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The. News the Republicans do have a candidate for governor. Three strikes and you're out Mike. We have a saga of cambric zoning along the red line. And on how he's covered watch Johnno gets almost too close for comfort. The 10 o'clock news is made possible by your contributions. And by grants from New England telephone serving New England's communications needs for 100 years by Nimrod press printers and then Braver's. By shell the bank's providers of education financing information at over 170 offices throughout Massachusetts. Good evening I'm Christopher LYDEN two eminent controversialist tonight for and against the U.S. aid to the Contras John Silber of Boston University in favor Noam Chomsky

of MIT opposed. I'm Gail Harris. We begin tonight with the first official opposition of the reelection campaign of Governor Dukakis. Greg I asked the co-author of Prop 2 and a half and a former candidate for Congress. He kicked off his campaign today for governor with a pointed assault on his Democratic opponent David Williams has our story. Michael Dukakis may mean well another four years of his policies will spell disaster for Massachusetts and for those of us who foot the bill for his elitist approach to government elitism and arrogance. Among the words Greg Hiatt used today as he launched his campaign for governor with a sharp attack on Michael Dukakis accused Dukakis of intellectual dishonesty for taking credit for the state's economic success credit that Hiatt believes should be given to Ronald Reagan and former governor Jeanne Dukakis has consistently opposed the Reagan economic program. He opposed Governor King and back in 1978. He said the people of

Massachusetts are too intelligent to vote for something like two and a half. Three strikes and you're out Mike. Two months ago there was little talk of great height as a candidate for governor. Indeed some observers see a merely as a stand in for better known Republicans such as Ed King and Ray shammy who have declined to run however the 32 year old Hyatt argues he's well qualified to lead the Commonwealth. For example he points to his success with Barbara Anderson and citizens for limited taxation in winning passage of Proposition 2 and a half. More recently Hyatt has teamed up with radio talk show host Jerry Williams to repeal the state's mandatory seatbelt law. And in 1084 high at one Forty seven percent of the vote in his race for Congress against Chester Atkins. And if you don't think that there was a lot of administration involved in getting Prop 2 and a half on the ballot and the mandatory seat belt repeal on the ballot you're mistaken because that's an administrative trap chore and task. It takes an awful lot of help and by the way there were no paid consultants involved in the seatbelt repeal.

Not guy Carbone ie the former MDC commissioner is expected to be high its only Republican challenger. Hiatt said today he and Cardone have pledged to support whoever wins the nomination next month's state Republican convention for the 10 o'clock news. I'm David Williams. Healthy Start is the Massachusetts name for a new state effort to make medical treatment during pregnancy more accessible to poor women and to minors the Healthy Start idea was being refined at the State House today before the Senate Committee on Human Services. Marcus Jones was there. In an effort to deal with the problem of inadequate prenatal care for poor women and teenagers. Operation healthy start was initiated last year. Now less than a year into the program health care professionals and social workers are calling on lawmakers to broaden the project. We believe that this is an important program. This is an important bill to promote good comprehensive maternity related care. The passage of the Senate bill 37 would

bridge the gap of access to prenatal care for those women who need it the most. Last year a state task force discovered an alarming trend. Since 1981 fewer women especially minors have been able to afford prenatal care. That's where Healthy Start comes in a lot of our teenagers are anemic. They're underweight. They need to improve themselves nutritionally. And it's especially important that they receive the island. And vitamins or to prescribe the beginning of the pregnancy. They often would they would often come and say that they couldn't afford it. The tablets could be given samples we don't have that many samples to give all the patients we have to treat. According to The Boston committee for access to health care. Ten states have increased funding and expanded their prenatal care programs all based on initial data that indicates that the states save money in the long run. I don't think that legislation of this type could ever be superb Flora's.

