20 JEWISH CHRONICLE SEPTEMBER 30 1977 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 CIA-RDP96-0 THE 1553RELI SECRE1 SERVICE continued from Previous page Ive than any other lie-detector tech- niques and the Israelis are also examin. ing the application of Kirlian photo- graphy in intelligence. To monitor Soviet experiments In this field Is a tremendous undertaking and, in the normal way, for any secret service to attempt this would be so costly it would hardly be worth while. The Israelis have cut the cost by ensuring that the monitoring Is only done by ~tralned psychic researchers and by set- ting up paraphysical laboratories where Inform tion passed through from agents ,behind the Iron C.rtain can be assessed. 'The agents gathering such Intelligence are themselves practitioners in this field. As my Israeli contact told me: "The really big clamp-down on psychic and pilraphysical data In the Soviet Union has not yet come. At the moment they are still as anxious to learn from the West as they are to guard their own motives for research. Their policy seems to be that they are prepared to -leak a certain amount of Information to the West In the hope that they will get something In return. ~ I "To some extent thWrV1h 1, V %, -c,ewirrur in on, liarg it a Western world as a whole In dill luke- war?n towards the menace of psychic espionage, in the long term. So the result is that this type of research is left to scientists and others who have no connection with intelligence. They see no reason why they should not exchange information with the Soviet Union. .Thus, at the moment, It is not too diffi- cult to get a general pleture of what Is going on in the USSR and East European countries, providing the moni- toring of such intelligence is conducted solely by scientists In this particular sphere or research. "Our best sources are In Bulgaria, where the secret police use trained clairvoyants to assist them In crime de- tection. The Bulgarians have some of the finest clairvoyants and telepathy ex- perts in the game. They also have Insti- tutes of Suggestology and Parapsycho- logy In Sofia and Petrich." Israel's own Uri Geller Is, of course, already world famous through his demonstrations of psychic phenomena. The Russians set up a special committee ~ Richard Deacon, 1977. Re ad d I ,~r uc ion on y by arrangement with the aut or. Former US Socrelifg of State, Henry Meal nev. The KGT 15infformation Section" gent-torking or Poland, a canard I), with the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezh- let Kissinger was a former secret service vered.and scotched by the Chinese to study him and his experiments three yc~ars ago. "We found out that they were doing this In a roundabout way from Paris," said my contact. "At the same time we discovered that they were developing a new form of music to help induce and maintain a state of trance- heliphonic music." Israel is already far ahead of the Western world in these techniques, but this Is in no small measure due to the fact that during the past century Jews have led the world in much of this re- search and have shown a remarkable talent for It. There is Do better ex- ample than the telepathist Wolf Messing, a Polish Jew who fled from the German advance In Poland In 1939 by escaping to the Soviet Union hidden under a cart-load of hay. He -bad little to offer the Russians other than his own tele- pathic talents which, if somewhat re- luctantly at first, they accepted as being worthy of consideration. Eventually, he was given personal audiences by Stalin. By the 19509 he was one of ihi bestAnown men In Rus- sia and the one mar) who was abIc to use his telepathic talents to get thm the ards Into'Stalln's presw I out Te elng eballenged. In biography, "I am a Telepathist," Mes- sing refers to the occaston when he managed to walk out of a building past guards ordered to stop him at all costs: i'l am sure the guards would not have et me pass if I had directed at them the suggestion to let me pass as myself, but, using my mental power, I made them see In me the high official whom they would let through without a pass. Similarly, a man under hypnosis can be told to shoot a rabbit. when, in fact, he would be shooting at a man." During the Second World War Mes- sing was officially evacuated to Siberia for his own safety, but he still offered advice to the authorities and was on countless occasions proved to be accu- rate In his divinations. When his auto- biography was published by Sovietskaya Rossiya In 1967, the book was suddenly withdrawn, though no official reason for this was given. Messing is as cele- brated as a stage artist as he is a serious telepathist and researcher and has given many exhibitions of his talents. . He is not an