European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Cid has Way of catching phone abusers by Diana Valdez staff writer Germany More pen registers have been used this year than Ever before to catch people using official phones for personal says a Crimi Nal investigation divison weve always used pen said Stephen Cid agent in charge of the Worms Cid Branch office and Liaison officer Between the Cid and 5th signal weve just gotten a pen Register is a device the Tele phone company puts on a Telephone line to record numbers time and units used units determine the Cost of a its put in place at the main switch of the Telephone it Doest re Cord the Cid has 18 Telephone fraud cases pending in Germany in which the pen Register was its just like a search Gekoski we cant arbitrarily put a pen Register on a to ensure theres no abuse of there Are checks and balances throughout the sys the process starts with Mark commercial Telephone manage ment system Branch noncommissioned he receives a monthly Bill for every commercial line the government just like the Bill people receive each month for their private commercial he i get of along with the Toms receives a printout of How Many units each phone and the users Telephone log that lists All Calls made and units Toms compares the units used listed on the printout with his preset maximum for each he can see if the phone is being used past its for if the maximum is set at 800 units a month and the phone Bill reads Toms May suspect abuse and Call we look at said that unit May have needed to use the commercial line More than if theres no reason for the High phone Bill or if the Bill continues to be High Over a longer Toms and Gekoski May ask to put a pen Register on the most pen registers Are requested the same regardless of the amount of suspected it Doest matter if its or said to get a pen Gekoski goes to William judge advocate for kids 2nd the request goes from Ramsey to the Cid Headquarters in Washington and eventually to the army general counsel for final approx that process provides the checks and Gekoski at every level the request is reviewed and approval normally takes two to three but we can get it within Ramsey for one Case involved National or we might get it Early if the suspected person was getting ready to rotate Back to the a Case just completed by the Cid and turned Over to the appropriate Frankfurt was nailed Down using a pen Register that was on the Telephone for three it showed that 372 Calls had been of 280 were not logged in or recorded by the of the 86 were Calls made to the United of which 33 were not logged i would say that there is a Good possibility that fraud is taking place said but that not for me to once weve completed the i Vestiga we hand the Case Over to the local its up to him what punish ment he since March when the Commer Cial Telephone management system the Cid has conducted 53 in quiries involving 104 people and More than in fraud and abuse of gov Enmen pleased commercial one Case involved three soldiers in Mannheim who were tapping in on a line in the basement of their office All three served prison sentences in most abusers dont end up in most end up paying for their crime with their Ive never taken the time to add them All but a couple of Money orders a week is probably our said i get them in All denominations from people making instalment pay he suggested besides having to the offender should receive a Field Grade article he also said the person responsible for the phone should receive a notation in his or her records about the the most important deterrent is when the person is said a person is titled when Cid has reasonable cause to believe the person committed the that file goes to the crime records Center in he add ing that it remains for about 45 anytime the person goes for a Job that requires a police Check or Security their name shows up As being a Telephone the followup of the Case also goes to the were going to catch its just a matter of said were not sitting As the number of phones so will our main opposition party claims Mexico City a mexicans voted sunday for governors in seven of the country 31 for 400 seats in the chamber of the lower House of and for a few state and municipal no official returns Are expected until july but the ruling institutional revolutionary party claimed Victory in two Northern Border while the main opposition party charged widespread vote tampering and the two most closely watched races were for governor in heavily industrialized Nuevo along the Texas and the Rich agricultural state of just South of shortly after the polls closed sunday president Miguel de la Madrid institutional revolutionary or the Pri in Power for 56 years claimed Victory in both although it acknowledged not having the full violence broke out at san Luis Rio Colorado near the Arizona Border when about 200 supporters of the opposition National action or the threw rocks at the police station and burned five patrol authorities they were protesting the detention of 18 youths for police said the protesters included pan mayor Fausto Ochoa whose son was among the 18 youths taken 72 on monday at running of bulls Spain a a dozen runners suffered minor injuries monday while trying to outrun a pack of charging bulls in the annual we Klong san Fermin Festi police the running of the the festivals most popular was made famous by american author Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 novel the Sun also several of the participants in mondays running fell and Hurt and about a dozen sought treat ment at hospitals for minor officials the bulls charged the half mile from their corrals to the bullring in less than three officials two americans were among about 40 runners who suffered minor bruises the opening Day of the run As they tried to escape the bulls two spaniards were seriously injured when they were gored in the officials the bulls Are killed each afternoon in professional Bull into the pan supporters charged a ballot Box they opened was stuffed with Pri a charge the Pri leaders this removes the democratic mask of this govern said Adalberto Rosas the pan gubernatorial candidate in added Fernando Canales the party gubernatorial candidate in Nuevo we wont let the authorities Wash their hands of Mexico has million registered voters and news re ports indicated a heavier turnout than in past polls in Sonora and Nuevo Leon remained open later than scheduled so those in line could Rodolfo Felix the Pris gubernatorial Candi Date in claimed a 31 margin of Victory Over Rosas in Nuevo Pri gubernatorial candidate Jorge tre Vino claimed Victory with about half the vote his Canales gathered about 250 support ers in front of the governors Palace to protest alleged electoral the pan had put together a Strong Challenge in both states and in the Central state of control held by the Pri the Pri has controlled the Congress and All governors offices since it was founded in it now holds 299 of 300 congressional seats up for while the pan holds an additional 100 seats Are reserved for minority Par and the pan holds half of the pan Cap tured about 16 percent of the vote in the presiden tial critics try to present the pan As a privileged group that promotes private the roman Catholic Church and seven other mostly Small leftist fielded candidates in the major contests or in the six state legislative races and municipal elections in two the Pri was not considered in danger of losing its tight grip on the nations political but three years of economic crisis and austerity have eroded some of the party popularity among the Middle and working bolstering support for the conservative the Pri has been dogged by charges of corruption in ranging from International drug trafficking to Interior minister Manuel Bartlett who is in charge of the Federal electoral said any problems were minor considering the number of polling stations throughout the country he described the balloting As peaceful and army Roundup Drill sergeants ordered to clean up marching cadences Washington sergeant major of the army Glen Morrell has told army cos to clean up the profanity used in marching in a message to commands Morrell told non commissioned i need your help in policing up offensive language used when singing he also told cos to discontinue using any offensive and degrading remarks about our sister services in those Morrell said he has received letters and complaints from Young soldiers who Are concerned and offended by the profanity they hear used in marching we do not need this in our Morrell an army spokesman said the sergeant majors action was intended to help create a positive image of army transportation corps Ball will be held july 19 in Mainz Germany the 43rd annual transportation corps Ball will be held july 19 at the Rheingold Halle in a 4th trans come spokesman the Ball is open to commissioned officers and noncommissioned officers in grades e8 and warrant offi civilians in grades gs7 and former transportation corps and their the Cost is 75 Marks about per payment must be made in mess dress blues or Whites Are appropriate for military civilians Are asked to Wear a business suit or persons interested in attending should Contact Charles Stone at Ober Ursel military Karlstedt club manager wins management award Germany Gene Haddox says being a Good manager Means hard work and a willingness to listen to what his club members those efforts paid off recently with his winning the top department of the army civilian run club award this year for his Patton combined it was the second time for he first won the Carroll award for excellence in club management in according to his military Karen one big reason for his Success is that Hes always Hes always Haddox said he puts in 55 to 75 hours we dont go for overtime in this you just have to be he