European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 17,1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 drugs reportedly financed Contra Aid Magazine links Bush aide to arms Deal new York. A vice president George Bush s National Security adviser was the washing ton Contact for a Contra arms Supply operation bankrolled with drug Money Newsweek reported sunday. The Enterprise called arms supermarket sup plied the nicaraguan rebels during the congressional Aid cutbacks of 1984-s6, before the Iran con tra operation set up by National Security Council aide it. Col. Oliver North the Magazine said. U involved Cia arms merchants agents of is Rael s Mossad secret service the intelligence Arm of the honduran military and members of a Colombi an drug Cartel according to Newsweek. In a sworn deposition to a Senate foreign relations subcommittee an Oregon businessman Rich Ard a arc Nueku Laid that Donald Gregg. Bush s National Security adviser was the Washington con tact for the operation Newsweek said. Brenncke. An arms dealer with connections in the soviet bloc has done work for both Mossad and the Cia the Magazine said. Citing unidentified government sources Public records about the Iran Contra affair and the sub committee s investigation Newsweek reported that by Crocke also said the Medellin cocaine Cartel put up financing for the operation used its planes to Fly arms to the contras and then used the same planes to Fly drugs from Colombia to the United Stales. Newsweek said former panamanian Consul Jose Al Lyndon has testified at the committee hearings that panamanian Leader Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega granted transit privileges for the flights and took a Cul of the profits. The committee is headed by sen. John Kerry a mass. Pete telcy Bush s Campaign spokesman said sunday that he believes the allegation had been raised before and that Gregg has said he had not spoken with Brenncke. Gregg has Den led Hal he said. Bush s office told the Magazine that Brunneke s Story was just rumours and the same old regurgitated stories we though we d put to rest Long ago. Committee staffers told Newsweek they have Eon firmed part of Brenncke s Story from a Mossad agent and from Blando bul Are still assessing bran Neke s credibility. The Magazine did not say How much arms reached the contras. It said the arms supermarket had been phased out by August 1986, with j 20 Mil lion Worth of arms left unsold in warehouses in Honduras. According to Newsweek in a july 12. 1985, note Book entry recently released by inc Iran Centra joint committee North wrote $14 m ill ton to finance came from drugs and predicted a bad end for the arms supermarket. Defected Cia agent says actions never Hurt . Washington us l Edward Lee Howard the in Central intelligence Agency agent who defected to the soviet Union in 1936, insist he never did any thing to harm the United slates when he passed secrets to the Kab Hook excerpts published sunday said. David Wise the author of several books on espionage interviewed Howard for six Days last june in Budapest for his Book the spy who got  Newsweek Magazine published excerpts of Wise s Book in is latest edition the Book about Howard the first Cia employee known to have defected to the soviet Union is lube published in june Howard was employed by the Cia for Ivy years and was to go to Moscow when a lie Detector lest turned up pos sible evidence of drug use and Petty theft. He also had a drinking problem and As a result his posting to Moscow was cancelled and Fia v Howard was forced to quit the spy Agency in 1981. Llord in 1985, lop Kab official Vitaly yur Clinko defected to the United slates and told Bis Cia handlers the Agency had a tunnelling in i mos Mold named "robert1 formation about Cia operations in cow to inc soviets. . Officials have said at least one Cia operative apparently identified by Howard was arrested by the Kab in Moscow and later executed. When the Kab extensively debriefed him after his defection. My dispute is with the Cia. And As a result with the Fri. America is a very big country and with All kinds of people and  Howard said. I know now the mentality of inc Cia i on sept. 21, 1985, Howard slipped just a minor portion of America. I still through Fri surveillance covering his love my country but with those Matitu House in Santa be . And flee the Lions frankly 1 m at  Howard said he lives in an apartment a few blocks from inc arbat. A main . After hopping from country to country for 11 months Howard turned up in Moscow As a defector. In the Budapest interviews Howard expressed fears that the Cia May try to Kidnap him and return him to the ., Wise said. Hut he also said he believes he did nothing to harm his native country nue in Moscow and he has been Given a country House outside Moscow. He said he keeps in shape by playing volleyball and Tennis in inc Kali Intra mural teams and they let Nie shop at the diplomatic  Pentagon settles suit on dangers of electrical tests by Norman Black a p military writer Washington the defense department in a Surprise move has settled a lawsuit brought by two environmental groups by agreeing to sharply curtail research into a High Power electrical phenomenon known As electromagnetic pulse. The settlement approved by . District judge John Garrelt Penn derails at least temporarily a pro Gram the Pentagon had