European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 q on the stars and stripes thursday july 30.1987 Leony admits leaking Iran Contra report Leahy s offer to resign from inc com Mil-1 Fieri a on Jan. 13. _ f ufl1 Zitelli k. I Washington not sen pal Leahy commit Rick j. Leahy d-vl., inc former vice to. Chairman of the Senate select commit f Leahy s account disagreed with the in Llyl licence committee statement. He said he had announced in december that he planned to leave the committee he Fol lowing month because he was taking Over As chairman of the Senate agriculture committee. I had already said i would leave the committee Early and 1 moved it up handmade it formal because i was so angry at myself said Leahy. As soon As 1 saw the Abc Story i called Sckalor Boren ice on intelligence says that he resigned from inc panel in january partly because he was angry with himself for having Given a reporter an unclassified report on the Iran Centra affair. Leahy identified himself tuesday As the leaker in an unusual press release which also said he had intended to resign from inc Post several months Early. A statement made Public tuesday by Senate intelligence commit cd said the senat thai when the report was broadcast by Abc news in january Leahy immediately called sen. David Boren d-okla., to acknowledge that he was the one responsible for its having been divulged. The statement said that Boren and sen. William s. Cohen a Maine vice chairman of the committee accepted find by congressional officials As lbs was a caring a report on the Subj cd. The report Al Issue was drafted by the staff of the Senate intelligence commit tee in inc waning Days of the republicans control of the Senate. Tiit  cumm Tiee narrowly voted against releasing the document even though the White House was pressing hard for ils publication. White House officials believed at the Lime thai the report would co Eraie preside no Reagan of any involvement in the diver Sion of Iran arms sales profits to the Nic and wid that has to be the report Hal Aragyan contras and they hoped that it was Silling on my desk Auld defuse the growing scandal. Not that i blame anybody but myself. I but democrats on the panel argued even though it was declassified i was thai the document was incomplete anyway Loo careless Aboul  not ready for Public release and the Leahy said he was publicly adm Illing his panel vol cd against making n Public. Rev for Frole in the Abc news report because he at inc time speculation in washing pc Var who is to blame for the leaking of had Learned thai another network Ridenti ton was thai a Republican had leaked Ina to help inc administration. Leahy said his motivation in allowing a reporter to read sections of in was to prove that in actually was full of gaps and not ready for release. He noted that he had shown the Abc Newt reporter an Early draft. This report was t even the one we were working on Leahy said. In Wai. Preliminary. I did l even consider in newsworthy. Nobody is More annoyed Al me than  but in reporting on the document Abc news disclosed Many new detail about the Iran affair and every newspaper and broadcast outlet in Washington followed them up for weeks. The disclosure come against a Back mines from Page 1 u Britain or the Netherlands might agree to employ their own min sweeping vessels in the Region. The Navy has no minesweepers in the Region and it would take More than two weeks for one to arrive from the United states. The Pentagon would like to tend min sweeping helicopters to the Region but has been unable to win permission from Kuwait or saudi Ara Bialo provide land bases for them. We re in the Middle of discussions with Kuwait assistant Secretary of state Richard w. Murphy told the House Europe and Middle East subcommittee. The revelation that additional mines had been spotted came As the Pentagon s chief spokesman Robert Sims vowed a crackdown on leaks to the news Media. In a lengthy contentious press briefing Sims said the United Stales was convinced the mine struck by the Bridgeton last Friday was deliberately planted in the ship s path shortly before it arrived and that new reports about the Convoy s movement might have contributed to the Success of the mine sowing Effort. The Assumption is that the mine in Hal location a heavily trafficked ship Channel might Well have been placed shortly before the ship came through Sims said. A logical Assumption would ill you it was placed there a Short Lime before the ship came through. And i think there s been entirely too much discussion in Advance of what we were going to do he said. I m sure that those invisible hands that planted this mine shortly before our Tanker arrived at that area had far Loo much information from various sources Aboul what we were planning to do when we were planning to do it where we were planning to do it. And i Don l intend to contribute any More to that kind of information getting out the spokesman said. Meese from Page 1 began the i eth week of hearings. On tuesday nov. 25, he said he received a Tele phone Call from the while House chief of staff Donald Regan indicating that he would ask that morning forthe resignation of National Security adviser John m. Poindexter. The eventual decision for Poindexter s leaving and for the firing of North Meese said was the president. Go czech woman die when car skids off Road Oltersdorf Germany a 1st army div Soldier and a czechoslovakian woman were killed late monday when their Auto skidded off lie Road and hit a House a division spokesman said. Maj. John Shea said the 23-year-old Soldier apparently lost control of his car on a curve