Orthodox Jew, but he has retained a devotion to his race, as was exemplified before the Second World War when he refused a reward from a Polish count for locating some missing family jewellery, but asked for the count's' influence to 4e used with the Polish Government to have a law in- fringing the rights of Jews to be annul- led. This was, in fact, done. - "Just as there was a space race be- tween the super-Powers, eventually there will be a race in PSI," my Israeli contact continued. "The West hasn't woken up to th~ urgency of this yet. All we can hope is that that race ends in a stalemate. Only then will there be any safety. "We must somehow ensure that we attain the same kind of deadlock in the sphere of psychic espionage that we have in nuclear warfare, with no side daring to run the appalling risks of re- leasing this type of secret warfare to the full. Certainly, our aim is to an ake sure that there is such a deadlock and stalemate and that the Western world as a whole, and not just Israel, benefits from this." . This digression into what is still largely an unexplored area of espionage and counter-espionage as far as the Westero world Ile concerned Is yet an- other :"mple of how the 11sraell 61cret Servit Is very often not only diligently trying to ensure the survival of her own people, but doing much of the work which is essential to the survival of the whole Western world. . There are many who will take a con- trary view and equate Zionism with mili- tant nationalism, and not all who do this are necessarily pro-Soviet. Therein lies Israel's dilemma: she Is beset with the problem of living with enemies in both camps-the Western world and the Soviet Union's orbit. Yet it is hard to see how Western elvilisiation as we know it can survive in the long run without the co-operation of Israel's Secret Service. . Already the West has benefited to a remarkable degree from a certain amount of co-operation In this resPect, just as Israel has acquired certain advantages from the assistance Of Western Intelligence. What should be borne In mind is that the work of a Soviet spy placed inside Israel is direct- ed not only against that country, but against the West as well. The greatest Soviet espionage success, so far as is known, was the placing of a top agent in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and It was the Western world, perhaps even which suffered from The man, a Swiss Jew, had formed part of Leopold Trepper's Rote Kapelle V'Red Orchestra") network In Belgium before the Second World War. After having been thoroughly trained in Russia, he was sent to Israel as a "sleeper agent" after the war and his talents were so remarkable that two Israeli Ministries fought over which should take his services. Eventuallv. and disastrously, it was the Israeli Mini stry for Foreign Affairs which secured him. When he was finally caught, enorTnous damage had been done. One thing is certain: persecution of the Jews -continues today as virulently inside the Soviet Union as ever it did In Nazi Germany, There is only one difference-the Russians are prepared to tolerate the Jews as long as they prove themselves to be good Soviet citi. zens. This may seem a distinct advance on the Hitlerlan attitudes, but there are no accurate figures on how many Jews have been eliminated In the USSR. Worse still, the Soviet Secret Service goes to the most bizarre lengths to plant anti-Jewish propaganda round the world. One of the most mysterious of these operations is the attempt to show that It was the Jews who smuggled the Tsarlst mWIons and jewels out of Russia during the Revolution and that it was a Jew, Aaron Simonovitch, secretary to the notorious Rasputin, who not only organi6ed this, but enabled the Russian Royal Family to be rescued from Ekaterinburg. Nor do the Russians just rely on rum- ours; they back them up with forged coded messages (of which a number have come Into my possession) purport- ing to show how the -1sar and big family were not murdered by the Bolsheviks, but enabled to escape by a diabolical American~Japonese-British-Jewish plot. The notorious "Chivers Papers," which are alleged to be in American CIA archives, include all manner of faked telegrams, alleged accounts of rescue operations and "proofs" that members of the Russian Royal Family are still alive today. That there was an attempt to rescue the Royal Family it; now undoubted and it is equally certain that the events at Ekaterinburg were not as described in the "White Russian" report by Judge Nicholas Sokolov. But the detailed dos- sier on the bogus rescue concocted by Soviet intelligence is just blatant pro- paganda, though sufficiently clever and semi-factually manufactured as to have provoked exhaustive inquiries