European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday october 5, 1985 Excia agent was angered joined soviets . Says stateside Washington a . Officials said thursday they believe former Cia agent Edward l. Howard started working for the soviet Kab because he was angry Over being assigned to Moscow. He was ticked off Over his assignment to Moscow said one official thursday when asked Why Howard is thought to have become a soviet spy. Thai s Why he went oct to the other sources also said thursday that Howard Learned of Fri interest in him when agents visited his House last soon fled. Howard. 33, went to work for the Cia s Clandestine service in january 1981 and was fired in june 1983, according to . Officials who were Uncertain As to the reason for his dismissal. Howard told co workers when he returned to his native new Mexico in july 1983 that he had just turned Down a government assignment to Moscow. That refusal might have prompted a firing but two sources indicated that Howard had failed a Cia and minis Rcd polygraph. The Cia tests prospective current and departing employees on the polygraph for Security breaches and in some but not All circumstances a failure can Lead to an employee s firing. The test is intended to cover a wide Range from espionage to simple negligence with secret information. One source has said Howard did not begin working for the soviets until after he left the Cia but other sources have suggested he began very shortly before he left. Government officials familiar with the Case were willing to discuss it Only on the condition that they not be identified. Vitaly Yurchenko a ranking Kab official who defected this past summer in Rome has told american authorities that two Excia agents went to work for the soviets and one official says that Howard is Proba Bly one of them. Howard was charged by the Fri on sept. 23 with conspiring to transmit National defense information to a for eign Power. Fri agents have been trying to arrest him since then but he has been missing from his Home in Santa be since sept. 22. Curtis Porter who hired Howard in i9k3 As an economic analyst for the finance committee of the new Mexico legislature said he said he was going to be pos cd to Moscow and would t want to raise his kid there. He never Howard s son acc is now 2, Porter said Howard claimed to have worked for the state department in Washington. The state depart ment Job was Howard s cover while at the Cia. How Ard said the foreign service was something he always wanted to do but by the time the assignment came his status had changed with a wife and child. Porter recounted. At the state department Deputy spokesman Charles Redman said Howard was never an employee of the department and never worked at the . Embassy in mos cow. A department official said Howard was to have been sent to the soviet capital and that the planned move was entered into the records for his cover Job at state. He said the records were never corrected because of a bureaucratic oversight. Meanwhile a minor Flap developed inside the Justice department Over Howard s Success in eluding the Fri. One Federal source said Howard was first tipped off to Fri interest in him when agents went to his Home while he was out and his wife let them conduct an informal look around the House. Howard abruptly left a committee meeting on sept. 20, leaving behind a typed note resigning As of sept. 22. The source said Fri agents were still watching the House when Howard slipped away. Apparently that occurred overnight on sept. 21 he is thought to have flown from Albuquerque 60 Miles away to Dallas on the afternoon of sept. 22. Judge shops Sale of Gold coins until ownership is determined Jackson Tenn. A a judge says 10 City workmen must Stop Selling the thousands of dollars Worth of Gold coins they unearthed in a downtown parking lot until he figures out who owns the treasure. The find could be Worth More than 1500,000, Al though it s unclear How Many coins were found or what their value is mayor Robert Conger said wednesday. We have accounted for 177 coins and that s just by talking to people who said that they had possessed some Conger said. There May be a Good bit More than in a lawsuit filed wednesday assistant City attorney Harold Johnson asked chancery court judge Joe Morris to figure out who owns the coins. Morri blocked any further Sale of the treasure. The . Gold pieces Date from the 1830s to the 1850s and have face values of $2.50, $5, $10 and $20. Many arc in mint condition. The Money May have been buried during the civil War to save them from Union soldiers who occupied Jackson now a town of about 50,000 people in West Central Tennessee Conger said. Members of the work Crew found the Gold in a Glass Jar they broke while resurfacing a parking lot. They apparently sold some of the Oins for As Little As $50each, Johnson said. The City s lawsuit names 23 people believed to have come in Contact with the coins. They have been ordered to hold on to Geld pieces they May still have and to set aside any Money gained from Selling them. Wanda Graves a Teller at a Bank next to the parking lot said she bought four coins for $460. Harry Warren owner of the mid South Coin co. Inc. In Memphis said he inspected six of the $2.50 Gold pieces which were minted in Philadelphia in 1853. He