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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901190016-2 SECRET Active Measures During the first week in July, 1984, allegations surfaced that the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) had sent a letter to the Olympic Committee of Zimbabwe, threatening violence against its Olympic teams. Shortly thereafter, similar letters containing threats, racist, and derogatory language were received by other African and Asian countries. Countries known to have received the letters are Ghana, Mali, Cameroon, Senegal, Uganda, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Burma, Japan, Singapore, and the People's Republic of China (PRC). Based upon investigation and analysis of the letters, it has been concluded that they fit the pattern of other Soviet forgery operations and were part of the overall Soviet active measures campaign to discredit the Reagan administration and its handling of U. S.-Soviet relations. Top-level leaders of the different factions of the KKK were interviewed by the FBI. They categorically denied any knowledge of the letters and pointed out many discrepancies in the logo appearing on the letters. The words and phrases used in the purported Klan letters are not colloquial English and are characteristic of nonnative use of the English language. In addition, the timing of the mailing of the letters to coincide with the visit of Secretary of State Shultz to Malaysia is indicative of a desire to make the most of these circumstances for propaganda purposes. During this visit, Tass published an article saying that the KKK has "expressed in an extremely base manner what the architects of American Policy have in their mind." The article said that the Reagan administration "has mounted such ferociously anti-socialist activities as has made participation of sportsmen from Socialist countries in the Los Angeles Olympics impossible." SECRET -4.- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901190016-2