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TERRORIST'S USE OF A-ARMS FEARED
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August 29, 1975
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STATINTL THE WASH?aIease 2004/10/27 : 9AA-, The Washington Merry-Go-Round 2M WASHINGTON POST Friday, August 29,1975 DIS Terrorists' Use of A-Arms Feared .By- Jack Anderson and Les Whitten :CpaiS es a ? air p,o.sstgrrorlsts i utill -use.-.f t ' such as.lasas., iyhg ogi- Is radiation and nuc ear Altholigfl "such use is not in- evitable." according to a.,State Aepaxtm ent sttt~y, the technal o is available to develop scare , and terran@ -XDe tipsbili ty testeaL4hem. Still, the State Department holds out hope that "small radi- cal groups" cannot acquire the hideous weapons and that "larger terrorist organizations" will be deterred from using them "by what would be an ex- tremely :;evere response by the world community." Word opinion, however, has not deterred terrorists from committing small-scale out- rages. Since 1968, terrorists have killed 500 people and have wounded 600 to 800. Among the victims, 16 U.S. officials have been murdered and 32 have been wounded. The terrorists have managed to arm themselves with deadly, sophisticated weapons] includ- ing shoulder-fired Soviet mis- siles capable of knocking down airliners. .Tjj&.C}! dy : caAacius.?au -past-;ap"t& that i kaeeu..._alt-..arnpnrtant igiirre nf.:weapans.,fo ecrarist A=ps. ? On May 25, 1974,we called Libya's Muammar Qad- dafi one of the world's most irre- sponsible leaders for arming terrorists,' without much thought f or the consequences. h CnviPt, hay - ~ge arm c ch ntpnts..i,Q Qatldaf1 who has ""applied termus roues from Ireland tor1lip Ines. isr~3 nup s. Apparently, terrorist organi- zations work together through an international radial under. ground. "We have seen coopera- tion among terrorist groups in Latin America," states the study. "Additionally, there are indications of increasing coop- eration among the Baader- Meinhof gang in West Germany, the so-called Japanese Red Army and Palestinian terrorist groups, particularly the Popu- lar Front for the Liberation of Palestine." Kidnaping has become a fa- vorite terrorist tactic. The State Department cites a Rand Corp. study of 63 major diplomatic kidnaping efforts. In 87 percent of the cases, the hostages were seized successfully. In 79 per cent of the cases, the kidnapers escaped punishment. There have also been ominous intelligence reports that the in- ternational terrorists are plot- ting to zero in on the United States. -ZuptnA1e._ZJQ , State, Depart- mPn oeducted..the,~tudx.~3,~'e-. e estions from the Senate-,internal--Security.-Sub- which will-publish titewsultsshortly. Soviet Grain Controversy-The Soviets have asked Washington for permission to purchase an- other 11 million metric tons of grain. This would more than double the 10.2 million tons that have already been sold to Rus- sia. The total sale, if the new re- quest is approved, would be al- most 2 million tons more than the controversial 1972 wheat deal. Farm organizations are for approval of the Soviet request: The farmers contend that the government encouraged them to increase their planting this spring. The American wheat crop, therefore, is expected to surpass 2 billion bushels this year. Two-thirds. of this must be sold overseas, the farmers claim. Otherwise, they will be stuck with huge surplus stocks, and the bottom will fall out of the market. The sale of another 11 million tons to Russia, on the other hand, will pushup grain prices. One possibility, which the diplo- mats are trying to work out, is to exchange American grain for Soviet oil. Our sources say the United States might be able to, import about 8 per cent of its oil requirements from the Soviet Union. Washington Whirl-Rep. Joe L. Evins (D-Tenn.) submitted a bill to grant the Energy Re- search and Development Ad- ministration $15,000 for enter- tainment. As if anticipating the bill's success, ERDA threw a luxury bash five days later.at Washington's stylish Mayflower hotel. Cost to the taxpayers: $2, 344.49. ? The Transportation Depart- ment proudly announced a con- tract awarding $570,240 to t~e state of California to study mo- tor cycle safety. Six days later, the department announced it might revoke, federal highway safety grants to California be- cause of its horrendous motor- cycle safety laws. ?In previous columns, we re- ported the disappearance of 14 experimental aluminum pen- nies from the Senate and House Banking committees. Since no one has seen the valuable coins since 1973, we concluded that some distinguished thieves had quietly lifted them. But the U.S. Mint's deputy director, Frank MacDonald, fearful of offending the light-fingered legislators,' is pretending the coins "remain in the custody of the committees and will presumably be re- turned to the (Mint) once the