KAREN ON FRIDAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100600006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 28, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEAR
ON PAGE _.L
WASHINGTON TIMES
28 February 1986
KAREN
Even as Harry Belafonte,
John Denver and Peter
Paul and Mary were hit-
ting the high notes at a
gala fund-raiser for'IransAfrica at
the Kennedy Center the other
night, of Blue Eyes was sneaking
into town without making a lot of
noise. Frank Sinatra attended an
afternoon arts commission meeting
at the White House, followed by
dinner at the Madison Hotel with
owner Marshall Coyne.
Jack Anderson has found him-
self caught up in a power
play in India over his film,
"Rajiv's India;' one from his
Jack Anderson's File series. With-
out explanation, the television film
was canceled just before airtime
during a glittery reception in New
Delhi. Insiders say that a dis-
agreement between producer Bar-
bara Newman and Inderjit Badwar,
"chief correspondent" for the film,
broadcast in the United States on
PBS in January, is at the root of the
sudden cancellation. Everybody
wanted to be on-camera, and every-
body wanted nearly everybody else
to be off-camera.
Jack Anderson has a six-figure
contract with International Syndi-
cations, the film's vendor. Miss
Newman is president, and the com-
pany is owned by ormer CIA Dep-
uty Director Max Hugel. "Barbara
and n erpt, two ea strong peo-
ple, are over there for two months
filming night and day, of course
there'll be a couple of tiffs," said
the columnist. The story and much
of the material used in the film was
obtained from Mr. Anderson's files.
Inderjit Badwar, who was an An-
derson investigative reporter for
eight years before he moved back
to India to become an editor of In-
dia Tbday magazine, wanted to be
on camera. "Nobody was to be on
camera except me," said the colum-
nist. "It was my show." (He's Jack
Anderson, and you're not.)
Indie's pals say he was angry
with the off-camera treatment and
quietly used his influence with In-
dira Gandhi's friends in the govern-
ment to pull the film by suggesting
that it showed a less than favorable
side of the prime minister's late
mother. Barbara Newman couldn't
figure out why anyone could think
that. "It doesn't show Mrs. Gandhi
in a bad light ... just that she had
gone to prison ... the historical
facts"
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