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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, June 20, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday june 20,1986alleged Security lapses at Lockheed to be probed b Norman Bmckay military writer Washington defense Secretary Caspar w. Wein Hotger has ordered a probe of allegations that hundreds if classified documents have been mis handled or arc missing from aircraft plants operated by the Luck heed corp. Robert Sims the i Pentagon s chief spokesman Sai Weinberger had a Sci cd a letter from rep. John d. Dingi la. I Mich on wednesday spelling out the charge and was taking them quite seriously the Secretary has asked thai it be looked into promptly and in will be by our inspector general Sims said. The Secretary today has asked for a prompt review of the allegations because they re quite  Weinberger wants an assessment As soon As Possi ble Sims added Dingel chairman of the House Energy and com Merce committee As Well As its Unchu nations subcommittee said s review by his staff had convinced him the defense department s secret programs were no being properly managed Dingell said hundreds of secret or top secret documents appear 10 be missing from a Lockheed Plant in California that s engaged in classified work. Ding Lydid not elaborate in his letter 10 Weinberger but con Gressional sources who provided detail Only on the condition they not be identified by name said the con Gressman s inquiry involved work by Lockheed on fighter plane incorporating Steath technology. The Pentagon has Long acknowledged its work on a stealth bomber but has refused to confirm it has contracted for any work on a similar fighter that could evade enemy radar. However such work has been widely reported in various Trade publications. In his Leiter. Dingell also charged that two Lockheed employees who Hao alerted bin Tii the musing documents had been subjected to abusive treatment an reassigned within the company. Lockheed which established a new Headquarters in the los Angeles suburb of Calabasas this week after 58 years of being based in nearby Burbank is tic nation s Sim largest defense contractor. It won Pentagon con tracts in fiscal 1985 totalling s5.1 billion. The company dented in a prepared statement wednesday that it had taken punitive action against any employees. It also said however in had launched an internal investigation of the charges and was cooperating fully with government and congressional officials. We have no indication of a Compromise of an classified material the company added. Dingell claimed in his letter to Weinberger that his subcommittee staff had reviewed an internal audit by Lockheed that showed hundreds of documents tapes and blueprints could not be accounted for. He also said the panel has evidence that official documents Are being forged in an Effort to find1 the missing documents and other  for example the subcommittee Bas copies of a number of destruction records that have been created in the last couple of months to account for document allegedly destroyed year ago he wrote. New suit by Hauptmann s widow claims kidnapping was inside Job new York a a lawyer representing the widow of the Man executed 50 years ago for the Lind Bergh Bahy abduction death says new evidence show the wrong person was put 10 death and the crime was an inside Job. Attorney Robert Bryan on wednesday announced the filing of a so million Federal lawsuit in Newark . On behalf of Anna Hauptmann the b7-year-Oldwidow of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. The new York Carpenter was electrocuted in new Jersey in 1936 for the murder of aviation Pioneer Charles a. Lindbergh s infant son. Bryan said mrs. Hauptmann will withdraw the jaw suit and drop any financial claim if the state of new Jersey recognizes that Hauptmann did not receive fair trial and was innocent this Case is of such magnitude she wrong is so great that Money pales in comparison. We want Rich Ard Hauptmann s name cleared the attorney told a news conference at the Roosevelt hotel. The lawsuit accuses Hauptmann s prosecutor for Mer new Jersey attorney general David t. Wilc Niz and other authorities of engaging in fraud and sup pressing evidence. Bryan alleged the prosecution bribed threatened or hid witnesses who could have cleared Hauptmann. He said new Jersey authorities went after Haupt Mann under tremendous pressure from a Public that wanted someone brought to Justice for slaying the son of a Man who had become a world idol by flying Solo across the Atlantic. Wilems won the ease bul he lost his soul mrs. Hauptmann said. The whole Iraj was built up on lie Sand lies and  through his Secretary the 90-year-old retired prosecutor called the allegations ridiculous Secretary an Geline Pucci said Wikoli has been ill for several Days. Bryan said Hauptmann was played fora Patsy by his Friend Isidor Fisch who the attorney said was actually involved in the kidnapping. Hauptmann had testified thai Ransom Money police found in his garage was Given to him by Futsch for safekeeping just before fish left to visit Germany where he died a few months later. Bryan said the new evidence included statements by a handwriting expert who said Fisch penned the ran som notes and a witness who said he saw Fisch near the Lindbergh Home in Hopewell ., a Shon time before the narc i 1932 kidnapping. The lawsuit alleged thai evidence indicated the kid napping included at least one servant in the Lindbergh household or that of Lindbergh s Falber in Law Dwight Morrow and possibly a family member. Neither was. Lawyer Robert brei i and Anna i Hauptmann announce a lawsuit charging her husband Bruno Richard haunt Nusin was framed identified and Bryan refused to elaborate. The lawsuit also quotes a witness As saying a Man named fish went out on three or four occasions with Violet Sharp and othe Whailey. Lindbergh Morrow serv ants the lawsuit was the second in five years seeking to Clear Hauptmann s name on the basis of new evidence. A 1981 lawsuit brought by mrs. Hauptmann was thrown out by a Federal judge who ruled in had Bee brought Loo late and there were insufficient facts to support the claim. The new lawsuit is based on 22,000 pages of investigative documents gathered by the late Harold Hoffman who was governor of new Jersey when Hauptmann was executed Bryan said Hoffman had doubts about Hauptmann s guilt and undertook his own investigation after the trial the attorney said. Stateside lonely Black Bear makes excursion to Rhode Island Johnston. . A police realized in was not going id be an Ordinary Day when some one called to say Here was a Large Black animal near the Baptist  we sent the dog officer hut in turned out 10 be a Bear said sgt. Enilio Babiloni. The 6-foot-tall Black Bear who apparently wandered into Rhode Island looking for a male led i5 police officers on a five hour Chas wednesday through Woods across highways and into a store. The cat and mouse game ended when he  by officials from the us. Fish and wildlife service and put in the Back of a truck to Lake him 10 Northern new Hampshire. With the tranquil scr he seemed quit Friendly. He was conscious and his eyes were open but he could t stand. We never once heard him growl Sai  
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