European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 1986 the stars and stripes page3 Lewis Powell works on a billboard in Columbia s.c., causing a few double no sign of a big head on this expert skier lakes from passers by. His head appears in the right place to form an out of pro portion part of the skier depicted in the giant advertisement. Powell was in the up photo process of dismantling the billboard to replace it with a new and. Reports hint deeper role by Arthur Walker new York up indication that admitted soviet spy John Walker May have lied during state s evidence testimony have caused official concern that his brother Arthur played a deeper and More damaging role in the family spy ring the new York times said. The newspaper in its saturday editions quoted an unidentified source As saying that John Walker had been deceptive when questioned about whether her Arthur had formed what the govern ment has called one of the most Damag ing spy operations in . History. John Walker s attorney Fred Bennett told the times he had been informed some prosecutors were not totally satisfied with his client s Candor during questioning in which a lie Detector was used. In the plea bargain John Walker and his son Michael agreed to submit to Peri Odic polygraph testing to assure that their testimony was honest. One source cited by the times speculated that by lying about the spy ring in which the four men sold Navy secrets to the soviet Union for hundreds of thousands of dollars John Walker might be trying to win favor with his former soviet benefactors in the Hope that they might make a spy Swap. If it is determined that Arthur Walker formed the ring while he was still a lieu tenant commander in the Navy when he had Access to secrets about the . Submarine Fleet the potential loss of information to the soviet Union could be far More damaging than is now believed the times said. Arthur Walker was convicted of steal ing classified documents from the use corp., a Virginia defense contractor where he worked As an Engineer after his retirement from the Navy although at his sentencing in september i98s, prosecutors said new evidence indicated his espionage career might have begun much earlier the times said. Furthermore if a Federal judge deter mines John Walker lied during question ing Federal prosecutors could be forced to break the plea bargain in which John Walker and his son agreed to testify against former Navy radioman Jerr Whitworth the times said. Whitworth was convicted of espionage in the Walker family spy ring and sentenced to 365 years in Anson in a trial i which John Walker testified for the prosecution. 10 libyans were expelled 1981 plot against . Envoy reported in Italy Rome up ten libyans were expelled from Italy in 1981 because they were suspected of plotting to assassinate . Ambassador Maxwell Rabb the italian news Agency Ansa said Friday. The Agency cited sources involved in the Case for its report which emerged in the Wake of official confirmation that two libyans were expelled around the same time for plotting a similar attack on Sandra per Tini who was president of Italy at the time. Ansa quoted its sources As saying the 10 libyans were expelled from Italy because they were suspected of being involved in a possible terrorist attack against . Ambassador it said the scare started in september 1981, when italian Security forces were informed of the arrival in Italy of a suspect Arab later information was More precise and confirmed that the objective of the group was to carry out a terrorist attack against ambassador Rabb Ansa re ported. The sources said that after the suspected assassination plot was discovered by italian anti terrorist police Rabb left Rome at the request of italian Security authorities and returned to the United states for a a . Embassy spokesman had no immediate com ment on the Ansa report
