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Crime Pays ('1'he Corrupting Effect of American Bases) Army Goes Political - Dangerous Precedent

Caut.Lon _. Spies at Work (T'he Very Couches Have Ears)

.fheMail Must be Gone 'I'hr-ough (O'Wen Hillws Uncovers Curious Customs) Obituary .- NIl' Lee Bum Su:{

FLet.cher-s "'~" Kaiser <r Coma.l co -::-;z Continued Coal Exports Thank You, Mayor 'rim

Yankee Go Home : J3ut Leave Your Baker Nunn Behind Ne'W Information on Computers in Schools Permission to Fart Sir? Marsden Point

Christopher Boyce Speaks from Prison

Kiwi Keith and the Myth of Consensus Politics Uranium Mo.Lybdenum, Multinationals and Forests Ch eap Labour Here He Come

'I'he Fur Flies .- F'irst CEE Cour-t cas e fJecret AnTV' ", SAS in the Philippines News Digest

Beyond AIIJZUS Conference -, .Iurie 1984 'I'he IlviF' in Human 'I'e rms

roll )~r:lng the November 1983 Peoples Gui decl Tour, the next step in the campaign to demi.L'i tar:i .. ze Har-ewood is a national demonstration in Christchurch on the 1Neekend of lVlnxch 10/1l~ 1984.

Although tlw UD rrriLi t arv is firmly entrenched at Christchurch

Ent.erria't Lona.L :em .( CIA) it is national not a local issue.

'I'h.l s affects 8.1.1 New ZeDJ.andE'n;, so people from allover t.he

country arc invited to take , raise t.he issue in their own

area (;1:' send money, 'I'h.i s \·rill be a 'Weekend of' non-ivjol.en t

(Erect action afrned at enforcing the "People j s Eviction Not.Lc e s l! served on the US military j.n Novombe r.

For all detai1B contact Citizens for Demilitarisation oj" Harevood, P.D, Box 2258, Chr::'stchnrch

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coverage for c t Harewo

. :":'.'1;:; ,c,nnounced that Lv Id.ua.L \[orkors w i.Ll,

and, as they have b en c servs WI' on the US embassy at W

t of t unions to

: the unions conc personally sue the US r-un around ,cu.' prepared ton.

l1.l1.othc:c development c: cne Lvc TV coverage hE1S b en Papaxmi

ike Moore questioning the ,the status of ITT's subsidiary at Deep 2c'..nd IVlcIvilJ.rdo. lYluldoon has offtcially s ted that the s11bsidiary [;h8 US m.i.Li ta ry ) does not have Hcoveroign Inmrun.i t.y'! , lJ~herefore civilian wor}.::urs must be covered by NZ union awar-d s ~ something

e t.ud Lous Ly avoided. OOrE) has called for a f'u.Ll. enquiry into subsidiary's activities in NZ and the Arrta.r c t.i.c . Foreign Affairs iater Coopor says that Moore is simply after headlines. TV coverthis story waf3 ac o om panied by nume r-oue c l i po of Allende and

Hitlor, illustrating ITT's shady t.

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A nevmpEtper report on the 17th of December said that an agreement

b en reaohed betviGen tho Canterbury Clerical if! orkers Union and the rTfr subsidiary. 'The US corporation hac) agrc'ed to complY~Ti th NZ

Lndus t.r La.L awards as they r e.La to to clerical workers and storc?persons. 'I'hc union has been negotiating since 1979 ~ cO:i:'responcling regv.larly

w i.t h Christchurch NPs ~ the US Jimbassy 9 and the ]/linister of Foreign

Affairs. ,.

A further report on December 31 st said NZ \{OrkEJrS at l)eep ]'reeze were now being paid 50 cents more per hour - still less than the

awa rd, 1'he US mil:Ltary has terminated se\reral NZ contracts and taken thcm over directly, meaning no NZ award coverage.

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mUJVlE P~~YS (The Corrupting Effect of American .Ba~Jes)

Consider t.h i.e gem fromilTimeil (19.9.83) ~ "Tn t.h }i'u.gitives Hall of

Ii'aI1l8? B ... ob or t -V~e8co r-anks as the: mcs t c;n-tD=r~priDi11{se 'I'h e lJ(:;vT ~JC)~esey

financier fled the US in 1972 aft(3X' being indict on char-ge s thf!l,.t he looted $224 m~llion from the Geneva-based Investors Overseas Services Lt d ; and illegally donated ;$200~000 to .1iichard Nixon! s ro-ol ot i.on campa.Lgn , Since then he ha lolled i.n ex i.Lo in the Caribbean7 apparent

ly in the Bahamas, safe from ition efforts. lIe found himself in

the head.Li.nce a ga i.n last v/eelc for tho pa s t 4- years? ac c o.rdLng to a Y'E'port ired on NBC Nig,htly ews , Hobert Vesco has be en directing a booming drug-smuggling bue i.n es s from his palmy refuge and bribing top Baham.Lan officials to look ths other lv-ayH.

i'r"he~ Y' por-t ~';::jl'.d FQ -i nve at i za t or-s b o Lf.eve that 'VC>C'C()' C"' o pr rd·· t'L'VE"'"'

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e et rep bus Lnee s at T\TOY'ma'l'cI (iciy' 'Vf(,Qcn a.LLe god Ly pa id about '):.100 000·

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a month to Baham i.an of fLc Le.Ls 9 .inc Lud the lr:Lme r'Jinist(H' 9 Sir

Lynden Iinelling. H

i!For years the PBI has pur-sued Vc:sco? lately thVGstiga"t.ing his

pos s i.b.Le Li.nke with drug Dmuggl i.n the Caribber',119 but no indict-

m;,::nts have be en s ough t , the probe once stalled whe.n the I wa n t ed to

set up a stingoper~tion to ~atch Bahamian

CIA GI'Nl'ION CElis}' IN .AND

C}i}'OSBlJ 'l'H.E: ITJAN 0 IT

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officials taking bribes. L,,;V DOBE

s CU'I'i.nBD 9 :B\0l~ Jl' 'rI-li.\.'j1 .ANY INVEST·~

NBGUI' ION~) vH'l'H lJiDLING'ij GOVliHNFi.:I?I' OVER

SUmiLi:HUITl!; ING TIl8ReJli• 0 • (our emphasis)

S a if you I re a thicd' and corrupt Nr B on run 9 make sure you

a p.l.ac e thats s t ra t ca.lLy 01' poli tica.lly .unpor-t.an t to the US.

" ']~ bE~ for life.

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'I'he 1961 S ingbok tour aaw +he miltc,lr:Lsation of tho police) so t in appearance and violence they closely resembled the hated

Zomos (Folish riot police). And of course, the Armed Offenders' Squads v got so efficient at killing pe o p.Le thee lill:Lldoon has offer ud ;:4 of them to trw new American puppet government in Grenada 0

Iv.::ili.~tar tj_OD. of t.ho police WE),S Phae o Q Ph2A.fSe ~:vJ"o Lnvo Lvee

politic tion of the Army. The involvement of the military in

politics goes against all tr8,ciitions involved "'lith a pea celri.n,e

t and i.ng Army in a 'ivestminster d emocr-acy 0 It sets a very dangerous

rrinciple; and one t:h;.,t should not bo ignor at any cost.

Army engine()rs were of course involvud in .Lay i.ng barbr~d,vJire entanglements during the Springbok tour~ but the police acted as cklemen for the Gove r-nmerrt , Howover in September 83 the Army took big step into domestic politics.

It took ove.r the small Carrt e rbury t.owneh i.p of Oxford for a we ek , for an exercise ominouily entitled C~vil Concord. Even more ominous jt was advised by British Army officers on their experience of a

N orth";rn Ireland exercise called Opera t.ion Long Look (who dreams up these names? A recent exercise on thoVvest Coast v'Ti-1EJ called Loth

Lo.r Len , proving tbat II'olkif]n is now requirud m i.Lj.t.a ry reading. Incid-· ('-, t<"tlly an SAS patrol took part in that countcr·-insurgency exercise. C3::8 elsewhere in this .i s sue for d(;tails of the ::lArS in the Philipp-

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l1'h13 'ftle03 the t time the Army had taken over t owneh Lp , outside

Vi<:'Liouru (rather [L e pe c La.L caae ) , 11'0 quote from the "Pr es s" (16/9 83) IIS01diers of t he Heady k ca ct Lon Company of t 2nd/1 st Ba t t.a l.Lon , hcy a.L NevI Zoaland Infantry HL:gimcmt arc guarding vital Lne t.a Ll.a t Lons

in the town .. , ~:'he Oxford II' own Hall] Oxford C ourrt y Council

offices 9 and Oxford HOCl pi tal arc be ing g;uEtrded ,;LgainElt an armed

n nemy" supported by an :Ltinf;rant population which is ! hostile' to counc i L . officers and the po l i.ce'! ,

j he "v Lt.a.L installationDil VIer

wirey armed patrols scoured the subject to search at roadblocks were subjected to body searches anu chips to the 18uemyl wore stop

an armed olthrou{!D the pub had

1 ache cry Ht1'urn the lights

sandbagged surrounded by barbed

stre ts ;),11 vfo(Jk, all traffic "\Ivm"

e ent e ~2 own Hall area

sear Kids carrying fish

the food eaten by soldiers, lig.hts ur-ried out on 1t ~

on orvJE)! 11 shootH•

Oxford is middle ell) Zealand 9 a t:>rptcal conDcrvative Cc:mterbury

tovm. Lo ce.Ls had ("tflTS to c ooper-a t e in advan c 9 in .f ac t they prov~>

Gd the H enemy" 0 i;hcy vv'I't) ha ppv to be s ear-ched and to inform on

(oir neighbours 0 Once frOID the "Press" (16/9/e3) 1I8inc8 the

e xcr c e r3tarted j cr Yount', says the; A rmv has come to leC1rn quite a

lot about some of Oxf'or-d ' s ~l;:OO bj.tants. ?~lrc know wh o the12,te

sleepers are 9 1 he said 0 hey aLs 0 know who snot awarr(ctnt of

Il ss or a valid driverls licence and even who should not be driving

but wor-d of these misdemeanours 9 usually d et e c t rO(3,dblocks ~

TiLLll not be -pasi3ed 011 to the au thoritios 0 H

ed COl!;; ·.T'·,C h i.gh 0,., -f"1'1f·-F shor-t 0'1. unaLvs Ls JT.·t '·,T·"' .... a Ll,

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(:JJOut 11 our lads ~ anchormen mad e j okos about the joys of being

J' d by burly [3 :L"n3. It was all j u st a ~ 1;[0,811.1 t Lt ?

