European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 studies hot line for espionage reports Washington not senior american intelligence worried by the apparent ease with which spies penetrated american have been debating the establishment of an Anonymous hot line and Reward system to encourage Public reports of suspicious the army chief of counterintelligence the counterintelligence Anthony Gallo said in an interview that the hot line proposal was part of an unparalleled resurgence of concern about Security provoked by a spying Case involving former members of the he said the proposals had been discussed by an inter Agency Security committee headed by director of Cen trial intelligence William and that the Justice department had been asked to review the Reward idea to see whether there were Legal i think there is a majority of us in this business who feel its something Worth looking if its Legal and Gallo John a spokesman for the Justice depart confirmed that the proposals were kicked around within the last month by the committee of senior intelligence he said the Justice department had reported to Casey that setting up a Reward system would require an act of Gallo is the army to ranking counterintelligence official and Liaison representative to the Navy on its investigation of what Federal prosecutors charge was a spy ring operated by John Walker a retired Navy warrant Walker has pleaded not guilty to espionage his Arthur a retired Navy Lieuten ant was convicted this month of spying for the soviet two other walkers Michael a Navy and Jerry Whit a retired Navy chief Petty have pleaded not guilty to espionage in the Gallo also said some army communications and intelligence sources May have been com promised by the breaches of Navy Security in the spy these breaches resulted primarily from the fact that some army communications travel Over Navy Chan he in response to the possible Security Gallo the army made sweeping changes in How it operates its communications including How coded communications systems Are set up and the number of operators allowed to use various Gallo said he was convinced that the leaks of army information had been limited because the army and Navy operate their communications systems somewhat we dont feel theres been any major breach in army Security As a result of the Walker he fortunately for our communications patterns Are much less the Way we establish our the size of our the Type of traffic we were and of course the key cards Are he referring to cryptographic he declined to Gallo said the army was continuing to study possible breaches from the Navy but the military can never be fully confident it knows the Complete damage unless John whom prosecutors say organized and led the spy Breaks his Walker has repeatedly denied any espionage Well never be Able to come fully to grips with this thing unless that Man comes Forward and makes a clean slate of he Gallo also said the Federal Bureau of investigation and the army had investigated John walkers Daugh Laura Walker who served As an army communications specialist in 1978 and he said the investigation had confirmed her statements that she did not engage in any spying we have looked into Laura Walker and we believe we have evidence that indicates that she was not involved in any Gallo walkers Daugh Ter has said she was asked by her father to sell inform but Gallo said the hotline and Reward proposals were among several ideas raised at meetings of the Security committee since the arrests in the spy he is the army representative on the he said the hot line could be used by any citizen to report a neighbor or acquaintance seen engaging in suspicious with a hot he i imagine youd have to Weed through a lot of Cranks and kooks and but he who to say if we had a system like that and it was Well one of John walkers friends might not have come Forward Gallo said the Only Good to come out of the Navy spy Case had been a spreading awareness of the threat of spies and the need to improve counterintelligence Active you cant go to any Echelon in the government right be it the National level All the Way that theres not someone actively engaged in some Way in reaction to the Walker he theres a very positive environment out there from a Security manag ers in the he intelligence officials had used the Case to promote broader use of polygraph screen More intensive counterintelligence training of new and a new requirement that Security conscious Ness be made a Factor in the fitness rating used to judge officers for Dod spending millions on robot weapons los Angeles a an unmanned robot tank lurches Over the firing shells while carrying supplies to frontline a computers voice suggests possible targets to a human fighter another computer advises a Navy commander on Battle the defense department is spending million on a program to develop prototypes of such computerized weapons systems that have artificial Intelli gence the ability to Deal with see and even speak much As humans smart computers someday will save lives by removing humans from some dangerous situations and by in creasing the Speed and accuracy of Crit ical combat advocates of the pentagons strategic computing pro Gram said during the International joint conference on artificial Intelli who also attended the Confer ence at the University of California at los Angeles last said scientists wont be Able to make such computers fully and that overconfidence in intelligent machines will make Acci dental nuclear War More you can certainly make a robot tank that will crawl Over the but when it turns around and Points its weapons at you May regret said retired Xerox computer scientist severe he is chairman of the 700member computer professionals for social As much As i mistrust the judgment of when it comes to the kind of decision making involved in whether to fire a missile or i much prefer the judgment of human he Raj director of the robotics Institute at Pittsburgh Carnegie Mel Lon countered that lives could be saved if we let robots fight robots and people stay in the Back where people Are incompetent to do rapid a computer can advise them and take Over in a fail Safe Reddy if you build sys tems they will make sure bad things dont they can eliminate the strange love scenario where one thing malfunctions and everyone thinks were going to have a nuclear the five year strategic computing now in its second is run by the defense advanced research projects which provides the majority of government funding for Basic research in computer the million program is aimed at producing prototypes of smart weapons critics note that computers can do Only what people Tell them to they say human programmers Are unlikely to anticipate All the situations a computer might encounter and also will have great difficulty making computers As intelligent Asim worried there going to put a so called intelligent computer assist ant in the cockpit of a fighter plane and its not going to be As intelligent As one would said Ronald a computer scientist at Bell laboratories in Murray red sewage close shellfishing areas by the associated press Massachusetts officials on Friday banned shellfish ing along 30 Miles of coast because of High concentrations of red while similar orders were issued in new where seven Miles of beaches were contaminated with in fishermen took to their nets at High tide Friday hoping to dispose of thousands of dead fish driven ashore a Day earlier by marauding officials feared the rotting Pogie carcasses could pose a health the Massachusetts affecting the coast from Manchester North to the new Hampshire was in response to a form of poisonous algae that builds in warm coastal Waters and is eaten by certain if people should by any Chance eat any of the shellfish that have been exposed to this so called red they might suffer from numbness of the toes and said Dick a spokesman for the state department of environmental Quality which issued the in its extreme form it can but no deaths have been reported in Massachusetts since red tide began invading the Waters in said the new Jersey issued by the state depart ment of environmental covered Ocean Waters Between Hereford Inlet and Cape May the sewage contamination stemmed from Over loaded Wastewater treatment plants in the Wildwood said Deputy environmental commissioner Richard heavy unusually High tides and a Large number of summer tourists contributed to the swimming in the Ocean near the wild Woods also was and one Motel owner said he feared the coming at Peak tourist would Hurt the areas the people come to the seashore because of that Beach and that said George who is also president of the North Wildwood hotel Motel once something like this youre talking years to live it youre talking 20 percent of your business being lost because of it Doest look Good for the weekend at said James a spokesman for the department of environmental the prohibitions Are to remain in effect Indef said he said most of the shellfish in the area Are surf clams and in swimmers were unaffected by the which prohibited the harvesting of soft Shell snails and harvesting of lobsters and crabs was unaffected by the said in a three lob stering boats and three skiffs were trying to round up the carcasses of the also known As said Winthrop manager of Robinsons wharf in fire department volunteers worked thursday night with pitchforks and loading the dead fish into dories for Bailey said Low tide late Friday would reveal How successful the two Days of Effort had some places Are three to four feet deep with dead said Grace a Southport there intertwined among the there in around the its the most incredible thing you could in Terry Mcgovern of the department of environmental Protection said the decomposing fish were Likely to cause odor problems and attract theres no doubt that it has an incredibly High nuisance he i can make no judgment As to its Public health