European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday May 18.1986 William Sofike once again Powers that be mount leak Campaign William Casey director of he Central Intelli a enc Agency appears to be getting no Rovou in the serv ice on the subject of leaks. Having been mud the in ugh in Stock at world Spoa Kery by Sis  of the defector Yurchenko he is now threatening journalists with jail terms for publishing secrets other than those leaked from inc top. He is joined in this always popular pastime of intimidation by David  a Minn chairman of the Senate Deim committee an intelligence. His heavily publicised Mill if crisis  seem in my i opinion. Eager los How he hits not become a Blabbermouth let me put Forward my own National a Timaly of the crack by United crackdown. John Mimi icon until two months Ngu the Cia s Den my director was he product of its intelligence gathering Side and resisted director Casey s policy with which i agree of putting missiles in the arms of Freedom lighters willing to shoot them at oppressors in Afghanistan Afri Ca and Nica Ngun. He was booted out and replaced by Robert gales who came up through the evaluation rather than gather ing Branch. Gates is thus More a Driver of spies than a spy by Trade. He is comfortable with the Casey Covert action and his Pride and Joy has been the National intelligence daily. This nid with its Blue cardboard cover and 10 or 12 pages of information is the evaluated product of the intelligence Community. The circulation is limited to about 200 officials whose lowest clearance is tap secret and who enjoy the thrill of inside ship six mornings a William Buckley week. On sundays they have to rely on the newspapers and can catch up on what is happening do not confuse the nid with the pub the presi Dent s daily briefing in the White cover which goes to Only a handful of people and which i presume contains poop from the Haman group As Well As from satellites and big ears. I used to confuse inc nid with the hew inter National dictionary Merriam Webster s unabridged and found in difficult to understand Why spooks were concerned that the nid is leaking.". Thai s it. Thai s the reason Casey is having fits losing sight of the freedoms we hired him to protest the nid is leaking. Rather than consider if secrets Are coming out of Cia or Asa no such Agency where fooling the polygraph is child s play the blame is being placed on the Consumers of intelligence the 200 nid subscribers a third of whom Are in the Pentagon. A Scapegoat was needed to Send a warning to the list and to justify inc lie Detector Experiment within the Pentagon. After a Story appeared in the Evans and Novak column about using Zaire As the distributor of missiles to the Sav Imbi insurgents in Angola inform Tion that May have been in the nid Michael Pillsbury. A defense official was fluttered and bounced. Mike the Pill was expendable As a Senate aide in the hard line Madison group during the Carter Era Pillsbury was a valued Casey Weinberger ally but now the Jesse Helms crowd is losing its clout and the firing of Mike the fill could serve As s warning to others. More Over a head on a Platter was needed for Zaire. Then Bill Casey went a Bridge too far. To scare the press he went to the Washington Post to say that if a curtain Bob Woodward Story was published he would recommend prosecution under some untested statute. I m not threatening  the Justice department however while willing to 30 after leaders in government is unwilling to join Casey in chilling the Leakes in the press. One reason is that Law enforcement officials have Long been aware of and Are disc Toetly curious about meetings held in Casey s Home alone Between the director and reporter Woodward who is writing a Book about thecia. -.,-. I would never ask Bob Woodward about that because a Man s sources or non sources arc nobody s Busi Ness but his own. Bui a few months Back i put the question buzzing around Justice directly to my old Friend Casey. I Haven t seen Woodward for is months was the Gruff reply. No basis at All to the obvious Fri wonder ment if Casey was the source of the stories he most complains about. He does readily admit seeing Wood Ward us he did me Long ago. I do not suggest that the director of Central Intelli gence has Ever Wen the source of a fact the government does not want known. But to the extent politicians on background seek to use journalists to Advance policy Casey and even higher officials Are  they will find their outlets turn user unfriendly when their carrots become Sticks. 19sfi, the new York times what exactly does Bush want to do about Oil prices the new York times headline on april z read Bush to seek saudi assistance in stabilizing plunging Oil  the Lead sentence written by Robert d. Hershey jr., was vice president Bush outlining a four nation trip to the Middle East that starts thursday said he would Tell saudi Arabia that the Protection of Ameri can Security interests requires action to stabilize the fall ing Price of  this column reported on april 8 it is most awfully perplexing what has come from George Bush during the past few Days in the matter of the Price of Oil. The vice president the press reported was resolved on arriving in saudi Arabia to plead with the sheiks to restrict the production of Oil so As to regularize the Price. The vice president of the United states ought t to find him self pleading with a Small foreign Power to oblige the american Economy by setting a phony Price on its prod uct.". And Here is a letter from the up i was very disappointed to read your piece Vou wrote on what the press reported i wish you would have  i said not some press report. I Don t mirth being castigated by a Friend when i go astray but to be blasted for going on a Price fixing Mission for wanting higher prices Etc. Ilain t so i. Bush enclosed a fact Sheet is included every thing he had said to the press concerning his Mission. The lend paragraph in the new York times Story reflected a pc flight briefing by or. Bush. The entire paragraph read our answer is Market Market. Let the Market forces work. I happen to believe and always have that a Strong Domestic . Industry is in the National Security interest vital interests of this country. I can  you at what Price i think that happens but and where it ceases to happen but 1 will be making Clear that this is in the National interests of the United  that much of the paragraph was quoted in full by the times. The last sentence was omitted. It reads but we re not going there on a Price Selling Mission when we ourselves favor Market forces now if i were King Solomon Here would be Ray. Distribution of blame. 1 the new York times should have quoted that last sentence. If in had done so the headline writer would Haw put less emphasis on or. Bush s intention to seek saudi arabian help in stabilizing Oil prices. 2 the columnist relied on the new York times own appraisal of or. Bush s Mission and perhaps erred in doing so. 3 or Bush is left with difficulties. Why because he said on two occasions that the Market Price is the Correct Price. But he also said that instability in Oil prices has an effect on National Security. Since an american citizen expects the vice presi Dent to be concerned with National Security it is a reasonable inference to suppose that he will put the requirements of National Security ahead of Market considerations. After All every time we buy a Cannonball we Are doing that. There is no Market value for our Sac base in Omaha it is the National Security that requires us to spend �300 billion or so every year to quran Lee our Security. Or. Bush said on april 7 in Dhahran in the United males. There is almost a euphoria about what the drop in Oil prices Means to inc recovery and to the investment and to the Standard of living of people. But there s the other Side to it that we can see very clearly indeed because we Are pledged today As we have been Over our life Ai a nation to the concept that in the United states a Strong Domestic Oil Industry is also Lully essential to the National Security of the unite states one is left perplexed. Doing something about the dangerous instability in the Price of Oil requires action by saudi Arabia to restrict production in order to lift the Price of Oil what or. Bush heatedly says he opposes or else we can Levy a lax on foreign Oil. Drive tog up the Price by our own motion. In his letter or. Bush writes. I Don t agree with you on the Oil import acc. Of but then what docs or. Bush propose in order to protect the Oil Industry he tells us is vital to . Security _ he does not Tell us which perhaps is Why the new York times and this old Friend of or. Bush Are confused