into the subject in both the USA and Britain, From the same "Disinformation See- tion 1. of the KGB has also come the smear on Henry Kissinger, alleging that he was formerly a secret service agent working for the Polish intelligence! Naturally, the Russians are clever enough to use Right-wing organisations and personnel to spread these stories, always providing sufficient bogus factual detail to give them some substance. It was the Chinese Secret Service which first scotched that canard, informing both the Americans and the Israelis of its origins. But the propaganda of hate, the spreading of false Information, will con- tinue, just as It did under the Tsarist regime, under the Nazis and today under the Brezhnev administration, as long as there are sufficient fools in the world to accept the nonsense about the Proto- cols of the Elders of Zion, about tht, rescuing of the Tsar and the storie, about Henry Kissinger. Only when sanity prevails over romantic credulih- Will the propaganda cease and perse- cution stop. Until then Israel will need to have one of the world's finest secret services. CONCLUDED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0500280002-7 Uri Geller practising spoon-bonding and mind banding. The Russians set up a special committee to study him and his experiments revolutionary system of photograpfiy Ann ISFEE311 12FVIE12 P11C ESPIONAGE aims, In effect. e toa d vastating short cut through thmil processes of espionage and coespionage. Any nation which in;i to acquire a distinct lead in thTe could achieve something like toperfority In a war. So far no M ists acquired this lead, not even thlet Union which has the un' ' d edge In (,,th~ extent of its re. se.trid experimental work. But the Islhave taken this sufficiently se! a yto h Ve monitored what the SoUnion and other Communist cc!a are doing In this field. What ha:)ressed the Israelis Is the fact thi:is not only Soviet Russia which Isloping the theme of psychic as,Ie., but, bar East European _.u_ ' " orsatility, of the jewi-ldsclenti- well as cultural fields is well kibut their pre-eminence In what ise-ferred to as PSI Is not generally a I - ted. One of the most remark al,their early practitioners In P.,and paranormal experiments- th3 Stefan Ossowiecki, who was IbcRussia In 1677, and who found hLpsychic gifts, which he de- vewith the aid of a rabbi. in 1 9 ssowleckt was Imprisoned for pocrimes and in 1921, when he W;.free, he went to Poland. There heloped his psychic talents to the incarried out a number of tele- ppxperiments, including one long. di,transmission. A journalist in Clmade a drawing at his home, sespy of it to scientists at Marton- ted from "The Israeli Secret Ser. vu be published by Hamish Ifarnifton on inber 14, price 16-95. bad while, at a distan[ce of 400 miles, Ossowlecki telepathically rew the I d same picture hi the sand. Ossowleckl never accepted any mone- tary rewards for his work and during the Second World War he used his talents to help the Polish underground. "Documentary accounts speak of him locating specific bodies In mass graves ..... On the day of the Warsaw Uprising he remarked, 'I see that I shall shortly the a terrible death. But I have had a wonderful life!'" Before the end of the war he was executed by the Nazis. In the antruils; of the Jewish underground movement the name of Stefan Osso' wiecki is still honoured and one [secret] hysical laboratory inside Poland In named aftik Ithn and services R witb intentgence gleaned thro PSI'Lechniques. So highly a the llhl work carried out by this agency re- garded that, in case it Is eventually - located by the KGB, a duplicate labors tory working on parallel lines has been set up in Western Europe. Such work is more effectively cairried on outside of Israel for a number of reasons. FIrist, there Is the undeniable fact that Israel Is not only a democracy, but a small. and compact nation where gossip spreads as fast as it does in a village. Anything unusual or bizarre in the realm of intelligence needs to be experimented with outside Israeli-terri- tory. A great deal of this experiment, ation can fairly easily be conducted under the guise of other aspects of the paranormal-faith heating, psychometry and extra-sensory perception. But there are other reasons for work- ing outside Israeli territory: psychic re- search is sUll a comparatively new V0 a /. /,+.a, I" a I 2W -V A lab An original ddrawipg contained in a sealed envelope an copied telepathically by Stefan Ossowlecki. a Russian Jew who was one at he earliest practitioners in psychic and pairs. t normal experimentation science and It can only be developed by a free exchange of ideas with inter- national bodies. American research in th.a field is nowhere near as advanced