committees no longer have any need for these sample pieces." (C) 1975, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. STATINTL Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000400090064-2 STATINTL Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000400090064-2 STATINTL A22 Frtday,,4rrgem29,1975 THE WASHINGTON POST Beefing Up the Soviet Diet Helps Create Grain Shortage By Peter Osnos Washington Post Foreign davies MOSCOW-Last month, as Soviet cosmonauts pre- pared to blast off for the celebrated "handshake in space" with American astro- nauts, Soviet officials were discreetly arranging another huge purchase of grain from the United States. The irony of those two items arrayed simultane- ously across American front pages was unmistakable:the Soviet Union is a super- power capable of the techno- logical masterwork neces- sary to lift man into apace, but is still unable to meet Its own food needs. Despite massive yearly ex? penditures of money and la- bor to increase agricultural output, Moscow time and again falls short of goals for that most basic of food sup- plies-grain. It happened in 1972 and to a far lesser ex- tent last year, and 1976-af- ter a promising start-has proved to be another fail- ure. Unlike victims of the great famines that blighted the Russian past, the mod- ern Soviets do have all the bread they need. Indeed, the shortages of today result in large part from a determined Kremlin effort to enable Russians to eat less bread, potatoes and other starchy foods and more meat and dairy prod- ucts. The Soviet leadership is committed in word and deed to raising the standard of living and that, naturally, means Improving the na- tional diet. Recent U.S. figures show that Soviet citizens still eat only about a third as much meat as Americans and con- sume about twice the amount of grain products and potatoes. Where Moscow has run into trouble is in trying to produce enough feed for the huge and expanding live- stock herds while at the same time filling the vast grain needs of a growing population. The only alter- native to buying abroad is to cut back on either meat or bread. And that, in the view of Soviet specialists, is unac- ceptable. This year, they say, is a particularly sensitive one politically for the Soviet leadership because it winds up the current five-year plan. At next February's Communist Party confer- ence, Leonid Brezhnev and his comrades want to be able to cite the great strides made in the recent past on behalf of the people. A drop in meat supplies, even if officially concealed, would be an embarrassment in a society where such mat- ters are closely watched by shoppers. The projected size e vet a conoi+ An__ Am eeri- exerts here think the results will not be as Da as the sas roue crop rec tly atino V sh' inr min .at uulggl nla es the to . 1 a . l6ri m lion metrir~ ~ylllon tn Li, in's nri final ectitnrtpa and even below the exceedingly poor cro of 1972. That year the Sovie ss ma a the enormous, st;111-controversial grain pur- chases from the United States and other countries that set off, a worldwide surge in prices. While the crop this season will unquestionably be far below early expectations, the Soviets have not yet sig- naled a demand on the scale of three years ago. Moreo- ver, according to local spe- cialists, the area now being sown is larger than it was and conditions overall are better. The current total of So- viet purchases for 1975 is about 14 million metric tons, most from the United States, which has put a tem- porary embargo on further transactions because of widespread concern that the inflationary pattern of 1972 will be repeated. Regardless. of how large the crop finally turns out to be, the question remains why the Soviet Union is so consistently unable to fulfill its stated objectives in this crucial area. The answer is a combina- tion, principally, of two factors: geography and inef- ficiency. Soviet agriculture is per- manently hampered by the extreme variability of the country's continental cli- mate that makes planning from year to year difficult. The growing season is short and even a relatively brief drought can cause problems. This year, for instance, a warm spring prompted hopes for a bumper crop, but a siege of dry weather that extended into July eliminated the possibility. And August set records for cold weather in some areas. Size does not offer the Soviets any advantages, either. Although the country is more than twice as big as the United States, only about 11 per cent of the land Is arable. A major effort to under way to expand the amount of land under cul- tivation, but the process is slow and the results often meager. Low productivity, is the other great difficulty. Soviet investment in agriculture over the past decade has been about four times as large per year as in the United States. There have been important strides made in mechanizations, fertiliza- tion and wage benefits. Nevertheless, the average Soviet worker still puts out only slightly more than a tenth of what an American farmhand does, according to U.S. figures. Agriculture," one Ameri- can analyst said this week, "is the weakest part of the Soviet economy. Turning that fact around is an im- mense proposition." The prospect is that Mos- cow will be a buyer on the world grain market for a very long time. Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000400090064-2 STATINTL Approved For Release 2004/10/27: CIA-RDP~ THE WASHINGTON POST DATE The Washington Merry-GO- ooand Federal Snoops Have Own Manual By Jack Anderson CIA but has retired. He stressed to us that he swept up the loose information that had and Les Whitten the investigative techniques suggested in been unavailable from other sources. In seemingly innocuous but prying little his book were used by the CIA only to Murphy has also found landladies an ways, the federal governihent is compiling check prospective employees, not to spy on excellent source of information. The landladies of these rooming houses often data on extinguish thenright f privacy and lead to c~tNonetheless, the CIA keeps tabs on get to know their roomers quite well," he a regimented society in this land of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who counsels federal investigators. have absolutely no wish to work for the Graduate reunions can be productive. frFederal snoops, for example, can CIA. "At such gatherings," he advises, "a consult a 452-page manual, which will tell This can best be done, apparently, photograph is inevitable, and it might be ahem how to track down the most obscure through the government itself. According the means of obtaining an up-to-date s personal details about almost anyone, to Murphy's handbook, the federal photograph for use in your Inquiry." anywhere. government offers a smorgasbord of in- Murphy also recommends checking with A Metropolitan Opera singer? Check formation about the citizenry. Selective the public utilities that serve the subject's "Opera Biographies," published in London Service and'military records, income tax neighborhood. "The records of the gas, by Werner Laurie. A New Jersey hog returns, Social Security files and even electric, water, telephone and sewer farmer? The manual advises: "Hog census records can be pried open by companies are particularly helpful," he farmers who feed garbage are required to federal snoops. confides, obtain a license from the Department of Just about every time a citizen rubs It is clear from Murphy's handbook that Agriculture." against the government, whether it be to reporters often come under the.federal Or do you want to locate a divorced license a business, register a car, claim spyglass. He has found the musty, old construction worker of Croatian descent? unemployment insurance or even pur- accreditation records from World War II No problem. Just look up his marriage and chase savings,bonds, he must leave behind and the Korean War are loaded with in- divorce papers. You can also check with his life history. , timate details about correspondents. the construction union and the Croatian- Much of the information is of no prac- "The files will contain travel data and American Association. tical value to anyone except some will include complaints about the This exhaustive handbook on snooping is bureaucrat with a Big Brother complex. (reporter), such as leaving debts behind, called "Where's What," with the subtitle, For page after page, Murphy also tells excessive drinking or inaccurate repor- "Sources of Information for Federal how to dig out information from private ting," Murphy says. Investigators." It was compiled in 1965 by sources. He relates, for example, how he Read singly, the federal files may seem Harry J. Murphy, who was then an in, tracked down a nameless Hungarian merely another dreary example of vestigator for the Central Intelligence airplane-parts manufacturer by using bureaucratic excess. Examined in larger Agency. bank records. lots, they provide an intriguing study of Perhaps significantly, the CIA gave him Another time, he checked whether a just how far the government has intruded a year's leave at the Brookings Institution subject had ever been bonded by one of her into the lives of Americans~.rAtw i^l ?? to work on the proiect. He returned to the employers. It turned out that she had, and Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000400090064-2 STATINTL Approved For Release 2004/10/27: CIA-RDP7~ THE WASHINGTON POST DATE T.S. Aide Is Killed In Greece From News Dispatches ATHENS, Dec. 23-Richard S. Welch, special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to Greece, was shot to death outside his suburban home here tonight, a U.S. embassy spokesman said. Welch's name was among seven on a list of alleged U.S. Central Intelligence Agency .agents