We estimate that the cost of prenatal care for every dollar spent on that you say four to six dollars in the costs associated with longer term care public has a lot of concern that any time you provide support for teens who are pregnant or parenting that you start making it look really attractive. And statistics just don't bear that out. But what we do know happens that if you don't care for these mothers and their babies you continue the poverty cycle. To add to the Healthy Start program legislators propose raising income eligibility to include women earning less than ten thousand seven hundred dollars a year. They allow for comprehensive care throughout the pregnancy and coverage of one additional visit after the birth. They also want to make it possible for uninsured minors to get Medicaid benefits without their parent's consent. Statistically do not seek care early as a person who is older and has more resources so giving the teen comes for a pregnancy test in their third or fourth month of pregnancy and also has no resource for medical care is going to spend another month or two trying to

go to either boyfriend parents boyfriends parents or whoever to try to get money for that first visit to a doctor's office. The House and Senate bills currently in committee would make a start a permanent fixture a program within be exempt from the whims of yearly budget debates. A relief for indigent mothers and their advocates alike. Marcus Jones for the 10 o'clock news. The by. The way. In Washington there was action on two fiscal fronts today. First the Republican chairman of the Senate Budget Committee proposed a brand new spending plan for 1987 that would sharply cut President Reagan's request for military spending would virtually freeze domestic spending and also

calls for sixteen billion dollars worth of tax increases. In The House meanwhile a Democratic majority steamrolled a vote against the budget that Reagan submitted last month. That vote was three hundred and twelve to 12. Also today the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Robert Packwood introduced a new version of a tax reform bill. It contains substantial differences from the version President Reagan came up with but Packwood said that this one has the president's support. As for simplification Packwood would only promise that his version was no more complicated than the present tax code. In the now daily pitches for and against aid to the Nicaraguan Contras President Reagan raised the rhetorical stakes today he spoke of irreparable disaster if Congress does not act now at the State Department President Reagan inspected the display of weapons captured in Central America a display that will move to Capitol Hill next week before the voting on the hundred million dollars in aid money that the president wants the prized pieces in that display are actually U.S. weapons M-16 rifles which the Reagan administration

says were captured by communists in Vietnam and then shipped through Cuba and Nicaragua to the insurgents in El Salvador. Hence Reagan's claim today that he is confronting in Nicaragua a sophisticated communist effort to undermine democracy in this hemisphere because Tip O'Neill said his fight against country money is really a fight to keep American troops from being sucked eventually into a wider war in Central America. O'Neill said Reagan is gaining votes in the house but that the country money will still be voted down next Thursday by more than a dozen votes. Our guests are as far apart on the contra question as American intellectuals can be. John Silver the president of Boston University was a member of the Kissinger commission to diagnose a security threat in Central America. Noam Chomsky the language theorist at MIT argues in his new book titled turning the tide that U.S. intervention in Central America is the acute case of our general misuse and misrule of the Third World. I'd like you to begin present

address yourself to the waiver is if there are any in the U.S. Senate why would you vote for the Contra money. Well the Senate of the United States has traditionally been in favor of supporting democratic forces as opposed to totalitarian forces. And if they continue that practice they're going to vote against these on the east and they going to vote in favor of the Contras on October 15th the sun in the east is passed an edict that suspends the protection against the search of homes without a warrant that suspends the privacy of mail and allows for censorship of mail. They suspended the right of free assembly they have subpoena suspended all freedom of the press. They have continued their harassment of their people and suspended virtually all democratic rights. The October 15th decree is much more restrictive and comprehensive than the decree that Hitler passed in February 28 snaking 33 when he ended the Democratic Republic of via MAR. And once you see this totalitarian nature of the regime which was a part of it since 1979

in September and it's continued ever since then it is time for the start of the United States to support the Democrats. Noam Chomsky in a short speech to the U.S. Senate why would you be again. The country money well as even the most ardent supporters of the Contras Now now concede this is what they call a proxy army which is entirely that which is attacking Nicaragua from foreign bases is entirely dependent on its masters for direction and support has never put forth a political program has created no base of political support within the country and is it is led by its entire militant almost its entire top military command is some owes its officers Its has achieved its military achievements so far consist of all long and horrifying series of very well documented torture and mutilation atrocities and essentially nothing else. The administration administration

officials are now openly conceding in public that the main function of the country is to retard or reverse the rate of social reform in Nicaragua and to try to create to terminate the openness of that society the state of siege for example which was imposed last fall and which is very mild I should say there's much political opening in the garage was everyone there up to the American ambassador will tell you that corresponds roughly to the state of siege which has been in place in El Salvador since early 1988 except in El Salvador. It correspond. It has been associated with a huge massacre of tens of thousands of people. The destruction of the press and so on and so forth. Whereas in the garage it is a reaction to a war that we are carrying out against them with precisely the purpose of trying to retard social reform and to restrict the possibilities of an open and developing society and that's a cruel and savage policy which we should terminate.

