dissi-
dents.
? U.S. support for Anastasio
Somoza, whose war against the San-
dinistas claimed 50,000 Nicara-
guans, a good number from the
500-pound bombs dropped on the
celebrating Nicaraguans as the
National Guard flew out.
? U.S. support for the Salvadoran
military, which through army units
or on contract to wealthy
Salvadorans has killed 40,000 people
over the past six years, including one
archbishop, a dozen priests, four
Dutch journalists, seven Americans
(three nuns, one lay missionary, one
reporter, and two labor advisers),
and the entire populations of some
towns (e.g., Mozote).
? Extermination of a significant
slice of East Timor by U.S. guns.
? Israeli behavior in occupied ter-
ritories and Lebanon (20,000 killed
between 1967 and 1982, as opposed
to the 350 killed by the PLO), notably
in Sabra and Shatila.
? South Africa's behavior toward
its black (majority) populace and
neighbors.
? The downing of a Libyan civilian
jet by Israel in 1973 (106 dead), the
O 'ando Letelier and Roni Moffitt
(1976), South African Robert Smit
and Salvador Allende Gossens
bombing of a Cuban plane by Omega
7 in 1976 (73 dead) and an 1U190
plane by UNITA in 1983 (127 dead).
? The Pheonix program that,
according to its director William
Colby, killed 20,587 "suspected"
National Liberation Front cadres
(South Vietnam puts the number at
about 40,000).
? The extensive bombing of Cam-
bodia, Laos, and Vietnam by B-52s,
etc.
These acts, I cannot emphasize
enough, are not called terrorist, but
"regrettable;" "necessary," "harsh;"
often "tragic," sometimes
"authoritarian," and at worst
"repressive:" I could go on listing
more examples, but that has been
done in The Political Economy of
Human Rights by Noam Chomsky
and Edward Herman and the Real
Terror Network by Edward Herman
and, as well as the reports of
Amnesty International and
Americas Watch.
Of course, there is a difference
that I have not mentioned. When Sal-
vadoran rightists murdered Arch-
bishop Oscar Romero, they did so in
the name of democracy and
capitalism. When the KGB allegedly
tried to kill Pope John Paul II (a case
that is now falling apart, revealing a
right-wing conspiracy), they were
doing so in the name of totalitarian-
ism and socialism.
ED HARRIS
New Carrollton, Md.
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