European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Rosenthal anemones of soviet prison Camp won y go away one Day i am sure it will be possible to forget the prison Camp in the urals. So far almost three weeks later that has not been so for More than a few hours at a time. Nobody escape physically from Perm 3i, where so Many political prisoners suffered for years and where som Cstillo. The commandant says nobody Ever tries to escape. Where would they go beyond the barbed wire lies not Only Snow and Forest but a vast nation where no person can move about with out papers of permission least of All a person running. The Only escape for prisoners of Perm 35 is in the mind poetry written on the memory music without sound prayers without prayer books imaginary embraces. But the mind itself is what keeps bringing freed Politi Cal prisoners Back to their cells and is Why the sentence never really ends for them they ask themselves questions seeking some Trace of meaning in injustice As docs a visitor. In the late fall the soviet government agreed that i could go to Perm 35, about which i had written some columns. No foreigners had been permitted there before. I think permission was Given because most of the prisoners of Perm 35 were to be released before i got there. Moscow apparently believed the report of an interested american journalist might be of some use. But permission to visit Perm 35 was rescinded Assoon As i arrived in Moscow. I believe the reason for the last minute reversal was that the Camp still held soviet citizens imprisoned for political crimes. Some officials might have been nervous William Safire about a vial at the very time Mikhail Gorbachev was telling the United nations that soviet citizens were no longer imprisoned for what they said or believed. A soviet editor intervened and he visit was on again. Are there meanings to be sifted out and kept i think one was in the Way prisoners and officers acted. The soviet officials who were with me every step of the Way in the Camp prison officers police inspectors prosecutors men of the Kab simply could not handle a totally new situation like foreigners moving about scamp talking to prisoners. They could find no answers in Che fat handbooks of regulation and punishment by which they were taught to Rule and to which they kept turning without those instructions to sustain them they turned on each other angrily contradicting and threatening one another. T thought of them in he Days after the armenian Earth quake when officials in Moscow berated soviet Rescue squads for falling apart but it was not asked often in Moscow who or what was really to blame. The prisoners were men who had sacrificed their Liber by to Light the society that lived by regulation handbook. So that Day in the Camp while the officials were confined by the rigidity of regulation the prisoners were the free men free enough to seize the moment and through the visitors shout their message to the world remember us. All they needed was the courage to risk retaliation after the visitors left they did have that those allowed to talk to us and those who were not. A few hours after we arrived a prisoner rushed out of wooden building toward us shouting in English that he wanted to talk to us. His name tag read Valery Smirnov. Guards shouldered him away. And the commandant it col Nikolai Mosin stared into his face. After i was Back in the United slates 1 Learned that Simov had been the cellmate of Natan Sharansky in the political zone of Perm 33. Once when Sharansky was resumed from a punish ment cell where he had been on a hunger strike Simov gave him bread he had saved front his own rations. This infuriated the commandant he said thai if sir nov was such a Good Guy let him try hunger for himself and sentenced him Ito the punishment cells. Sharansky testifies to this in his Memoir of the gulag fear no evil that commandant was the same Man who looked Solon into Simov s face As they stood in the Snow the same sin. We did not see Simov again. But 1 know from the risk he took from what freed prisoners and those still in the cells say and from what die top soviet official who accompanied me said that outside attention to the Politi Cal prisoners has helped set them free. That is another lesson that keeps coming Back from the visit. Many americans have written to the prisoners of Perm 35 this past year. The address is . 618810, per Skaya Obi. A Husovsky in St. Use Svyatskaya Chr. Vs-389-35. Perhaps More letters will help Speed the Day for in political prisoners still in Perm 35, or any other places of the gulag that remain. How Anotoly Dobrynin was restored to favor mock a All my old friends in Washington Are wondering Why it was that i fell from Power and then just As Sud Denly have been reinstated As foreign policy adviser o president former com Rade Gorbachev. Unlike Gorbachev in the party Ogarkow in the army and Chubrikov in the Kab i was never a member of the Andropov or Csc. When i came Home after two decades a ambassador to Washington Gorbachev said be my adviser Anatoly Dobrynin me saw me As a useful alternative to Cro Tanyko and the old Brezhnev foreign policy crowd. But i was never personally trusted until three months ago. That was when Migachev made his tactical mistake. He assumed i was angry at being pushed aside by Shevardnadze who has not a tenth of my experience and sought my support in putting a Stop to the new thinking. -. He said a coup was organized by the party Appart. He claimed the backing not Only of Chubrikov at the Kab but also of the red army s chief of staff marshal aka. To Meyer who was furious at the prospector a Cut of a million troops reduced la a half million at the last minute i was offered the foreign ministry. Tempting. Thai was when i Buill my Bridge to Mik. Hail Serg Yevich. A few of us personally warned him of the plot to demote him to an economics Post at Novosibirsk he re acted swiftly sending lev Zaikov his mos cow party chief to defense minister Azov. Overnight two divisions of troops commanded by the generals and colonels who had served under Yazoo in the far East were moved to the outskirts of Moscow. The coup was aborted. That led to the sept. 26 Gorbachev . The West noticed the demo lion to agriculture of Lipa Chev but the re shuffling of positions within the party was Only pan of it. For three years Gorbachev had been using the army and the Kab 16 purge the party bureaucracy and to set up a Paral Lel government. With that done he had to clean out the men in the army and Kab who helped him take Over. He fired marshal Fakhro Mayev. Our leading strategic arms expert had to go be cause he was resisting the troop reduction just As Marsha Gorkov had to go a few years before because he demanded Superior technology in the arming of conventional forces. Clever How he played those two marshals against each other the red army still gets Over one fourth of our National product to reduce Cost without cutting strength Gorbachev announced a 10 percent troop reduction Fai. Not muscle and More than offset by Trie dividing of nato. Ogarkow and Fakhr Omeyer arc Brilliant leaders capable of making political trouble which is Why they Are put Marsha Yaz Ovis a dullard disciplinarian and he brought in his far East Deputy Moiseyev practically a boy u head the army these two will follow Gorbachev blindly because if lie is ousted the red army of the unemployed will come after them. Having silenced army grumbling he turned on the Kab his original Power base. There was Viktor Chebakov a party Man whom Andropov put in charge of the Kab in 1982, and who a couple of Yea later had distributed the damaging corruption dossiers on Romanov and Grishin removing them As rivals to Gorbachev. Now he s out or off to the Side. In charge of the Kab now is a real spy Kryuchkov a member of Andropov s Circle from the Start As Loyal to Gorbachev As any of those types Are. The espionage professionals Are delighted to be rid of Chubrikov Kryuchkov in charge Means More spies in the Field overseas but it also Means the removal of a threat to Gorba Chev at Home. Tens of thousands of Kab troops Are being transferred to the army where they can be by incr controlled this is o political balancing act belief than any in the Moscow circus. Do i miss life in Washington yes to some extent i see thai Bill Webster s unhappy Deputy at Cia the professional spy caws their Kryuchkov May be swung Over to be Deputy at the Csc replaced by Bush s old Cia colleague the upward bound Lilley. Superpower presidents these Days like an old pro heading  if i were there i d have to help Armand Hammer get his Pardon from Rea Gaji for some watergate Misdemeanour so he can Lien get an honorary Knighthood from mrs. Thatcher. Thai s Hie. Soil. Of time wasting that makes me glad to be herein Moscow especially now that i m recognized As a Loyal Gorbachev Man and can1 watch the  from the inside pity i can t have lunch with Henry any More. He d appreciate this