A company that's ever looked at our users are you going to continue that series of plain false hoods That's a series of false as the like of which I've never seen compacted in such a small period of time. The massacres that have occurred in Nicaragua have been the massacres by the sun in the east as the Mosquito Indians the repression. There is massive it is more it is more serious than anything that we have seen in Central America or in any Latin American country to date. It is a genuine dictatorship imposed there and it described the leaders of the Contras as being supporters of samosa is simply fabrication. Roberto Cruz Calero tomorrow are not so much these days and never have been. And when you take the leadership of the Army of the Contras some of them were members of the National Guard. But then if you're going to object to that which would be highly unreasonable because that was an army that wasn't simply followers or supporters of so much ceased as it is it is important to remember that Modesto Rojas the vice chairman of the Air Force of the sun in the east as was also a member of the National Guard and a very large number

of members of the National Guard. Are they are the ones who are the coordinators of the block committees that imposed a dictatorship by the sun and Easters this is this is a series of distortions and fabrications and the effort of the Sandinistas to discredit the Contras by the manufacture of atrocities is now a point that has been very well documented. It's some kind of restart of the response among other things. Well it was a symbol of the totalitarian let's just first of all the stuff talk the facts stated again that the military leadership of the Contras is almost entirely drawn from the top from the Somoza US National Guard forty six and forty eight of the top military commanders according to Edgar tomorrow. So these are not ciders This is the top military can actually get a keno excuse me I let you I let you go on that I like you. You engage in the series of fabrications of truth and it's time that somehow I had the opportunity of correcting your historical mistake. Michelle you're still round it goes to China Mr. Mr. Silver was a very good reason for not wanting Marco talk and that is that he knows

will be for us it is just we're just going to have a chance to say OK just let me finish it is Marcos Marcos his army. Is the very army that helped Aquino in the power. So when you try to take on the National Guard as if the National Guard was sort of ceased as you misstate the case. But you won't even make it if there are plenty of National Guard members who are supporting the south and east as to China yet it is not now let me see here you're having an action a good example of to tell terrorism that is to ensure that the that the opposition want to stop your monopoly on this information it idea that's how I have a monopoly of instant misinformation the American presell ridiculous. Let me rebut really I control the American press. Let me repeat. Let's go back to the facts. 46 out of 48 top military commanders of the of the Contras are some others just officers you can find that in a congressional report in front of it you're sure Mora who is the CIA appointed spokesman. That's exactly what I said it's exactly true. As for the idea that the

Sandinista have been carried out massacres on a par with those that we have been carrying out in Central America this is really it's non-issue in El Salvador. The number of people massacred since 1988 or since 1979 when we moved in in force is on the order of 60000 in Guatemala where we incidentally have been supporting it all the way through with military aid which never terminated are now supporting it enthusiastically. The number of people massacred is on the order of 100000. Mr Silver referred to the Miskito Indians who were badly treated I should say the figures are that approximately 60 or 70 were killed many more than that whereas in contrast about five or six thousand people have been killed and I don't mean killed this is not garden variety killing This is torture murder and mutilation massively documented in great detail by Air Force it is not there. There are crimes of this and in history there's no doubt but they are undetectable in comparison with the crimes of the God like the black put it two central arguments that this whole thing

turns on one is the notion that sound of mystic arrival poses a security threat to the United States and to this hemisphere. Secondly that we owe it to the so-called Democrats and the democratic notion to help people who are carrying our standard in the region. John Silber are these. Equal arguments and you support them both. Well I don't support the presence of about sixty five hundred Soviet and Cuban troops in Nicaragua I don't support the presence of 24 armed helicopter gunships supplied by the Soviet Union to Nicaragua or a hundred fifty battle tanks or about a twelve hundred trucks and 300 what I knew there was a security threat to this country. Well it's not a security threat yet and neither was Hitler a security threat when he threw when he suspended all our freedoms of the Germans in February 28 1033. He wasn't even a security threat. It was serious in

