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THURSDAY, 28 MARCH 2002
T O P S T O R Y
Lange says US threatened to kill him
27 March 2002
A claim that former United States vice-president Dan Quayle told the Australian
Cabinet that David Lange "would have to be liquidated" was preposterous, the US
embassy said last night.
Mr Lange made the claim in a television interview about the pressure put on him over
New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance during his time as prime minister.
"There were personal pressures," he said. "There were veiled threats. There were
specific threats. There were threats made to other countries. (It) was announced to
the Australian Cabinet at one stage that I would have to be liquidated."
He said the announcement had been made by Mr Quayle during a visit to Australia in
1989. Asked to repeat what Mr Quayle said, Mr Lange said: "I'd have to be
liquidated."
Mr Lange, prime minister from 1984 till 1989, said he "inquired of our security
sources and I was told that I shouldn't regard it as a credible threat because the
vice-
president wasn't regarded as credible".
Gerald Hensley, coordinator of domestic and external security at the time, said he
had no recollection of the events.
A spokesman for the US embassy said the embassy hated to challenge the memory
of a former prime minister, but "the suggestion that vice-president Quayle would
threaten to kill him is preposterous".
Denis McLean, a former defence secretary and ambassador to Washington, said:
"The Americans don't go around saying things like that. It's absolutely absurd.
"Nobody would make a remark like that to another government. Can you imagine it?
Telling the Australians that they are about to liquidate the prime minister of a
neighbouring country. This is the weirdest thing I have heard for a long time."
Mr Lange's claim illustrates the suspicion with which Labour has regarded the US
since the nuclear ships dispute. Former Labour Party president Bob Harvey
suggested in 1999 that prime minister Norman Kirk had been poisoned by the CIA in
1974.
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