The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1983 (6. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1983-01-01 / 1. szám

12 Israel in ’’Roundabout“ Dialogue ^ himon Shiffer, a usually well-informed ^ news commentator in Jerusalem, re­ported recently that the Israeli and Soviet Governments had for some weeks been con­ducting a dialogue „in a roundabout way“. He said that when Yuri Andropov assumed the Soviet leadership last November, Israeli diplomats were instructed to approach their Soviet opposite-numbers. Contact was made in Bucharest, capital of Romania, the only Soviet-bloc country to retain diplomatic re­lations with Israel. Shiffer indicated that President Ceausescu, the Rumanian Communist Party leader, had been involved in this secret diplomacy and had been maintaining „a lively and very expansive“ correspondence with Prime Mi­nister Begin of Israel. This resulted, Shiffer explained, in an Is­raeli diplomat having a conversation with „a Soviet diplomatic representative“. The dis­cussion was initiated by the Russian. „As there is nothing accidental in Soviet policy, Jerusalem regards that conversation as a signal from ,the Soviet side“, Shiffer commented. Although the USSR and Israel have not had diplomatic relations since June, 1967, these two countries’ governments have re­tained the means of having secret talks. Such dialogue has been conducted from time to time either through the mediumship of the Romanian authorities or through contacts made by Victor Louis, a journalist who for many years has been commissioned by the Kremlin to undertake various clandestine as­signments related to diplomacy, journalism or book publishing. Louis, alias Vitaly Yevgenevich Lui and Vitaly Levin, visited Israel in June, 1971. According to Press reports at the time, he went there ostensibly to be treated for lum­bago — by a doctor who had once been Israeli Ambassador in Moscow. It was later reported that he had spent five days meeting advisers of Mrs. Golda Meir, the then Israeli Prime Minister. Louis’ special assigments on the Kremlin’s behalf have enabled him to travel all over the world. Countries he has reportedly visited since the early 1960s include Taiwan, Mo­zambique, South Africa, Chile, the Dommin-n Republic, Cuba, Martinique, Iran (shortly before the Shah’s fall from power) and Af­ghanistan (just before the Soviet invasion). One of his main tasks has been to float ideas or selected facts favourable to various Soviet foreign-policy objectives. As Gianni Corbi wrote in an article in the May 3, 1981, issue of L’Espresso, the Italian weekly, Louis is „the only Soviet citizen who is allowed to write freely for Western newspapers and to relay abroad exclusives on what’s cooking in the tightly sealed Politburo cauldron“. Corbi added that Louis’ scoops had two characteristics: „they are sensational, and they always arrive at the most opportune moment, that is for the Soviet leadership, of course“. From time to time Louis has also made manuscripts available to Western publishers in an apparent attempt to discredit particular Russians who are actively concerned about human rights. According to John Barron’s best-seller, KGB, Louis was born in 1928 and in his teens worked as a messenger and „petty po­lice informer“ at the New Zealand Embassy in Moscow and later the Brazilian Embassy. Samizdat reports claim that he was sen­tenced in the 1950s for blackmarketeering and becáme a privileged trusty in penal labour camps in Kazakhstan. Since the 1960s, however, he has been a member of the Soviet elite. His life-style is luxurious, as many influential visitors to Russia have seen. Several of them have been entertained liberally in his fine house over­looking the Peredelkino woodlands. This ex­pensively furnished residence has a garage with a Mercedes, a vintage Bentley and other large cars. Charming and socially poised, Louis is ra­rely ruffled. However, a few years ago, he hotly denied non-Soviet Press reports claim­ing that he was a colonel in the KGB. CHINESE AID REFUGEES The Chinese Red Cross Society recently gave three ambulances and 389 chests of medicines and medical instruments for use among the well over three million Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Afghans are still arriv­ing in that country at the rate of about 10,000 a month. There are also many thousands of Afghan refugees in Iran and smaller numbers in India, Turkey, West Germany, the United States and other countries. Afghanistan’s population at the beginning of 1978 (before the first Marxist coup d’état) was estimated to be 15,500,000. 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