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133rd YEAR, No. 39.671 >-METROEDITION.

The Globe and Mail

TORONTO, MONDAY. JANUARY 31. 1977

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ANGOLA: ap the x08 ¥ permitted a brazen Soviet land grab

Front page story in Toronto’s Globe and Mail by Robert Moss, giving inside story on the war in Angola. Mr.
Moss a director for a right-wing British organization, National Association for Freedom is on the payroll of the

CIA. He is also responsible for a ClIA-funded book on Chile.

CIA subsidizes Canadian ‘news’

Earlier this year, readers of the
Toronto Globe and Mail were
treated to a series of articles deal-
ing with Angola. They were pre-
sented as the work of Robert
Moss, ‘‘former editor of The
Economist’s confidential foreign
report who is now with the Lon-
don Daily Telegraph.’ That
should have established him in
the reader’s mind as an impartial
journalist.

True there was a lingering
anti-Soviet, anti-Cuban, anti-
Angolan hatred, but with so au-
thoritative and so unbiased a wri-
ter, surely it must mean that such
hatred was deserved. The articles
seemed designed to engender that
attitude in the reader.

There is something more to be
said about Robert Moss than the
Globe’s suggestion that he is a
dedicated investigative journalist.
The Guardian Weekly, of Man-
chester, under the by-line of Peter
Chippindale and Martin Walker,
headed its report: ‘‘CIA funded
leading Tory’s book on Chile.”’

With full credit to the Guar-
dian’s journalists for their inves-
tigative reporting, we quote:

“*A series of books on topical
political subjects has been or-
ganized in Britain as a major, and
hitherto unknown, part of a CIA-
subsidized propaganda operation.

““One of the authors in the
series is Mr. Robert Moss, who
drafted Mrs. Thatcher’s (Bri-
tain’s Tory leader) controversial
‘Iron Maiden’ speech about the
Soviet threat. He now directs the
National Association for Free-
dom, a right-wing pressure
group.’

The article says that ‘Moss’ s
anti-Allende book ‘‘was commis-
sioned by a ClIA-funded com-
pany,”’ and that 10,000 copies of
the book were purchased by the
Chilean fascist junta “‘to be given
away as part of a propaganda
package.” The Spanish edition

was put out by a publishing house

wholly-owned by the junta.

The CIA front is called Forum
World Features, which dissemi-
nates pro-U.S. propaganda
throughout the world, says the
Guardian.

“Previously,” the Guardian
says, ‘‘it had been thought that
FWF’s activities were confined to
a news service which distributed
articles to newspapers around the
globe, (and to the Glcbe — Trib)
particularly in the Third World.
But the Guardian’s inquiries have
established that a major part of
the operation was concerned with
long-term propaganda and was
involved with getting authors of

whom they approved into print.”’

This ‘‘news’’ source, from
which Canadians are- urged to
make their appraisals of world
events, has a further interesting
connection.

The Guardian writers note that
a Brian Crozier, ‘‘a friend of Mr.
Moss,”’ helped to run FWF, and
also ‘‘sits on the council of the
National Association for Free-
dom. This council includes seven
right-wing Tory MPs, .among
them Rhodes Boyson and
Winston Churchill, as well as
“‘industrialists, academics and
‘counter-insurgency’ experts.”

This background explains why
an article which newspaper read-
ers might have mistaken for “‘in-
formation’’ refers to ‘‘a sugarcane
republic,’’ for socialist Cuba, and
their troops as ‘‘Gurkhas of the
Soviet empire.”

It helps explain the effort to im-
plant in readers’ minds that the
victory of the Angolans was ‘‘one
of the most brazen land grabs that
the Russians and their satellites

have attempted’’. And it explains

Moss's goading of the Western
governments with ‘‘the failure of
nerve in Washington and other
Wester capitals.”’

Third member of WPGC
executive assassinated

HELSINKI — In a statement
condemning the assassination of
Lebanese leader Kamal Jumblatt,
the World Peace Council, on
March 18 called upon peace
forces everywhere to ‘‘redouble
their efforts in support of the
struggle of the Lebanese people
against the fascist conspiracies
and aggression of Israel in south-
em Lebanon.”’

Jumblatt’s murder at the hands
of an imperialist conspiracy adds
his name to two other members of
the World Peace Council Presi-
dential Committee who dared to
stand for peace and progress:
Salvador Allende of Chile and
Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh.

The full Peace Council state-
ment follows:

The World Peace Council has
been extremely shocked by the
news of the assassination of
Kamal Jumblatt, the prominent
Lebanese leader, and outstanding
member of the World Peace
Council Presidential Committee,
by agents of imperialism, Zionism
and reaction.

The World Peace Council
draws the attention of world pub-
lic opinion to the fact that this das-
tardly crime was committed at the
very moment that Israel and the
fascist Lebanese forces were in-
tensifying their conspiratorial ac-
tivities in southern Lebanon,
threatening the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of the whole
country.

