European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday october 5, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 Daniloff tells details of imprisonment / did t lose my marbles he writes in 5-Page account not Nicholas s. Daniloff Lig Cnoc and secret police Agency old him the delivery where there was first Lime in a civil his confinement of the package to the . Embassy was proof of his inc end of the first few inti it ugh Martir Telal hints Pymn Armp or Livili run Terr in nil. "i1, in a Nien i Washington no describing for he firs Lim detail in a Moscow prison says he was manipulated into moments of hopeless despair physical nausea and even Good feelings about some of my Dan lofts five Page account is in lie ocl. 13 Issue of the newsmagazine published saturday. Daniloff who returned to the United is ales on tuesday depicts his 13-Day confinement As an ordeal of intense interrogations spartan accommodations in adequate food and draining uncertainty about his future. Bui he denies accounts by administration officials that he was in danger of cracking under the pressure. "1 did t lose my marbles Danilof says in the article. . Officials said that concern about Daniloff menial stale caused the while House to accept an arrangement for his release from prison sept. 12 thai fail to meet Washington s slated position that the Daniloff Case not be equated with the ease of Cannady f. Zakharov a soviet physicist arrested in new Yorkton aug. 23 on espionage charges. Zakharov was released from a Federal prison in new York the same Day that Daniloff was allowed to leave Kcf Ortolo prison. Zakharov was allowed to return to the soviet Union last week after pleading no contest to the espionage charges. In the . News article Dani Loit confirms that in 1985, he delivered a package to the . Embassy in Moscow thai he believed even at the time came from a Kab agent. Administration officials said last week inc handling of inc material by Daniloff and american diplomats might have been distorted by the soviet authorities in a trial to make Dani Loit look like n spy. Daniloff says in the article that his Kab interrogator Valery d. Scruad Cycz a colonel in the soviet intelligence Tol o espionage activities. Daniloff says he found the unsolicited letter addressed to the . Ambassador in his Mailbox took it to the embassy and answered some questions from the embassy about the person it presumably came from a priest who identified Himsel fas father roman. He says he asked scr Gadayev what should 1 have done ignore it scr Gadayev according to Daniloff suggested that he should not have had any dealings with the priest administration officials said american intelligence agents in Moscow operating there under diplomatic cover should not have questioned Daniloff about the material because it left the appearance that the news Man was involved in espionage activities. After receiving the material which reportedly included n letter addressed to William j. Casey the director of the Central intelligence Agency at least one embassy officer contacted the priest and informed him it had been received. Inv Celia the soviet government daily newspaper said sept. 8 that evidence of Dan lofts spy activities included he Call 10 the priest by Paul m. Stombaugh an embassy officer who was expelled from the soviet Union in june 1985, on charges of espionage activities. American correspondents in Moscow generally do not know the identity of . Intelligence agents most of whom Are thought to work at the embassy posing As diplomats. Calling his time in prison mental torture Daniloff says ser Gadayev wms a pro who played with my emotions posing alternatively As a Good cnp1 and a bad cop " Dani Loit adds he controlled All information that reached me. He controlled my food my exercise my life. By the time i was freed he had made me feel guilt Al the in of e first few interrogation sessions Daniloff recalls i d fed not so much fatigue but per haps depression. I d feel very burdened. And i had this overwhelming nausea about the whole situation he says without Friend or Legal counsel 1 Felt increasingly vulnerable. With time i Felt i was digging my own grave each time i opened my when he was first brought to the prison in hand cuffs Daniloff says i Felt hopelessly alone. How was i to know that i was t forgotten during the interrogation sessions Dani Loit says questions and answers were written Down and he was permitted to modify his comments before signing inc papers. Several times scr Gadayev helped him formulate the answers in a Way thai presented a better de sense Daniloff says. He says i never signed any document that said that i agreed with he Daniloff arrested aug 30. Reports that prison Rou Tine was numbing lie la a Small basement cell with a soviet scientist. Appeared to be there to inform on Daniloff. To pass the time. Dan Ilott says he burrowed from the prison Library a copy of the Little Napoleon by Victor Hugo published in russian. "1 found that sometimes i would just stare and stare Al a Page he says. "1 could t absorb it he adds i would sit there for two or three hours holding the Hook in front of me because i decided i d rather stare at the pages than gel into conversation with my and 1 found he says thai the More i held the Book in front of me. The More it had a tendency to pacify sex chief Justice presents gift to Daniloff Lake Buena Vista Fla. A former chief Justice Warren Burger presented journalist Nicholas Daniloff with a copy of the Constitution saturday and wrote on the document you have seen and Felt the Daniloff Moscow correspondent fur . News & world report was seized last month by soviet authorities and accused of being a spy then released last week after lengthy superpower Neotia two were attending a combination kick off of the Constitution s Bicentennial and Celebration of Watt Disney world s 15th declaration of Independence was a Promise. The revolution brought us our Independence and he Constitution is what we did with our Independence Burger said. Burger presented Disney world with a display of 18th-Century Memorabilia for a two year exhibit on the Constitution at Ecol Center. The artefacts include a desk that James Madison used to draft constitutional convention papers a replica of the chair used by George washing ton during the convention and a 1794 government order signed by both Washington and Alexander Hamilton. Burger accompanied by his grandchildren Sal at Madison s desk and explained the exhibit to , accompanied by his wife Ruth and children Caleb and Miranda addressed other journalists attending the Celebration on Friday Michael Eisner chairman and chief executive officer of Wall Disney co., said Disney world is an appropriate place to publicize the Constitution Cele bration which began sept. 11 at Annap Olis company is better Able to communicate with the american Public than the Disney company Eisner said guests Al tending Walt Disney world s 15lh birthday party Friday night and Ecol Center s Salute to inc Bicentennial became the stars of z special version of the Disney sunday movie to be broadcast nov. 2 former chief Justice Warren Burger sits in the midst of artefacts from the 1787 signing of the is. Constitution
