CABLE REGARDING OTTAWA JOURNAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 03/09/1972
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DIRECTOR

REDTOP AEKICK SMABOVE

REFSE A. BEIRUT, 22641 (IN S54475)

B. DIRECTOR 240808

Lo AN-NAHAR ARTICLE HAS BEEN GIVEN REPLAY ON

LOCAL RADIO MORNING 9 MARCH AND AGAIN IN EVENING

PAPER OTTAWA JOURNAL" 9 MARCH COMPLETE WITH PICIURE

OF PETROVSKIY TRYING TO AVOID PHOTOGRAPHER AS HE

ENTERED SOV EMB MORNING 9 MARCH.

AS ITEM BEING

CARRIED BY CANADIAN PRESS (CP) • EXPECT IT MAY BE

REPLAYED OTHER MAJOR CANADIAN NEUSPAPERS AND WILL

WATCH SEE IF IT SETS COVERAGE CBC TV NEWS TONIGHT.

2. STRICTLY FYI, IN CONVERSATION WITN COS, SHABOVE/ 11

SAID THEY HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR ARTICLE VIA LIAISON IN

LONDON WITH SMOTH. THEY HAD TEXI IN ADVANCE AND

PLACED IT WITH THEIR CONTACT SIDEN A FOR SURFACING

9 MARCH IN CPO: HOWEVER, THERE HAD DEEN A FLAP WHICH

WAS STILL ON GOING BECAUSE IDEN A'S SUPERIOR WANTED

9 MAR N 556675

CONFIRMATION THAT ARTICLE HAD APPEARED AND CP HAD BEEN

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UNABLE TO GIVE SUCH ASSURANCE. IDEN A APPEALED

IN DESPERATION TO SMABOVE FOR CONFIRMATION, WHICH

THEY UNABLE TO GIVE. ON BASIS REFS, COS WAS ABLE

ASSURE SMABOVE/ 11 ARTICLE HAD APPEARED AND ALSO

PICKED UP BY AFP THO NOT UPI SO FAR.: GREATLY

RELIEVED, SMASOVE/LI SAID HE WOULD CALL HIS CONTACT

IMMEDIATELY AND ASSURE HIM EVERYTHING

WAS BACK ON

THE RAILS.

3. THIS LITTLE EXERCISE HAS PROVEN WHAT STATION,

ALWAYS SUSPECTED, THAI UNDER SMABLE/S DIRECTION

MABOVE IS GETTING MORE ACTIVE IN ABOVE TYPE ACTIVITY

AND HAS ABILITY TO SURFACE OR REPLAY ARTICLES FRON

TIME TO TIME. IN ADDITION TO ALSO CONFIRMING INEIR

MAN IN CP SMABQUE/ LI MENTIONED ANOTHE? NAME OF PRESS

CONTACI/ (IDEN B) -THEY MAY USE TO GET AN ARTICLE DONE

ON RIS TYPES IN

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UNITED NATIONS AND ASSOCIATED

INTERNATIONAL

ORGADIZATIONS.

A. POUCHING CLIPS.

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