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International Intelligence Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 12, Number 16, April 23, 1985 InternationalIntelligence land's Jaruzelski that Germans, and not So­ These demands are that the Soviets leave (Free trade': Jamaica viets, killed 4,500 Polish officers at Katyn Afghanistan, the Vietnamese leave Cam­ in 1940, said that the truth was that Stalin bodia, and the Soviets reduce their military going to pot ordered the massacre of Katyn "according forces facing China. Hu said: "Why to the secret protocol of the 1939 Hitler­ shouldn't we have relations of friendship AirJamaica was fined$13 million Jamaican Stalin Pact, the existence of which Moscow and good neighborliness with a socialist dollars by U.S. Customs for the three tons has always tried to deny." Hillgruber, who country which shares with us the longest of compressed marijuana found aboard one specializes in the history of fascism, said common border?" He added: "What are the of its aircraft in Miami in March. Parnell that "Stalin's class ideology equaled Hit­ three obstacles? I'm not sure." Charles, the Minister of Transportfor David ler's race ideology." Rockefeller's favorite free enterprise drug haven island, complained, "Jamaica cannot KGB slandersEast afford to pay these fines and have our ships and planes confiscated by foreign govern­ Nazi-Communists head European refugees ments because of drug trafficking." Meanwhile, Jamaica's top anti-drug of­ Italian Green slate "A vicious defamation campaign" against ficial, Clem Shay, complained to the April Americans of EasternEuropean descent that The candidates of the new Italian Green Par­ 8 WallStreet Journal, "We never get the big "has served to promote the interests of the ty of Naples will include Radicals, former ones." To police the country which now KGB" is how Myron Wasylyk, director of members of the MSI (the fascist party), and supplies 13% of U.S. pot, he has 43 men, 7 the Washington officeof the Ukrainian Con­ former members of left parties, in the next cars, no helicopters, and no radar. When he gress Committee of America, described the regional election on May 12, according to asks for spare parts, there is no budget. Prime bogus "Nazi-hunting" activities of the Jus­ the April 10 La Repubblica. "The Radical Minister Edward Seaga's government for­ tice Department's Office of Special Inves­ Party (3% of the vote) will not run candi­ bids the use of sprayed herbicides. So his tigations and of the World Jewish Congress dates, in order to help the new Italian Green anti-drug job consists of getting together a on April 5. Wasylyk, whose organization Party (PVI) get more votes. The Naples slate crew of local policemen and chopping and represents more than I million Ukrainian­ includes MarcoPannella (the pro-drugRad­ burning a few marijuana fields. Americans, charged that "most of the evi­ ical leader), Enzo Tortora, who is on trial dence OSI is using is supplied by theKGB. for cocaine smuggling and mafia connec­ This is the issue as we see it. We're all for tions, both European Parliamentarians for getting war criminals. But thisis KGB-sup­ theRadical Party . plied evidence that's meant to defameEast­ Jaruzelski covers for Also to becandidates areFranco Vollaro ernEuropeans, Baits, and Ukrainiansin the and Salvatore Caruso, both former members Stalin atrocity United States." of MSI; Telemaco Malagoli, former mem­ ber of the Italian Communist Party (PCI); Tony Mazeika, national coordinator of Polish authorities recently installed a mon­ a group which claims at least 30 million ument in Warsaw to "Polish soldiers, vic­ and Elio Anzivino, a former communist­ socialistand now provincial secretaryof the emigre followers of Eastern European de­ timsof Hitler-fascism, who lie in the ground PVI. Potential candidates arePietro Craveri scent, also charged that the World Jewish of Katyn." Katyn was actually the site of a "an and Rosa Filippini, Italian president of the Congress report on old Nazis is part of Soviet massacre of 4,000 Polish officers, n-orc environmentalist Friends of the Earth. abusive campaig hestrated by the Of­ following the Soviet invasion of Poland fice of Special Investigations--that is abso­ shortly afterHitler's invasion, on Sept. 17, lutely criminal ....We have absolutely no 1939. Neither the previousGomulka nor Gi­ animosity-we want to work with Jewish erek government in Poland was so depen­ Soviets, Chinese start groups in the United States." dent on the Soviets as to have to sell the Soviet version of the history of the atrocity, (normalization' talks commented World War II German history • Soviets supporting expertProf. Andreas Hillgruber, in an inter­ Soviet-Chinese "normalization" talks at view in the German daily Die Welt on April deputy foreignminister level began on April separatistgroups 10. 