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OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, DC
January 10, 1989
General Scowcroft,
This is the memorandum
that Governor Sununu discussed
with you.
Linda Casey
NASA
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Washington, D.C.
20546
Office of the Administrator
January 6, 1989
Memorandum for the Record
The enclosed letter to a member of my staff is from Dr. John McElroy who
served as co-chairman with Brent Scowcroft on a study of civil space policy
for the Bush Administration.
McElroy makes two recommendations I feel are worth serious attention: he
recommends a particular form and membership for the new Space Council, and
he urges that the NASA Administrator be the responsible focal point for all
civil space matters throughout the Cabinet departments and agencies. In my
opinion, if these recommendations are accepted, President-Elect Bush will
be able to attract and retain from the private sector absolutely first-rate
talent for both the NASA Administrator's job and that of the Space Council
Executive Secretary.
I believe Brent Scowcroft's views on these matters will be extremely
important since so much of civil space has profound implications for foreign
policy and national security in the largest sense.
For the record, I disassociate myself from the marked paragraph on the last
page of McElroy's letter; as I have already indicated, I believe I have done
my part in restoring the civil space program to a position of both successful
current performance and deliverable future promise, and it is time for other
hands at the tiller. I will, of course, do whatever I can to effect a smooth
transition with the new Administration.
June
Fletcher
Enclosure
The
UTA
Office of Dean of Engineering
University of Texas
Box 19019
at
Arlington, Texas 76019
Metro 817-273-2571
Arlington
December 9, 1988
Mr. David Williamson Jr.
Office of the Administrator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
400 Maryland Ave.
Room F7119
Washington, DC 20546
Dear David,
Since we last talked I returned to Texas; I am enjoying greatly a new career in
academia. The Dallas-Fort Worth area isn't the same as El Paso was thirty years
ago, but Texas is always pleasant. The contrast with government and industry isn't
anywhere as bad as it is often perceived. Large organizations require bureaucracies,
and the similarities vastly outweigh the differences.
For the last year Brent Scowcroft and I have been co-chairing the steering
committee on a space policy study conducted by the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS). CSIS will be briefing various administration people
over the next few weeks using the charts that are attached. Last week, for example,
they briefed Bob Guttman, who I am told Vice-President Elect Quayle has asked to
collect information regarding the National Space Council and what tasks it might
undertake.
As with all committee activities, the result tends to resemble a composite of many
views, rather than a coherent whole. I won't go over the committee charts, because
you can readily read them and form your own opinion. In overseeing this work and
reviewing it with knowledgeable people, I believe, however, there is a modest, but
very important, variant on the CSIS study that is worth your consideration. In the
next few paragraphs, I will try to convey the gist of the idea.
My starting point is simple. The civil space policy business is a mess. It is a mess
because there is no focus of responsibility, and because there are too many people
who are permitted to influence policy, but who have no truly legitimate role. I
experienced this all too vividly in the 1982-1985 period when I ran the weather
satellite program in the Department of Commerce.
Peripheral officials in my own department and in the Departments of
Transportation, Interior, Justice, Agriculture, and others exerted an influence that
was wholly out of proportion to their governmental responsibilities. Equally
important, the role of space matters was so small in the context of their
department's overall interests and responsibilities, that it was never treated as a
significant matter having national importance. Consequently, in spite of occasional
lip service, little senior management attention was paid to it, and all too often the
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responsibility for participating in space policy activities was delegated to
unknowledgeable people, whose actions were then untempered by any effective
oversight. Of course, in such circumstances, OMB almost always wins.
My next point of departure is equally simple; if the space policy mess is ever to be
straightened out, it can only be done under a transition, when so many new players
are brought in, and when the situation is most fluid. In the current circumstances,
the establishment (or reestablishment, if you prefer) of the National Space Council
creates a further opening that I believe can be exploited.
There are two issues in my opinion. First, what is the government-wide role of the
NASA Administrator? Second, what is the role of the National Space Council?
My proposition, and that of the CSIS study as well, is that the NASA Administrator
must be the Executive Branch focal point for all civil space matters. He must
occupy the same position on space matters that the DCI occupies on intelligence
matters. The CSIS study recommends that this be achieved by Executive Order, and
that the Administrator carry the additional title of Assistant to the President for
Civil Space.
The added title is a departure from the DCI analogy, and may be undesirable, if the
Administrator is then lumped with other Assistants to the President under the
authority of the White House Chief of Staff. Under the current statute, the
Administrator reports directly to the President, and it would be most unfortunate if
that access were lost, simply by making the Administrator part of the White House
bureaucracy.
Therefore, my preference, and the recommendation of others whose judgement I
respect as well, is to follow the DCI analogy to the letter, especially in the matter of
the NASA Administrator being the official who assembles the total governmental
civil space budget and presents it to the President and OMB. This should be a
unified perspective that includes all space-related activities of Commerce,
Transportation, Interior, Agriculture, etc. As is always the case, the Cabinet
Secretaries could appeal around the Administrator to the President, but any such
actions would be couched in terms of an appeal, rather than being a voice of equal
authority to the Administrator.
The second matter is the role of the National Space Council. My version flows
directly from the above definition of the responsibility of the NASA Administrator.
First, I believe that the most pressing need for the National Space Council to
address is the coordination of defense-related and NASA activities, notably in
launch vehicles. You will see in the CSIS charts, that it is proposed that the Council
oversee a major study on access to space that looks at a 20-year horizon. That
seems like a good idea.
Second, I believe that membership in the National Space Council should be limited
to those who actually have substantive responsibilities in space activities. Therefore,
I propose the following membership. Per the various statements made during the
campaign, the Vice President should serve as chairman. Beyond that, and in
contradiction to campaign statements, the only members should be the Secretary of
the Air Force, DCI, and the NASA Administrator. In his role as the focal point for
all civil space matters, the Administrator would represent the other Cabinet
departments.
I would not have Cabinet Secretaries or members of the White House staff (e.g.,
Director of OMB and Science Advisor) sitting as members of the Council. First of
all, Cabinet Secretaries will never attend the meetings after the kick-off session in
any event. Second, if, as the CSIS study proposes, the Secretary of Defense were to
attend, he would be the only Cabinet member, and would exercise an undue
influence. The Secretary of the Air Force is delegated all significant military
responsibility in space, and is the person who would have a genuine interest in the
Council. Third, the function of staffing the Council could be assigned to OSTP, and
the Science Advisor could maintain his knowledge of its activities through his staff.
Fourth, and finally, having the OMB Director sit on the Council gives him two
opportunities to inject very narrow concerns, and to thwart consensus. In this
scheme, only those with direct operational authority over a federal space budget
would have a seat at the table.
I believe that Jim Fletcher has a unique opportunity to establish a dramatically
improved civil space policy and management structure. It would strengthen his
hand for his continuing tenure and leave a strong legacy for his successor when he
eventually chooses to step down. If this time of flux is not utilized, I see no
possibility of the United States digging itself out of the current space policy mess. I
advocate most strongly that the Administrator use whatever ties he has to Mr. Bush
to gain this important improvement in the national space policy structure.
Because I am stepping outside of my co-chairman's role in sending you this, you
should treat this only as my opinion, rather than that of a CSIS recommendation. I
have also not shown this to my co-chairman, although our dealings would lead me to
suspect that he would endorse the general sentiments. Also, as my only ambitions
are simply to build a strong College of Engineering here at UTA, I have no personal
axe to grind in this matter. I have no need for attribution to me of any of these
thoughts. Use them or reject them as you see fit. Obviously, I am not unaware of
how much easier it is to be a kibitzer, instead of having real responsibility in these
matters.
I hope you and your family have the very best of holiday seasons. I am sure your are
carrying a heavy load in NASA, and from an outsider's perspective it is hard to see
where it can be very much fun. You all seem determined to prove to us NASA
veterans that we should be relieved to be out of the target zone. I hope that
perspective is wrong, and that you really are finding considerable satisfaction in your
tasks, rather than simply a plethora of problems.
Best personal regards,
Johnm=2hoy John H. McElroy
Dean of Engineering
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20270
January 17, 1989
TO:
Brent Skowcroft
FROM:
John Sununu
More on Eveland file.
EXPRESS MAIL EXPRESS MAIL
Jufe Copy
Post Office Box 186
Waverly, MA 02179
December 30, 1988
Richard
C.
Morris,
Esquire
24131 Summerhill Avenue
(2852-866-516)
Los Altos, California 94040
Dear Dick:
The enclosed letter was handed to John Sununu after he com-
pleted a press conference in Concord. At that time, I told his
secretary that a copy would be sent to you but that I would not
file for a Rule 65 (b) Temporary Restraining Order against George
Shultz until John had an opportunity to contact me and you had an
opportunity to discuss this option with Judge Clark.
On Wednesday, in the wake of the PA 103 bombing, I felt very
much as I did on August 20, 1982 when the issue of sending U.S.
troops to Lebanon was being debated. Following the meeting Judge
Clark arranged for me with Raymond Tanter of the NSC staff, I left
at the White House a copy of a letter describing the events that
had caused me to flee Los Altos in May 1982. It opened up a new
vista of the problems Presidents Carter and Reagan had inherited
from the Vietnam and Watergate eras. Had I been wrong in 1982,
both my personal credibility and the forecasts I made on pages
342-43 of Ropes of Sand would have been discredited.
Following our September 22, 1982 meeting in the White House
basement, I provided you with affidavits, mailgrams, photographs,
and tape recordings as evidence that my life had been in danger in
Santa Clara, San Bruno, and Monterey Counties until I abandoned my
Mustang and used an assumed name to fly to Washington. I can now
prove that Daisy's fate and my own life were linked to the presence
of Stanford Technology, Inc. (by then associated with Vinnell Cor-
portation) in nearby Los Gatos. Secord, Hakim, Erich von Marbod,
Shackley, Clines, and other Iran-contra figures were well aware of
my location and activities. Robert Neil Gellatly, Daisy's brother-
in-law, who grew up with von Marbod in Wenatchee, was the link be-
tween 22301 Larkellen Lane and Los Gatos, so he had to recover
that Mustang. Remember our January 1983 correspondence while I
was in East Hampton? Secord also wrote me; he then resigned.
From your copy of my June 8, 1988 motion to the First Circuit
Court of Appeals you can see how these things have continued to af-
fect me. After Judge Clark left as Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs (six days before we lost the 241 men in
Beirut) and the two of you moved to Interior your letter to me of
March 19, 184 acknowledged that my contributions to the efforts for
solutions in the Middle East had been perceptive of future events
and of substance.
The day after you wrote me I was in Washington and was approa-
ched by Eleazer A Williams who had been the CIA's chief of station
during the April 30-July 13, 1975 period when my passport was con-
Richard C. Morris, Esq.
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December 30, 1988
fiscated, I was incarcerated in a maximum security prison, and then
ejected from the American embassy to live on the streets. The ex-
planation was that Singapore's police and military intelligence ser-
vice are under Israeli control.
Singapore's dictator, Lee Kwan Yew is, like former Libyan prime
minister Mustafa Ben Halim, a close friend of Secretary Shultz. I
mentioned Bechtel's corruption in Libya in my book, but I ended it
effectively on April 30, 1975, the day Saigon fell (pages 332-39)
because I knew there had to be good reasons for the attempts on my
life in Sinagpore. I can now prove them.
Secretary Kissinger had to know about our relations with Israel
in Singapore and this is the genesis of my suit against Shultz. I
would never have gone to Singapore to sue Chase Manhattan had not
Shultz, then executive vice president of Bechtel Group, not col-
laborated with the CIA and Vinnell Corporation to use fabricated CIA
and FBI charges that I was a traitor to induce J. Robert Fluor to
fire me as the Middle East vice president based in Riyadh of the
company that had just taken over Aramco contracts Bechtel had held
since 1940. Fluor Corporation is Bechtel's largest American com-
petitor but the Parsons Corporation is the one Bechtel hoped to
outbid in a January 1983 tender to rebuild Beirut for $30 billion.
That prompted Shultz's May 18, 1983 Israeli-Lebanese "with-
drawal agreement." It failed, and Judge Clark knows all that is need-
ed to expose the Bechtel pipeline from Iraq to Aqaba that I men-
tioned in my letter to John Sununu. The President is now being im-
portuned to punish Libya and Iraq again; rumors are rife that
Syria was involved in the PA 103 bombing.
My reasons for raising these things at this time are not re-
lated to personal retaliation or retribution. For six years you
have known of my belief that the Oval Office is the symbol of our
greatness, no matter who occupies it.
President Reagan can emulate President Eisenhower in 1956 and
end up with a Nobel Peace Prize by joining with Michael Gorbachev
to demand that the United Nations supervise the withdrawal of all
foreign forces from Lebanon. Unless that devastated country is
able to govern itself, there can be no "comprehensive peace" as
the President advocated on December 14. If Israel is forced to
leave south Lebanon, nine Americans held hostage may be released
and President-elect Bush can then end 40 years of conflict and
bring peace to the Middle East. We owe this to the three faiths
that hold Jerusalem sacred. That's the theme of my now-completed
Jerusalem the Golden.
Sincerely,
CC: John H. Sununu
Wilbur Biue Crane Eveland III
GENERAL
Other than the enclosures to the letter I delivered to John
Sununu (enclosed for your information), I have hurridly assembled
others from the three breifcases I was able to avoid putting in
storage on September 23 when I had three hours in which to vacate
the cottage I had occupied in Marion since April 1984. These
things, including my computer and the disks upon which I have my
new book, will be sold at auction unless I find means to pay the
packing and storage charges.
When I returned to Marion from Washington and New York on May
14, 1988, I found a notice that I was to be evicted and that my
home had been searched without a warrant. This was prompted by a
letter I wrote to my landlord explaining that I had filed suit in
the Southern District of New York against Ed Meese, et al. on
March 21, 1988 -- the same day the PLO offices were to be closed.
On the 10th, the PLO had offered to publish Ropes of Sand in an
Arabic edition. Since I have never seen the translation done in
Damascus in 1984 and have been refused copies by the CIA and State,
I saw no reason why I should not do this.
I filed a civil action against my landlord in the state court
on June 16 and was prepared to serve him until he agreed that I
might remain until Labor Day and obtain a winter rental. By then,
he filed a civil process for eviction which should have been
subordinate to my civil action. The judge ruled otherwise. A
major loss was my "free telephone" which had been allowed to
operate since May 1986 with an accumulated bill of over $4,000.00.
That "service" started at the time I was sponsored by the Bishop
of Massachusetts and the Presiding Bishop's office to go to Syria
and negotiate with Assad for the release of the American hostages.
To stop this, Shultz had Robert B. Oakley call me and then
the Presiding Bishop's office to quote Ambassador Bill Eagleton
as saying my life would be in danger if I went to Damascus. Bob
Oakley, Carlucci's Princeton classmate, was then ambassador-at-
large for counter terrorism. When I talked to Eagleton after his
return in January 1987, Bill denied he had even made this state-
ment to Oakley.
This fits in with the role Oakley played when he flew to
Germany to meet the TWA hostages and warned spokesman Allyn Conwell
that if he spoke of "no retaliation or retribution" the plane
would not land at Andrews Field. A new spokesman was appointed
for the White House meeting. This can be confirmed by James
Baker who knows W. V. Ballew Jr. of the Houston firm of Baker &
Botts. Bill Ballew arranged that Conwell and I get together and
co-author a book about the TWA hijacking. Houghton Mifflin had
made such a proposal to Conwell but when I sent by air freight
a copy of a sample chapter Houghton Mifflin backed out.
Robie Macauley, Houghton Mifflin's editor in chief was for-
merley with the CIC and CIA and had withdrawn an earlier offer to
publish my Jerusalem the Golden. I'm only assuming that wire taps
and communications intercepts can be authorized SO long as the
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fabricated CIA and FBI files allege that I was a key informant
for Kim Philby.
Judge Webster can confirm or deny this. He can also read the
original allegation of November 1961, a month after Allen Dulles
retired and Steve Bechtel's former partner, John A. McCone, took over
as DCI.
It was not until I reached Kansas from East Hampton and
received on September 8, 1983 a partial response to my Privacy Act
appeal of March 21, 1977 that I first knew of the Philby allega-
tions. This was the memorandum written while I was in Changi pri-
son in Singapore. Then, in July 1985, I received the Vinnell memo
of January 7, 1977. This was written while Geroge Bush was DCI, but
the Washington Post exposed earlier this year the fact that Henry
Kissinger had kept from Bush (as well as Bill Colby) the most sen-
sitive information. Vice President Bush could confirm this as well
as Brent Scowcroft who took over the NSC when President Ford made
Kissinger settle for State alone.
An important document is the FBI memorandum that deals with my
activities in Panama in 1942 and my role in the expulsion of
Commander Sergius Martin Riis. Riis went on to become a leader
in the Venice-based Temple Mountain Trust. This is the one that
still exists and could be the next move of a frustrated Shamir-
Sharon effort to break up our relations with the PLO. At the
time I was in Central America, the ADL operated much like the
Gestapo. The FBI, however, used the ADL as a source of informants
and continues to do so.
In no other way can you account for Judge Webster's statement
of December 10, 1985 warning that Arab-Americans, Arab diplomats,
and those who opposed Israel's policies were living in a "zone of
danger. This includes John Sununu and Senator Mitchell, both of
Lebanese-American heritage. I have qualified at least since I
caught Chaim Herzog spying and recruiting Jordanians in Washing-
ton in 1953-54. Bedell Smith at State and Bobby Cutler at the
NSC importuned me to gather the information the FBI wanted to
use to declare Herzog persona non grata. His brother-in-law,
Ambassador Abba Eban, and Shimon Peres, then director general of
the ministry of defense, enabled Herzog to be replaced by the
military attache from London and escape untarnished. Jonathan
Jay Pollard was the next one to be caugh red-handed.
How could Shultz ignore Webster's statement about Alex Odeh
who was murdered in Santa Ana and deny Arafat a visa because
of Leon Klinghoffer who took the wrong cruise on an Italian ship?
Now Shultz is ignoring Eban's March 16, 1988 statements about the
PLO and Israel having been since 1948 the strongest small state
in history? This has been true since at least 1952 when I was
assigned to Army G-2 to compare the relative strengths of the
Arab armies against the Israelis. What we really have is Jewish
terrorists killing Americans, distributing drugs, and then going
to Israel where we can't extradite them. Again, they serve
as informants on former Nazis.
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This was true in 1981-82 when the Sephardic Israeli mafia of
some 2,000 was extorting from Jews and Arabs and described as the
largest cocaine distributors in five major cities. I know that
Kissinger and Sinatra were fronting for the Las Vegas mafia that
had just purchased the Inn at Pebble Beach when I was hot in Monterey.
Had my district court case not been dismissed on May 1, 1987, I
would have been able to introduce the affidav from Edwin P. Wilson.
This shows Secord, von Marbod, Shackley, and Clines involved in
drugs with Samoza before the Sandinista took over. Who protected
Secord and von Marbod? Frank Carlucci. He was deputy DCI when
Stansfield Turner was persuaded to try to stop my book by invoking
U.S. V. Snepp, as it was crossfiled from Snepp V. U.S. but never
argued.
Carlucci learnedhis trade in the Congo and was in Elizabeth-
ville when I quit over the plan to assassinate Patrice Lumumba. It
was in the Katanga Province that Tshombe and Mobuto had Lumumba
murdered. Frank was then expelled from Zanzibar but went on to
B. zil to learn about coups from Vernon Walters. Kissinger sent
Carlucci to Lisbon where another coup was involved. When Walters
left as deputy DCI, Frank took over.
If Judge Webster will release the whole file on the December
1, 1955 Byelorussian Democratic Republic, you will find that these
people came through a "rat line" in Iran and were involved in Kim
Roosevelt's 1953 Ajax Operation. Walters helped set this up when
he accompanied Averill Harriman on a trip for Truman to make sure
that Mossadeq made no headway in Washington.
I now know that my district court case was dismissed on May 1,
1986 just after my judge, A. David Mazzone, handed out an unprecedented
$22 million contempt of court fine against Lyndon LaRouche. At that
time, Kissinger was scheduled to appear as a government witness
and he was a defendant in my case. The contempt citation gave the
IRS a hunting license in Virginia and produced the Eastern District
Case in which you testified. Judge Clark knows that La Rouche's
Project Juarez conflicted with North's Project Democracy. You also
testified at the NBC trial, didn't you?