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activists pointed

Army Ls s i.on the

Strathallen Coun Oouncil

point out th djJJ-

that the exercise was Kangar-oo 83 exercise ~ in the mineral rich

it ·vJc1S errt

out county ounc

same meeting that it dec

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ll1 op e i ng nu vEtr.

turbing use of ch Ll.d ron ad j.Li'ormers 9 etc;

precursoE of New Zealand's involvement in involving American Australian and NZ forces

lilbara country of Western Australia.

f:j 0 VJO have Brit iuhL1.rmy officc:I'S 9 with Northern Lr e Land e xpe r Le n ce 9 dv Is Lng the NZ Army on h ow to take over a t own , and f i.nd out 8v@ry-

ones bus iness in that to'\<m. N ow Oxford may be; many things 9 but it is not a city, certainly not ana on tho Northern Ireland model. Indeed¥ :from the fact that Christchurch has a suburb called Belfast~ nOl,vhere in Canterbury b eaz-s the slightest resemblance to lJorth(':;rn

Irul&r:.c1. LJ or does the political s ituc1 t ion anywhere in New Zealand "bear any resemblance to that in Ulster.

Northern Ireland is very much an urban g'lJ.orilla wa r , l\here is no rcg'ulararrny opposing the British, no libe:ra ted zones (apart from the border '/1 band i t coun t ry"}. Its a strictly hit and run war 9 fought in d,;naely populatedci ties 9 vIi th some action in the smaller towns and countryside. It is not Vietnam. Yet according to the 1iStarli (8/9/83) t ho scenario for Excrcis Civil Concord was IIthat hostile units? well armed, are operating outside tho town and the police cannot control them. S.lhey have the support of an itinerant population which is particularly hostile to the corrt ra.L government. Ii

this is not a Northern Ireland model, this is an 31 Salvado~ model.

Gu(:)rilla armies ope ra t i.ng in rcglllar bands in tho country, with the E,UTPort of both tmm and village dwellers 9 with the government army defending urban vital installations from attack. Once again, the political situation in New Zealand is absolutely llgb.t yuarr.-3 from the abat t o Lr- that is El Salvador. So :Just what is tho Now Zealand Army

and j_ts British adv i.e or-e practising for? Effective po.Li.t i.ca.L intelligunce and tho c":lbilityto seal off towns were tll(; ha Llma'rks of the 0vor so brave American invasion of Grenada. Roadblocks, body searches, informers ~ etc - these are <-·111 the hallmarks of an occupying army J

en is exactly wha.t the British are in Ulster 9 or the SalvadorE.;Etn troops in the,:ir 01.r{D country 0

Is the Nev! Zealand Army training to o coupy for tr;::dning to occupy New Zealand 't owns? But coups don c oun t r-Loe IjJto OUTS. DO they?

towns? Is it happen in nic~

Bu t WOrSE) if:! yet to come. In F'oruary/ ]Vtarch 849 the Army is planning Operation North~rn 8afari on Great BarrioI' Island. Unliko the Oxford exercise 7 this wiLL involve 9 a.o woll as NZ troops ~ Bri t:Lsh9 Singaporean and [-ijala:YE: Lan troops 7 plus Gu r-khas .11.11 Ln all 11000 HZ and for-o i gn troops -,rill be .i.nv o'Lvcd , 1\IZ Army engilli;,:ers have been

v70rking for months upgr-ad the roads, planning has bo en ing on

;3 .i.n co 1'1arch 83.

Unlike Oxfor~, locals are up in arms. Having already had to battle ;iii t.h mu L tinational mining companies ei:lgcr to get their hooks into the ~51and~ now they find their remote and fragile ecosystem threatened by (3. lI.uJ.tlnational military exercise of massivG pz-opor-t i.ona ,

Once again i~ will be a political counte exercise. To

quo t e the "Au ckLand Sta.rli (8/11 /8j) 1\ e i.d errt a have appar orrt Ly be en aSked tD submit to road blocks. interrogations and house searches.

Some are report to hav~ cn' ked to tend to Ispy' on their

ne ighbours. II Exactly like Oxforcl, only b l' arid mu L tina tional. One€:)

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11 insurgents" have .i.nvad ed and have t o be hunt ae ed ,

en David Thompson, Min tel' of Defence, was asked in Parliament the exercise cou.Ld n ' t take place in his e Lac t or'a t e 9 he replied the Arm.yl S e cenar-a.o r equ.Lr-ed an II offshore .i.e Land" (tovrhich a ctDJ:::lcs;~) wit respondc)d !IIIlhe South Isl'lnd?'tl). Sound like Grenada, or C tral America in general?

down and

,Jusi:;what is our Army planning for? Vanuatu ha s been called the

"Cuba of the South c i.f Lc'' 0 Arc our gcmerals p.lann i.ng to ride Amer-

icals coattails into a country like that, or even do the dirty work for them? Are they planning for an active military role in New ~Galand political life?

J~:..nf3wers are needed urgently. 1'hc loonies are running the asylum in VJashington, looking for a wa.r they can win (Grenada wa s abcu t thej.r limit) and our Army is running po Ii tical counterinsurgency exorcises. Along Iii th the lYlickey Nouse scheme to put the unemployed in the Army (every RSA manls favourito wet dream), it appears the military is vacating its role of duty-free ahopp i.ng in ):3 i.ngapore and moving into a much higher profile in NZ lifo.

II'he prognosis is bad , maybe terrninal~ if we doni t do something CL bout it now.

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CADrpION' - SPIHS AT vJOlliC (The Very Couches Have Ears: )

In a recent Listener intervtevf w ith Lh o new Commissioner of Po.Li.c e }, en 1'hompson9 there was a special section on undercover agents. inistuI' of :Folice Be n Couch W;J,S quoted as saying th,?,t he rated the

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dealers 9 blowjob ladies, and the local friendly hot VCh man. :,)0 vT2ttch Lt , peacen i.ka , ymlive been personally [:rarned by Benny the Ijrclin.

This is not just the usual verbal diarrhoea from Couch either.

\] t.z the splendid reccm t case 'iv-hen 8. young dIS Ladd had h Ls c ove r

'blovm._ by Nurn. He ·VIE1S in rfFAC ~ tho vJ cllingt on Ieac Group ~ the HZliSSh Society, and was interested in the International lhysicians for

lrevention of Nuclear War.

vIhat sort of d Ll.Lb r-a i.n infiltrates a group that his .i.nvo.l ved in? You naugh t y boy , YOU'VE: been out spying you not to h&ng round vdth those nasty SISsies. Now ge before your tea gets eold.

mother iJ3 in. I told on home

You'll be p.l.cas cd to know CJ-\Ji'ClN Z I very own spy (class of 76/77) jf.-j d o i.ng very well in the police. He f s nOV'[ a detective constable edat Oh.r Le t chu.r-ch , A f e Ll.ow policeman recently clJ;scribed him

to CAPOINZ as nA damn fine capo i1

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Owen Wilkes uncovers Curious

"Dr' C! ! ) l) Jk.J"

It is one of lifE:? I s little ironies that when CAB'C Z founder 9 Wilkes, was due to return from Sweden in 1982, after an all too

close a int;c;,nce vii th the police 9 intelligence services and courts

of both o.rvay and SVveden9 vie war-ned h to expect an especially

oz-ough going over by Ch r Ls t chur-oh CU.stOHlS 9 wh o have a well deserved reputation as prize ieks. We warned h that he'd be picked over

.I'o r m Lcr od o ts and invisible ink, other e suerrt ia.l p.i.e c ea of spy paraphanalia,

In fact he vias wav ed through customs so :fast that he had to wait to be collected by his f'arn i.Ly , But 9 as he vms to find out 12 months ter, Customs have had a very keen and ongoing iriterestin him.

v/hen Owen did his national spea};:j-.ng tour a.f't.e r his return, he

pecified that he would not speak on the West Coast, the part of

the country where he had chosen to live (specifically the Karamea area). He had no desire to rekindle controversy surrounding the demolition of his hand-built house on his own land in 1976 by the bullfn County Counci11 resulting in several ar-r'es t.e , Indeed as recently as November '83 the Council raised the subject of recouping

:B 1800 it cost them to tear down his h.ou s e -- Vlisely they shelved subject.

But in mid-83~ Owen did address a meeting on the Coast 9 and\til'hat was to .Le ar-n there plunged him into fresh national controversy. spoke to a Buller conservation group about the dangers of nuclear

war. After the meeting, the convenor was approa.che« by a pub.Ld c ;;cJrvant (not employed by Customs) who told her that Owen's outgoing mail was being opened by Customs in Greymouth and referred to the Secu.ri ty Intelligence Service in vi ellington. The anonymous source

Ld \Vilkes I outgoing ma i.L wa s easily identifiable because he was the

rson on the Coast send bulkv pare s to Sweden (to his

f'orme r- employer 9 the Stockholm Intern~Ltional Peace Hesearch lnsti te) e

There the matter re ted for :3 rnon t.hs , But CA.PC Z thought the ter d eae r-ved public attention. So in GeptE~mber E33; we contacted 'Press', whi.ch promptly asked the Oreymouth Collector of Customs

Lcha e L L immer) if tt vias true. In the classic manner of a provin-

bureaucrat caught th his parrt s down ~ .!VIr Limmer wou.Ld neither

oouri rm nor deny. He said he had to consider his position under the

f fi c La.L Secrets Act ("I'Thich no loncer existed 9 having been replaced Official Information Act). "wna t I can say is that the departmon t ha s no interest in his ou twar-d ma t L;" Asked if Customs would mail for theSn3 9 Ii]]:' IJirrllIler aa id: "You wou Ld have to see the SIS if,:\ not of' f'Lc La.l , but I believe they can d emand by requisition

e to do anything" (E:l curiously reve::11ing r-erca rk 9 chilling in

its implicatiDns).

SomG years ago Peter Cook made a brilliant ;:.;atiricalfilm titled

T IU,se and Rise of JViiohael RimIIlern 9 in which our hero becomes

1 Time Ii Ln.Ls t e r of the .UK. Sadly, we pr-sdLct no su ch giddy r e for

1 Limmer, be cauao , 1\jicb.C:l.c19 cocked jt Upe You! 11 be lucky

you only end up checking J se squid boats in the Chathams.

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"Star" took the story the logical. 1 and asked Head

ffice if it was true. Let's give credit where credit's due. The Comptroller of Customs, Ivlr F' e IV! cE one 9 doubtless inspired by the new pirit of open government 9 said Customs had never touched vlilkes! outward mail and had no interest in it, but yes, Customs had on 4 occasions referred his incoming mail to the SIS. HRe pointed out

t ClJ.stoms WEts not acting on behalf of the SIS when intercepting r ~J .i.Lke s ' mail. ! It was done in the cours of our normal d u't Le s .

