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THE ULTIMATE IN
SECURITY
JOHN J. FIALKA
Special to the Jewish News
ashington — When
Idaho Senate candi-
date John V. Evans
decided he needed to raise big
out-of-state money for his race
last year, he went to the
American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee, or AIPAC,
one of Washington's most
powerful lobbying
organizations.
Despite the initials in its
name, "AIPAC emphasized
constantly that they were not
a PAC (political action com-
mittee)," which gives money
to candidates, says Mr. Evans,
a Democrat and former gover-
nor. "But they noted that
there were Jewish organiza-
tions all over the country that
had their own PACs and that
if we would contact them,
they would be able to help
us."
Indeed, AIPAC did much
better than an ordinary PAC
could do for Mr. Evans. By
federal law, a PAC is limited
to a maximum contribution of
$5,000 per race, and groups
that coordinate their spend-
ing are counted as one PAC
under this limit. But AIPAC
steered Mr. Evans to a series
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
of supposedly independent
organizations — many of
them run by people with ties
to AIPAC —that gave him
$204,950 for his losing race
against Republican Sen.
Steve Symms.
According to a computer-
aided analysis of 1986 Federal
Election Commission reports,
despite AIPAC's claims of
non-involvement in political
spending, no fewer than 51
pro-Israel PACs — most of
which draw money from
Jewish donors and operate
under obscure-sounding
names — are operated by
AIPAC officials or people who
hold seats on AIPAC's two
major policy-making bodies.
The study shows that 80 pro-
Israel PACs spent more than
$6.9 million during the 1986
campaigns, making them the
nation's biggest-giving,
narrow-issue interest group.
The analysis shows that
three of seven "regional
chairpersons" at AIPAC
direct PACs and 26 more PAC
chairmen or treasurers sit on
AIPAC's 131-member execu-
tive committee, which meets
four times a year and sets
overall lobbying strategy.
Twenty-two more PAC leaders
hold seats on a second, ad-
visory body, the 200-member
national council.
Tom Dines:
A money network?
Similar Spending
Patterns
While the pro-Israel PACs
represent diverse and sup-
posedly bipartisan Jewish
communities in almost every
major city and region in the
country, their spending pat-
terns are remarkably similar.
For example, of $3.9 million
given directly to candidates,
the pro-Israel PACs focused
their power on three Senate
races, spending $642,000 on
Democrats in South Dakota,
Idaho and California. In these
races, only one $5,000 dona-
tion went to a Republican.
AIPAC leaders, including
IN BRIEF
Israel Provides
New Irangate
Information
Washington (JTA) — Israel
has provided information
regarding its role in the sale
of arms to Iran to the congres-
sional committees in-
vestigating the Iran/contra af-
fair, according to an an-
nouncement made last week
by Sen. Daniel Inouye
(D.Hawaii), chairman of the
Senate Committee.
Asher Naim, the Israel Em-
bassy's Minister of Informa-
tio-n, said that Israel submit-
ted responses to questions
posed by the Iran/contra com-
mittee.
When Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Shamir met with mem-
bers of the investigating com-
mittee while in Washington
last February, he agreed to
provide the written informa-
tion in lieu of the committee
questioning the individual
Israelis involved in the sale of
arms to Iran. Israel has con-
tended that these individuals
were working for the Israel
government and so should not
be required to testify
individually.
The Israeli information,
which has been examined by
Senate and House officials on
the Iran/contra committee,
will be made public, Inouye
said. But some information
will not be released because
it would pose a threat to
Israel's national security.
There was still no indica-
tion whether David Kimche,
former director general of the
Israeli Foreign Ministry, who
played a key role in the sale
of arms to Iran would be forc-
ed to testify. Kimche, along
with two Israeli arms dealers,
has been subpoenaed by in-
dependent Counsel Lawrence
Walsh.
U.S. Suspends
Rumania's
MFN Status
Washington (JTA) —
Rumania's Most-Favored-
Nation (MFN) status was
suspended for six months last
week in protest of Rumania's
record on human rights and
emigration. The Senate vote
was seen also as a rebuke of
the Reagan Administration.
Jewish groups had argued
strongly against the action
and registered dismay at the
Senate vote because of con-
cern over Rumania's coopera-
tion in permitting Jewish
emigration.
"The Senate action is a
mistake," said Seymour
Reich, president of B'nai
B'rith International, who ar-
rived in Bucharest for talks
with Rumanian officials. He
charged the move "eliminates
an incentive for Rumania to
improve human rights and
may jeopardize the flow of im-
migrants to the U.S., Ger-
many and Israel."
Most-Favored-Nation status
allows normal duties on a na-
tion's exports to the U.S.
Although extended to most
U.S. trading partners, MFN is
given to only four Communist
countries other than
Rumania — China, Hungary,
Yugoslavia and Poland.