If you add my background going back to Panama in 1942, my
Middle East experience from 1949 until 1975, and my White House
service in 1955 to that of Charles Richard Crane who was the first
American King Abdul Aziz ever met and from whom he got the oil
concession that became Aramco, there is a lot of family histor in-
volved. Some of this was communicated to Vice President Bush in
my letters starting on July 14, 1982. It might be worthwhile seeing
if Donald Gregg turned over to William Eckert the task of answering
me instead of informing the Vice President of my warnings about not
sending troops to Lebanon.
My biggest problem stems from not overthrowing the Syrian
government on October 29, 1956. If I had, Iraq would have had
Syria and Israel the Lebanese waters they didn't divert until 1982.
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Finally, the thing that made me hottest in Los Altos was my
1980 proposal to write a book about Iran with Ya'acov Sharett
which would have blown Iran-contra before it ever got started.
This was known to Richard V. Allen at Hoover, and possibly to Shultz
who kept his Stanford post while with Bechtel.
Neill Gellatly stole the proposals I was going to send express
mail to two major publishers the night he broke into my poolside
office. That produced the confrontation that caused me to do as
Daisy asked and move in with her sister in Menlo Park.
The book with former Foreign and Prime Minister Moshe Sharett's
only son would have proved how Shimon Peres made the 1954 deal with
France that started the 1956 Suez war. I was used to get Eden to
agree, after his summit with Bulganin and Khrushchev was sabotaged
by British SIS, and the plan that I pull a Syrian coup followed.
George Kennedy Young, who was the deputy director of SIS, sent
Philby to Beirut and then urged him to defect in 1963 to avoid a
collapse of the British government. Young is still loose and is
a major reason Mrs. Thatcher banned Spycatchers. Young and
Victor Rotschild be Israeli agents and may still be.
Miles Copeland, in my book, gathered up Archie Roosevelt and
Arnaud deBorchegrave (who had tagged me with Philby in November
1987) to support George Bush for president. I'm sure he was wise
to this plan to bring back the old clandestine operators. In any
case, Copeland was on British radio yesterday claiming that he would
have no trouble rounding up the PLO men who set the bomb on PA 103.
This leaves a huge question in my mind!
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 13, 1982
Dear Mr. Eveland:
Thank you for the letter of July 14, 1982. I appreciate
your willingness to share your ideas with me.
Regarding the issue of U.S. troops, you should recognize
that the President decided in principle to introduce a small
contingent of marines only if certain conditions are met,
such as an explicit agreement among the contending parties,
multinational participation, etc.
The President is well aware of the risks involved in the use
of American forces and thus seeks to minimize these risks
prior to any decision to send the forces.
Please feel free to contact my staff if you wish to follow up
your ideas further. In this regard, Mr. Raymond Tanter, at
395-5697, would be happy to meet with you.
Sincerely,
William Clark
William P. Clark
Mr. Wilbur Crane Eveland
124 7th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20003
FIC'D
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 18, 1982
Dear Mr. Eveland:
William P. Clark, who is currently away from Washington, has
asked that I respond to your letters to him dated August 19
and 20, with enclosures relating to your Kuwait News Agency
story, an autographed copy of your book, Ropes of Sand, and
a copy of a personal message.
Judge Clark has had opportunity to examine only portions of
your autobiography. The portions which have been read are
fascinating. Certainly the history of crucial events related
in the book is invaluable. Judge Clark expresses his grati-
tude and asks that I thank you for the gift of his copy of
the book and the autographed copy you forwarded to the
President on September 7.
The copy of the personal message enclosed with your letter of
August 20 tells an equally fascinating story, but one not then
complete. Judge Clark is unable to comment, of course, and
hopes those to whom the message was addressed have been able
to assist in reaching some resolutions. By this late date
there certainly must be some improvement in your situation,
and we would be interested in being further advised.
Sincerely,
Sechard
Richard C. Morris
Special Assistant to
William P. Clark
Mr. Wilbur Crane Eveland
124-B 7th Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
United States Department of the Interior
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240
March 19, 1984
Mr. Wilbur Crane Eveland
P.O. Box 748
Marion, Massachusetts 02738
Dear Bill:
Thank you for your letter of January 25, advising
of events that have affected and will continue
to affect your perceptions and performances.
Your contributions to the effort for solutions
in the Middle East were not only perceptive
of future events, but, indeed, were of substance.
Perhaps your admonitions should have been better
heeded.
I am indeed sorry to learn of your medical
problem, and do hope that the condition can
be controlled.
My best wishes.
Sincerely,
Chard 1M--
Richard C. Morris
Episcopal the Diocese
Massachusetts
The Right Reverend John B. Coburn. D.D.
The Rt. Rev. David E. Johnson, D.D.
6 June 1986
Mr. Wilbur Crane Eveland, III
P.O. Box 748
Marion, Massachusetts 02738
Dear Bill:
I do not know the eventual outcome, but it seems to me you
have been heard, in Washington, Damascus and "815" New York City.
Not much else to do now, I guess, but pray. I have continued to
do that, and who knows, may be we will all be surprised.
This is just to assure you that I have never felt pushed or
in an inappropriate situation in all this. My major concern is
that we all do the correct act - free hostages, and make peace!
Hang in there. Maybe we will write another chapter err long.
Faithfully yours,
Darid
David E. Johnson
DEJ:cm
Office of the Bishop
One Joy Street
Boston. Massachusetts 02108
(617) 742-4720
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON
July 16, 1982
Mr. Wilbur C. Eveland
124 7th Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
Dear Mr. Eveland:
On behalf of the Vice President, I want to thank you
for your letter concerning the situation in Lebanon.
We are deeply saddened by the violence in the Middle
East. The United States Government has joined in a call for
an immediate and simultaneous cessation of all military
activities within Lebanon and across the Lebanese-Israeli
border, and for withdrawal of Israeli military forces. The
United States is engaged in intensive diplomatic activity to
bring about these conditions as soon as possible.
A return to the previous conditions in Lebanon would
not serve the interests of any of the parties concerned. There
must be restoration of the full sovereignty, unity, and terri-
torial integrity of Lebanon on the one hand and the protection
of Israel's security on the other.
Our efforts are consistent with the long standing
United States policy to end the violence and achieve a just and
lasting peace for all the peoples of the Middle East.
With the Vice President's best wishes,
Sincerely,
William Q Echeet
William D. Eckert
Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
Military Assistant/Aide
to the Vice President
P.S. My Dad, as Vice Commandez of Tactical an Command,
led the composite air strike force that went from the U.S. to
bebausu in 1958. I have read the report of the King-
Crane Commission, admired it as a truly american document,
and wish more people would read it.
Keview of Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East, by George Weller, in
the January -14, 1983 edition of the Rome Daily American. During the 1950s and '60s,
Weller covered the Middle East for the Chicago Daily News, before retiring in Italy.
Wilbur Crane Eveland's diplomatic accounting ranks as a classic
The vast majority of readers
already had earmarked secretly
bined heat simply blew Crane's
published
documents
and
know nothing about Middle East
the oil, soil and peoples for
plea into Wilson's pigeonhole,
became a restaurant owner in
George Weller
intrigues going on under their
themselves? Would the Arabs ac-
where it remaine- secret until
Rome. He was unlike Morgen-
noses in Washington and even
cept that? Wilson asked Crane.
1922.
thau's junior, Henry, who
Daily American
less about those at the scene
Crane came back with the
Crane was not the only loser to
became a Zionist Cato, deman-
itself. Juvenal, before the succes-
word that the various Arab
the rising wind fro 11 the larvard
ding defeated Germany be
ROME - In the two years
sion of Arabian emperors to the
peoples wanted to be free of all
Law School (where, according to
destroyed, like a camp of Palesti-
since Ropes of Sand appeared,
Roman throne, grew so fed up
masters. What they especially did
the study The / larvard Mystique,
nian refugees.
the story of Wilbur Crane
with Eastern intrigues that he
not want was the imposition of a
half the students and the dean
Three years ag before the
cried: "The Orontes flows into
Eveland as diplomat, military at-
Jewish Zionist state promised by
are now Jewish). I- is fellow-loser
name of Gen. Sharon was known
tache and CIA amateur in the
the Tiber!" In 1947, Begin's
both imperial Germany and Bri-
was Henry Morgenthau, a Jew
to the world, our Crane had
Middle East, it has become a
Irgun terrorists bombed the
tain to their Jewish citizens).
whom Wilson sent as am-
learned enough to write pro-
bassador to defeared Turkey to
phetically:
classic. The more sand of ex-
British Embassy near Piazza San
However, instead 0' giving the
Giovanni, Who knows why?
perience its readers have in their
Arab majorities the same deal as
persuade the hardup Turkish
"Claiming that its survival is
Why, then, did Bill Eveland
shoes, scalps and fingernails, the
the Czechoslovaks, Yugoslavs
sultan to sell Pa'estine to the
still threatened by the presence of
bother? What chance did his
less they dare to criticize its
and Poles, Wilson I earkened to
Zionists. Morgenthau, like
Palestinian guerrillas 3 in
years-long personal story have to
the advice of a Jewish pressure
Crane, blew himself out of
Lebanon, Israel continues to
details. Ropes of Sand is an im-
compete with the material pro-
mense credit to the publishing
party from the Harvard Law
Wilson's favor with his dissent:
bomb, strafe, and invade
duced by the endless parade of
School. It consisted of two
Lebanese territory It would be
house of W.W. Norton & Co. It
ignorant, history-poor writers
"Zionism is the most stupen-
judges, Louis Brandeis and Felix
naive to believe that such a policy
deserves to stand with three other
and cameramen who fly from
dous fallacy in Jewish history. I
Frankfurter (both Supreme
will make the Palestinians any
American classics in a terrain
New York to Israel, clear their
assert that it is wrong in principle
more tractable.'
formerly dignified largely
by
Court appointees) and their
credentials with the Israeli
and sterile in its spiritual ideas.
Well, what took Eveland that
British talent: the 767-page
Suez
Defense Force, thereby pass into
Zionism is a betry 11, an Eastern
far? He couldn't do it on genes
(McGraw Hill) by Kennett Love,
Lebanon, and sit through a lazy
alone. If he had hit in the Kiss-
once a New York Times car-
weekend in Israel's East Beirut
respondent; Terror Out of Zion
It was a well-meaning aunt who
inger period, the Herr Doctor
while 15 minutes' walk away,
(from Harvard, naturally),
by Professor J. Bowyer Bell of
between them and the airport, a
reminded Eveland the young military
would have blown him to
Harvard, MIT and Columbia (a
thousand Palestinian refugees
Paraguay as swiftly as Wilson
documentation of the bloody bir-
are systematically slaughtered?
got rid of Crane and the senior
thright of Begin, Shamir, and
To write a very good book re-
Sharon); and The Assault on the
quires money, and time, and a
attache that, being a Crane, he should
Morgenthau. If David Niles fail-
ed to finger him, Clark Clifford
Liberty (Random House) by Lt.
high purpose. Eveland's purpose
is confessional: thus his subtitle
study Arabic. He moved east. He was
or Alexander Haig, ardent
Comdr. James Ennis, U.S. Navy
Zionists both, would have busted
retired, the cryptographer of that
America's Failure in the Middle
him early.
tragedy of censorship, American
East.
unlike Morgenthau's junior Henry,
But Eveland slipped through
political cowardice, and naval in-
This work represents his ef-
by arriving early, like his
competence that cost 34
fort to balance his family's
American lives (or only 10 lives,
books. Eveland inherited a moral
a Zionist Cato, demanding defeated
ancestor; he arrived in the 1950s
when John Foster Dulles was
if you believe Vantage Point, the
account to square, and bears its
whitewashing autobiography of
mark in his middle name
Germany be destroyed.
running the Department of State,
which is also an honorable
and his brother Allen the CIA. 11/
Lyndon Johnson).
Midwestern name - of
was a freak period, when
If Ropes of Sand has sold
"Crane." !le gave it to his son.
Eisenhower was able to get Israel
15,000 copies, perhaps 60,000;
Americans have read it. Yet for
The Crane relevant to
ideologue and teacher
in
European proposal, fathered in
out of Sinai and Gaza in 125 days
all but perhaps 5,000 capable of
Eveland's book came from a
Zionism, Jacob de Haas, British
this country by American Jews.
just by whispering "sanctions"
family of cornfed brothers, like
editor of Boston's Jewish
If they were to succeed, [it]
to Ben Gurion. (No five years of
understanding it - a number,
the Eisenhowers. At the behest
Advocute and a Litter rival of
would cost the Jews of America
Camp David at $2.5 billion each,
possibly doubled or tripled since
of Woodrow Wilson, whom he
Chaim Weizman for the first
most of what they have gained of
without undoing Gaza and the
the events in Lebanon - even its
faultlessly clear prose is not
trusted, Charles Richard Crane
presidency of Israe:-to-be.
liberty, equality and fraternity.
West Bank.)
enough to overcome confusion
of Wisconsin, an industrialist
This team, representing votes
It was a well-meaning aunt
With the blind luck of en-
about boundaries, national
rich in experience in Russia and
and money, (Brandeis was sup-
who reminded Eveland, the
thusiastic novices, Eveland
China, went into the Middle
histories, and all those funny
porting Frankfurter financially young military attache, that, be-
found himself, though nominally
(names.
East in mid-1919. Wilson had
and took him to Europe to but- ing a Crane, he should study
a low-ranking military observer,
already decided that in Europe
tonhole Britain's I ord Balfour, a
Arabic. He moved east. He was
being sucked upward first into
the old empires were to be
self-proclaimed Zipnist), was too
unlike Crane's own son John,
Foster's diplomacy and then into
broken up and given back to
powerful for Crane. Their com-
who
hoarded
his
father's
un-
Allen's gentlemanly subversion
their "liberated" peoples. But
what about the Middle East,
where Brit in, France and Italv
of Lebanon. He was State and
Ropes of Sand thrashes
How. Eveland could not help
helpful offered by the U.S. or
CIA, and that at a time when the
around like a loose lariat. It
asking himself, do I spend a half-
what-will-our-allies
think?
CIA's very pro-Zionist policy
moves so fast, and is so full of
million bucks buying Syrian col-
Hence the Syrian ploy: really a
was being directed by old-
hysterical history never touched
onels? And how can I make sure
second front operation against
Roman-hand James Angelton (to
in either newspapers or
that they will lie down until (and
Nasser, taking Syria away from
be trimmed in power later and
diplomatic accounts, that it has
this was the British plan, already
Nasser while Israeli-American air
nudged out by another old-
no rival for indiscretion except
confided to the Israelis) the
Roman of CIA, director William
the sorrowful diary of Israel's
powerful British-trained tank
superiority kept his head down in
Colby).
one-time Premier Moshe Sharett,
corps of the Royal Iraqi Army
Egypt.
Eveland owes, and we owe, the
when steamrollered by Ben
sweeps into Syrian Damascus?
CIA-Washington, apparently
fullness of this book to the fact
Gurion and Moshe Dayan.
At that point Syria was supposed
because Israel moved up the tim-
that unlike other whistle-blowers
A peak of American confusion
to turn its back, like a fickle
ing to effect the U.S. election
on the CIA, the author neither
jade, on the doomed Nasser and
more, sent Eveland a hurry-up-
comes in the same period, in
succumbed to a middle-aged in-
throw herself into the arms of
your-putsch message. 11 came
1956. Israe! had already con-
fusion of Marxism, nor did he
Iraq's youthful king, What this
before he had a single Syrian col-
cocted its plan, with Britain and
sub-plot required was some fan-
onel in his pocket. The Syrian
violate any oath. When the CIA
France, to make their attack on
complained about Ropes of
Nasser's Egypt coincide with the
cy timing. The Syrian takeover
conspirators, led by an Iraqi
Sand, he asked them to show him
U.S. presio ential race between
had to look independent of the
friend of Eveland's sent him
main Suez attack.
his pledge of obligation. There
back word, "Impossible before
Eisenhower and the stoutly
wasn't any. Somehow, brother
And what was Israel's bonus?
Oct. 29."
Zionist Adlai Stevenson.
Allen, before borrowing Eveland
Eveland did not know it then,
And that as perhaps Nasser
Crazy as it seems nowadays
from brother Foster, had
but he must know it now, from
and his side in Syria may already
Never mind, the Americans re
(especially in view of
overlooked the procedure. The
his minute study of Dayan's in-
have known was to be the ac-
mained still in there, trying to
Eisenhower's rage when he
CIA eventually rejected what it
discretions It was at that point,
tual invasion day. Which meant
dismember Syria; Kissinger took;
found the three-power invasion
called his "belated attempt to
when this scion of Crane's probi
that the Syrian colonels had time
Syria's Golan Heights and
timed to turn him into an anti-
presented it to Israel, for "tem-}
submit the manuscript.'
Arab interventionist), there ac-
porary occupation.' The
This ambiguity came in handy
tually was Eveland reveals
early. Crane met Lebanon's
an American role in this con-
The Syrians kept our half-million
Knesset turned it into annexation)
without a protest from
President Camille Chamoun, a
spiracy.
Catholic
who
conned
The scene, in fact, resembled
dollars, and they aflicted the worst
Washington. What price West
Bank? And Gaza?
Eisenhower into sending the
today's, when once again the bait
Still, if someone ransacked the
Marines to Beirut in 1958, osten-
is the same: Syria. The American
snub of all. Since everyone was
smashed garages of Beirut, they
sibly to "stop communism," but
Sixth Fleet is being early booked
might be able to find Bill Cranel
really to halt Nasser, the Moslem
by the IDF to intervene "to pro-
Lebanese, and the first infusion
tect itself' against the Soviet
repentant, and the American role
Eveland's old white convertible
with the golden decorations. The
of Palestinians.
missiles in Syria. But the plan in
never came out, nobody had to be shot.
CIA could drive it through the
To Chamoun, "deliberately
1956 was a lot quieter, nothing SO
ruins of Tyre, Sidon, the two
not specifying which of the
noisy, just a quiet grab of Syria
Beiruts, Tripoli and Syrian
brothers I met, I said I had just
by Iraq and Lebanon by Israel
to dither awhile, and to find out
Kuneitra, with Bill standing up
left Washington, here I'd met
while the three powers were dum-
ty had immobilized the Syrian ar-
how well Nasser held out. He
and throwing out handfuls of
with Mr. Dulles.'
Soon Eveland found himself
ping Nasser.
my (just as the U.S. is trying to
lost, but he did not fall. And he
you-know-what. After all, that's
And the arch instrument, on
do today), that the Israelis would
ended up with Britain's Labor
the American way. But Bill's
as clandestine CIA paymaster to
assignment, was Eveland.
take advantage of the inability of
heart is broken. What can he tell
the Chamoun Maronite machine,
Party on his side, and
Syria to protect equivocating
the new Crane Eveland?
then unarmed (later to be armed,
So what was this sprig of the
Eisenhower. And Syria.
House of Crane doing in such
Lebanon. And the Israelis would
then 10 be annihilated in the
And the Syrians kept our half-
ROPES OF SAND. By Wilbur
preposterous reversal of his
take over foreibly, as now, as
1970s by the Isracli-armed Chris-
million dollars, and they inflicted
Crane Eveland, II'. W. Norton,
ancestral principles?
much soil and sky of Lebanon as
tian clan of the two Gemayel
the worst snub of all on the sub
N.Y., $14.95.
He was driving his disarming
they wanted.
brothers).
plot. Since everyone was repen-
He may not have given away
playboy's convertible across the
Where, if anywhere, was any
tant, and the American role
-s much to this Catholic hustler
border from Lebanon into Syria
noble American purpose in all
never came out, nobody had to
IS the cash millions CIA's Miles
with a CIA suitcase-full of a half
this carving? Ii was here: the
be shot. What kind of coup is
Copeland was giving to Nasser.
million dollars in Syrian paper
British originally had a simple
that?
pounds (about $3 to $1).
pre-plan 10 go with the invasion
And Israel, instead of getting
lut he gave in smaller denomina-
With this money our friend of
murder Nasser. They tried to
Lebanon a generation ago on an
ions, so it looked like more.
Arab self-government was under
sell it to the CIA, and Eveland
American platter, had to
And he gave with more style,
orders to buy (partly for the
was a troubled witness. But "the
postpone the honors of easy in-,
driving a white American conver-
U.S., but mainly for Britain and
Company" refused 10 buy.
vasion away from Ben Gurion
tible with gold trimmings - just
Israel) an anti-Nasser revolution
Yet clearly, since the Dulles
and Dayan and give Lebanon to
a gay Gatsby calling at the
in Syria (already "united" with
brothers - Eveland thinks -
Begin, Sharon and Shamir, in:
presidential mansion with an
Egypt to keep the Syrian Com-
really favored the Sucz invasion,
1982.
overnight bag. ,H-e-e-re comes
munists out of power).
there had to be something
money!