~ve vJere not acting on t ip-off's! ... There is nothing sinister about it. f we find material for human consumption it is referred to the

ealth DepaTLment; vegetable arid an Lma.L products to the Agriculture Dupartmont; weapons and stolen property to the police; terrorist and subversive material to the SIS.II So there you are, its all perfectly routine. Not only does Customs open your mail, it sorts it as well. 1irJ1errorist and subversive me.t e r La L'". That' E.i a very heavy charge to

be levelling at Owen Wilkes, Who, after all, isn't even out of short

tsyet" It w ou Ld be ludicrous .i f it wasn 1 t so horrifying.

What legal basis did Custbms advance for opening his mail and referring it to the SIS? ~Ilr IVlcKone cited section 48 of the Customs Act, and also a 1921 Order,...in·~Council that it was illegal to import sed it ious documents. 'I'he s e were defined as 11 documents which incite, encourage, advise 9 or advoca t(:) violence 9 lav;rlessness, or disorder,

or that expressed seditious intent ton. II 'J1his was part of the 1920

War Jitegulations Continuance Ac.t which included in its definition of aed Lt Lon 1!promotion of ill·-will, d Leaf'f'e o+Lcn •.. amongst HisfJ.l8.jestys aub je o ta , n 'Phis Act was used as a bludgeon, primarily against the Communist Party of NO"'T Zealand.

(Contrast officialdom's sheltering behind ancient legislation in t.he VJ .i Lke s 1 case to the govermnen t.' e swift roact ion vlhen the Privy Counoil ruled th8.t a 1928 Act made 100,000 western Samoans

ow Zealand cttizens.) And what has happened to these remarkable regtllations? In November 83, the GovE:rnment announced that they had been revoked. Surprise, surprise. The government said it had considered using them only twice in recent years, once in the Sutch case, :>,tid once involving bugged phone conversations be twe en Charles and

D before their marria

rJlo return to the chronology. Having s t.ar-t ed the ball r-o l.Li.ng ,

CF~FC Z wr-o+e to Customs to enqu Lr e if our mail was being interfered w.i tIL A very snooty letter wa s received back from Des Lyons 9

Director of Enfcr-cernen t .. " ... there is no r-ea s cn to believe that your majl is of particular intGrest to Customs or any other statutory auehor t ty. 11 It also said l1The Customs Departrr;ent do s not act on

ebalf of the Security Intelligence Serviceo There has been no re-

st from the SIS and there is no ':lrrangemen-c for Cue t oms to examine

. or refer mail on behalf of thc)::) II

Our letter must have touched a r.~:.LW n cr-ve in head office. vJ e

didn't even mention tho ~ilkest matter9 let alone ra the name of

vdlke,s~ But Ly ons letter said "Re c en t publicity surrounded a situation where a Customs Officer consulted the BIS on his own initiativeo

,,'las an lsolat(~dsituation.l1 It is extremely rare, not to say un Lqu o , fo r a d e par-tmen'ta L head 0 ice to b Lame one of its own

La L officials for something9particularly in a ]_etter to a .i r-d party. Woe on you, l"Jiche.el LilY'Jr,er9 yout r-e stuffed nOVlT.

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Lyons' even more point. 11 t the

toms D uthor to PI' the importation of

seditious 0 au t.h o r i must be cx e r c e d t.hl~'ough

formal notifi import Admintstration of the; ove

aut horLby iE) of ineidC:HlCE0. 11 If that f s the case 9 CustOIT1f:J

have broken their own would that a sticker saying

ened by Customs constitute 'formal notification' that

your h~s been by Oust oms referred to the SIS as

sua cted s .it.Lon , v1ir :;[:1 cur .inly r'o o iVf)d no notification

from Cu s t ome soever9 f'or-n.a l. or other'V'lise. dhat he got was a

tip~off from a public s e rvant with a consei eo

T'hat ended CAl"OIJ;:Z 1 s d Lr-e o t ro Le in the 11'. vJ (} had been

assured that nobody was tampering with our mail, with no proof

to the contrary, we had to accept the assurance. We urged all other concc?rnE:?d groups and Lnd.ivi.dua.Le to f or'ma.l Ly make the same r-e que st of Customs. But there was in f~ct a deafening silence. The very

pe cp l.e who would. have you bc~lieve that the SIS :follows them about with a shovel to collect their droppings said not a thing.

But then the story got the seal of approval. It was discrrvered

byiiellington~ 'Checkpoint' devot a programme to Lt , featuring

Geoffery Palmer 9 Deputy Leader of the Opposition. So now it was a party political matter. CAI,'CINZ promptly sent Pa.Lme'r a copy of

Ly one ' letter to us 9 'because it obviously contradicts what l\11cKone had pr'ev.Loue Ly aa i.d , F or reasons best known to himself? Palmer did not attribute the letter to us 9 but said it waf3 from one of his Christchurch Central c ona t I tU.ents; However he took the matter up with the IVlinister of Customs! Kith Allan9 wh o was having his own spot of b o+he r in the House\vith I Lnsu l tn aho ck ", and several weeks off work. Pa Lmer pointed out that the SIS has no police power-s 9 and only the police can lnve;cib_gat sed i tious docu.ments under the 1961 CrirLE.:s Act e

. {.L'o add insult to injury 9 Comptroller r,!clionn then announced (October 83) t t the 4 items ref rrod to the SIS were officially adJudged to be not seditious, He said the material was on military s ub j ects and some of the do cuments ca r r-Lec f::le cu.r i.ty classification stamps~ but he wou.Ldnf S1jY '\rJ'hE/C coun t ry the:; we r-e from. rJLeantlme~

VV ilkes had announced that 116 'would complain to the Ombudsman about the whole ShEtbby bus i.noas .

Pa.Ime r pe r-s is ted TilTith thc) matter 9 and. even t ua.Ll.y Jumbo Allen

(not to be confused -\'I[ith P friuldoon) r'0pl.ied that he vm.s' not

b2:PPY with the th[tt h Gpartment had handled the wh o.l,e matter.

He aa Id he had no idea 'tIH1 t Cus t oms opened 'iJ .i.Lke s ' mail and

ref it to the filS; he he,d asked lV;cKone to improve lia\8on with

the SIS. The Oustorr:s/SIS:ce ionship over Wilkes! mail was an

I informal cine I wi tll no records pt or r-e fC) mad o . HI have inst~

ructed the Comptroller of Oustoms to iately formalise the

1iaison between the D par t and the S IS on a .. l1 fronts 0 It is in

the interests of na t Lona L r:.: cu.r ity thao; LU:J..Ison must continue be twe cn the department that corrt.r o.Le the ! bord{:?r' and the organisation that

h o.Ld s the brief for na t.i.or security. d He said Vvilkef3' ma Ll, was

operied during ! normal r-d rna onlng procedures I under section

303 of the Customs Act. Ii I do not thi; th<3 manner in wh i.ch this

practice was exe cu t od was Jroper 0 \1

Pa.Ime r had asked Allcm Lf the -j 12'; Clrdc')r -in ouno was indeed

bing used as. the t icat10n fo:~ the whole businHss. Allen replied

t. section 4 (c) of thn S Act i e autho rdt y to refer documents

'of 13. security natur e ' hou t fur'- autho:c 't Lori being required.

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According to (21.10.83) dent for the re

vHlkes! mail exi he (Allen) officer who had

erred Mr W woeful in- Ed) had on a

ovious occasion ckage containing literature. The

alice were consulted and, on e ceo the matter was referred

fUSe Alt ·Ghat c ons Lgnmen t "'vV(ctS not for I"Jr vvilkes? it set

.Lcd Icecedent under which the officer rcfE)rred to the SIS those

ckazrc s C in,0: d o oumon t s VII'll appeared to deal w i.bh

and interna t Lona L ~defence matters / n ]Vlr Allen aa i.d ,

This story has everything. So far we've

\ Ci3, and nUVT \'Je1ve.got the bloody IPJt.

The ;)unday papers. At 1- they admitted

s8.terial. God forbid~ rtGad on.

had Bill Sutch, Frince No wonder its made for wa.an it importing IRA

Palmer wasn ' t sat:i.sf:Led w ibh this, and asked, logically enough, Customs can z-e f'e r mat .r La.L to the SIS vlithout further authority t! ing required 9 whe r-e d oe s tha"t leave t.he statutory compulsion for the SIS to secure a~1 interception war ran t that must be accountable

~o Parliament? Customs ct have no such power of interception

and referral under the Customs Act. Allen replied that he was asking

cKone to clarify rna tte:rs. ~uick 9 qui ,we:; 1 vc been caught breaking o ,T ovu: laws, make us a new one thc"lt makes it all lega.l.

Meantime 9 O~ieni~l ilkes V1[18n \ t leaving i.t all to pol:tt Lc i.ans and bureaucrats" and had vrritten Lme e Lf to Iv:ch.one. He received a long reply saying a lot of his mail had been opened, averaging about one every fortnight, since J1,.lly last year. (This must su r e Lv be a mis-

.i n t , as W iikes dLdn ' t rc:hl.rn 01'12 until the fi.na L ho;rs of August

C 9 unless CustOIDf3 vvas openj_ngthe st £'101'1, of h Le mail that came

to UINZ F. 0, Box during 6 YGGlTl3 cand navia). According to

"Pr-e s s ' (1'L9083) T aa i.d HI C2D S(ty ite definitely that

vlilke,s has not been cut or' Dubject 0 s pe o La L treatmont.1l

~ t L1 a direct let :::17 he adm.i t s that Customs have tamper-

ed with h Ls ma i L r of t imc 0

By this stage, c

or tho whole sordid to

CUe" b om s ( I .irnm c.r )

3. Section 303 of the Customs Act.

different justifications given 1 921 Order,-in~C oun o i.L 2 e The

I:; on his own initiative"

4. Section 4 (c) of the SIS Act.

vJ jlk(:;)8 now d.e c Lded to the S ? and asked for the right to

,;) his file? under: Offic::i.al Lnf or-ma t.Lcn Act. He was in ~Ielling-

t on DeverLll 9 but 011 c orrta c t i.ng ;:3 '\{as -told tr18)t the

ter was so important that it could only be dealt w:Lth by the

irector (John Smtth), who was too busy to see him. (Under the SIS

s; is .i.l l.ega.L -co Ld errt Lf'v SIS personnel except the d tr-e ct cr-,

"which means -that has t~ onally sign all SIS outward corref3-·

p ond enc e 0) But the :::iIS toLd .i.Lke s he cou Ld calIon them two dc1Ys

er he was due to leave ington. He stayed the extra time, and

to i-H) (rph" \1~l·'-re··"uil c ov.l.v rc,·"prrnd +;0 .it ;::," "an offi ce Ln

.;. J.. ~ " _.!.. ,-"" • ,__ ~ ~j "j" \../.j _._~) _ \.J J_ j ...... '-' ~~ ,_ J GlJ),J........... . .J.... ~

In{~tonl 9 but as '\JL-lfJ quite' cl ah own on TV news - their onl.y

:Lon of the whole Wilkes ~ail s - it is the upper floors of the

GOV(3rmTlcnt Building in Stout Street 9 af'f e c t Lona t ly known Ln military

i.rcli:s as "The ::..~emlinr,) he ar-r Lv ed , 11.0 1tTE1S gi.ven no personal

terview with Jo}m Smi ; he was a letter from him (thus not

ting taxpayers' money on s ) Smith's letter said that the

would not rele8.,sE] anv rna . mall matter or h Ls ills

to do so would b~ 'prsjudJce the security of New

by disclos disclose service's sources

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o f information, o pe ra t ; and or-ga n Lsa t d ta J a r-oa a of

rest.,. It could also jud i.o e the; en ting of information to

t , H (vv for ord 7 .i s the same r-ca.e on given by

n Smith to CAFCINZ for rc:fllsing em e d .r e q r the

ficial Information Act. More on that in a later W .) The SIS

hOi'Jcvcr provide; Wilkr?s \I1i t.h a short summary of his 9\r1hich

ined one important factua.L rror. It said he had been convict

Sweden of H gross uneu th.or-Le dec1ling with classified information

n he was actually convicted of a lesser charge of dealing

cret' information.

