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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 20, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 Fri vet questioned on spying Washington a two High rank ing Justice department officials have questioned William c. Sullivan once a top Fri assistant about alleged illegal spying in the Early 1970s, but Sullivan said wednesday he knew absolutely nothing about it the spying assistant atty. Gen. Benjamin civil Clit. Head of the department s criminal Divi Sion and Phil Jordan a special assistant to atty. Gen. Grifin Bell went to Sullivan s retirement Home in new Hampshire on monday to question him about what if any role he played in authorizing allegedly Ille Gal Fri burglaries mail openings and wiretapping in the search for Radical Fugi Tives. Sullivan confirmed that he was questioned at length but declined to say what he told the officials. End ordered to break ins but he told a reporter wednesday that he does t remember authorizing any burglaries after j. Edgar Hoover then the Fri director in 1966 ordered an end to the use of break ins to gather intelligence on Domestic political groups. I have absolutely no knowledge that i had anything to do with surreptitious entries in that period Sullivan asserted. But he said he would not flatly deny authorizing burglaries after 1966 because it is possible he did so and has since forgotten about it. Anything is  he said. Sullivan was the third ranking Fri offi Cial until october 1971 when Hoover became angry with him and forced his retirement. Civiletti and department spokesmen declined comment on the  unclear it was not Clear exactly Why Civiletti and Jordan went to such efforts to question sul  they made the trip in the midst of controversy Over the department s year Long investigation of Fri wrongdoing and the one indictment produced from it so far. A former Fri supervisor John j. Kear Ney faces trial in new York for conspiracy wiretapping and mail opening. He is charged with supervising the use of Alleg edly illegal tactics in the search for weather underground fugitives in new York from 1970 through mid-1972.some of Kearney s supporters have claimed that agents used the questionable spy tactics Only because higher ranking officials in the Fri and Justice department had approved the operations. Despite complaints from Fri agents and others that Kearney is being treated unfairly. Bell has said he is standing by his decision to prosecute the Case and continue the investigation because what s at stake is the Rule of  in a related development wednesday Fri director Clarence m. Kelley strongly urged Congress to write legislation spelling out the Fri s responsibilities and the permissible investigative tactics in intelligence gathering. A track loaded with Stone rests on top of what remains of the Auto it collided keep off the grass Grasso Storrs Conn. A authorities it seems arc More excited than students about a How to class on marijuana growing. The course has provoked worried com ment from the chairman of the University of Connecticut Board of trustees and from the governor of Connecticut. But As things stood wednesday it seemed the course scheduled to begin june 10 at an experimental Branch of Conn might be cancelled for insufficient registration. That did t Stop the juror. Gordon Tasker chairman of the Conn Board of trustees asked the University to prohibit the course. He said he had received an expression of similar concern from gov. Ella Grasso who questioned the Wisdom of using University facilities to teach students How to commit a felony. Experimental College officials have said no marijuana would be present during the class which May be Why Little interest has been shown in the course. Crash fatal to three with in Lagrange Park near Chicago. Tit car s Driver and to passengers Jackson will is invalid were All pronounced dead on arrival at a local Hospital. Dpi re of ves get in line for heiress s Fortune Indianapolis a a week and a half ago. Eccentric Marjorie Jackson was found murdered in her Home Here. Now. From new York to California More than a dozen people Are laying claim to the Mil Lions she left lying around in Cash. One Man insists he s a relative because he has Andrew Jackson s dueling pistol. Another claims to be a messenger for  a third wrote what the hell we might As Well get in  police say is million was found hidden in garbage cans toolboxes drawers and vacuum cleaner bag in the 66-year-old widow s Home. Police believe the killers May have taken another 6 million. Jackson had no children and her will is invalid because it Nanys her late husband As beneficiary. A Stepsister Roberta Koers apparently is in the Best position to become heiress but the estate probably will be tied up in Marion county probate court for at least a year. None of that has deterred the Fortune seekers. Bible Quoter balks at female Boss Louisville. By. A Garnet Morris Bryant won t work for his female Foreman. He says the Bible tells him not  m not trying to be a Hotshot or any thing like that. It s just my firm  Bryant. When Jezebel was running the show things got kind of  his opposition to Joyce Woolcy a fore Man on the Ford motor co s Assembly line Here has been a lonely ordeal. He s gone nowhere in attempts to Transfer to another Ford installation and his Union and the Kentucky congressional delegation won t help. Even his Church is unable to Back him. Well be with brother Bryant in any step he makes  said h. Rich Ard Hall general presbyter of the United Christian  Hall noted that the Church has per haps a thousand lady ministers including one who Heads the Mother Church in Cleveland ten Bryant bases his opposition on 1 Timo thy 2 12. With genesis 3 16 and 1 Corinthi ans 11 3 and 14 34 thrown in for Good  Timothy the apostle Paul writes but i suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp Over the Man. But to be in is  Bryant. 31. Has been an ordained evangelist of the United Christian Church for about a month and soon will begin a 90 Day leave of absence from Ford to participate in missionary work. But he won t find matters changed whence returns to Ford the company says. If he still refuses to work for Woosley he faces a month s suspension and the dismissal. Woosley says the dispute in t personal. "1 have no reason to be mad at him. But i have a line to run. You  the Marion county sheriff s office has received More than a dozen letters from persons claiming possible relation to the woman and title to her Money. I m writing to claim the entire estate of Marjorie  a Michigan letter said the reason i m claiming the entire estate is Jesus says i was a messenger for  Jackson was deeply religious. Police said she meditated daily and gave birth Day parties for god and Jesus Christ. A woman who wrote from new York was convinced she was a Distant Cousin of Jack son. She had checked her family tree and found that her grandmother s Maiden name was Jackson. Francis Feeney jr., attorney for the estate said one Man from California read that Jackson s husband. Chester traced his lineage to president Andrew Jackson. The Man said he. Too was a descendant of the former president i even have one of Andrew Jackson s dueling pistols and thought that if there were no immediate relatives i might be entitled to part of the estate that claim ant  California Man named Jackson said he thought his father was a Cousin or something of Jackson. He had read that police expected relatives to Start falling out of the Woodwork and added i thought what the hell we might As Well get  the letters Are kept on file in the Sher Iff s office As part of the criminal investigation. Authorities have charged Howard Willard 38. And his sex wife Marjorie pol Litt 48, with the murder and Are searching for  arrested Are Manuel Lee Rob Inson 29, charged with first degree murder burglary and arson held without Bond Annie Young 22, Possession of stolen property held on 1,000 Bond and John Williams 28, theft released on $1,000 Bond  
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