STANDARD
FORM
64
Office MeΓ.
um
UNITED S'
GOVERNMENT
TO
DIRECTOR, FBI (105-15155)
B-lor
DATE:
December 1, 1955
FROM
SAC, NEWARK (97-133)
SUBJECT:
BYELORUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC,
CENTRAL COUNCIL IN U. S. Д., aka.
can't FON life.
RA
(00-New York)
CONTAINED
ALL HEREIN INFORMATION 6-12-85 IE SSIFIED
BY
DATE
Rereps of SA
5/19/52 and 6/18/54.
b7c
furnished to SA'S
information
concerning an organization for white Russians, which he called
CENTRAL RAD ORGANIZATION (CRO).
the majority
of the members of CRO are United States residents who, during
World War II, were German collaborators who fled Poland when
the Russian Army invaded Poland.
these
persons had power and a comfortable life as Nazi collaborators
during the German Occupation of Poland and that they originally
organized the CRO to insure that a Nazi totalitarian form of
government would rule Poland in the event Russian armies were
driven out of Poland at a future date. b7c,b70
He said that since 1945 the CRO has hoped and believed
that the U. S. and Soviet Russia would engage in a conflict.
They desired the U. S. to be victorious and hoped to be able
to persuade the U. S. Government to aid the CRO in establishing
itself as an official governing body of Poland.
in order to obtain U. S. backing, U. S. Congressmen
have been invited to attend the organization's annual
meetings in New York City each year.
the
CRO does not aim to change the democratic form of government
existing in the U. 5.67C,67D
CRO Headquarters are located in
Garfield and South River, N. J., and that the majority of its
200 members live in South N IS
ALEXANDER RUSSAK,
N.
18 prime minister of the organization, and that (FNU) OSTROWSKI,
who is believed to be living in Argentina, is president. one, 670
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INDEXED-38
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8 DEC 5 1955
EXHIBIT "C"
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free
LETTER TO DIRECTOR, FBI
NK 97-133
12/1/55
Newark indices are negative regarding CRO, but
the Newark file on the BYELORUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC,
CENTRAL COUNCIL IN U. S. A. reflects that ALEXANDER RUSSAK,
N, J., was reportedly chairman of the Executive
Board of this organization and that RADISLAW OSTROWSKI headed
the BYELORUSSIAN CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION and lived in Argentina. bx
It appears that the organization referred to as the
CRO
is actually the BYELORUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC, CENTRAL COUNCIL IN U. S. A. and, consequently, the
results of the interview with
are being furnished
to New York for information purposes. RUC. 67C,67D
2
Bureau (105-15155) (REG MAIL)
2
- New York (97-1251) (REG MAIL)
2 - Newark
(1) 97-133
(1) 105-2492 (CENTRAL RAD ORGANIZATION)
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38637
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liew York, New York
Dear
Your letter of December 6, 1942, has been received
in the obsence 0.- Mr. Hoover from Fashington, and I wish to
advise that the requirements for appointment to the vortous
positions in the FBI hove not been changed since Vr. Ecousr
wrote you. Fé do not have available at this time any positions
for one possessing your partioular qualifications.
I CA sare I'r. Hoover will appreciate your greetings
for the holidey secson and I will call your letter to the Directo
attention on his return to the city.
Sincerely yours,
For the Director
Clyde Tolson
SEE PAGE 2
Assistant to the Director
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8-DEAR
1942
New York City. Dec. 4, 1942
38538
Dear Moover:
It 18 quite some time since I had the pleasure of reading your
last promise to find a niche for me somewhere in your organization. In
fact the last personal correspondence between us was about 2 years be
for the conflaguaration of the war started. It was because of my age,
and only age. that my services could not be made available to your or-
ganization then. Much musty, poisonous and deadly water, has gone ov-
er the dam since. No doubt you have kept the record of my qualifica-
tions in your files intact. There 1s no need to go over the same again:
Suffice to call your attention however. that I an ex-Naval Officer. with
highly Distinguished Service record - eleven decorations from four major
powers. including the first Navy Cross ever cited for in the U. S. his
tory, for Distingue!ed Service as Intelligence Officer and as U. S. Na
Val Attache to the American Embassy in Russia.
I am still going strong. Excllent health. Much wiser and if anythi
mentally mcre alert. Just as good as ever with foreign languagues, as
viously recorded, and READY TO SERVE. No personal risk too great, in a
der to help save American lives and property and aid us to frustrate any
nefarius plans of enemies. aimed at our vitals, through sources from
within.
Recently while temporarily in the Government Service in the Canal
Zone, I accidently. through indiscretion of some of the leaser "brase
hats" had occasion to closely examine and follow up the methods and
means employed in an investigation, by two of your young gradustes, W11-
bur C. Eveland and Russel B, Frizzell (now Spscial Agents MI). While
I have no doubt of their honesty and integrity of purpose and that they
are entirely trustwortby. according to their verified records - uncon-
sciously. because of lack of experience, these "babes in arms" not only
overstep their assigned functions, but may well become an easy pray to
any clever subterfuges and cunning builups. All I can say, that it W&B
simply pitiful. the way they carried on
Perhaps some more training
will be of help? Such inexpersinced youngaters in life in general, leave
alone an inventigators, should not be allowed on their own. Thoy must
have intediate supervision and guidance of mature and experienced judge
ment. until they have learned the ropes.
Judging from publiched reports and public records, the successes you
have had 80 far - it appears that you have been exceedingly lucky. In eve
ry case which received wide publicity (intentional I suppose) your so-ca
led counter-espionage agents and the main states witnesses. neve been
accidental or voluntary.
SE
on the face, the very successful efforts of the FBI in cornering FO
swiftly and efficiently, the saboteours, landed from subs DEI would indicat
that the hoped for proper functioning of the Nazi under-cover orgániza-
tions, supposedly planted here before the v.gr started, have been frust-
rated, otherwise, they would nct attempt and risk the landing of others
on our shores, apparently not 80 high intellectually? Or was 1t subter
fuge? My 1dea is, better to overestimate the enemy cunnirmess rather
that underestimate it.
You know as well as I do, that there is no such a thing as absolute
secrecy. So long one person knows, plus circumstances which never lid
38639
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it 1s no longer A secret. Given money and time, experience and patien
ce and the cat no matter, how invisible, will be caught in the bag.
Please let me hear from you at your earliest convinience - whether my
age 1a still a bar, for the Government to make use of my experience
and services, even in these times of great national stress and agony.
Please remember, that our only aim and our most foremost aim is now
WINNING TME WAR and that we are in a TOTAL WAR, most disastous in our
whole history. Only experience and the concerted efforts of the whole
nation can bring us eventual victory. Pre-war Rules and Regulations
as to ages of those useful and other red-tape must not any longer be
allowed to interfere. Nothing should interfere, until a complete
victory is achieved and the nefarius organizations of our enemies for
ever silenced.
The Navy Department has recently informed me, that in the event an
age waiver can be arranged through the Executive Order, a plac would
be found for me. I seriously doubt that this will go through, as the
Navy seldom budges from the strict adherence to rules and regulations.
The army let Doolittle back and look-he 18 now & Major Gemral, over
the heads of many good regular aspirants. Doolittle 1s as much a speci
list in his line, as I am in mine. As distinguished officers. both
gained most of their experience in the civil life. after the last war
Perhaps you can be of some help in connection with this, unless your
organization takes me on.
Wishing you the Compliments of the coming Season (in spite of the
war) and thanking you for an early consideration of the matter, I am
Faithfully
APPEARED
NEW YORK
4 February 1985
NEWYORK
INTELLIGENCER
BY SHARON CHURCHER
Did Israel's President Once Recruit 'Informants' Here?
IVE YEARS AGO, WIL-
Find
president Chaim Herzog re-
bur Crane Eveland up-
ments." The State Depart-
cruited State Department
of military intelligence, has
set the CLA with a kiss-
staffers as Israeli informants
ment, he added, disagreed
and fired one recruit. "who
denied involvement in any
and-tell book, Ropes of Sand,
back in 1954, when Herzog
"recruitment of informants.
which exposed, among other
later committed suicide."
was Israeli defense attaché
The CLA delayed publica-
things, an abortive Syrian
Herzog "encouraged me.
in Washington. Eveland de-
tion of Rofes, but Eveland
coup he said he helped fi-
to write the last book," said
clined to call the alleged re-
the author. "But he didn't
contended the agency won't
nance as a top aide 10
cruits spies: "Israel is a
have any control over this
agency boss Allen Dulles.
friendly government, and
know what I had in my files.
book Jerusalem the Golder-
Now, in an upcoming
This book will shake a few
they were passing on verbal
"There's nothing in it I could
work, he claims that Israeli
people up."
information, not docu-
Herzog, Israel's first chief
have known only through
the CLA," he said.
pproved for Release
Date 2 L APR
4
It
WASHINGTON
WHISPERS
Borrowing power. Two Israelis associated
Israelis illicitly tap
gan administration officials are drafting
with their country's nuclear-weapons
budget proposals to cut medicare pay-
program illegally gained access to a su-
U.S. weapons computer
ments for certain services by 25 per-
percomputer at the Los Alamos nuclear-
cent-a step that could save more than
$500 million in the next budget. Among
weapons laboratory in New Mexico. Con-
gressional investigators report that earlier
SEC may halt Hafts'
the fees slated for cuts are those for
this month the Israelis used a friendly lab
corporate raids
cataract surgery, coronary bypasses and
technician's access code and personal
pacemaker implants. A recent Harvard
computer to tap into a nonsecret but
study concluded that, on the basis of the
Bush targets doctors'
true costs and skills involved. medicare
highly sophisticated computer to work on
designs for a nuclear-weapon detonator.
overpays doctors for these services by as
Israel has nothing comparable to the $13
fees for budget cuts
much as 400 percent.
million machine, manufactured by Cray
Research, Inc., in Minneapolis. The two
Israelis, who earlier had been denied en-
spent in Israel's election campaign. Un-
Blacks and Bush. Although George Bush
try to California's Livermore Laboratory,
like the U.S., where foreigners are forbid-
has made no campaign appearances in
left the U.S. before their intrusion was
den to make contributions, Israel has nei-
black communities since the New Orleans
discovered. The technician, whose name
ther restrictions on outside gifts nor rules
convention, experts believe the Vice Presi-
has not been disclosed, has been disci-
about disclosure. The top Israeli fund-
dent will draw as much as 20 percent of
raiser in the U.S. is fiery Gen. Ariel Shar-
the black vote, twice the percentage that
plined.
on, who reportedly netted $2.5 million for
Ronald Reagan received four years ago.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud
The explanation may lie in a recent poll
Staffing up. Who would run a George
during two days in Beverly Hills earlier
that showed while 72 percent of blacks
Bush White House? Favored to stay on as
this month. His opponent, Foreign Minis-
think Ronald Reagan is "prejudiced,"
chief of staff is Craig Fuller, 37, who has
ter Shimon Peres, took advantage of his
only 43 percent believe the same of Bush.
served the Vice President since 1981.
trip to the U.N. General Assembly in Sep-
Another reason is that almost half of those
Richard Darman, longtime deputy to
tember to raise $1 million for his Labor
surveyed think Jesse Jackson has been
James Baker, can have the slot as budget
treated unfairly by Michael Dukakis.
director, and Sheila Tate is likely to be
offered the opportunity to be the first fe-
Nuclear wink. The President is soon ex-
male White House press secretary. Alter-
nate scenarios have Fuller in a cabinet
pected to certify that Pakistan does not
job; either New Hampshire Governor
possess nuclear weapons-even though
John Sununu or pollster Bob Teeter as
experts within and outside the adminis-
chief of staff; Treasury Secretary Nicho-
tration believe that country possesses all
las Brady, a Bush intimate, a senior
the components and could put a bomb
White House counselor, and tart-tongued
together in a matter of hours. Without
Darman replacing Brady at the Treasury.
presidential certification, Congress
would automatically cut off aid to Paki-
stan. In the past, Washington has ignored
Haft time at SEC. Herbert and Robert
Pakistan's not-so-secret drive to match
Haft, the Washington, D.C., father-and-
India's nuclear capabilities because it did
son team of corporate raiders, may soon
not wish to antagonize the government
be forced out of the takeover business.
that funnels aid to Afghan rebels. Now,
The Securities and Exchange Commis-
Washington wants to avoid upsetting re-
lations in the midst of Pakistan's election
sion staff has warned the Hafts' compa-
ny, Dart Group Corporation, that it
may be subject to sanctions for failing to
PERES&
SHAMIR
campaign to choose a successor to the
register as an investment company,
TAYLOR JONES
late Gen. Mohammed Zia ul Haq.
which could drastically curtail their
raiding. What troubles the SEC is that,
The Israeli contenders
Consolation prize. With fading prospects
while Dart operates two chains of book
Shekels from Beverly Hills
that the party will have a President-elect to
and auto-supply stores, it has made most
help make the choice next month, at least
of its recent money from a string of
Party. Israeli politicians, who are allotted
a half-dozen candidates have begun skir-
failed takeover moves for companies like
free TV time and have far shorter dis-
mishing to succeed Paul Kirk as chairman
Safeway, Stop & Shop and Kroger. Con-
tances to cover, will spend about $20 for
of the Democratic National Committee.
sistently foiled, Dart Group has never-
each voter. The comparable figure in the
Among those taking early political sound-
theless reaped hundreds of millions of
United States: $5.
ings are Jesse Jackson's former campaign
dollars in profits by later unloading its
manager, Ron Brown; two ex-congress-
stock positions in such firms. The Hafts
men, Michael Barnes of Maryland and
Doctoring the budget. One way George
Jim Jones of Oklahoma, and the insiders'
were unavailable for comment.
Bush may cut the budget deficit is by
favorite, Rick Wiener of Michigan, presi-
reducing excessive fees paid to some
dent of the association of Democratic state
Outspending U.S. pois. American sympa-
doctors under medicare. Outgoing Rea-
chairmen. If the infighting gets too divi-
thizers have contributed about $7 million
sive, Kirk may agree to stay on an addi-
of the more than $50 million that will be
Edited by Charles Fenvvesi
tional six months.
17
U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Oct. 31, 1988
FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
634
Form 3366
Motion-Temporary Restraining Order
R 65(a), (b)
Form No. 3366
FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, RULE 65(a), (b)¹
Motion for Temporary Restraining Order²
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
District of
(Title of Action)
Civil Action No.
Motion for Temporary Restraining Order
Plaintiff moves the court for a temporary restraining or-
der restraining defendant from
pending hear-
(Text continued on page 640.4)
1 Rule.-Rule 65(a) and (b), as
be repeated upon the trial.
amended in 1966. and in 1987 to
This subdivision (a)(2) shall
include technical changes. provide:
be so construed and applied as
(a) PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION.
to save to the parties any
rights they may have to trial
(1) Notice. No preliminary
by jury.
injunction shall be issued with-
out notice to the adverse party.
(b) TEMPORARY RESTRAINING
ORDER: NOTICE: HEARING: DURA-
(2) Consolidation of Hearing
TION. A temporary restraining
With Trial on Merits. Before or
order may be granted without
after the commencement of the
written or oral notice to the ad-
hearing of an application for a
verse party or that party's attor-
preliminary injunction, the
ney only if (1) it clearly appears
court may order the trial of
from specific facts shown by af-
the action on the merits to be
fidavit or by the verified com-
advanced and consolidated
plaint that immediate and irrep-
with the hearing of the appli-
arable injury, loss, or damage
cation. Even when this consoli-
will result to the applicant before
dation is not ordered, any evi-
the adverse party or that party's
dence received upon an
attorney can be heard in opposi-
application for a preliminary
tion, and (2) the applicant's at-
injunction which would be ad-
torney certifies to the court in
missible upon the trial on the
writing the efforts. if any, which
merits becomes part of the re-
have been made to give the notice
cord on the trial and need not
and the reasons supporting that
PARTIAL NOT FILED
FINANCIAL AFFIDAVIT
IN SUPPORT OF REQUEST FOR ATTORNEY: EXPERT OR OTHER COURT SERVICES WITHOUT PAYMENT OF
IN UNITED STATES
MAGISTRATE
X
DISTRICT
APPEALS COURT or
OTHER PANEL (Specify below)
IN THE CASE OF
LOCATION NUMBER
FOR
EVELAND III
SHULTZ AND
Eastern District of Massa-
vs.
AT
WEBSTER
chussets at Boston
PERSON REPRESENTED (Show your full name)
DCCKET NUMBERS
1
Defendant-Adult
Magistrate
2
Defendant-Juvenile
WILBUR CRANE EVELAND III, pro se
3
Appellant
District Court
4
Probation Violator
5
Parole Violator
CHARGE/OFFENSE (describe if applicable & check box -
Felony
Court of Appeals
Misdemeanor
6
Habeas Petitioner
7
Assault, Libel & Slander (nonfeasance
2255 Petitioner
8
Material Witness
and malfeasance)
92
Other (Specify) Rule 65 (b) petitioner
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS REGARDING ABILITY TO PAY
Are you now employed?
Yes
XX
No
Am Self Employed
Name and address of employer:
EMPLOY-
IF YES, how much do you
IF NO, give month and year of last employment
MENT
earn per month? $
How much did you earn per month $
If married is your Spouse employed?
Yes
No
IF YES, how much does your
If a minor under age 21, what is your
Spouse earn per month $
Parents or Guardian's approximate monthly income $
Have you received within the past 12 months any income from a business, profession or other form of self-employment, or in
the form of rent payments, interest, dividends, retirement or annuity payments, or other sources?
Yes
No
OTHER
RECEIVED
SOURCES
ASSETS
INCOME
IF YES, GIVE THE AMOUNT
446.59
Monthly Social Security
RECEIVED & IDENTIFY $ 121.75
Monthly VA Disability
THE SOURCES
CASH
Have you any cash on hand or money in savings or checking accountxx
Yes
No IF YES, state total amount $22.50
Do you own any real estate, stocks, bonds, notes, automobiles, or other valuable property (excluding ordinary
household furnishings and clothing)?
Yes
X
No
PROP-
VALUE
DESCRIPTION
ERTY
IF YES, GIVE VALUE AND $
DESCRIBE IT
MARITAL STATUS
Total
List persons you actually support and your relationship to them
No. of
SINGLE
Dependents
DEPENDENTS
MARRIED
XXI
WIDOWED
0
SEPARATED OR
OBLIGATIONS
DIVORCED
& DEBTS
Creditors
Total Debt
Monthly Paye
DEBTS &
APARTMENT
MONTHLY
OR HOME:
SEE ATTACHED SHEET
$
$
BILLS
$
$
(LIST ALL CREDI-
TORS. INCLUDING
$
$
BANKS, LOAN COM-
PANIES. CHARGE
$
$
ACCOUNTS, ETC.)
I certify the above to be correct.
SIGNATURE OF DEFENDANT
(OR PERSON REPRESENTED)
12/1/88
A FALSE OR DISHONEST ANSWER TO A QUESTION IN THIS AFFIDAVIT MAY BE PUNISHABLE BY FINE
WARNING:
OR IMPRISONMENT, OR BOTH
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
(
)
(
WILBUR CRANE EVELAND III
)
(
)
CIVIL ACTION NO.
(
V.
)
(
)
(
GEORGE P. SHULTZ AND WILLIAM F. WEBSTER
)
(
)
SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING
ORDER, LOCAL RULE 9 (2) AND RULE 65 (b) FRCP
Plaintiff moves the court for consideration by a Miscellaneous
Business Docket Judge of this application to proceed in forma pau-
peris and motion for the issuance of a temporary restraining order
against defendants, personally or acting as Secretary of State and
Director of Central Intelligence under official color, on the ground
that the issues herein relate to a pending grand jury investigation
and a case pending in another jurisdiction. During the 10-day per-
iod of the temporary restraining order, plaintiff will seek cert-
iorari under the Supreme Court's Rules 21 and 46 or, should this
motion be denied, under 28 USC 1253.
Failure to grant the injunctive relief sought would result in
irreparable damage and loss to plaintiff who was diagnosed on Oct-
ober 24, 1988 as a terminal cancer patient (Exhibit A) and has,
since September 23, 1988 been homeless without access to his legal,
personal, and declassified Privacy Act documents. As shown in the
complaint, affidavit, and certificate herein, time and other cir-
cumstances mitigate against giving notice to the defendants.
The matters complained of herein are personal to plaintiff,
dating back to 1942 when he was special agent in charge of counter-
intelligence for the states of Central and South America fronting
on the Caribbean Sea (based in Panama) as well as the 1950-55
period when he moved from an assignment in Iraq as an army attache
to the executive office of the President in charge of Middle East
National Security Council policies when the activities of Nazi war
criminals in Iran and Israel were being investigated. Two reports
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are attached as Exhibits B
and C to illustrate that plaintiff is capable of exposing first
person the history of events which now threaten the national secur-
ity of the United States, Soviet-American relations, the future of
disarmament, the future of the United Nations, and the Middle East
peace process.