orlintensive as In the USSR, but at least American scientific studies are freely available for others to study. It is also fairly certain that only among the East European Communist States is psychic espionage being developed and put on a military basis. So Israel's espionage in this field Is mainly direct- ed to that quarter. - The Israelis have found that there is widespread indifference and scepticism In Western Europe about the develop- ment of psychic espionage, even if in the USA there is a little more enthus- iasm. But Dr Milan RyzI, a scientist who lived in Prague until 1967, when be went to the USA, has made it quite clear that he regards Soviet experiments In this direction as menacing: "The military and the secret polieb in the USSR display an unusual, disproportio- nate interest in parapsychology. Some years ago, a project was begun in the USSR to apply telepathy to indoctrinate and 're-educate anti-social elements.' It was hoped that suggestion at a distance could induce Individuals, without their being aware of it to adopt the offiCiallY desired political and social attitudes .... The dangers of possible mis us(! of PSI should not be overlooked." The Israelis have not overlooked this and they probably now have a closer Insight into what the Russians are doing in psychic espionage hall any other nation, "This Isn't just a question of telepathy or ESP alone~" my Israeli contact told me. "The USSR is spend- Ing vast sums of money in developing research and experimentation in some JEWISH CHROiii1CLE SEPTEMBER 30 1977 19 ery sinister directions. Their telepathic 'research, for instance, Is being devoted to what they call the transference of behaviour impulses-the subliminal con- ditfoning of a person's character. We know they are concerned with develop- ing this technique to try to control agents and even to create traitors. 4rhere Is some evidence that they have experint, ented with this technique In the Middle East. "One young Israeli who was studying a I a European university was marked down by the KGB as a possible candi- date for 'subliminal control.' He was Invited to various telepathic seances organised by a Bulgarian and he at once suspected something devious was being practised on the participants. In these seances a third person was Introduced, known aa~ 4MA 'ird _tewlstor.' He was of the two people involved in transfer- ring messages by ESP, but, one suspects, trying to distort this work In some way. 'The young Israeli then recalled that when he had first been recruited to come along to these meetings with other young students, he had been questioned quite a lot abofit his home, family and background. One of the questions put to him concerned his father and he reallsed that he had supplied the infor- mation that his father worked In a mili- tary establishment In Tel Aviv. "This proves nothing, you may think. Well, the young Israeli reported his sus- picions. He, couldn't In any way con- firm them, because he was not know- ledgeable In this field. But we followed up his report by making Inquiries from agents in Sofia and Leningrad. Surprise, surprise, we found that the Russians were working on means of monitoring -or bugging, if you like-telepathic communications, and one of the aims of this was tri distort the flow of mes- sages. You can compare this to radar; 'the Interpolator,' as they call him, creates a kind of jamming of the thought waves. But, of course, it can also he used for playing tricks with the sub. conscious mind. "This is the kind of way In which psychic espionage could be applied in the case of a man like Lee Harvey Oswald, who murdered President Kennedy. I am not saying this was the case then, but Oswald had been to Russia. W!"at we are now convinced of is that some of the extremist terrorist and anarchist groups of young people have been sub- jected to a kind of telepathic control." Another aspect of Soviet development of PSI Is that of Kirlian photography, so named after Davidovitch Sention Kirlian its 78-year-old inventor. This is a re6lutionary form of photography which investigates the supposed human "aura" and the energy field emitted by all living things. The Russians have experimented with Kirlian photography in various ways, for detecting dLeases In the early stages, for selecting better seeds for planting, and also as a new means of lie-detection in Interrogation. It has proved more accurate and effect- Continued on next cam Approved For Release 2000/08/07 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0500280002-7 The weird world.of psychic espionage Ossowlecki and his wife on holiday at a health resort In August, 1039 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 C(A-RDP96-00787ROO050028000277.,,,,.,-.2,,.,",'.