By IVAN GARBUZOV

Caspar Weinberger, U.S. Secretary of Defense,
circulated the paper ‘‘Fiscal Years 1984-88, Defense
Guidance’’ among the U.S. armed forces last May. In
the manual he declared that the USA must restore,
activate and strengthen the special-purpose troops to
demonstrate the might of the USA in cases where the
use of conventional forces would be premature,
inappropriate, and impossible. What he meant was
the rebirth of the contingents of the Green Berets
which were formally disbanded in the late 60s. Their
Specialities were murder, sabotage, and espionage.

Washington declares that the number of Green Be-
Tets will be nearly doubled very soon, reaching 8,600.
The special operations command for the land forces
which will supervise all the special units in the U.S.
Army, started to function as of last Oct. 1. Brigadier
Sale Joseph Lutz was appointed its commanding
Officer.

On Long-term Contracts
Washington grudges neither effort nor money for
the special forces. These troops get lavish allocations

for combat training and for purchasing the most
Sophisticated signal corps equipment and air trans-

port means. For example, Congress gave them some
$40-million in the fiscal year 1983 just for the purchase
of additional M-130 transport planes and Blackhawk
helicopters. General Lutz declared that his men were
faced with very important tasks and that his forces
were on the up and up.

The main training centre for the Green Berets is in
Fort Bragg, N.C. The trainees are taught how to
conduct combat actions and psychological warfare in
the most diverse ways and are made specialists on
sabotage, intelligence gathering, and anti-guerrilla
activities.

The instructors and trainees are thoroughly
screened because they must be satisfactory both from
the ideological and combat points of view. Only vol-
unteers, signing long-term contracts, are admitted to
the Green Berets. They include quite a few declassed
elements, traitors who fled their countries after com-
mitting political and other crimes there.

According to American sources, some units of
these troops consist entirely of foreigners and are
trained in their own language. For example, the units
preparing to act in Latin America are trained in
Spanish and study the customs, traditions, history,
and the situation in Latin America.

Another training establishment, the school for civil
and military administration in Fort Gordon, Ga.,
deals with questions of the interrelation of troops with
the civilian population and organs of state govern-
ment. Most of the trainees are U.S. officers intended
for further service abroad as military advisers or
members of the so-called mobile instructors’ groups
in the developing countries.

In the last four years, 53 such groups were sent
abroad, but already by 1982 this number had grown to
130. They operate in Latin America, the Middle East,
the Persian Gulf countries, South-east Asia, Liberia,
and Somalia.

The Green Berets ride again

Their Methods

The U.S. News and World Report weekly wrote
that the purpose of restoring the Green Berets was to
create a tool capable of interfering in local wars,
strengthening pro-western forces or destabilizing re-
gimes which threaten U.S. interests.

The Green Berets must obtain data on the enemy’s
more important objects, and, if need be, destroy
them, arrange acts of terrorism, do sabotage, spread
bacteriological agents to cause epidemics, and or-
ganize ‘‘guerrilla’’ groups from those among the
population who are in opposition to the present re-

ime.
‘ These troops are tasked with spreading subversive
propaganda and slanderous rumors and With
suppressing national-liberation and guerrilla move-
ments in the developing countries. On top of that,

U.S. Marines in Vietnam.

they must physically liquidate people not to the
USA’s liking, including politicians, statesmen, and
other local authorities. '

~ When performing these tasks, especially when
dealing with prisoners who might possess information
of interest to them, the Green Berets are not averse to
resorting to any means, including very sophisticated
torture.

The West German magazine Stern recently shed
light on the plans for these troops’ activities in one
more area — Europe, and, above all, of course, east-
ern Europe. The magazine published the secret plan
for infiltrating U.S. saboteurs into the USSR and
other socialist countries. According to the magazine,
the operation of the Green Berets against the socialist
countries would begin at the moment hostilities
started or even before that.

Twenty areas for operations by the Green Berets
have been singled out in U.S. territory alone, 8 in
Poland, 6 in the GDR, 6 in Czechoslovakia, 3 each in
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, and 2 in Hungary.

Many Americans, military officers included, ex-
press fears over the buildup of the special-purpose
troops. They are afraid that these thugs, past masters
at doing dirty business, may bring about (as has al-
ready happened more than once), a lot of unpleasant-

ness for the USA itself.

As for General Lutz, his explanation for the rebirth
of the Green Berets is that Americans realized the
USSR is achieving amazing success in the Third
World without major confrontation, and at present
were hardly able to do anything about it.

That’s why Washington now stakes everything on
subversive methods.

— Reprinted from Moscow News

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A The Advisory Council’s seven-month
Study, published in December 1982, and
entitled Employment Impacts of New

Technologies, is based on the responses
joné of 44 organizations (out of 504 invited to
pies Participate). These include some unions,

: ah Such as United Auto Workers, Steel-

a Workers, Canadian Union of Public
Employees, and Public Service Alliance.

‘Among its six recommendations,
which contain numerous subsections, is
@ proposal for a manpower planning
agency which would monitor the impact
of new technologies on work, ease the”
Negative effects of its introduction,
€Xamine restructuring of jobs and or-
Ranization, and link new technologies to

| Potential for improving the quality of
_ Working life.

It urges the training of workers to re-
Spond to the demands of the new tech-
Nologies, the granting of educational
leave to workers to upgrade their skills in

preparation for the new conditions, and
the provision of training allowances “‘to
full-time and part-time workers as well as
new entrants wishing to be re-trained to
meet the needs of the labor market.”

The Advisory Council sees the need
for the department to assume ‘a more
aggressive role in improving women’s
participation in non-traditional occupa-
tional areas;”” and should ‘‘include the
handicapped in its efforts to help workers
cope with technological change.”

While the Council tends to reject pes-
simistic views of the introduction of new
technologies it concedes that opinions
expressed by respondents “‘range from
extreme pessimism to moderate optim-
ism’. One organization expressed the
opinion, the report says, that “‘by 1985,
there would be a requirement for 2.7 mil-
lion replacement jobs in addition to
developing new industries to provide
jobs for a growing labor force.’

With admittedly worthy ideas among
its ‘‘Guiding Principles’, the Council’s
mandate does not require it to show how
the leopard can be made to change its
spots. It says, for example:

“Technology should be seen as creat-
ing new opportunities for improving pro-

ductivity and the quality of working life;
introduction of. technological change
should be the subject of consultation be-
tween employees and employers;
information relevant to the introduction
of technological change should be avail-
able to employees; continuing education

should be seen as essential to the effec-
tive allocation of human resources and to
the productivity of our country;
governments, labor and management
should commit themselves to the
achievement of full employment; and,
technological change should not have
negative effects on workers’ health and
safety.”

It remains unclear how much influence
the Advisory Council’s report will have
on government and management, neither
of whom have in the past, for example,
recognized full employment as a re-
quirement or as a responsibility of
government or management.

In connection with its recommenda-
tions for educational leave and training
allowances, Council acknowledges that
it was ‘‘advised that efforts along these
lines were initiated in the past ... but
were not developed fully... it may be
desirable,’’ it says to hold Employment
and Immigration offices responsible.

In the meantime, trade unions and
labor organizations wary of the impact of
such proposals on governments, may
find it timely to press for the best features
of the Advisory Council’s recom-
mendations.

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