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...story, it turned out, was a phony, an obvious attempt at disinformation. But it succeeded in stirring up the longstanding feud between New York Mayor Edward Koch, who is staunchly pro-Israel, and Weinberger, who is considered pro-Arab by many Israeli officials and American Jews. By last week even the FBI had been brought in to investigate...
...alleged transcript was given to Koch last August by an aide, who had received it from the Israeli consul general in New York, Naphtali Lavie. Lavie had come across the Lebanese report in a packet of articles distributed to scholars, journalists and other subscribers by the Israeli government monitoring service. Koch sent an indignant letter to Weinberger demanding that he publicly deny the conversation with the Saudis. Weinberger wrote back that "this 'socalled transcript' is a complete fabrication and a very crude attempt at disinformation." But Koch demanded a public disavowal. When Weinberger refused to reveal the details...
Last week FBI agents visited city hall in an effort to find out the source of the bogus report. Koch, who had publicly denied that the Israelis were involved, admitted Lavie's role. But, said an Israeli official, "there was no disinformation and no anti-Weinberger campaign. It was Mayor Koch who overdid...
...Koch was unrepentant. He huffed to FBI Director William Webster that "others in the Federal Government" (meaning Weinberger) were out to "stifle my constitutional rights" by sicking the G-men on him. He insisted that the FBI investigation was less interested in finding the source of the disinformation than in muzzling him. Weinberger stoutly denied any connection with the investigation. "What a cheap shot," said a Weinberger aide. Federal officials said the probe stemmed from a stepped-up effort by the State Department to crack down on disinformation. After all the hubbub, the source of the transcript printed...
...letter day for the future of quality journalism in this country." Winship's apprehensions center on a man whose British papers run front-page headlines along the lines of, "Sailor Who Turned Into a Girl Witch"; whose New York Post in 1977 ran front-page coupons to draft Ed Koch for governor; and whose editorial instincts often appear geared as much towards winning exclusives as towards Wingo!, whose daily jack pots grow almost as fast as Murdoch's holding in the American press...