working in Greece published recently by the English-language daily Athens News. A police spokesman said Welch, 46, a first secretary at I.he embassy, was shot in front of his villa in the fashionable suburb of Palaion Psyhiko, about eight miles from the Greek capital. Three masked gunmen drew tip in a car, one got out and shot Welch three times. He died soon after he was rushed to a hospital, the police spokesman said. (According to intelligence sources in Washington Welch was CIA chief of station in Athens at the time of his murder. A CIA spokesman in Washington, asked about Welch's alleged undercover activities, replied: "The agency does not confirm employment, either past or present. It never has and never will." A State Depar- ? tment spokesman said he did net know if Welch worked for theCIA.), Welch and his wife Kiki were apparently returning to. their residence from a Christmas party given by U.S. Ambassador Jack B. Kubisch for hundreds of Greek and American guests. Mrs. Welch was reportedly, unhurt in the shooting incident. Welch was a career diplomat with previous overseas service at the U.S. embassies in Peru, Guatemala and Cyprus. A 1951 graduate of Harvard, he spent nine years as an _. GREECE, From Al economic analyst for the Department of the Army before entering the Foreign Service in 1960. He was assigned to the embassy here about five months ago. When it published the names of alleged CIA agents, the Athens Daily News said it had received the list from an organization calling itself "The Committee of Greeks and Greek-Americans." The committee said in a letter that Welch's job was "to see that the government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis does not get out of control." It did not say how Welch did this. A few days later another unknown previously ca organization ng itself " The Commfltee to Keep Greece Greek" sent the Athens News a letter naming 10 alleged agents of the Soviet KGB, or secret police, working in Greece. The News refused to publish the KGB list but foreign news agencies received a copy of it and published the story. There has been some anti- American feeling in Greece, stemming from belief in some quarters that the United States supported the Turks in their invasion of Cyprus last year. 'Many Greeks also believe Washington propped up the military junta that ruled Greece for seven years before the Cyprus crisis. Diplomat's Death Laid to Publicity While President Ford ex- -ressed his shock and sorrow at the murder in Athens of U. S. diplomat Richard S. Welch, a former CIA official said that such tragedies become "inevitable" because of recent exposures of CIA personnel. David Phillips, president of the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers and a close personal friend of Welch said in Washington yesterday that his organization for several months "has ex- pressed its concern, for a number of American foreign service officers abroad because of their identification as CIA officers by a small group of ex-intelligence people who have been engaged in a program of exposing in- telligence officers." Phillips, who retired from the CIA in May of this year, identified ' Philip Agee, another former CIA em- ployee, . as the main "protagonist" in the effort to identify CIA agents abroad. In a recent book Agee named more than a hundred CIA agents, both Americans and others of foreign nationalities. Phillips said "our association believes that the murder of Welch in Athens represents the tragic kind of occurrence which becomes inevitable" through the practice of identifying CIA agents as practiced by Agee. sident Ford. vacationing in Vail o. , oh d he was shocked and horrified by the terro ~ -or h. 131~ said ''the he.s its Of all e- merLc ^ .go out to his family in sympa~'iFiv a~ ~8tttn le. See GREECE, A8, Wroved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000400090064-2 Approved For.Releas~ STATINTL (ton ressional CIO PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 94th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 121 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1975 No. 181 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was called to order by Ron. CLAIBORNE PELL, a Senator from the State of Rhode Island. PRAYER The Reverend Charles J. Minifie, rector, Trinity Church, Newport, R.I., offered the following prayer: Almighty God, who has guided and preserved these United States through the past and has given us a position of responsibility among the nations of the world, grant that we may always be worthy of Your high calling; strive for justice, mercy, and peace among all peo- ples; always be mindful of Your purpose and call to serve You in faithfulness and in righteousness; and finally be good and responsible` stewards of Tour most geh.- etous. bounty. This we pray through One who came among us not to be served but to serve, even Jesus Chri