European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 28, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 non disclosure pact widely used most employees comply Dod says by Norman Black a military writer Washington n described As Overly Bro it and a violation of the firs amendment rights of government employees. The department did note pointedly however that of More than 1.5 million individuals who had been asked to sign the document Only five had so far re fused and they have lost their Security clearances As a result. Several congressional committees including the Senate judiciary committee the House Energy and Commerce com Mittee and the House Post office and civil service committee have opened inquiries and begun challenging the Rea Gan administration s use of the form Over the past month. Earlier last week rep. Gerry Sikorski d-minn., chairman of a House civil service subcommittee demanded in a letter to Frank Carlucci president Rea Gan s National Security adviser thai us of Ilic form be suspended. Sen. Charles Grassley a Iowa a member of the Senate judiciary com Mittee made the same demand the wee before in a letter to Constance Homer director of the office of personnel management. The administration has yet to respond of Congress on the Issue. The nondisclosure agreement is sup Posedly designed to underline the obligations of Federal workers o protect Classi fied information. But congressional investigators say it is so broadly worded that employees who sign it can face disciplinary action or lose their Job for releasing information that has t been Classi fied. For example at one Point the for requires � worker to agree that he or she will never release information Hal is either classified or classifiable. According to rep. John d. Dingell d Mich the chairman of inc House Energy and Commerce committee that Lan Guage would allow an Agency to discipline a worker for releasing information that was not classified in the time he or she released it but classified after Lac  Dangcil Aiso has charged that the form is designed to simplify going after someone suspected of leaking information to inc press. Despite the Broad language lie Penta gon said Friday it had encountered Little difficulty in gaining the signatures of de sense workers. It said thai As of june 688,000 army employees 40,000 Navy workers and 765,000 air Force employees had signed the document. In addition 2,200 workers in the executive offices of the Secretary of defense 12,300 workers with inc defense Logis tics Agency 6,200 employees of the of sense intelligence Agency and 15,000 Al the defense mapping Agency have signed the document the Pentagon said. The congressional incr Cal in the forms was spurred when a Well known Pentagon whistle Blower a. Ernest Fitzgerald disclosed that he had been threatened in May Witali losing his Security clearance unless he suited the document. Fitzgerald is the air Force analyst who blew inc whistle on massive Cost Over runs on the c-5 transport plane in the 1970s. We were totally unaware of the administration s use of this form until Mic brought it to our attention said Peter Stockton an investigator with the House Energy and Commerce commit tee s oversight and investigations sub committee. According to the air Force Fiu Gerald has yet to sign tic form but has not received an official ultimatum meaning that he still holds his Security clearances. An ultimatum from the air Force appears Likely however. According to the Pentagon four of the five defense employees who refused to sign the document work for the air Force. The fifth works for the defense logistics Agency the Pentagon said. None of the five individuals was fire outright hut All five lost their Security clearances and were shifted to other jobs the Pentagon said. Eighty five vehicles Mere involved in a massive Accident an autobahn a-3 Fri 85-car pileup on rain sickened autobahn Day evening in tie own of Sie Burk Germany located about six Miles North cast of Bonn. The Chain reaction pileup occurred during heavy rainfall. No fatalities were reported but Many motorists suffered serious injuries. 1 1 soldiers killed in training exercise honoured fort Hood Texas a eleven part line soldiers who died in accidents during inc starburst 87" training a Nevers were honoured Friday in a Cere Mony on a Grassy Plain that serves As a Majit -Bela-vt1 Battlefield. The 10 men killed in last monday helicopter crash and the Soldier killed in last tuesday s Lank Accident were praised by a military Clergyman in the end of training ceremony for National guard members. Help us not in to rect our fallen com rades and the families who arc left empty said chaplain James Jacobs. Help us always Remc Nihar that they put their lives on tic line so that we might enjoy Fri Dom and we might enjoy the tradition of preserving the Freedom of our country and of the world he said. The ceremony Al Nonh Fon Hood was inc customary closing of die National guardsmen s to weeks of Active duty training dubbed starburst 37" this year. About 13,000 Texas National guard members and 5,000 soldiers from army Reserve support units participated int lieu Rise. Any time of have equipment that is designed Loxi a and that is heavy an unforgiving. Ihnn we have to Exi incise the greatest degree of control Over what going on la. Co David Fuller said in an interview. In deaths unrelated to the two training accidents an army Soldier s body was found in a Iii Nirry wit thursday and a member of the military police brigade died after falling off a Molur Cycle. Spec. 4 Frank a Herr via was reported missing Al Midnight wednesday said spokesman i. Michael Marlow. Herrera s Hudy was found Al 9 . Thursday Marlow said. The cause of his death and circumstances leading o his disappearance have not been deter mined and the death remains under investigation Marlow said