European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday. February 22, 1986 officials deny politics prompted release of Nicaragua document i,., Riott did the admin St Washington a the while House denounced As utterly untrue Fri Day a charge by the Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee that an administration decision to release an intercepted nicaraguan government document was a political tactic jeopardizing sensitive intelligence sources. White House spokesman Edward do arc Jian  after the chairman sen. David Duran Burger r-minn., declared that the while House plan to release the document was an outrageous attempt to por tray As a Stooge of communism any oppo nent of military Aid to rebels fighting Nicaragua s leftist regime. Sen. Durnberger s statement that the White House intends to make Public a sensitive classified document to lobby the con Gress is utterly untrue Djerejian said. At the urging of members of Congress who were Given the Opportunity to review sensitive classified information the state department this coming week plans to Issue information regarding the nicaraguan government s efforts aimed at influencing the american political process including disinformation efforts he said. We believe the . Government has the responsibility to let the american Public know of this scheme of the nicaraguan government by we certainly will not Compro Mise sensitive sources and methods As the senator s statement  in a statement released thursday do Renber Ger said the decision jeopardized sensitive intelligence sources in a transparent political tactic intended to gain support for president Reagan s plan to Send the Contr rebels $100 million in lethal and non lethal convicted spy Larry Chin kills self in jail Washington up retired Cia analyst Larry we Tai Chin convicted of spying for China killed himself in his jail cell by placing a plastic bag Over his head a Justice department spokesman said Friday. Chin 63, convicted earlier this month of espionage suffocated himself in his cell at the Prince William county jail where he was being held pending sentencing Justice department spokesman John Russell said. A spokeswoman for the is. Marshals service confirmed Chin had killed himself but declined to provide details until Chin s family was told of his death. The jury deliberated Only three hour Sand 35 minutes feb. 7 to find Chin guilty of 17 counts of espionage and income tax Vio lations. Chin admitted spying for China for More than 30 years but insisted he had done it to promote better relations Between China and the United states. A naturalized american Chin was born in China and began work for the United Stales As an interpreter in the is. Consul ate in Shanghai China in 1948. He worked for the . Consulate in Hong Kong be fore coming to the United states in 1952and joining the Cia s foreign broadcast information service. He retired in 19u1 but continued to serve As a Cia consultant. Authorities said he had Access to Many of the government s top secrets involving asian affairs. Chin lived in a Washington suburb an often travelled to Asia where authorities said he met with chinese intelligence authorities. He told friends he was Lucky at gambling and that is where his extra Money funds provided him by the chinese came from.  real betrayal Here is to the Ameri can people who look to senior leadership to live up to their responsibility to protect intelligence from political exploitation Durnberger said. Sen. Patrick j. Leahy d-vt., the Intelli gence panel s vice chairman added later that he was As frustrated As Durenberger when the administration selectively leaks classified information to bolster a pol icy. And especially when there s a suggestion that if you Don t agree with them you re not  earlier this week the White House lob bied members of Congress by showing them a document that administration officials including Cia director William j. Casey said revealed the leftist nicaraguan Sandi nista government planned a disinformation  officials initially refused to release the classified document to the Public but Djerejian said a declassified ver Sion would be released monday. Congressmen who were shown the document said it described a Campaign by peace advocates that would include fit ins information about the Success of Nicaragua s Coffee crop and Flowers sent to Capitol Hill  Abrams assistant Secretary of state for inter american affairs said the Gobi i a jul a document was nicaraguan and mentions m As Likely o bang Only disaster and american  he added that some of shame to the United states. Constitutional rights Sai the "dmni51-. Lion s use of the document has shades of mccarthyism about it. They re red baiting the peace organizations. Rep Dav Mccurdy. Pm kla., a key mod Erate on the House intelligence committee said he had not seen the document but was constantly amazed at the administrations attitude toward classified , who was one of those provid ing crucial swing votes in giving the administration $27 million in non lethal Aid forthe contras last year also said that if Rea Gan s Contra Aid proposal is sent to con Gress As advertised it will fail he added that the White House appeared More concerned about politics than policy m its determination to resume lethal military Aid to the contras who were supported by the Cia from 1981 to 1984. He said a greater emphasis is needed on diplomacy. Mccurdy also criticized the Quality of is. Intelligence analysis on Nicaragua contending that there is too much upper level handling of the intelligence. The politicization of this area of intelligence has been such that it is  spokeswoman Kathy Pherson said the spy Agency had no comment on the  thursday House speaker Thom As p. O Neill jr., a mass attacked Rea Gan s plan for Contra military and logistical n i i la i i Krinn Nulu disaster and pm Clia. A Awve my those americans would be shocked to find their names appearing in such a document As the people the sandinista plan to use. Rep. Don Edwards d-Calif., chairman of the House judiciary subcommittee on confronted with Well armed government troops the ragtag Contra forces will fac Only Slaughter and a humiliation. And the shame of defeat will bring our troops in there o Neill warned. Back to school a photo aids victim Ryu White 14, and his Abler Andrei Leive their Kokomo ind Home in snowstorm logo to Western Middle school Ryan who he been burned from school because be has acquired immune deficiency disease at tended Bis seventh Grade classes Friday for the first time in More than a year after Sute health ant Britie cleared the Way. Actor Yul Brynner up Bolo Brynner warns on smoking from the grave new York a actor Yul Bryn Ner who died in october of lung cancer is starring in an anti smoking commercial that an american cancer society spokeswoman Calls a voice from the  30-second Public service announce ment for the cancer society which has been running since wednesday shows Brynner looking sternly into the camera and saying now that i m gone Don t smoke whatever you do just Don t  the screen fades to a Symbol of the can cer society and in the background Bryn Ner s voice says if i could take Back that smoking we would t be talking about any cancer. I m convinced of that.". Spokeswoman Susan islam called the commercial the most powerful personal indictment of smoking we be Ever produced she said the warning is a voice from the grave who believed tie died front lung cancer because he  Brynner most famous for his role As the King of Siam in the King and 1," in t the first actor with cancer to speak out. In 1968, actor William Tallman who played the character Hamilton Berger on the Perry Mason show urged people notto smoke. He died of lung cancer four Ween after filming the Appeal. Political prize won Stuttgart Germany i Werner Nachmann president of the ceo trial Council of jews in Germany has bom awarded a political prize for Champi Oain the postwar reconciliation of germans a jews. Nachmann was awarded the 22od Oeal Theodor Heuss prize for constructive Foial engagement at a Stuttgart ceremony. Son held in murder of newspaper official Glendale Calif. Up the teen age son of filipino american newspaper executive Oscar Salvatierra was arrested on suspicion of murdering his father police said Friday quashing reports of political assassination. Arnol Salvatierra 17, was being held at the Glendale City jail and Bis Girlfriend Cressa Kay Deburger 18, was being held As an accomplice in the wednesday killing of Salvatierra a vocal opponent of philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. We further believe that or. Salvatierra s son and his Girlfriend took advantage of the political problems and climate presently existing in the Philippines to Coyer their involvement in the homicide police chief David Thompson Laid. Because of the political questions that erupted immediately after the killing the Fri was investigating it As a possible terrorist act or the work of extortionist. Fri spokesman Fred Reagan said Ula gency has focused on possible violations of Federal Law regarding terrorism civil rights and the extortion of commercial enter  an autopsy report showed Salvatierra died of multiple gunshots to the Bead suffered in a wednesday attack at his hone