Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Soviet spy Geoffrey prime has created Security headaches for Margaret the forgotten refugees by Matt Bellan special to the free press every so the Media offer the Public heartrending stories describing the plight of the palestinian the arabs featured in these stories sometimes reminisce fondly about their families Orange Groves near Haifa or their Lush farms in the All of which had to be abandoned in 1948 As they fled the ruthless zionist they do we have to suffer for the sins of Europe and the United which pushed for the creation of Israel to atone for the of six million european jews under the nazis what the stories do not mention is for the roughly arabs who fled pre Israel Palestine in More than one million jews fled Arab coun and of those found Refuge in Israel Over the next decade or the medias failure to pick up on the Story of the jewish refugees from Arab while harping away relentlessly about the plight of the palestinian is one of the most blatant examples of journalistic oneside Ness in the 20th it seems appropriate at this when laments about injustices to palestinians Are being Given so much prominence in the to talk a bit about the other Side of the Coin the experience of the sephardic jews who fled Arab contrary to myths spread by Arab propagandists and their who started settling in the Arab world after the destruction of the Sec Ond did not always live Harmony with the moslem majority prior to the creation of under islamic christians and jews were known As second class citizens subject to restrictions that varied from one country and Era to among other Dimmis had to pay a head a land tax and a tax for the Upkeep of Arab in some historians argue that the Money raked in from those taxes is what deterred moslem rulers from encouraging mass conversions of jews and christians to in to give just one As late As the a jew was not allowed to ride a horse he had to rely Only on for transport and dismount when a passed jews were not permitted to walk on the same Side of Street or touch food used by they were not permitted to Wear leave their ghettos at or place any lights on streets in jewish a jew could be called from the synagogue on his most holy Day and ordered to perform the most degrading for the jewish Community of the capital of was obliged to clean the City in where jews and moslem lived in relative peace for centuries and jews had moslem launched a pogrom of rape and looting against the jewish Community in 1941 after Hitler and the nazis started to influence that country Rul ing moslem in Aletter 4ast october to the Globe and Jack a Baghdad born describes the situation in that City in the 1940s Young jews were not allowed to go to University or we were not allowed to work in certain we were heckled in the at and we could not respond be cause the police would not with the creation of hundreds of thousands of sephardic jews Wor ried about their futures in an increasingly hostile Arab world and streamed to the jewish in some moslem they were allowed to leave in a relatively orderly with the approval of the european colonial governments then in but to escape from the most Hartline anti zionist like thousands of jews Are still virtually kept prisoners by the jews had to sneak they fearing for their As Arab mobs vented their Wrath against Israel by plundering jewish quarters of Arab it is estimated that in this mass sephardic jews left behind several billion dollars Worth of property and wealth considerably More than palestinian arabs left behind in Israel for which they were never compensate arriving in they were gradually integrated into israeli largely at the expense of the jewish state and of jews around the that is in contrast to the palestinian whom the arabs often maintained As impoverished Refu gees ammunition in the Arab dicta tors self serving propaganda War against All this is not to suggest that pales Tinian arabs should never be granted any kind of self Rule or but it is time for the arabs to admit that along with the often mistreated their jewish and owe them a huge moral fifty five per cent of israelis now Are jews from Arab countries or their it is time to accept the departure of arabs from pales Tine in 1948 and the arrival there of jews from Arab countries for what it was a morally justifiable Exchange of populations with Many historical if and when the rest of the Arab countries follow Egypt example and recon Haze the will not be doing anyone a in Many they will be compensating their former jew ish residents after persecuting them for Matt Bellan is editor of the jewish soviet moles by Gordon Broo Shepherd daily Telegraph Are the British better than their main by sheer Luck or Good at catching soviet Are they simply far better at Breeding them those Are the questions that arise As Geoffrey prime joins the postwar list of British soviet agents at first sight seem to pop up in Britain with the remorseless regularity of a cuckoo jumping out of a the British have to admit to sheer Luck in the prime it was not counterintelligence that uncovered him but the local police in the first damaging evidence was not his soviet but his list of Young schoolgirls that he had logged for pos sible it was his lust for Young girls that led to his after being arrested on sex prime confessed to his wife that he had been a spy for the soviets for 14 the wife agonized for weeks and then finally turned her husband on