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De Borchgrave Attacks Soviet Disinformation
by David M. Rothbard
News Editor
Speaking to a capacity Nursing
Auditorium crowd last week,
famous author and journalist Ar-naud
de Borchgrave addressed
the problems which he observed
in today's media and charged the
Soviet Union with carrying out a
massive disinformation campaign
in the Western world.
DeBorchgrave, co-author of the
bestselling novel The Spike, has
worked for Newsweek for over
thirty years and was Chief Foreign
Correspondent and Senior Editor
of that magazine when he left. It
was said that de Borchgrave has
interviewed every major world
leader and Soviet defector with
the exception of the Soviet
leaders.
"Receptive correspondents
have a romantic disposition
toward Marxist regimes," he
asserted, "and they like to believe
that the guerrillas are fighting in.
Central America for a pluralistic
democracy." He claimed that the
media today has a serious left-wing
bias which is manifested by
the known political views of the
major media stars. "All the
military might in the world won't
help us if we lose the war of
words," he warned.
DeBorchgrave called for the
media to apply the same stan-dards
of credibility to the news
that we apply to all other things
and stated, "The arrogance of the
media personalities is amazing
and in fact, the national political
reporters are more powerful than
ever as they now are the final ar-biters
of our national policies."
"Lenin once said that to tell the
truth is a petty bourgeois habit,"
he stated, "and to lie is imperative
when furthering revolutionary
causes." de Borchgrave explained
that he has personally seen his
fellow colleagues innocently
report the "wrong" news which
the KGB had purposely planted.
"Sometimes they don't even know
they are reporting inaccurate
news," he claimed.
DeBorchgrave said that he has
interviewed many defectors from
the East including high ranking
Soviet KGB officer Stanislave Lev-chenko
who affirmed the exis-tence
of a Soviet disinformation
campaign. "The defectors who
worked inside the KGB were never
interviewed in our media though
for reasons that escape me," he
said.
"Soviet Active Measures" is a
report of Congressional hearings
concerning Soviet disinformation
which clearly proves the allega-tions
of a massive disinformation
plot through the testimony of
some Soviet defectors, de Borch-grave
stated that all journalism
students should be required to
read this, "But most of the pro-fessors
in the schools haven't
even heard of it."
"Disinformation poisons the
life-blood of democracy," he said,
"and Yuri Andropov elevated
disinformation into a full direc-torate
(Directorate A) of the KGB
with well over 100 operations each
year. Next to government officials,
the media people are the highest
targets on the recruitment list of
the KGB."
DeBorchgrave also discussed
several instances which illustrate
the bias of the media and said
that disinformation, penetration,
and terrorism threaten us more
thanYiuclear war.
Referring to the efforts of the
Soviets, he stated, "it is superior
not to win 100 out of 100 battles
but rather to subdue the armies of
the enemy without ever fighting
them." This, he said, is the
strategy of the Russians.
Finally, de Borchgrave called
for a balance between conser-vatives
and liberals in the mass
media but said that he would not
like to see it controlled by either
one. He pointed out, "The media
people today are players in inter-national
politics, not merely spec-tators."
The lecture was co-sponsored
by the Fairfield College Repub-licans
and the Politics Club.
Copies of The Spike were
distributed to the audience and de
, Borchgrave signed autographs for
several of the students.
Ban key Evaluated
Famous author and journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave spoke to a packed
auditorium of students last Thursday, [Photo by Chris Flint]
Former U.S. Congressman Speaks
On Jesuit Education
by Richard D. Fahey
Staff Writer
Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J., a pro-fessor
of political theory at George-town
University gave a lecture last
Tuesday, April 19, in the Oakroom,
which was sponsored by Alpha
Sigma Nu entitled "Our Jesuit
Education, What does it mean?"
Fr. Drinan entered the Society of
Jesus after his graduation from
Boston College, and later attend-ed
Georgetown Law School. In
1972 Fr. Drinan was elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the sixth district v of
Massachusetts. However, in 1979
Fr. Drinan obeyed Pope John Paul
II request that he end his political
career. Since then he has been
teaching at Georgetown Universi-ty.