~i,~I THE WASHINGTON POST redneiday, July 12,1978 ~AU 0 Prosecution Witnesses Sa.,v Scharans 17 Passed i Soviet Intelligence to the West..., - By Kevin Klose WRshinston Post Poreign service MOSCOW-A parade of Soviet prosecution witnesses accused Jewish dissident Anatoly S6arsnsky at a se. cret session of his treason trial yes terday' of gathering and, sending to the West intelligence on Soviet space research, "ciiiiialfied" sociology and s ebor 0 par aW foR as. ea. AVeording to a pread statement is. suod by the court-the only Informa- tion source for yesterday's session-I I witnesses testified against Scharan- sky. The witnesses Included the prin. cipal accuser, Dr. Sonya Lipavsky, a physician who ministered to dissi- dents and who has turned out to be ,-botha KGB informer and . oe*tip "volunteee, for the Central Tntellf. gence Agency. , , The official court-acebunt ga;ve lit. tle Information oi. Scharansky's re. sponses to these acciagers, as the trial completed Its second day amid contin- ued strong reaction from the United countries to States and other Western this trial and that of Alexander Ginz- burg, alongtime human rights activ jet, Theanger and frustrationi- ws-h-' Ington especially constitutes zet. In the strategic arms limitation talks scheduled to begin in Geneva today between Secretary of Stabe Cyrus V ce and Soviet Foreign Minister AanndreiGromyko. I - In it1ciec- At the Ginzburg trial, also ond day in Kaluga, a provincial city south of bore, ArIna Ginzt,-urg, Alex. and or's wif- was ejected after she stooo Aip and PrG*,steo) that one prose- cution witne"' tf,strinony wa from begi I t d Is s "lies The " "- we witnes' ' er 'Ark.dy Grado- boyev, an artist friend of Ginzburg's who reportedly testified that Arin a Ginzburg had thr testified Monday. eateried him after he Prosecution witnesses finished -yes. terilay, alleging that reports issued by the Moscow group to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki ,eords slandered the Soviet ntate. Glnzburg, ScharanskY and Yuri Orlov helped found the group, one of several set up around the county. Orlov has been convicted of anti-S Oviet agitation, the same charge lodged Against Ginzburg and against Scharandky, whose addi- tional treason charge carries a maxi- mum penalty of death. I The GInzburg accusers sought to re- but reports of the Helsinki,group, that alleged psychiatric Imprisonment of r political prisoners and inhumane con. ditions in Soviet labor camps. They alsoalleged that &relief fund forpo. litical prisoners that Ginzburg admin. latered from western royalties earned by his friend Alexander Solzheutt. sYrVs works "has been set up specially to finance hostile-mindedScharansky was ported by the West porsons," aided, according in rel;arityeim- to the official courtthe official accountWitnesses alleged report said. of the prosecutionthat ScharanoT The, money went to evidence, by Vitall"repeatedly assisted" enemies of the Rubin,, a former Toth 'in tl2e state, they said. Soviet who now course of 1976-77 lives in Israel. in establishing Rubin on a Ginzburg, 41, was a spy who sentconspiratorial who suffers from Scharansky j basis, contacts " with , heart and stomachthrough. the diplomaticbearers of secrets Illnesses, was mail of ?ne from among Soviet made to stand throughout-of the embassies scientists and the proceedings, a written assign- experts in vadulK " his wife said. ment " to colleett Informationfields on the role, staffing . 0f and location of Toth was accused various d 'worming ouT - defense enterprises, the court state- c ment said. nformation that Is not subject h to pdb-.' 'rans"' , a c0' Scharans 30, a computer program. According to the lication in the m official account open press, on wow "a Soviet er a use' mer w 0 we efused an exit visa to number of witnessesspace.research, asserted ihat classified InformatIbu, i~ r.r ~l an bee. Israel an became a.pIvotal figure in - a ~ Scharansky, guidedin the field of ~ by ambitious, sociological research he Mo.-b-man r self- the Mose human rights movement, ~ ish Alms," and and parapsychology." "through an agent ently %titpred of a apparent entered on his relat Jons military intelligenceOn Toth's Personal service who instruefttL worked in Moscow Ith Robert f pondent, arans a with Rob oth a a o orm o OM is r t er LoaAngert r le me cap e here.es me. ces..n The court statement[passed] on the did not men. Inf - ormst i n o collected tion Toth by to the West." O name, but Leonid Schar. ' . ansky, The account asserted Anatoly'a brother,that "the wit- .0 a-e for--tio who at. ' tended the nesse, ,I.. gave ~ 6~erdng session evidence on other Monday, reported then congrete facts that the prosecutor,of Scharansky's denled subver- Toth as vrp Pyotr Solonin, sive