European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday Way 5,1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Book paints picture of incompetent mi5 Washington a a retired senior intelligence official has depicted Britain s Domestic counterintelligence Agency mis As frequently incompetent and characterized by systematic abuses of Power and illegal acts the Washington Post reported sunday. The newspaper obtained a manuscript of an unpublished Book called spy Catcher by Peter Wright a 21 year vet eran of mis who left the service in 1976. The British government is engaged in a continuing Legal Battle to ban publication of lie Book. Wright s account is taken from his de tailed diary of events Between 1955 and 1976, when he held a series of senior mis positions. The Post reported that the Primacy focus of the Book is to prove Wright s belief that former mis head Roger Hollis was the undiscovered soviet Agen Long suspected to be at he top of brith intelligence. According to prime minister Market Thatcher a secret government investigation in the late 1970s cleared Hollis of suspicion. In the manuscript Wright alleged that mi5 attempted to spy on and overthrow former prime minister Harold Wilson the newspaper reported. Wright s manuscript describes an organisation that often or a cd outside the control or knowledge of the British government of the Day. The Post said. According to Wright mis routinely used British institutions such As the Post of fice and the Media to further its Aims he newspaper said. The manuscript details two decades of Day to Day intelligence activities from he bugging of embassies of both friends and foes by Britain and the United states o plots to assassinate Heads of foreign governments the Post reported. Last week the newspaper Independent published a lengthy account of some of its allegations including a politically motivated plot by up to 30 senior mis offi Cen in 1974 and i97s to remove labor party prime minister Harold Wilson from office by smearing him As a soviet spy. According to Wright s manuscript the plan entered on selective leaking of in formation gathered during Wilson s ear Lier term in office Between 1964 and 1970, when mis conducted a secret investigation of him the Post reported. M15 also bugged Wilson s Home and of fice following his re election As the head of a minority government in 1974, the newspaper reported the manuscript As saying. Wright s manuscript contains numer Ous references to  Intelli gence relations the Post reported. British agencies according to Wright Fea cd american Wrath Over suspicions of soviet infiltration of British Intelli gence the newspaper said. The suspicions began with the 1951 defection to the soviet Union of British foreign serv ice officers Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean the newspaper reported the manuscript As saying.  Wright s disclosures reported by the Posl As chief scientist for m15 during the 1950s, Wright successfully reproduced a new form of resonance microphone developed by the soviet and discovered hidden in the office of the . Ambassador in Moscow. The americans subsequently ordered 12 of the devices and made another 20 themselves for their own use in soviet bloc embassies. During the late 1950s and 1960s, until More sophisticated listening methods were developed Britain used the device to Bug the soviet embassy and soviet consulate in London As Well As the Hun Garian polish egyptian cypriot and indonesian missions in Washington. British assassination plots were launched in the late 1950s against egyptian Leader carnal Abdel Nasser and by Priol guerrilla Leader col. George Grivas. Both plots failed but the techniques developed including the planned use of Poison nerve Gas against Nasser inter ested the Cia. Politician accused of being of parties with cocaine users Richmond a. A witnesses have told fed eral investigators that former gov. Charles s. Robb attended parties at which cocaine was used while he was in office according to a report published sunday but Robb denied the allegations. Ill Teil you in no Uncertain terms that it Ain t so said Robb a prospective democratic candidate for National office or the . Senate. The Richmond times dispatch quoted an unidentified Federal official sunday As saying that convicted cocaine peddle Donald f. Kern of Virginia Beach and several other witnesses said they saw Robb on numer Ous occasions Over the past five years at parties where other guest openly used cocaine. The other witnesses were not identified. Federal prosecutors Are not focusing on Robb and they have no evidence that he used cocaine the official said. Even if the worst allegations Are True Robb would not face any criminal charges himself he said. Robb who left the governor. Office in 1986, is mar ried to the former Lynda Bird Loi. In daughter of Chelate president Lyndon Johnson. The article made no mention of allegations that mrs. Robb bad attended any of the parties. Robb 47, said he has never seen possessed or used he highly addictive drug. Richard g. Brydges of Virginia Beach one of Kern s attorneys told the newspaper that drug enforcement administration officials indicated that undercover agents had photographed Robb last fall at Kern s $1.2 million Home allegedly the site of a party where co Caine was used. The  declined to comment the newspaper said. Robb said he bad no recollection of Ever meeting Kern a dentist turned real estate Developer. Gracefully observing the Law Sis pm no by Kin gouge there s German Rule specifying quiet hours on sundays and hat includes no mowing he Lawn. A resident of Darmstadt finds sheepish Way to get around the regulation with Ood conscience and a silent hungry truss trimmer. And he prompts no angry neighbors Calls to the local police. Surface warfare chief shooting for paper Ess ship Washington a when one of the Navy s newest frigates leaves port it carries Standard air de Fence missiles. Harpoon anti ship missiles mk-16 torpedoes and lots of paper. So much paper that if you add in the file cabinets needed to hold it All it comes to 41,000 pounds 20tons for a single Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate one of the Navy s smaller surface warships. I find it mind  says vice adm. Josep Metcalf 111, the Man in charge of the Navy s surface warfare Branch. We do not shoot paper at the  Metcalf has launched an initiative to create a paperless ship by 1990 As a first step toward driving paper from the entire fled. His counterparts with responsibility for carriers and submarines have already endorsed the Effort. I look at pounds of paper in terms of being Able to put More ordnance on the ship or More  me calf says. That s where i look at it. If paper contributed 10 War fighting i d say Fine keep it there he said. But it does not contribute to War lighting. Storing information in books and manuals and documents detracts from War fighting. It s heavy. It s not in a form that can be  Metcalf says the move will allow More efficient operations save Money in the Long run and allow sailors to concentrate on their real jobs. Those however Are the Side benefits he says. With out All that paper he Navy s ships can carry More weaponry. Metcalf the flamboyant Admiral who oversaw the 1983 invasion of Grenada does t dispute the need for the information printed on All the paper aboard his  of it represents thousands and thousands of pages in technical manuals considered essential to sailors who must maintain or repair the sophisticated weaponry and propulsion systems that make a modern warship potent. What Metcalf objects to besides he Joss of space is the poor Guy on the ship being besieged by All this Lich ology and then inundated with needed information in a form he can t  Don t train sailors to be registrars and correctors of publications. I mean hat s dumb. I want those Guys worrying about fighting not worrying about keep ing up the  the first paperless ship will be a frigate that will probably be equipped with several different types of electronic information systems he says. I Don t much give a Hoot which systems Are used he  ships already have Small personal computers aboard he notes and those systems May be expanded. The Navy also is exploring off the shelf items in use by Industry such As laser cards and magnetic or optical  envisioned the information would be stored electronically bul could be easily printed Zuj on Blank paper for use by technicians. The inform Ilion would be indexed