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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300160007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 24, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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ewy~SiailsiAfit bf a-couple of sree7cs;''t5at~'I.Be~sstein;.
;somewhat less~ositive reactiori.tlaan'he deserved to
~S.Ba3iing Stone art3tile i1n'tbe ezA.'aii3-tile media. u~1
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:sue:" So ^what:elseis new?" said tus p~afessional colleagues ;y
d coriapetttots,-ieafmg through#ife paragraphs'about3 he ~`
''=York-Titnes,3'ime, CAS? Jc?~?A1saQ,Jand?xhe~+others ~
?sas print'aad 3nforma7ly, the response_~aras less?:than=~
~,-Wirers went #be names? :?etitstein mentioned a' ,
;~~,o# aspp jouu7salists in same egrt of,a relationship witti`;w.
;,~e`agency.-Butwho~.s+rhen,- how raBernsteiri's -olil Paper:
::-~"~ee '~ashingtors Fbst;.produced~a~st~ertorus~an~iiiteriiii~'':
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.+'' ,^4 .~ my?y ~6i 7T ii .A.~a+~+7tG6s~ ~.. ~-a ~ ~~r'.r.~
. Fully, decked -out ~'ivith an Australian >passport.-~the-
-famou~~clalistjournallstWilfredBurchettis.jus:starting. j
"a~fwo-rionth speaking.iour~?raundthe country,~sponsured:'
by .The. Guardian-{for .whicdu 13umirett has been a ~corre-
:spotrden:, #or;'22 }~ears):and ttre'+'Prifred~Bairchett Support-'`
.Comanittee.; Acce~.s to the Unified States~has not?always
been this situp.e~forBai?~hett;.whaseort~v~.:s revoked
', back in the 1950x.' -Far ~years-he :travelled an papers
furnished by. the :North vie!''-'-'-'mw~. Castro gave )Z;.m .
'ban papers ira. igT].-and:Labouz prime-rninister Gough. ,
:Whitlans:restair~ed lua~Austral~n passport'iai.L~7Z.,R==~y,~:--?:.
..'',When Bui i;t~ett ~wa`s~ last herein 1971.ta caver-`.he?UN he
zva? arinectwith aubati:cr?edelttiais which did:iot allow him
tR.traveler.rriarie,..than':Z5..miles from Colurabus~;Circle.
Nonetheless? ?ha gaga tall-from an emfssary of Heaay',
'l~ssinger: A.rrangeinenLsweremade.tatransportBurchett ',
to.the?~Vhite House:~-where Kissinger cross-exaarruined him. j
-abouf the leaders Hof bath North Vietnasri ~ar~d they NLF;' i
gresurnably.a~; baclsgrnund .for: the -secs9et negotiations i
.'=which culminated in the open negotiations in 1972.1'tiis a+aa ..
.anat.the:first:;,t~me~~ha~t-Burchett:.played..:a_p~rt ire-?J.S..
'~diplomacy:Iii';~8 t~.met with`AverieU Harrmans in Faris'
to distxtss Burchstt'srole as an intermecliary:in attemptizig;
#cr halt the `boriibing ~of ~ North Vietnairio' Subsequently, it
seems. Harriman thanked Bundzett for3ri? irole irrsecearing .
~e?_ effort,.,by' ~ticd~ard ;~.ari+.c~od.and