European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 6. 1988 the stars and stripes . Reportedly helped would be Assassin Washington a Reagan administration officials helped a honduran general involved in a drug financed Plo id assassinate that country s pics incr gel a lighter sentence a former . Ambassador says. Francis Mcneil former . Ambassador to Costa Rica. Lod a Senate subcommittee that tap . Officials interceded on behalf of honduran Gen. Styc Bucko Rosa because he had helped the administration s program of aiding the Nicaragua Contra rebels. Among those who in Cri cd cd on Bucsi Rosa s by half was assistant Secretary of slate Elliott Abrams. The administration s lop official in charge of incr american affairs and a prime architect of the Contra policy Mcneil said. Mcneil said Bucko Rosa was charged in the United Stales with taking part in a Plo financed by drug Tref ticking profits to assassinate honduran president  i9r4. Two others involved in the unsuccessful plot received Long sentences but Bucko Rosa got off with a five year term after the . Officials interceded for him said Mcneil. At teas one reason for he intervention was the generate past usefulness to the Contra  he said the Senate foreign relations subcommittee also heard in Simony monday that panamanian military ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega probably has Evi Dence of . Officials complicity in Central Ameri can drug trafficking arid in using Illo buy time. Jose 1. Blandon a former intelligence official and Consul general fur Panama who defected last year produced a document Noriega sent to the country s . Diplomatic offices in february saying he has proof that american officials knowingly established policies that supported people involved in the drug business. General Noriega says he has proof of the involve ment of . Government authorities in drugs in Central America Landon said in Spanish through an Inu a Procter at the hearing of the subcommittee on narcotics Flandon mentioned trafficking in Panama Guatemala and Costa Rica. Asked by he subcommittee chairman sen. John Kerry a mass. Whether he believes Noriega actually has such proof Blandon answered  later Kerry said he Loo believes hat Noriega has potentially embarrassing information about u.5. Officials and is using it to try to maintain himself in Power in Panama sen John Kerry question Reagan policy. Kerry said he did not pursue the matter More extensively in the Public hearing because he it still awaiting corroboration of that and other information about alleged use of airstrips used to resupply the .-Baeked Contra rebels in Nicaragua to handle drug shipments is Well. It s significant enough that in s going to create a  Kerry said noting that the information involves an israeli cilia in Michael Harare who used airstrips in the Region 1o help resupply the com rat. White Congress is in recess. Kerry scheduled a full week of hearings on . Ami drug efforts in Central America. He said a series of witnesses would piece together a mosaic thai portrays . Foreign policy interests in the Region such As support for the con. Tras As frequently taking precedence Over the War on drugs. Former panamanian Emoy Juk i. Blandon. One thing that Caps out is that despite Al the rhetoric. And the talk about a War on drugs there has not been a real War Kerry said. Lie said . Think my has become warped and that the government has taken an approach. Which has placed at a lower level the priority of Slop Ping drugs in favor of other  Blandon had testified at an earlier hearing before the narcotics subcommittee Aboul the extent to which Noriega had allowed Panama to be taken Over by drug interests from Colombia Medellim Cartel. On monday he testified that . Economic sanctions against Panama have been effective and said the shutdown of Banks there has made the drug Cartel come to regard Noriega As n problem rather than an ally. Court upholds spy conviction of naval analyst Richmond a. Up a Federal appeals court monday upheld the espionage conviction of a naval analyst convicted of giving military secrets to Jane s defense weekly ruling the espionage Aci can be used to prosecute i cars to life press As Well As to  governments. Samuel Loring Morison grandson of the prominent naval historian Samuel Choi fat Orison argued in his Appeal to the 4lh . Circuit court of appeals that his conduct was not classical spy ing because he had not Given information to a Force it Power. Morison had worked at the naval Intelli gence support Center at Suitland md., from 1974 until october 1984 As a ship and mine warfare analyst with a lop Security Clear Ance. Asa condition for i Job. He signed a waiver that said any unauthorised disclosure of sensitive compartment led information. May constitute violations of the United states criminal  for some time before the incidents that led to criminal charges. Morison had also performed Navy sanctioned non classified off duty work for Jane s fighting ships the annual English publication of worldwide naval operations. However in an apparent Effort to win a Job with the publication Morisot took spy satellite photographs of a soviet air Craft Carrier under construction Cut secret labels off of them and passed them to Derek Wood a London based editor of Jane s defense weekly. Morison was charged Wilh spying and was found guilty. He appealed his con Vic lion saying the statutes used to con vice him did nol cover the crime tic was charged with and if they did the statutes were unconstitutional. Judge Donald Russell writing for the three judge appeals panel found Morison s claims without Merit and affirmed his Eon fiction. It is Clear As we have said that con Gress did not indicate anywhere in its legislative history that it intended to exempt from the coverage of the espionage act one who after stealing nation Al def Cnoc secret material wilfully delivered it to a representative of the press Kussic i wrote. The Mere fart that one has stolen a document in order thai he May deliver it to the press whether for Money or for other per Sonal gain will not immunise him from responsibility for   in a Friend of the Tourt Brief. The Washington lost and some 30 major news organisations argued that the  will Alt Cal. And perhaps dramatically alter the Way in which government officials  with the press the Way in which the press gather and reports the news and the Way in which the Public learns Aboul its  Fra slaps rest Rich on on anti aging Cream makers Washington