European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                10 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns comments of Andrew Glass consider the Price of leading a life of espionage spa inc int my although try telling that to the after five to the soviet Union in the past five they seem to have decided that i Lead a double yet if All those Vodka induced confidences about what they think they know about me Are then Why do i keep getting visas to return some people in the spy business from time to suggested that i do a Little moonlighting for my they recognize that the kind of work reporters especially foreign provides them with a natural cover for espionage the problem is that such work cannot help but fundamentally corrupt our lord Jour Nalimu have trouble enough living up to their tattered our role should be to ten people whats going on and not to save the Juiciest morsels for spy that can get you in trouble 1 know a Voung reporter with parents who both served in the when he went off to cover a third world an unthinking colleague spread rumours that the new Comer was a in some such rumours can Lead to Earh and permanent if the spy business holds no attraction for what Ever the Kab might the Choice has always been an easy that cant be said for my who once found himself trapped As a political refugee on Joseph stains inhospitable the soviet secret police Appa Tom Wicker then known As the operated in a Peculiar a kid sessions invariably began at 3 or 4 in the morning and ran past the subjects in this my dad wanted out of they also sought to avoid arrest and Long stays in siberian in those cold predawn the a kid men made you understand that an exit visa would be a lot easier to get if you would agree to Aid them should a request be made in years to but the russians rarely came out and said it in so Many what a Choice to say no might Seal your to say yes could mean embarking on a new life As a traitor in the free land where you made a new those thoughts come to mind As one follows the Saga of John Walker the former Navy Man who stands accused of Selling americas most vital military secrets to the russians for perhaps a couple of Hun dred thousand dollars or the Pentagon spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually for sophisticated electronic intelligence just to get an inkling of where the soviets nuclear subs might be it seems that for Many years Moscow got the same stuff from the Walker ring at a real bargain Walker want the kind of fellow who might spark the interest of the Fri joining the american civil liberties he kept a picture of Ronald Reagan on his desk and a Kun flux klan shroud in his perhaps that one reason Why the soviets were so it turns out that who held a to secret Clear Ance throughout his Long naval never got the kind of Security clearance reviews that Are supposed to be held every five in the Early the Fri granted me a top secret it took them 18 perhaps because As a child i had lived behind what was then called the Iron Edward the distinguished Broad had offered me a Low level Post at the information which he then was running for president by the time the Fri said i could join my newspaper career was i was no longer interested in the two Points stand out from All if everything is supposed to be lop then nothing and if Walker is then he should be that the Fate my father once pondered for far bigger stakes than a Hundred grand or two from the news service would Nicaragua invasion be like falling Oft a log editors note i h the first of two for i military an invasion of Nicaragua would be like fall ing off a says an intelligence and an official of the army Southern come estimates that it would take Only two weeks to gain control of 60 percent of inc nicaraguan so theres Light at the end of the Tunnel even before the United states strides into a new no a Polit Ica military officer in the Region told Joel Brinkley and Bill Keller of the new York times the would come in heavily for a month or mostly with air strikes against major then a new government would be put into and it would conc with in own army to clean up whatever resistance might if that sounds it sanitary air Power with its surgical strikes was supposed to make Short work of the primitive Viet Cong and the North with few american casualties from a dirty ground for a Long decade of death and the untied plates searched for a popular and effective government to put into place in Saigon never grasping that a government handpicked in Washington could have Little legitimacy in vietnamese and the South vietnamese army the United states supplied and trained in the american military image proved to be mostly a supplier of abandoned american weapons to an enemy it hardly tried to does that reflect the much derided Vietnam syndrome or fear of the use of it reflects the hard but essential lessons taught not just in Vietnam but in Afghanistan that Polit ical problems dont necessarily have Mili tary and that military and technological might cant always overcome a politically or patriotically motivated pop but Nicaragua would be Brinkley and Keller were while com piling two articles about the possibility of a for one the population would Rise up to support the invaders a proposition that ignores the history of Gringo military intervention in Central America and assumes that nicaraguans so hate the sandinista govern ment that they Welcome another intervention and a new if that the would the Sandinia tas have armed nicaraguans so Exten sively and Given military training to so Many Why Doest this armed people Rise now and join the contras the Rea Gan administration organized and sup ports int it As Likely that a inva Sion would generate patriotic support for the sandinista that they  win for themselves and if the government the United states would put into place were de As is from the same con elements of the Somoza regime that nicaraguans really did Rise against would be restored to would such a gov tainted with Somo vistas and or the army the United states would train and be Likely to gain sufficient popular support to win a Quick War Over the marxist but nationalist guerrillas the sandinista would Send to the Jungles american experience in Vietnam and soviet experience in Afghanistan argue against the times reporters were assured that the sandinista would have no to Chi Minh and that Nicaragua could be sealed off tighter than a drum by air and sea Power technology but guerrillas Arent totally dependent on outside supplies they can live off the pop and As in Al Salvador and Vietnam can Arm themselves with Cap tured weapons from the halfhearted armies that pursue suppose it didst turn out to be a splendid Little As one cautious colonel warned Ive been in the army 24 years and Ive never seen anything the army says it not be asked to fight again without Public sup port but in a television with Ameri can families watching body bags again coming Home from a frustrating War in which firepower and technology cant find an enemy to How Long could Public support be maintained even without a polls show no majority backing for overthrowing the even the administration con cedes that a invasion would be a political disaster in the rest of the Hemi and its not necessarily True that the United states soon May have no other Choice but to Send in its York