activity," where and said had Identified saying it was that the Information Toth as "'pptil an American Intelligencefrom the outside Scharansky helped agent posing and the defendant ofitain was used as a journalist. himself did not only in articles Toth denied the work Anywhere for the Los Angelis alle- and gation. was comfortably Times, off being fully sup- Yance, in Gene'v'a-f6r-Grso ko -.Talk's MY Sets'He'' ns- Wife'. eling With Sehara. ky-s VANCE, From Al - concern." Vance said the meeting, ex pected to take place tomorrow after' noon after the last of Vititce's sched- uled meetings with Gromyko, was ar- range at Avital Scharansky's request- The senior official said Vance hopes to obtain from GrDmyko "further eluc dation of what they (the Soviets) are doing and why they are doing it" in the human rights field. There I no consensus among U.S. is t officials in the Vance Party abou why the Soviets chose to begin the Scharansky and Ginzburg trials only two days before the Vance-Gromyko meetings here. One official suggested that the Soviets do not expect the present talks to produce a finished SALT agreement and so decided t 0 go ahead with the controversial trials despite the cloud they cast on the dis- cussion3. Both Vance and Grornyko, in sep- arate arrival statements here last night. said the main focus of their discussions Is to be the nuclear arms negotiations. There was no Indication from Gromyko, that be is willing even to discuss,the Soviet dissident trials with Vance. In a brief airport statement, Gromy. ko said his side is ready for discus- sions of the SALT question "as well as others" with good will. He refused to answer any questions. In the current of Soviet- American reItIoJwt= was little optimism In ffie ance party about the talks that are to begin this morn. Ing. Seldom In.recent years have the leaders of two nations been In such open and heated conflict on such a broad range of questions. I The two principal SALT Issues to be discussed here, according to the senior official, are limitations on new types of strategic missiles and the lim- itations to be applied to the Soviet Backfire bomber. He added that there is more likelihood of progress on the missiles than on the bomber. Officials accompanying Vance said the United States will inform the So- viets that It reserves the right to go ahead with a plan to dig thousands of new silo holes to permit deceptive basing of the U.S. land-based intercon- tinental ballistic missiles. The senior official said that no decision has be en made by the United States to adopt the multiple-hole system but that the option is kept open in the negotiating documents for the new treaty. Another U.S. official, who has been keeping close tabs on the progress of the SALT negotiations, said rapid progress could be made on the remain- ing technical issues if the broader political questions between the two sides could be solved. In addition to SALT and human rights, reporters were told by the U.S. side that the Middle East and other questions would be taken up with Gromyko. Officials did not rule out discussing conflicting policies in Af- rica with the Soviet foreign minister, The VanceGfoPayko, meetings a* scheduled to take place alternately in U.S. and Soviet buildings here. The first meeting is scheduled for an office building on the edge of Ge- neva's botanical gardens that was started by financier Bernard Cornfeld as headquarters for his speculative se- curities empire, but taken over by the U.S. government after he went bank- rupt. Virginia Receives Bids on Road Work RICHMOND (UPI)-The Virginia Department of Highways and Trans- portation received yesterday bids for construction, repair and maintenanci 0 n roads in the state, including one for construction of another section of Interstate Rte. 66 in Arlington County between Spout Run Parkway and North Veitch Street. Meanwhile, the state highway and transportation commission said it has approved for award 21 contracts total- Ing $15 million for projects affecting state roads. The contracts Include paving the final 5:1 miles of 146 in Prince WII& liam County and erecting travel ser- vice signs along the 97 miles of InF terstate 81 In the Salem district. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 CIA-R.DP96-00787ROO.0500280002-7 ApOfty2ed-For Rbtbftd"2-OOOMIMI~IVMJRD'P96-00787ROO0500280002-7, Beirut's By Thomas W. Lippman W. Wrist- Post Foreign Servioe BEIRUMn air of anxiety and elplessnesa reminiscent of the worst ~ rmmer of the civil war two years ago as settled over Beirut. he country's political leaders seem 3mAble to come up with a formula -defusing the explosive military situa. lion, and the patterns of the city's life which had been well on the way lack to normal-have crumbled again, lome Lebane se Say they expect pew round of full-scale fighting *rUpt any minute. Others believe that The latest crisis is petering out-but that this only means the explosion they fell Is inevitable has been defer- red for a time. , -1 , t is hard to find anyone who fore- sees an early end to the country's tor. VDent. 