OFFICIALS REPORT OF LIBYAN INQUIRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100020106-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: May 9, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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9 May 1984
OFFICIALS REPORT
Telephone wiretaps showed that the
Libyans were encouraging support
among black activist groups in the
OF LIBYAN INQUIRY dent .R cialss campaign for re-elec-
tion, 'othcials said.
Information about the inquiry into
Mission at U.N. Called Target
Of a Surveillance Program
BY.LESLIE MAITLAND WERNER
? $Pww to 1Le New Yoat Tlmee
WASHINGTON, May 8 - The Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation has been
conducting surveillance of the Libyan .
Missian?to the United Nations and has
beea-47ing to determine whether the
Libydn? Government . illegally gave
money'ito some black activists in this
country; Reagan Administration offi-
cials'said today.
Theinquiry, officials said, has been
aimed,at determining whether there
was any violation of Federal election
law o4 of the law requiring agents of
foreign governments to register with
the'Attorney General.
Surveillance of the mission by the bu-
reau ;yielded evidence that the former
head. of the Libyan Mission, All A.
Treikl was providing wads for black
activists in this country who were sup-
portive of Libya's leader, Col. Muam-
mar e1-Qaddafi, officials said.
Mr.'rreiid left the United Nations
lost month and is now Libya's Foreign'
Minister. The Libyan Mission at the ;
United Nations today would not com-
mentbut said it was preparing an offi-
cialresponse. -
-Surveillance Began in 1981
Administration officials said that in-
formation about Mr. Trend's activities
was obtained through surveillance that
was started at the Libyan Mission in
1981, after the American authorities re-
ceived information regarding a possi
ble ,Libyan plan to murder Jeane R.
Kirkpatrick, chief United States dele-
gate to the United Nations, _.
Libyan activities was disclosed by The
Washington Post today.
Administration officials who con-
firmed the story said they were upset
by Its release for security reasons as
well ias the sensitive nature of the in-
vestigation both internationally and do-j.
mestically. From a security stand-
point, they said, they were disturbed by
tbe._ release of information that had
beeai'contained in a secret F.B.I. re-
port. The bureau had made the report
avaQlable to the State and Justice De-
partments, where the information was
supposed to be tightly held.
Disturbed by PobBdty
The officials also said they were dis-
turped by the fact that surveillance of
the.L3byan mission had been made pub.
lic,-find by the possibility that black
groups in this country might be an-
gez d;by the investigation.
Justice Department officials were
said: to be concerned that parallels
mit`be drawn with F.B.I. surveil-
lance of black civil rights leaders, in-
cluding the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.; in the 1960's.
For"those reasons, officials who con-
firmed the eastence of the inquiry,
would not allow use of their names.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act
makeq it illegal to receive a payment
from a foreign government for the pur-
pose. of influencing American policy
without reporting the relationship ? to
tbC Justice Department. Very few
prosecutions have beeen brought under
the Act
,The Act does not bar foreign govern-
m6t from making contributions to
American organisations for religious,
educational, cultural or charitable pur-?
STAT
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/17: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100020106-2