Pes Pee Oe Ms NEO MO MOT OO HOT HO OQE1Q0O0 ROMO OVOPHOWETOVRUGVOTVOTIOTOOTMTT ON MTIOTITOOGOTAIMTTINRGTY| WORLD SCENE JAPANESE COMMUNISTS GAIN ’ The refusal of the Japanese Socialist Party leaders to join in a united front against Premier Sato’s pro-U.S. Liberal-Democratic Party was mainly responsible for Sato’s re-election—and also for a drop in the Socialist parliamentary representation. The Communist Party increased its representation in parliament from four to 14. During the election campaign Sato interlarded support of the U.S. with overtures to China. SOCIALIST LANDS HELP EX-COLONIES A five-day international conference in Berlin on problems of eco- nomic growth in emergent countries was attended by over 100 experts from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the G.D.R., Hungary, Mongo- lia, Poland, Rumania, and the Soviet Union. It was the third event with such a theme held within the framework of COMECON (Council of Mutual Economic Aid) countries. Problems of how to reach and ensure economic independence from imperialism after the gaining of political sovereignty played a major part. The conference also con- sidered questions of foreign capital in the solution of the economic problems, and the tasks of the progressive state apparatus in emer- gent countries. Participants in the conference also discussed the bourgeois theory of convergency. Considering the absolutely different political aims of imperialist and socialist countries, they could not cooperate in aiding developing states. The conference decided to hold a coordinat- ing conference of Africa experts in the G.D.R. in 1970. Similar events — take place with reference to Asia and Latin America respec- - tively. TO SAVE GREEK: COMPOSER Aram Khachaturyan joined fellow Soviet composer Dmitri Shos- takovich in calling for the formation of an international committee to save imprisoned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. Khachatur- yan said, “The immediate release of Theodorakis is demanded by all those who prize human dignity, democracy and peace.” WHO’S WHO IN CIA WORLD PLOT The second instalment of a documentation on organizations and persons engaged in espionage work for United States civil and mili- tary secret services has,now had advance publication in Effekt, a weekly in the German Democratic Republic. The list contains the names of sevral hundred firms working for the U.S. secret services as well as trusts and companies employing former prominent officials or agents of these services. The weekly also lists organizations which are totally or partially subsidized by the CIA. The list which begins with the letter L and ends with Z quotes the League for Industrial Democracy, the Moral Rearmament Movement, the National Student Press Council of India, the Press Institute of India, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church outside of Russia, and the Watch Tower Movement. The author of the documentation is the G.D.R. publicist Julius Mader who caused a sensation last year with his book Who’s Who in CIA, which has been sold in 81 countries. BRAZIL—LAND OF ILLITERACY According to figures cited by UNESCO and the Ministry of Edu- cation and Culture of Brazil, that country is “one of the most illiter- ate countries of the world.” Of 93 million Brazilians, 40 millions can neither read nor write. During the school year which ended in December, five million children between the ages of nine and 14 did not go to school, the Ministry of Education and Culture has acknowledged. CRITICS VOTE “Z” BEST FILM “Z,” the film based on the assassination of Greek leftist deputy Lambrakis in 1963, was voted the best film of the year by the New York Film Critic Circle, and its director Costa-Garvas received the award for the best director. (A review of “Z” was printed in our last issue.) $20 BILLION GONE PHHHT Senate investigators disclosed Tuesday that the U.S. Navy paid out an extra $96 million in excess claims to a contractor for a new destroyer escort and still wound up with a defective and under- equipped ship. When Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.), chairman of a Senate subcommittee. which did the investigating, confronted Gor- don W. Rule, civilian director of procurement control for the Navy Materiel Command, with the facts, Rule said, “We goofed.” Testifying before the House-Senate Economy subcommittee, a representative of the General Accounting Office testified that major U.S. weapons systems are-costing $20 billion more than originally estimated and that no person in the Government knows. the total number of systems or their costs. The cost of 38 systems has been pushed up from an estimated $42 billion to $62.9 million, or 49.8 percent. One example cited was the rise of cost for a Deep Submer- ged Rescue Vehicle, from $36 million for 12 to $463 million for six. MORE TROOPS DESERT THIEU Almost 1,000 South Vietnamese officers and men belonging to the _ Saigon armed forces stationed in the Mekong Delta region deserted to the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam in the first half of