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Show Page 6 The Utah Independent March 10, 1977 Continued from page 1 preparedness investigating subcommittee which conducted hearings on the Defense Department budget. As associate special counsel to the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Science, he became a protege of Lyndon Johnson. When John F. Kennedy took office Vance was appointed general counsel for the Department of Defense in which position he developed a close working relationship with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara who asked Vance to aid him in the reorganization of the Pentagon bureaucracy and in the modernization of the Army. Vance was recruited for the Defense Department by Adam Yarmolinsky who was special assistant to Secretary of Defense McNamara. Yarmolinsky reportedly was responsible for bringing into government a group of leftist Whiz Kids who were known as Yarmolinskys Commissars. While at Harvard University, Yarmolinsky was editor of a student paper called Yardling, described as leftwing. He admitted to the Loyalty Review Board on Sept. 21, 1948, that he had attended meetings of the Young Communist League, cited by the Attorney General of the US. as a subversive communist organization that seeks to alter the form of government of the United States by unconstitutional means. A U.S. Army Intelligence report, referred to in sworn testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated that while being questioned during an investigation while he was in the U.S. Army, Yarmolinsky stated, The Young Communist League believed and I was inclined to believe that a communist government was a desired end. Sworn testimony and Army Intelligence Reports show Adam Yarmolinsky attended meetings of the Communist and subversive American Youth Congress and that he raised money for the Communists in Spain. Yarmolinsky was a chip off the old block; his father, Avraham Yarmolinsky, and his mother, Babette Deutsch, both had long records of affiliation with Communist organizations, fronts, and causes. Otto Otepka, former Chief of Evaluations of the Office of State Department Security and now retired from the Subversive Activities Control Board, has prepared a memorandum concerning an incident in which Cyrus Vance was involved, part of which follows: (Quote) In 1966, in connection with editorial broadcasts over Radio Station KWFS, Eugene, Oregon, a CBS affiliate, owned by (Marvin) Steffins, he received data regarding alleged malfeasance at the U.S. Army Surface and Material Command, St. Louis, Mo. Among the data was a copy of a note dated November 20,1963, on the stationery of the Office of the Vice President, Washington, the text of which reads Silence Charles H. Byford, President AVSCOM Lodge 2301 (American Federation of Government Employees) by any means within your discretion. The note was addressed to Cyrus and signed L over the typed name Lyndon. An accompanying news story from the St. Louis t, December 17, 1963, reports statements from Jerome Duff, attorney for Byford, that Byford was found in a stairwell on December 13 with the appearance of having been beaten with a blackjack. Hospital examination determined that Byford had a three-inc- h lump behind the right one-incear. a h welt below the right eye and a bruise above the kidney. Tests showed blood in the urine. Duff said that the FBI conducted an investigation of the assault because it occurred in a Federal building. Duff explained that Byford declined to discuss the injury with the FBI because he feared retaliation both against himself and his wife who also worked in the Mart building where the offense Globe-Democra- The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand of Freedom IRenoirts on The was committed. Included with the data. . .was a copy of the Synopsis (cover page) of an FBI report dated Ft&ruary 5, 1964, summarizing its investigation of the assault on Byford (St. Louis Field Office File No. 701131). The summary reflects that the investigation was discontinued when no suspects were developed. The report notes that Byford refused to be interviewed. t, h; his statements to the Duff related the events preceding the injur' to Byford. In November, 1963, a local of the American Federation of Government Employees union, headed by Byford, passed a resolution demanding an investigation by a disinterested agency of eleven charges made against the Army Surface and Material Command (AVSCOM), located in the Mart Building, St. Louis. Included in the resolution were accusations of purported espionage and sabotage and harassment and of employees who had complained of improper activities at the Army installation. In October 1963, according to Duff, the Army Inspector General's Office conducted an investigation in which Duff participated, but he said he could not elaborate on the details because he was sworn to secrecy. Duff told the newspaper that he requested Congress to investigate the matter and an investigation