A strong attack on Israel and its Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion–the strongest published in the Soviet press for a long time–was made today over the Soviet radio which quoted at great length an editorial which appeared yesterday in the Izvestia, official organ of the Moscow Government edited by Aleksei Adzhubel, son-in-law of Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
The editorial said that Israel “is fulfilling the role of Trojan horse for NATO,” the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It accused Israel of “working behind the United States imperialists,” and asserted that Israel was setting up military training missions in Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and other African countries. It warned the African nations that they were being “hoodwinked” by Israel and by Ben-Gurion which, it said, were “tools of American capital.”
“Peoples freed from colonialism,” stated Izvestia, “cannot help but feel extreme distrust of Israel, playing the part of a Trojan horse of the oppressive forces of imperialism.”
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