December, the North Vietnam News Agency reports. It also re- ported that 5,130 officers and men deserted in November—the high- est monthly figure. The desertions are a further sign of the gradual disintegration of the Saigon regime which is losing even the narrow base it has had. “President” Nguyen Van Thieu has been forced to close one news- paper after another, bringing the number to 15, and to send thugs into the National Assembly in attempts to suppress the growing apposition. ee PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 9, 1970—Page 8 Exploits of RCMP: pavers Ene BE pe Bolshevik spies in borshch? | By H. OKULEVICH (Vestnik) In the Nov. 29 issue of the Toronto Daily Star’s Canadian Magazine, there appeared an article by the former head of the RCMP Mr. William H. Kelly on the subject of “Security and Espionage.” In .this article Mr. Kelly relates to the Canadian people the heavy burden the RCMP carries in its constant and indefatigable search for spies and of its steady, uninter- rupted ‘vigil for the security of Canada. Theirs is an unenviable task. It is an open secret that all countries have spy services. Of course no country will admit it. They all mention only “counter- espionage” and the ‘“‘combatting of espionage.” Espionage was practised long before the First Advent of Christ and still con- tinues in our time. Most likely espionage will thrive until the Second Advent of Christ or for as long as different states exist. The whole question is only which country’s espionage ser- vice works better. We can as- sume that there are Soviet spies in various countries, perhaps in Canada too, and it is very pro- bable that there are Canadian spies in the Soviet Union. Each country endeavors to uncover foreign spies and render them harmless. © It is difficult to understand why the RCMP finds it such a strenuous job to chase Soviet spies, when according to, Mr. Kelly’s article, they are so stupid as to leave behind such clues that any untrained person could catch them. For instance, one of the spies after photographing some top secret documents, had left behind his photo-camera and a package of Russian “Laika” cigarettes. What an absent-minded spy! It is also worthwhile noting that Soviet spies smoke Russian cigarettes exclusively, which stink for miles. According to the article, they purchase these cigarettes at Goldstein’s store in Toronto. These Soviet spies are so absent-minded and. stu- pid that they may even leave behind snapshots of themselves, their addresses and telephone numbers. Really, can the secur- ity of Canada be in danger from such spies? If we judge the methods used by the RCMP to “catch” spies, as expounded in the article, we may sympathize with the “cat- chers,” but we cannot approve of their methods. We have no idea of how real spies operate or how they are “caught,” but we do know that our “counter- espionage” chases after “spies” in Canadian progressive organi- zations, among the Communist Party members, in student or- ganizations, etc. e At first such procedure may seem rather stupid. Anyone can understand that it would be ut- terly silly to engage people for espionage work in the Soviet Union who are open opponents of the regime. On the contrary, spies in the Soviet Union will endeavor to prove that they are ardent Communists. By impli- cation, a spy in Canada will try to show that he is a devoted Conservative or Liberal (or at least a Social-Creditiste) . Do the RCMP not know this basic truth? Of course they do. Their babbling about espionage among members of the Canada- U.S.S.R: . Society, Communist -nomic Party members and progressive “ethnic” organizations has no- thing to do with counteracting espionage in Canada. The main aim of this nonsense is to throw suspicion on these organiza- tions, to disrupt them and to force them to conform. In plain language, this RCMP procedure has nothing to do with concern for the security of our country, but represents a defin- ite, planned political purpose. In this light, the acts of the RCMP are not so stupid as one may at first imagine, but are positively anti-Canadian because these acts are aimed at intimidating radical, progressive-thinking people who through their legal organizations express their disagreement with some segment of governmental policy. ® ’ How else can one explain the following? Mr. Kelly writes that people who have relatives in the Soviet Union constitute a threat to Canada because those relatives may influence the ones residing in Canada. According to this statement, it turns out that the most dangerous people for Can- ada are the Russian and Ukrain- ian grandmothers who have spent 40 or more years in this country but still correspond with their relatives in the U.S.S.R. and may even wish to visit them. Now, that’s danger- ous! Because, you see, their So- viet relatives may recruit these grandmothers (and even great- grandmothers) as spies for the Soviets. When they return to Canada these great-grandmoth- ers will send their Soviet rela- tives secret military and eco- information. allegedly, the reason why some That. -