1036 when he rearm the Rhineland but by the time that the Allies got around to recognizing that he was a threat it cost us tens of millions of lives and it took six years in which to defeat him. At the present time we can put an end to the sun and nice to dictatorship in Central America without using a single American life. All we have to do is help pay for the firemen. There's a fire going on down there. We don't have to put the fire out but we're asked to pay for it to help pay for the firemen. If we wait and we decide to do nothing until the Soviets establish a land base there and it develops as it will develop if we allow it to happen we will then have to face the fact of a possibility of war. It is not a present threat. It is a vector if if people don't have sense enough to understand that a small fire in a room. It is a threat not because it's a small fire but because small fires have a way of becoming big fires. Then we haven't learned anything from history. Noam Chomsky's turn on the question of the security threat to the hemisphere to this country. Well to talk of Nicaragua as a security threat is a bit like asking what security threat Luxemburg

poses to the Soviet Union. Mr. Silver mentioned Hitler and I'm old enough to remember Hitler's speeches in which he talked about the threat to Germany posed by Poland from which Poland and Germany had to defend itself. And we're facing that kind of thing that even absent that's unfair to Hitler to draw that example. The fact is if we want it is quite true that Nicaragua is now Soviet armed and heavily armed. And the reason is that they are being attacked by a superpower which has specifically blocked every other source of supply. Up until the for example up until the May embargo last year 20 percent of the Nicaraguan trade was with the Soviet Block. Prior to that its arms were coming from everywhere. We then blocked arms from everywhere else as we intensify the war. They do exactly what the US government wants them to do namely they divert resources from the social reforms which we really fear and they turn them towards militarization. If we want to the idea that Nicaragua could attack the countries of that I might add that the countries of Latin America regard this is hysterical lunacy. Every country

every all the Contador countries all the support countries which include all of the relatively democratic countries and in Latin America are pleading with us to call off the war against the countries because they understand perfectly well exactly what it's doing. It's forcing them to be a militarized state and it's creating a danger of a wider war in the region if we want to get the Soviet tanks out of Nicaragua and the Soviet advice in the very few that the Cuban advisors out. What we should do is very simple and everyone in the government knows it. Call off the war and they will return to what they were doing before we attacked them. Namely creating and maybe creating the most effective social reforms in the hemisphere which were widely praised by the World Bank the Inter-American Development Bank. Organizations like OXFAM which describe them as unique in their experience in 76 developing countries. We run which we have retarded and stopped by this attack. We are running so far over time that we might just as well keep going. I want you to deal with the question of democracy and our responsibility to to a adult like you criticize the Sandinistas But do you really want to embrace the Contras as a vehicle of democracy.

Absolutely and let's and let's dispense with the myth that somehow these were lovely Democrats until we drove them into the hands of the Soviet Union by our opposition. That is a myth that is a fabrication of history. But Mr. Chomsky knows it is false. As a matter of fact when the revolution came to an end in July of 979. The Sandinistas came to Washington after having pledged the Organization of American States that they would hold free elections. They then received one hundred seventeen million dollars in loans they received credit from the youth from the World Bank through the intercession of the United States. They were very well received and very well treated. And on September of 900 thirty one thousand seventy nine they already begin their process of repression. So the notion that we drove them into the hands of the Communists is utterly false of us that I think the question is is the Contras as a vehicle for democracy like the conquerors do not have overt support among the Nicaraguan people at the present time inside Nicaragua for one obvious reason. Hitler's opponents did not have any obvious support in Germany after Hitler had

taken over that country in a totalitarian state. The opposition does not have any effective voice. You don't find that effective voice in the Soviet Union right now either. You have isolated groups of refuseniks but in in in Nicaragua you have a leadership role Belo cruise to morrow collateral. Those are major figures major Democratic figures who opposed. Some of and many of them went to jail and they are followed by literally thousands of people who are opposing the Sandinista dictatorship to try to write these people off as totalitarians and come up with that trumped up nonsense about the atrocities that those people have committed is just a good example of doublethink. This is just an 1084 exercise by Mr Chomsky for which he has already established a world wide reputation. It's rubbish. It's a chance when you hear this call to come to the rescue of democracy and democratic forces. What do you answer. I would be delighted if the United States were to reverse its longstanding policies of opposing democratic forces throughout Central America and begin to support those forces now

