had a proprietary interest.
The words are those George Bush, Director of the Central Inteligence Behind the legalised jargon the admissions are blatant: the CIA has bugged and burgled premises of the 'plaintiffs'. plaintiffs in question are the American Socialist Party and the Young Socialist Alliance; the admission comes in the form of a sworn affidavit, dated 1 July 1976.
The affidavit is one of many documents obtained from the CIA as a result of a multi-million dollar law suit which the SWP and the YSA are suing government agencies and officials for the sum million dollars. In making the documents public last week, prominent member of the SWP, George Novack, *They clearly document an illegal campaign of harassment and surveillance directed against the SWP, the YSA and socialists in other countries who worked with us.' REVELATIONS Paragraph after paragraph in the documents is blanked out and marked 'classified information pertaining to inteligence sources and methods", fied matter, 'CIA internal organisational data', and so on. But enough emerges to indicate the scope of the CIA activity.
One of the most striking revelations is the degree to which the CIA and "friendly" ments throughout the world cooperated in spying against both the SWP and their co-thinkers in the Fourth International. There are documents on the activities of Trotskyists in France, Spain, *The files of the CIA do contain information indicating that conversations of certain individual plaintiffs, and certain of the other individuals named in the Court's order of May 4, 1976, were overheard by means of electronic surveillance conducted abroad; and that certain other information, apart from conversations that were overheard, was acquired as a result of several surreptitious entries that were made into premises abroad as to which certain of the named plaintiffs, and certain of the other individuals named in the Court's order of May 4,1976, had regular access or may have of Bolivia and other Latin American countries. For example, a Agency. dossier on the French section of the Fourth International plains: *The League appears strong enough financially to support a relatively large number of full Workers timers. Alan Krivine, leader of the League, is an excellent organuser and an raiser. Every fair organised by the League makes money. cording to the printer of the League paper Rouge, the League through In 1971 African swine fever hit Cuba. 500,000 pigs had to be slaughtereo of 40 to prevert d nalonwiuc allal cul cemic. i was mne mst ume disease had been seen in the Westcommented: Aorcuturar oroamsanon Now i nas oeen reveaiee mat me disease was deliberately introduced into Cuba by a group exiles transpared the bug trom CiA have Transooneo mhe ouc training camp, Fort Gulick, to Cuba via a series of anti-Castro exiles former CIA operative explained: wen gard ror Guban exie groups don t nave ina kind of money.
The precise details of the opera tion will probably as last year mc US communice on imenecnce revedice classi- inat all written recoros or sucn ac tivities had been destroyed by the Army and CIA.
pays its printing bills promptly. *If the keep the Student Action Comgovern- mittees mobilised after 1 May (1973) it can count on the full support of the French Communist Party, the General Confederation of Labour, the Socialist Party, the French Democratic Confederation of Labour, and they are seeking."
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of fishing trawlers and One 'We InIS alto Senate select League manages to Another example of collaboration between the French and American governments is provided by a telegram in the CIA files. Dated November 1972, the other telegram is from the American Consul in the French Caribbean colony of Martinique. 'French authorities' it says, 'are expelling two Amcit (American citizens) members of the National tely cities from New spread Socialist Workers Party for engaging in CISCO. political activities in Martinique. resut or ane OCalI French authorities request info about possible subersive activiwhich Thomas and Washington may have been previously engaged... Information Othe may either be unclassified or, if -LU French authorities by consulate -simiar pneumonia deatns The documents so far released by the CIA show that they have burgled, bugged, opened mail and used informers against the SWP, the YSA and the Fourth Intenational. During the court hearings both CIA director Bush on a number of occasions, and were told off by the judge for doing The suit against the FBI has meant that it has been ordered to withdraw 66 agents or informers in the FBI. But George Novack May Day rally parade five years previously. In real life Mostel was blacked by Hollywood. isn't satisified: "We don't trust the FBI to comply with the directive of the court - which is why we are insisting on getting their names. The FBI legal justification for not giving us their names is what they call *informer privilege", which is a totally new concept in jurisprudence Although the FBI, like the agencies, continues to avoid court orders Following revelations in a US newspaver ine us armv recenwy domit ted that for 16 years it had deliberato San FranHundreds people were experiments. -WnICI were ordered by the Pentagon to In one test carried out in 1966 a Army agent deliberately dropped a wontouio mmee wiwh me falde odc teria serranti from a moving underground train in the New York subwith scientific equipment monitored the spread o une bacterd unrovgr turnero Durina 1952 the Army conducted test in -lorca nere followed a tenfold increase in the number of pneumonia seventold porease ina cenes Ber of cases and The Army claim to nave stopped such tests now. But they have also justified carrying them out, 'We had to know just now tast tne cerms woulo soreac ane now fd they would go'. It is rather unpleasto the nerves contemplate detendt hene us cres way ofile.
and delay the hearing as much as it can, it is obvious that a good deal of damage has already been done to the 'spooks' Comments Novack: 'We have turned the tables on the FBI. They used to harass us. Now we ZERO MOSTEL (left) is put under pressure to reveal the names of other 'subversives" who marched on a are harassing them no end Because of our suits, 45 of thei agents are under investigation and indictments are going to be handed down. That's how the Tales nave beet trneoOn the broader conclusions of the court hearing, and on all the other 'dirty tricks", Novack ha this to say: American people have learnt that spying on people is far more systematic and widespread than they ever thought, and that it extends into all walks of life.
"There has never been such distrust of the powers that be in American history. I do not think that it is a transitory thing. 1 think it is rather an enduring change of attitude towards the presidency, the Congress and the agencies.
EXPLOSIVE There seems little doubt that a good deal more explosive information will be revealed before the SWP case finally comes to court. At the moment the court hearings centre on secur ing evidence from the FBI, CIA and others on which the SWP can base their case. But already enough has emerged to show the validity of George Novack's ad. vice to the working people of Britain and elsewhere:
*The CIA is a world police organisation, working by SUT reptitious means to violate the rights of people throughout the world; to overturn people's governments. assassinate their lead ers - all the way from government leaders to trade union leaders. Our warning to the British public is that they must not permit the agency that violates the rights of the American people to do the same to them.'