European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Abraham win oscars amadeus gets 3 d getting ready for the awful if on Germany 8 Dan on night baseball upheld at cubs Wrigley 21 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 342 March 1985 d 8693 a Weinberger on Nicholson Sla yug we Are convinced the shooting of the major in East Germany was a totally unjustified act Luxembourg up Secretary of defense Cas Par Weinberger tuesday condemned the killing of a officer by a soviet guard in East Germany sunday As totally unjustified and very Weinberger briefed ministers attending a meeting of natos nuclear planning group on the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of army Arthur be related Page we Are convinced the shooting of the major in East Germany was a totally unjustified Weinberger told he was entirely in a place where it was agreed observers can he Weinberger alleged that Nicholson was shot without then allowed to lie wounded for a considerable time without medical treatment while his Driver was forced to remain in his the soviet attitude in this Case was very re preen he a spokesman for Weinberger said that the Secretary told other ministers the shooting reflected the Kal mentality shoot and investigate refer ring to the Downing of a korean air lines plane Over soviet territory in september the Michael said the shooting was in Strong contrast with the treatment of soviet officials caught of limits recently in West Burch said there was an incident near in on March 20 in which three members of a soviet Obser vation group were arrested by men of the 1st army the soviets were turned Over to German authorities who escorted without the use of to their base at Burch on soviet officers were detained after they were found taking pictures during natos reformer 85 they also were returned peacefully to their unit in Burch our View is that you take their camera and you Send them Burch you dont shoot unarmed the soviets said that Nicholson was shot while he was taking photographs of military on what officials described As a Lesili Story continued on Page 28 Ufi if Jfe Orean air lines shoot r i estimate later w a Michael Secretary of defense Ifor Public affairs Ense Secretary Caspar Weinberger counterparts of a meeting re tuesday that the shooting was Weinberger described the characteristic of mentality Amesti referring to the shooting her plane in a Hamburg Bremerhaven East Germany West Germany Highway 191 area where shooting occurred Potsdam map by Lou Johnson soviets bugged embassy lbs says Washington a even the typewriters were bugged at the embassy in where soviet eavesdropping May have seriously compromised highly classified a television network according to lbs the bugged typewriters were in use from 1982 until the operation was uncovered in for at least one and probably the american embassy in Moscow was the victim of a sophisticated electronic spy operation which gave soviet leaders an inside look at what diplomats were doing and lbs correspondent David Martin said a state department Joseph when asked about the lbs do not comment on alleged intelligence citing unnamed informed lbs said soviet agents secretly installed tiny sensing devices in about a dozen embassy the devices picked up the contents of documents typed by embassy secretaries and transmitted them to antennas hidden in the embassy it the in relayed the signals to a listening Post outside the lbs quoted one intelligence officer As saying the potential Compromise of sensitive information should be viewed with considerable another intelligence expert said no one knows for sure How Many or what secrets were a third official called the entire affair a the report it added that intelligence specialists now believe mos cow was running an earlier version of the eavesdropping an Antenna discovered during the cleanup after a 1978 fire at the Moscow embassy now appears to have been part of that earlier lbs in past Security officers assigned to mos cow have had to Cope with a wide variety of soviet snooping efforts targeted on the electronic counterintelligence specialists conduct periodic sweeps of the embassy in an attempt to ferret out and eliminate bugging one such sweep of the embassy South Wing in for uncovered an array of sophisticated elec tronic equipment concealed in an air according to sources familiar with that opera Kab technicians periodically had gained Access to the air Shaft and surveillance devices installed there by Means of a secret Tunnel running from the basement of an adjoining soviet apartment