said such coins would be Worth $700 to $4,300 apiece. But the value of Gold pieces can vary even More widely depending on their rarity he said. A $2.50 Gold piece minted in California in 1848, for example could be Worth up to $30,000, according to Warren. The City claims ownership of the coins in its lawsuit Johnson said. The property was found by City employees working on City property in the course of their jobs for the City. That in itself would Lead one to believe the City would have a claim he said. But the attorney said the court May award the coins to the workmen or to the people who owned the parking lot before it was sold to the City. He said the judge May even assign the Money to the heirs of the person who buried the Gold if they can be found. Cagney & Lacey actor cute Dies Santa Monica Calif. A Sidney clutch the actor who played detective Paul Laguardia on the Cag & Lacey television series has died of cancer a spokesman for the show said thursday. He was 69. The Brooklyn born Clute who died at 2 45 . Wednesday in St. John s Hospital had also appeared in such feature films As the big fix with Richard Drey fuss and the russians arc coming the russians Are coming with Carl Reiner and Alan Arkin. On Cagney & Lacey he played Laguardia a gentle supporter of the women detectives in a precinct dominated by male chauvinism. Laguardia would give the women encouragement and regale them with stories of the old Days. After Early training in summer Slock Cluie came to Hollywood in the 1950s and made his television debut in the adventures of Superman with George Reeves other to credits include appearances on playhouse 90 Mccloud dragnet and Lou survivors include two Sisters and a brother. The family requested that donations be made in lieu of Flowers to the concern foundation for cancer research i Beverly Hills. Amnesty program starts nov. 1 for taxpayers who Are overdue Albany . A a three month amnesty pro Gram allowing new York taxpayers a Chance to avoid fines and prison by paying overdue taxes begins nov. I officials have said. Officials had refused to say publicly when the program would begin but confirmed the Date on condition they not be identified. Slate officials expect 500,000 amnesty applications and Hope to raise at least $75 million. The am Nasiy program was authorized this year in conjunction with a Law increasing penalties for tax cheat. More than 10 states have offered amnesty programs in five years. Illinois raised an estimated ji52.4 million from its program last fall and California raised $144 million. In new York taxpayers will be Able to Settle their new York tax account by paying the tax plus interest currently 10 percent to 12 percent. Radiation at weapons Plant blamed for Workman s death Denver a a Workman s compensation hearing officer has ruled that exposure to Low level radiation while working at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons Plant caused the cancer death of a Man five years ago. The widow of Donald Gabol had sought the ruling after her husband died at the age of 31. Gabel had filed a disability claim which his widow converted to the compensation Case. The ruling was the second in which state officials found that radiation at Rocky Flats Northwest of Denver caused a worker s death of cancer. These arc inc radiation Levels the government says Are Safe said Bruce Deboskey. An attorney for Gabel s widow Kayc. We be proved that Safe caused his cancer and his Gene Towne a spokesman for the nuclear weapons Plant said he could not discuss the a is because he had not seen the decision. Pentagon offers to sell China equipment for Shell factory Washington not the Pentagon has notified Congress that it has offered to sell China plans and equip ment for a munitions factory in what would be the first government to government arms Sale Between the two nations. Unless Congress intervenes within 30 Days the Pentagon would offer the chinese plans and technical help in building a factory for 155mm artillery shells with an option to buy the actual manufacturing equipment said i. Col. Donald Brown acc a Pentagon spokesman. The package would Cost As much As $98 million. The american contractor has not been selected. The chinese have been permitted to buy is. Military equipment through commercial channels with stale department approval since 1981. Rutgers re examining firing of professor 50 years ago new Brunswick . A Rutgers univer sity has appointed a panel of historians to re examine the firing 50 years ago of a popular professor by his pro nazi department chairman. An alumnus from the class of 1935 who remembered the Case fought to have it reviewed. He said he a inspired by anti apartheid rallies by Rutgers students ear Lier this year to press the Mailer. It reminded me of the Good old Days when i was a Young Guy and 1 would t let go said 71-year-Oid Alan Oliver a management consultant. Linhard Burgel of Rutgers German depart Mcnol Wai tired by Dupar Lenl chairman Friedrich j. Haupl Mann who contended Burgel was incompetent. Bui Burgel who went on to a distinguished career to the Llyl Mil Crit of no York and his supporter charged the real reason was that Sergei s moderate views angered Hauptmann. Heft Rabid a " said ber8c1 8�. Of port Washington . This Radical super patriotism was not to my lust j