1 1 Prominent religious leaders and pol- t Iclans, for the most part the same In& who were powerless to halt the catastrophe of 1975 and 1976, continue to go up the hill to the presidential rlace at Raabda to urge President II&S Sarkis not to resign, fearing the thics that might ensue. - With yesterday's announcement that a Cabinet meeting scheduled for today - had been canceled, the Nfietting was that Sarkis would not thTy out his threat to step down since speculation hers had his resigns- tion following that meeting. But privately, many Lebanese seem to agree with Besbir Gemayel, intit. News. Anatysis factions are going to make the conces. aions that would enable Sarkis to not effectively. Syria has again issued stiff warn. ings to the Christian "gongs." In the words of the ruling Baathlat Party's newspaper al-Baath, "Those gangs have prevented the legitimate au. tborities from doing their duty. To this day the authorities have not been able to develop a formula for a nation- al army free of sectarian fanaticism. The authorities have been prevented from presenting any national accord formula because those gangs want a sectarian formula, not a national one." The Christians, led by former Presi- dent Camille Charnoun, are as defiant as the Syrians, ate determined. Chem. oun's latest blast called the Damascus government a tool of Soviet commu- nigm. Normal Lve..Pavade, In that atmosphere, there seemed little Prospect of a breakthrough as the speaker of the Lebanese parlia. ment, Kamel Assail, Shiite Moslem, went off to Damascus yesterday on what he called a "personal Initiative." Nor did there seem any realistic hope for adoption of a formula drafted by some prominent Christians -including newspaper publisher Ghassan Tueni W Beshir Gemayel's, brother, Amin-that reportedly calls for the militias to get their weapons off the streets of East Beirut and the Syrians to pull back from the Chris. thin area after & period of calm. "Everybody went too far," one Leb- anese observer said, "The Syrians went too far in their shelling of East Beirut. Sarkis went too far in saying he would resign. The Christians went too far in exposing their connection with the Israelis.- The reference to Israel, which has pledged Itself to prevent the annihila- lion of the Lebanese Christians by Syria, brought up one of the great un- derlying fears in the present situation -that Israel woul stop in, touching off a war with Syria. As a fresh reminder of Israel's In-. terest in the current situation, Israeli warplanes streaked across southern Lebanon yesterday---creating sonic booms"over the port of Sidon, some 26 miles south of here, But there is a corollary to the fear of Israeli Intervention--a deep-seated concern that If the Syrians let up on the Christian factions~ the Christian leadership will'push for outright par- tition of the country. "They will declare their own state, you watch," a Moslem government of- ficial said of the Christians. "They have lost a lot of their territory In the northeast, but they Will still do it." Meanwhile, &I1 flights out of Leba. non are booked full. The capital is again a divided city, wIth only a deter- mined few willing to risk sniper fire to cross,from the Moslem to Christian side or back Government ministries on the Moslem side are functioning fitfully; those :on the Christian or eastern side not at all. Postal service has been out for nearly two weeks. Telephone lines were cut. Water and electric supplies- have been erratic, and a heat wave has left the city breathless. The main banks are closed, as is the Port. Public transit is at a halt. It Is hard to say when It will be restored, since the Christian militias used many bright new postwar buses as road. ~blocks during the fighting, and they are now only burned out. shells. The government has only now be. gun to assess the -extent of the eco. nomic blow- dealt to Lebanon by this latest round of fighting - the second economic bolo punch of what was sup- posed to be a recovery year. The first was the Israeli Invasion of southern L~ebanou ~ hardly men- tioned these days - which destroyed houses, shops and orchards, and drove thousands of 'refugees from their homes, Black Man Held by S. African Securitv Police Dies By Caryle Murphy- W&shlnffton Post Foreign Service JOHANNESBURG-A 20~year-old black man plunged to his death from the fifth floor of a police station Mon. day, becoming the 23rd