N ilkes wen t back to Karamea. Over to Geoffrey Palmer. (Jumbo Allen replied to his s cond letter on the matter, saying that the

ctiens of the officer who referred Wilkes' mail to the SIS were 'in uarmony ' with Customs general instructions. Pa Lme r Vias not aa t.Lef i.ed , "I am of the clear opinion that the Customs Dpartment acted unlal'{'fully in the \/lfilkes case" (,Pressl' 21.11.83).

'I'h e very next day J the 11 Pres SH published details of' Customs! new ~_LE\tructions to its staff formalising the relationship with the SIS (thi3 had to be obtained using a wri tten request under the Official Lnfor-ma.b i.cn Act). HThey instruct officers to tell the SIS if they come across I rna terial which they belic:vecould have se cur i, ty implic-

ions ,. Officers are told to do thi.s throug.h their regional departIL.Cnt heads. tlSecurity" is defined as the protection of NevI Zealand :from ac t s of espionage 9 sabotage? and subversion 9 whether or not it

.i s directed from or intended to be committed from w Lt h i.n lTcv\T Zealand. 'lh e n ew instructions are attached to existing instru.ctions on fun·-

+Lone not expressly delegated to the Customs Department. 1J'hese say

that ilofficors should adopt a positive titude and a s s ast in main-·

T; ining all lEigal requirements and in holping of fi.cere of other

d partments a n the execution of their du t i c s ;" The new instructions "Cc:ll officers to apply this principle to links with the SIS. "Bo caus e

ticylar sensi tivi tic:;s ex.i.st in regard to exchanges between enforce;

agencies and Intelligence agencier-39 formal oltann e Ls of cor.cmunjca t.ions are to be observed. Accordingly, all r-cque s t e fromthc SIS

w i.Ll. be channe l l.ed through (regional d e pa r tmerrt head(3) ,Vilwn any action is taken on b e.ha.Lf of thc~ SIS the ( gion.al departnJE)nt hoad ) n.ust be told. Ii Officers are told that the: IS w i.Ll. make requests for holp concerning international terrorism and that h£lp ShOl~d be given providing there is no breach of legis tion or departmental instructions. The instructions S3,y that r e c ords of links be: tvH3etl. Customs

and the SIS will be kept. in the department's internal'Intelligence system. ]VIr NcR one refused requests from the ! Press 1 for internal . reports and reports to IYJr Allen concerning the referral of llllr Wilkes' mail to the SIS. As groundS he gave provisions of the Official Iniormation Act relating to aspects of national security, to maintJoining the law and to protecting the privacy of Lnd Lv Ldua La" ("l'ressll 2 .11.83).

offrey Pa Lme r vTaS still not ea t Ls f Led ,11 I wou Ld have thought

t ha t it was ",Trang for a government 0. par-tmcn t to instruct its oific'", crD to act in a situation ,,{hero there .i s no legal authority to act. It is one thing to open mail under the Customs Act. but it is quite ano t h e r to pass it on to the SIS unless there is le;gal authority for

rc::ceipt of .it ;" ('.f'rt)Sf:ii9 same i tGm) e

At thE! time o:f writ:i.ng? that's where the story.rests" Confused?

ou couldn't be more conf'us ed than Cust oms , the SIS ~ or the GovernmCl.nt

I' since Customs had d rush of blood to the head admitted they

ere steam:i.ng open \lHlkc3s' mail on behalf of SIS 9 whole story's

boen charactc;rised by rnore hungover explanations 9 evasions 9 and

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e t ra i ght.out 1 s than the No. 1 COlJ.rt on Ji J!londs,y morn Lng, Take one

spe ,as pointed out vJi1kes. h Ls vma.l L is regarded as some sort

of security r a sk , why is he a Ll.owed to reo .i.ve it at all? (A"Staril

e d i, o r-La.L dei3cribed this aD 1< devast2~ting 1 it also referred to

8 IS as IVLickey JVlouse) .

'Ihe S IS has moved on to grE:a tel' th (

ZC'::3,land Party). From February 84, O"ien. o become semi~permanent rer::e3,l'cher for Peace Sh01J..l6 enable Customs to save on toll b Ll.Ls >

;subs

to the New VJollington HZ. This

Although th story has all the i.ngre Ej of 8. typical New

Zealand cock-up, it is an extremely sinister b"lu3iness that hac) no

e .i.n a ! democracy'. Letter opening belongs banana republic

tutorships or wa.rt ime c ens or-ah i.p , It is 0 highly likely that

v}ilkes! phone has been tapped and thtrG he has been put under general ;3u.rveillance. Owen Wilkes is not a llSPY[!9 but he does have a llilique abLlity to d i.s t tngu.i an truth amongst all the bullshi to Thats why the powers that be consider him dangerous.

'l'h i.s Ls obviously going to be .~l continuing story. Watchdog will keep you fully informed ~ Las t time we sent 8,nytihing through the mail to Owen Wt~ wrote on the envelope 11 S IS - Its not v;o1.,th r-ead Lng , its all .in H.ussian - Yuri. Ii

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OB I ~l[A~J:_~LNU.J0i :BYI~_~;\Jf!;,

Its hard to feel any sympathy for such a hidemls regime as that of South Korea. But first the murd.er-oua paranoids in the Soviet mil .. · itaryshot down its jumbo jet ("j.t must XH3.Ve been a spy fl:ight9 why

e Ls e would its number be J07?). And tJ18n the fraternal comrades

from. north of the border gave a neVi moaning to the term cabinet reshuffle with their Rangoon bomb.

vVhat! s all this got to dOVlith NZ? VIell lresident Chun Doo Hwan .VTDS coming to liZ as part of a major overs(')as tour to boost S ou.th

J. .. orea! s poor international image (his pI'edeceGEwr 7 Park Chung Hee 7

Y,:;.wing been shot d.ead by his own CIl'. h.ead )'. But t he lost his

o ne.L pilot 9 who would have f Lown to NZ (and on). He was

command of the 747. And then of course the wh o.l.e trip ended ominously at its first stop, 118.[1goon, l'igg:; must be a j .inx , He 1.[(113 the last; leader to SE;e Cha.i.r-man Mao be f'o r e the latter died.

iously 9 the shock mus t been +oo much f or the Chairman.

One of the CabinGt Ninicters a s sa s tna.t ed in RangoOnitvEtS the

ini.ster of For-Edgn Affairs 9 the magni.ficently named hI' lee Bum 8u1-l::.

C.iiFCUrZ was planning direct ac t i.on to mark the ;30uth KOX'(;,"111 visit E:nc.1 ltTe I'Tere de(:;ply upset v{hen we learned t.ha.t wo wou.l.d not be able

t o flourish a banner asking "Doe s .!VIr 1)oe i3uk?"

Und Lapu t sd prize for best e iLl.y name now res Cardinal Sin of Manila.

:firmly vrith

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o in C:c

oxically, it could ealand out of both The proposal was to use on anod e a for uDed

resource export schemes [Jed by the government. small benefits for

coal c1 in due try e cr t ed to

of and

esent 9 v.Lr-t.ua.L'Iy all anod on used the aluminium

It J)rOCeI3f:l is mad om pert oleum coke a by=pr-oduc t of oil

. ,ing. "The highly Lnn ovatLve propos()"~ w8,S ·~~o usecol::e, ~rom co~~l .Lwn:;ead 01 petroleum coke. Hesearcn n:aJ{lng t.h.i.s a realls'cJ.C posEnb,,,

Llity been carried (1) ove r a periocl of yean) 9 par-t i cu.Lar-Ly by

Coal Research Association of NZ and chemical engineers at the

:.; vf)rsity of Canterbury 0 'I'he wor-k of iL vf. Sheat of the Coal Research Asr::~ociation be on described by an ino.elJenclent chemical engineer i;fith particular expertise i.n ·the area as "outr::tanding11• Sampler::' of

carbon produced by the Coal Research Association process were tested by Comalco at its Bell Bay smelter in Tasmania and the aSIRO inf\i~elbourne in 1981. 'I'h e results were 11 consiCi(;rec1 a[) encouragingll, It W[W these results that }il1etcher-Chal~Leng8 noticedftJhen planning j ts Aramoana e.Lum i.rri.um smelter.