before hitting the House in the town of bless Dorf just South of Erlanger. The names of the Soldier and his in year old passenger Are being withheld pending notification of relatives. Shea said. Greece gets Relief As temperatures drop Athens Greece up1 greeks and about a million tourists suffering from a killer heat wave heaved a sigh of Relief tuesday a tempera Tures started dropping sharply in Southeastern Europe for the first Lime in 10 Days. But the cooler weather brought Little Comfort to relatives of he nearly 900 people who died during the heat wave. Health minister George Mangakis said the High a Cash toll in Greece which suffered the Brunt of the heal wave caused severe space shortages in morgues and cemeteries. Health authorities said some bodies were being temporarily stored in refrigerator railway wagons. Bodies in Athens where the scorching heal claimed most of its victims were creating a health Hazard by being left in Hospital corridors and in outdoor huts until Graves could be dug. In a meeting of Regan and a Csc Wilh the president Meese said a six step program was form shied 10 Deal with the growing problem after Poindexter s resignation and North s reassign ment from the National Security Council a review Board would be convened to make recommendations to make sure this kind of thing could not happen again Meese said. Then a meeting would be called of the National Security Council Congress would be told and finally to let the american people know a press conference was scheduled for noon. At thai press conference Meese disclosed the diver Sion. Meese and his assistants interviewed North one Day after Justice department investigators found a document in the Csc aide s files Hal revealed the Iran Contra diversion plan he was basically forthright Meuse said of northing the interview Neld on a sunday afternoon in Meese s fifth floor office Al the Justice department. He certainly did t appear to be concealing any  however Meuse also said North did t mention the diversion until Meese confronted him Wilh the memo after the attorney general had already led North through a recounting of his Iran activities during 1985 and 1986. Mcnese cited North s apparent truthfulness As his explanation for failing to order North s office sealed immediately after their talk. North and others have testified that he later shredded documents and that his Secretary carried papers out concealed in her clothing. A must say that it s always easy some eight months Laier to look Back and it certainly looks a lol different to us now than in did then Mcnese Lold the commit tees. At that time there was nothing that did give us a  Meese the second Cabinet member to testify Al the inquiry sat alone Al the witness table and he never consulted the Justice Depan mint lawyers arrayed in the Row behind him. He did frequently Consul notes including those of aide Charles Cooper in recounting details of he interview with North. Mcnese s intensity seemed to increase Al Midas scr noon when Rodino took Over question ing. The attorney Genera said at one Point that the late Cia director William Casey told him thai Casey also had Learned in late november Aboul the profit diver Sion. North Lold the committees that Casey knew All along and expressed enthusiasm about the plan. When Rodino asked whether Meese was saying Casey withheld information from him the attorney general replied i have no basis on which to conclude Hal. Throughout his life i always knew Bill Casey to be an honorable Man. I have no information personally that anything he told to me was other than the truth Meese also said  Lold him he generally knew of the diversion of funds. Poindexter has Testi fied that he approved the idea in Advance. To a suggestion by Rodino that Meese had not undertaken his inquiry seriously enough Meese replied that he had unearthed a rather astounding piece of information the diversion memo. He defended the three aides who conducted the in Quiry saying that particular weekend the team i put together did a pretty Good  it s As a result of their efforts that this hearing a been  asked about his decision not to bring the Fri into the investigation earlier Meese said Wye been cry Ici Zed for misuse of the Fri in non criminal matted and that was one consideration in our  Meese bristled when Rodino suggested that a statement Given privately under oath by Justice department criminal division chief William Weld complained that Meese had excluded criminal lawyers and Fri agents from his fact finding inquiry. Meese responded Hal Rodino had misunderstood Weld s statement and that he was talking about an entirely different matter. Justice department spokesman Patrick Korten said Weld has since spoken Wilh Meese about i deposition and told medic that he was referring to the need to be kept apprised of developments that might Nave an Impact on a new York smuggling Case. The confusion was All on Rodino part Korten said. He had in All screwed up. There was no Iran inquiry Al that Point at an Early morning Riaff meet ing on Friday nov. 21. Mcnese was t asked by the president to undertake his inquiry until later Hal Day. Rodino is trying to make in something in is not Korten said. Ash from Page Ket Aboul 10 weapons systems to South of the base. The Pilot i a ejected and survive the Al l 1 was Buh Lucr the air fam a swing-0sid Early 197 capsule Type exec change ii used to Wing fighter bomber in by general dynamics. It Tion system in which an separate a capsule funny Craft be capsule the Falls to the grouo4i1her a  oxime 48th were used in in jul 1986 is on Libya. Fies said there would be an investigation