Person to die since March 1976 while In the custody of South African security police, A statement released yesterday by Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger said Lungile Tabalaza jumped from a fifth- floor window of the Sanlani building in Port Elizabeth. The building houses the same secu- rity police offices where black con. sciousness leader Steve Biko received the head Injuries that resulted in his death last September. The police announcement yesterday that Tabalaza, 20, had committed sui. cide was greeted by blacks with open disbelief. Opposition members Of Parliament called for an urgent Investigation of Tabalaza's death. Opposition spokes- woman Helen Suzman termed it "particularly significant" that the death had occurred at the place Biko had been detained, "This alone c0s for special Investi-, gation into the methods used by the' men in charge," she said. Kruger said an Inquest would be held as soon as possible at. which rela- tives and their representatives could be present. Kruger also said he had appointed a senior police officer to Investigate Ta- balaza's death "with a view to possibly he gave',tn Police who came to s4-4 around the boyiy. . _1 "Iw rderect y " Policel to go back to my shop, tGrIus said. Ta- balaza died In an ambulance on the way to the hospitalJ Kruger said. The justice - mln*ter's response to Tabalaza!s deatb( 0011trasts sharply with his attitude after Biko's'death when he Initially reported that th; black leader died of a hunger strike. cism domestfca)13~ as well as'laterna. Kruger later came under severe critt. disciplinary action ... In view of the tionally for his handling of Elko's strict Instructions that police should death and for remarks belittling the do their utmost to prevent detainees event. U.S.: Legislators Told in 75. from committing suicide." Last May, Kruger issued new rules In his statement, Kruger said Taba- to security policemen instructing that laze was arrested Monday by the uni- interrogations should be conducted in Pretoria Was Paying for Trip formed police in connection with strengthened rooms unless they were United Press International The State Department says five con- gressmen were warned the South Af. rician government and not their pri- vate host was paying for a trip they took to South Africa in 1975-76. Spokesman Tom Reston confirmed a CBS-TV report Monday involving Reps. John 11. Dent (D-Pa.) Richard H. Jehord (D-Mo.), Harold Runnels (D- and Bob Wilson (R-Callf.) and Son. darl T, Curtis (R-Neb.). 013S said the cash value of the trip estimated to be $3,000, and that Hopes for a tary boss of the Christian. Phalangist milita, who told a Paris newspaper that it made little difference whether Sarkis stays or goes because his government "has been disintegrating for the past two yeArs.11 Sarkis, who argues. that be cannot for accept responsibility without power, continues to say that he wants to rc` sign and he continues not to do it. Political observers say the longer he leaves his resignation threat on the ts'. ble, the less impact it has. The initl al a shock has already worn off with no to sign that the Syrians or the C4ristian, fee." Doles Is now assigned to the U.S. embassy in Wellington, New Zealand. Reston confirmed that account, say- Ing that in 1075, department officials, "in the course of briefing several members of Congress who were about to visit South Africa, told [them] that . . . we, the department, had obtained Information Indicating that the trip was not being paid for by the ostensi- ble host for the visif but rather was being funded by the South African government." Reston said he could not "render three incidents Involving arson and robbery that he was not being held under South Africa's security laws n' which permit indefinite detentio without trial, and that he would have been formally charged within 48 hours. Nevertheless, Tabalaza'm death oc~ curred after he had been handed over to the security police for further in- vestigation, Kruger' related. He said Tabalaza jumped to is death about 3 P.M. An eyewitness, Maithinus Pretorius, ilnna worVng inhis offices under.- on the ground floor. The rules explic- itly stated that 1'everything possible had to be,dQz,6to prevent detainees from jumpti4 out of buildings." Tabalaza Is the first detainee to die since the itiquiest into the death of Elko last November. The verdict in that inquest exoner- ated the police, who said Biko's head injuries were suffered during a scuf- fle. Elko's lawyer charged that the dead black leader had been beaten by police, and then denied proper medi- cal treatment. _ Th Biko verdict drew criticism at --.A. it would hp intar. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA,-RDP96-00787ROO0500280002-7 -