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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 28. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Woodward Book on Casey dismay Nunn pm head reportedly told of secret operations Bab Woodward a photo Washington a the chair Man of the Senate armed services com Mittee said saturday thai he was dismayed by a published report that William Casey the late director of he Central intelligence Agency repeatedly passed secrets to investigative reporter Bob Woodward while withholding information from Congress. At the same Lime sen. Sam Nunn d Cia., who also serves on the Senate select committee on intelligence said he was not particularly shocked by new Allega Lions that Casey ran Covert operations without approval and against the advice of a subordinates. Nunn was commenting on a washing ton Post report saturday on Woodward s newly published Book veil the secret wars of the Cia which lists numerous coven operations carried out by Casey and cites 48 conversations with Casey As the source of some of the information. Casey according to excerpts of the Book appearing in sunday s editions of the Post had reached the breaking Point in 19s5 after fou years of frustration in dealing with Congress and a timid Cia bureaucracy. Because of that frustration Casey decided to go off the books Circum vent Normal Cia channels to fight terrorism in the Middle East. The new revelations do not Shock me very much Nunn said. I Don t know whether they re All accurate or what pan of them arc  i guess the thing that most surprises me is the Seal Cronl by Boh Woodward that director Casey had met Wilh him 48  Woodward a Post editor catapulted to Fame during the 1970s with a series of Jou r Nal Islic scoops on the . The Casey conversations took place Between 1931 and 1986 a Lime according to revelations during the acc Chi Iran Contra hearings that Casey with held information from intelligence committees on Capitol Hill. According to the Book Casey denied supporting the contras until a final conversation before his  that final Casey Woodward Conversa Tion according to saturday s account was in Forg Crown University Hospital in Washington a few months before the Cia chief died of pneumonia contracted during his Hospin Lisalinn for brain cancer Casey do cd off after acknowledging that he had known All along Boul the diversion according to Woodward. Also according to the Bonk Casey Frond inc saudis were willing to carry out Covert operations in the Middle East after a Cia Effort to create an Ami terrorist strike Force with foreign nationals failed. Although creation of that strike Fortu was approved by president Reagan and  tary of stale George p. Shuit Lancy blamed Cia foot dragging in Large part for ill failure. Woodward wrote. Cia officials resisted using the Agency to carry out preemptive killings or suspected terrorists Woodward wrote and the Cia fell the for Eigners would be uncontrollable. The Book also reports on operations in the soviet Union intelligence gathering among such High ranking Mideast Lead ers As former egyptian president Anwar Sadat and payoffs to influence foreign newspapers scholars and politicians klan anti klan rallies staged across Maine Rumford Maine a demonstrators ice Rcd and yelled at a half dozen Khaki Clad Kun Kim klans a non saturday As they paraded through a school auditorium and then held a lunch outside town. About 190 demonstrators gathered outside a country Bam and chanted Kkt go Home As Klansman and their guests ale inside. Neighbors protesting the klan rally had lined the barnyard will pungent Chicken manure. James w. Farrands Imperial wizard of the invisible Empire knights of inc Kkt had estimated that about two dozen kilns Man would attend the rallies. As of saturday Al Moon Only six members had appeared although late in the Day a Cross Burn Drew 16 Robed members. This is  Farrands said of the Edumenic monster airs. I be seen thousands of  As he spoke fellow Klansman including one hooded and masked member and about 12 non Mem Bers were inside the barn amid tables Laden with food and items for Sale. Rain fell intermittently and no serious incidents were reported. Farrands said the Kjan hoped to pick up a few new members during its unusual visit to this Rural Mill town. But he said Maine is not the easiest area to recruit in because there arc so few  a neighbor said Farmers in inc area dumped Chicken manure around the perimeter of the rally site to show their displeasure. We Don t want this in the town said Diane Milligan. No incidents wive reported during inc Daylong series of demonstrations by a handful of Klansman described As the first in inc state in so years and  that Drew hundreds. The Day was capped by a Cross burning near Here that Drew 16 Robed Kkt members and the burning in cilia a Ofa Klansman nearby by local residents. Earlier in inc Day. Inc Kjan members walked through the auditorium of Rumford High school where an Ann klan members of the Kun Kim klan gather around a burning truss saturday night in Rumford Maine rally was being held. There was jeering but no clashes Between them and the approximately 200 klan opponents. Ai the rally protesters Sang patriotic songs and heard speeches denouncing racism and bigotry. We re All americans i Don t care whether you re Black yellow red or White said Jerry Thomas of Lisbon who wore a veterans of foreign wars Cap. "1 think they be outlived whatever their cause  Bill bumpy a Black councilman from Augusta said he drove i1/ hours to the rally to make a statement against racism for which the Kjan  the anti klan rally was one of several saturday in Maine. Others were held in Portland Auburn and Mcnno Bun port. . Jet fighters intercept 2 soviet planes off Alaska Sands or time Anchorage Alaska up air Force Jet fighters have intercepted two More soviet military air planes off alas a bringing to 44 the number of aircraft steered away this year the Alaska air come reported Friday. The latest incident occurred wednes Day when two air Force f-l5s were scrambled from Galena Airport in Cen trial Alaska  
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