9-~;rnment Departments used for }'letchc;r HeseC3crch;

etcherD approached tEe liJinlster bfBnergy" He obligingly set u.p

Force' May 1981 to do the research work Fletchers still

This Task Force had represent ive of the Mines Division of 1"\ lnistry of BnertCi J thc DSlH9 the Coal HO}30c3..rch Association of th De par-bmcrrt of rCrc.tde and Industrv ~ and iletcher-Challengo.

v.T2LS f1grciad t Government :::C;:10nt3 wouLd provide their time

ov er-h ead s at no ohar ge , but any ex't raor-d i.nar-y costs euch as OVCri:JG,H3 travel, 'cost materials e t o , wouLd be mf;tby the Lndus t r'y

icipant( s,) II Only 8 scheme wc;nt ahead , full for

;overnrnent fundecl vJOrk wou Ld then be .Lea.blen•

'I'h o Task Porco t report (ob inable for $3

sent ormation lS

of

i_IS f om

) that most

II Init ial IrlC1icatioYlJ3Z \I

'10 quote tM ~Pask !:~O{'CC b.oPOl't~ HArtf) from it;.:] in-Cdre3t in

':.' b L a s e c ond 1.mD cme Lt.e r in HZ 9 ]T'let che r Challenge

~td (FCL), at t time Fletcher Hold Ltd, real the potential

[3 a,n indf..::genous production of cmode-~grade c oke , (lverCjeaEi

aav r.ngs for a ;200 000 t; lUL, smeLt e r (so.ooo t;

could amoun t to $ r ;J,f\.J.1lJl119 and thurevJHfCj a

})oi;f;ntial to the Bluff smo L tor and export to Aua t ra.Li.an sme.L t-

!;:Cd. .A c on rate of 1 CO 9000 tpa viaS fore cons idered

La t e for e coricm ic production to me e t smelter's requirements modest allrrwanoe for o~her possible uses. Raw coal requirements

·i,i.·(.:;Y'R l'Y·.l .. l'al]y" ac,s,:,qs p,o a ppr-oxlmat e Ly !):.>() C,nnu ·t·pa ']' e a tOGa]

>. ~ ~ -- '"1' lw't::>l--' "...J.,,-/ o ... .l!'.l. ..L':..., .. _.i.c.;.~ U ... , r' L ... ,--~ 9 ~j ~9 _~6 c ' ~-

of a b out 10 million t.onncs for a roafJOnable plant .L'i.f'e of 40+ years.

rel

ted of l'GVi(3'd

:L .la t i.on

L-JeVJ Zcu,land's own low-

tential, a review of

duspat of Sto on

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a 2 coal overs

or

ion by

seg

FOLIs initial tions wore that

1. Sev depo Buller coalfield were likely to be the

only NZ coals with ciently low ash contents.

2. T ro should be icient coal in ths8s deposits to supply a

coke plant for morc: 40 years but this would need conf'irm-·

a t i.on .•

Lnf o.rma't-Lon f'rom 1l.lucn:Lisse indicated a high pot orrt for the use

of Buller coal in anode manufacture.

4. :Freliminary e conom i.ce looked suffioiently on cour-ag i.ng to wc.trrant C1. continuation of w ork,

5. All future research and development wo rk wouLd ne ed the active c o=ope r-a t i.cn and ass i.s tanco of a ma j or: aluminium company.

6. FutUre work on this pr6ject should be Grouped under the follow-

i11& thrc:;e headings

a) Hesource evaluatiol1~ quantitY9 quality 1 and beneficiation.

b) Seleoti.on of coke manufacturing process

c) Coke eva.Lua t i.cn by a major a.Lum tn.ium company ,

It was agreed by FCL management that the project should be proceeded with on a time scale that would aim to make coal coke available during the first year of operation of the then-proposed Aramoana SIIH::;]_tcr.

In planning the project development T;7ork~ it was olear that ttems 6b and 6c above; were capable of~ being undertak.en directly by FCL ~

or at least with the aaa i.at.ance of ooneu.Lt a.rt a , Item 6a h.cweve r ,

;vas out ide POL;:) control as Sta·te Coal lvanes 'Jwre the owner-s of the Bullel' coalfield.1I

h.aiser Brought In~

The ma j or aluminum company required in point 5 "vas a Ld, tt18 hard to f Lnd , \ Coma.Leo WC)<S asked to join th(-j 'I'a~3k Force but refused. Ire:'Jumably +h Ls is a reflection of an attitude against USing Z Il(iterials 9 other than subsidised electricity). Pc was considered

Ii 8'Jsentic11 that this company should have a dHi::i.re to participate in c; OvJTleri3hip of any :reEmltin,r;r industrialo1)eration in HZ for ·the

c bur-o of a .. 1' ode n:rade ca:p'bonI1• S everctl"· other l'laj or e.Lum i.n.Lum onlJ.Jcc;nies WerE) a:pproa~·;hed" Bventr-lally 1\ a Ls e.r AI1JlIJ.inirurJ and Chemical

or-po r-a't i on (a f orme r own e r Comaleo and the capitalist

!:fox-leI 1 ~j s c ond largoDt; manufacturer of anode; e· coke)

(J, ce sd ,

iT'o ek F o r ce ..LT'U r-oos r> ,.

,_ .. j. .... "" .,b. ., vv. "'.~) U ""'". t;

~11CPhe 'Task-Porce 'Wc-3ofJ rset up to I determine 8.;:; fast as possible

( of or ably within 2 years) the techn cal and economic feasibility of co~~ercial anode production from West Coast coailis for use by

a Lum.i.n i.um smelting plant( s ) in New Z 0 'J1he objeotive of the work

to jnvost t(:7 to thetage at wh i ch Industry can make a confident

o bO 11 dec lontH•

'I'hus r:Pask }!'orce! S ope rat i one lrfere very s tron€,ly b ed to-

lJ"i'lrds a commercial operation in the immediate futuro 0 Two y(?ars was a vGry short tunc; to c omp.l e t e a.l1 the r-es ear-ch still r-e qui.r-ed 0 It

;,Ias this short terrnheEtvily commercial 18 (dictated by }I'letcher

:j~blli1.ini~m smel tor r:)(rt1irE':?ments) t dec cd the nature of the final

oncluslons of the study.

C()cJ~ at pr

area (8to on No Block)

t he vJ e bb"cBayne d ) thor

ough quaLit y a 40 2.7 mill tonn(~fj me 5.7 million tonnes forth

It found that rl:3searc)1 ha.d'i a trowa r d a me l.ng

r·Jropcrt:t r .ired for pr-oduc.tng .a o ce p tab Le f cd anod as" 9 b t

fur-hhe r HOTh: "'JeW n e ce sary. Hm.rever pe r (betv7ccn

lli and $436) was considerably - $180 to $240 re~lir-

to pot r-o.Lcum coke.

'l'h o mos t r cons idcred th2.t

C011011.:1.(:3 .i.on ~Tar:::

Low- .. vanadtum Buller

t0d to markets. It was

c ca.Le wcu.Ld have some advan·"

over pet.r-o.Lcum coke 9:md EHiOd o~'cc3,rbon c titors 1 prices

wou Ld rise w i t.h a Lunri n tun production pricds. So it if; poo s Lb Lo

t Bu'lLo r coa.L ba s anod es cou.Ld beCOYL1G compe t tt tvc , In' addi tton9

C omaLco may C'3. t prer:3entbe t:rcmsfer 1'1'ici11.o'5i ts coke Lrupo'r 9 accord··

1ng to evidence the report.

But !I in tho present uncertain economic c.l unace the c omner-o i a.L icipants in the Task Force (FeL and Ka 81') cons er the pros-

po c too .r Lsky to justify further expenditure on reE;carch and

ClevcIo:tJmE;nt wor-k for anode carbon pr odu ion from Bu.Ll e r coal."

Kaiser and Fletchers weren't willing to start tead of taxpayers) money - heavilyinfluenc

.i.Lur e of thcAramoana r:::r:181ter pr-o j e ct 1.s

r:Lsking the own

no dcubt by the

1'1 El pull ba.ck from

ium smelt

en th minds of 0 r T Force partic-

conclusion may not n cos a1'11y apply to a j.t own Lnf r-ae t.ruc tur-e tor carbon d

~e}J Ls B oms to

1 . 'C'hsy say,

Lo cu.l. organi:3f:~tion w ith U,C3 EJ • fI

Ii' orc that no

inc; 11 (),ry F'o r ce f s d isbcll1d

.r. l,

rc commend fur mu l t tional i.,

c oa L IJ caue e

r coal ( s (:,e r-e por t en and crC:Of3 e

e carbon. This is in New Ze;].li:lnd.

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Ne"', Zealand needs casinos as much as it needs ,John Kirk. So it

was w.i th .i n t.e re s t. that we noted in September 83 that NZ Leisure Levelopments Ltd announced that Federal Pacific" which runs several I"ustralian casi nee f wasta put $73million into a $ Omillion hotel, entertainment and convention complex at 'I'(~ l\tatu North, on a

l06ha. site owned by the Auckland Harbour Board.

Federal Pacific distinguished themselves in Alice Springs by building their casino on the J\borlgine tradi tional 'Todd River campsi t.e , then surrounding it with high fences j' surveillance cameras

and security guards. There's also the murky side of mass-scale

Le qa Li.s e d gambling. Ii mid'-70s Commission of Inquiry recommended

that the Bally Corporation of 1\merica be barred from doing business in Australia because of its links to orqanised crime in both Aust-

ralia and America, But as Bally has a-virtual monopoly on the

pok.i.e s that form a huqo per t of NSWu s revenue f nothing \.,as done.

But? never fear. In December 83, NZ Leisure Developments Ltd announced that Federal Pacific had '\tli thdrawn beca.use it had become interes.ted in another project. Geoffrey Leadley r an Auckland .financier and acting chairperson of Leisure Developments said that he was stepping down as a director because he was at odds with several other directors over the direction of the project.

t,1uch more revealingly p he said that Federal Pacific had wi t.hd r awn within a few days of the election of Tim Shadbolt as Mayor of

waitemata City. He said that the day after Shadbolt's election

as Mayo r r a potential invest.or in New York had sent a telex message saying - "Believe Waitemata City is an unstable community".

(Press¥ 8/12/83).

'rho leader of a recent West German business delegation here was quot.ed as· s ay i nq the foreign investor was looking for 3 things -

;1 stabili ty 1 stabili ty and stabili t.y " 0 Obviously as far as casino

investors go, Waitematn city now ranks with the Philippines or Lebanon.

'The gambling conglomerates go looking for mo r e promising sites,

such as the independent home Lands ' of South Africa. hnd the

local bodies are stuck with the huck land Harbour Board and Waitemat~ City Council (Te Atatu) Empowering Bill, aimed at smoothing the

way for tho project. Howe ve r , if Mayor Shadbolt really wants

a casino, he could always organise his councillors into a work bee, After all, hegs got a concrete rnixer .•...

17,

to do

because of had overtaken being to for refE~n;'nce in 71T'Cerican l\ero-

,. Colorado.

tiJ1Y retreat in t112

·to u .. sed to ITOni tor

non-rni.Li t.ary space using radi.o signal

c'i vi.Li.an use of Nt rrorc mrbitious project, ~.·h:? first. UN Sy:~cial tl-:>·.cc TjN seJc up a special

r and offered to

offer to operate

based at the to raise satE~lli te 0

C/\FCTI'JZ dornandi.nq that by his proposal has not been the rest of

by TeJe;:Elp0

( connecred

of Ca'l.terbu:tYu ,,,Pnich h011s-:::; the Uni versi ty IS fc\,\? years of its vcover for Ht John it. to scrap

As recEntly the years prot.estors who of a guidanC'.B has evar cons+ruct.i.on) but

his

better

1972 l"lt .:John deluonstrationo

1 N FORlvIA ION I

IN SCHOOLS DEBATE.

