JESSE ASSAILS CIA MEMO CALLING HIM LIBYA AGENT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: September 25, 1980
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,By Gilbert Jimenez
The Rev Jesse L. Jackson Wednesday,night
tified him`as' a Libyan oil agent a "character
Jackson, ;head of., Operation PUSH, denied
that CIA charge and told the Sun-Times, "It is
leaked CIA`, eport." .
an agent or expose the person who leaked
this report because whoever leaked it has
made an aggressive political act that's de-
signed to assassinate my character and do
damage, to our organization.
"Libya is an. African country that America
has dtplomatia relations with and I have chal-
lenged African and Arab countries to open up
trade routes to black America, to use the busi-
Hess of our`_. Banks, our, insurance companies,
to i se ousr lawyers and brokers and to support
The memo,, sent to the White House last
March, also labeled Billy Carter as another oil
agent of` the nNorth African government, it
was reported Wednesday. er's dealings with the Libyan government, the
the president's brother, said CIA+Director' tion on what-was in the memo or what made
Stansfield Turner passed the message secretly', the"CIA believe Jackson was a Libyan agent.
to the national security ' adviser, Zbignlew In Washington, Billy Carter told reporters
Brzezinski, on March 31. he knew nothing about, any involvement by
Jackson earlier acknowledged to the Atlan- Jackson in oil dealings with Libya. Carter
to newspaper thathe had written to the Lib= said he never had any oil dealings with the
yan Embassy in, Washington on behalf of the Wallace Co.
Wallace Co. in Tuskegee, Ala., a black-owned
oil concern. The newspaper said the CIA message did
Jackson said he "would accept no financial "ntit 'link Billy Carter and Jackson. Jackson
deal from Libya and none has been offered " said he never has met or talked with Billy
the newspaper said Carter or Henry "Randy" Coleman, the presi
. dents brother's business associate, the news-
J
ackson, head of Operation PUSH-People
United To Serve Humanity-said he also paper said.
"sent several letters" to the Libyan govern. `Under protest, Billy Carter registered with
merit in sup_ port of "opening trade routes be- the Justice Department as a Libyan agent on
tweenthat country and black America." July 14. He has acknowledged receiving a
A copy of the secret CIA document was $220,900 payment from Libya's government.
made available to members of the Senate I I- In October, Jackson took a controversial
telligence Committee and to the special Judi? tour of the. Middle East in which he met with
ciary subcommittee investigating Billy Cart- Egyptian, Syrian and PLO leaders.
ON CAMPUS at Fenedict College in .Columbia,
S.C., the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson encouraged stu-
dents to vote Nov. 4. The civil rights leader was
questioned later about a CIA report tying hint.
to Libyan oil deals. (AP)
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The Rev Jesse Jackson Thursday de- .. tr1
called fora Justice Department investigation "We shall continue to express our outrage
of the leak of'a secret CIA memo identifying whenever efforts to participate by blacks are .
{ Jcksgn~ national president of Operation In addition to the apology from CIA Direc-
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PUSI4, called the leak to the news media "an tor Stansfield Turner and an investigation
attempt
to discredit me and to whip black Jackson said he was demanding an explana-
leaders line.'' tion of the memo from Zbigniew Brzezinski,
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President Carter's national security adviser,
ence, where he was accompanied by Gary Jackson admitted he wrote a letter to the
1Vlayor Richard G. Hatcher and about a dozen Libyan Embassy in Washington on behalf of
black c die and union leaders. Wallace Oil" Co., a black-owned company. But
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Jackson said
he was told by Justice Depart. he ,said; "American companies do $4 billion
inept officials that the department "has found forth of business with Libya, and black
nothing the have done to be unl'aw'ful and we Americans will not be intimidated". as they
are not-"under current investigation." try to get in on some of those business deals.
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~y Patrick Oster
Friday that the federal government has no
evidence: that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson was
ever an agent of Libya or profited from any
oil dealniade.with that radical government.
White House press secretary Jody Powell
branded as inaccurate press reports that
quoted a secret Central Intelligence Agency
r memorandum td the effect that Jackson was
such an agent.
Jacksgri, who recently endorsed President
Carter for re-election, was in Washington Fri-
' day tors a meeting with, Carter, but the CIA
* emp "did not coipe pg apd -they did got t jjV
about it," saic ;,pweil at pis , dally; r,iefing.
:P t~ov e l ug&estc. that t tort' gl~clul.:;J.ack-
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might. be part of a recent campaign of "disin-
formation" directed by unnamed sources out
to embarrass the United States through false ?
stories involving the Libyan government.
Asked about the accuracy of the memo,
Powell said: "The government has no evi-
dence or information indicating that [Jack-
son]. is or has been an agent of the Libyan
government or under its influence or that he
has ever intended to or made any effort to
profit from any oil transaction between Libya
and any American company or any other Lib-
yan oil transaction."
Powell said the press reports that cited the
CIA memo-"did not accurately reflect what
was contained in that information.'i 50
He did, not address the question. of whether
the gbvernment had. any evidencg that Jack-
son arranged any oil deals=withthe Libyans,
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;:without .making any" Pera1: profit;!'-!
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Sen. Charles H Percy (R-111) on Sat- from Jackson last week, asking the sen-
urday called for a cotigressional investi- ator to investigate the allegations and
gation :into the leak of a secret CIA. "bring the truth out."
nernq', that' allegedly identified the. Rev. The Atlanta Constitution last week
Jesse L. ernin on as an agent for the fill- said the accusations against Jackson
fan government were culled from a secret CIA spenio-
government. has no-evidence that Jack
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son, head of Operation RUSH, was ever _ -
an agent' of Libya's. radical government Stansfield Turner and national" security
d ' Zb iew Brzezinski Percy said
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lieve that there is any connection be-
tween Jackson and the Libyan govern-
hient or. any government."
Percy said the only contacts, Jackson
has- made' with the Libyan government
were_onbehalf of minority enterprise in'
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this country.
"We will investigate What _happcned
to lead to the release of 'this kind of
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or Profited from any oil deals.-with that
country,. .I can state categorically that from the damaging information about a respected
information I have, there is no such evi- citizen, which wag based on a. total
Percy said be received a phone call Bence .that would -cause anyone to be- ? tortion, ' Percy said.
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Cree p on Jesse Jackson's back
The Rev. xesse L. Jackson of Operation poit of "opening trade routes between that`
PUSH is blazing mad, and we don't blame country and black America"-its banks, in-
him. Somebody in Washington last week re-, surance companies, lawyers and brokers. He
portedly leaked a purporte , .tnemo alleg- has sent the same kinds of letters to other
edly_id'entifying Jackson as a Libyan oil agent Arab and African countries.
i and `offering no documentation whatever. As Jackson points out, the United States
It's a slimy. business, "character issassina- has diplomatic (if not cordial) relations with
tion," as, Jackson calls it. We can't know the Libya, and U.S. companies do $4 billion in
motive, but we hope it has nothing to do with business with it every year.
Jackson's blackness T;5 1 .C . < If Jcksii is anbo'S wept, e,s wor-
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-owned, oil company in. Ala- if he's guilty of . something, , charge him.
bama, and to the Libyan government in sup Otherwise, scandalmongers, get off his back.
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