For all of these reasons, plaintiff prays the court to re-
confirm its November 11, 1986 decision to allow plaintiff to pro-
ceed in forma pauperis, CA-86-3265-MA; 87-1480 in the First Circuit
Court of Appeals (July 10, 1987) and to issue the temporary re-
straining order sought on an emergency basis.
December 1, 1988
Pro se in forma pauperis
Post Office Box 186
Waverly, MA 02179
(Homeless with no fixed
address or telephone.)
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COMPLAINT
On information and belief, plaintiff charges as follows:
COUNT NO. 1: George P. Shultz, while acting under the color of
law in performing the duties of secretary of state, has ignored the
law that governs the performance of his duties and acted in an arbi-
trary and capricious manner to the detriment of the national secur-
ity of the United States by deceiving the President and Congress
while undermining the capabilities of President-elect Bush to engage
in Middle East peacemaking and disaramament negotiations with the
Soviet Union. (See Hammond V. Hull, et al., 1942, 131 F.2d 23, 76
U.S. App D.C. 301, certiorari denied 63 U.S. S.Ct. 830, 318 U.S. 777,
87 L.Ed. 1145.) Shultz, by personally and arbitrarily refusing to
emulate the governments of France, West Germany, and Britain in
negotiating with Iran for the release of American nationals held
captive in Lebanon and by ignoring senior advisers, including the
assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and per-
sonally refusing the request of the Secretary General of the United
Nations and the overwhelming majority of members of the General
Assembly that Yasser Arafat be granted a U.S. visa, appears confi-
dent that he can retire from office after fulfilling his boast,
quoted by Thomas Dine of the American Israeli Political Action Com-
mittee, that no secretary of state will be able to alter America's
commitments to Israel for at least eight years. These commitments
by Shultz have involved torts against plaintiff personally as will
be described chronologically. They involve the point upon which
Hammond V. Hull turned: the right to appeal fabricated charges of
disloyalty.
COUNT NO. 2: Violation of 42 U.S.C.A Section 1983 in the
State of California. Shultz, also a resident of Cummington, Massa-
chussetts, became a senior executive of Bechtel Group in 1974 at
the time plaintiff was employed by J. Robert Fluor, chief execu-
tive officer of Fluor Corporation -- Bechtel's largest American
competitor -- to become a vice president for Middle East operations
of a Fluor subsidiary with assignment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This
was known to plaintiff's opposite number in Bechtel, Parker T.
Hart, and Hermann F. Eilts, American ambassador to Egypt. Both had
served as ambassadors to Saudi Arabia. Also aware of plaintiff's
assignment was Henry A. Kissinger, a cabinet associate of Shultz's
in the Nixon administration, and Raymond F. Close, chief of the CIA
station in Saudi Arabia. Plaintiff notified Close, a former junior
officer in the Beirut CIA station when plaintiff was posted there
as a principal adviser to Director of Central Intelligence Allen W.
Dulles, of the approval of plaintiff's residence and work permits
for Saudi Arabia and communicated the same information to Hart, a
former government colleague, at a luncheon Hart hosted at the Cosmos
Club in Washington. Kissinger, who later joined Chase Manhattan
Bank as director of international operations, was aware that plain-
tiff had been give leave of absence by J. Robert Fluor, personally,
and Fluor's general counsel to complete litigation he had initiated
in 1971 against Chase Manhattan in the Queen's Bench of the Royal
Courts of Justice of England, as a litigant in person.
After plaintiff's personal effects had been airshipped by Fluor
to Saudi Arabia in January 1975, plaintiff's immediate superior in
Los Angeles indicated that plaintiff's assignment might be can-
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celled but this was overruled by J. Robert Fluor and his general
counsel who approved plaintiff's leave of absence and departure for
London to meet a February 3, 1975 trial date. Despite repeated
subpoenas, Chase Manhattan Bank's London solicitors refused to pro-
duce a key document upon which the trial could have turned but, act-
ing alone in court, plaintiff failed to seek a summary judgement
and the trial continued through March 17, 1975.
Judgement was reserved pending the court's further examination
of nearly 2,000 documents plaintiff had adduced in over three years
of litigation in Singapore, Hong Kong, and London. After arriving
in Beirut on March 21, plaintiff sent for the woman he married on
March 30. On March 25, before her arrival, the local representative
of Fluor's Saudi Arabian partner, Sheikh Ahmed Juffali, delivered
to plaintiff a telex purporting to terminate his position as a
Fluor executive. The only reason given was that plaintiff had used
his Fluor business card to request Middle East Airline's London
representative to facilite the issuance of a Lebanese entry visa.
Also unusal was the verification by plaintiff's hotel that H. Thomas
Lorne, formerly plaintiff's supervisor in Los Angeles, had arrived
at the hotel from Saudi Arabia the same night plaintiff arrived
from London but had failed to request a meeting. Lorne, who re-
tained charge of Fluor's operations in Iran, had used Kermit Roose-
velt, a CIA colleague of plaintiff's in the mid-1950s, as a con-
sultant. in dealing with the shah's family.
Unlike in the case of Ogden H. Hammer who sued Secretary of
State Cordell Hull over the right to appeal accusations of dis-
loyalty in Hammond V. Hull, plaintiff did not become aware until
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September 8, 1983 (eight years after his termination by Fluor) of
fabricated charges in the files of the CIA and FBI alleging that
plaintiff had in November 1961 passed to British double agent H. A.
R. "Kim" Philby confidential files of Vinnell Corporation, a Cal-
ifornia engineering and construction firm for whom plaintiff was
a vice president for petroleum-related operations worldwide. This
document was released to plaintiff by the CIA six years, three months
and five days after plaintiff's March 17, 1977 appeal of the denial
of Privacy Act documents.
As the CIA has known since September 9, 1983, plaintiff was not
in Italy when this disclosure of information purportedly took place
in Rome. Also, until Philby was induced by British intelligence to
defect to Russia on January 23, 1963, the CIA believed that Philby
was an agent of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6)
operating under journalistic cover. More important, the CIA memo-
randum making this allegation was dated May 30, 1975 when plaintiff
was incarcerated in Singapore's maximum security Changi prison as
a result of his having gone to Singapore to sue Chase Manhattan
Bank, using documents acquired in discovery, after Fluor had pur-
ported to terminate plaintiff's position as a vice president. This
and other relevant documents are exhibits in CA-86-3265-MA filed
in this court on October 31, 1986 and in 87-1480 in the First
Circuit Court of Appeals. Obviously, had plaintiff been allowed
to take up his position with Fluor in Riyadh he would have waited
there until the judgement in the Queen's Bench of the Royal Courts
of Justice was handed down sometime in April 1975. and then de-
cided whether to appeal an adverse judgement in London.
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Plaintiff charges that Shultz, acting in concert with Henry A.
Kissinger, used his position with Bechtel to procure plaintiff's
dismissal by Fluor, just as Shultz has since becoming secretary of
state used Bechtel Corporation as an instrument of foreign policy.
To enable the court to appreciate the terrorism to which plain-
tiff was subjected in Singapore between April 30 and July 13, 1975,
two exhibits are submitted herewith: Exhibit D, a letter from plain-
tiff's legal adviser in London, Robert A. Albert, shows that the
possibility of plaintiff ever leaving Singapore was in doubt and
that his dismissal by Fluor was a result of continuing with the
London trial. (On March 20, 1984, plaintiff was approached at the
J. W. Marriott Hotel in Washington by Eleazer A. Williams, who had
been the CIA's chief of station in Singapore during plaintiff's in-
carceration in 1975, and told that the American embassy had been
powerless to provide assistance because the specialbranch of the
Singapore police and its army intelligence were controlled by the
intelligence services of Israel; a fact obviously known to then-
Secretary of State Kissinger and possibly Shultz. The price of
plaintiff's departure from Singapore was leaving all of his docu-
ments adduced in evidence behind; since 1976, the State Depart-
ment has refused requests to facilitate their recovery.)
Exhibit E is an appraisal by the Canadian affiliate of the
Los Angleles international appraisal firm of Marshall & Stevens
which was entered in evidence in the Queen's Bench. It shows that
plaintiff's shares in his Singapore company were set at $675,000.00
as of February 15, 1971 when Chase Manhattan created an illegal
receivership to take over plaintiff's Southeast Asia oilfield
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operations. This does not include the value of plaintiff's Hong
Kong company, which he owned exclusively, or the loss of stock op-
tions, bonuses, and retirement to which plaintiff would have been
entitled at age 65 (a982) had his employment not been terminated
and all of his personal effects left in Saudi Arabia.
COUNT NO. 3: Plaintiff charges that these things were known to
Shultz when he became secretary of State in August 1982 but that he
did not reveal them to President Reagan, Vice President Bush, or
William P. Clark, then assistant to the President for National Sec-
urity Affairs, although they were known to Henry Kissinger. Exhibit
F is a CIA memorandum dated January 7, 1977 which plaintiff received
in further response to his March 17, 1977 Privacy Act appeal on July
2, 1986. It deals with Vinnell Corporation and was written at the
time George Bush was director of Central Intelligence. The same
allegations of plaintiff's treason appear in the only uncensored
paragraph but the contents of the memorandum have been revealed as
a result of plaintiff's contacts with former Vinnell executives
who were induced to sell the shares in the company they acquired
after the death of the company's founder in 1969, the year plain-
tiffarrived in Singapore to start his Southeast Asia oilfield op-
erations. At that time, Vinnell was implementing government con-
tracts in Vietnam. Taiwan, and on Quemoy and Matsu.
Between 1969 and 1975, U.S. intelligence agencies acquired the
shares of Vinnell Corporation and used it for operations in
Southeast Asia and, by 1975, in Saudi Arabia. During the tenures
of CIA directors Colby and Bush, Henry Kissinger used his own back-
channel communications with the National Security Council and did
not include the CIA's directors in the distribution of sensitive
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communications. In fact, it was a member of the Navy's Task Force
157, Kissinger's backchannel communications link, placed on plain-
tiff's Singapore company's board by a Chase Manhattan affiliate,
who facilitated the takeover of plaintiff's company. This man,
Robert Bruce Sheeks, was still present in Singapore (despite a pay-
ment of $10,000 plaintiff had made for his repatriation in 1971) in
1975 when plaintiff was incarcerated, deprived of his passport, and
expelled from the American embassy.
When plaintiff was terminated by Fluor in March 1975, Vinnell
Corporation was mobilizing its contract to train the Saudi National
Guard. By April 24, 1980, Richard V. Secord used Vinnell's con-
tract in Oman to direct the abortive hostage rescue operation called
Desert-One which produced the only eight Americans killed in action
during the Carter administration. Albert Hakim, with whom Secord
became affiliated in Stanford Technology, Inc. of Los Gatos, Cal-
fornia and later Vienna, Virginia, was waiting in Tehran to facili-
tate the rescue of the 52 American hostages in the event Desert-
One had not been aborted.
These things are cited not only because they adversely affected
plaintiff but to illustrate that President Reagan inherited one of
the "private, off-the-shelf, self-supporting enterprises" used in
Iran-contra and that Shultz, if not directly, through Kissinger was
aware of this at all material times as secretary of state. Because
Secord and Hakim worked in collaboration with the Israelis in Iran,
and Lt. Col. Oliver L. North was aware of this, it seems certain
that this accounts for the inability of Shultz to oppose Israeli
government policies at the risk of personal exposure. This inclu-
des his most recent ruling denying a visa to Yasser Arafat.
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12/4/89
THE WASHING
Americans Not Target of PLO Faction
State Dept. 'Fact Sheet' Contradicts Shultz's Statement on Arafat
By David B. Ottaway
responsible for at least 15 terrorist
three were Mossad agents. In re-
Washington Post Staff Writer
attacks since 1985," it said.
latiation, Israel carried out a spec-
Many of those attacks involved
tacular bombing attack on PLO
A new State Department "fact
bombings in public places or assas-
headquarters in Tunis on Oct. 1.
sheet" on the terrorist activities of
sination of Israelis. The general
The fact sheet also says Force 17
Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the
State Department definition of ter-
has been "instrumental" in assas-
Palestine Liberation Organization
rorism is all acts of violence aimed at
sinating other Palestinians opposed
(PLO) shows it has been actively
innocent civilians wherever they are.
to Arafat's leadership, including Ali
engaged in attacking Israeli targets,
The PLO, even after renouncing
Naji Awad Adhami, a cartoonist
but-so far-no American ones.
terrorism in its Cairo declaration,
killed in London in July 1987.
Secretary of State George P.
has always regarded activities car-
Another fact sheet on terrorist
Shultz said his Nov. 26 decision to
ried out inside Israel or the Israeli-
groups released Oct. 31 by the
deny a visa for Arafat to address
occupied territories as acts of "na-
counter-terrorism office dealt with
the United Nations in New York
tional liberation" rather than ter-
the Hawari Group, the special oper-
was based largely on "convincing
rorism.
ations group of Fatah's central se-
evidence" that the PLO had en-
In addition, Force 17 and other
curity and intelligence apparatus. It
gaged in "terrorism against Amer-
PLO groups have long engaged in a
is led by Abdallah and Hawari.
icans and others."
tit-for-tat war outside Israel against
Most of its activites since 1985
The evidence, according to a
agents of Israel's secret intelligence
have been aimed at Syrian and Lib-
State Department statement issued
service, Mossad.
yan targets in Western Europe,
that day, included operations by
Force 17's most sensational at-
such as airline offices and diplo-
Fatah's Force 17 security organ-
tack outside Israel was the killing of
mats. But the group's agents were
ization and a Fatah group led by
three Israelis aboard a yacht in the
involved in at least two attacks on
al-Hamid Labib, also known as Col.
harbor in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Sept.
American airline carriers, according
Hawari. Those operations were un-
25, 1985. PLO officials said the
to the State Department.
dertaken, the statement said, fol-
lowing the PLO's 1985 declaration
in Cairo forswearing terrorism.
The latest fact sheet prepared by
the department's counter-terrorism
bureau, but not formally released,
details the history and activities of
Force 17, which is led by Mahmud
Ahmad al-Natur, alias Abu Tayib,
and widely regarded as Arafat's
personal security service. A copy of
the document was obtained by The
Washington Post.
The document makes clear that
Force 17's main energies have been
directed at carrying out terrorist
activities in Israel and the Israeli-
occupied West Bank and covert op-
erations against enemies of Fatah's
leadership.
Of 22 incidents listed between
June 1985 and March 1988, none
involved American citizens, accord-
ing to the fact sheet.
"Force 17 has concentrated its
attacks on Israeli targets in Israel
and the occupied territories where
the group is believed to have been
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1988 A21
Safeguarding Secrets-and More
Intelligence Units Take Hard Line Against Disclosure in North Case
By George Lardner Jr.
fect all the counts in the indictment
week in secret hearings before Ge-
Washington Post Staff Writer
against North-cannot be officially
sell under the Classified Informa-
acknowledged.
The CIA, the NSA and the rest in
tion Procedures Act. The sessions,
Ilopango airfield in El Salvador,
the alphabet soup of the U.S. intel-
which will resume Tuesday, are de-
where the contra supply network's
ligence community have been tak-
voted exclusively to the excisions in
ing a hard line against the disclo-
planes were based, is one example.
the 350 classified documents, cov-
Government censors are still excis-
sure of secrets-from the most ur-
ering about 3,000 pages, that the
ing it from documents as if it were
gent to the seemingly trivial-as
prosecution wants to use in press-
still a genuine secret. Another is
the Iran-contra scandal winds its
ing 14 felony counts against North.
the identity of countries that were
way through the U.S. Courthouse
The former White House aide is
here.
solicited for aid to the Nicaraguan
also proposing disclosure of another
rebels, such as China and Saudi
Recent court filings in the case
3,500 documents, covering 40,000
against former White House aide
Arabia. Still another, perhaps
pages, as needed for his defense,
Oliver L. North have opened a win-
known only to Iran-contra aficiona-
but Walsh has attacked that as an
dow on the murky process, showing
dos, is Mohammed Kangarlou, chief
attempt to "graymail" the govern-
an elaborate effort to protect not
deputy in the Iranian prime minis-
ment into dropping the case. The
only information that could endan-
ter's office who served as the "first
judge has yet to deal with that head-
ger lives, but also widely known
channel" in the administration's se-
ache.
details that became part of the pub-
cret arm sales to Iran.
In his memo to Gesell Tuesday,
lic glossary during last year's tele-
In a memo to Gesell last Tues-
Walsh listed 10 categories of infor-
vised congressional hearings.
day, Walsh emphasized that he had
mation that has been censored from
For the intelligence agencies,
"deferred to the determination of
his exhibits by an interagency task
turmoil set in last July when North
the agencies and departments as to
force of the intelligence agencies.
filed his "second supplemental" dis-
whether disclosure of any informa-
They presumably include the five
covery request under seal to U.S.
tion reasonably could be expected
that Gesell was told in July were es-
District Court Judge Gerhard A.
to cause damage to the national se-
pecially important.
Gesell.
curity." He added that he was pre-
But the list also includes what
In it, sources say, North de-
pared to prove the government's
White House spokesman Marlin
manded almost every high-level
case without it.
Fitzwater conceded Thursday are
secret in the government's store-
Walsh said he is prepared to ne-
"minor categories."
house since 1984. Many of them
gotiate further with the agencies if
Sources familiar with the case
dealt with operations still in prog-
Gesell should rule that some or all
doubt that the intelligence agencies
ress.
of what North wants is essential for
would force dismissal of the case by
Independent counsel Lawrence
his defense. But the special pros-
refusing to consent to disclosure of
E. Walsh informed the court of the
ecutor warned, as did the White
details already publicly known. But
intelligence community's over-
House last week, that there are
Walsh has said that they will rec-
whelmingly negative reaction in a
"certain categories of informa-
ommend against disclosure of the
special report on July 20, and it was
tion-some of it deleted from the
crucial categories even if Gesell
discussed in veiled terms at a hear-
prosecution's exhibits, some of it
holds such material essential for a
ing seven days later. It amounted to
contained in other papers that
fair trial. So far, the agencies are
a broad-brush denial of the docu-
North has demanded-that can
maintaining a hard line on all fronts.
ments North wanted to to defend
never be publicly disclosed
The Justice Department has the
himself, especially against the cen-
North has taken the position that
last word. If the attorney general
tral charges of conspiracy and theft
he should be allowed to explore oth-
refuses to release information the
of government property.
er U.S. covert operations to show
court rules is material and relevant,
The records that North hopes to
how they were funded, who knew
then Gesell can order dismissal of
use to blunt those key charges are
about them, and what his involve-
the entire indictment or certain
the most sensitive, sources said.
ment was. Intelligence agencies
counts in it; strike or preclude a
They reportedly include the secret
blanched when he asked for "any
particular witness' testimony, or
-Israeli
counterterrorism
and all" records about them.
simply rule against the prosecution
agreement under which Amiram
"There are certain areas where
on any of the issues underlying the
Nir who died in a plane crash in
they [the heads of the intelligence
contested secrets.
Mexico Wednesday said he and
agencies] say the price is too high,
It seems likely, however, that
North supervised secret operations
that Col. North has found a price
some sort of trial will take place. The
in 1985-86. Few details of these
they can't pay," Walsh told Gesell at
charges most in jeopardy, as Gesell
operations have been disclosed.
the July 27 hearing where the prob-
has repeatedly suggested, are the
But the bulk of the classified in-
lem was first discussed.
conspiracy and theft of government
formation being withheld, sources
Walsh, sources said, tried to get
property counts against North con-
said, concerns the names of coun-
Central Intelligence Agency Direc-
cerning his role in diverting profits
tries, the identities of U.S. and for-
tor William H. Webster, an old.
to aid the contras from arms ship-
eign officials, and other items that
friend, to ease up on some of the Sea
ments to Iran and other unauthorized
amount to "diplomatic niceties."
crecy at a meeting last July but got
activities. Thus far, the judge has
Administration officials continue to
nowhere
shown no inclination to dismiss any
insist that these details-which af-
The issue was finally joined last
of the 12 other counts.
THE WASHINGTON POST
U.S.-Israeli Accord 12/4/88
Said to Authorize
North-Nir Operations
Ex-Official Made Disclosure Before Death
By Bob Woodward
and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Amiram Nir, the former Israeli
official who died in a Mexican plane
crash Wednesday, said last June
that a confidential Israeli-American
agreement authorized still-secret
counterterrorist operations that he
and Lt. Col. Oliver L. North super-
vised in 1985-86.