in return to Nicaragua and return to the real world. And I never describe the sentences as perfect Democrats or whatever your phrase was of what I did was quote the World Bank Oxfam of the Jesuit order and others who recognize that what they were doing was to to to use the meager resources of that country for the benefit of the poor majority. That's why health standards shot up that's why literacy shot up. That's why agrarian reform proceed to the only place in the region. That's why subsistence agriculture improved and consumption of food increased and that's why we attacked them. It had nothing to do with Democracy Now. I also didn't say that cruise and rebel over committed atrocities in factories and real estate in Washington and they'll do anything they're figureheads we concocted. The people who commit atrocities are the contra forces led by the National Guard. And of all the figures you mention one is involved namely Calero who is an ultra right wing businessman and represents the extremist narrow business forces in and Nicaragua. Now if we had the slightest concern with

democracy which we do not in our foreign affairs and never have we would turn to countries where we have influence like El Salvador now in El Salvador they don't call the archbishop bad names. What they do is murder. They do not repress. They do not censor the press. They wipe the press out. They sent the army in to blow up the church radio station. The editor of The Independent newspaper was found in a ditch mutilated and cut the pieces with a machete. Mad continue I will not I don't you ever want to put a high value on anything you say if you want that was night time at night when I thought about 1940 some sort of magical fire. Did these things happen I didn't think these things did not happen in the context in which you suggest at all and when you suggested Cruise is simply a figurehead and does nothing you overlook the fact that Arturo Cruz was the ambassador of the Sandinistas United States and he has always had banker of the United money broke with him and when he found out fighting really totalitarian You are a phony mister and it's time that the people well read you. Great I think it's clear it's clear why you want to divert me from the discussion though it's not like you're trying to rubbish me they are to recruit

exactly as I said was in the United States. He was brought by was in the United States has brought the United he was in the United States and he defected in the United States. He was brought back to Nicaragua as a political figure because the business based opposition there had no credible candidate. He did not participate in the elections as he could have in part because he could make a living at it and I got to catch a bus. I didn't say anything. The ones who prevented the election you know that I did it was another fabric. But let you continue with. I'm afraid we're out of time you've given President Reagan a tough act to follow on Sunday night we thank you both John Silver and Noam Chomsky. OK. There's little progress to report tonight in two of the confrontations between labor and management in Massachusetts.

Picket lines were up again at commuter train stations north of Boston so those who usually take the train to work had to either board special buses or climb into their cars. And the 21 day walkout that has idle general electric plants in Lynn Everett and Medford continued with little movement by either side. Company officials said they began digging into a backlog of employee grievances while the talks took a day off. At the moment each side is looking to the other to get negotiations going again. Cambridge residents are launching a new effort to keep northern Massachusetts Avenue from turning into a haven for high rises. It's an issue that's being hotly debated in the suburbs as well as the city. And as Christi George reports has good reason to be concerned. This is Massachusetts Avenue today. This is what mass have looked like a hundred years ago it was called North Avenue then and it was a horse and buggy street the widest of all the colonial avenues around Boston prosperous merchants settled on North Avenue because of the railroad junction at Porter Square by the cattle stock yards.

But when trolleys came to the avenue in 1896 the upper class fled the early trolley cars are only electric trolley cars were extremely noisy. They came much more frequently they move faster or you could hear them from blocks away and one by one almost all of those mansions up and down the streets have no disappeared for. Mostly for apartment buildings beginning later tonight as the winds are beginning in 1898. Two years after they electrified the horse cars you see the first five and six story apartment buildings going up continued through the 1930s. A few monuments to that glorious past still stand but the stately Victorians now House offices as well as people these days may have is mostly a street of small scale commerce I mean pop stores and dry cleaners punctuated by pockets of residential buildings. I'm leaving. But just like the trolley did in 1896 the readline extension has brought new

development pressure. But this time people are trying to plan. You might think of man san. This lately built up but it's not not white. There are still a handful of big vacant lots just begging for buildings and for every parcel of land there's at least one developer who's already drawn up blueprints and for every developer there's at least one neighbor. Who has some doubts. Kate's mystery bookstore sits next to one of those vacant parcels of land and the blueprints for change are already drawn. Developer Harold McGee wants to put up a three story office complex on the property and in the process he'll rip down a defunct factory that sits cheek by jowl to other houses. Most neighbors like his plan but what they gain in light and air Cates will lose when applying for a variance on a proposal which is of much less height. But with great apartments a tradeoff between having a tall building which anyone as opposed to versus a three story building which