was reportedly initiated by Senator .) Stuart Symington and Congressman Frank Karsten who promised to consider the union's allegations. In addition, Duff said, copies of the union resolution had been sent to all members of the House and Senate. Significantly, Duff observed that only three hours before the injury to Byford on December 13, 1963, he and Byford had attended a meeting with high Army officials. At the time of the assault, Byford's security clearance had been under revocation since the preceding June. The union had charged that such action was an intimidation technique against AVSCOM employees. . . The matter was the subject of a suit filed by Byford in U.S. District Court, St. Louis Docket 68C493(1), against Lyndon Johnson, Cyrus Vance (Secretary of the Army), John Macy (Chairman, U.S. Civil Service Commission), General David Parker (Commandant, AVSCOM). . . . (End of Quote) Vance, who became Secretary of the Army in July of 1962, advised President Kennedy to send Federal troops to the South during the violence that followed the 1962 attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi and also the May 1963 riots in Birmingham, Alabama. Vance succeeded Roswell Gilpatrick as Deputy Secretary of Defense in January of 1964 and served in that post until June of 1967 when ill health forced him to retire from the government. In January 1964, President Johnson sent him to Panama in an unsuccessful attempt at restoration of diplomatic relations. Apparently he was well liked by the Marxists in that country because on December 4, 1976 a broadcast from Panama City stated: Mr. Vance, who is not as spectacular as Kissinger but who has shown himself to be an able negotiator, knows full well the potential consequences of not signing a new canal treaty. It was Vance himself who came from the United States to negotiate with the Panamanian Government in the wake of the violent January 1964 incidents in which 23 persons died. Four of them were Americans. Now, 12 years later, Vance will have on his hands a delicate situation involving the canal. Some progress has been made on the negotiations for a new treaty which Panama hopes will be signed next year. The same day the following was reported on Panamanian television: The appointment of Globe-Democra- in-timid- (D-Mo- (D-Mo- .), Cyrus Vance as secretary of state of Presidentelect James Carter s administration was received with satisfaction today in Latin American circles in Washington. In this respect General Torrijos Fabian adviser, press Velarde, said in New York yesterday that Cyrus Vances great experience the problems caused by the Panama Canal will be very useful in helping him understand current problems. A December 7, 1976 broadcast from Latin America stated: Panamanian officials today praised the statements attributed to U.S. Secretary of Cyrus Vance that the United States cannot renounce its commitment to gradually transfer control of the canal to Panw-t- h State-designa- te ama. Syndicated columnist Clark Mollenhoff reported on January 15, 1977 that from 1964 through 1967 when Vance was Deputy Defense Secretary, he came in for sharp criticism in the Senate and House for actions related to frauds in the handling of millions of dollars in confidential cash by the Pentagon. Indictments and conviction established with certainty that there were indeed frauds in falsification of documents and diverting cash. To the then-SeJohn J. Williams the McNamara Pentagon, with Vance in the No. 2 post, gave the accused employes treatn. (R-De- l.) kid-glo- ve ment. The two top officials charged (Robert Loftisand William Herman Godel) were permitted to take early retirement with special arrangements that would boost their pensions and retirement benefits at least $120,000 more than they would have received under normal circumstances. A third official, John Wylie, also was charged and convicted for illegal handling of funds. Wylie testified he made gifts and loans to Loftis from the confidential cash funds, and two Army colonels testified of delivering confidential cash to Loftis in the amounts of $2,000 and $1,000. However, Loftis was acquitted of the criminal charges after his lawyer argued he was a sloppy administrator in handling the confidential cash as administrative assistant to McNamara, but was not a knowing criminal embezzler. However, after the jury acquittal of Loftis, Vance cleared the way for the former Pentagon of ficial to be hired for a $25,000-a-yejob with the Communication Satellite Corp. Vance assured James McCormack, then chairman and chief executive officer of the Communication Satellite Corp., that there would be no Defense Department objection if Loftis was hired as director of organization and manpower planning. ar Vance told McCormack he regarded the acquittal as wiping the slate clean for Loftis, even as he admitted that he had not examined the Loftis trial record on testimony relative to the loose handling of confidential cash and had not consulted the