European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 3,1994 commentary the stars and stripes Page 17 to soviet mole near for William Safire in the Wake of charges that a High Cia official was a russian a mole a an old question is being newly raised How deeply did the soviet Union penetrate the american government through two generations that Issue poisoned relations Between liberals and conservatives. The liberals villains were Joe Mccarthy wild Roy Cohn and to a Tesser extent Whittaker Chambers and Richard Nixon. Among the conservatives villains were the Diplomat Alger Hiss the nuclear scientist j. Robert Oppenheimer and the Lillian Heilman who defended them. / judging by a damning Book just out by Stalin a favorite hit Man its going to be a Tough year for a anti anti comm a a a. V Pavel Sud Platov author with his son of special tasks is a loathsome killer. On Stalin a orders he arranged for the assassination of Leon Trotsky he 1 a Quot a hails Lavrenti Beria and derides Nikita Khrushchev self serving and untrustworthy he May be but the 87-year-old spy is As the editors Jer rold and Leona Schector write a the surviving institutional memory of the russian intelligence services Covert operations from the 1920s to 1953.�?�.the news Lead in the Book As excerpted in time Magazine is his detailed account of the Way Oppen Heimer As yell As Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard were enlisted As soviet sources of information in the race to build the atomic bomb. V although not soviet contract agents these great scientists were knowing sources for his Kab operatives reports Sud Platov. Their motive in revealing secrets to Moscow a beginning with Oppenheimer a leak to the soviets of Albert einsteins original letter to Franklin d. Roosevelt urging development of an atomic bomb a was not to betray the United states but to share information with russian scientists to defeat the nazis. Not All our top scientists arrogated to themselves that momentous National Security decision the Kab tried and failed to attract George Kistiakowsky and Edward Teller. A a a a a like Oppenheimer Alger Hiss was not a paid or controlled agent according to Sud Platov Hiss Kab code name a Mars a was merely a very close to our _ sources. Highly sympathetic. A source of agent information for the Silvermaster spy cell. His behaviour followed instructions he May have Learned in the 1930s never admit to those interested in the Aldrich Ames Case the most intriguing sentences in the Book attribute an ally gation to an 81-year-old Friend of sudd Platova a in military intelligence unnamed because a son serves in government a the retired Gru officer remembers that there was a controlled agent source of information in Roosevelt a a the was Roosevelt a assistant on intelligence affairs and he was on bad terms with William Donovan and j. Edgar Hoover head of the Oss and the Fri respectively a quota was there a soviet mole in the Oval office during world War ii a. The confessed communist courier Elizabeth Bentley identified Lauchlin Currie an economist arid Harry Dexter White a Treasury assistant Secretary As Witting sources and fingered Duncan Chaplin Lee a Law partner and later assistant to the Ossa Gen. William j. Donovan As an a kid agent. Lee a descendant of Robert e. Lee denied this under oath but nobody has suggested a confidant of for s was a a controlled assuming Sudo Platova a secondhand unsupported recollection is True who could that Early mole be two Cia historians i checked say the description for assistant on intelligence disliked by Donovan and Hoover could apply to John Franklin Carter a newspaper columnist and novelist always a nefarious combination who used the pen name Jay Franklin. He and a staff of six on state department payroll supplied for with reports on nazi leaders and at one time an analysis or soviet intelligence. He died in 1967, an ardent anti communist. This fellow might have been a a controlled agent or a Patriot. As Niobe documents and a memoirs come out of the Kab Woodwork we will learn More a not just about of dry a Day but about More recent penetration agents in our intelligence agencies. Back the historians and biographers will have to reshuffle shibboleths about familiar villains and heroes. And among present and retired intelligence officers a the second Man Quot is getting worried. _ _ a i a a. A . A a butchery in Bosnia ranks As War not holocaust in his last Book Richard Nixon writes that the siege of Sarajevo would not have lasted As Long As it did had the victims been not muslims but predominantly christians or jews. The Book had not yet been published but within two Days of Bis death the substance of that one comment was quoted in the press each time the journalistic surround was Clear the Man is right. Nixon a charge in beyond peace ran Dom House is important. Far More important Are the questions it leaves hanging. A a a. A a a a a is this another holocaust Are those who moved too slowly to save the muslims or their state or opposed military intervention particularly jews among them As guilty As those who turned away from the Slaughter of the jews by nazis these questions have been hovering in the minds and writings of some americans who successfully demanded . Military intervention. Certainly some of us who opposed it including myself think often of them. I know chroniclers of the holocaust who want to help the muslims but believe that the holocaust comparison distorts history and morality. Sadly some Are unwilling to speak up for fear of being thought insensitive or arrogant. But the questions raised directly or by innuendo or subconsciously should be answered. Whatever his intent Nixon was hardly disingenuous. He knew that the world rarely pays attention to victims of civil War or atrocity whatever their Faith. As he wrote christians were being killed by muslims in the Sudan and Armenia. Muslims by the hundreds of thousands were murdered not by hindu or Christian or jew but by their own Muslim governments in Syria Afghanistan Iraq and an. _ a a. A a a a v v a haitians Are murdered by their police and africans left tribal enemies rotting in streets. Neither the United states nor the United nations sent armies to help the jews when the Arab states fell upon Newborn Israel. I respect Nixon a fortitude after disgrace some of his foreign affairs concepts and his ability to draw and profit from Henry Kissinger a intellectual and negotiating Power. But Nixon himself was the great promoter of communist China the government that has been trying to annihilate . Rosenthal the existence and memory of Buddhist Tibet through invasion occupation mass murder torture imprisonment deportation and eviction by chinese colonizers. It was unbecoming of him to Sermonie on neglected victims a still whatever May be going on elsewhere cannot be an excuse if Bosnia is the holocaust again. The serbs have behaved so disgustingly that it sickens the heart to insist on the differences. But it must be done for without them there would be no decent course but for the West to go fully to War ground troops and All. T in Bosnia the muslims declared a new nation. They knew this was Littely to bring War with those fellow bosnian slavs who were Catholic or orthodox and who feared living under Muslim Sway. _ the War is hot theology based. But generations of religious differences did produce neighbors who had separate visions of the world god themselves and their future a As in Northern Ireland for instance. Into this civil ethnic religious War came military intervention for the bosnian serbs by Serbia and Western political intervention for the muslims a without which the new state could not have survived. For their viciousness and broken cease fires the serbs Are paying in International respect and Are forfeiting consideration of their Case. But peace cannot be made without them As they Are parties to the War. However unforgivable brutal the War in Bosnia is for control of government and territory. In Germany the jews did not want to live apart had no arms declared no Independence asked for no land. All the poor fools wanted was to live among germans and breathe 1 the germans did not make War against a jewish army or regime or demands for there were none. They simply wanted to exterminate every jew because he did breathe. The holocaust was not a civil ethnic or religious conflict but a methodical Effort to annihilate every jew in every land. Peace was never possible because there were no sides. There were just the Gas Chambers and those put to suffocation. So need it still really be said the holocaust was not a War of any kind. It was a holocaust you see. C new York Timo the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states government