we hope will be acceptable eventually to everyone in the neighborhood. You know it's my life I'm here all the time I mean I work here I live here and I spend a lot of time here so it's sort of like my existence and so I have very strong feelings about. The impact it's going to have on me because it reverberates through everything. Oh. She will do. LOL Nice to meet you. Kates is no ordinary bookstore. It's more of a literary salon for mystery buffs for would be writers and for published authors. When we first moved to Cambridge and would say to people would you like a book and we should say bookstores love the bookstores. People I have heard say that never appear in a bookstore but I think this is a kind of bookstore they mean we can't bulldoze over Kate and we're not going to try to do that. The developer crane represents needs a variance to build the way he wants to but right now projects that need variances are in a sort of unofficial limbo.

With the advent of the Red Line extension in particular of course the Porter Square station here and the station out at Dave square and our life there has been really a very strong interesting development along the Mass Avenue Korea. What we're faced with is a situation where zoning itself for over 40 years old and really does not respond to the current developments scenario that is presented to the business can be very dear Rogier is a city planner in a city without a master plan a city that's trying to keep mass have north from becoming what massive South already is the area around the Orson Welles between Harvard and. Central squares if you look at the kinds of stores that have gone into those new buildings they tend to be you know stockbrokers and computer shops and so forth and they're not neighborhood service shops. So it's character in that sense that it's provides services to those on the street your groceries or whatever. Joel Bard started a petition drive to down zone North Cambridge. That is to

put lower limits on the height of new buildings. Developers cried foul. So the city council put both factions on a study committee. The results may allow for buildings like this one built by developer Peter Wasserman another committee member although the project needed zoning variances. Wasserman had his neighbors support. We could have built a residential building up to a maximum of 85 feet in order to get the. Parking for such a structure. We would. Probably had parking in maybe on the ground and put the building up on stilts. Tonight the down zoning Study Committee released its first suggestions. Lower building heights and a requirement of design guidelines from now on. Most everywhere there are several months to go before down zoning goes to the city council and passage isn't certain what is certain though is that the aesthetics of future development in Cambridge will count for a lot of the 10 o'clock news. I'm Christi George. I'm mid-March taste of wet

April weather continues at least till the weekend. Tonight patchy fog. Accompanying light rain. Temperatures will stay in the upper 30s tomorrow the rain picks up again. Mild temperatures reaching past 50. More Night will see more rain still though temperatures in the upper 40s. So today holds out some hope for Sun. With spring like high temperatures in the 50s. In Washington's eyes Nicaragua is now not the only human rights offender in Latin America the chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations has condemned Chile in a resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission for serious violations including torture and excessive use of force by security police. The security and

police authorities the American delegate Richard shifter said in a news conference today. We go public when it appears that our quiet entreaties have not been adequately responded to. South African police fired bird shot and tear gas into a black funeral procession today causing pall bearers to drop the coffins and mourners to flee in panic. It was a funeral for riot victims in the Cooma black township. Police had ordered that no more than 100 attend the service or 25 from each victim's family. About 5000 mourners turned out. And they further defied police orders by carrying the coffins on foot rather than in hearses. Police say the rule against carrying coffins on foot is intended to avert potential riots. There were four mourners wounded by the birdshot today. The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts into space today the first manned space shot since the U.S. shuttle Challenger exploded in January. This launching lifted the usual Soviet veil of secrecy with live television coverage. The two cosmonauts are scheduled to link up with

the Soviet space laboratory in a couple days. Both men hold in durance records for the time they spend in space 237 days. Europe's space probe got closer the Halley's Comet tonight than anything ever has and for our sent out pictures that were incredibly detailed. Then just 18 seconds before the spacecraft reached its closest point to the nucleus of the comet the signal vanished. Project officials were worried at first that the craft had blown up as it hit a wall of dust from the comet. But they have received some additional signals that indicate the spacecraft is still operating although it's very unstable. The closest Giago got to the core of the comet according to scientists was about three hundred and twenty five miles. That's our news tomorrow night the arguments before Judge Lynch on whether former governor King's libel charges against the Boston Globe are ripe for trial. I'm Christopher Lyden. Goodnight and I'm Gail Harris. Thank you for joining us tonight. Good evening and welcome to the 11th episode of Riley ace of spies. I'm

