European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 17, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 9 Csc admits plan to get Row data Dea backed off after arms request Washington dim a while. House official Ikis acknowledged he approved the issuing of government credentials to a private group in 1983 so ii could clandestinely enter Loos 10 scorch for americans who Midlil he held prisoners of War. The notional Security Council s plan to use private individuals for intelligence gathering in Southeast Asia predated by nearly two years a similar operation in Iran that has been sharply Crivici cd by investigators. Csc official Richard chi1dr is said in an interview Friday that he consented to n plan never carried out in furnish drug enforcement administration credentials to group members so they could travel freely in Thailand before entering Laos. The private group headed by John la Boutillier a new York Republican congressman from 1980 to 19s2, was to search for . Military men who might have been held captive since the Vietnam War. Childness snid i informed William Clark then National Security adviser of i he proposed Laos operation shortly before a planning session in the Call of 1983. Clark who served in that Posi Tion from february 1982 to november 1983, encouraged him to proceed with the session Childress said. Francis Mullen the Dea adminis Trator at inc Lime who Alsa approved the plan said his Agency started proc Essing credentials for Lubou Lillior s group in late 1983 but backed off when the former congressman asked the Dea Tor help in obtaining guns and Field radios. Mullen said he walked be cause he fell such involvement would exceed the drug Agency s proper role. He said he agreed to Lebourt Lucr s  tial proposal Only after the former con Gressman consented to also try to identify zones where drug crops were being grown in Thailand.  said he hoped the drug Agency credentials which would have established that the hearer had in affiliation with the Dea hut not As an agent would persuade thai Border officials to allow members of his group into Laos he said inc thai based staff of his Skyhook ii organization consists of Ghoul 20 members who try to obtain information about american pos the Leboutillier plan was mentioned in a letter to the Tower com Mission which recently investigated Csc procedures in Selling arms 10 Iran and the nicaraguan rebels. The Tower commission and the Senate intelligence committee have criticized inc National Security coun cil for relying on a private network to collect intelligence about Iran in 198 and 1986. The panels said the opera Tion was amateurish and led to Possi ble abuses of policy and Law Childress. An army colonel in charge of asian affairs at the Csc. Said he was aware of the drawbacks of using the private group but went ahead anyway because of a shortage of . Intelligence agents and a desire to keep Arbou Lillior from acting unilaterally. Me said it is still Cagun administration policy to give serious consideration to private proposal for Intelli gence gathering ii Bou i american Hows in Southeast Asia. A Pentagon task Force concluded in october thai there is a Strong possibility americans arc being held Cap Tive in Vietnam or Laos. The conclusions of the task Force headed by retired . Gen. Eugene tight have been disavowed by the defense department. The . Government s official Posi Tion is that while there is no proof that american pos arc alive in Southeast Asia the possibility cannot be ignored it says that live sighting reports receive and will continue to receive Nec Essary priority and resources based on the Assumption int at least some americans arc still being held Cap  parades Greet their protectors of photo israeli youngsters dressed As clowns Stop to stake the hands of the armed Border policemen assigned la provide set drily far the purim carnival Parade. Dur ing the purim festival in Tel Aviv sunday youths dressed up in various costumes and marched Down the City streets with others in the procession. Kohl supports Berlin invitation to Honecker Hamburg. Germany us l Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl said sunday he supports West Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen s invitation to East Ger Man Leader Erich Honecker to attend the opening in West Berlin of the City s 7solh anniversary. Honecker has not responded to the invitation to the april 30 ceremony but Kohl said in an inter View on West Germany s second television pro Gram that he himself is ready to Al tend. Kohl who will be the main speaker at inc ceremony said he had discussed inc invitation Vith Dick gun and was in full agreement with it. Diepgen invited Honecker after Honecker had invited him to attend an oct. 23 ceremony also in Celebration of Fth City s anniversary in East Berlin. The invitations caused a controversy among officials of inc Allied Powers in the Western part of the City because of concern that East Germany would use the Exchange of visits to weaken their position in the City. East Germany contends hat there Are three states in Germany East Germany West Germany and Wisl Berlin and that West Berlin is an Independent entity in which Wisl Germany has no rights. Diepgen has said he wants to attend the East Ber Lin ceremony but he said he will consult with the americans British and French before making n decision. The three world War to allies have supreme occupation authority in Wisl Berlin. 110 Miles inside East Germany. If Diepgen attends the oct. 23 ceremony he vill become the first West Berlin mayor to participate in a ceremony on the other Side of the Berlin Wall. Hess asked son for cold weather gear paper reports Berlin up Rudolf Hess. 92, a former Deputy to Adolf Hitler has sent his son a four Page letter asking for ski goggles in Wear on his walks at the four Power Spandau prison where he has been held for More than 40 years a German newspaper reported sunday. Hess who is recuperating at a British military Hospital in West Berlin from pneumonia told his son in the Teller that he needs the ski goggles to help protect his eyes from the cold when he resumes his outdoor walks at the prison. The Bild am sonntag newspaper said Hess told his son a Woolen ski mask he sent him kept his face warm but the holes for the eyes let the cold in. The newspaper said the letter which it did not Date was stamped with inc Murk Allied prison and urged Wolf Ruedig or Hess 49, a Munich civil Engineer to Send inc ski goggles to his father. Send them As soon As possible. Again Snow and cold. Low temperatures Are predicted for the nest Days. The Winter has indeed returned the newspaper quoted the letter As saying. Hess the last surviving nazi Leader was sentenced to life at the prison and has been the Only inmate there since 1%6, when Albert up car another Hitler lop aide and Hitler youth Leader Hal Dir von Schirado were released. In his idler to his son Lac is also said the allies Britain France the soviet Union and the United states had dented him a pacemaker device for his ail ing heart. There v.35 a immediate Uin Mii m from the allies on the i Tii r and its reel Ems. Isl week. By Ulf Ruc Digi r hubs said his father s situation was  and he did not believe he would Ever be re turned to the 11 a Jear old prison. Lieu was sentenced for life oct. I 1946, at the Nuernberg trial of leading nazis. He has been a captive since May 10, 1941, when he parachuted into Scot land on what he tailed a peace Mission six week before Germany invaded the snivel Union