European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 21,1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 guerrilla group paper reports sex agent links Cia squad to slaying of Juk new York a a former undercover Central intelligence operative claims she accompanied Lee Harvey Oswald and an assassination squad to Dallas a few Days before president Kennedy was killed the new York daily news reported tuesday. The daily news said that Maritza Lorenz told the newspaper that she and others with her on the trip to Dallas were members of operation 40, a secret guerrilla group formed by the Central Intelli gence Agency in 1960 for the cuban invasion at the Bay of pigs. The statements Lorenz made to the newspaper were forwarded to the House assassinations committee. The newspaper said Robert Blakey the committee s chief counsel has assigned an investigator to interview her. Blakey could not be reached for com ment monday night. According to the daily news Lorenz claimed the group that went to Dallas planned to kill Kennedy whom they blamed for the failure of the Bay of pigs in Vasion and cuban president Fidel Castro. She said she first met Oswald when he called at an operations 40 Safe House in Miami in 1963. Kennedy was killed in Dallas on nov. 22, 1963. The Warren com Mission has said that its findings concluded that Oswald later also killed assassinated Kennedy on his own. Lorenz according to the daily news went by car to Dallas from Miami with Oswald Frank Sturgis a Cia contract agent cuban exile leaders Orlando Bosch and Pedro Diaz Lanz and two other cuban men whose names she did not know. She claimed she was sent Back to Miami two Days before Kennedy was killed. Bosch is now in a venezuelan prison in connection with an explosion and crash of a cuban Jet liner last year. Sturgis is quoted by the daily news As saying to the Best of my knowledge i never met  he said he had known Bosch and Diaz Lanz for Many years. Excia chief Helms to be indicted i Fri defense fund director claims new York a the administrative director of a Legal de sense fund for Fri agents said monday he has been told by the highest sources that former Cia director Richard Helms will soon be indicted. Marvin Liebman of the and hoc citizens Legal defense fund for the Fri made the comment in response to a query about a statement former Treasury Secretary William e. Simon issued on behalf of the group monday promising Money for Helms Legal defense for his possible  a subcommittee of the Senate foreign relations committee has recommended perjury charges be filed against Helms for his 1973 testimony on Cia activities in Chile. I have heard from the highest sources that the indictment of Helms which had been pending would be handed up Liebman said. We Don t say anything about the Legal thing. We just want these Guys to have the Best defense  Simon in a Telephone interview denied being privy to secret information that a Helms indictment was forthcoming. But he said the and hoc committee decided last thursday if that happened that we would expand our scope to cover that As  in january 1975, in secret testimony Helms admitted he with held from Senate committees some information about Cia work in Chile and withheld information about the Nixon administration s desire to have the marxist government of Salvadore Al Lende overthrown. During the first hearings Helms denied usually with simple yes or no answers involvement in the successful coup of Al Lende s government. However at the 1975 hearings Helms said he thought he should have answered the earlier questions in a much More extensive  in the and hoc committee s release Simon said the nation s Law enforcement and intelligence gathering agencies Are being endangered through Legal harassment judicial weakness and a spate of congressional  the defense fund was founded last May by Simon former new York Republican sen. James l. Buckley and ambassador Clare Boothe Luce principally to raise Money for 25-year Fri Veteran Johnj. Kearney. He was indicted earlier this year for allegedly employing Ille Gal surveillance techniques in Pursuit of the weather under ground an offshoot of Radical student groups of the 1960s. Simon said$200,000 had been raised in the last three months. Critical condition entertainer Frank Fontaine is in critical condition in a Columbus Ohio hos Pital after suffering a heart attack while awaiting a plane at port Colum bus International Airport after finish ing a nightclub engagement. Fontaine was Best known As crazy Guggen Heim on the old Jackie Gleason show where his cockeyed Grin and crumpled hat endeared him to millions of fans. Dpi photo committee finds nothing affected Panama talks Washington up the Senate intelligence committee which has been investigating allegations that the . Bugged the panamanian delegation on the canal talks said tuesday it had found nothing that had affected the final results of the treaties. Sen. Daniel k. Inouye the committee chairman refused to Tell reporters whether there had actually been electronic surveillance of the panamanian delegation during the negotiations and that Panama Niam