Vincent Price. Ian Fleming former intelligence agent and creator of James Bond believed Sidney Riley to be the greatest espionage agent in history. He plotted to overthrow Lenin and the vulture bakes in Russia in 1918 and escape. But because of his involvement in this anti-communist scheme Riley was tried in absentia by the red Government and condemned to be executed. While working under the cover of being a private businessman in New York City Riley remain determined to continue his fight against the Bolsheviks and with the support of the FBI doggedly routed out red agents. Of course Riley became the target of many assassination attempts when his young secretary Eugene with whom Riley inevitably had made love comprise.

Her. Good evening and welcome to the 11th episode of Riley. Ace of spies. I'm Vincent Price. Ian Fleming former intelligence agent and creator James Bond believed Sidney Reilly to be the greatest espionage agent in history. He plotted to overthrow Lenin in Russia in 1918.

He failed and escaped but because of his involvement in this anti-communist scheme Riley was tried in absentia by the red Government and condemned to be executed while working under the cover of being a private businessman in New York City. Riley remained determined to continue his fight against the Bolsheviks and with the support of the FBI doggedly routed out to read agents of course Riley became the target of many a bunch of fake assassination attempts. When his young secretary Eugene with whom Riley inevitably had made love compromised his life he quite silently marched to the edge of the lake and shot her in the back. When we rejoin Riley's adventures tonight it's nineteen twenty four and he has returned to Europe.

After dissolving his bigamous marriage to Nadine. She had asked dryly for a divorce so that she could marry philanthropist Alfred Nobel. Right he resumed his romantic interest in the English psychic art student Carroll house lander and also began an affair with a glamorous actress Pepita who we had found in his hotel bathtub one evening in Berlin. Riley continued to pour all of his relentless energies into raising money for Boris So I think all whose counter revolutionary efforts where the great white hope of the White Russian emigre population. Communism. What did I change cameras to create. Yes I just I just thought it was so rough.

Would it be terrible to start it from the top. Good evening and welcome to the 11th episode of Riley. Ace of spies. I'm Vincent Price. Ian Fleming former intelligence agent and creator of James Bond believe the Sidney Riley to be the greatest espionage agent in history. He plotted to overthrow Lenin and the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1980. He failed and escaped but because of his involvement in this

anti-communist scheme Riley was tried in absentia by the red Government and condemned to be executed. While working under the cover of being a private businessman in New York City Riley remained determined to continue his fight against the Bolsheviks and with the support of the FBI doggedly routed out red agents. Of course Riley became the target of many assassination attempts when his young secretary Eugene with who inevitably had made love compromised his life. He silently marched period to the edge of the lake and shot her in the back. When we begin tonight's episode and rejoin Riley's Adventures it's 1924 and he has returned to Europe and his bigamous marriage to Nadine. She has asked

dryly for a divorce in order to marry philanthropist Alfred Nobel. Riley assumed his romantic interest in the English psychic arts student Carroll house lander and also began an affair with a glamorous actor's Pepita whom he found in his hotel bathtub one evening in Berlin. Right he continued to pour all his relentless energies into raising money for Boris sieving cough whose counter revolutionary efforts were the great hope of the White Russian emigre population. Communism as we know it today was still in its infancy in 1924. Churchill knew both Riley and sieving and he along with many others realized that the chaos that accompanied Stalin's rise to power following Lennon's death made the time ripe for action. You know one can't help but be haunted by the realization that

during the time Riley lived and fervently believed in the possibility of destroying Bolshevism that that was the moment in history when it might have been possible to overthrow the extremist Communist Russian government and perhaps influence a more moderate political structure. Working hard to prevent this possibility was Riley's nemesis. He takes jurors inthe head of the big secret police. He founded a bogus organization that trusts to create a focus for the world's growing big forces so brilliant and convincing was Jerry since he's planned that by 1924 western government agencies were giving the trust substantial support in the mistaken belief that it was the only organization within Russia capable of destroying the Bolsheviks through the trust began

during back to Russia the most dangerous of his enemies. Episode 11 the last journey. Once Riley crossed into Russia all official accounts about him. See.

