European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday september 29, 1985 new chief seals off French spy Agency Paris Dpi the chief of  appointed recently in a shake up of the secret service Over its involve ment in the Greenpeace bombing said Friday he had uncovered an operation to do Stabile a the Agency. Gen. Rene Imbot making his first Public comment since taking office said he had sealed off the Genera directorate for  Security dose the French intelligence service. To my great astonishment 1 have discovered a real ill intentioned operation to destabilize our secret services. 1 would even go of far As in say destruction of our secret services Imbot said. Naturally i have also found people who had to be  Imbot replaced adm. Pierre Lacostic who was fired sept. 20 after he refused to answer questions about his agents role in bombing the Greenpeace snip Rainbow Warrior in new zealand. A photographer died in the attack. Defense. Minister Charles a Cru resigned the same Day. The French government has admitted its agents sabotaged the ship which was due to Lead a protest of French nuclear testing at the Pacific atoll of muru Roa. Imbot speaking in a television interview dodged the question of whether he was referring to four military offi cers charged with compromising National Security for allegedly leaking information to journalists. A fifth officer nol on Active duty is also charged. Others arc part of a Rotten Branch and i was referring to them Imbot said. I have Cut off inc Rotten branches. I am not alluding to  he said. I am head of the secret service and you will kindly allow me to keep secrets. From this moment Forward any information one claims to have obtained about this service is a lie because i have scaled off the  prime minister Laurent Fabius sunday placed the blame for the Mission on Herne. The comments were viewed As a bid to defuse the political crisis that has dam aged the French government six months before parliamentary elections. Fabius said he did not know French agents bombed the ship until sept. 21. Newspapers Friday focused on the financing of the mis Sion implying anyone who approved its estimated $500,000 Cost must have known it entailed More than surveillance. The papers questioned the role of Gen. Jean Saulnier chief of staff of the armed forces. At the time Saulnier was head of the president s staff. An official inquiry conducted by Bernard Tricot former adviser to former president Charles de Gaulle said to Saul Nice approved the funds. He denied knowing of any plans to blow up the ship. Andre Fossot a. Opposition member responsible for monitoring a common fund for ministries expenses said panned logo to the finance ministry monday to open his own inquiry into Money farms used from the fund news reports also expressed doubts the government hid been kept in the dark for two months. The conservative opposition newspaper la Figaro Mot ing unnamed sources said Fabius Learned of the bombing july 15 from the inter ministerial group for control of communications or Gic which monitors Long distance Calls on certain government numbers. La Figaro said two French agents arrested in new Zea land after the bombing called a secret emergency number in Paris at the dose and Fabius was informed. The conservative be quotidian de Paris said the decision to carry out the operation was approved at a june meeting attended by nine High ranking officials close to both fab. Us and president Francois Mitterrand including he flt Lacostic Saulnick and Jean Louis Bianco Secretary to the presidency. There Are two hypotheses the newspaper said. Either the representatives of the president and prime min ister did not disclose what happened in what would amount to a Gigantic conspiracy. What is More Likely is that Francois Mitterrand and Laurent Fabius were made aware and it was Only the failure of the operation that had to be revealed to  news update pastor out of jail Pittsburgh a a pastor who was jailed for four months when he refused to agree to stay away from his former Church was freed Here after a judge dismissed the charges against him. The Rev. Daniel Solberg 35, of Hampton had been in jail since his May 22 arrest stemming from an eight Day takeover of nativity lutheran Church in Allison Park. Common pleas judge Robert e. Ducr dismissed charges of criminal and defiant trespass against Solberg on the first Day of a non jury trial and he was released from Allegheny county jail in Pittsburgh where he bad spent part of his incarceration. Dauer ruled that Solberg had not acted criminally when he refused to leave the Church because the min ister never tried to hide the fact that he was inside the Church. Solberg s brother actor David soul of television s Slarsky and Hutch is to stand trial in common pea court on dec. 3 on charges related to his activities with the ministry. Transmitters repaired Juneau Alaska a the High frequency two Way maritime communications system knocked out by a fire that destroyed the coast guard communications station in Kodiak has been restored the coast guard said. The system is the primary method of communications used by the coast guard and mariners. The Only systems still out were those serviced by eight vhf pm re Mote transmitters in the West Prince William sound area said coast guard spokesman Mark Farmer. Guilty plea in fire Paterson . A a Man accused of starting a fire that killed 15 people in a rundown hotel has pleaded guilty to charges of arson and aggravated manslaughter three months after his trial ended in a Hung jury. Hotel Handyman Russell w. Con Klin 45, pleaded guilty before Pas said county Superior court judge William Marchese. In return for his guilty pleas the county prosecutor s office dismissed is counts of felony murder Accord ing to the county s senior assistant prosecutor John Woods. Soviet defector reportedly named Excia employees As Kab spies Washington a a top level soviet defector has told . Officials that one or More former