American and Israeli sources
confirmed that there was an Israeli-
American agreement, referred to
as "terms of reference" or "accords"
by some knowledgable sources. Its
existence has never been disclosed
to Congress, according to American
sources familiar with it.
A White House spokesman said
AMIRAM NIR
yesterday the Reagan administra-
said he was kept on "short leash"
tion would have no comment on the
agreement or any operations that
the Israeli government has detailed
may have been conducted under it.
records of all of them.
Yossi Gal, spokesman for the Is-
One operation conducted under
raeli embassy, said, "I won't go into
the agreement was the organizing
this agreement
Israel and the
of an armed force of Lebanese
United States have lots of agree-
Druze in Beirut in May, 1986, at a
ments
We have never main-
time when the White House was
tained that Nir was operating on his
considering the use of force to try
own or as a renegade
Every-
to free American hostages.
thing he did was being done by the
Disclosure of the agreement adds
government of Israel."
yet another layer to the mysteries
Nir disclosed the existence of an
surrounding the Iran-contra affair.
agreement during interviews in
As described by Nir, the agreement
London last June. He maintained
led to a series of covert actions that
that secret U.S.-Israeli covert op-
had common tactical elements. The
erations were authorized by Pres-
now-famous secret transactions
ident Reagan and then-Israeli Prime
that produced unauthorized aid for
Minister Shimon Peres under the
the Nicaraguan contras from the
accords: Few details of these oper-
profits of arms sales to Iran may
ations have been disclosed. Ni said
See NIR. A16, Col. 1
Survivor of crash that killed Nir reportedly used assumed name. A14
A16 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1988
THE WASHINGTON POST
Nir Described Still Secret U.S.-Israeli Accord
Washington Post editors con-
With Iranian middleman Manu-
NIR, From A1
cluded that Nir's death Wednesday
cher Ghorbanifar, Nir arranged for
removed the reasons for the agree-
have fit a pattern established in
ment to withold attribution to Nir of
Iranian help in freeing the Rev.
those other secret undertakings.
Lawrence C. Jenco, an American
the information he provided in June.
And, like the arms-for-hostages
In a telephone interview on Friday,
hostage held by Lebanese extrem-
dealings with Iran, these other se-
ists. Jenco was released in July
Nir's widow, Judy, said she knew
cret operations were apparently
1986 based on Ghorbanifar's prom-
that her husband was talking to
hidden from Congress.
ise that the United States would
Woodward, but she had "no idea"
References were made to the
why he was doing it. At the time of
subsequently ship arms to Tehran.
North-Nir "off-the-books" opera-
Nir called Ghorbanifar "a tool, no
his death he was not prepared to
tions during the congressional Iran-
matter whose tool," adding that he
tell his story publicly, she said.
contra investigation, but Nir's as-
was told by an important figure in
Nir was a central figure in many
sertion that they were carried out
the affair that "imperfect tools must
aspects of the Iran-contra affair:
under an agreement was the first
be used for imperfect ends."
He was cited by North as the
indication that he and North, who
On July 29, 1986, within days af-
originator (in November 1985) of
has since retired from the military,
ter Jenco was released, Nir briefed
the idea of generating profits from
claimed top-level governmental au-
Vice President Bush and his chief of
arms sales to Iran to fund other co-
thorization for their activities.
staff, Craig L. Fuller, in Israel on
vert projects-the idea North used
Nir was interviewed by reporter
later to divert support to the Ni-
the need to respond to the release
Bob Woodward for 13 hours last
caraguan rebels. In January 1986,
by shipping arms to Iran.
June 25 and 26 in London. He dis-
Like the other Israeli participants
North and Nir discussed using $2.5
cussed some of his activities with
in the affair, Nir was barred by his
million from the first direct sale of
the understanding that these were
U.S. arms to Iran for their joint co-
government from answering ques-
preliminary and "private" conver-
tions from the U.S. Justice Depart-
vert operations, according to an
sations. He said he expected to tell
entry in North's notebook made
ment, independent counsel Law-
his story publicly later, and said he
rence E. Walsh and congressional
public by the congressional Iran-
was debating how best to do it-in
contra committees. When details of
investigators. Nir was interviewed
a television interview, for a news-
the Iran-contra operation were
during an Israeli investigation and
paper or some other way. Wood-
about to be disclosed in November
information he provided was includ-
ward and Nir agreed that the infor-
1986, Nir refused North's request
ed in reports Israel filed with the
mation Nir provided was not to be
House-Senate Iran-contra commit-
that he take the blame for the di-
attributed to him without further
tees and Walsh.
version of profits to the contras,
discussions.
Nir said in the interview that Is-
according to North's notebooks. Nir
In those interviews, Nir said re-
said in the June interview: "I like
rael carefully restricted the infor-
peatedly that half or less of the sto-
mation that was provided to U.S. in-
Ollie. He was under great pressure.
ry of the secret arms transactions
To mix the Iran operation and the
vestigators of the Iran-contra affair,
with Iran was publicly known. He
contras was stupid, stupid, stupid."
assigning a former senior Israeli of-
refused to elaborate.
Nir represented Israel in nego-
ficial who had been inspector gen-
Throughout the summer Nir did
tiations with U.S. and Iranian rep-
eral of the Israeli armed forces, re-
not return numerous phone calls to
resentatives that led to three ship-
serve Gen. Raphael Vardi, to re-
his home in Israel. The Post pre-
ments of U.S. arms to Iran in 1986.
view the Israeli documents. Two
pared a story on the secret U.S.-Is-
He accompanied former national
limited chronologies, one financial
raeli agreement, but editors decid-
security adviser Robert C. (Bud)
and the other historical, were given
ed not to print the story in hopes of
McFarlane and North on their se-
to the United States. By sticking to
getting a fuller account later from
cret mission to Tehran in May
dates and the most general descrip-
Nir or other U.S. or Israeli sources.
1986. Nir said in the June interview
tions of planned agenda items for
In a subsequent telephone con-
that McFarlane failed to improvise
meetings, the Israelis conveyed
versation Oct. 10, Nir said he was
and take advantage of the meetings,
very little of substance to the Unit-
not ready to "go public," citing the
that "fully 50 percent of [this trip] is
ed States, Nir said.
damage publicity might do to his
not known," and that he had exten-
Nir said Israel has assembled ex-
business activities. But he said he
sive notes on this and other aspects
tensive records not turned over to
would be willing to meet again in
of the secret initiative.
the U.S., based in part on his de-
London sometime in the future, and
Nir and North planned and car-
tailed notes and papers. They pro-
held out the possibility that he
ried. out at least two secret joint op-
vided point-by-point documentation
would provide important revela-
erations outside normal intelligence
of all contacts, discussions and un-
tions about U.S. officials.
channels. These were "only part" of
dertakings with U.S. officials, in-
their covert activities. Nir said,
cluding North, Nir said.
"There is much more."
Nir said he also provided full
these joint operations financed by
written reports to his superiors and
Iranian arms sales were authorized
gave oral briefings to Shimon
by the secret U.S.-Israeli counter-
Peres, the Israeli prime minister
terrorism agreement, and so were
who hired him as counterterrorist
legal. North's lawyers have said
adviser, and later to Peres' succes-
they want to introduce still-secret
sor, Yitzak Shamir. Nir said he was
material in his defense; this agree-
"on a short leash."
ment is one of the secrets they
At the time North and Nir joined
want to use, according to an in-
forces in 1985, the former military
formed source. North's lawyer,
correspondent for Israeli television
Brendan V. Sullivan Jr., declined
was the newly appointed counterter-
comment.
rorist adviser to Peres. North was a
Nir and North's counterterrorist
member of the staff of the National
operations were mentioned in rec-
Security Council and was responsible
ords released in the Iran-contra in-
for coordinating counterterrorist
vestigations. They show Reagan and
activities for the White House.
Peres were aware of covert counter-
Informed sources said the secret
terrorist plans and operations being
agreement that Nir said authorized
arranged by North and Nir.
the Nir-North undertakings was
For example, a Sept. 15, 1986,
signed by high-level officials for
memo from North to then-national
both governments. Nir said he
security adviser John M. Poindexter
OLIVER L. NORTH
drafted the agreement and that it
shows that Reagan was informed of
said to endure "great pressure"
was formalized in an exchange of
some of these plans.
letters between Reagan and Peres.
Poindexter was set to meet with
1985 authorizing antiterrorist op-
Other sources involved in counter-
Nir for 10 minutes before an up-
erations and stipulating that any
terrorist operations for the two
coming meeting between Peres and
actions taken under those orders in
Reagan. "Purpose of this meeting is
countries said the agreement was
"good faith" would be "deemed" le-
to debrief Nir on his meeting with
signed at a lower level.
gal-language several officials in-
Peres over the weekend," North
Whatever form it took, the
terpreted as a "license to kill."
told Poindexter. After that session
agreement is an important missing
Under longstanding executive
with Nir, "You will then be able to
piece in the history of secret White
orders, it is illegal for American
brief the President on Peres' views
House operations in President Rea-
intelligence operatives to engage in
North told his bose.
gan's second term.
any activity that could lead to as-
The same memo shows Reagan
U.S. government sources said
sassinations, but those intelligence
was briefed for a scheduled meeting
the agreement originally was nego-
findings signed by Reagan seemed
with Peres the next day at which
tiated by the State Department and
to at least some officials to create a
bilateral counterterrorist efforts
the Israeli foreign ministry to per-
legal loophole to circumvent that
were high on the agenda. The memo
mit the exchange of sensitive infor-
prohibition.
was heavily censored in the Iran-
mation between U.S. and Israeli
One of several versions of the
See NIR, A17, Col. 1
government counterterrorism ex-
"license-to-kill" finding was signed
perts. These sources said Nir and
by Reagan on Aug. 11, 1985, at
North in their activities clearly
about the time that Nir said he was
went beyond this intent, at least as
drafting the secret American-Israeli
understood by senior State Depart-
agreement on counterterrorism.
The same senior American
ment officials.
The agreement is formally spelled
source said that because Congress
out in its "terms of reference," which
was never told of this secret anti-
terrorism agreement with Israel, it
officials said included vague language
appeared to be a new case of failure
and statements that are subject to
by the administration to give the
different interpretations.
legally required notification to Con-
One senior U.S. source said the
gress of a covert intelligence activ-
American-Israeli agreement ap-
ity. The Iran-contra investigations
peared to be connected to earlier
showed that the administration also
authorizations or "findings" for co-
failed to notify congressional over-
vert intelligence operations signed
sight committees about the 1985-
by Reagan, which authorized ag-
86 secret sales of U.S. arms to Iran.
gressive antiterrorist actions. The
North faces criminal charges that
Post reported in October that Rea-
he conspired to divert U.S. govern-
gan signed findings in 1984 and
ment funds for unauthorized activ-
ities based on his use of the pro-
ceeds of arms sales to Iran. Nir said
in the interview that he expected
North to maintain at his trial that
A14 SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1988
THE WASHINGTON POST
Survivor of Mexican Crash Reportedly Used Alia
Focus of Attention in Mystery Surrounding Israeli Shifts to Secretive Canadian Woma
However, some details of her
At Stanton's hospital room today,
By William Branigin
account have been contradicted by
a young woman who answered the
Washington Post Foreign Service
Mexican officials, making it likely
door initially said that Cruchet was
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3-The
that she will be investigated by po-
in the room and went to get. him.
focus of attention in the mysterious
lice when she is medically fit to an-
But an Argentine woman who
case of Amiram Nir Nisker, the Is-
swer questions.
emerged a few minutes later, quick-
raeli arms dealer and Iran-contra
According to the Mexico City dai-
ly shutting the door behind her, said
middleman who died in a plane
ly La Jornada, Stanton registered
Cruchet was not present and denied
crash Wednesday in rural Mexico,
under the name of "Ester Arriaga"
knowing any such person.
shifted here today to the activities
for the flight, which was chartered
For the past two days, Stanton's
of a secretive Canadian woman who
by Nir using the alias "Pat Weber."
hospital room has been virtually
was badly injured in the crash.
Two Mexican officials in Micho-
guarded by several persons who
The woman, identified as Adriana
acan state have said Stanton was
have identified themselves as her
Stanton, 25, is recovering from her
serving as a secretary or "guide" for
"friends" but refused to give their
injuries in a Mexico City hospital,
Nir during his unexplained visit to
names or provide any information
where Canadian authorities that say
Uruapan.
that might clear up the mystery
she is in "critical but stable condi-
According to his passport, Nir
surrounding the case.
tion."
received a visa from the Mexican
One of Stanton's unidentified
According to a Mexican newspa-
Embassy in London on Nov. 25 and
companions, the Argentine woman
per, Stanton, like Nir, was traveling
arrived in Mexico City two days
who claims she is in Mexico as a
under an assumed name on the ill-
later. Mexican authorities say he
"tourist," asserted yesterday and
fated flight.
flew to Uruapan the following day,
today that Stanton's trip on the
Stanton was one of four persons,
Nov. 28, and stayed there with un-
Taxi Aereo de Uruapan charter
including the pilot, on board the
identified "friends" to carry out
plane with Nir had been a "pure co-
Cessna six-seater plane that went
some as yet unspecified "business"
incidence" and that she had had no
down Wednesday on a ranch south
dealings.
connection with the Israeli.
of Ciudad Hidalgo in the central
When the Michoacan state attor-
However, when asked how this
Mexican state of Michoacan, about
ney general's office issued a state-
assertion could be reconciled with
110 miles west of Mexico City.
ment on the plane crash Thursday,
the fact that the flight was not
The plane, apparently chartered
the injured woman was identified as
scheduled but apparently had been
by Nir under an assumed name, was
Ester Arriaga, 23. No mention was
chartered by Nir, the Argentine
en route from the Michoacan town
made of Adriana Stanton in that
woman would not answer, nor
of Uruapan to Mexico City when it
initial statement.
would she comment on what Stan-
developed engine trouble. The pilot
According to Anselmo Esparza
ton was doing in Uruapan.
attempted an emergency landing,
Verduzco, an official in the public
Mexican officials said.
prosecutor's office in Ciudad Hidal-
Nir and a Mexican passenger,
go, the body of Nir was initially
Pedro Espinoza Hurtado, were
identified and recovered Pedro
killed instantly when the plane
Cruchet, an Argentine citizen re-
smashed into the ground, while
siding in Uruapan.
Stanton and pilot Guillermo Cua-
honte, 28, survived with serious
head and bodily injuries.
Since being transfered to a Mex-
ico City hospital, Stanton and an
unidentified friend who has been
staying with her have told reporters
that she did not know Nir and that
her presence on the flight with him
was coincidental.
Nir Reportedly in Mexico to Buy Avocados
Associated Press
they could not explain why he ap-
Arriaga said police obtained in-
parently decided to travel under an
formation about Nir's visit from
URUAPAN, Mexico, Dec. 4-
assumed name.
Pedro Curchet, the local agent for
Amiram Nir, the Israeli go-between
Jose Luis Arriaga, a Federal Ju-
Eupasa, which he said employs
in secret U.S. arms deals with Iran
dicial Police commander in
about 50 people in an avocado-pack-
who died in a plane crash last week,
Uruapan, said Nir spent three days
ing operation in Uruapan.
told people he was in Mexico to buy
at the best hotel in town and dis-
Curchet identified Nir's body in
avocados, police said.
cussed avocado prices with a
the wreckage of the Aerotaxis of
Federal authorities continued
French-owned exporter. Nir was
Uruapan Cessna T-210 that went
today to investigate the light-plane
traveling on a visa issued Nov. 25 in
down Wednesday in the mountains
crash and Nir's visit to Uruapan, an
London.
outside Ciudad Hidalgo, about 110
out-of-the-way city in the western
"He came to solicit prices for av-
miles west of Mexico City.
mountains of Michoacan state
ocados," Arriaga said, adding that
Curchet was one of a party of
famed for its avocados and notori-
he did not know if Nir was acting as
about eight people from Argentina
ous for its drug trafficking.
an independent buyer or as an
who had been staying at the hillside
Nir, 37, was a counterterrorism
agent for an importer abroad.
hotel since September but left
adviser to Israeli prime pinister Shi-
He said Nir had planned to return
Thursday or Friday.
mon Peres and his successor, Yitz-
to Uruapan in a week, possibly to
Hotel personnel and police who
hak Shamir. He was a central figure
close a deal with the exporter Eu-
interviewed Curchet said the visit
in many aspects of the Iran-contra
pasa, a local subsidiary of Lucal
was Nir's first. Curchet could not
affair that grew out of the secret
France, a fruit-and-vegetable im-
be located for comment, and the
U.S. arms sales to Iran and the sub-
porter based in France.
offices of Eupasa in Uruapan were
sequent diversion of some sales
When Nir left Uruapan on a char-
closed today.
profits to the U.S.-backed Ni-
ter flight, he registered under an
Israeli Embassy officials and
caraguan contra rebels.
assumed name, Pat Weber. How-
friends of Nir in Israel have said Nir
Police here said they have no ev-
ever, Arriaga said, Nir used his own
was in Mexico on a business trip but
idence that Nir's visit to Uruapan
name at the hotel he stayed at in
would not reveal the nature of the
involved anything but avocados. But
Uruapan.
visit.
July 31st, 1980
Dear Bill,
I hope by now you have received an Iareli envelope containing
four rather long clippings in a curious semittic language. Well, these were
the four installments published so far in Maariv, translated (not by me,
though) from your book. A good friend who read them all told me recently: "this
is an eye opener So there you are. Afifth and last installment shall be
published within few weeks. or coursee I'll send you a copy.
Now you cannot imagine how happy you have made me with the
exhilirating news about chances to have the Hoover Institute publish my
fathers diaries. I remember this importnat institute from my days back at he
Russian Institute at Columbia University, where several heavy volumes full of
fascunating documents all relating to the Russian Revolution had the name "Hoover
Institute" clearly rinted on them. In my mind I do not see a more appropriate
publisher of the condensed diary that this place. Now that I agree, all that is L
left is for the other party to consent
I have so far have not heard from Charles Palm, though perhals it
is too early. However, meanwhile a rather important event had occurred, namely,
the forboding booklet "Israel's Sacred Terror" by Livia Rokach (a former Israeli
journalist; daughter of an Israeli Minister for the Interior who also setved
under my father; shoo became a vigorous anti-Zionist; presented in the above
mentioned booklet as "an Italian writer & journakist of Palestinian origin") has
been published in the USA by the AAUG organization in spite of warnings from
"our
(including myself) that this publication involves breach of copyright
laws.
Now I got this booklet yesterday. It is very well written I even ABT
agree with most of its contents. I am convinced though, that the publishers just
stole poqts of my old man's diary and that they should by rtghtly persecuted (I
a
am now looking for the right layer who specializes in these matters; only
if he insists that no copyright laws have been broken, 2 shall let go).
But all this is beyond the point. What is important from publishing the
as fum
condensed volume is concerned is that now we have on our hands quite a
stunning booklet, containig the most provocative elements in my fathers diar
well translated into Ebglish. What's more, the very xistance of the booklet
by Rokacn as well as her comment on the value of the diary should office to
entice any seriousé publisher, especially an academic one, to fight over
rights of publishing the source material on which such a booklet is built.
Again, 1 have been playin chess with myself, but wht I do dare sugge.
here is that you get hold of the booklet ( I understand it can be purchased
for $4.50 from National Association of Arab Americans, 1825 Connecticut Ave,,
N.W. Wasmington D.C. 20009), and then pass it on to Charless Palm and see wh.
he thinks afterwards.
1 was happy to note you were accorded visiting scholar status at Hoov
for the purpose of writing your next book on Iran. Surely you are aware of
the intricate relations which evolved betweem us & the Shah regime. 1 do hot
know now you want to handke this subject in your book and how much length yo
fell you have to give it. Howeveré I would be nappy to nelp. Some OI my
best friends served in Iran (including our las Ambassador Uri Lubrani). I
myself spent a whole year in Teheran (1970) thank to my wife the choreograph
who was invited over there to be the main teacher of lram's national school
for folklore in Teneran Indeed, if the dream of publishing my fatners diary
by H.I. comes true, it might be a great idea if I could manage to come there
for clinching matters and then we could meet and discuss your book plan too.
Moreover, at the back of my head 1 have alittle flame of am idea to
t
a book on tha Sinai campaign 01 1956, detarting especially the Israeli
story which has nevr been tola truely, Pernaps, tne HELD 55 is the rignt place
to sponsor such an effort. 1 would love to spenT there several months on th
project. Please give'a little thought to this idea and let me have your
judgement of it.