After I left he wrote only one letter which was forwarded by a colleague on the Finnish border. This is a copy of that letter in his hand to Peter. In it he says my most beloved. I want you to know that I would not have undertaken this trip unless it was absolutely essential and if I was not convinced that there is practically no risk attached to it I am doing what I must do. Next week the final episode of Riley ace of spies. I'm Vincent Price. Good night. Good evening and welcome to the final that it's just do that once again.

I thought the game was going to be over there. I looked over there for a ticket. Good evening and welcome to the final chapter. In the true life history of Riley. Ace of spies. I'm Vincent Price. In 1924 an organization called the trust purported to represent a growing and to make a move meant it wanted Riley to investigate the possibilities within Russia for an overthrow of Stalin's red Government. Though Riley had serious doubts about the trust he realized that here was his best chance to redeem his 1989 failure to overthrow

Lenin and the Bolsheviks. And so he returned to Russia. They dicks dared the founder of the stand leader of Stalin's secret police to check out one kid to enter Russia to believe that the trust was genuine and to return to London to tell about it. He had agents worldwide convincing western government agencies to contribute enormous support in the mistaken belief that the trust was the only group in Russia capable of destroying them against dared to advise Stalin ordered riot is arrest thereby destroying the trust credibility. And as he said destroying the most successful counter espionage agency ever run though Riley was not dead the Vulture of Aix planted a news item and is threat siya which made it appear as if he might be.

Yes Riley was alive. No problem. If he were to pick up a second time I believe isn't it. Good evening and welcome to the final chapter in the true life history of Riley. Ace of spies. I've been surprised. In 1924 an organization called the trust.

Purported to represent a growing anti-vote movement. It wanted Ryan aide to investigate the possibilities within Russia for an overthrow of Stalin's red Government. Though Reilly had serious doubts about the trust you realize that here was his best chance to redeem his 1989 failure to overthrow Lenin and the vulture of Aix. And so he returned to Russia. They takes a founder of the stand of Stalin's secret police the Cheka wanted Riley to enter Russia to believe that the trust was genuine and to return to London to tell about it. They had agents worldwide convincing western government agencies to contribute enormous support in the mistaken belief that their trust was the only group in Russia capable of destroying each of us against advice.

Stalin ordered Riley's arrest thereby destroying the trust credibility. And as David said destroying the most successful counter espionage agency ever run. O'Reilly was not dead. The Bolsheviks planted a news item in which made it appear as if he might be. Yes Riley was alive locked in Moscow's Lubyanka prison. He was in the hands of his arch enemy undergoing the notorious interrogation procedures of the Soviet secret police. Episode 12 shut down. OK. All right.

If you thinks there's died in 1926. Yeah. Yes. YES OH MY GOD. Felix died in 1926.

Believing in Schopenhauer's principle never confide to a friend anything that you would conceal from an enemy. So he left no files about the fate of his victims. Stories about Riley's being alive in Russia in America and the Middle East continue to surface until the end of World War 2. In 1956 a direct plea was made to Khrushchev. For information about Riley. The deal did not. Edward R. in his comprehensive book Master Spy advances the theory that Reilly from the beginning was a double agent working for the Bolsheviks is watertight argument supporting this theory joins the ever growing cannon of material which surrounds the eternal mystery of Sidney Riley. Until next week and a new mystery series Vincent Price.

Good night. Oh. He died in 1926 leaving in Schopenhauer's principle never confide to a friend anything that you would conceal from an enemy. So he left no files about the fate of his victim's story. I was trying to be so casual. Through do.

I. If you take stairs died in 1926 leaving in Schopenhauer's principle never confide to a friend anything that you would conceal from an enemy. So he left no files about the fate of his victims. Story is about riot is being alive in Russia in America and the Middle East. Continued to surface until the end of World War 2 in 1956 a direct plea was made to Khrushchev for information about Riley. It yielded nothing. Edward Vander rower in his comprehensive book

noster spy. Advances the theory that right from the beginning was a double agent working for the Bolsheviks. Is watertight argument supporting this theory joins the ever growing cannon of the Tiriel which surrounds the eternal mystery of Sydney. Until next weekend a new mystery series and price. Goodnight.