'Ihe 90venurent handling of L"lf.:: .irrtzoduct.ion computers to secondary schools

Weill used in the May 1983 issue of r,~atchdog as an example of the destxuction of New Zealand .indus+ry, It 112',.'3 msent; t.hc~ loss of the oppoztuni ty for the

New Zealand developed "Poly" CGllpute:r in fevour of foreign makcs , (Irioi.dent>

ally," fhe May article 'Alas reprinted in the NZEI journal. "Cha.lkf'ace" 0)

Ii C1WCINZ conmi ttc'(" m::"r[1!xcr has 'used the Offici2..1 Infonnation Act in an atten:1[.)t +o obtain rmre ini'onnaJ::ion on heM the governm:::n t made i t.s decision 0 This

has revealed tv·JO .irrpor tant; aspects ~ +he ':jovm:nrrent P s refusal to provide .inforrna.tiong and Jchegove:rnrrent J S prior kno, iledqe of what. chaos its present; school carputer po.l.i.oy woul.d bring about.

'.two docurerrta were requested. The rrorc importcll1t was the report, produced for 1T.e Education IEpari::J:'l:Bnt whi.ch evaluated the avai.Labl.e micro-corrputers. 1his .repor't; was never published only a. pra.cticall y useless list of five "equal.Iy sui, table " brands was ever released. Of less significance was a Cabinet pepcr tha-t~'1r 'itJellinc]ton announced in llugust 1981 he was presenting to Cabiriet; recomrendinq the introduction of Poly conputers to schools by carly 1982.

The PP'I'A. also reques·ted the first dOClID1C.mt. 'I\'lTO rronths after the requests 'VIler(:;;; made, the Ministry refus(~d the requests on the grounds of maintaining confidentiali ty of information supplied in confidence 0 On appeal, the Ombusm:m di smi.ssed the Ministx2'! s reasons 0 saying that the only information that, coul.d be cl.airrod t..o have been supplied in confidence was pricing .inforrnatri.on e end this could have been deleted f rom the docum::mts before supplying them"

'1he Minister v Mr Wellingtonf +hen made use of hi.s power under me Official

Information [let to st_Hl tD supply the docurrent., 'Ihis is the third

such Hi:nisteriaJ. vctc only four rronths of the l'l.ct ~ s operation. Legal action

is being actively invest .. l.(j'eJ:ecL

The second decurrent; IS vl;ry existencfj was denied by the Ministry. Only on me

Ombudsman is Intervent.ion vler<:.:: Cebi.ne+ parers ;1 found" 0 l':..dmi ttedly they

did not recarm:::nd conpute r out.r.iqnt., but they WQre clearly (at least

to the Orrbudsrnan) v:hat was requcstrsd,

tvh21t 'was obtained was t::ViD draf·t Cabinet paper's , In October 1981 and again in February 198~:, the Minister of Education r Mr 1f.lellington e had paper's prepared recc::rorrending rnoney t.o be approved for mi.cro-ccrrpucers for secondary schools. TJ:J.e Educatrion It::parl:rrr:eIl't says th(?: papers were never presented to cabinet

"In vi.ew of the econcnu c ci rcims+ancoa",

'Ihe main concerns iJ1 .int.roduc'inq c-orrputers to schools are that: they should be made available equally to all pupi.Ls , regardless of their parents' means i

they should be avai.Lebl.e as cheaply as poas.ib'Le throuqh bulk buying; and

they should be accorrpani.ed by qood qual i ty course matezi.al. and training to ensure they do not bocorre m2W gimnic:ks and adve:ctisem:mts for tJJeir rrenuf'act--

urers , In addition there: the for maximum New Zealand corrtenc, It

is these concerns thet, m-e behind the problems wi th ccnputcrs in secondary schools at: present and it these very prohlcsns 'that; are predi.cted by the two Cabinet; pElf":J8rs 0

If the recomendatdons these concerns would hazard

implemented in full, many of Instead; Ned Zealand has a hapcomputer conpani.cs and their NZ agents.

'lEE P;:~PE:.F;S

Tho papers, which a.::(; in NT Tilel "s: ruunc , rocotametid the supply by the

Government of to o i L secorideru echool.s (including private ones)

secondary tzeaclie re ' and selected technical isiet.i: tiutzee , They xecommend

that t.eruie x» b» ceil.Lee; Ec i: t!;:c: hardwa re and Dofh;are required, and that

addi tional Eutids of bet.ween OIlO mi l.Ii.on and mi.Ll.i.on dollars per year be

provided tio« 1982/83 and Yc::!:lrs to T'1cet costs. Paxt of the cost

woul.d be for a DafU/arC:! Uu i:t: of Beven tul t.t.ime staff in the Education

Department ",thich v/()uJJ1 .7'CCC'.1!) eome of L~:s coet:s through software sales.

The papers note the "problems aseoci at.ed wi. til imcoorxii.netzed purchases" of mioxo-comput.es:e ind.ivid1.LL2 socoadaru schools. These problems were the purchase of systems not ,.:03.i spec .. i.fically for education, ineut't i.aient: expertise in izhe oho i.co and use of the corcptit.ex s , tho d i: ffi cui ty of interchanging eoiitwaro betw'Gen d:[f"fel."en;:: makes o.f computer, "minimal" support for tihe .goftr;v'l':::i:c~) 'I;hj:- .. ·" " :'il.~_'J;; ?' . .: ·2(·. huLK. d::L.scoan:b:.?;.cC:Znd the inabili ty of the Department to coo rdi.nat.e ana support such a variety of systems.

Examples are given of the aXe,'s in wtiich computers could benefit scbool.s ,

The "Lmpeot: of: tecimoloqy el, sGc:iety" and its part in New zealand's economic future is mentioned,

In the papers r lir f'!ellington lJ D~vours purchase by the Government of micro--

computers dS sVmdara item of eoconde rij echoo.i equipment" r using an open market

tender. Howe-ver, considerable ompbae i s throughout the report is placed on the

Poly systems. 'l'hi.s Lncl udeis an economic a ppre i sal. oi: the "Poly Proposal"

by Professor Brian Ptii.Lpot.t: of' vi ctzos Le Un.i vere i ty of rvellington. This is

highly favourable to tzlu: Po.lyproposal i showi.nc; that its foreign exchange saving abi l i ty .if a2most 28 good ee agr:ic'I'L tu.re and three to f1 ve times as

good as the car es semal. i.

It appears that as arG several

i.n t:.he papers are also based on Poly syst(:,ms,. of uii aro-comput.ers in teaching.

Provis.ion is made tor

t Uni i:" in the Education Department; wcu.l d both produce software (to be made

::;,nd cooixi iru: te schools' use of the computers.

to empLoi; seven nc,,' staFf 0 ~T'his

available iior: sale aoiameroi.el.L

Provision is made for seconding up to 12 teachers to it at a.ny one time.

Cbpies of the

f rom c/\FCINZ at $2 a se+,

SSION TO FART;

INDUSTRIJ\L, REL1\,TIONS .I-;MERTCl\N S'TYLE liT Mi\HSDEN POIN'.£'

1'011 ticians and the news media make sure we hear 11 lot about "gangs t.er un.Ions ". Our esteemed Prime MinL3ter has personally described some union offi cials as

"thugs". And this outpouring of abuse reaches its crescendo when it involves

Marsden Point, the whitest of Think Big's elephants.

But does the media ever tell us about. "gange't.cr employers"? 'I'he r e was a mid·,()3

s t oppage of several months involving s I t e Bub-contractor, the American firm

Ch i.cago Bridge and Iron. Head the below' list of conditions laid down by manage

ment at a meeting in May. Sever.al of the sub-contractors, with backgrounds

in refinery projects .in Saudi Arabia have said they're hoffified by the strenE',tb of trade un i oris in NZ and cou.l d get the ,job done in a fraction of the time ,-ri th a lesser number of ['louth Korean vorkers,

Here is their attempt to impose Neanderthal c, .. ,1i tions on New Zealand workers. In the words of the Clash, we don't need no gang boss!

1, Employee~3 attitude to management must change

2. Absenteeism vj,ll not be tolerated

3. Foremen 'tTill judge emp Loyee is worth to Company by performance of his work

11,. Union meetings .. /ill only be allowed outside 'working hours

5, Safety: Hearing of hard hats. boots, gloves, safety glasses and clothing etc. will be en:forced

6. Union Delegate's Job will be the job that he is employed by the Company to do, and Union mat t.er-s will take second place at all times

'7, All disagreements w:ith Company vrill be handled as per disputes clause in site agreement

P

,J.

Smoko sheds vill be Looked after by the Un I on

Any employee leaving site without authority will be deemed to have terminated their employment

1U.

In future" any employee WllOSC vo rk or attitude does not improve after a verbal warning .. rill be dismissed

11. Ove r t Ime ,-rill he worked on Saturdays and Sunday's to repair tanks that have been deemed unsui t.ab.l e by the client

12, Quali ty of we l ds mus t be up to x-ray standards or the welder will be dismissed

13. Any welder failing a Aus t.r-a.Lf an labout.

retest 1?i11 be dismissed and replaced vd.th

210

Christophel.' B01}CO is eecepex and bank robber. He is a. "t.rai tor"

lIe is doing 40 years t.i.on cell. who recently saw the

excellent A.ustrcil.ian "Home On f['he Range" em TV knows that Boyce is

tzlu: man ("ho bl ow the whistle on what: tha Cnl (10 at tsbai:x: top secret Pine Gap

spy base t outie i de 111 JC(;;" Iii s i l.Liis i.oruoent: wi th the cin! s world role

(Iie worked for TRW wiii.ct: operatc:s CIA spy sat?!lli tes on contract) led him to .feed secret: documents i.o his ac coutpI i.co who sold them to the KGn at the

/:Joviet EraJJassy in

to Ei.nenae his dopodee.l i.nq business 0

CI1FC.tN Z clOGS not conaonu aomoono who secrets to the KGB, Boyce is

no Dan.i.e]: Bl.Leberq ~ wbo eLid it For th':' ilIner.i.can people. But ill so doing,

and at his t.r : ElJo.rted the A.'lstraLian people to what the us military

and i.nt.ol.Li qonoc agencies lvqre doiL''} i.n tzhei.r country. Pine Gap is the

most Lmpo rtiant: American i.net.al uit ion outside the US, and as such is a prime

et.retzoq.ic nuclear target., E,G, tf;JO cheers tox Christopher Boyce.

