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Date:          Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:15:50 -0700
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International News Electronic Telegraph Monday June 10 1996

A new book alleges that Bill Clinton spent his Oxford days monitoring
    anti-Vietnam war activists for the CIA

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports from Washington


 WHEN Bill Clinton ran for the US presidency four years ago,
 Republicans tried to prove that, as a student, he burnt the
 Stars and Stripes in protest at the Vietnam War.

 Now Dr Roger Morris, author of an astonishing new book called
 Partners in Power, claims that, in the late 1960s, Mr Clinton
 worked as a source for the Central Intelligence Agency. So, was
 the young Clinton a patriot or just an opportunist? He was
 certainly no dangerous radical. "No attack by his reactionary
 opponents would be more undeserved than the charge that young
 Bill Clinton was 'radical'," concludes Morris.

 According to the book, the bearded, dishevelled Rhodes scholar
 was recruited by the CIA while at Oxford - along with several
 other young Americans with political aspirations - to keep tabs
 on fellow students involved in protest activities against the
 Vietnam War. Morris says that the young Clinton indulged in
 some low-level spying in Norway in 1969, visiting the Oslo
 Peace Institute and submitting a CIA informant's report on
 American peace activists who had taken refuge in Scandinavia to
 avoid the draft. "An officer in the CIA station in Stockholm
 confirmed that," said Morris.

 The Washington Establishment would like to dismiss this
 troubling book as the work of a fevered conspiracy theorist.
 But Morris is no lightweight. He worked at the White House in
 both the Johnson and Nixon administrations, resigning from the
 National Security Council in 1970 in protest over the US
 invasion of Cambodia. He went on to become an acclaimed
 biographer of Richard Nixon.

Rhodes scholars such as Mr Clinton were favourite targets for
recruitment

 As a member of America's tight-knit association of retired
 intelligence officers, he has access to highly privileged
 information. "It's an incredible network," he explained. "They
 pass you along from source to source."

 The CIA started recruiting campus informants under President
 Lyndon Johnson when he demanded hard proof that there were, in
 his words, "commie money and organisers behind this student
 s***". The programme, known as Operation Chaos, would offer
 informants a wide range of inducements: a little cash on the
 side; taking care of their draft problems; and promises of
 future help. "You know, if the agency's in a position to help
 at some point in their careers, there'd be an institutional
 memory," explained one CIA officer. "They knew the advantages
 of helping out."

 Rhodes scholars such as Mr Clinton were favourite targets for
 recruitment. This caused serious friction with Britain's MI5
 because it violated a US-UK agreement that neither country
 would conduct covert operations or recruit on each other's home
 territory. "Because of the sensitivity of the UK, these kids
 were treated in some ways like high-level agents," recalled one
 officer.

 In the mid-1970s the CIA shredded its archives on Operation
 Chaos. One of those involved in the purge of the records told
 Morris that he had seen Bill Clinton listed as a former
 informant who went on to run for political office. "He was
 there in the records, with a special designation," the official
 is quoted as saying in the book.

 Mr Clinton's alleged ties to the CIA would explain some later
 episodes during his tenure as Governor of Arkansas, when his
 state became a staging-point for President Ronald Reagan's
 secret effort to supply the Nicaraguan Contra rebels. An
 Arkansas State Trooper, L. D. Brown, has testified in a
 deposition that he was inducted into the CIA on Mr Clinton's
 suggestion, and then went on two clandestine flights to deliver
 weapons to Central America.

 Mr Clinton was even commended for his "patriotic" work by the
 Reagan White House after he had sent the Arkansas National
 Guard to Honduras for manoeuvres. The deployment was a ruse by
 the Pentagon, according to Morris. The Arkansas Guard left its
 "excess" inventory behind, providing a cache of weapons that
 were slipped to the Contras.

The point is not that Bill and Hillary Clinton are Right-wingers in
disguise . It is that they have no conviction, no ideology, no guiding
purpose

 Even Hillary Clinton was a Cold Warrior of sorts. Described in
 Morris's book as "a closet Contra supporter", she quietly aided
 Contra fund-raising in Little Rock. She also used her influence
 in US liberal circles to undercut the legitimacy of peace
 activists and pro-Sandinista church groups opposed to President
 Reagan's policies in Central America.

 The point is not that Bill and Hillary Clinton are
 Right-wingers in disguise - although Morris demolishes the
 pretence that they were progressive reformers in Arkansas. It
 is that they have no conviction, no ideology, no guiding
 purpose. Driven by raw ambition, they will make any compromise
 necessary to advance their interests.

 Partners in Power is the first of what will be a succession of
 books about the Clintons whose authors are not fooled by the
 shadow-boxing that often passes for substantive debate in
 American politics. (A second book, by the editor of the
 American Spectator, will be coming out later this month with
 another set of revelations.)

 Morris violates all the taboos. Impatient with the manicured
 myth that Bill Clinton was the apple-pie boy from Hope,
 Arkansas, he reveals the little-known fact that the President
 spent much of his childhood in Hot Springs, the capital of
 gambling, drug-smuggling and organised crime in the central
 United States, where his powerful uncle and mentor, Raymond
 Clinton, was a member of the Dixie mafia.

 It was not Mr Clinton's fault, of course, that he grew up in
 the culture of "the Mob". But it is central to understanding
 who Bill Clinton really is. It helps explain why his brother,
 Roger, ended up as a convicted drug dealer, and why Bill
 himself allegedly became a regular user of cocaine. (On a
 police surveillance videotape quoted from in the book, Roger
 can be heard saying to a supplier of cocaine: "Got to get some
 for my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner.")

 For Morris, ensconced in his New Mexico mountain retreat, the
 American political system is now fatally corrupted. Democrats
 and Republicans noisily dispute how many angels can fit on the
 head of a pin. But both are indentured servants of the
 permanent government - "a bureaucracy so self-corrupted it is
 unfit for democracy" - and the interlocking interests of the
 lobby machine to be found on Washington's K Street.

 It already looks as if the US media will try to ignore Partners
 in Power, which is to be published next week. "Their reaction
 is entirely predictable," said Morris. "If they were to behave
 any other way, my book would not be true."




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