previously described As crucial to National Security. Among other purposes the re search involved ways to Harden crucial communications and weapons guidance equipment against electrical surges frigg Rcd by nuclear explosions. The defense department roust now determine whether its experiments involving simulations pow ered by non nuclear Means pose a danger to humans or wildlife. Jeremy Rifkin the president of the foundation on economic trends one of the environmental groups that hied the lawsuit hailed the agreement As the first court Victory of this magnitude recognizing the the Cal posed by electronic or electrical  we re extremely pleased he said. This is the first recognition by the defense department and really the first on a National level at All of a whole new environmental Hazard facing All of  the Pentagon declined to discuss the matter or its reasons for settling the Case. The suit filed in March 1987 by the Washington based foundation and the Potomac River association inc., sought essentially exactly what we got an end to High Power testing until an assessment is performed of inc threat to the environment and human and Ani Mal health Rifkin said. The settlement will shut Down or sharply curtail the operations of a handful of army and Navy generators and potentially one air Force facility electromagnetic pulse or Emp is a powerful wave or surge of electrical Energy that is released by a nuclear explosion and which can travel Long distances through he atmosphere or water. Emp became a matter of concern to the military in the Early 1960s when the Pentagon discovered a nuclear bomb detonated no High altitudes could generate a pulse so Strong it could disable the electronic components used in computers communications and guid. Ance equipment. As a result of that discovery military laboratories have studied the phenomenon for 25 years in the course of developing methods for enabling electronic weapon components to withstand Emp. In recent years Emp work also has been performed with an Eye toward harnessing the Energy pulses for offensive weapons or Zap  under inc terms of the settlement the army must now shut Down Emp generators located at Wood Bridge a Redstone Arsenal ala., and while Sands missile Range . The Navy will be required to shut Down its so called Empress i Iener Alor at the a Tuxen River Nas. My to refrain from Starling construction of an Empress 2 system and to significantly reduce the operating Power of two other a Tuxen generators. The air Force meantime will be allowed to continue operating Emp simulators Al Kirtland fab ., but Only if it can provide documentation within 14 Days demonstrating there is no discernible Environ mental risk from that operation. Rick Garcia Public affairs director for the air Force weapons Laboratory Al Kirtland said we would be prepared to furnish the documentation. One of the five Emp simulators at Kinland is one dubbed trestle a 155 million Structure thai enables scientists to imitate Emp effects upon aircraft electrical equipment. The other Emp facilities which Are located in closer proximity to populated areas must remain shut or operate Only at Low Power Levels until an environment Lal assessment of their operation is conducted Rifko said. The assessment probably will take five to six months at which Point All the generators May be re turned to service but Only at reduced Power Levels that ensure no electrical surge moves beyond the boundaries of the bases. The Pentagon must then satisfactorily Complete a full fledged environmental Impact study a process Hal could take two years before the Emp Genera lots can be used at their current Power Levels Rifko said. While the Pentagon declined comment Rifkin said he thought the government agreed 10 Settle the Case because the foundation s attorneys Learned that two army employees had warned the service against con ducting Emp experiments at Woodbridge until an environmental assessment was completed. When the foundation filed a motion to question the two workers Pentagon and Justice deportment Law yers suddenly indicated a willingness to negotiate if Kin continued. They did t want these Guys to talk about the hazards he said. We had them Over a  the foundation s lawsuit asserted Hal Emp experiments can affect human health directly and through the disruption of electronic circuits in nuclear Power plants automobiles computers air planes phone lines and navigational systems can cause potential catastrophic under Many possible  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. ,. May 17,194 some members of Congress called far an end to the embargo on the shipment of arms to the Middle East in order to help the new jewish mate of Israel. 30 years ago today., May 17, i95b the French National Assembly meeting in the face of the algerian crisis and Gen. Charles de Gaulle s move to assume Power voted pre Mier Pierre Pflimlin full emergency Powers. 20 years ago Fodoly. May 17, 1968 seventy people were killed and hundreds were injured when tornadoes slammed across nine midwestern Stales causing property dam age estimated in inc millions of ours. 10 years ago today. May 17.1978 social Security trustees told con Gress Trust funds that pay benefits to retired and disabled workers would be in Good shape for several dec Ades but the fund that pays Hospital insurance under medicare would go broke by 1990