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The

ultimate cover up...

CIA report to be ‘censored’ by Ford

After months of testimony on
the activities of the Central In-
telligence Agency, the whole
Story may be killed. The moun-
tain may have labored only to
produce a mouse.

The House of Representatives

Jan. 30 voted to withhold the

final report of its Select Commit-
tee until it has been censored by
President Ford. This, as everyone
knows from Nixon’s “editing” of
the Watergate tapes, should fin-

ally produce a document that

will read like a seed catalogue.
So.disgusted was the chairman
of the committee that he describ-
ed the year’s work as “an exer-

-Cise in futility”.

Futile is wasn’t — although
the efforts to bring out the CIA’s
werld-wide operations and be-
8in to put the agency under con-
trol are seriously hampered.
Enough facts seeped out to fill

in a sordid picture of a multi-

billion dollar spy network that

surprised even its supporters.
The method of operations by

the CIA at home and collusion ,

with elected officials to cover up
its dealings also came in for
scrutiny during the hearings. In

the last days, charges that Sena-

tor Jackson: advised the CIA on
ways to avoid probing questions
were .heard. Jackson, it was
claimed, advised the agency on
ways to cut back on the author-
ity of Church’s Senate Foreign
Relations Committee which was
digging into CIA involvement in
the USA’s international policies.
Jackson is a candidate for the
presidency in 1976.

Details of CIA goings on
abroad were released daily and
included ‘‘destabilizing’’ the Al-

‘lende government in Chile, cash

and other favors to right-wing

parties and individuals in Italy,

Iraq, Indonesia, the Middle East
and its Angola operations. The
matter of ClIA-corporation con-
nections also sufaced exposing
the use of the agency’s $10-bil-
lion a year budget in awarding
contacts without bids. :
The totality of the CIA’s cor-
ruption and its numerous con-
nections into the political and
business circles of the United
States was begining to show.
Many people, it can be safely as-
sumed, were getting worried.
The latest move to block the
publication of the Select Com-
mittee’s findings under the guise
of “protecting state security”
will fool no one. Gerald Ford
has no intention of allowing his
friends and cronies to be ex-
posed, nor will weaken a world-
wide agency that has been very
useful to U.S. aims abroad.

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Peking is partner

Ships are cruising to and fro
these days between the Chinese
and Chilean coasts carrying
Cargos of rice purchased by the
Chilean regime from its trade
Partners in China and of Chilean
Copper bought by Peking.

The ‘ties between the Maoists
and the Pinochet junta keep
frowing. Immediately after the

fascist coup in Chile, Peking -

°Penly displayed its support for
the anti-popular regime and
€stablished “friendly relations”
with it. In line with their active
Policy of promoting broad trade
and economic contacts with the
Junta, tHe Maoists have granted
the latter a loan of $58-million.

In 1974 China imported from

ile more than $117-million
Worth of goods, compared with
& mere $500,000 worth in 1973
when the Popular Unity Govern-
Ment was in power. In other
Words, there has been developing
4 mutual understanding between

hina and Chile.

One can discern quite a defi-
Nite logic in the Peking leaders’
ver more “sincere friendship”
With the junta. Declaring that

© Soviet Union and the other
SOcialist countries are. Enemy

Umber One, and regarding the
'Mperialist forces and reaction-
ary regimes as their allies, the

a0ists have found in the Chi-

“an generals good allies for
amning anti-communist, anti-

Oviet hysteria. No wonder,
therefere, that the junta’s fore-

ign minister, Patricio Carcajal,
the former Chief of Staff of the
armed forces, who was one of
the organizers of the attack on
the presidential palace and of the
murder of Salvador Allende,
readily cites anti-Soviet speeches
coming in from Peking.

To the delight of the Peking
leaders, the Chilean press has
been making extensive use of a
dirty set of arguments invented
by Maoist propaganda to attack
the Soviet Union. It is indicative,

of Pinochet regime

that the Chilean journal Mer-

curio has supplemented its at-

tack on detente in international
relations being allegedly’ in the
interests of the Soviet Union
along with similar statements by
China’s Foreign Minister, Chiao
Kouan-Hua.

