European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 3, t987 the stars and stripes Page 5 no More Cia secret wars says Carlucci Washington a National Security adviser Frank Carlucci said thurs Day thai he does t know whether Wil Liam j. Casey circumvented Normal Cia channels to conduct Covert operations in the Mideast but he added that unauthorized intelligence actions could not Hap pen  Well i. Of course was not in govern ment at the time of the allegedly unauthorized Covert actions Carlucci said soil s a link bit More gift cull far me to draw  in an interview with the Mutual broadcasting system Carlucci was asked to comment on the new Book by Washington Post assistant managing editor and investigative reporter Bob Wood Ward. In veil the secret wars of the Cia i98i-i987," Woodward wrote among other things thai Casey who died last May of complications following surgery for brain cancer had gone around nor Mal Cia procedures to arrange with saudi Arabia to conduct three i Melr Gene operations. One was the intended assassination or Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah Leader of the shiite moslem faction known is Hezbollah or party of  on wednesday president Reagan denounced Wood Ward s Book As an awful lot of fiction and his wife. Nancy said the work was  Woodward also wrote that Waicy. Gravely ill indicated that he knew All along of the diversion of iranian arms sales profits to the rebels fighting the sandinista government in Nicaragua. I have not read the entire Book but Carlucci from my knowledge of How government works certainly some of it is questionable to my twin i of vie Carlucci said in the interview. Asked whether it is possible that someone Al the National Security coun cil or Cia could orchestrate such an off the shelf operation Carlucci said Covert operation procedures have been Exten sively reviewed in the past seven or eight months and any renegade operation Solo speak would be totally out of the question at this  in a related development Casey s world War ii memoirs in which he Dis cusses the role Clandestine operations played in the defeat of Hitler Are to be published by a Washington publishing House it was announced thursday. Publisher Alfred a re Ncry said Deanery Gateway inc. Had reached a for Mal agreement with Casey s widow so phia to release the secret War against  re Ncry said Cesscy wrote most of the Book before 1981, when he be came the director of the Cia. William  floating fort created by Navy in persian Gulf Washington up7 a huge Barge thai officials say is being converted by the United Stales into a floating fort Apache in the persian Gull it not Visi ble from Shore and would not appear As a fortified military base from afar. Moored off Bahrain in International Waters at the Center of the strategic Gulf the i oo-by-400-foot Barge will be used As a base for Navy mine sweeping boats and helicopters As Well As commando patrol vessels according to Pentagon sources. The Navy leased the Barge from tin undisclosed source after Kuwait refused o allow a base on its soil for the nary forces protecting  kuwaiti Oil tankers in the War torn waterway. It s a floating fort Apache remarked one source adding tha defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger inspected the Barge during his five Day trip to the Gulf last week. The sources said the Barge has accommodations for 200 people below deck. The plan is to use it As a base fur mine Sec Pine helicopters Iii is St fool Boais used by Navy Seal commandos and the six Small mine sweeping vessels brought in on the amphibious transport Dock Raleigh. Scheme to sell pardons investigated in Louisiana Baton Rouge la. A sentence commute Lions for slate prisoners who paid bribes to obtain favourable recommendations probably cannot be revoked a prosecutor said thursday. After the governor Grants it i think in would be a difficult Job to go behind it said Bryan Bush East Baion Rouge Parish District attorney who is investigating allegations that prisoners paid bribes to he state s suspended Pardon Board chairman. Howard Marsellus pleaded guilty wednesday to fed eral and stale charges that he participated in a scheme to sell favourable Pardon recommendations. Although the questionable commutations in ably would stand inmates who paid bribes could face Crim Inal charges said Bush Only the governor can Issue a Pardon or commute a sentence but he usually does so on the recommendation of the Pardon Board. In outlining the state s Case against Marcilus on wednesday prosecutors detailed several instances of Slit ged by jars on Case alleged that Marsellus received a $3,000 bribe and a washing machine on be half of Brad Bookter a Man serving a seven year sen tence for attempted manslaughter. According to the state s outline Bookie s sentence was Cut to 3vj years. After the prisoner voiced dissatisfaction that he would have to serve another year before becoming Eli Gible for release Marsel Lus altered official documents to show the sentence bad been reduced to two years prosecutors alleged. Booster s Pardon was j approved by gov. Edwin Edwards on july 23, according to prosecutors. Cd. Bill Roberts the governor s executive counsel said thursday tie. Edwards had not explored the que lion of whether questionable commutations could be revoked. "1 Don l know whether once the governor has signed in whether in can be unsigned he said adding thai he would Check into it. Aspin says Dod kept probe secret Washington a the Penta gon withheld from Congress the most critical parts of an internal investigation of How the defense department protects classified information according to rep. Los Aspin a wis. The charge involves a study done by the defense investigative service of How defense contractors Deal with information that is part of special Access pro Grams the highest classification of secret material. The Pentagon probe found that there was a variety of problems bul when the report was sent to Congress the most graphic problems uncovered by the investigators went  said Aspin the chairman of the armed serv ices  the investigators did t find fault with the defense department s rules and policies. What they found was in adequate administration of the poli cies a worse no administration at All said rep. Wil Liam Dickinson of Alabama the rank ing Republican on the panel. Pentagon offi Aspin vials had no comment on the charges. The investigation arises from prob lems relating to the stealth bomber which is being built Al a Lockheed corp. Plant in California. The House Energy and Commerce committee has been making Al How defense contractors handle class tied information. According to the House armed1 services committee the d1s looked at 101 lop secret programs and 607 facilities and found