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Call The Jewish News 354.6060 A lexander Cockburn, self-styled wit, cur- mudgeon and windy tilter at political windmills at The Nation, announces in his column in the left-of- center journal that the American government has nothing to fear about revela- tions about its once close re- lationship with ex-drug king-dictator-red underwear-wearer Manuel Noriega coming out at the deposed Panamanian leader's trial: The U.S. press, says Cockburn, has no appetite for such disclosures. Only five of the thousands of members of the Washington press corps read details released by Congress about the Iran/contra scandal. "The unlikelihood of any embarrassing disclosures finding their way into the press from Noriega's com-- troom," says Cockburn, ". . . is already underlined by the treatment of Mike Harari." Harari is a former intel- ligence officer who, writes Cockburn, "was one of Noriega's closest associates, having become Israel's honorary consul in Panama. His place at Noriega's elbow underscored a relationship fostered in the early Reagan years by the Americans, who, in the words of a recent article in the Israeli paper Davar, were happy to see Israel do their 'dirty work' in the region." In the Dec. 22 Davar arti- cle cited by Cockburn, jour- nalist Efraim Davidi reported that Noriega's soldiers have "in their hands weapons and ammunition `Made in Israel.' . . . Israel has sold to Panama, in the last decade, military equip- ment worth $500 million, and out of this $100 million in the last three years. Also, all the equipment of the Panamanian airfields is Israeli made." Under U.S. pressure, states Cockburn, Israel lowered its profile in Panama after Noriega fell from America's grace in 1987. But Harari remained. "After the invasion, asserts The Nation columnist, "when all other associates of Noriega captured by the U.S. Army were closely held, Harari was immediately released and returned to Israel." (Within days after the in- vasion, the Army announced it had captured Harari. Shortly after that, it claimed it had the wrong man.) The New York Times has reported that Harari had ar- ranged for Panamanian counterterrorist commandos to receive training in Israel. These commandoes also served as Noriega's personal security detail. Americans and Panama- nians who knew Harari told the Times he was "one of Noriega's closest associates — a man who placed the general's daughters in an Israeli kibbutz one summer, who managed some of the general's business ventures and who used his Israeli government contacts to entertain and protect his powerful friends." The Times also reported that while in the Mossad, Harari helped plan and ex- ecute Israel's successful 1976 strike at Uganda's Entebbe airport, and had been assigned by Prime Min- ister Golda Meir to head a hit squad that located and assassinated the Palestinian terrorists who killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. But in an interview on Israel Television, Harari de- nied that he had ever been an adviser to Noriega. "I did not supervise Noriega's affairs," said the former Mossad agent. "I did not supervise or train his forces. I did not organize his personal guard. I never heard or saw any evidence of his being involved in drugs and I was involved only in promoting civilian projects. I was never an arms dealer and there are no Israeli weapons in Panama." "I am simply," he said, "a private individual involved in business." Harari denied that he had left Panama after the American invasion without any foreign assistance, but he would not explain how he had arrived in Israel. "I did not arrive as a blond, or in a suitcase," he said. Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post reported that Harari's name had not appeared on the Interior Ministry's list of recent entries into the coun- try. The revelation indicated that Harari had used non- conventional means to re- enter Israel.