European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes monday september 30, 1985 Carl Rowan Cia Fri should pay the victims of their mistakes suppose you invested your life Sav Ings in a business thai looked Marc loudly successful Only to find that you have lost every Dollar in a swindle. Then suppose you learn thai inc swindler looked honest and successful because your government wanted him to look thai Way since his business was mostly a cover for . Spies. Would you feel that your govern ment should repay your losses worse still suppose you Are an officer of inc Central intelligence Agency and you arc the agent who deals with the flamboyant businessman who provides a front for Cia spies and who backstops you by saying that Joe blow is one of his employees if someone suspicious in Tokyo or Hong Kong telephones to ask questions. And suppose your Cia front appears to be so successful thai you inc Cia agent talk your Blind and disabled Mother into investing More than in this High flying Man s com Pany. Then your poor Mother loses every cent she has invested along with others who arc swindled out of 522 million by this Patriot who provides covers for american spies. Would you think the Cia and the . Govern Mcnol owed your Mother that ? or suppose that you arc a teamsters Union official enjoying some of the Gravy Hal such officials usually slurp up and you find yourself in prison convicted of embezzlement in the form of taking pay without doing any work. But then a judge orders a new dial for you when it is Learned that the Fri is in cahoots with your Nephew the Union president who is told by the Bureau to hire ghost work ers As part of an Fri scheme to find out who is a Crook among the teamsters. Would you think that the Fri and Uncle Sam owed you something for the Lime you spend behind bars no. I am not trying to make like Helen Macon pcs. John la Carre or Robert Lud Lum. Conjuring up some nifty stories of spying and intrigue. I am talking about real life dramas a spy situation a painful swindle a Cia embarrassment that is now inc talk of Honolulu and an Fri teamsters mess that has Cleveland Al wit tar. Both cases raise some compelling questions about How far the government of a free society May go in using news men businessmen labor leaders and William f. Buckley a Flo Demeke one others in r. Ruwald was a Hawaii Busi Nessman who. According to testimony in Federal court provided cover for Cia agents. Ruwald also appears to have Slick Rcd the Agency in ways that would make inc soviet Union s Kab envious. John c. Kindschi a former Clandestine officer of the Cia became so mesmerized with re Wald he now testifies that he talked his Mother into investing and losing $100,000 with in Federal court in Honolulu indicates that Rewald a Petty thief in Wisconsin gained and exploited respectability through his connections Wilh the Cia and wound up swindling hundreds of investors out of $22 million. One official of the Cia s Clandestine operations has been fired for inducing other Cia agents into investing with re Wald who is now on trial on 98 counts of fraud perjury and lax evasion. The Cia itself is not officially on trial. I accept the premise that the Agency needs covers for the spies it sends abroad. Bui the Cia must share in what Ever Guill the jury in Honolulu finds. When our intelligence agencies set up charming High flying fronts those agencies must ensure that they arc not creating monsters who rip off the american people. Let us concede thai Kindschi and other Cia officials were Gullible even guilty of malfeasance but i am prepared to argue thai the Cia owes some Money to kinds Chi s Mother. The Fri teamsters Union affair May be an even More sordid example of government wounding people while operating Wilh inc Busl of intentions. 1 offer you no scoop when i say that most americans have Long thought of the teamsters As a Citadel of Crooks. So Many of that Union s recent leaders have gone to jail or been murdered that other labor leaders have fled associations with the teamsters the Way they would run from a Skunk or a Texas Rattler. But not the Reagan while House or its Justice department. So we wind up Wilh inc teamsters pre Sid Cal Jackie Presser watching his Uncle go to jail oblivious of the fact that Presser is playing a game with inc Fri. It seems Hal the govern Mcnol is idling the team slurs president to pay ghost employees then shielding him from indictment for embezzlement while Allen Friedman pc scr s Uncle sits in prison for 11 months. Friedman was convicted on charges that he was