Each new step taken by the
Maoists exposes their complete
lack of principles to the public
as accomplices of Pinochet’s

fascist regime.
—APN

PINOCHET RESIGNATION RUMOR IN CHILE

LONDON — Infor
Augusto Pinochet, hea

be forced to resign in the coming

in Santiago de Chile, the air is
chet’s resignation and
The past few weeks
diplomatic circles hav
generals led by
Pinochet an ultimatum
the end of Dec
the North” and top junta fig
Chilean general staff by Pinoc
in a conspirary against him.
Eduardo Frei and h
turned
cizing the junta and. its
capitalism — has been pu
internal struggle betwe
Last week, the Pinoc
maceda” radio station owne
CDN bulletin. ;
The Chilean junta
relations with it by Cost
soners and refugees in t

Chile.

on the Pinochet junta with : 's
economic policy — for ruining Chilean

blished in Chile itself, an indication of
en the CDP and the junta.

het junta closed down the “Presidente Bal-
d by the CDP and banned the official

med British sources said Jan. 26 that Gen.
d of the fascist Chilean military junta, will
two weeks. The sources said that
thick with speculation about Pino-
his possible successor. ~

have seen growth of tension in Chile. British
e reported that a group of 10 top Chilean
Air Force commander Gen. Gustavo Leigh sent
demanding that he resign before March. At
ember, Gen. Sergio Arellano Stark, the ‘‘butcher of
ure, was forced to resign as head of the
het, who feared Arellano was involved

is Christian Democratic Party suddenly have

a vengeance. Frei’s book criti-

also was facing near-certain severance of
a Rica, over the question for political pri-
he Costa Rican Embassy in Santiago de

— Brazil kidnappings
claim two Communists

In an appeal for solidarity by
the general-secretary of the
Communist Party of Brazil, re-
ceived by the Tribune only re-
cently, but written late in 1975,
an increase in the repression of
anti-fascists is described.

In order to survive, the appeal
says, the military-fascist govern-
ment of General Geisel intensi-
fies its repression, imprisonment
and kidnapping daily. Each day
young, anti-fascist fighters are
murdered by the regime.

The appeal continues:

“The dictatorship’s political
and military machine has com-
mitted a new crime: kidnapping
two young communists, Jose
Montenegro de Lima and Jayme
Rodrigues Estrella Jr., leaders of
the Brazilian Young Commun-
ists, whose whereabouts are still
unknown.”

“José Montenegro de Lima
began his revolutionary path
when he was very young, in the
end of the fifties, joining the
Communist Party, reaching the
front ranks of the champions of
the emancipation of the Brazilian
people. :

“After the reactionary coup d’-
etat in 1964 he assumed without
any hesitation his place in the
struggle and showed himself as a
daring combatant against the
dictatorship and a leader highly
respected and admired by his
comrades. Later he assumed the
task to reorganize the Brazilian
Communist Youth, becoming its
acknowledged leader.

“After several years of search-
ing the fascist “gorillas” have
succeeded in kidnapping José
Montenegro de Lima and his life
is in danger.

“Jayme Rodrigues Estrella Jr.
began his political activity as a
‘student in the beginning of the
*sixties. While very young he de-
vcted himself to the Communist
Party and struggle. Later he also
enthusiastically took part in the
reorganization of the Brazilian
Communist Youth, having be-
come an outstanding leader. He
was known among his comrades
for his courage and devotion. He
was kidnapped together with
Jcsé Montenegro de Lima and
his whereabouts are also uh-
known; his life is in danger.

“The Brazilian Communist
Party, tireless and unswerving
champion of the struggle for the
emancipation of our people and
our youth, denounces before the
world the kidnapping of these
two young fighters.

“We appeal to all political
forces and democrats all over the
world and particularly to the
youth organizations to voice
their protest against this further
act of violence of the Geisel ad-
ministration.

“International solidarity,
which has already been able to
liberate and save the lives of a
number of young Chilean _anti-
fascists, will also be able to save
the lives of José Montenegro de
Lima and Jayme Rodrigues Est-
rella Jr.”

- High-rise urban slums in Brazil cover massive areas. The military-
fascist regime increases repression to keep the Brazilian people
from overthrowing their oppressors. International solidarity will help
the people rid their country of fascism.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 13, 1976—Page 9