files of the Defense Department or Justice Department before giving Loftis a letter to use in seeking employment. Critical of the general impact of this kind of soft treatment for high officials responsible for the misuse of government funds, Sen. Williams stated: Here we have a man who under charges of embezzlement two years ago left a government position and a $20,000-a-yesalary and is now drawing a total of $33,820. Vances handling of another situation left much to be desired also. At the time of the Detroit race riots in 1967. Vance, then practicing law in New York, was sent by President Johnson as his personal representative to discuss with Michigan governor, George Romney, the need for federal troops in Detroit. ar March 10, 1977 The Utah Independent. Page 7 .Cyrus Roberts Vance Time was of the essence in the early hours of July when 23, Gov. Romney requested that Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark send federal troops and spelled out in detail why federal troops were necessary. Hours after Romney made the request, Vance arrived in Detroit and resisted the joint urgings of Romney and Mayor Cavanagh that federal troops at nearby Selfridge Air Force Base be brought into the downtown Detroit area to prevent a riot. Republicans contended the Johnson Administration was blatantly playing politics with the Detroit riot threat and trying to squeeze Romney, then regarded as a likely Republican presidential candidate in 1968 against Johnson if he sought reelection. When Vance finally moved the troops in after :45 p.m. the rioting was out of control. When the days of the rioting were over and the curfew lifted, more than 40 persons had been killed, at least 300 injured, and more than 4,000 arrested in Detroit and nine other Michigan cities where violence had broken out. Time magazine of December 13, 1976 pointed out that in the U.S., former Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Vance a superb appointment, praising his direct and exceptional experience, sound and solid judgment, as well as his administrative ability. Former George Ball (now an international banker with Lehman Brothers) said that Vance was a very natural choice because he is so well equipped; he is also a fellow without enemies. Even Henry Kissinger was known to approve. Time stated that lunching with Time editors not long ago, Kissinger was asked whom he preferred to be his successor. He needed to think only a few seconds before saying Cy Vance. It appears that a list of Kissinger and Johnson officials, many of whom were responsible for: the problems our country faces, were either aware of in advance or placed their approval on Vance for Secretary of State. On December 3, 1976 a Jerusalem Domestic Service broadcast disclosed that Israeli officials knew that Cyrus Vance would be our next Secretary of State even before President-elec- t Carter had won the election. An English translation of this broadcast, given by political correspondent Shalom Qital, disclosed that two days before the elections in the United States the journalist sat in the office of the Director General of the Prime Ministers Office, Amos Eran, and while discussing the outcome of the election, Eran told the journalist, but not for publication, that if Carter won the election, his Secretary of State would be Cyrus Vance. The broadcast revealed that Yigal Allon had met with Vance while visiting the United States and Israeli Prime Minister Yizhaq Rabin had invited Vance to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel for a meeting which hours. This was during the lasted two and one-ha- lf first few months of the interim agreement between Israel and Egypt. From the information contained in the broadcast, it w'ould appear that the Israeli officials not only believed that Carter would be elected president but knew before the American people that Cyrus Vance would be our next Secretary of State. Newsweek of December 13, 1976, noted that not all of Vances colleagues have favorable reminiscences of him. Vance was very bright but kind of soft, recalled one former colleague at the Pentagon last week. He seemed more intent on oeing a nice guy and appearing intelligent than he did on being decisive. In Detroit a few still smoldering city fathers maintain that Vance played a game of politics between President Johnson and Michigan Governor George Romney that cost lives during the 1967 riots. He didnt commit Federal toops as early as he could have, said one of them. He impressed me as Milquetoast. 