European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Fri report speculates on spy ring operations Washington not Federal officials and intelligence analysts say that John Walker passed Navy secrets to the Kab in an elaborate scheme that apparently involved espionage training in Austria and the use of soviet couriers in in their most extensive account of How they believe the espionage operation was carried officials said Walker almost certainly dealt with several agents of the the soviet intelligence in what they say was a 20year spying intelligence analysts speculated that Walker was awarded a High rank in the soviet armed probably the soviet and received decorations for his inform he might very Well have tried on his soviet uni said Robert a retired senior official of the Central intelligence Walker has been indicted on espionage charges but has pleaded not while details remain authorities say the Kab asked a retired Navy warrant to make frequent trips to where he would pass along secret information collected from other members of the Pur ported Navy spy they was also where Walker probably received training in the techniques of for Secu Rity they there appeared to have been if recent facet face meetings in the United states Between Walker and soviet his son and a California Man described As his closest Friend have been arrested in what authorities describe As the most damaging spy Case in 30 All have served in the and All pleaded not the Kab officials was designed to offer maximum Protection against surveillance by american la enforcement the officials cautioned that and perhaps most details of the purported scheme will never be known unless who is accused of forming the spy begins to cooperate with Lawen for Cement t what officials know has been determined largely from personal travel receipts and Telephone records that were found in walkers Home and office in As Well As statements made to investigators by his Michael and Arthur we dont know nearly As much As wed the source but from what we do know about the its not that difficult to come up with a reasonable under standing of the operation of the purported spy that he is to a Large on Well informed any training that Walker most Likely in the use or secret cameras and audio probably took place in where the soviet Union has a Large embassy and controls numerous Safe officials in sure Vienna was the Standard debriefing said Ray former Deputy director of the because of tighter Security by american la enforce ment officials it appeared that relatively if facet face meetings Between soviet agents and Walker took place in the United states in recent they the soviet agents used Sites in suburban areas near parcels of information were left by Walker and retrieved later by soviet they in they the agents used the same Sites to leave packages of Money for the officials said Large Cash payments to Walker for his information were made in the United states to avoid detection by customs said who has written a Book on the Walker was arrested after leaving a bag containing More than 100 secret Navy documents at a site in Rural the Fri has officials said they had Little information about a soviet Aleksey who was recalled to Moscow after prosecutors named him As a the Fri has identified Tkachenko As a vice Consul in the consular division of the soviet embassy in a relatively Low ranking officials said May have been one of a number of Kab agents in the embassy who were periodically As signed to pick up material left by Walker at drop Over the the Case had become said David a former Cia More and More Over the years the yeomen got the Job of going to these drop some intelligence analysts say they believe walkers chief soviet Contact is a senior Kab official working in who was the Cia assistant Deputy director for said he suspects Walker May have known the official for several and perhaps even have been recruited by while moving up through the Kab the offi Cial probably turned Over the details of the Case to other Crowley but he suggested the official might have met with Walker on he would still find time to Fly in and spend a few minutes with Crowley he would build walkers Tell him How much the work had meant to the they said Walker had probably been Given a uniform that he was allowed to Wear at meetings with soviet they would have pleased who has been described by a former As a self deluded James transsexual loses election Tor legion Post commander new up Brid Gette Poi lost her bid monday night to become the first transsexual commander of an Ameri can legion but vowed to run again next in a Legionnaire and Damn proud of the Platinum haired Veteran of the korean War said after her colleagues voted 2513 to reelect Joseph a third candidate who ran out of protest to them emerged from the closed session confident that the Issue of her Exchange operation 12 years ago would dissipate by the next election for the 1 Job at the who also Defeated 60yearold Mechanic John said pois sex change was an she is not a she is not a that was the he this is he it didst matter How Long Ive been in the legion or How Long Bridgette was in or what we a All that counted was she is a the 66yearold incumbent said the elec Tion results proved his Contention that the legion is just not ready for a Leader who has undergone a Exchange if we had a transsexual commander it May just ruin the image people have of the Ottaviano he added that he thought Poi would serve Post 9 better in the women whose air Force duties were Classi fied during the korean was awarded the National defense service the korean defense the United nations medal and another medal for Good she was in the service for eight who grew up in Connecticut As a boy named said she resolved years of self doubt with the Exchange operation in 1973 in after the she lived in where she met and married Richard a Marine corps sergeant who later was killed in in 1980 she returned to South Eastern Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 ago today july 1945 rumours that the army had called Russia printed invasion Marks worthless were denied by officials in a deadlock Between Anglo american and russian occupation authorities Over How to feed berlins civilian population reached serious 30 years ago today july 1955 the laotian government announced that violent fighting was under Way in mountainous North Ern Laos Between government troops and units of the communist Patchet 20 ago today july 1965 at a Washington news president Johnson said he expects the War in Vietnam to get worse before it gets 70 ago today july 1975 Portugal no communist parties in the capital City of fought for their political lives in the face of a military decision to create a mass movement aimed at taking Over the government at All a cultural officer Dies London a Herbert who fought for Germany in world War i and volunteered for the British army in world War has died at the age of his family he retired As cultural officer in the West German embassy in 1981 after 30 years and was made an officer in the order of the British Empire by Queen Eliza Beth ii the following year for his services to Anglo Ger Man heading for safer territory a photo Becky Powell carries valuables from her parents Home in san Luis As a raging fire grows the advancing Blaze broke out 130 Miles Northwest of los Angeles on july 1 and is the latest and largest in a series of fires that has killed levelled More than 140 Homes and destroyed More than half a million