Not siirpr i s irxql q , DOlJce i eol s ,~~ome a.ffin;ity tdth AustraJ.ia. lie has regularly written articles and l.etters to nuet.xul.i an papers. In the Sydney "Sun Herald" (18/8/83) he talks ebcut: the l'Jmerican space p roqr amme having become an adjunct of BIOlY - N.:'!! Sing.lc Ir:h?gratGd Operation Plan .- the US plan Eox nuclear war , Pine Gap said IJ/oomc.ra f.it:. right into that scener.io • Reagan has announced

plans for a apace=beoed li:'BeJ: an experimental ver .. s ion to be carried

on a military space shuttl.e by 1987.

Boyce 1 S art.icle concl. iulas » "Proo ident: R..:9agan has described the Soviet Union

as the focus of all evil in the world" I tzh i.nk: no c , '1'l1e focus of all evil

in the world i .. :: the "l:n:'lJ.'l...~r:;:.e bet.;t~0:en_t;:!:!2..3!E.i trpd State::; and the Soviet Union",

"So why do 1" wr i t:e an f1ustraJ.io.n editor? I wx i.t:« because .r have found while stu'dying the precarious jOLl1JWY of Liberty over the centuries, that when freedom has been moet: threatened, ODC' part ox: another of i.lse EngLi::"'h-speaking peopl.as hElsa1.tllays piil.Led 11,'3 Lack on ooiireo":

"I beI.i.eve that it i .» Austra.Lia s timc:to sh.ino , to make a contzr.ibutii on to the pxeeervat.ion of democxecu , liccau,so .if l1ustrali.'! does not lead us out of the darkness, no orio wil L:

.Tf Australian diplomacy can again the 9th tiivi e ion deiietuie x s of 'l'obruk

replace the Single Lri t ione L

detnoc racu just BLight llake 1 t:' 0

t11(? resolve that once animated y it to a dogged campaign to

Plans of t:1115 world wi th reason, then

"Auetire l.Len outrage wi.l.L soon enG: tilu;

Po l.ijnae i a , ']'his 11vst:r:ali.an must

o.f many in Canberra's t'1 tho mass

wo rl d-wi de a:r.TU:3 race. The u I t imat:e v usb i l i.

oEnuclear weapons in French go down in history as the first stupidity of the accelerating

of democracy hangs in the balance 0

"One nation must point the vlay clear fOT: the rest to follo .... " llustra.lia'" .

That nation is

It's a nice thought, but the Har'ike Labat: government has shown it wiLL do nothing to remotze Lij harm ]lm(~riGan ~'i.nterests e i izher: i11 IHlstra.li.Cl or wox I dsei lie ,

Hawke knows "hat happened izo teiii t.Lem he knows who pu.l Le the strings. Its

the old sooial democrat: C!.f " e qove rtunatitz'", We must prove

to the r;,lhi te !-JOUSQ end the unil. t inat.i one.l s that: rve can run tis Li sm better than the 7'01..'i<'2S".

r J

SEN

ITles

Now that Sir Keith ako, 1 d Breznev, has finally

c red under the of s medals, there 11 be many

Na onal arty (and other New Zealanders who know no

better) who will be Look inq back at hisTory th a rosy f nostalgic 9101,,7, No"", that parliamentary politics generally boar a s t.r i.k i.nq resemble.nce to "On Nat" t.hoy look back

to an alleged Golden en government moved with the speed,

tement and i lity of a night on the cabbage train.

For all those experts \1110 say Holyoake presided over an age of consensus poli cs we have one word. Bullshit. We need

only add one 0 r word. Vi tnam. (Or as he preferred to

call it, Veet Numb). He was t.ho man who t.ook us into our biggest ever foreign policy disaster, and didn't we let him know it! For all his Anglophile, plum-in-the-mouth, gentleman farmer image, he was America s biggest puppet in this country since WWll. Not even Muldoon's managed to get us into a war, try as hCe? mi.qht .

Not to mention All Black tours of South Africa, Manapouri, letting the US military open installations at Woodbourne and

Mt John, joining the International Monetary Fund. Not to mention the routine union bashing that passes for an industrial policy of all National governments.

GOODBYE; KIFIIo

YOU BELONGED TO ilNOl'IIER AGE r BUT IT NEVER WAS A GOLDEN

11GE.

LET'S NOT RmVRITE HISTORY AS vJELL.

N,l\Tl0NALS

01\.1I0I11Z is indebted to the Native; For cs t Action Counc i L for dra"ring i t.s [1ttention (and that of aLL pe ac g-roups) to the fact that the Ministry of is opposing the proposed ~~lmakaild_ Nat.Lonul. Park because it contains potential uranium nri ne ,

vJh5..lc the uranium is [''3 sube conom'l c at present? due par-t.Lcul.ar-Ly to

decline in the market uranium and a drop in the wor-Ld economy", the

Ministry of Energy is oppos the p ropoae d nat.Lone.I park because it wishes

to retain ac ce s s to t.he mineral d.epouits in future" We don j t need to spell out What ur-an Lurn is used for.

lUso, the Ministry of J.B cppof;ing the c r-ea't i on of a legally protected

Wilderness Arec in tIle Tasman Mourrt.a.ins of nor-tri-wes t Nelson. The reason

t.h i s time is because the area might contain a po terrt.LaL molybdenum mine. Molybdenum is a strategic material used in alloys to toughen steel for high temperature~ h stresB application;::;" It is particularly used in the arms trade, notably in the engines and nose cones of missiles and supersonic

military aircraft. l'my Hew Zealand production of this material would be "2xported, 'I'he Tasman molybdenum prospects have been drilled by the US-"based mul tinationalf; Amoco and Kennecott, It should be empha.s.i s e d that the prospects are very

t.ent.at.I ve ones 0 but the Min i s+r'y of Frner-gy is against the Hilderness proposal because this "wou.l d discourage foreign funds (u:pon which the industry is highly

dependent) from beinginvefJti.;(J in "c " activities""

;30, there you have it from the ho r-s e 1 s mouth (or should it be the o+he'r end). 'The NZ public can i t have the enjoyment of the bush and forests in case American multinationals want to mine it rot' minc-r8~s to usc in the arms r'ac e or the

nuclear industry, (£1"urther details, with maps> f'r-om NFAC, Box 756 ~ NelsOTL

r' C

'Iwo Hp1'28t,1I articles tast~fl+ll.Y ,juxtaposed quoted the Lane Walker Rudkin l~nnual Report firstly J t1f~~tlLane vJcllker Rudkins profits rose 25.4 percent

last financial year, and secondly t.haf L.\{,R. "wou.l d haven to move much of its production facili tie;; out ofl\few ZeE':.,},and if export tax incentives are removed, and there is neither s Lgn l f'Lcarrt currency depreciation of government suppor-t.",

lvlanaging Director, Mr P,H. Rud .. k Ln , said that "the najority of L.W.H. compan l es were not involved in exports and traded profitably ,vi thout such assistance

and had there no expo'rt tax incentives and the group was not reliant on

exports ~ the group net profit would still have been satisfactory , Of the

32pcrcent Lricr-eaae in sales, Mr Rudkin said, that exports had made 1:1l1 important contribution to the result hut the return on domestic trading was also

substantially better. But that "We are pushing our export drive as hard as

possible in the belief that success is the best security for the future."

"Our- role as a maj or employer wi th loyal staff means Vfe will go to all efforts to maintain NZ production for export",

Interestingly he added that the textile and ~fqbic market is within the C.B.R. agreement with Australia but in an unbalanced manner. "rrhe fine print of eER involves content rules and Australian subsidies on production, which means NZ is deprived of competitive access for most of its fabric to the Australian mar'ket H ,

The Hanaging Director of Skellerup Industries has also used the threat of lIOffshoring" production -- if the Government removes tariffs on importing rubber products. He sadd that Skellerup wou.l.d try to replace lost domestic sales by expanding the group v s overall exports. "But the removal of export

incentives will not help our intentions at 8~lH. 1111' P.J. Skellerup s ad d

that Hwith some reluctanceVl the company had made moves in Australia and Malaysia. n'r-hese moves may well have to be expanded by increased offshore manuf'ac tur e in order to maintain our position."

He said he was reluctant to make any comment about future job 10sse8 of HZ employees.

!HE

F'I

11 Christchurch f17rriel: was fined $250 for i.mportii.nq Eu r jackets with false "lvJade in i1ustralia" Lnbal:e on them. Under the terms oi: CBR, half of the manufactur,9 of goods has to be pex t'oxmed in Australia. In this instance, the jackets had most probably been processed and put together in Hong Kong or South Koreo.. Watchdo~! 43 ci ted another example of such "Leuruie red" goods i.mpo rtied under the eRR agreement -" namely Foid and General Motors "tmil: t.i=sourced" cars.

But these are net the only instances. Customs is prosently investigating

J cases. ,i1sia,. t,he Bes t.ern bl.oc and the U8 beve been the real. manufacturing

origins and goods included tootwoer and apparel. Goods Wt;;re in breach

if, .impo rt.ed from e.l.eewne ro, roprocessing i.n Aust:ralia did not reach the 50% stipulat.ion or had been ro l abol.Lad or packaged after minimal nuetzrel ien

processing. ThG 5096 processing que l i ii. cation al.Lows goods to be imported

into NZ at: preferentia.I duty rate.

24.

IN

III

VJatchdog 43 detailed how the M:fnistry of Defence was only too happy to provide

copious material on the activities of the a.L Air Service (SAS) in Thailand

in 1962. This even extended to providing official Army photos of the SAB

men involved.

CAFCINZ decided to test out the OfficiD.l In[lormation Act, and requested all materia1 on the SAS in the Philippines (covered. in several earlier Watchdogs). Ive didnVt receive any material, but we did receive a letter from D.B.G. McLean,

Secretary of Defence (Eleptemher ) .

VIe specifically asked for exactly the same sort of material Defence provided

on the 21 year old SAS story. Back came the unsurpr i c tng reply: 1I'1'here have

been no official Army. press releases on the subject nor have any official

Army photographs been t.aken of NZSAS per-sonne I in Exercise SPECHAREXH• Obviously things have changed a bit since 62. Vietnam and all that.

