European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 29, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 11 Art Buchwald Washington Carl Bernstein s reve lation that 400 members of the press were also working in some Way for the Cia overseas in the 1950s and the 1960s has made every Newspaperman who was stationed abroad suspect. I worked in Paris for 14 years for the International edition of the Herald Tribune and Ever since the Story broke even i have been asked if i was involved in any overt or Covert operations concerning outmost famous secret service. The answer is not to my knowledge i m fairly sure of it because the salary the Paris Herald Tribune gave me was Way below the prevailing Cia rates for report ers and i have to believe the Chintzy Herald Tribune management was paying me out of its own pocket. I should have had some suspicions even in those Days that several of my col leagues were working for somebody beside the papers they pretended to be accredited to. One american Friend was living in an 18 room Villa in Vienna with three servants and a chauffeur. I never could understand it because they Only paper he was working for at the time was a weekly Magazine published in Terre haute ind. I once asked him about his elegant life style and he replied the Terre haute publisher believes its overseas Bureau european edition col Billy e. Spangler. Usa. Editor in chief la col. J. C. Taylor Usan. Deputy editor in chief Mert Proctor. Managing editor Elmer d. Frank. Production manager Henry s. Epstein. Circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for . Armed forces overseas. The stars and stripes is published in conjunction with the armed forces information program of the department of defense. 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Chiefs should live  i should have smelted something fishy when he once asked me to take an article he had written Back to Paris and hide it in a tree near the american embassy is that How you file your stories i asked yes he replied. It s much faster than sending them Over the  but the article is on microfilm i said. He got angry. Look you file your Sto Ries the Way you want to but Don t Tell me How to file  possibly one of the reasons the Cia never sought to recruit me is that they May column Sand comments have thought i would not make a very Good agent. I recall going to Carlsbad in Czechoslovakia for a film festival in the 1950s. When i returned i had a visit in my office from two very Well dressed men who said they were from the Dulles broadcasting co. In Waco Tex. They told me they were unable to attend the film festival and asked if i would Brief them on it. I said certainly what do you want to know How Many anti aircraft guns did you see around the festival Hall none that i can remember i said. There were searchlights at the film Festi Val but there always  where there any land mines near your hotel the other one asked. Beats me i said. I did t see anyone step on  How Many soviet divisions did you see you mean in the films no you Dummy. Real soviet divisions with  hey what s that got to do with a film festival i asked. It s hopeless Joe one of them said As he got up. The other one got up too. I told the company we d be wasting our  and they stomped out. Had it occurred to me 1 was being tested i certainly would have been More cooperative. But in those Days i really believed there was a Dulles broadcasting co. In Waco Tex. Heaven knows i could have used the extra Cia Money. I Don t know which of my fellow correspondents worked for the Cia and which did t. But in the late 40s and 50s i played a lot of poker with them. And i now suspect several of them were More than they said they were. How do i know Well some of them used to stay in the hand to the very end with a pair of twos. It dawned on me just the other Day that Only a Guy on a Cia payroll could afford to do that. C los Angeles times letters to the editor the ots did not fail go go girls your recent article on the failure of the ots launch vehicle is somewhat mislead ing. First of All the european Orbital test satellite ots did not fail. The Mission control team Here at oct in Darmstadt was monitoring the satellite telemetry data in real time from Cape canaveral from two hours before liftoff until the catastrophic failure took place. At no time did we have anything but a fully functioning satellite. The failure occurred in the Thor Delta launch vehicle manufactured by Macdon Ell Douglas corp. This is clearly stated in the up report but your headline implies otherwise. To set the record straight it must be stated that when the original launch vehicle was damaged both in May and in sep tember the failure was in the launch vehicle and not in the ots satellite. The Cost of the launch vehicle is paid for by the european space Agency David . Wilkins Darmstadt Germany � blame the parents in anticipation of letters from bleeding hearts crying again for the deletion of Vio Lence from movies and to due to the recent article on the Young boy who killed his brother dirty Harry style i write this letter. The blame in this Case Falls squarely on the shoulder of the parents As it should in All cases of this nature. The gun should never have been so easily accessible. More than Likely the weapon would have been found and played with regardless of what the children watched on to. Avoiding violence is a parental responsibility. The Home is the stadium for training and educating Young children to think and act responsibly. I live in a housing area which has approximately 3,500 children and it is sur prising How Many of them play unsupervised. When i take my two sons to the movies i am alarmed at the number of children who Are there unaccompanied regardless of the film s Content. It indicates to me a very sad Lack of training and affection in the Homes. If the parents were fulfilling their responsibilities perhaps there would be no need and certainly no audience for movies like dirty  name withheld Heidelberg Germany at the risk of wasting lift. 1 feel compelled to respond to the recent letter on go go girls. Has it Ever occurred to the writer thai the no club is also used by single persons who wish to be entertained by the go go girls i would Hope that if the men were out on Field duty for 30 Days they would be Al Lowed to have some free time for entertain ment. Also i Don t believe that the writer s husband is forced to attend the shows. Name withheld Wiesbaden Germany Why not in response to the recently published letter on go go girls in the no clubs. I say Why not obviously the writer does not Trust her husband. I m sure most men Welcome Little extra entertainment outside the Home office or Field to get away from the everyday pressures. All work and no play makes for a very Dull Day. I know these men would much rather be Home with the nagging wife an screaming kids but. Duty Calls maybe if the writer were to go go a Little More More at Home for her husband he would be Content to skip the no club and spend his evenings thinking of his wife Molly Nemetz Stephanie Maxwell Hannab Germany reminder All letters to the editor must contain full printed name and address of the writer and must be signed. All letters to the editor must contain full printed name and address of the writer and must be signed. Vav the Home delivery accept my Suhr caption to stors & St pcs name please prin1 i Chi Siren ring no api no k. 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