1 1 Under-Secreta- ry SOVIETS WARNKE AS ARMS CONTROL AND S.A.LT. in their report on Vance Newsweek noted that Vance thinks that Eurocommunism is a domestic ssue and should be left to the individual countries to deal with as they see fit; that he favors a more open policy of communications with Western Europes Communists and quoted Vance as stating that if a- crisis occurs somewhere in the world during his tenure, he would certainly not exclude the possibility of pressing Kissinger into - service. Vance, like his predecessor as Secretary of State, has close ties to the Rockefellers and their interests. He is a long-tim- e member of the Council on Foreign Relations, headed by David Rockefeller. Vance worked with Jimmy Carter as a member of the Rockefellcr-backe- d Trilateral Commission and endorsed his presidential candidacy when Carter was still largely unknown. Vance is a Director of the New York Times Corp., was vicehairman of the United Nations Association of the United States, the National Policy Panel on Conventional Arms Control, has served on the Board of Directors of the Rockefeller Foundation which has long promoted international socialism. He has participated in the socialistic Bilderberg conferences and is a member of a recently formed international action organization called New Directions. New Directions is reportedly the. brainchild of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, whose career in U.S. service seems to have been devoted to our disarmament. (McNamara is now president of the World Bank.) President and Chief executive officer of New Directions is Dr. Russell W. Peterson, long-tim- e political associate of Nelson Rockefeller. New Directions reportedly supports worldwide population control policy, with government financed birth control and abortion programs. It vigorously advocates accommodation with the Soviet Union, and has as its aim, a universal socialist system. In addition to Vance, McNamara and Peterson, other highly influential people in the New Directions group include Joseph Slater, President of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in Colorado; Jack T. Conway, executive director of :he American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Dr. Margaret Mead, professor of anthropology at Columbia University; C. Douglas Dillon, Wall Street financier and former Secretary of the Treasury; Norman Cousins, publisher of Saturday Review; John W. Gardner, head of Common Cause; and Dr. Theodore Hesburgh, liberal president of the University of Notre Dame. 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Larry in an interview McDonald (D-Ghere described a significant Soviet being campaign propaganda orchestrated to promote Paul C. Warnkes nomination to head both the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Strategic Arms limitation Talks (SALT) negotiating team. Warnke has argued for years that America should disarm first and hope the USSR follows suit. Whether we call this American a) initiatives or unilateral disarmament it comes to the same thing, said McDonald, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. Congressman McDonald said that the support campaign for Warnke appeared to commence in earnest on February 3rd in Moscow when the Soviet official news agency TASS broadcast an attack on Senators Sam Nunn (D-Gand Henry Jackson for their opposition to Warnkes nomination to these sensitive The same day, the posts. Hungarians began a series of commentaries praising Warnke as a man who wishes to decisively speed up the arms limitation talks with the USSR" and criticizing committee senate "rightwing members (who) want to prevent this appointment on the grounds that ...Warnke would be too compliant with the Russians. Less than 48 hours later, the d Communist Party, USA picked up the cudgels in defense of Warnke. On Feb. 5th, the Communist Party newspaper Daily World editorially claimed that "cold war hawks are on a rama) (D-Was- h) Soviet-controlle- page to block Warnke. McDonald charged that by the following week leftwing influence peddlers had made the rounds and that the U.S. mass media, which to a large extend had previously supported Warnke, had picked up, rewritten and the slurs. I find it disturbing, said McDonald, "that Warnke remains a member of such an extreme advocate of disarmament and U.S. abandonment of its allies as the Center for Defense Information. CDI statements supporting disarmament and its lobbying efforts here in Congress have been praised by the Soviet Union and its satellites throughout its existence., McDonald further noted that another project closely related to CDI and sharing its offices had Orlando Letelier, exposed after his murder as a paid Cuban intelligence agent, among its leaders. And U.S. radical Michael Klare has lectured on American arms policies at the CDI headquarters; at meetings of the Soviet-directpropaganda apparatus, the World Peace Council; and at the University of Havana. Neither the responsibility for evaluating arms control proposals as ACDA head nor the top negotiating responsibility should be entrusted to such a partisan advocate of unilateral disarmament as Warnke, said McDonald, urging both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate as a whole to reject Warnkes ed R A WANT Heaven polishes its jewels with. -- Robert Leighton "The basic law Western civilization preserve the family. of -- Edward Tully to nomination. I will do more than care I will help |