brieu to pen- tenron publication I By /thee Nres.se - The Washington Post hou. consulate general in lega .fh a clerical employe dont :ill affair with a tie- :ley rigged a take How the Tehran Paperbacks Got Here con -mat the employe in ■' Yid sow. flort to recruit him. The wolf eats him who makes himself a lamb. who — Bartolemen Vanzetti government was not unpopular and failing as de- or of (apt at blackmail, Bartolemeo Vanzetti's adage has become a motto scribed by the Kennedy administration. Still without :;et. the Israeli girl tier journalist/activist William Worthy, 60, who has TI the passport the government had refused to renew meth ton from her boy- made it his business for a quarter-century to tread 1957, he was tried and sentenced to jail. in pima where others dare not, particularly in those areas In 1964, his conviction was overturned by a federal where the American government would prefer to see appeals court that declared the travel restrictions respc ven two or three less, rather than more, press coverage. unconstitutional, Worthy was traveling without a ning recruit Marna' When the government searched the luggage of passport through North Vietnam, Cambodia and In- opera airy reward," the Worthy and two colleagues last month and aeized donesia. stalk' he Shin Beth has paperback books published in Iran, complete with In February, 1980, Worthy, then a professor of eratio reprints of classified U.S. documents taken from the ,ddate and black- journalism and Afro-American studies at Boston Uni, tap t the United Na- U.S: Embassy there, it was not Worthy's first con versity, and Randy Goodman, now a visiting lecturer frontation with the government. with rvision Organize- at the University of Lowell, Maas., accompanied a teleph On Christmas Eve, 1956, Worthy, on leave as a 46-member U.S. "grassroots" dt:k Neiman fellow at Harvard, slipped n to Iran. At possib across a bridge the time, although there, wa;, I den microphone from Dung Kong to communist China, ignoring a 01; gavel to Iran, ployes the State Department was doing nothing to encour- aelis was discov- U:S. ban on travel. age travel there. At s al the U.S. Am- According to later testimony, his shortwave reports In September, 1981, with equipment and expense to the .viv," the report from Peking for CBS conflicted with Secretary of money from CBS television, Worthy, Goodman and olation State John Yea* ..phone taps were sound technician Terry Taylor returned to Iran on Emerge in China was a passing phase whose demisegginnunism would be , two telephones 10-day visas. Extending their visas over six weeks, give p( hastened by refusing to recognize the government of they managed to conduct more than 70 interviews portatit the U.S military Mao Tse-tung. The State Department- asked CBS microphone was with Iranians ranging from the clerical heirarchy to dents t and the newspapers for whom Worthy was reporting shoppers on the street. le wall plaster in tain ar to bring Worthy home. Although CBS relayed the At an airport on their way to Shiraz, they pur- original office of the Op- request, Worthy ignored it and stayed for six weeks. chased sets of the paperback hooks they had heard he Jordan-Israel When Worthy did return, the. State Department described by militants at the embassy. They pur- Arabs i refused to renew his passport without a commitinenti-- used la ;ommission Of- ..Chode adciitional,books at a downtown Tehran book- that he would abide by the travel restrictions in the s re. commur future. Although Worthy was defended by a coalition When the three left Iran on Nov. 27, 1981, they "plays a key of scholars and journalists during a series of congres- shipped the books with their regular luggage in two tntific exchange sional hearings, the denial of the passpOrt was upheld batches on Luftansa airline. by an appellate court. to the report, Customs officials regularly single out items from t-aelis devote a In October, 1960, six months before the long- Iran for special drw "The delayed Bay of Pigs invasion, Worthy reportett searches, according to Lufthansa telligenct of their covert -from 'agent Jock Boylan. When they saw a batch of paper- ,g scientific and Havana that Cuban officials expected to be attacked back books, several of which have reproductions of the Va'as by Cuban , exiles supported by the United States. . This . classified documents on their covers, they decided to ry funett in- Later in 1960, a second showing of "Yanki, No!", a call in the FBI. The FBI confiscated the documents. intelligent netrate certain televiiion documentary about Fidel Castro's Cuba on But the second batch of hooks had not been in- home and ojects in the which Worthy worked, was canceled under pressure spected by Customs when it arrived in New York .er western na- from the State Department. "The City, so the journalists had another copy of the vol- In October, 1961, Worthy returned from his fourth rector of umes, which form the basis for these trip to Cuba, where he had reported that the Castro , reports. Military I t to penetrate — Scott Armstrong Shin Beth in order to: police, the atom Despite. Ministry f Israelis Ire- ism, at times the Israelis have car- Near East," the survey says. "A for- rector of t ietbacks and ried the fight to Arab terrorists by and police training, arms sales to mal trilateral liaison called the Tri- Planning cases where taking executive action against them, national military forces, and aid and dent organization was established by Foreign A ta of Ameri- especially in parts of the Near East development programs." They have Mossad with Turkey's National Se- military, it th have been and Western Europe. In particular, continued to have good relations curity Service (TNSS) and Iran's ist adviser ) U.S. author- the fact that Lebanon has a mixed with intelligence agencies in Kenya, National Organization for Intelli- Meeti Christian, Druze and Moslem pop- Zaire and South Africa, and in West gence and Security (SAVAK) in late ly but may pared to cap- ulation has made that country at- Africa have provided training in Li- 1958. Sim a the original agreement At these nit !rind of agent tractive for intelligence projects. The beria and Ghana. the& has been an addition to Mos- ally providi says, includ- Israelis have covert assets and run • Latin America: "The Israelis sad's bilateral relationship with each activities of il to' Jewish operations in their {northern neigh- have been very active in Latin Amer- preceding to service .. " livities, pro- bor. In the past they have mounted ica over the years," acc By agreement with the Turks, ling to the Mossad chi Iti-Semitism, paramilitary and executive action report. "Recently, much of their li- Mossad has undertaken to furnish capacity is d and hwnan- operations against, Palestinian ter- aison activity in Latin America has Prime mini mail is also information on the Vivifies of So- centered on training and antiterror- rorist leaders, personnel and instal- viet agents in Turkey and those Va.-ad.-A are techniques lations in Lebanon." ist operations. The Isrpeli Consulate and the ter :money, busi- working against Turkey throughout in Rio de met The report also discloses a previ- the Middle clease from ously undisclosed