november 10 he was sentenced to 35 years in prison for spying and sex the first thing to look at More closely is the British record nothing that follows must be read As playing let alone the appalling dam age that treachery has inflicted upon All images need to be put in of the 16 spies for the soviet Union unmasked in Britain since the second world seven were prewar or wartime All of them sub orned at a time when the soviet Union was not considered a deadly enemy or in an All heaven is bad but one British newspaper has apropos the prime can Britain be trusted to keep any be and another newspaper has printed the British Rol Call of Trai tors and categorically stated that it is longer than that of any nato intricate operation much stress has rightly been Laid on the damage to american intelligence interest caused by whose work at the Cheltenham cod breaking and monitoring unit was part of an intricate and interlocked Anglo american oper there have been assertions that the United states was not fully in formed about the background to primes arrest last summer and As a Washington has been winding Down its intelligence cooperation with both statements Are wide of the the americans were told everything that was significant in primes original 30page confession and the Way is now Clear for them to take alongside the in a much lengthier and More detailed interrogation of the convicted but right up to they have known what the British have there i am assured by both american and British been no lessening of Contact Between the two sides As a result of the prime As for the american this has certainly been one of but at the professional level the dismay was tempered with sympathy and the general attitude has been but for the Grace of go that feeling can be for Over the past 20 years key american defence and intelligence organizations have had the misfortune to go that and at a greater Pace than their British their Story begins in 1960 with a purge of some two dozen officials of the National Security Agency the american counterpart to the chel Tenham communications after two homosexual members of the William Martin and Bernon Mit had defected to Moscow with a suitcase full of since there have been no fur Eljer espionage scandals within but a total of nine other soviet agents were arrested and convicted Between 1965 and these include personnel from the the air Force and the Cia the material they handed Over to the soviet Union ranged from top secret codes and Cyphers to information about spy satellite systems and the Titan ii if we look at other nato especially during the gaullist is thought to have hushed up its espionage scandals whenever one that could not be swept under the carpet was that of the French spy in Georges uncovered in More there have been three of frenchmen spying for the soviet All Between 1977 and agent unmasked in West Gunther Guil the soviet agent unmasked while serving As a private Secretary to Chancellor Willy Brandt was the most sensational literally dozens of other espionage arrests have been made Over the past 30 years though it must be noted that West with its millions of postwar refugees from Eastern has always faced a uniquely daunting Secu Rity that Britain is the oldest of All the Kremlin Intelli gence targets and that it is still the prime european especially for advanced technology and Communia the British need not feel especially at least As regards the record of the past 20 this does of detract from the Gravity of the prime or from the Desper ate need to guard against a Repetti so what of the and primes own significance inner Brief and necessarily opaque statement to the House of prime minister Margaret Thatcher listed three major questions that must be examined How primes spying act tivies were made both As regards his original recruitment and his Long years of undetected treachery How much damage did he and whether he could unmask any other soviet agents still at final answers cannot be Given at this but some clues Are already and it is Best to take the Points out of because questions two and three seem somewhat less Complex than the there is general agreement in lon for that the Secre tary of defence Caspar Weinberger was Correct when he declared that the prime Case was damaging though not a disaster Thacher has made it Clear that the traitor was neither in a position to reveal nato military secrets to the let alone nuclear targeting and so on nor would he have been Able to expose the identity of or British prime seems in fact to have been purely a Monitor and decoder of soviet he was not involved it the assessment of the which Hai always been done in a separate build ing at much he Ever aware of the if made on those which were the responsibility of special com but by telling the russians Over so Many years what we were listening to and which channels and codes of we had he Hai obviously done serious damage to the whole nato on the Richter scale of espionage prime Case probably registers around seven out of a maximum disaster of As to thatchers question about other soviet is known to have been Bri gains Security chiefs doubtless Knock ing on of their conviction that prime worked a and a Toner in he a loner also in his the in credible muddles he got into losing important equipment Given to him by the soviets and hanging on for year Sjo material he should have passed them suggest that would have a Oneman disaster for any broader spy in other the experts