European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Access Paf secrets easier in last 16 years report says Washington up top Mccrel air have proven increasingly vulnerable to espionage in the last decade because of lax controls Over classified Telephone radio and computer Mes sages newly released data and an internal report show. The most recent information shows that the number of episode when sensitive air Force communications were improperly exposed More than doubled between1977 and 1986, according to a military spokesman. In a july 1986 report made available to unite press International auditors found that hundreds of such messages stored at air Force facilities nationwide have been lost stolen tampered with or viewed by unauthorized people. If the trend is allowed to continue the auditor said it would jeopardize the Protection of sensitive highly classified National Security unauthorized people gained Access on 205 Occa Sions to top secret air Force messages in 1984, the most recent year for which that statistic is available according to a National Security Agency study cited by the auditors. None who obtained Access to the privileged information was associated with the soviet Union. Air Force capt. Miles Wiley said last week. Wiley refuse to say. However whether individuals linked to any other foreign government had improperly seen the sensitive information. The audit gave no indication that any recent spy cases were linked to lax air Force safeguards for Sensi Tive communications. An air Force spokesman number of Security lapses involving secret communications Rose from 215 in 1977 to Sis in 1986 and the report added that during one period at strategic hakka in fab in Hawaii six of 44 people authorized Access to a top secret storage facility bad no reason to View Intelli gence data.1 these six people once held intelligence related jobs but their credentials were not pulled when they left their positions at the base where air operations Orasia and the Pacific Are coordinated the report Sard the Hickam facility which he stored classified data Tor at least 10 years had not been inspected or approved for this purpose auditors found. Sensitive air Force messages sent by Telephone wire radio word processor telex or computer Are sup posed to be scrambled by devices aimed at keeping outsiders from understanding the contents and storage facilities for the communications Are required to be soundproof free of listening devices and equipped with alarm systems and secure vaults. An Asa analysis found that most of the vulnerabilities at such facilities were caused by Staft carelessness inattention to detail and lax Security discipline the report said. It criticized the Inadequacy of staff train ing facility inspections physical Security and controls Over sensitive data. Auditors also cited an earlier report finding that some commanders show a Clear disdain for Security leaving Security compliance matters to clerks and air Force officials agreed with the auditors1 criticisms and began in july to Issue regulations explain ing to commanders How Best to safeguard intelligence communications Wiley said. Last Condor captured in California National Bakersfield Calif up the last Californi Condor known to be living in the wild was captured in Good condition at a wildlife Refuge and shipped to Thesan Diego wild animal Park authorities said. Known As ac-9, the Condor was trapped sunday Ina net while feeding on a calf s carcass set out As bait at the bitter deck National wildlife Refuge some 40miles Southwest of Bakersfield in Kern county said Joseph Dowhan head of the Condor recovery team of the . Fish and wildlife service. A veterinarian with the team of biologists who Cap tured the Bird pronounced it to be in Good condition do Faan 7-year-old giant vulture was taken to the san Diego pane where scientists Hope to rebuild the con Dor population by Breeding it with female condors at the part he largest Bird in North America with a wingspan of up to 12 feet the California Condor once Range Dover much of the West until pesticides and a shrinking habitat threatened its capture of a 9 brings the number of condors in Captivity to 28. Thirteen of the binds Are at the los Angeles zoo and 14 Are at the facility in san to capture the remaining condors began in 1985 to protect the Birds from the hazards of the wild and to establish a captive Breeding program that some Day will allow the condors to return to their Domain said Robert Sangeorge vice president of the National Audubon with the conservation group the . Fish and wildlife service and the California depart ment of fish and game had pursued ac-9 since sep tember. Stateside computerized process for billboards displayed los Angeles a metro Media techno Logies has unveiled computerized billboard painting process it predicted will revolutionize the outdoor advertising business. The process in which up to 4,400 dots of paint second air sprayed onto a rotating Vinyl cd Ivy promises sharper and More consistent results Dun current methods of mass producing ads or hand pain tag Bill Bosius the Iii Tripany a demonstration metro Media s system co pied a panoramic Mountain scene on a l4-bj-4fr-foot Canvas in 6 noun ind i i minutes. To prepare artwork Tor its machine met Rome Dia translates the image into a series of coloured dots with the help of a computer then tells the machine Bow to replicate the artwork from four nozzles College students agree to pay up for phone Calls Huntsville Texas a several Hun dred Sam Houston state University students who used code uncovered by computer Bufis tomake tree Long distance Telephone Calls have promised to pay under an amnesty 300 of More than 1,000 students who used the codes Tiave agreed to the amnesty students Are suspected of making Ai least s150,000 in Calls since aug. I without paying for them said Marvin Thomas chief investigator with Star Tel of Bryan College we re offering is that anyone who turns themselves in will be allowed to sign a non prosecution statement and pay the Bills Thomas said. After a few weeks amnesty period Thomas company will take Steps to prosecute students who did not participate in the plan Young musician s Mother loses $31,000 violin Greenfield Man. Apr a rare violin borrowed from the Springfield symphony or Chestra was lost when the Mother of a Youn musician put it on top of her car and absentmindedly drove off police said in one minute s carelessness i fed like my life has been destroyed said Paula Horowitz Ofa Hersl the violin made by Carcassi Lorenzo in 1746 and valued at $31,000, was on loan Toher 15-year-old son Jason concertmaster for the Springfield youth symphony. A. High school Seminary to close doors in june North East Paap the nations old est High school Seminary is. Mary s Seminary will close following graduation on june 13.the very Rev. Edward Gilbert provincial of the Baltimore province of the Redempa Loris fathers which runs the school said that declining Salt of 28 priests and Lay personnel according to school officials. The very Rev. Gerard e Powers Rector oath school said students will Transfer to is. Joseph s preparatory Seminary in Princeton no Pete Bloom left and crag Sanders of then Andason society with captured California Condor. Added to National Register of historic places Confederate ship s Luster shines through mud Savannah a. A the con federate ship Georgia a 10-gun ironclad that helped guard Savannah from the Union Navy has been added to the National Register of historic places eve though the vessel lies in the mud off fort Jackson. The Georgia is one of the few under water resources placed on the Register said Scott w. Smith head of Georgia coastal heritage society which is seek ing to save at least pan of the civil warship. The vessel was scuttled in the Savan nah River in 1864 when Gen William t. Sherman s troops captured Savannah ending their March across Georgia. The listing came feb. 10, after two decades of work by the Savannah District or the . Army corps of Engi neers and local preservationists the listing gives us credibility. That the important thing Smith said. We Are Able to say this is one of the recognized historic places in the United states. There arc More than 200,000 historic places on the Register. Getting the Georgia included was difficult because guidelines for the Register arc designed to list buildings which have specific dimensions and locations and can be photographed. The Georgia is about 30 feet deep i water so Muddy that divers working on the wreck can t see their hands six inches from their face masks. The vessel s specific dimensions Aren t known and there Are no photographs Only sketches nude during the civil War. Financed by the people of Savanna hand presented to the Confederate Navy the Georgia is on the Edge of the ship Ping Channel. Its ironclad casement has been severely damaged and has col lapsed but the Hull is believed to be in tact. A Volunteer group meets once a Mont to work on various problems involving salvaging the Georgia. We re beginning to plug in Little pieces of the picture of those who served on the Georgia he said