The substantive text of McLean's letter reads: !1Special Warfare Exercise (8PECWAREX) is conducted by the Commander 7th Fleet United States Navy and normally takes place \Vi thin the confines of USN and USAF military facilities

at Subic Bay and Clark Air Base. The aim of the SPECWAREX exercises is to

practise special warfare skills in different environ ... ment.s \Vi th personnel from other countries. l3PECWAEEX d.id not take p.l.ace this year (1983) and the 1984 exercise will be held outside the Philippines",

lOThe only other acti vi ty in which our GAE3 personnel have taken part in the Philippines was Exercise HAWK.EYE in February 1982. 'I'h l s was also a special warfare exercise involving Australiar,I~ Philippines and. New Zealand personnel and took place after the J982 SPECWAREX. No New Zealand SAG personnel have ever been attached to the Philippines Armed Fo r-ces nor do they have any operational connection ,'lith t.hern" 0

1\'I'he official de t'Lnit i.on o f 'che term I specd aL warfare' which you requested in

your letter is as t'o.l.Lows : ci a'l warfare embraces all the military and

'pDxa-mili t ary measures and acti v.itLe s r-e Lat.ed to unconventd.ona.L \¥arfareli•

HIn respons to your request for the official explanation of the crash of a

ur; C130 transport aircraft SPECWJ\HEX 19F31, I can only advise that

1)(:?caw3e L twas not possible to recover Etl1Y Lns t rument s from the aircraft, the Urri.t.e d states Air Force Accident Board VElS unable to es t.ab li sh conclusively the cause of the accidentlY,

The f'Lna.L par-agr-aph relates to a fatal crash during SPEC'V'.LUlEX 1981 which killed troops from a number of count.r-Les , including 2 New Zealanders. It was this cr-ash ths,t first alerted. CM'CINZ to the 2.AS involvement in the Philippines.

Wnat does Mc Le an is lett.er tell us?

Not much that we didn't already know.

Note the magn.i t'Lcent.Ly mean i.ng.les s definition of special var-f'ar e , It assures

us NZ troops have no connection with the Philippines military and aren't

fighting in either of the civil vars th~~re. It is all entirely vri thin the huge

US bases there. That i s not the point, The SP,S is very much a secret army

and i t.s alarming that New Zealand has any mili t ary relationship wi ththo vicious Marcos regime, a regime that is now very much a cornered rat.

It 1 S interesting to learn that not all SPEClv.A.HEXs are held in the Philippines.

1;lhere e Ls e coul.d they be held? Hell., the SAf3 has its own ung.l.e warfare

counter-insurgency trainthg camp ,just across the caUSCV2c;.V

garrison. And in the i3ulhmate

Britain on 1. 1984)

in .Johor e Bah ru , the sout.hcrmos t state in

fr om Singapore, wher-e NZ has a pe-rmanerrt A'rrn,y of Brunei (v1hi:::h became independent from

"s mer-cenar-i e s , the Gurkhas, maintain a

son whf.ch is usee as

J3hmei is at the end

of Mindanao.

cej,'[ElJ'farc base by Britain is f3AS,

130rnr::3o just sout h of tbe wartorn Filipino island

As

out~ British colonies are useful

Belize ma5ntains a British , with British

Guatamala :tn plain clothes to

BA,g men assist

advisors in El ~)alIac1or.

In our midst is a socret world of S 2nd officially sanctioned killers,

In one v[celt recently- ') ttlC~ Ijri ti 811 81\8 k.iLl.ed 2 Irish gue r iLl.as ; the Australian GAS was involved in a C:i~ct exercise Lnvo I vi.ng Bass Strait oil rigs (That was exposed due to a fE\tal helicopter c rash}; and there waG the amaz i.ng fiasco

of the Aus t.r-a.l.Lan Secret Intoll:i.gence Service (ASIS, not to be confused with ASIa) men running around the Melbourne Sheraton with masks and machine guns, getting arrested for their pains.

The Net'! Ze a.l an d mili t.ary 1'8.11,,;08 \d.dely in Asia (remember "Forward Defence")

ego recently Army gunner-s were practising thei mortar skills with the British

in the New '1'erri t.or i es , on the Chtbne se mainland. Another article in this

issue points out the dangerous precedent created by the Army conducting political counter-insurgency exercises "\;[i thin NZ, Le , at Oxford and Great

Barrier Island. The fact that the Army's elite; squad of h'i tmen regularly

:practises II special vrarfa:r',:;!! with the US military in the Ph'i Li.pp Lnea is further cause for grave alarm.

NEfifS DZGEST ~ •••

Conqr atzul.etiLons to tb"'J Save .d'ln:'.lJlOc.na

and others who succeeded in

persuading the Planninq Tri.bmw} for industria.I :me

to zorce the AramODna spit as a.reserve, not 43 reported the last visit to NZ of Otto

Count Lamedo i-i t , the Fiest Ge.uniw f:linis!:er of F'.in.ance. Since then he's

become the first ever viest Ge rmsr: Cab.iriet: Ninister to face criminal charges o.f corruption, and has been etiri.ppe d of parliamentary immuni ty in order to be

t ri ed , A.l so it: the p resien t: ho.c:s of the Dresdn.er Bank ,one of New

Zeal.and's leadin~; Gerrrl<.:l.n cTcd:itOLS. It i.nvoLv ee pol.i t.i cel: cont.ri.butions by

the ma.ss.i ve Fl.i.ck POOT old Ot.t.o/:«: been undone by the Flick of

a wallet. No 110):e C.l1.1tha dam fox' h.im for a whl.Le ,

Surp:r:ise 'l'J:.e Govcrr:mont eeuj« i. t w i.l L repeal Customs Regulat.ion 76 that enables car mu.i.t.ir.a Lt: to b r i.riq in aepeuieee cars at Aust raLian

duty .rates No,.; zca1.and Un.l ted Co rpo ratzi.oti has decided to be honest

dnd change its name:: to NO'i! Zealand Ltd" It is 70% owned by nercl.eus ,

Ask any Brl t.i sb ant.:i cempei.cmer about Barclays i.n Southern Africa.

Remetube r old A.H. Reedr the octogenarian? A.H. & A.~l. Reed vias the quintc:ssential NevI Zen.Lanci pulxl i sh.i.uc; ii im. Not any more. It's been taken over by Associated Book Publisn(?rs,.. c1 Bxi tz i.e]: cong.lomerate that includes

Methuen 0 And in ,]ancar:y it cbut: down its Christchurch warehouse (PeedUs only

i reobo l.d bui.ZdJ1;ng in NZ) r makinc!4 oi: the 5 staff redundant, and redep1.oyed

to tho NOL'th Ls Lorid , There i.s 1101'1 on.ly one publ.ishe i: with a South .Island

warobouee (Reeds had been in aoutzh Fox: 76 yea:::sj. -,in Australian manager

oi: Methuens [loT'{ over to C::!1.;'lOunce t.he al.otsur e and redundanci es .

Hlatchdog has aLcoady suggested reIatz i.on to the eciieme to sell Doubt.ful

Sound water) that Now Zealandc'13 ehoiiLd visit the place before it's towed off'

to tri eneql.erid , No noec .0 and :is to us. Maori t ntiernetziorial:

(the Po l.imeei.eri face oj'" taLism) hired a Har.;aiian ooneul.tzent: ; who has =uqqee t.ed

turn~ng the hiliakarovlClrch'D thcnmaJ ini.o Disneyland? complete wi. th

mock: europeeri-neox: battlc:s,_ .i l Lumi na t.ed geysers, an artif.icial volcano, a

'kiddie Lend ' , a arid Vfeasting :n~sta!1rant'. This grotesque

ecbome has roactii.on from the neori people of Rot:orua.

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Headers of this 11 not: need to be told what a cruci

symbol the llNZU;::: TYe is for New Zc and s dependence on

and compliei ty in U" So f o r e i.qn and mill t.ary policies v ranging from the be r t.h i.riq o f nuclQar-powered and nuc.Le a r+e.rrnc d warshi in our own harbours f to the dest_ruct_icn of the lives and.

livelihoods of P fie Islanders ether small,vulnerable

peoples"

In 1984 the top military and political hrass responsible for these. policies will be meeting invvellinqton e 63 it is Ne~N

Zealand s turn to host ann ua l l\NZUS council 0 A oomm.i ttec

in Wellingt.on is organising a conference which 11 pre-enpt (and He .hope e c Li.ps e i ) this meetin9v w i.t.h a presentation of analyses of why vIe are in hNZU.s f wha.t this means for New

Zealandv Aus t r a Li.a a .. nd the rest of the fie reqi.onv and

wh at; the alternatives to 1-\NZUS might b~::"

Speakers w.i Ll, be com.i nq from L~merio".. tl.ustralia and the Pacific f and there will be three or four days of speechesr debates, seminars and workshops on this vital issue.

Readers can ensure their participation in one of the most important political evcn t.s of 1984 by pre'-registering now.

TIll;'"; con fe rerice comrait.t eo is also asking for donations and loans to help it meet initi costs before registrations come

.i n , The p roq r amrne of ccnf'e rorrce is still bo i nq finali

so you are welcornct:o w r i, te t.o the cormni t.tee with suggestions"

The conference will Iso provide an opportunity to

plan actions and campaigns on the ANZUS issue with

Australian activists.

If you have any suggestions, would like to prere ster (cost $10) or can sond a donation,

write to

Wellin ton now ..

ides9

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•. A mu

for anyone inte:c:.-ested in the relentless

inroads that mining mul tinationals are making into the West Coast. ade in 1982.

130 slides? tape and script..lVlade by the Melbourne-based .Australia AsLa viorkers' Links. Bxamines the use of cheap migrant ;Labour in Aust r-alLa by mu:1tinationals and local big business ?cfnd the"offshoringil 1JY the same multinational s and local big business to capitalise on cheap Asian 1 abour( or New Zeal and).

HOME ON THE RANGE.

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11hi8 excellent video 9 shown recently on TVlIJZ 9 won the 1982 Best Australian ])ocnmentary Award .

.Presents a chil.1ingly compelling look at Ame r-i ca ' s strategic military .insrt a'l Lat Lo ne in Australia'iand the role the CIA played in overthrowing the Whi tlarn Labo r government in 197 5( it considered he threatened Pine

,the Arnerican spy base that is the USA' most important .installation ou t si de the States. )

lYe invite a1.1 concor-ned New ZealandeI',3 to ;join us on a weekend of

p ro t.e et at l]ew Zealand's biggest .o Lde s t and most entrenched foreign il.i tary base. See the attached Leaf'Le t for details of why Deep Freeze

need8 defrosting.

Por f'u r-the r info. on the weekend t s acti vi t i e s 9 wri to to CAFCINZ? or to the organising co ali tion, Oi t.Lz en s for the Demili tarisation o f Harewood?also at Box 22589 Ch.r.i s t chu rch ..

If you can't come or send a delegc:de9raise the issue: in your own area. This is a national issue, not a CHristchurch one ..

INn ric e d mo ney c pub.l.Lc i ty and people.Can you help",