CABLE RE VENEZUELAN REACTION TO NEW TIMES ARTICLE.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 05/05/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1, BY TIME REF RECEIVED (1828 HOURS AMBASSADOR HAD

GONE HOME FOR THE DAY, (COS EARLIER HAD DISCUSSED LOCAL

SUMMARY OF FLEETWOOD ARTPCLE IN MULTIMAS NOTICIASO.

OBVIOUSLY UNTIL FULL TEXT IN VENEZUELAN HANDS AND IF AND

WHEN PRESIDENT PEREZ FOCUSES ON THIS MATTER, VENEZUELAN

REACTION WILL BE UNKNOWN, MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND

TOURISM ASKED AMBASSADOR ABOUT CIRCULATION AND IMPORTANCE OF

"NEW TIMES" MAGAZINE- THERE BEING SOME CONFUSION IN

VENEZUEL AN MIND THAT THIS PART OF NEW YORK "TIMES" NEWS PA PER-

AND SEEMED REASSURED BY AMBASSADOR'S REPLY DOWNPLAYING

SIGNIFICANCE OF "NEW TIMES", AMBASSADOR AT THIS POINT SEES

THREAT ONLY IN CAP'S TENDENCY TO ATTRIBUTE ALL UNFAVORABLE

PUBLICITY IN U.S, PRESS TO ALLEGED AKHERALD EFFORTS TO

DESTABILIZE GOV. IN THIS CASE CAP ALREADY KNOWS EMBASSYP

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HAD DIRECT CONTACT WITH FLEETWOOD AND THUS HAS CIRCUMSTANTIAL

EVIDENCE TO LEAD HIM TO ASSUME THE WORST, NONETHELESS.

AMBASSADOR IS HOPEFUL THAT CAP WILL HAVE MANY OTHER THINGS

TO WORRY ABOUT RIGHT NOW AND THAT THPS ONE WILL PROVE A

NON- STARTER.

2, WILL SHOW TEXT OF REF TO AMBASSADOR FIRST THING

6 MAY AND ÄDVISE OF ANY FURTHER COMMENTS, AS STATED, READING ON

VENEZUELAN REACTION WILL HAVE TO AWAIT FURTHER

DEVELOPMENTS, IF CAP BLOWS, OTHER THAN LIAISON AND COS

AND LIAISON OFFICER'S TENURE HERE, STATIONOPS SHOULD NOT

BE EXPECIALLY AFFECTED. CREST OF OUR EFFORT IS UNILATERAL,) 24

WE PREPARED FOR THIS EVENTUALITY ONCE BEFORE, WE HAVE NOT

RELAXED SINCE, AND WE DO NOT BELIEVE WE WOULD BE BADLY HURT.

3. NO FILE.

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