appear confident that prime himself has no accomplices still inside the Chelten Ham communications thatchers first question Bow to explain the Security laps and How to prevent a repetition will be the hardest for the British to Deal a series of investigations has failed to come up with the positive the 30yearold system Jim which some civil servants in sensitive posts Are grilled at intervals to establish their is clearly not prime was checked no fewer than four times in 14 years and got through Are the investigators not up to their Job As hard since prime always Man aged to conceal his main peculiarity the molesting of even from his own body searches extra surveillance is what comes Down to body searches at government Security grilling detectors at least once a perhaps even special permission for vate trip but All this brings us perilously close to the lifestyle of so Viet where half the population perpetually spies on the other half and where everyone is guilty unless proved this is the exact opposite of everything that democracies hold before we surrender these one final cautionary tale of compari despite the suffocating pressures of a police state and despite the1 Savage penalties against the individual and his family for any attempt to change the Kab has itself suffered a constant Haemorrhage of defectors to Over the past 10 Britain alone has received three major ones ending with the important major Zuzic Nklan from Iran a few weeks ago of the actual publicized or Are there i Rity solutions for any i humanity being Dic table As it i and All staffed and Petrovan takeovers inspire Nightmare i dislike people who have it is amazing How haying one yourself can change your Point of it was More like a bad dream than a it was a night i had just pulled up to my Friendly self serve Gas station when i noticed that something was there were no Price then i noticed something the station was no longer one of Gerry Fullerton Imperial in place of the Esso sign was the amputated Maple Leaf that Marks our pet Ocanada i said to better go somewhere u is not that i dislike j just dislike doing business with the no Ter How Many times i am told that it is for my perhaps j would feel that it was to my Benefit if just once pet Ocanada led a Price cutting War that would Benefit my rather than being the first to restore after such a you when they move to get Back to Oil Public or like to Call Normal Fred Cleverley i could find Only Petr Canada by now the fuel gauge was emitting Little beeps of i had no Choice but to pull up to the nearest i was prepared for some increase in because Marc Lalonde had spent the 15 minutes on television he had the Csc to Tell one that Canadas nationalization of its Oil was new what i was not prepared for was the Price on the pulpit was a then i noticed the Small sign taped in place posted it j plied by two to pay for i drove Down the to the which always in my meet Ory at a Shell sign on was sporting a the sane with the old station a few my usually about this would mean to fill the tasked the attendant if he would take Esq the answer As i suspected it would a Flat Cash he said no one else takes credit cards because no one has that kind of credit i have to my j that will buy two he but i dont serve less than you will have to serve but your i it says we serve that was when we had compete he Marc says to just take the he needs it to pay unemployment Tell i How did the Price get to a litre it All started when i mean bought Petro the attendant re remember the Necen Salitre the government added to gasoline to pay for those service stations i i it was supposed to come off in the attendant then you bought by As i the president of pet Ocanada said he was borrowing the Money for and he would not need anything from the or from the the attendant but remember a weeks when the same president said that we haunt understood that we had to pay for bps million and that we haunt bought the gasoline in bps tanks remember that he said we would have to keep paying that extra Centa litre for while longer was five years i the tax never came but just last it had been increased to Only ten cents a you Are forgetting what happened in the the attendant re pet Ocanada shells and borrowed the Money to do part of that ten cents was to pay the interest on the then pet Ocanada bought and borrowed some More Money to do but it was not until Petra Canada bought the whole and swallowed up All the Esso stations As that things got really i there were those television commercials you the ones that told me that Petryck Canada was using the Money it made at the service stations to find More the attendant everyone is entitled to a Little now and pet Ocanada never made any like every other government it Only spent it had to pay All those but As Long Ashe Federal government was behind the Banks did not mind the h was called the pome last week the Bankers got they simply told Petrorca a a that it had to improve its Cash the company looked another they thought they could f it tap the magic mushroom jute Lorean but then they Breed that the supreme court and is that magic mushrooms the Only could do was put the Gas Price up to a explained everything last night i cant buy it at that i sure you the attendant we can finance have the forms right if vow will give pet Ocanada a mortgage my your and a Lien on Yosyf Ilu fill up your can sell the paper to the Royal Bank All the Way Home j would Wake doonesbury Folk she ;