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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 26, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 9 creativity Crno Fher word for fun if you had taken a peek inside youth Hostel at Ober Wesel wort  week Yon d have found lol of creativity going full blast thanks to bold creative connections program set up for 150 Dodds High school it Denu. In its seventh year Carat by connect lot features a variety of visual and performing it wok How Hitt give students Alec led by Cal faculties Chance to us their skills and originality under expert gun for example in the photo by top left Frankfurt High school teacher Paul Plab shows Frankfurt student Daniel Shepard right and Shane Robson of Karlsruhe How to adjust the cover on � homemade Kiln turd la bake ceramics created in class. Looking on in background is Jacqueline hey of Hanau. At lop right it s tiptoe time for Stuttgart student Amy Terry facing  fellow dancers taking workshop course at the Ober Wesel youth Hostel. The unlit to right it Kaiserslautern student Kyle Bowen who is learning an egg tempera method of painting Cut ten connections i under it direction of Germany Region Musk coordinator Barbara Eltor it  coordinator Carol Mauch and intercultural foreign language coordinator Inge bunk. Instructors include stateside artists and Dodds faculty members. Is photos by Dave Didio secret report Calls Moscow embassy seedy Washington a the Amer lean ambassador his staff and stale deportment officials in Washington must share the blame along with the marines for the sex for secrets spy scandal at the . Embassy in mos cow a secret presidential report says. The report describes seedy Dis Graceful embassy marked by confused policies Lix supervision and Gross neglect of counterintelligence efforts. President Reagan ordered the study Lail Spring after sensational report that marines sold secrets for sex and Al Lowed soviet agents into the building the stale department has refused to release the report to the Public. Since last summer some of the allegations have fizzled although one Marine has been convicted of spying. The Blue ribbon Pond headed by former defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird concluded in its report to Reagan that what actually happened at the embassy May never be  however it said. Our investigation has revealed that a situation Enisley at the Moscow embassy that would have permitted the incidents to have occurred As alleged and that they and other Security breaches could take place. Many share responsibility for the Security vulnerabilities that existed and in some cases Mill exist it said. The report which was shown to the associated press also covers issues raised for years by intelligence experts concerned about lax Security. The panel worked from May 7 until july 17. Among its findings it is possible that some marines who had discipline problems elsewhere were assigned to Moscow As punish ment and the situation was Ripe far exploitation by the Kab the soviet spy Agency. The slate department s counterintelligence staff was so overworked Only 11 of the 27 authorized positions were filled that Only the Roost rudimentary investigation was conducted on the most pressing  the Cross neglect of the slate department s counterintelligence May be germane to the alleged Security breaches in Moscow the report said. Some of the soviet citizens work ing at the embassy were known to be Kab operatives and were accorded far Loo much Access to  the americans had ambivalent and contradictory attitudes toward Hie so Viets who worked in a variety of administrative clerical and support jobs such As Cooks driven and baby Sillers. The soviets removed their nationals from the embassy to october 1586, Laird called the embassy a Pigsty and the report said it was a lire trap. Working conditions to both the embassy and the . Consulate in Leningrad Are a National disgrace the report said. Last week fire broke out in a Section of the embassy. Corridors were Dullere with papers books and personal elects Stair Wells and hallways were strewn with broken equipment and machinery parts awaiting repair and  the re port said. Those assigned to Moscow find themselves working in a seedy disgraceful facility with inadequate support from Washington the report said confusion marked policies barring marines from fraternizing with soviets and reporting their contacts. The poli cies obviously were not taken seriously enough to provide Security the re port said. Many marines were aware that misconduct was occurring on a regular basis and took no action to Stop it or report  there were known Inci dents of sexual misconduct fraternization drunkenness brawling cur Rency manipulation and Black Market Cring by marines the report said. The ambassador employed a management style that remained aloof until a specific event occurred and required his attention. This was clearly inadequate Arthur a Hartman the . Ambas Sador in Moscow from 1981 until 1981. Did not return Telephone Calls placed to his House and his office. He has maintained that earlier report about the embassy s Security problems were Over blown. Besides Laird the panel included Richard m. Helms a former Cia director. Gen John w. Vestry jr., former chairman of the joint chiefs of Shaft and Diego c. Asuncio former ambassador to Brazil. Laird said he would not comment on the report s substance because it had been turned Over to the slate depart ment. But he urged release of an unclassified version. State department spokesman Charles Redman said the report has been withheld because it is a confidential study for Secretary of state George p. Shutlz. Robert e. Lamb assistant Secretary of stale for diplomatic Security acknowledged that gaps had existed in the embassy s Security program. There were some holes and we have moved to ill them he said. He said his office has taken Steps to upgrade Security in Moscow and at other embassies. Among the Steps arc increasing the  staff and providing improved training. Sgt. Clayton 1, lonely cd. An embassy guard in 198s and 1986, was convicted of espionage far giving the Kab the identities of Cia agents and the door plans to the . Embassies in Moscow and Vienna Austria. But government prosecutors dropped charges against Lonc Trcic and Cpl. Arnold Bracy that they permitted Kab agents to roam the embassy an other Marine was convicted of dereliction of duly. The naval investigative service says eight other espionage related cases involving marines remain open As a re sult of polygraph tests administered after Lon Clicc s confession  
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