Cia employees spied for the soviet Kab according to government sources who say some Excia employees appear to have fled the United states very recently. Sources inside the Reagan administration and Congress said Friday that at least one and possibly More former Cia agents were implicated As soviet agents by the defector Vitaly Yurchenko. One Justice department source said Yurchenko 50, was the no. 5 official in the soviet spy Agency the highest rank ing such defector since the 1930s. The los Angeles times reported that information from Yurchenko led to . Accusations aug. 21 that the soviets were using a potentially hazardous spa dust to track the movement of Ameri can diplomats in Moscow. The newspaper said Yurchenko i warn ing followed earlier indications that the so Viet were using the chemical Nitro Phenyl Pentad enal or Ppd which officials said is potentially cancer causing although its precise effects Are not known. Yurchenko served As first Secretary of the soviet embassy in Washington from 1975 to 1980 and oversaw Kab Intelli gence operation in the United states according to a congressional source. This source said Yurchenko implicated More than one and fewer than six Cia employees. He added that at least one served in a position to pose a serious threat to american interests. But a Justice department source who was familiar with the interrogation of the defector by the Cia and the Fri said to say several would be  another Justice source confirmed the figure was very Small and applied Only to former Cia officials. The congressional source said it appears that some of the former Cia employees quit the Agency recently out of fear of exposure and fled the United states to places where they can be in Contact with  but the source would not elaborate. A Justice department source said some of the resignations were very  the sources said Yurchenko was still being debriefed but the congressional source said it seems that no Active Cia personnel. Pose a  the House and Senate intelligence committees already have received a re port from . Intelligence officials on their interrogation of Yurchenko and they anticipate a further briefing. If substantiated Yurchenko s charges could confirm Long held suspicions of some intelligence officers that the Cia has been compromised by one or More americans working As soviet moles inside the Agency. Former Cia  chief James Angleton who was ousted during the Ford administration devoted most of a dec Ade to a fruitless search for such a soviet mole. The sources made Clear the individuals named by Yurchenko were different from the four Cia employees that have been legally charged in the Agency s history with spying for foreign governments. Meanwhile the Justice department and the Cia issued rare on the record denials of a new York times report that Yurchenko had identified current Cia employees As Kab agents. Asked if the Cia would extend its de Nial to cover former Cia employees Cia spokeswoman Kathy Pherson refused to go that far and said the earlier statement would stand is  that denial said the new York times allegation that a soviet defector identified several employees of the Central intelligence Agency As soviet agents is  in issuing another denial of the times Story the Justice department indirectly confirmed that Yurchenko had defected. Of the times article the department said this report. Is not accurate. Yurchenko has not indicated that there Are any employees of the Cia working at soviet  sources said the Justice department s de Nial was issued at the request of the Cia. The congressional source described yur Chenko s defection As very significant but said there does not seem to be a common thread connecting it to a rash of other defections that have stunned intelligence services of both . Allies and soviet bloc countries. Some officials and press reports have speculated that Yurchenko s defection prompted the other actions. Yurchenko dropped out of sight in Rome while on a temporary assign ment in Early August. In mid August a top West German cons tar intelligence officer Hans Joachim hedge defected to East Germany. The Kab chief in Britain Oleg a. Nordic ski then defected prompting the British government to expel 31 soviet diplomats businessmen and journalists on spy charges. On sept. 15, a greek Navy officer and too businessmen were arrested in Athens for allegedly Selling defense secrets and computer technology to the soviets. The arrest resulted from the defection of Sergei Bohone report edly Deputy chief of soviet military Intelli gence in Athens sources said. Other defections have included a Secretary m the office of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and her husband. Yurchenko arrived in Italy on an  Ped tied assignment july 24 and was staying at a soviet embassy residence. The soviet told italian authorities on aug. 8 that he had disappeared aug. I. Red army faction suspect arrested Karlsruhe Germany a police arrested a suspected member of the terrorist red army faction who was grabbed by passers by and wrestled to the ground during an attempted robbery a spokesman for the Federal prosecutor s of fice said saturday. Spokesman Hans Jucar gun Foerster said several passers by grabbed the suspected terrorist after he attacked a woman who was depositing Money at a Bank in the Southern town of ludwigs Burg on Friday. The group held the robber and turned him Over to police who arrived on the scene a few minutes later according to Foerster. Foerster said the Man was later identified As Karl Friedrich grosser 29, who is believed to have become an Active member of the extreme leftist red army faction Las november. Foerster said grosser and an unidentified accomplice attacked two women who were depositing bags of Money from their nearby store into a ludwigs Burg Bank s night de posit Chute at 7 35 . Friday. As the two men tried to flee the scene passers by grabbed grosser and wrestled him to the ground according to Foerster i account