Sincerely,
taska
Former CIA agent running
covert campaign for Bush
Author sees Republican candidate as spy agency's savior
such a view could cause problems
By Miguel Acoca
international game' as it is present-
for the Bush campaign, but he em-
ly developing without covert opera-
SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER
phasized that the group believed
tions, and that the 'new CLA' we
FEB 29 1988
WASHINGTON - A former CIA
U.S. support for Israel's integrity
propose will be ineffective without
291988
officer who is highly critical of the
should continue.
a president the American people
way the Reagan administration has
Documents released by the con-
will trust."
run covert operations is quietly pro-
gressional Iran-contra probe indi-
He said: "To most of us this
moting the presidential candidacy
cate that Bush always was wary of
means George Bush."
of Vice President Bush as the man
Israel's role in the secret weapons
Copeland, both in the interview
capable of renovating the belea-
sales.
and in the paper, was highly critical
guered spy agency
Other intelligence sources said
of Reagan's and Casey's support for
The former CLA operative is MI-
that some former CIA officers
the Nicaraguan rebels and for seek-
les: Copeland, a covert-operations
working behind the scenes to pro-
ing military solutions to politica!
practitioner who served in the CIA
mote Bush included Archibeld Roo-
problems with Third World govern-
in the 1950s as link to Gamal Abdel
sevell, who worked with Copeland
ments hostile to U.S. policies.
Nasser, the anti-Israeli Egyptian na
in the Middle East during the tury
He advocated reducing the influ-
tionalist leader. Copeland also won
bulent 1950s.
ence within the CIA of paramilitary
a degree of fame in the 1960s as the
The sources said that Roosevelt
operators from the Vietnam War
author of "The Game of Nations,"
had discussed Copeland's ideas for
era and concentrating on develop-
book based on his experiences.
a "new CLA with-Bush. Copeland
ing a group of regional experts with
He says he and other retired CLA
declined to discuss Roosevelt's in-
skills in language and history.
P
officers support Bush, who was CIA
volvement, and he would not name
Copeland said the problem with
n
director in 1976-77.
others in his group.
Last summer, Copeland sent oth-
Copeland is proposing to change
er retired intelligence operators
the nature of covert operations,
paper calling for a radical change
switching from an emphasis on
Reader's Note: Copeland was
in the way eovert operations are
arming and supporting guerrilla
run. The Examiner has obtained a
the author of the article in
factions to a more political ap-
copy of the document, which also
proach. That would focus on at-
the Washington Star published
derides the way President Reagan
tempting to change the direction of
(only 3 days before Carter's
and former CLA Director William
unfriendly governments.
Desert One hostage rescue missio:
Casey conducted the Iran-contra
He said he had not discussed the
which "blew" the details of the
operations.
proposal directly with Bush. Intelli-
"The fault of the Reagan admin-
mission and was broadcast into
gence sources familiar with Cope-
istration has not been in keeping
land's plans, however, said he
Iran from Iraq
secrets, but in doing stupid things
would meet with Bush in the near
radio up until
in secret," the paper said.
future and brief him.
the April 25,198
In an interview, Copeland said
Copeland's "confidential" paper
rescue attempt.
members of his informal pro-Bush
last summer said he would not give
group advocated greater collabora-
Copeland is
campaign speeches for Bush. How-
tion with the Arab nations and a
ever, Copeland said he was speak-
an old and
more even-handed approach to
ing in "support of my friends in the
close CIA
ward Israel
intelligence community who argue
colleague of
Copeland acknowledged that
that we cannot hold our own in the
George Bush.
Examiner file photo
VICE PRESIDENT BUSH GAINS SUPPORT OF FORMER CIA AGENT
Candidate backed by 'friends in the intelligence community'
Nicaragua's government could
erations.
have been solved by sending CLA
Copeland said he had been ap-
experts to deal with the govern-
proached by Manucher Ghorbani-
ment the way he and others operat-
far, the Iranian middleman in the
ed in the Middle East: They toppled
secret arms sales, for help in pro-
governments to promote U.S. inter-
moting the sales with Casey.
ests without firing a shot or arming
and organizing guerrilla troops.
Copeland began in U.S. intelli-
Copeland's support for Bush
gence with the Office of Strategic
comes despite the fact that Bush
Services during World War 11,
has been among the staunchest sup-
joined the CLA in the late 1940s and
porters of the contras and has had
served as a CLA consultant on "oper-
nothing but praise for Marine Lt.
ational techniques" upon his retire-
Col. Oliver North, who faces the
ment.
ossibility of prosecution for his
Always outspoken, he now is
SUMMARY
No estimate of devlopments likely to follow President
Reagan's December 14 decision "to initiate a dialogue
with PLO representatives" leading to a "comprehensive
peace in the Middle East" should overlook documented
history.
Specifically, attention should be paid to the roles of
the U.S., the U.S.S.R., the U.N., and Sweden before and
after David Ben Gurion's unilateral declaration of a
Jewish state, with deliberately-undefined borders ag-
ainst the advice of Secretary of State George Marshall,
on May 14, 1948 and the negotiation of armistice agree-
ments among Israel and its four Arab neighbors in face-
to-face meetings mediated by the U.N.'s Dr. Ralph Bunche
starting on January 7, 1949.
On September 17, 1948, U.N. Mediator Count Folke Berna-
dotte (of Sweden's royal family) and his assistant, Col.
Andre P. Serot of the French Air Force, were brutally
murdered in the New City of Jerusalem by members of the
terrorist Stern Gang, led by Yitzhak Shamir (then Izer-
nitsky), Joshua Cohen, Yisrael Elad, and Stanley Gold-
foot (a South African racist), but two Americans, Frank
Begley and Cdr. William R. Cox. USN, survived.
The peace plan Bernadottes had forwarded to the United
Nations was accepted and it became the bais of de jureU.S.
recognition of Israel and Trans-Jordan by the U.S. gov-
ernment on January 13, 1949. The armistice agreements fol-
lowed, but these were renounced by Ben Gurion during the
1956 Suez War.
The seven basic premises of the Bernadotte Plan, accepted
by Israel, are:
(1) Peace must be restored in Palestine by any means
possible;
(2) A Jewish state clled Israel exists in Palestine
and there are no gound reasons for assuming that it
will not continue to do so;
(3) The boundaries of this state must be fixed by the
United Nations if the parties concerned cannot agree
upon them;
(4) The boundaries originally proposed by the Gen-
eral Assembl's vote on Nov. 29 for a partition of
Palestine must be revised to produce "geographical
homogenety;"
(5) The innocent people uprooted from their homes
by the present terror and ravages of war" must be
assured the right to return to their ho mes orto get
compensation if they cannot or will not return.
(6) Jerusalem, "because of its religious and inter-
national significance and the complexity of interests
involved, should be accorded special and separate
treatment."
(7) International guarantees should be provided "as
a means of allaying existing fears, and particularly
with regard to boundaries and human rights."
Each one of these provisions was anathema to Israel's govern-
ments and they continue to be so. Both the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
have offered to guarantee Israel's borders and security; in
each case the offer was rejected on grounds that only the
Jews could provide for their own security after the holo-
caust. Offers of U.N. observation forces have always
been refused by Israel on grounds that the U.N. was pro-
Arab. The only U.N. forces Israel has accepted have been
based on Arab territory: the Sinai in 1957; the Golan
Heights in 1975; and Lebanon in 1978. In each case, the
Iraeli army overran the U.N. groups when starting a new war.
Israel is the only country in the world receiving U.S. mil-
itary and economic aid without any end-use inspection or
restrictions on its use for defensive purposes only, as still
required by the Mutual Security Act. In evacuating the Sinai,
Israel sold U.S. equipment back to America, was given vast
amounts to construct replacement facilities, and rejected a
U.N. force to separate its forces from Egypt. Kissinger then
arranged that U.S. troops perform the function assigned to
the U.N. with the risk that Americans will be killed (as
were those flying home for Christmas) if they interefered
with a new attack on Egypt based on a breach of the Camp
David Accords. A constant threat by Sharon!
The status of Jerusalem is nonnegotiable in Israel's eyes and
this has never been challenged by the Reagan administration.
The same applies to the Golan Heights and Shultz has never
been able to change this position. The annexation of south
Lebanon can be expected if Israel is faced with a U.N. res-
olution demanding the removal of all foreign forces from
that country. Yet, Russia and the U.S. forced Israel to with-
draw from Sinai in 1957. We are today living with the price
paid for this -- Israel's nuclear capability.
In summary, "a comprehensive peace agreement" is anathema to
Israel and has been since 1949 when the CIA and Bechtel spon-
sored a coup installing a military dictator who was supposed
to make peace bilaterally. Ben Gurion rejected this and Col.
Za'im was assassinated five months later. Nuri Said, King
Abdullah, Anwar Sadat, and Bashir Gemayel met the same fate.
With the new U.S. position on the PLO, Arafat becomes a
target for assassination for the first time.
Partition of Palestine
Beit Sanim colony. which the
Arab Legion West of Jerusalem,
Egyptians captured on Tuesday.
but has won control of large north
the United Press said.)
Palestine areas assigned to the
have thrust westward toward the
After allowing the Israeli forces
The communique added that Tal-
Israeli-held coastal plain.
to encircle the colony. the Egyp-
Arabs under the United Nations
pioth. a suburb of New Jerusalem,
tians counter-attacked, the com-
partition plan.
Trans-Jordan troops control file
muniqué said.
was bombarded by heavy artillery.
Israeli forces hold the coastal
Jerusalem area with the aid of ir-
The Egyptian air force bombed
strip from Tel Aviv to the Leba-
regular tribal fighters who have
Egyptian forces entered Aqqur
fortifications on the Jerusalein-
nese border. running inland to the
occupied Lydda. Ramleh and La.
and Hartuv on the Jerusalem-
Latrun road and in Tel Aviv gaso-
Syrian frontier. They control the
trun. sealing off 100.000 Jews in
Ramieh road and light infantry
line dumps were hit. Egyptian
Hule Valley and the key towns of
modern Jerusalem. The Arabs con-
made a successfull raid on Ein
planes returned safely from both
Safed. Tiberias. Beisan and Afule.
trol all roads leading to Jerusalem.
Guinom colony on the Jerusalem-
operati
S. the communique added.
in addition to virtually all roads
The Legion and Palestine Arabs
ebron road. destroying several
leading to the north Palestine
control Jerusalem's Old City and
buildings and setting two dumps
coast.
the Sheikh Jarrah quarter, while
on fire.
Rival Positions at Deadline
tions. Israeli forces hold the modern sec.
Syrian and Lebanese troops
[An Egyptian advance to that
AMMAN, Trans-Jordan. June 10
boistered by irregulars. have occu-
Egyptian regulars dominate
sector would put the patrols. at
- With the four-week truce
pied Malikia and taken up posi-
south Palestine. They have ad-
Hartuv. only three miles sóuth
only a few hours away, this was
tions overlooking Lake Hule.
vanced within twenty miles of Tel
of Bab el Wad on the Jerusalem-
Land: the military picture in the Holy
In that northern area. Iraqi
Aviv in the west and have linked
forces hold the Arab triangle
with Arab legionnaires at Bethle-
Tel Aviv road. and that dis-
Israel has lost the Negeb area
hem in the east.
tance from a junction with the
formed by the towns of Nablus.
in south Palestine to the Egyptians
Tulkarm and Jenin. The Iraqis
June 11. 1948
BERNADOTTE IS SLAIN IN JERUSALEM;
KILLERS CALLED 'JEWISH IRREGULARS';
SECURITY COUNCIL WILL ACT TODAY
HIS CAR AMBUSHED
spokesman in Tel Aviv as having
[A Jerusalem dispatch quoted
said: "I am satisfied that it has
Truce Staff Announcement
Dr. Bernard Joseph, Military
happened." but added that the
A United Nations truce staff an.
Governor for the Israeli part of
spokesman was unaware whether
nouncement here said:
Mediator Was Defying
Jerusalem. as saying that all
members of the group were re-
possible measures had been taken
"Count Bernadotte killed by two
sponsible for the killing.
to apprehend the assassins.]
Jewish irregulars in hold-up 1700
Warnings by Tour-
hours today on way to New City
of Jerusalem. In same hold-up
French Aide Dies
U. N. MEDIATOR KILLED IN PALESTINE
United Nations senior observer
Col. Andre Serot of French Air
Force killed.
"Mediator was on tour of Middle
STERN GROUP IS BLAMED
Eastern capitals to bring security
and peace to Palestine.
"Arrangements made bring
U. S. Consul Calls Terrorists
bodies in Red Cross ambulance
from Jerusalem to Haifa."
'Presumably' Responsible
Dr. Paul Mohn, acting chief of
staff and legal adviser to the cen-
-Palestine Is: Tense
tral truce supervision board at
Haifa, ordered that all United Na-
By JULIAN LOUIS MELTZER
tions flags over the buildings that
it occupies be lowered to half staff.
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 17-
The Israeli-controlled "Voice of
Count Folke Bernadotte, United
Jerusalem" radio gave the follow-
Nations Mediator for Palestine,
ing account of the assassination
of Count Bernadotte:
and another United Nations offi-
cial, detached from the French Air
He was traveling in a car from
Force, were assassinated this after-
Government House to Katamon. A
noon within the Israeli-held area
jeep with three armed men ap-
of Jerusalem.
proached the vehicle and auto-
Count Bernadotte
matic fire opened at the Media-
was on his
way from the former British High
tor's car. Count Bernadotte was
Commissioner's residence in south-
seriously injured and the French
ern Jerusalem and was passing
colonel was killed outright. The
through the Katamon suburb when
Count died shortly afterward.
"Jewish irregulars" held up the
Colonel Lundstroem Unhurt
Mediator's car.
The radio statement added that
(John J. MacDonald. United
Gen. Aage Lundstroem, Count Ber-
States Consul General in Jeru-
nadotte's chief of staff, in the same
salem, reported to the State
car, was unhurt. Col. Frank Beg.
Department that Count Berna-
ley of the United Nations Secre-
dotte and Col. Andre Pierre
tariat was slightly injured.
Serot had been ambushed, "pre-
Numerous wall placards appeared
sumably by the Stern Gang."
recently in Jerusalem and Tel
Count Folke Bernadotte
[Reuters quoted a Stern Group
Aviv over the imprint of Fighters
The New York Times (by Neal Boenzi)
for the Freedom of Israel (Stern
that Count Ber-
Colonel Serot was killed instantly.
end of the truce had been
accompanied by an official liaison
"get out" of Israel
The telegram telling of the at-
threatened by Arao preparations
officer of the Jewish forces.
properly to enforce
tack was signed by Dr. Ralph J.
for attack.]
In the Katamon quarter of the
Bunche. United States member of
One cartoon showed &
the United Nations Secretariat
The 53-year-old Count had just
New City. well within Jewish
soot kicking the Count.
capped four months of mediation
lines. all three cars were stopped
An Israeli spokesman in Tel
Aviv said that Moshe Shertok,
efforts in the Palestine dispute by
at a road block in which was
on he held a news conference
forwarding his report for consider-
parked an Israeli Army-type Jeep
ly in the Belgian Consulate
Israeli Foreign Minister. had sent
al at Jerusalem, two jeeps
telegrams to King Gustav V of
ation by the United Nations
filled with men in Jewish Army
General Assembly meeting in Paris
uniforms. all of whom got out
Sweden. Countess Bernadotte and
but the driver.
ng young men and women of
United Nations Secretary General
next week. He had said that this
term Group picketed the en-
Trygve Lie that had said:
report had pointed to conclusions
Two of these men. apparently
with large signs. One said:
"Deeply shocked by outrageous
that might end the conflict.
recognizing the Mediator's car,
tholm is yours. Jerusalem is
murder of Count Bernadotte by
He had flown yesterday from
approached it. stood by the win-
Rhodes. his headquarters. to Da-
dow and fired at point-blank
The other advised him to
criminal outlaws who are execrated
range. Count Bernadotte and
by the entire people of Israel and
mascus. the Syrian capital. where
Col. Andre P. Serot, French Air
out. If it is proved that the
the Jewish community of Jeru-
he had announced his intention of
Forces, United Nations observer,
ers for Freedom group had
salem. On behalf of the Govern-
again trying to demilitarize Jeru-
sitting beside him in rear of car,
onnection with the slaying,
salem.
ment of Israel I beg to express our
were both hit several times. Colo-
loubtedly will provoke rapid
feelings of grief and profound sym-
Discussing the second two-
nel Serot being killed instantly.
by the Israeli military ad-
pathy. The Government of Israel
months-old truce in Palestine,
and Count Hernadotte having lost
ration in Jerusalem.
is adopting the sternest measures
which he had negotiated, he had
consciousness almost immediately,
to bring the criminals to justice."
told reporters in Damascus that
dying within a few minutes after
er the indeterminate post-
In the attack Frank Begley,
Jerusalem was a "trigger-happy"
his arrival at Hadassah Hospital,
Jerusalem. pending the so-
chief security officer for the
city where both sides were shoot-
where he was driven by United
of its future constitutional
United Nations. who was driving
ing in the dark without knowing
Nations Secretariat officer. Frank
the Stern Group operates
what they were shooting at.
Begley, who was driver of Media-
Count Bernadotte's car. suffered
He had left Damascus this morn-
tor's car at time of attack and
in the Israeli areas and, like
powder burns. He raced to the
gun Zvai Leumi, maintains
hospital with the fatally wounded
ing and had arrived in Jemisalem
who suffered only powder burns.
Count.
at 11 A. M. He was killed six
Gen. Aage Lundstrom. chief of
n private army camps and
hours later.
staff truce supervision. also seat-
te status.
En route from Damascus to Kol-
ed in rear of car, miraculously
ough the Irgun announced
Continued Despite Warning
escaped injury. Comdr. William
landia Airport, outside Jerusalem,
R. Cox, USN, United Nations ob-
ly an agreement with Dr.
AMMAN. Trans- Jordan, Sept.
Count Bernadotte had revealed a
server, seated in front of car,
to accept the authority and
17 UR The Mediator was shot
note that had been received by
also uninjured.
ine of the statutory Israeli
down in Israel territory while on
radio. It had read:
ities, the Stern Group up to
Dr. Bernard Joseph. Military
an official truce inspection tour of
"Urgent - inform all aircraft
Governor of Jerusalem. and Colo-
as not reached any such ar-
nent. Negotiations have been
the "trigger-happy" city, a phrase
against landing Kollandia Airport.
nel Dayan, military commander
that the Count himself had used
They will be fired upon.
of Israeli forces in Jerusalem,
ding. however, in a desultory
immediately expressed deep re-
or some time.
a few hours before to describe
stet and concern and stated their
'el Aviv both the Irgun and
conditions within Jerusalem.
TEXT OF REPORT TO U. N.
intention to hunt down assailants.
tern Group have dissolved
He had gone despite an anony-
Special to TEE NEW York TIMES
The situation in Jerusalem
uilitary formations and their
mous warning that he would be
'ra have joined the regular
LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y., Sept.
tense. Am consulting with Truce
fired upon. and had continued even
17-The following is the text of
Commission and senior observ-
defense army
after a sniper's bullet had hit his
the report of the assassination as
eΓa concerning future arrange-
automobile tire.
of at Point-Blank Range
cabled today to the United Nations
ments affecting observer person-
"I will not be frightened," he
Security Council 57 Pais by Ralph
nel Jerusalem, who are in con-
B. The Associated Press
had declared.
Bunche, who has town designated
stant danger.
AVIV. Israel, Sept. 17-
General Lundstrom, as personal
ficial United Nations tele-
Mr. MacDonald said that four
new head of the United Nations
representative of the Mediator
to the Security Council de-
men in a jeep suddenly had blocked
Mission in Palestine
and his chief of staff. is carrying
that the two men had been
the car's way. Colonel Begiey, a
Count Folke Bernadc:te
on with direction of the Truce
former Connecticut state police-
ed
lly assassinated by Jews of
Commission and Gen. William
wn identity in a coid-blooded
man, grappled with one of the men
Nations Mediator on Palestine.