Kamal Jumblatt was the symbol
of the Lebanese progressive and
patriotic movement and of the un-
ity of the Lebanese patriotic
forces struggling for a democratic
solution to the Lebanese crisis
based on the independence,
sovereignty and territorial integ-
rity of Lebanon. This struggle, to
which Jumblatt devoted all his life
was, and will remain, part and
parcel of the struggle of the Arab
people’s liberation movement

PACIFIC-TRIBUNE—APRIL 1, 1977—Page 8 ~

against the designs of imperialism
and Israel in the Middle East.
The World Peace Council con-
siders the assassination of Kamal
Jumblatt as a link in the chain of
imperialist-Zionist conspiracies.
The fascist and reactionary
forces, supported by Israel and
imperialism, seek through the.as-
sassination of Kamal Jumblat, to
drench Lebanon in yet another
bloodbath, so that they can
achieve their sininter aims. Jum-
blatt’s assassination is the first
step in the fascist forces’ attempt
to physically liquidate the leaders
of the Arab liberation movement.
The World Peace Council con-
considers theassassinationofJum-
blatt a great loss to the World
Peace Council and to peace forces
in the Arab countries and the
world over. It reiterates, on this

occasion, its firm support of the .

progressive and patriotic forces in
Lebanon.

The World Peace Council urges ©

all peace forces in the world to
condemn the assassination of
Jumblatt and to redouble their ef-
forts in support of the struggle of
the Lebanese people against the
fascist conspiracies and aggres-
sion of Israel in southern
Lebanon

-cobalt,

Zaire base for planned
CIA invasion of Angola

The U.S. supplying of weapons
to the regime of Mobutu Sese
Seko in Zaire has been attacked
by the U.S. Communist Party
newspaper “‘Daily World’’ as an
attempt by the corporations ‘‘to
preserve untouched their multi-
billion dollar empire.” “*

The newspaper charges the
U.S. wants to keep Zaire as a base
of operations against the national
liberation movements and that
half of all U.S. military ‘‘aid’’ to
African countries is sent to
Mobutu. An additional $2-million
has been dispatched on the pre-
text of an invasion from Angolan
soil.

Belgium and France are also
funnelling in military supplies and
17 air transport loads are reported
to have been sent from Brussels
where NATO headquarters is lo-
cated. Belgian firms still retain ex-
tensive holdings in Zaire, for-
merly Belgian Congo.

U.S. investment in Zaire totals
$1-billion, mainly in its copper,
uranium: and diamond
mines. Since 1945 the U.S. has
purchased Zaire’s entire uranium
production. It, along with Canada
and South Africa, supplies nearly
all of the Pentagon’s uranium
needs.

President Agostino Neto of the

.People’s Republic of Angola ear-

lier this month charged that a CIA
plan for a Zaire-South Africa in-
vasion of Angola is in the works.
Named ‘‘Cobra-77”’ the plan has
a separate NATO code name,
‘‘Natal-77’. He named CIA of-
ficials operating in Zaire with
““special groups’’ who are prepar-
ing the invasion plans.

Closely connected with
‘“‘Cobra-77”’ are the military op-
erations underway in the south-
em part of Angola on the Nami-
bian border. Here, counter-rev-
olutionary FNLA and UNITA

Claims of invasion by Zaire’s
president Mobutu Sese Seko are 4
smokescreen for a Western milit-
ary build-up against Angola.

forces in cooperation with South ©
Africa are creating a ‘‘death
strip’’ along the border. FNLA is
led by Roberto Holden, a known

CIA agent and the brother-in-law

of Zaire’s president Mobutu.
Angola has — rejected U.S.3

claims it is involved in the events
presently going on in the Zaire —
province of Shaba and that allega- |
tions of Cuban troops fighting 00 |

the side of the. rebels are lies
‘‘spearheaded to escalate the wat
and involve the U.S. and other
Western powers in reprisals”
against the Zaire people.”

Moroz, Western hero
thief, traitorin USSR

By JOHN WEIR

Tribune Moscow Correspondent .

In Leningrad Oleg Volkov and
Yuli Rybakov are being tried on
charges of theft. In 23 ‘‘opera-
tions’’ they stole a stereo tape re-
corder, typewriter, radio receiver
and various other items. Already
some: Western media have added

- them to the list of ‘‘dissidents and

martyrs.”’

Recently I visited the ancient
and beautiful city of Kiev, capital
of Soviet Ukraine. While there I
undertook to trace the career of
Valentin Moroz who has long
been mourned by some circles in

The USSR Ministry of Communications has issued a series of
stamps entitled “Moscow — the Organizer of the XXII Olympic

Games”.

Canada as a dissident and martyr. —

There was no difficulty in getting
the facts of the case. This indi-

vidual was tried some years ago”
for illegal activity such as spread- —

ing anti-Soviet propaganda, ad-

vocating the forcible tearing of the ”

Ukraine away from the Soviet —
Union with the help of foreign
powers, etc.

He pleaded guilty, numerous ©
witnesses testified to his guilt, and ~

he was sentenced to a spell in
prison. (Each of the Republics of
the Soviet Union is guaranteed —
the right to separation, but
clandestine agitation for forcible

separation and reliance on foreign —

forces, which means civil war and
imperialist intervention, is against
the law in the Soviet Ukraine).
It wasn’t long before Moroz
‘was released and returned to

‘ Ivano-Frankovsk. It is clear the

trial and sentence did not cause
him to change his ways. He did

not return to his job as teacher of —
history, he acquired a good deal _

of money from some source and
began touring Ukrainian cities
trying to set up groups of
followers.

Arrested a second time he was

put away as an incorrigible crimi- «

nal. That’s your dissident and

martyr gentlemen of the anti:

détente. chorus!

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