9 in Moscow. They will include four ses­ Cologne University professor Hillgrub­ sions of negotiations over the next two Separatistsfrom all of France's overseas ter­ er also charged that the Soviet Union's "re­ weeks. ritories met April 5-7 in Guadeloupe, at a vanchism" campaign against the Federal ChineseParty General Secretary Hu Yao conference organized by the Guadeloupean Republic of Germany (West Germany) is a Bang hinted that the Chinese weresoftening separatistparty UPLG. Messages of support cover-up for crimes of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. in their insistence that the Soviets remove were sent by the GermanGreens, theAlter­ Hillgruber, responding to charges by Po- the "three obstacles" to "normalization." native group of the European Parliament, 46 International EIR April 23, 1985 © 1985 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. , . Briefly the Basques of Hem Batasuna, Corsicans, had recently met a top adviser to PLO chief • GORBACHOV "tremendously and the World Council of Churches, an or­ Vasser Arafat in Bonn, said he thought the impressed" Tip O'Neill during a ganization that is heavily influenced by the PLO had "matured." He said the most ur­ meeting on April 11 between the So­ Russian Orthodox Church. The conference gent priority for Israel was to give up the viet leader and 13 Congressmen, that organizers decided to create a permanent West Bank and Gaza Strip in return for a lasted almost four hours. House infonnation and coordination office in Par­ peace settlement in the region. "I'm inter­ Speaker O'Neill told reporters on is, and the Caledonian FLNKS announced ested in getting the best deal for Israel," leaving the meetingthat thereare "real plans for a 300,000-person demonstration Harkabi said. opportunities for expanded trade and in Sidney, Australia. cultural contact" between the United Xeronimo Saavadra, President of the States and the Soviets. Gorbachovtold Regional Government of the Canary Is­ the delegation that the Soviet Union lands, which is part of Spain, traveled to Albania's Stalinist wants "very big reductions" of stra­ Moscow on April 9 at the head of a five-man dictator dies tegic and medium-range weapons "if delegation for a week-long stay, to "rein­ the United States gives up provoca­ force still further the already solid commer­ tive plans of spreading the arms race On April 11, Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, cial relations between the Canary Islands to outer space. " 76, the last of the old generation Stalinist AutonomousGovernment and the U.S.S.R." national rulers, went to that Great Goat The Canaries will be expressing their opin­ • HU YAO BANG, Chinese gen­ Thieves' Residence in the Sky. Albanian ions to the Soviet Fishing and Merchant Ma­ eral secretary, announced on April 10 President Ramiz Alia, 59, who has been a rine Ministers, who invited them. The Ca­ that 15% of the 21O-member Chinese Politburo member since 1961, an Albanian nary Islands are already the seat of the larg­ Central Committee would be "re­ Fascist before "converting" to Commu­ est Soviet merchant marine base outside the tired" this year and replaced in all nism, and descendant of a Kossovo Alban­ U.S.S.R.; at no moment are there fewer than cases by members younger than 60 ian family, has been named to head the Fu­ 5,000Soviet naval personnel on the islands. years of age, according to the London neral Commission and will be the immediate Guardian. Hu Yao Bang also de­ successor to Hoxha. Alia became President clared that 70% of China's senior of­ in November 1982, replacing Haxhi Lleshi, Sharon: Expand West ficials in 136 Party and State Depart­ President since 1953. This happened as part ments will be purged by the end of Bank settlements of a major Albanian party and government 1985. He said the total of "retired" shake-up, during November, 1982, occur­ Party veterans will reach 2 million by Ariel Sharon demanded that Israel make a ring parallel withYuri Andropov's assump­ the end of 1986. This purge will fa­ massive settlement drive on the West Bank tion of power in the Soviet Union. cilitate the spread of China's euthan­ to ensure that every Arab center becomes "Enver Hoxha's death is certain to cause asia program to include the elderly, surrounded by a Jewish site. In an April 7 wide ripples of concern and the most wor­ which will requireeliminating cultur­ interview with Israel Radio, Sharon said: ried country will be Yugoslavia," the Lon­ al veneration of old people. "We must make sure that every single Arab don Guardian commented on April 12. populationconcentration is either in the midst Ramiz Alia, Enver Hoxha's successor as of a Jewish settlement or near one." He said Albanian leader, is known to be a firm ad­ • FRENCH EMBASSY telexes Israel should reject any peace discussions vocate of "Greater Albanian" pretensions, were intercepted and read by the with King Hussein until Hussein breaks his including claims to the Yugoslav region of KGB, according to a report in the accords on regionaldiplomatic strategy with Kossovo, inhabited mostly by ethnic April 7 Le Point.
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