European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. October 12, 1986 the stars and stripe8  dollars May Aid Sovi to salary kickbacks called a or subsidy by Cox Newt sen a Washington soviet spying in the United tales ii being funded in pan with american dollars obtained through salary kickbacks from russians employed by the . Secretarial according to Diplo Mill Detector and . Intelligence reports. Tho i familiar with the Kickback scheme say it has been going on for years and also involves . Employees from other Eastern bloc countries. Together it ii estimated that last year alone these countries received around $20 million in kickbacks. About a quartet of thai came from the United states a provides roughly one to my of the United a Lloyw operating funds. Lam unclear exactly what portion of the Kickback a Isi Ted for spying but a Senate intelligence committee report prepared it year say it is a major subsidy to soviet diplomatic and intelligence  i the fuck stack scheme. Soviet and Eastern bloc " by the secretariat the Organiza to l  body Are paid directly by the United nation in . Dollars. According to numerous. Accounts these employee an required to Remil their salaries to their respective government which then pay them a lesser amount that is typically based on a much lower wage scale used for their Diplo Forejtt. Secretariat employee Are relative a due to the above Normal Cost of living epic r to Witni in new York. But Many soviets t. J to the secretariat reside in a soviet com Pound in the Riverdale Section of the Bronx greatly red cog their living expenses. La addition to salary kickbacks the Cia and of behave Enoch used that soviet employees who Nave paid into the . S pension fund also an required to Wilh Diw their total contribution to when they leave their secretarial jobs. That Money is then tuned Over u Itacir Azov Tennent. The Kickback practices have been pretty Well con form Ether virtually All of the defectors we have inner vowed said Charles m. Lichenstein who was .Atdstant ambassador to the United nations when he resigned in 1984. The Fri has a massive amount  on  in a letter to . Secretary general Javier Perez dec Cedar Titt february american . Ambassador Venton a. Walters termed the Kickback scheme unacceptable and asked him to initiate actions to end . But spokesman for Perez de Cuellar said last wee that tie Secretary general is powerless 10 Stop the prac Tice. We have not acknowledged that the practice exists said spokesman Joe Sills because what Hap pens to the paychecks of the staff members once reissue them is beyond our  if the Kickback scheme exists he continued the this is something that should be a problem Between the . And the soviet  according to state department figures for 1985,there were 588 soviets and ban europeans assigned to the secretariat. These employees obtained their Job through a quota system under which member countries the Fri has a massive amount of information on this.1 Charles m. Lichenstein essentially Grant their diplomats an extended leave of absence to Fin secretariat positions. These secretariat employees function As International civil servants and take an oath not to seek or accept instructions in regard to the performance of my duties from any government or other authority external to the  Anatoly Khudiakov a spokesman for the soviet Union s. . Mission in new York said he was unaware of the alleged Kickback practice. But the Fri Cia and soviet defectors to the Westall contend that Many of the secretariat s soviet or East european employees actually use their jobs Pri Marily for spying. And they say the vast majority of them Are required to Lack Back a portion of their salary which is paid in . Dollars from the secretariat. One of those reporting the practice to the Fri Anocia was Arkady n. Shevchenko former under Secre tary general of the . Who in 1978 became the High est ranking soviet official Ever to defect to the United Stales. Shevchenko declined to be interviewed far this Story but he briefly touched on the Kickback scheme in his Best Selling Book breaking with  at the end of each pay period he recalled soviet employees of the secretariat lined up at the Mission bookkeeper s office to hand Over the Money they museum piece satellite s launch of delayed twice during week Landenberg fab Calif. A for the Sec Ond Tea in � week technical problems delayed the Laundle of a research satellite that spent 13 years ondi pity at ftfflfa""1 museum the air Force said. Try planed launch was scrubbed when a test re Vian Scopes in the satellite s guidance , 140 Miles Northwest of los � Ofa overal weeks expected  satellite. J from the Booster and the problem is Cor Anim min launch Dale hat been act Short  bin Ementi cod auroral research is pm Atlear fit was scheduled for l us  Ujj Bat wed by Uttof was delayed to give Tschoi com time to Tinaa gear Box on the erector launch a  Tequ combination from  to vertical  z75fomtd satellite contains three experiments  Between ground Sta few Haber and Survey Wace satellites that orbit on display for 13 Yean at the Smithun min air and space museum in Washington Todd u. Jofan sub Ivan an air Force spokesman. Tha sate Lile started out As a Navy navigation and a  Beth Ullh a from we had a Model that looked exactly like it and did not have flight qualified hardware so we traded with the Smith ionian Sullivan said. They be got the Model Andreve got a satellite qualified forgoing into  the satellite rocket combination cod a Little Over $20million, Sullivan said adding that he government Laved s2 million by recycling the satellite anon additional 16million to is million to using spare parts to help build the scout rocket the a maoist launch vehicle in the us. Inventory. Previously scout rockets made 106 successful  sri Laura  anew York baled spokesman Tor Ltd aerospace and defend Secco the Abas company thai builds Couta Polar Bear s experiments Are meant to help the air Force learn to reduce interference from natural Phenomena said Sulci Van. The experiments Are the air Force geophysics Laboratory s auroral imaging Remote sensor or airs which will photo graph the Aurora Broeils or Northern lights create when  particles Are pulled into the Polar regions by Earth s magnetic Field. The defense Nudera Agency s Beacon Experiment which will Sample electrically charged particles called electrons and measure distortion of Earth at mos pen above the poles. Johns Hopkins Nivert Forti maj Rometer Dat processor Experiment which Sullivan said win Meondre magnetic Fields Over the North an Souta Pohn and heft Simon the sate ii to conduct the first two Experiment. Earned at the United nations. The Mission required Al soviet nationals employed in the secretariat to Cash their paychecks before coming to it financial office where they were obliged to turn in All their Cash. They would then be paid Uteri salary1 according to Besci reestablished by the soviet govern Zinent which deducted a considerable amount of Money received from  through the Kickback i Shevchenko continued the United states indirectly finance the activity of soviet intelligence  in an interview us Henstein said it was difficult to determine How much of the Money earned through kickbacks goo for spying but if a very Large an very valuable Reservoir of Bard currency win Chi gives them the kind of Pool they need for. Intelligence operations. Lichenstein said he Kickback operation among other Eastern bloc countries is roughly comparable but it would vary from Mission to Mission arid som of them Are obviously stricter than others.". It is my understanding that the bulgarians Are Clos est to the soviets in this regard he said. The kickbacks have raised the in of some in con Gress who Are demanding that . Contributions to the United nations be Cut As punishment two Republican congressmen pal Swindall of Georgia and Don Sundquist of Tennessee have included language in a congressional funding bit that would trim close to $18 million in . Contributions to the United nations. The reduction his been approved by both Chambers and is part of a Bill now being debated by a House serial conference commit tee. Swindall said that they would have sought $20 Mil lion in reductions the annual amount of kickbacks suspected Bill that $18 million was the maximum inso called discretionary Money that could be Cut without the United slates violating its legally binding minimum funding obligations to the . Swindall who said he has reviewed Fri interview with soviet defectors said of the kickbacks there s no question ibis is  Sundquist has been pressing the state Depar Mentlo pressure the soviets to Stop the practice but he said they have done Little. But clearly we be gotten their attention through the proposed nuding reduction he said. However . Spokesman Sills said the reductions Are misguided. We Don t see any real justification for punishing the . For something Over which we have no con Trot he said. Tall drink a wine Bonk reacted to a the wrist Tav to brate fat a photo to port Veatlas Fiance. To to Tabor Honda Iso liners