Fr. Drinan's lecture "Our Jesuit
Education, what does it mean?"
centered upon his statement
"with education and wealth come
certain moral responsibilities". He
stated, "that because of your in-tellectual
training, you can not
retreat into the comfortable mid-dle
class existence detached from
the political and social injustices
of the day". Fr. Drinan stressed
the issue when he stated that
"you're not a good Catholic,
you're not a good American, if you
close your eyes to the problems of
the world". He then chose two ex-amples,
the Arms Race, and Latin
America as issues which all good
Christians, and especially those
with a Jesuit Education should
make themselves aware of.
On the Arms Race he mentioned
the Bishop's statement on nuclear
weapons which he supported. This
document stated that any use of
nuclear weapons, whether it be for
defensive or offensive purposes
was immoral; But the Bishop's
Continued on page 4
by Denise Murphy
Staff Writer
"At present, evaluation of
Bankey usage continues," stated
Mr. William Lucas, Controller for
Business and Finance. He explain-ed,
"its status will remain the
same. However in the near future,
improvements in this type of com-puterized
banking will hopefully
provide students with access to
more than one bank via the com-puter."
The Bankey, finishing its first
year here at Fairfield is being
studied by the University in regard
to whether it will remain here as it
is now or in some other form of
computer banking system. Alter-natives
are being looked at mainly
for the purpose of getting the
same services at a lower rate.
A complete change of banks
was originally considered by the
department, but this move did not
seem prudent, all facts con-sidered.
A replacement would re-quire
securing a contract with a
new bank, transferring all ac-counts,
and as well physically
removing the Bankey computer.
This project alone could run into
months of work.
Authorities in the banking in-dustry
predict that, perhaps within
the next six months, the legal
technicalities involved in this
alteration will be ironed out. Thus,
Finance opted to wait for the "big
change" which will better address
the problem.
Under the new system, records
of accounts from several branches
will be channeled into the logs of
one computer to be located in the
campus center. The freedom of
choosing from amongst a half-dozen
local banks with varying
fees will allow students to choose
which bank best meets their parti-cular
needs. They will enjoy the
convenience of making transac-tions
with other banks without
having to travel off-campus.
"A summer hold on accounts is
being discussed with C.B.T.," said
Lucas. This freeze would mean
that no minimum balance would
be required during the months
from June to August, and all
records would be carried over until
September. He commented that,
as of now, the case is "in limbo".
With regret, Lucas pointed, "This
arrangement may present a prob-lem
for those students living in
^airfield permanently."
LaGuardia to Chair
by Kathryn King
Staff Writer
Assistant director of University
activities, Lisa LaGuardia, has
been appointed chairman of the
1983 New England Regional Con-ference
for the National Associa-tion
of Campus Activities. The
conference will be held October
thirtieth thru November second, in
Liberty, New York.
The National Association of
Campus Activities is composed of
"schools, agencies, and per-formers
that play on college cam-puses,"
according to Lisa LaGuar-dia.
The conference's purpose is
to get the performers known to the
colleges and to maKe people
aware of new ideas.
Ms. LaGuardia explained,
"Basically, you learn how to pro-gram
on your campus and it's an
opportunity to see all kinds of acts
and services to program on cam-pus."
The conference has three
major parts. The first is a series of
educational programs which cover
leadership and publicity techni-ques.
The second part has a varie-ty
of showcases in which enter-tainers
perform. This is an oppor-tunity
for activities directors to
see different kinds of acts they
can book. An exhibition hall
makes up the third part of the con-ference.
Agencies have booths set
up to present available acts. Last
fall, Fairfield University saw at the
conference "Amazing Jonathon"
who performed for Dogwood
Weekend.
The conference is "a good op-portunity
to see what other col-leges
do," said Lisa LaGuardia.
She will probably take five or six
people from F.U.S.A. to the con-ference
as she has done in the
past.
Seen here are Patty Capeci and Eddie Ambrosino as they enjoy Fairfield's annual Dogwoods aance. Well
over 700 students spent the night aboard the U.S.S. Fairfield while Cut Loose provided the new wave
sounds. See page 10 for story. [Photo by Ellen Dougherty]