strongman Gen. Omar Torrijos had found about it and used the information a blackmail. Inouye came out of a 3 /2-hour closed ses Sion of the committee to read a statement which he said had been approved by the panel. The Senate select committee on intelligence has received testimony from ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker and sol Linowitz adm. Stansfield Turner director of Central intelligence officers of the state department and . Intelligence Agency concerning certain aspects of the Panama canal treaties he said. Lost Appeal of jury s decision 3 a up id i Al 0 s i Washington a at the turn of the decade during an age of student pro test three Young men participated in an anti Vietnam War demonstration in a Small College town near Washington. This week uprooted from otherwise Typ ical Middle class lives they went to jail for their part in that protest of seven years ago. Jay g. Rainey 31, is married the father of two children and was head of employee relations with a Virginia manufacturing firm. James g. Mcclung 36, was a Public in formation specialist at the Library of con Gress in Washington. Stephen b. Rochelle 29, of suburban Fairfax worked with computers at a Maryland engineering firm. Last week they were ordered by Rock Ingham county a circuit court judge Joshua Robinson to report to the county s jail monday to begin serving six month jail terms. Suitcases in hand neatly dressed they did so. Robinson said in court that the usual reasons for sending people to jail punishment retribution or rehabilitation did not apply in this Case according to county prosecutor David Walsh. But Robinson was quoted As saying he would not overturn a jury s decision even one made seven years ago and that he had to uphold the integrity of the judicial pro Cess. In 1970, Rainey Rochelle and Mcclung participated in a sit in with about 40 Stu dents at what was then called Madison col lege in Harrisonburg va., about 100 Miles from Washington. Rainey and Rochelle were students. Mcclung was an assistant English professor. According to news reports and inter views the group was protesting the Viet Nam War violations of student rights and refusal by the school now called James Madison University to renew contracts of some professors including Mcclung. College officials called in police to Dis Lodge the demonstrators and Many were convicted of trespassing and fined $100. But Rainey Rochelle Mcclung and four others argued that their constitutional right to free speech had been violated. They asked for a trial in circuit court without a jury according to their lawyer John c. Lowe. Their request for trial with out a jury was denied. The jury thai heard the Case imposed six month jail terms and $500 fines on Rochelle and Rainey Lowe said. Mcclung got a nine month sentence and a $1.000 Fine. The four others were fined 500 each. Rochelle Rainey and Mcclung appealed. A Federal District court decided their right to free speech had been Vio lated. But the 4th . Circuit court of appeals overturned that decision saying first amendment rights of students on Campus Are not As Broad As those of a Citi zen in Public places Lowe said. Jack Depoy then the prosecutor and now in private practice said monday that changing a jury s decision undercuts one of the Basic principles of our  As for Rainey Rochelle and Mcclung now upright citizens who were first sentenced when times were different. Depoy said it s hard to say they should t have exerted their right to protest. They could have served their time then. To Appeal they paid their Money and took their  chinese a test blast s debris to arrive Over . Washington a High Altitude radioactive debris from a chinese nuclear test explosion was scheduled to arrive Over the Continental . On wednesday Federal officials said. A spokesman for the . Environmental Protection Agency Epa said monday that the first air mass containing radioactive debris will pass Over Washington state wednesday morning. Initial indications Are that the mass will then move Down the West coast the spokesman said but it is possible the contaminated air eventually could turn East  said they cannot predict the Levels of radiation that might occur in the . Because of the chinese nuclear explosion  chinese explosions last year spread Low level radiation throughout theu.s., and significant traces turned up in milk in Pennsylvania. However the radioactivity never reached Levels considered a ardous to humans Federal authorities said. . Officials said the latest chinese nuclear test had an estimated yield equivalent to 20 thousand tons of int. This is significantly smaller than the previous test last nov. 17, which was in the four Mega ton Range equal to four million tons of int. The Epa spokesman said it was too Early to Tell if the contaminated air mass would interact with any precipitation sys tems. This could result in More radiation raining Down on the ground. The National oceanic and atmospheric administration will continually Monitor the contaminated air As it passes Over the . And 67 Epa ground stations will Moni Tor surface radiation spokesmen for the agencies said