European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday january 1, 1986 columns Anthony Lewis administration confusing spy no with leaking would of. Unbelievable in fiction four american arrested on espionage charges in five jays two of them former employees or the super secret National Security Agency and the Central Intelli gence Agency. Secrets allegedly flowing for years 1o three different Powers the soviet Union China and Israel. If the damage to National Security is half is bad As official arc saying these arc among the must serious prosecutions brought under the espionage act since Congress passed it in 1917. But that raises a profound irony. While the government was trying to Cope Wilh the grave consequences of real spying it As bringing the weight of the espionage act Down upon someone who did not spy for any foreign Power. He acted not to weaken but to Alert the United Stales. And what he did caused no identifiable damage to the National Security. Those Are facts in he Case of Samuel Loring Morison a former Navy Intelli gence analyst who was convicted last month of violating the espionage act. He was sentenced to two years in prison even though what he did was not spying and has never before been the basis of an espionage act conviction. What Morison did was to leak three photographs taken from a . Satellite of a soviet aircraft Carrier under construction to Jane s defense weekly a British military Magazine. He was not paid. He did it he said because the car Rier was a significant new element in the soviet Fleet and publication would Alert americans to the threats Morison is deeply even obsessively Cor milled to the idea of a Strong . Navy. If americans knew what the rus sians were doing he said there would not be All this silly anti defense talk. The Reagan administration used the Marison Case to try to turn the espionage act into something the United Stales has never had a criminal statute against leaks. And by persuading tic trial judge and then he jury it did create something very much like the British official seems act. The official secrets act punishes Dis closure of official information even when it is published not slipped to an enemy and even when it does no provable harm. Howar Leinberg in the Morison Case a witness who had run our satellite photograph operation for 10 years said the russians knew All about it and would nol Benefit from the picture in Jane s. But the judge said the jury could weigh potential damage without limiting that Haiy term. The current atmosphere of alarm about real spying i suppose was at least partly responsible for Morison s prison term for a crime never before punished. But the Point of the Case is not Only the personal tragedy involved. The hallmark of a truly effective internal Security  Justice Patter Stewart of the supreme court said in j971, in the Pentagon papers ease would be the maximum possible disclosure recognizing thai secrecy can Best be preserved Only when credibility it truly maintained in other words Trie govern ment should focus on a limited area of True secrecy instead of using the Blunder Bliss approach and trying to stamp every thing secret. The Morison Case u the Blunderbuss approach. No real spy is going to be discouraged by the government fitful moves against leaks. That course wastes resources and weakens the credibility of he Effort to protect important secrets the prosecution of Morison also says a Good Deal about the  Faith of the Reagan administration. The foun Dation of our Constitution is the separa Tion of Powers. Congress makes Laws not the president if we need a Law against leaks the american Way would be to go to con Gress and ask for one. But attorney Gen eral Meese Wilh  talk of respect for the legislature and the danger of activist judge has not done that. He has asked the court to read the crime of leaking into a 68-year-old act against spying. Why because he knows that Congress would not pass a general Law against leaks. The end justifies the Means. Espionage and leaks Are wholly differ ent things in the american tradition. Spying strengthens foreign Power. Leak ing an everyday occurrence in washing ton is part of the process thai enables citizens to judge the policy of their government we think that process strength ens nol weaken America. Claw York Tymn our Mati Oual presti6e is at stake what will other countries to link if w cant , imteuk5emce?" . Should learn from Israel on fighting terrorism the French and Indian War of 1754-63 changed the Way War had been fought for centuries. The British fought the Way european nations always did troops marched in formation to the rail of Drums but the French taught by Indian allies brought u new style to conventional warfare. They caught their adversaries by Surprise often drop Ping out of Trees or emerging from concealed location. To overwhelm their unsuspecting enemy. This form of warfare continued through world War ii when advantage was gained through Surprise attacks Germany against Poland the soviet Union and others. Japan against the United states and concealing oneself from the enemy particularly the japanese in the South pacify. Thing changed drastically during the Vietnam War. Korttila National identification and armies were lacking replaced by groups of military trained volunteers who carried the Flag of no accepted nation and who melded into the civilian population Al Nightfall. From that base they Blini did heir conventional adversaries until the opposition finally threw up its hands in frustration and went Home. Atio important in the Vietnam War is that the mate rials used by the Viet Cong were supplied in Large measure by nations who Sal in the highest councils of the United nations. Now there is still another form of War perhaps worse than anything other than nuclear War. The world is paralysed by terrorists ruthless Lawless vicious murdering zealots who prey on innocent persons and place civilized nations trying to Deal with them in untenable positions. Do the civilized nations sit Back and let the scene play its course As the terrorists get their message to a watching world while their hostages die figuratively Inch by Inch and literally by the hour. Or do they storm the terrorists stage causing deaths of Many but snuffing out the terrorists before their cases reach our living rooms through television or be fore their demands arc met you will get compelling arguments on both sides. What should not get an argument is that those terrorists like All other terrorists Are gelling their Auto Matic weapons from somewhere their grenades their ammunition and yes even their intelligence. It would appear to me that the Best Way to Deal with terrorism today is to get at the roots of the cancer at those countries who support it with Money and arms let s not kid ourselves. We know who they Are and we ought to Deal with them economically and militarily and if we know the location of terrorist Baso then we ought to take a Cue from the israelis Knock them out assault them by air ind and sea. And Damn the consequences. We have to learn How to fight this new style of War. I be Long ago decided that there is no great value in trying to have world opinion on your Side it does t do a thing for you when your son is being held hostage it the hands of barbarians. Terrorists Are at War with All civilized people. They do nol ask if you Are socialist or capitalist if you Are compassionate or cold hearted if you Are a Mother or a grandmother even if you arc crippled or healthy. They Jusi kill for the pleasure and drop you onto the runway or into the sea. Barbarians cannot be dealt with As we Deal with nations no summits. They Musl be dealt Wilh the. Ave no Pace la e. E min stamp out this terrorist activity. No one should give any Quarter no place to hide far these  and. I might add. Those who do give shelter Materi als and encouragement to terrorists our . And Summit colleagues included should be dealt with just As if they themselves were the terrorists. Otherwise when will us this end111 it  ims co Newt str let