The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1980 (3. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

1980-05-01 / 3. szám

„Loyal Cuba exports soldiers to Africa and else­where to spread revolutionary wars, so much so that Cuban cigars one day have to be manufactured in Japan. ,Less than three years after the end oj three decades of anti-imperialist wars, the peoples of Vietnam are once again waging war against a former comrade in arms. It is estimated that there are nearly a million Vietnamese under arms today — more than when the Vietnamese were fighting the Americans. „Everybody knows that is the Soviet rather than the Vietnamese economy which is fuelling the Vietnamese fighting spirit. Were the Soviets to turn off aid for a week, the Vietnamese military machine would come to a grinding halt. „Nevertheless the fact remains that the non­­communist world is unable to make any credible response to Soviet military moves in either Kam­puchea or Afghanistan. True, the overwhelming maiority of UN members have censured the com­munist armed intervention in Kampuchea and Af­ghanistan. But this has not deterred the Soviets and their friends from persisting in and intensifying their armed intervention . . . „Unless we take a second look at detente and peaceful co-existence, I have not the slightest doubt that these admirable concepts will continue to work to the advantage of the Soviet Union and if it persists over the eighties, then the 21st century must be a Soviet century . . ." The 21st-Century Imperialism? (Continued from page 1 Moldavia G Lithuaniai E?onia Belorussi: UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS Azerbai MULTI-NATIONAL GREAT-RUSSIAN EMPIRE mc­nia closed settlements with 90% or more Russian population non-Russian Soviet Republics (semi-colonial states) rarely populated areas with mixed nationalities MAY-JUNE, 1980 W ith only the first few months of the year gone, there are signs that 1980 may prove to be a record year for the world-wide unmasking of the spying activities conducted by the USSR’s main intelligence service, the KGB. Fresh exposures almost weekly of Soviet espionage cases are seen as evidence of an unprecedented success rate by security services in the non-communist countries. They have also produced a tough reaction from the go­vernments of countries affected. In February, for the first time ever, neutral Switzerland offi­cially gave the approximate number of Soviet agents currently in the country. A Swiss Government spokesman, Ulrich Hu­­bacher, said on February 18 that about 200 of the 650 Soviet diplomats and United Nations officials working in Switzerland were Soviet intelligence agents. He also confirmed a Swiss press report that the number of Soviet officials and their families in Switzerland had increased by 120% to a total of 1,450 over the past nine years. Since February another neutral country, Fin­land, has given publicity to Soviet espionage. The Helsinki Court of Appeals announced on March 18 that Eila Helin, a former data library chief of the State chemical copmany, Kemira, had been sentenced to four years in prison for turning over classified information. Helin was ordered to pay to the State 33,000 marks (8,700 dollars) thet, according to the court, she re­ceived as payment for the secret information. The first country in 1980 to express concern over Soviet espionage was India. The Indian newspaper The Statesman of January 1 referred to „the marked increase in Soviet intelligence activities in India over recent years". The report said the Indian Government had expelled at least seven suspected KGB agents from the country over the past two years alone. It concluded that „the Russians have not been very sophisticated in their attempts tc win friends and recruit new operatives, but they seem to have partly made up for this lack of quality by assigning many more agents to India". This Indian revelation was swiftly followed by similar action in New Zealand. On January 19 the New Zealand Government ordered the immediate expulsion of the Russian Ambassador, Vsevoled Sofinsky, for passing funds to a minor Moscow-aligned political organisation. By this action Sofinsky had violated the convention that foreign diplomats do not interfere in the do­mestic affairs of the countries in which they live. Press- reports stated that Sofinsky was a known KGB official, whose only previous „diplomatic" posting was six years in London in the 1960s. Two days later if was announced in Ottawa that three officials of the Soviet embassy Ihere were to be expelled from Canada for espio­nage. The three were: Captain Igor Baroeev, military, naval and air attaché; Colonel Eduard Aleksanjan, assistant military attaché; and V. I. Sokolov, the military attaché's chauffeur. These expulsions came less than two years cfter the last big espionage case in Canada, when 13 Soviet diplomats were sent home. The then Canadian External Affairs Minister, Miss Flora MacDonald, stated on January 21 that an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police disclosed that within months of the expulsions in February, 1978, the Soviet Embassy had resumed „a pattern of acrivity violating basic standards of diplomatic be­haviour". Also in January the Japanese authorities announced that the Russians had obtained intelligence on Japanese army bases, and on Japanese police and coastguard staff in Hok­kaido, through luring Japanese fishermen to pass classified information to the Soviet Union (Continued on page 3) KGB Headaches in 1980 KGB Headquarters in Moscow with Central-Prison KGB Boss, Yuri Andropov 2

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