one of those ghost employees. The judge who ordered Fried Man s release said inc Justice department May be guilty of criminal behaviour. The Fri and Uncle Sam May wind up owing Friedman something. I do not want to cripple either the Cia or inc Fri in their wars against spies and racketeers in what i know is a very mean and dangerous world. But the rights of individuals must be proc Clad. The Cia and inc Fri like All of us make i Slacks. When they do their Vic Tims ought to be compensated. C Newt America Syndicate Nixon offers refreshing dose of realistic thinking Richard Nixon continues to discomfort his critics by saying pointed things about the world. Two articles one in foreign affairs a second in National review grab reality by inc Scruff of the neck and refresh us with realistic thinking. On the matter of the nuclear bomb he says what every sane Man says namely thai a nuclear Exchange is to be avoided and that the Way to avoid it is precisely nol to say about it thai in is unthinkable. If the soviet Union were Ever to come around to the position thai inc uni cd Stales were actually convinced thai in was unthinkable our Force would evaporate. Only a credible threat of act Alillion actually deters. Another cliche or. Nixon penetrates is inc notion that in docs l really matter whether one has or has not nuclear superiorly. He lakes us Back to three american crises ending Wilh inc crisis Over Cuba in which precisely the fact of our superiority prevented the soviet Union from the kind of apocalyptic of riskiness Hal suddenly Puls inc world Al War. Or. Nixon reminds us of something we constantly fail to take into account when we play those desolate games Hal begin by idling us How Many limes we arc in a position to destroy the world with our present inventory. A figure that Sticks in the mind is that of Jonathan Schyll who informed us a year or so ago Hal inc combined inventory. East and West of nuclear bombs is 80 million times the Sorc Ngoh of the bomb thai exploded Over Hiroshima. If that figure does not scare you sufficiently Why Well have to come up Wilh the heal of the Sun which one supposes exceeds even or. Schyll s figure. Carl Sagan will no doubt advise us tomorrow or the Day after tomorrow that if we explode More than six bombs the Sun either will Stop working freezing us All to death or else in will go into such High gear Aslo Frizzle us All to death. All those figures arc really quite irrelevant. There is Only one sensible question a sensible custodian of . Sovereignty asks namely now Many deliverable bombs docs the United Stales have left Over Afler a hypothetical first so Rick by inc Sovil Union the answer right now. As known to everybody is no missiles Al All based on land so sub race i Host. The further answer known perhaps to some experts and suspected by some non experts is and proceed to subtract x Pyrc anlage of inc nuclear bombs carried by our bomb ers because we know Hal inc Sovil Union has a highly developed ground to air capability. Whether it is suf Ficini to Lake out All our bombers we do not know. Bui in is most fearfully powerful. Leaving us with our submarines. They Are when last heard from immune from enemy neutralization. But that is the one remain ing leg of our triad on which we can count with relative Confidence. Thai figure of 80 million is vastly reduced. Which is of. What is not of is to reduce it to the Point of making a first so Rick attractive to the soviet Union. Or better making merely the threat of a first so Rick decisive Al inc bargaining Laboc. or. Nixon Wrils Dis serves the cause of real peace More than to Bury our differences in a Bliz ? i Arm n?, Gushy toasts kisses on the a. W her i commit Helsinki Accord s that gush stuff should be rationed. To be sure each of inc Ihrck Locum cols carefully studied pm to cd the Eye to penetrate to liberating Fine Shanghai communique has nol committed us to delivering Taiwan to China. Salt i expressly permit junking inc intolerable abm freeze and the Helsinki Zara 01 warm handshakes a Oasis Check and Congo Fulcd in is Nice from inc Gem Lyman who gave us inc Shanghai i Muc. Salt i and a year Afler he left of accords vouchsafed us the right officially to inquire into How Many people did Gorbachev Torl Urc last night All of it useful. But or. Nixon s warning comes Al a propitious season a couple of months before or. Reagan goes to Geneva where efforts will be made to festoon our joint communiques with All thai talk of peace and love and Trust Hal have throughout the history of our Summit inc malefactors and weakened