E. Riley. USMC, senior United
and was slightly wounded in the
brutally assassinated by Jewish
Nations observer.
telegram said that the kill-
face. But one of the others reached
assailants of unknown identity,
All members of observer corps
di used an Israeli army-type
the car and shot down the Count
Palestine. Cold blooded attack in
and United Nations Secretarist
and had shot Count Berna-
and the Frenchman with a Sten
the New Citv of Jerusaiem at
staff deeply shocked at the sud-
at point-blank range at a
gun. Mr. MacDonaid said that the
1405 Greenwich time today, Fri-
den loss of their leader in this
four men in the jeep had escaped.
day. September 17.
work whose high integrity. tire-
lock "well within the Jewish
in Jerusalem's Katamon dis-
[United States authorities in
Mediator. in Jerusalem on offi-
lessness. devotion to his mission
He was driven to Hadassah
Washington said that the assas-
cial tour, was enroute from Gov-
and great personal courage were
ernment House YMCA in a con-
inspiration to us all.
tal. on Mount Scopus, where
sination was likely to lead to
voy of three cars. two of which
d within a few minutes with-
new violence. Israeli leaders al-
were flying United Nations flags
wing regained consciousness.
ready had asserted that an early
and one, a Red Cross flag. Party
September 18. 1948
ERNADOTTE URGED AN IMPOSED PEACE
ASED ON RECOGNIZING STATE OF ISRAEL
iator Asked Change
to be ended, Count Folke Berna-
ed Nations Mediator for Palestine
(2) "A Jewish state called Israel
dotte declared in his final report
summed up the history of his mis-
exists in Palestine and there are
Boundaries, Aid by
to the General Assembly, received
sion, outlined the status of the
no sound reasons for assuming
here after his slaying and released
problem and recommended what
it will not continue to do so."
today.
he termed a reasonable com-
sembly for Victims
(3) The boundaries of this state
The Mediator predicted that the
promise.
must be fixed by the United Na-
Arabs and Israelis would object to
Seven "Basic Premises"
tions if the parties concerned
LM POPE BREWER
such a settlement, but he said
cannot agree on them.
is
to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
that they knew that in the end
He set forth seven "basic prem-
(4) The boundaries originally pro-
TIL
Sept. 20-The United
they would have to accept any
13es" for his recommendations.
posed by the General Assembly's
as
t force a compromise
solution the United Nations was
They were:
vote on Nov. 29 for a partition
ment
the Arab countries
determined to enforce.
(1) Peace must be restored in Pal-
of Palestine must be revised
scael
the Palestine war is
In a 35,000-word report the Unit-
estine by any means possible.
to produce "geographical ho-
179
Partition of Palestine
mogeneity."
boundaries between Arab and Jew.
The report includes a section on
any peaceful settlement may pro-
(5) The "innocent people uprooted
ish territories shall be respected
the history of the mediation mis-
voke one or the other party to
from their homes by the present
and maintained, subject only to
sion's efforts and one on the prob-
take the foolhardy risk of resum-
terror and ravages of war" must
such modifications as may be MIS-
lems created by the flight of more
ing hostilities in the vain hope of
than 300.000 Arabs from the war
a quick victory."
be assured the right to return
tually agreed upon by the parties
Count Bernadotte cited the plight
to their homes or get adequate
concerned."
of the Arab refugees as a fourth
Benefits of Truce Noted
compensation if they cannot or
The port and oil installations of
"fundamental issue" to be added
Count Bernadotte noted that
will not return.
Haifa should be in Israel, he de-
to the three others that. he said.
each side contended that the truce
(6) Jerusalem, "because of its re-
clared. but should be accessible 5
existed in Palestine: partition,
was working to the benefit of the
ligious and international signifi-
Israeli sovereignty and Jewish im-
all as a free port. The Lydda
other but that the halt of hostill-
migration.
cance and the complexity of in-
Airport, the report added. should
ties provided a "cooling off pe-
The Mediator argued that Is-
riod.
terests involved, should be
be a free station, open to all.
rael was established and could not
"There are recent indications."
accorded special and separate
Jerusalem. Count Bernadotte
be removed except by military ac-
the report said, "of more moderate
treatment."
said, should be under United Na-
tion on a scale of which the Arab
and sober counsel in at least some
(7) International
guarantees
tions control, "with full safeguards
countries were incapable. At the
important quarters."
same time, he said, the Arab states
During the first seven weeks of
should be provided "as a means
for the protection of the holy
must have guarantees against any
the current truce there were only
of allaying existing fears, and
places and sites and free access to
expansionist ambitions of Izrael.
about 300 complaints of violations.
particularly with regard to
them, and for religious freedom."
Economic Union Held Impossible
compared with 500 during the
boundaries and human rights."
All parties should have "the right
earlier, four-week truce, Count
He recommended a readjustment
of unimpeaed access to Jerusalem
Bernadotte said. Of the later com-
U. N. Control Suggested
of boundaries on the ground that
by road, rail or air," the report
plaints 105 were against the Arabs
recommended.
those set forth in the partition
and 182 against Israel. Some of
On the basis of these premises,
plan were impractical without eco-
The Mediator urged the United
the recent violations were more
Count Bernadotte recommended
nomic union of the Arab and Is-
Nations to "affirm the right of
serious. however. than earlier ones,
specifically that the truce in Pales-
raeli areas. This has proved im-
Arab refugees to return to the'r
according to the report.
tine be superseded by R proclama-
possible. according to the report.
homes. "Their repatriation. re-
Four serious violations cited
In his introduction the Mediator
settlement and economic and social
were the destruction of the Latrun
tion of peace and that both sides
said it would be "a mistake of
demobilize and a broad. neutral No
rehabilitation and payment of ade-
pumping station by the Arabs. the
tragic consequences if at this crit-
seizure of the Red Cross zone
Man's Land to be created and can-
quate compensation for the prop-
ical period in the history of Pal-
erty of those choosing not to re-
around Government House in Isra-
trolled by the Urited Nations.
estine and in the intensive effort
turn should be supervised and as-
eli Jerusalem, the killing of two
He urged a United Nations am
to achieve a peaceful solution the
sisted" by a United Nations Con-
French observers near Gaza by
question were not to be considered
limitation of frontiers with radical
Arab irregulars and the attack on
DI
ciliation Commission, he declared.
and the necessary decisions taken
the Arab villages of Ein Ghazal.
changes
the
original
parti-
Population Exchange Covered.
by the General Assembly."
Jaba and Ijzim.
tion boun
would give
Some basis for a peaceful settle-
He recommended full guarantees
In the third part of the report
the Negeb, desert area in southern
mnt can ultimately be found. he
the Mediator reviewed efforts to
by Israel of the rights of Arab
Palestine, to the Arabs instead of
maintained. but "the conclusion
residents and by the Arab Govern-
aid the refugees from the Palestine
Ne
is inescapable that at some junc-
to Israel. and all Galilee to Israel.
war. The aid provided to date IS
ments of the rights of Jews resi-
ture vital decisions will have to be
dent in their countries. An effort
"quite inadequate to meet any con-
The Assembly's partition plan gave
a.
taken by the General Assembly if
tinuing need." he said.
western Galilee to the Arabs.
should be made to reach agree-
The Mediator suggested that it
ments on an exchange of popula-
a peaceful settlement 13 to be
A spokesman for the Israeh
tion to solve minority problems,
a.chieved."
Government said of the report:
would be advisable to merge the
The truce cannot continue for-
We shall give it the most careful
B
according to the report.
Arab part of Palestine/with Trans-
The Conciliation Commission
and earnest study. and no doubt
ever, he said. There is danger. he
the Government of Israel will have
:
Jordan.
was described as a body that
added, that "the accumulated irri-
"The United Nationa by declars-
should be formed to operate for a
the opportunity of expressing its
gra
tation from daily incidents, war
tion or other appropriate means,"
limited period to aid in a "peace-
views before the appropriate com-
the
nerves. the economic strain of
ful adjustment of the situation"
mittee of the General Assembly."
this
he said, "should undertake to pro-
maintaining large armies in the
and supervise the execution of
field, the pressures of public opin-
ficia
vide special assurance that the
agreements.
ion and the tendency to despair of
September 21. 1948
fice
and
M
pub:
TRUCE IS ACCEPTED
acting United Nations Mediator in
Henri Vigier, his agent in Tel Aviv.
had contended that they were will-
happ
Palestine, originated- with the
Final word came through today.
ing to talk armistice but they
has
Egytian Government and repre-
The original Cairo communica-
argued firmly that they would do
in ti
tion called for the cease-fire to be
so only after Israel had obeyed the
BY EGYPT, ISRAEL;
sented a sharp turnabout from pre-
vious Arab refusals ever to sit at
effective yesterday at 2 P. M., but
Council resolution calling for
been
troop withdrawais from the Negeb.
straw
the same table with representa-
because of delays in transmission
It has been one of Egypt's most
page
DIRECT TALKS NEAR
tives of the Israeli Government.
it was necessary to postpone the
bitter arguments that the Israeli
Decl
[Britain charged that Israeli
deadline to today at 2 P. M. To-
Government was not only not com-
conc.
troops were still on Egyptian
night, however, another delay in
plying with this resolution by keep-
ing its troops in advance positions
state
soil, holding a strongpoint five
communications necessitated fur-
miles inside the frontier.]
ther postponement. and Dr. Bunche
but was even preventing Egypt
made
from obeying the resolution by re-
to W
U. N. Is Told That Negotiations
News of the Egyptian-Israeli ac-
ultimately decided to settle on to-
fusing to let bottled-up Egyptian
recog
ceptance of three major resolu-
for Armistice on All Fronts
morrow's deadline.
troops in Faluja cross Israeli lines
form
tions of the Security Council was
It was a banner day for the Se-
to return home.
Will Start Immediately
received here with some jubila-
curity Council and the United Na-
Sudden Break Today
tion and many observers were con-
tions. for the acceptances by both
The Israell Government has con-
fidently predicting that Egypt's
countries were three-way affairs.
tended that the Council resolution
By GEORGE BARRETT
conciliatory approach would set
Israel and Egypt agreed first to
on troop withdrawals was obeyed.
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
the pace for other Arab countries.
the Dec. 29 resolution calling for
and that only those troops that
AKE SUCCESS, Jan. 6-
were already in the Negeb as set-
Azcarate Sent First Message
an immediate cease-fire. They
tlement guards before the Oct. 14
pt and Israel informed the
First word that the cease-fire
then went on to accept jointly and
deadline set by the Council were
AN
Nations today that they
and armistice agreements were ac-
amicably the Nov. 4 and Nov. 16
remaining in the disputed area. It
cease fire on all fronts at
ceptable to both sides came from
resolutions, cailing for withdrawal
was upon this basic stalemate that
tomorrow. Greenwich
of armed forces from seized post-
the entire case rested until today's
Dr. Bunche's representatives in
FI
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A.
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Fridav
MONDAY, Nov. 14
(Samuel Seabury)
Habakkuk 2:1-4, 9-20. But the Lord is in his holy
temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.
Silence is hard to come by. Even in the country,
one can hear sounds from farm machinery, hay
trucks, lowing cattle and barking dogs. Cities are
loud with cars, jackhammers, voices and sirens.
Houses settle and creak, disturbing the quiet of
the night. It may sometimes seem that there is
no way to observe the command that earth keep
silence before God.
But we can create personal quiet and will to
be silent within, so that our minds are not racing
with ideas and our bodies not fidgeting. We can
wait in stillness, just being with God, coming to
know God's presence as it bursts into the silence
of the heart. With effort, we can even take time
every day for a quiet adventure with God at the
stillpoint of life.
The demand that earth be still is not a harsh
demand by a capricious god who is appeased only
by adoration; like all commands that issue from
heaven, silence is given as a blessing to humani-
ty, as a pole that vaults us toward intimacy with
God.
Thank you, God, for the church, and for the gift
of your servant, Samuel Seabury. The first
bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church of America 1784.
Ps. 89:1-18; Jas. 2:14-26; Luke 16:19-31
15
INTRODUCTION TO JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN
(FROM HABAKKUK 2)
"1. I will take my stand to watch, and station myself in the
tower, and look forth to see what he will say to me, and what
I will answer concerning my complaint.
"2. And the Lord answered me: Write the vision; make it plain
upon tablets, so he may run who reads it.
"3. For still the vision awaits its time; it hastens to the
end -- it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it
will surely come, it will not delay."
"15. Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his
wrath, and makes them drunk to gaze on their shame!
"16. You will be stated with contempt instead of glory. Drink,
yourself, and stagger! The cup in the Lord's right hand will
come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!
"17. The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the
destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of
men and the violence to the earth, to cities, and all who
dwell therein."
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Date
January 12, 1989
TO:
General Brent Scowcroft
FROM:
THE VICE PRESIDENT
Because of my visit to North Yemen,
President Saleh feels we have a personal
relationship. At some point it would
be appropriate to invite him here.
Recently he has accepted a liberal
largess from Libya, but he is
basically a very decent guy and the
United States has a very important
stake in the oil which is produced
there.
CC: Secretary-designate Jim Baker
Governor John Sununu
Joe Hagin
G.
THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON
January 17, 1989
Mr. Ray L. Hunt
1401 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas 75202-2970
Dear Ray,
Pardon my delay in answering your letter of December 23.
As soon as I become President, I will discuss a possible
visit by President Saleh to the United States. He is a
good man and we have a stake in his independence and
success. Thanks for weighing in on this, and once again
just before I assume the presidency, let me thank you for
standing by me through the political wars throughout the
last twenty years. Your support has meant a great deal to
me.
Love to Nancy.
Most sincerely,
George Bush
617212VP
VP
RAY L. HUNT
1401 ELM STREET
DALLAS, TEXAS 75202-2970
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JABI
have
December 23, 1988
A
PERSONAL
The Honorable George H. W. Bush
Vice President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear George:
I was in North Yemen five days ago for a series of discussions with
the Prime Minister and various senior ministers (including the Foreign
Minister) of the Yemen Arab Republic. These ministers constitute the
governing body for North Yemen's oil, gas and mineral operations. The
Prime Minister and Foreign Minister both expressed how pleased they were
that you had been elected president.
I also had the opportunity to visit with President Saleh, and he
asked me to convey a personal message from him to you which I am doing
with this letter.
President Saleh said that he wished to congratulate you most sin-
cerely upon your being elected president, and that he and his government
had been very hopeful all along that this would be the outcome of the
election. He repeated the statement that he has made to me on several
occasions, namely, that he felt you were the most qualified person,
probably in the history of the United States, to ever assume the presi-
dency. He also stated (in a very appropriate way) that he hoped his
invitation to come to Washington was still in good standing, as he would
enjoy, very much, having the opportunity to come to the United States
and personally pay his respects to you (In that regard, it is my
personal opinion that North Yemen wishes to continue strengthening its
relationship with the United States.)
George, I know that a number of government leaders around the world
would enjoy, very much, being invited to Washington, and it would be
very inappropriate for me to offer any personal opinions or recommenda-
tions as to whom you might invite or not invite (or the order in which
such invitations might be scheduled). I was specifically asked by
President Saleh to convey this message, however, and I told him I would
be pleased to do so.
Vice President George H. W. Bush
December 23, 1988
Page 2
George, I hope that you, Barbara and the family have a most enjoy-
able Christmas season and a wonderful new year. We are planning to be
amongst the throngs on January 20, and while we'll probably not have a
chance to see one another personally, I do want you to know how proud
all of us are (for both you and the good old U.S.A.).
Sincerely,
Ray 3 L. Hunt
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TO:
JAB III cc nick Brady
FROM:
THE VICE PRESIDENT
The attached incoming from
from ZBIG has some good ideas.
I think it makes sense ot stayu in touch wit
him.
AT some point I'd like to do what he suggest
leaders
about meeting with Congress/to spell otu
my goals in a broad sense
and to go further iwth the idea of periodic
non-crisis meetings/
When we get our full NSC team in place I'd li
like ot have a meeting to go over the objecti
manby of which are spelled out in
Zbuig's memo.
gb.
cc: Governor Sununu
THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON
November 21, 1988
PERSONAL
The Honorable Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Federalist Society for Law and
Public Policy Studies
1625 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
Dear Zbig:
I have now had a chance to think more about your memo of November 9.
I had not given a lot of thought to institutionalizing our Trans-
Pacific Partnership. We have been looking at this area almost exclusively
in a bilateral context. The importance of China is very clear to me. I'd
love to return to China before Deng leaves office entirely. I feel I have
a special relationship there.
I like your idea of a Pacific Rim summit and will ask Jim Baker to
give this some serious consideration. Frankly, I think such a summit would
help with Europe in a perverse sort of way.
Eastern Europe has a real chance now for more liberty if we handle
their Soviet relationship properly.
On consultation with Congress, I meant what I said in the campaign
about "bipartisanship," and I have already written several Senators
suggesting the very meetings that you suggest.
We are considering an early bilateral with Japan; and as you have
now seen, a meeting with Mexico's new President is set for tomorrow.
I will not neglect Canada.
Since your memo, Gorbachev has asked for and we have agreed to a
meeting in New York.
Some of what you suggest under "Other Administration Initiatives"
have yet to be considered, but points 1-8 will all get early consideration.
I just want you to know I read your memo carefully and appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Please Zbig- keep GB carticulal Good George Bush
bcc: Honorable James A. Baker
Honorable Nicholas Brady
Honorable John Sununu
Nov. 9, 1988
To: the President-Elect
From: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Br.
Subject: Attached Memorandum on Foreign Policy Strategy.
One of your most important tasks as President will be to impose a
strategic sense of direction on U.S. foreign policy. This cannot be done
from any other level but the Presidential. Moreover, unless such strategic
cohesion is firmly dictated by the President himself, from the top
downward, the entrenched bureaucracies will themselves strive to ensure
that their own, more parochial perspectives come to dominate the thinking
of your Cabinet heads.
By capitalizing quickly on your political triumph, you will be in a better
position to obtain a broad public mandate for foreign policy initiatives
that can also help you shape a supportive bipartisan coalition. The fact
that Congress remains in the hands of the other Party makes it all the
more important that such a mandate be deliberately generated. Otherwise
you could soon find yourself checkmated by the Congressional leadership.
It should also be noted that lately it has been the Soviets under Gorbachev,
and not the U.S., who have been setting the pace with dramatic -- though
obviously self-serving proposals. Within the Alliance, the French have
also become more innovative in developing new approaches, while the
Germans have been pursuing their own line with the East.
Accordingly, it is all the more important that from day-one you seek to
infuse your own national security team with a shared strategic vision and
with clearly defined priorities. Your personal background in foreign
affairs -- more extensive than of any postwar President, save Eisenhower
-- gives you a special advantage in asserting Presidential leadership in
this crucial area of public policy.
The attached memo is designed to help you, and also Jim Baker, define
such a grand strategy. More specifically, it outlines:
1- The central strategic goals on which your foreign policy should
deliberately concentrate;
2- The requisite Presidential initiatives in the first six months of
the new Administration;
3- The recommended U.S. foreign policy initiatives in the first six
months of the new Administration.
Nov. 9, 1988
Memorandum to the President-Elect
From Zbigniew Brzezinski
BS.
Subject:
FOREIGN POLICY: A STRATEGIC AGENDA FOR THE BUSH PRESIDENCY
The moment is ripe for major American initiatives. Just as in the late
1940's, the time was "pregnant" for the grand undertakings that led to the
Atlantic Alliance and to the creation of a whole host of new international
institutions, S0 now too the global situation calls for major acts of U.S.
initiative, designed to exploit the opportunities that beckon especially in
the Pacific area and in the management of the U.S.-Soviet relationship.
I- FOUR CENTRAL STRATEGIC GOALS.
1. To Nurture and Institutionalize a Trans-Pacific Partnership;
2. To Consolidate a more stable U.S.-Soviet Relationship;
3. To Update U.S. global military strategy and force posture;
4. To Revive genuine bipartisanship in the pursuit of the above goals.
Each of these central goals is timely. The Atlantic connection, which has
been the main focus of America's global involvement since the late 1940's
is ripe for a parallel, though not identical, effort at the development of
new relations and institutions of partnership across the Pacific. Such a
partnership should reflect the new economic and political realities of a
prosperous and rapidly developing Pacific rim. Only America is in the
position to foster such a new cooperative relationship, especially with
Japan. Moreover, failure to infuse our trans-Pacific relations with
positive political content runs the risk that conflicting trade issues could
become destructively dominant, even as the Soviet Union is activating its
policy towards the region.
2
The growing likelihood that for the next decade the Soviet Union will
remain preoccupied with its systemic crisis gives you the best
opportunity of any U.S. President since 1945 to stabilize the U.S.-Soviet
relationship in several critical areas, and on terms favorable to the U.S.
Strategic arms control could lead to conventional arms control. Regional
accommodation could begin to extend to Eastern Europe, potentially
undoing the prime cause of the Cold War. Progress on human rights could
diminish one of the major sources of public antagonism towards the Soviet
regime.
