European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 9, 1s86 the stars and stripes Dod seeks end to shipping Coal to bases Pottsville a. Not millions of dollars Are spent each year to strip Pennsylvania Coal 3,000 Miles to heat american bases in Germany and the Pentagon wants it slopped. Defense department officials say the Coal is unneeded and the Money waned and they Are stepping up their efforts o end the practice. But they i73 Oil embargo. Unlike other sources of Energy he added Coal depots also Are virtually Invulnerable to terrorist attacks. Secure and indigenous Energy supplies on nato bases would preclude the possibility of their Reliance on soviet Gas supplies said Roger Robinson a former senior director at the National Security Council but the Pentagon dismisses those arguments As Little More than Dumago Gutry. Millard k. Carr an assistant in the defense Energy programs office sail the Pentagon wants to use German Energy to heat Barracks which would be evacuated during a mobilization. In a War the troops would he  he said. Meanwhile in this country the National defense court cil foundation says the military May have to junk operating boilers in Energy Rich portions of the country like Virginia California and the Southwest and install expensive equipment needed to Burn Anthracite. The Pentagon has estimated that it will Cost si.4 billion to convert those bases and would simultaneously increase operating expenses. In return re it May save up to �22 Mil lion a year in fuel costs the Council said. Jones and Carr said the Pentagon would like to switch some bases in the ., As Well As overseas to using plentiful natural Gas. But for the time being at least that is also prohibited by the 19r6 fuel use act. Before the defense department can switch any facilities la natural Gas a facility by facility study of the costs and benefits must be carried Oul. And that could Lake several  has a better example of paralysis through Analy Sis existed Copulos wrote in a recent analysis of the Issue. At least where the military budget is concerned As Pogo said we have met the enemy and they is us " Money Shorf Security workers potential spies paper says Washington a records filed in us. District court in Baltimore since 1981 show that 56  Government employees who work in intelligence or other National Security positions have declared bankruptcy according to a published report the Caw of Ronald a Pellon convicted of Selling top secret information to the soviet Union for $35.000 after declaring bankruptcy and resigning his s24.500-a-year Job with the National Security Agency has raised concern that Security workers in financial trouble Are vulnerable to being recruited As spies. A Survey by the Washington Post of 2.536 bankruptcy files in Maryland and 900 Flics in Federal courts in Virginia and the District of Columbia showed those filing for bankruptcy included six Asa employees three defense department employees based at fort Mcade my Shensa Headquarters three Navy technicians at fort Meade ii other defense department employees three Cia employees and one slate department employee. The Asa is a supers Cret organization responsible for protecting  Codes and intercepting and decoding for eign communications. The Post said there were no indications that any of the people who bad tiled for bankruptcy were engaged in  Asa employee who was not identified by the Post Laid he bad filed for Persona bankruptcy three limes in his 17 years As a Ligo Aji intelligence specialist with top secret clearance. But be did the Asa Learned of his financial problems Only after nil cond bankruptcy. If a person u having financial problems he is vulnerable lie signal intelligence specialist said adding that unlike Pellon he would never consider Selling secret to cover his  re sitting ducks for the Kab the soviet intelligence Agency agreed a senior intelligence official who was not identified by the newspaper. Among inc other examples listed by the Post was an executive Secretary to an assistant Secretary of the Navy. The executive Secretary dealt with highly sensitive material and filed for bankruptcy in 1983 listing debts totalling j7i,000. Another example was a Navy  technician at fort Meade whose top secret cry Plo clearance gave him Access the most sensitive National Security communication within the military. He filed bankruptcy in 1981. Listing  agencies seeking to identify financially troubled employees have been hampered by Legal restrictions. The Federal privacy act of 1978 forbids an employer from asking about a worker s personal finances unless the worker is under Active investigation or the records have been subpoenaed by a court or grand j u by. Juri Valdov the general manager of Northwest Federal credit Union which serves thousands of current and retired Cia employees said the credit Union has cited the privacy act a number of times in denying information to Cia officials who asked financial questions about employees. Bankruptcy Hies however Are Public records and any one can examine them to learn tin employer of a person filing for bankruptcy. The Hies frequently give details of the Job and intimate details of indebtedness. Intelligence sources told the Post that there was no evidence that the Kab has an Active program to recruit Security workers in financial trouble. Rather the sources Olid the Kab Waits for an approach As in the Case of Petton who telephoned the soviet embassy