European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse I i inside stripes tips on flying Home Lor the holidays daily Magazine q up names Penn stale no. 1 in College football Page 21 n today s Dollar buys 2.59 Marks Page 27 the stars authorized unofficial publication of the . Ahmed Pouch vol. 44, no. 202 wednesday november 6, 1985 in do Avo do Niy d 8693 a turnabout soviet defect says no Washington a Vitaly Yurchenko a High level soviet Kab officer who was described by the state department As a defector to the United slates turned at the soviet embassy monday and claimed to been drugged kidnapped and offer Lii bpm to co operate with the Cia. The state s charges were senator called his Story baloney ail Riu Cia officials weren t sure he was acting voluntarily when he made his allegations during a news con Ference at the embassy. The Slaick Job in said Yurchenko _ sve the United states until he i that a decision in return to the soviet i genuinely of his own Yurchenko repeatedly described his alleged ordeal As slate sponsored terrorism and told of bin drugged before meeting with Cia director William Casey. He said that until the past three weeks he was Kepi in isolation by a six Man team. However Yurchenko seemed to go out of his Way Dur ing the news conference to separate the political leadership of the United states from his Al actions of mistreatment at . Your president lion he said Al one Pom Cia director William later said thai comment might have been a soviet Effort to avoid trouble before Reagan s meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev later this see defector on Page 28 Kenneth Cloch Owci is Reco erog Al a Hospital in stud Ming Austria. Injured american rescued after 23 Days on Glacier from stiff and wire reports Schlad Ming Austria a . Civilian working for the army in Heidel Berg was in Good condition tuesday after surviving 23 Days with a broken leg on an austrian Thomas Cichowicz 38, began a Solo climb oct. 11 of Wachstein a Moun Tain near Oberl Raum in North Central aus Tria about 35 Miles from Salzburg. Two Days later he fell while traversing the Halls Aelter Glacier and broke his leg authorities said. I was crazy and very dumb to go alone Cichowicz told reporters monday. Despite his injuries Cichowicz built a campsite and stayed there until Rescue workers found him monday and took him to a Hospital in Schlad Ming a nearby ski see rescued on Page 28 major spy coup Furns info embarrassment analyst by William Welch Washington a whatever his reason the return to the soviets of High level Kab defector Vitaly Yurchenko ii leaving the . Intelligence Community with egg on its face the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee says. No one but Yurchenko Mav know the full Story and . Experts fell into two Camps those believing him to be a soviet Plant placed Here to re defect in a Public display aimed at embarrassing the United states and perhaps tinge the upcoming Summit meeting be tween president Rengan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Summit or a Man who genuinely but perhaps impulsively defected three months ago then faced remorse for abandoning his wife his 16-year-old son and his country. There Are two possibilities said sen. Patrick Leahy d-vt., vice chairman of the intelligence committee. The tint is that he was a double agent All along an now is going out of his Way to Embarrass the United Stales As much As possible. The second possibility is that he s going Back he wants to go Back and he has to invent a Story for them that he Hopes they will in a remarkable news conference at the soviet embassy Yurchenko accused the Cia of kidnapping and drugging him three months ago in Rome holding him against his will at a Virginia Saf Chouse and threatening his life. He said he never told secrets unless he did so unknowingly while drugged and managed to escape his captors Over the weekend. The stale department dismissed his allegations and said Yurchenko was free to return to the soviet Union once the United Stales was assured he was doing see spy coup on Page 28 Bye Bye Humphrey be nand to Odb c flip hum Tolm ind the toward in Pacific Ocean after a Mot 3vi-Wek for news Ter end that made urn. Celebrity. Tea mixed up mammal. To needs sail Nater to Sun re ended Bis California Mesa Tea lure monday Clearing a Francisco s Golden Gate Bridge Al 4=36 in the of. Ter noon As people aboard a flotilla of mall tar and chilian boats cheered and aved Al him