However, our policy should be one of sympathetic prudence, reaching
agreements only on their merits, but not providing a bail-out for the
Soviet economy. The Soviets are likely to continue their efforts to
separate us from our allies, and they will quietly persist in seeking to
gain a military edge. Armed might is the last source of the Soviet claim
to the status of a global power, and the Soviet leaders are very much
aware of this. Moreover, it is likely that internal national tensions in the
Soviet Union will grow, prompting new conflicts and probably even
political repression. The management of these contradictory trends will
require close Presidential scrutiny.
The internal Soviet crisis will will also affect U.S. defense planning. If
the U.S.-Soviet relationship is managed skilfully, both sides eventually
may be able to move away -- in addition to reaching more ambitious arms
control arrangements -- from their current reliance on strategically
offensive weapons towards a more prudent mix of offensive/defensive
systems. In addition, in the course of the next four years it should prove
possible to reexamine the force levels of the U.S. military presence
abroad, in order both to respond to the changing strategic realities and to
provide for fairer burden-sharing with our allies.
Each of these major goals is timely. Progress towards each is feasible.
But movement towards each will have to be deliberate, and public support
for their pursuit will be more forthcoming if such goals are shared on a
bipartisan basis by the Congressional leadership.
Accordingly, it is recommended that early In the life of the new
Administration, or perhaps even during the phase of transition, you
convene a special conference, attended by members of your national
security team and by the pertinent Congressional leaders from both
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parties, at which you would outline your over-all foreign policy goals and
engage in an in-depth discussion particularly with the Congressional
leaders. You might also take advantage of such an opportunity to indicate
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to them that you plan to hold periodically such consultative meetings on
foreign policy issues.
2. PRESIDENTIAL-LEVEL INITIATIVES IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS.
1. A Comprehensive Statement by the President of the broad foreign policy
goals of his Administration, preceded by consultations with the
Congressional leadership (as recommended above), with special emphasis
on bipartisanship as an on-going consultative process.
2. Announcement of your intention to hold monthly Presidentially-chaired
consultative meetings of the NSC with top Congressional leadership.
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3. A call for a special summit of the Atlantic Alliance, to formulate
long-term political and economic goals in the East-West relationship, and,
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4. A proposal to the Pacific rim countries for a similar summit meeting,
to be prepared first by conferences among the respective top ministers,
preceded by a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan.
5. In keeping with past tradition, bilateral informal meetings, perhaps at
some border sites, with the President of Mexico and with the Prime
Minister of Canada.
6. An invitation to the Soviet President, for an informal consultative
meeting (outside of Washington -- perhaps in Alaska), to review the state
of the U.S.-Soviet relations and to set the agenda for further negotiations.
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3. OTHER ADMINISTRATION INITIATIVES IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS
designed to sustain Presidential momentum:
1. The Vice President charged to head an inter-agency effort to submit
interts
within three months a militarily stabilizing and politically appealing
long-term strategy for conventional arms control.
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2. The Secretary of Defense instructed to submit in six months a review
of the U.S. strategic force posture, of the value for deterrence of an early
deployment of some limited strategic defense, and of the strategic and
budgetary rationale of U.S. force deployments abroad.
3. The Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Commerce charged to undertake
a review of possible initiatives to upgrade U.S.-Japan economic and
political relations, particularly in the light of the 1992 EEC target-date.
4. The Secretaries of State and Treasury instructed to initiate bilateral
talks with the Japanese regarding a joint U.S.-Japanese development
initiative for Central America.
5. The Secretary of State instructed to explore the practicalities of a
formal international treaty for the comprehensive and verifiable
neutralization of Nicaragua.
6. The Vice President dispatched to meet and consult with the top Chinese
leadership, underlining the importance of the relationship.
7. Secretaries of State and Treasury instructed to consult with NATO
counterparts regarding a joint western political-economic initiative
designed to address the growing crisis in East-Central Europe.
8. Reaffirm U.S. willingness to undertake high level mediation in the
Middle Eastern conflict if the Israelis and Palestinians SO desire, and U.S.
interest in the eventual normalization of relations with Iran.
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, DC
December 27, 1988
NOTE TO GOVERNOR SUNUNU
FROM:
Linda Casey
Governor, this is the letter the Vice
President mentioned to you last week.
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
December 19, 1988
Dear Mr. Vice President:
Because of the critical importance of the Security
Assistance program to the foreign policy and national security
of the United States, we recommend that you give it high
priority attention during the current transition period and in
the early months of your Administration. The program has
contributed substantially to many of the successes of the
Reagan Administration, notably in reducing the level of
conflict in the world, bolstering our alliances, and
containing the Soviet Union and its clients. Yet, its
effectiveness has been curtailed in the last several years,
and may be sharply curtailed further in the near future.
The great problems in the program, especially in the
military assistance and arms sales components, lie in sharply
reduced funding -- over 33 percent reduction since 1985 -- and
increasing Congressional controls. Particularly damaging have
been the unprecedented and increasing levels of earmarking by
Congress -- well over 90 percent of appropriated funds -- for
a few favored countries. This has left us no choice but to
reduce severely funding for other high priority countries,
such as Jordan, Thailand, and those in Central America, and to
terminate funding for numerous other programs. Congress has
also proliferated harmful restrictions on countries and on
sales, most notably for the Middle East.
This trend threatens a future crisis in our foreign
relations, given the role of security assistance as a vital
underpinning for both the foreign policy and defense
components of U.S. national security policy since World
War II. At risk is U.S. access and influence in many key
regions of the world, and, with that, our ability to advance
U.S. global interests. Furthermore, rapidly evolving
situations in many areas of the Third World make it imperative
that the President have the instruments to react rapidly and
effectively in pursuit of American objectives.
The Honorable
George Bush,
President-elect of the United
States of America.
We believe that early top-level attention to the issues of
security assistance and foreign military sales by your
Administration can pay major dividends over the coming four
years. We are at your disposal to discuss this, or we can
arrange an Executive Branch-Congressional group of
knowledgeable persons to meet with you to discuss early steps
with Congress on the program.
Sincerely yours,
Seen P.
Frank C. Carlucci
George P. Shultz
Secretary of Defense
Issue I file
NUCLEAR TESTING AND U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY
ISSUES
U.S. Strategic Doctrine has evolved over the last several decades
from Assured Destruction to Sufficiency and Equivalence and now
includes Negiotated Disarmanent with Assured verification. While
negotiating disarmament, the United States is challenged by critical
issues in its ongoing strategic comfrontation with the Soviet Union.
These include the multi-faceted Soviet strategic offensive and
defensive system buildup of military capabilities that threaten, if not
countered by new U.S. weapons systems programs, to establish a
clear-cut superiority in the 21st century.
The Advent of Arms Control and other Strategic Defense initiatives
that result in U.S. defense policy relying on far less nuclear weapons
will require that those weapons needed in the year 2020 be identified
and developed. The fundamental position of the United States is clear:
Nuclear testing is indispensable to maintaining the credible nuclear
deterrent which has kept the peace for over 40 years. Thus we must
consider nuclear testing as a tool to be employed responsibly in
pursuit of national security.
The United States tests nuclear weapons for several reasons.
First, we do so to ensure the reliability of our nuclear deterrent.
Second, we conduct nuclear tests in order to improve the safety.
security, survivability, reliability and effectiveness of our nuclear
arsenal. Testing has allowed the introduction of modern safety and
security features on our weapons. It has permitted a reduction by
nearly one-third in the total number of weapons in the stockpile since
1960, as well as a reduction in the total megatonnage in that stockpile
to approximately one quarter of its 1960 value.
In the field of nuclear testing, as in other aspects of national
security, arms control has an important role to play. Arms control is
not. however, an end in itself, but one of several tools to enhance the
security of the United States and its Allies and to diminish the threat
of war.
It is important to recognize the asymmetries between the United
States and the Soviet Union on the subject of nuclear testing. Because
of inherent differences in the two nations' approaches to their
security requirements, stringent limitations on nuclear testing, or
even its complete cessation, would have less impact on Soviet security
than on our own. The Soviet advantage in conventional forces, the less
sophisticated designs of their strategic weapons made possible by the
massive Soviet ballistic missile throwweight, and the ability of a
controlled society to maintain design teams intact even without testing
(as they demonstrated during the informal 1958 61 moratorium on
nuclear testing), all may allow the Soviets to be more willing to
accept restrictions on nuclear testing. Clearly, to the U.S. nuclear
testing is indispensable to maintaining the credible nuclear deterrent
which has kept the peace for over 40 years!
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DISCUSSIONS
U.S. willingness to enter negotiations on further limitations on
nuclear testing, in association with real arms reductions, is not based
on any lessening on the technical requirement for testing following a
successful outcome to any current arms reductions negotiations. Rather
the United States must recognize that neither testing nor arms control
per se are ends in themselves. Both are tools to be employed in the
interests of enhancing national security.
There are two basic reasons for U.S. nuclear testing--to ensure the
reliablity, of our nuclear deterrent and to improve the safety,
security, reliability and effectiveness of our nuclear arsenal. Major
reductions in the numbers of warheads. such as the United States seeks
in START. would not alter our requirement for a number of different
types of weapons to meet the Soviet threat, and hence would not alter
the requirements for testing.
Only if entire systems and warhead design classes were eliminated
might the requirements for associated reliability testing be reduced.
Indeed, under deep reductions in strategic offensive arms the
reliability of our remaining U.S. strategic weapons could be even more
important and the need for testing even greater, particularly if the
Soviets continue their current trends toward improved survivability.
Finally, the need to continue nuclear testing to avoid technological
surprise and respond to the evolving threat would not necessarily be
influenced by reductions -- even deep réductions in nuclear stockpiles.
As the number of nuclear and conventional forces decrease. the
potential relative advantage the Soviets could gain from an unforeseen
technological breakthrough increases. To avoid being surprised by such
a breakthrough, we must maintian and improve our understanding of the
physics of nuclear weapons.
Each of the reasons we test today would remain valid to some degree
even if every arms reduction initiative proposed by the United States
were to come to fruition. Thus there is no direct technical linkage
between progress in other areas of arms control and the acceptability
of progressively more stringent limitations on nuclear testing. If --
as we hope -- progress in other areas of arms control increases overall
U.S. and allied security and enhances stability, it may be possible to
identify, negotiate and accept some form of further limitations on
nuclear testing. Naturally, agreement on any such increased
limitations could only be acceptable in parallel with the conclusion of
legally binding treaties which serve to enhance stability.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
In the field of nuclear testing, as in other aspects of national
security, arms control has an important role to play. Arms control is
not, however, and end in itself, but one of several tools to enhance
the security of the United States and its Allies and to diminish the
threat of war. Within the overall requirements for nuclear testing
discussed. the United States' position on nuclear testing limitations
should be as follows;
* As the U.S. considers further arms control reductions. such as
START, it must consider what the U.S. Nuclear stockpile must be at some
arbitrary point in the future, say 2010. Given the
"greater-than-ten-year cycle of a nuclear weapon (from conception until
inclusion into the inventory) the "stockpile of the future" must be
designed and tested in the next few years;
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Those nuclear weapons that might remain in the "stockpile of the
future" must be modernized to assure that they contain the newest and
most reliable safety features.
Since there will be continuing pressure by the Soviet Union to
proceed to "further limitations" on testing, the U.S. negotiation
position should;
*
Fully supports the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned
nuclear testing in the atmosphere, the oceans and outer space. The
United States urges those nuclear weapon states which have not yet
adhered to this treaty to do so. All U.S. testing is conducted in
strict compliance with the requirements of the Limited Test Ban Treaty.
*
Continue to conduct its test program strictly in accordance with
the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) of 1974 and its companion Peaceful
Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNET) of 1976. These two treaties limit
yields of individual underground nuclear explosions to 150 kilotons.
The U.S. has not, however, ratified these treaties because of a strong
conviction that, in their present form, we cannot effectively verify
whether the Soviet Union is in compliance with the 150 kiloton
threshold.
In nuclear testing, as in other areas, treaties which cannot be
effectively verified cannot contribute to U.S. security of world
stability; indeed, such treaties carry serious military and political
risks, so that the U.S. position should;
* Concluded that we require effective verification through direct,
on-site hydrodynamic yield measurements of appropriate Soviet nuclear
explosions. We should be seeking the right to conduct such
measurements on a routine basis.
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*
Once these verification concerns have been satisfied and the
treaties ratified. the U.S. should immediately propose negotiations on
ways to implement a step-by-step parallel program -- in association
with a program to reduce and ultimately eliminate all nuclear weapons
-- of limiting and ultimately ending nuclear testing.
* A comprehensive test ban remains a long-term objective of the
U.S. We believe such a ban must be viewed in the context of a time
when we do not need to depend on nuclear deterrence to ensure
international security and stability, and when we have achieved broad.
deep, and effectively verifiable arms reductions. substantially
improved verification capabilities. expanded confidence--building
measures, and greater balance in conventional forces thereby assuring
our long-term National Security.
U.S. NUCLEAR DETERRENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY
ISSUES
Today, the United States Strategic Defense Doctrine and its
Nuclear deterrent concept of a Triad of U.S. strategic forces--ICBMs,
SLBMs, and Bombers--is in transition, and managing this transition will
be crucial to our future national security and a challenge to the next
Administration
U.S. Strategic Doctrine has evolved over the last several
decades from Assured Destruction to Sufficiency and Equivalence and now
includes Negiotated Disarmament with Assured verification. In
addition, the President recently included his Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI) into the equation, thereby increasing the complexity
of managing the transition.
While negotiating disarmament, the United States is challenged
by critical issues in its ongoing strategic confrontation with the
Soviet Union. These include the multi-faceted Soviet strategic
offensive and defensive system buildup of military capabilities that
threaten, if not countered by new U.S. weapons systems programs, to
establish a clear-cut superiority in the 21st century.
Presently, all U.S. strategic and tactical nuclear weapons
system capablities reside in the U.S. Nuclear Complex managed by DOE
Defense Programs. Our ability to counter this growing Soviet strategic
confrontation is dependent on dedicated execution of advanced
technology development by the DOE-Defense organization of associated
laboratories and industrial contractors.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Nuclear Complex is old, fragile and
in need of replacement in several areas. In addition, Defense Programs
finds itself in heated debates with DOD over manpower at the nuclear
weapons laboratories and debates in Congress over the Environmental and
Safeguards impacts of this Nuclear Complex.
This situation is clearly not in the national interest and is
additional evidence of a serious diminishing stature of the nuclear
weapons complex within the Executive and Legislative Branches of the
U.S. government at a time when the U.S. is negotiating disarmament
treaties and trying to manage the transition and maintain our National
Security.
If the nuclear weapons complex is to remain healthy and be able to
provide, without question, the nuclear competence necessary to continue
to provide the cornerstone of this nation's defense, then it is
critical that the new Administration take the appropriate steps to
insure that the nuclear weapons complex has the political, operational
and budgetary visibility it needs to assure U.S. National Security.
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ARMS CONTROL
Under any credible Arms Control scenario, the
United States will continue to rely on nuclear weapons as the backbone
of national defense for many decades to come. All of the Initiatives
either consummated or under consideration, such as INF, Defense and
Space, START, PNET, TTBT, CTB, etc., while reducing both the tactical
and strategic nuclear weapons inventories of the United States and the
U.S.S.R., still will not result in the absolute elimination of nuclear
weapons as the backbone of U.S. defense strategy.
This situation is further complicated by the fact
that all the arms control initiatives involve, at this junction, only
the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and therefore, do not affect or influence
the other nations of the world that possess nuclear weapons. It is
abundantly clear, therefore, that the defense posture of the U.S. will
necessarily depend on both tactical and strategic nuclear weapons as
the basis for deterrence well into the next century.
DOE DEFENSE PROGRAMS
The current Defense Programs part of the DOE was
actually born in 1946 as a result of the transition fron the Manhattan
Engineering District to a new civilian agency, called the Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC). The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 created the AEC as a
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free-standing Agency whose reponsibilities included the research,
development, testing and production of the Nation's nuclear weapons.
Through numerous reorganizations on the part of
both the Executive and Legislative Branches, the responsibilities, and
therefore the visibility of the Nuclear Complex, was assigned to the
Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), and finally to
Defense Programs within the Department of Energy. From its single
focused, high visibility position in the AEC, the Nuclear Complex now
is led by the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs
reporting through both the Under Secretary and the Deputy Secretary to
the Cabinet position of Secretary of Energy.
This diminished reporting relationship does not
provide the visibility and negotiating position necessary in either
Executive Branch deliberations--ranging from budget to Arms Control--or
in the process of defending the requirements of the nuclear weapons
complex before Congress. Unless the nuclear weapons complex receives
both the political and financial support it requires, it will be unable
to either provide or assure that the U.S. nuclear deterrent will be
available and reliable over the next several decades to assure U.S.
national security.
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MANAGING THE TRANSITION
By current standards, the weapons of today, and
particularly nuclear weapons, require up to ten years from concept to
actual inclusion in the inventory and the overall strategic defense
system. Since it may be up to 20 years before advanced technologies
are developed, tested, and put into place into an integrated Strategic
Defense (SDI)/Offense system that provides improved credible
deterrence, there are additional management challenges that need to be
addressed. One of the challenges is to manage the transition from the
current times of nuclear weapon preeminence for strategic deterrence to
non-nuclear SDI systems without ever jeopardizing national security
during the transition.
The advent of Arms Control and other Strategic
Defense Initiatives that result in U.S. defense policy relying on far
less nuclear weapons will require that those weapons needed in the
year 2020 be identified and developed. This is particularly critical
in view of the fact that an announced goal of the U.S. is a treaty
banning nuclear testing. As work proceeds on such a treaty, it must be
preceded by the research, development, and testing that will provide a
reliable nuclear stockpile in the year 2020, with the clear realization
that both developmental and confidence testing of U.S. nuclear weapons
will likely cease sometime in the next decade.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The new Administration must assure the integration of
Strategic Defense/Offense policy formulation, the critical importance
of the Nuclear Complex and the crucial management of the transition now
underway in U.S. Strategic Doctrine.
INTEGRATION
Establish a Nuclear Defense Council (NDC) as an
adjunct of the National Security Council that consolidates the inputs
from;
* The military community (principally JCS)
* The technical community (DOE)
* The arms control community (ACDA)
* The foreign policy community (State)
* The intelligence community (DCI)
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The political community ( White House)
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The NDC would recommend defense policy to the
President thereby assuring, as much as possible, that the nuclear
deterrent of the U.S. is protected over the next twenty or thirty
years.
NUCLEAR COMPLEX
Elevate the level of the executive heading Defense
Programs to that of the Under Secretary or Deputy Secretary, or form a
free-standing Agency of the Executive Branch (such as it was in the
AEC). Either move will greatly increase the Nuclear Complex
representation of the issues within both the Executive and Legislative
branches of the U.S. government.
MANAGING THE TRANSITION
Managing the transition means managing the
efficient and effective coordination of resources. This includes
coordination of both various agencies in the Executive Branch and
coordination among various committees in Congress. This also includes
coordination in keeping a proper balance between strategic nuclear
weapons work and SDI technology work as it evolves.
By establishing a policy group within the Executive
Branch that looks at very long-range defense planning in the light of
arms control initiatives, and by elevating the political visibility of
that portion of the Executive Branch that is responsible for the
- design, testing, and production of nuclear weapons, the nuclear
deterrent of the U.S. will be protected in the out-years, and the
Legislative Branch will have to support what is a coherent story.
There is an urgency to these recommendations!
While the U.S. hesitiates and the Congress debates, indulging in
wishful thinking and self-deception, the Soviet Union continues to move
forward with programs on advanced warhead design as a basis of an
extraordinary and accelerated increase in Military and Strategic
forces.
Nuclear deterrence and indeed the applications of
Avanced Nuclear Defense systems is the bedrock issue of our Foreign and
Defense policy in terms not only of cost and technical issues but of
geo-political relevance as well.
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MEMORANDUM FOR TONY LOPEZ
FROM:
JOHN H. SUNUNU WR.
SUBJECT:
Robert Gates
Please see that Robert Gates is provided portal-to-
portal carpet coverage as soon as he begins his duties
as Deputy NSC Advisor.
If there are any questions or problems, please give
Ed Rogers a call at 673-2636 or 456-2164.
CC: Bonnie Neuman
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
06b. Memo
From Brent Scowcroft to John Sununu
1/3/89
(b)(7)(c)
Re: Portal-to-Portal Transportation for Robert Gates (1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Chief of Staff to the President, Office of the
Series:
Sununu, John, Files
Subseries:
White House Offices File
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
National Security Affairs (Transition)
Date Closed:
11/30/2004
OA/ID Number:
29179-009
FOIA/SYS Case #:
1998-0004-F[1]
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
2005-0426-S
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.