European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday june 19,1968q Britain expels israeli double agent Diplomat London not Britain Friday ordered he expulsion of an israeli Diplomat after discovering that Mossad the israeli secret service ran a double agent intelligence operation Hen directed against palestinian terrorists. In a line announcement that British officials con ceded masked considerable anger the foreign office ordered the expulsion or an embassy attache said to be closely involved will a palestinian convicted Here last week of storing a bomb and gun Cache for the Palatine liberation organization. The palestinian Ishmail Hassan sovran 29, a Jerusa Lem born Engineer testified that he was used by Mossad As a double agent to track Abdul Rahim Mustapha suspected member of a palestinian assassination Cam news briefs . 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Nail officials said the 2-year-Otd ship Touhl be re Bath Iron works i Bali Maine built for final repair Polar jul s new military oath omit reference to soviets parliament Clish Mili ving in a the Friday unanimously adopted a new tary oath that removes a reference Tan Alliance with the soviet Union. I the few oath was recommended by Mem and Poland s National defense Muu government has said the change would Dpi affect relations with the soviets. An outlawed . Freedom and peace had wig Crit Ociz Edthe previous oath charging it Ana final to polish sovereignty. I until now military inductees promo cd to guard peace in brotherly Alliance with tru Sovi it army and other Allied the new oat contains no reference to the soviet Union and the inductee promises Only to guard peace inthe brotherhood of arms with the Allied said to have been Active last summer in officials embarrassed to Leam of the israeli double agent operation Only after the arms Cache arrest said they later verified the Mossad connection. They said they were particularly concerned because the British police have been seeking Mustapha in connection with the killing Here last year of All Naji Adhami a leading Arab cartoonist who was renowned for satirizing Flo leaders. It was while they sought Mustapha s whereabouts that they first questioned his associates and discovered six suitcases of arms and explosives casually left in a apartment m the Yorkshire town of Hull by Sowan who then told the Story of Flo activities and his Dou ble agent status. In retaliation the foreign office announced the expulsion of both Arie Regev the israeli attache and Zaki Howa the press officer at the Plo s Londo office. The Brief announcement noted the arms Cache trial and cited Regev for activities incompatible with his diplomatic status but did not otherwise explain. A British official said that the two men who we reordered to leave by the end of june were found to have been separately involved with Sowan. Regev Wassail to have helped direct Sowan s activities in posing As an agent in the Plo terrorist operation in London and Howa reportedly helped run the operation from the organization s Jerusalem the israeli foreign ministry said we regret that her majesty s government has seen tit Totake measures of this kind. Israel did not act against any British israeli expulsion order was unusual since Britain and Israel have had relatively Friendly relations in recent Yean. British officials speaking privately emphasized , that the accepted standards of behaviour in intelligence operations were that a Friendly nation keeps a Host nation informed of such a special said israeli officials had to be Well aware that the British police Wei seeking Mustapha and would be greatly concerned at the sizable Plo Cache being secreted in England by Sowa with the presumed knowledge of Mossad agents. Navy announces new Fob enlisted member Washington the Navy Friday master Hief Duarte a Bushey an no technician and command master aircraft Vimer Theodore Koas it As the next master Enki Petty officer Bushy who As selected Rotor three other Matisko including5ter be Ronnie Colts of Nav eur will become the seventh individual serve in the Post when he replaces Iliam h. Placket who is retiring jailed left a native of Jiwen Hampshire Bushey joined he Navy inif52. A the our chief Petty officer onh Navy the top foisted person in the service i fee Prin Cipal Josted assistant to the chief of Nasonal and the senior enlisted adviser to Rof naval operations. Probe from Page 1 Justice department official and other Legal sources the offices of at least three members of the House were under investigation. The reports about Chappell began circulating i Washington after the los Angeles times attributing its information to sources familiar with the Case reported that he and another unidentified member of Congress were suspected of providing inside information to military contractors and consultants. The Justice department assured there is no investigation into our office said Katie Tucker a spokesman for Dyson. There is absolutely no basis infant whatsoever for these a spokesman for Chappell Kay Thomas said we be not been served or subpoenaed and we have no reason to expect we will rumours that Dyson and a member of his staff hereunder investigation began circulating Friday morning. Later in the Day. United press International moved report attributed Only to sources saying that investigators had examined the activities of a member of his staff. Justice department officials when asked whether Dyson himself was under investigation then said he was. The officials and the Legal source said the tapes involving the lawmakers were obtained from wiretaps on the office phone of an executive of a major military contractor. The investigation they said was being overseen by the . Attorney in Brooklyn Andrew a Maloney Saipan of a wider investigation of bribery involving Pentagon aides and other government officials involved . President Reagan who was informed about the two year investigation last week said he was not troubled by the decision to withhold information about the in Quiry from the White House. I think All of that was part of the need to keep it so absolutely secret that there would t be any tipping off that then might allow some wrongdoers to escape an take cover the president said m an interview with the nightly business report a program on Public television. Attorney general Edwin Melesc said thursday that he expected criminal indictments in the ease within three department officials said that at least one other House member who has not been publicly identified was also under investigation As was reported Fri Day in the new York major military contractors the Martin mar Ietta corp. And the Ltd corp., said Friday for the firs time that they were under scrutiny As part of the invest companies also acknowledged that at one Lime both had retained the services of two private military consultants whose lies were searched earlier last week by the Fri As part of the inquiry Melvyn r. Paisley the Navy s former chief of research and development and William Calvin a private Marietta the nation s seventh largest Mili tary contractor and Ltd the 20th-targest, said the had been served with grand jury subpoenas 11 part of the investigation. Both said they would cooperate fully. Soccer from Page 1 police and Security preparations in several years incest Germany. The English fans already have left behind a string of arrests in Stuttgart Cologne and Dols Meldorf. In Dils Meldorf police say West German thugs sparked the violence by attacking the English. The violence already has prompted England to with draw its application for readmission to european club soccer tournaments next season. English debt were banned Afler a 1985 stadium tragedy in which 39 people most of them italians were lulled in violence sparked by English soccer preparation for saturday s match Frankfurt police put 1,400 officers on Alert and special squads patrolled the City the expected troubles already have led Many Tave owners to announce they will close Early Over Tai weekend. This is a soccer free area said sign taped in one bar window by an owner trying keep Drunken fun away. Emythe Early Friday fans smashed bars and Bra Ledwith German tavern patrons in Frankfurt s Sachsen Hausen District and near the main Railroad were at least 60 English fans involved and they had split into Frankfurt police spokesman rare Kuinz Wagner said. The rowdies also overturned cars hurled Beer bottles at passers by and smashed store windows Wagner said. Ten English soccer fans and a West German we rearrested he said. Later Friday police said the body of a 29-year-Oldirish soccer fan was found floating in the Mam River running through said there was no immediate indication of foul play and that the victim apparently drowned White intoxicated. Wagner said the body was discovered thursday Dusseldorf police spokesman Wolfgang Rodax said that two Dayi of violence among soccer Juu there led to 371 arrests. Of those. In were English and Moil of the others West before nor alter the game were the English the ones who started the Street Battles fights an brawls said Rodax. Rodax accused West German thugs of Marting the disturbances tuesday and wednesday As the dutch i beat the English 3-1. I
