European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday july 11,1988 Meese denounces leaks from report explains timing on Wallach Job offer Washington a attorney general Edwin Meese Iii on sunday denied a claim by his former Deputy that he offered his close Friend e. Robert Wal Lach a Job in the Justice department while Meese was aware Wallach was under criminal investigation. Meese who has announced he is resigning later this month or in Early August also said that whoever leaked details of a special prosecutor s report should be held in contempt even if it was Wallach who leaked the report. The filing in Federal court of the sealed report by Independent counsel James Mckay last week indicated that Mckay would bring no charges against Meese. Both Meese and president Reagan said the report vindicates the attorney general. But the new York times quoted portions of the report in saturday s editions that raised some ethical questions about Meese s conduct including the Job offer to Wallach. Wallach a former Meese lawyer and confidant is awaiting trial in new York on a racketeering indict ment accusing him and two others of taking illegal payments from we tech corp., a Bronx n.y., defense contractor to influence government officials. The times said the report gives a detailed account of discussions Between Meese and Wallach about the possibility of Wallach joining the Justice department although Meese denied to both the Fri and a grand jury that he made Wallach a Job offer. In both in stances Meese later changed his testimony acknowledging some discussion of a Job for Wallach the times said quoting the report. At no time whatsoever was there any thought what Soever of Bob Wallach taking any Job in the Justice department while there was any possibility he was under criminal investigation Meese said sunday. Meese acknowledged however that there had been a photo attorney general Edwin Meese Iii. On meet the press sunday some discussion of a possible Job for Wallach which went out of my mind after i found out about the Crimi Nal  the report according to the times concluded that the Job offer remained open after Meese became aware on april 6,1987, of the investigation of Wallach. It quoted then Deputy attorney general Arnold i. Burns As telling investigators he was astonished when Meese told him after that Date that the offer to make Wallach Counselor to the attorney general was still Good. The report said that Meese on april 17, 1987, de report says Fri memo puts Bush in Cia Back in 1963 Washington a vice president George Bush May have worked for the Central intelligence Agency in 1963, More than a decade before becoming its director according to a Magazine article that cites a recently discovered Fri memorandum. Bush denied the report through a spokesman. The nation Magazine in its current Issue quotes a Federal Bureau of investigation memo of november 29, 1963, from then director j. Edgar Hoover to the state department on the subject of the assassination of president John f.  the memo according to the Magazine Hoover stated that the Bureau had briefed or. George Bush of the Central intelligence Agency on the reaction of cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination. The Magazine article written by Joseph Mcbride also quoted an unidentified source with close connections to the intelligence Community As saying Bush started working for the Agency in 1960 or 1961, using his Oil business As a cover for Clandestine  Stephen Hart a spokesman for the vice president said there s nothing to  said he had talked to Bush about the Story and that Bush denied any involvement with the Cia prior to being named director by president Ford in 1975. He was an oilman in the Early 1960s and in 1963 he was running for the Senate Hart said. Asked if perhaps another George Bush might have been the one who worked for the Cia Hart said i Don t want to speculate but the Story is not  Bill Devine a Cia spokesman declined to com ment on the possibility that Bush or someone else with that name worked for the Agency in the 1960s. It s our Standard policy on allegations that people have worked for the Cia or that sort of thing. We neither confirm nor deny Devine said. We certainly confirm that he worked for the Cia when he was direct  the Magazine said Hoover s memo was recently discovered among 98,755 pages of Fri documents re leased in 1977 and 1978 in connection with Freedom of information act suits. At the time of the memo Bush was running the Houston based Zapata off Shore co., which the mag Azine said gave Bush an Opportunity to do extensive overseas travel including trips throughout the carib bean. In 1964, Bush ran unsuccessfully for the Senate against the democratic incumbent Ralph Yarbo rough. In his 1987 aut9biography, looking Forward Bush Calls his appointment to head the Cia a real  however Bush also notes in his autobiography that i d come to the Cia with some general knowledge of How it  the nation article cites this line from Bush s Book and another one in which Bush refers to his Many overseas contacts As a businessman As possible veiled references to previous Cia experience. Nied to the Fri that Wallach was being considered for a Job but four Days later he called the Fri to Correct his statement acknowledging that a Job had been offered two weeks earlier the times reported. Meese also told a grand jury last october that he had not offered Wallach a Job since july 1985, but quickly corrected his statement when he was shown a copy of an Fri report of his previous statements. The times also said the report showed Meese was closely involved in discussions about a proposed $1 billion iraqi Oil pipeline. It said he gave conflicting accounts of whether he knew of alleged plans to have pipeline funds funnelled directly to Israel s labor party in a bribe scheme. Meese was not asked about those specific assertions but said his involvement in the pipeline matter was limited to asking National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane to talk to Wallach and responding to a letter from then israeli prime minister Shimon Peres about the proposal. Meese criticized the times for quoting from the report before his lawyers had a Chance to answer any of its conclusions. He also refused to answer questions about the re port s contents noting that court orders prohibit Dis Cussion until it is unsealed. At the suggestion that Wallach leaked the report since portions disclosed were among those Given to him by the prosecutor for comment Meese said any body who leaked that report should be held in con tempt  Meese denied any breach of ethics in his term As attorney general and said numerous accusations against him have not hindered the carrying out of a conservative Agenda for the nation s Legal system. I Haven t found anything yet where somebody said you did this and it was wrong Meese said. Little Lindbergh a photo Pilot Chris Marshall 11, signals thumbs up sat urday at new York s Laguardia Airport before taking off for Montreal on the fourth leg of a trans Atlantic flight to Paris in his Mooney 252. Accompanied by former top gun Navy Pilot Randy Duke Cunningham Marshall is re enacting with a few extra stops Charles Lind Bergh s historic flight in 1927. Paper says . Boosts Solidarity involvement new York a the . Government has joined polish emigres in an Effort to help Solidarity and the polish underground smuggle publications printing equipment radio sys tems and video cassettes into Poland a report said sunday. The new York times reported that the publications include thousands of Book and periodicals highly critical of the communist authorities and Poland s prime minister Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. Some funds for Poland s under ground Are openly appropriated by Congress. Some Are provided by the National endowment for democracy a private non profit corporation that gets almost All its funds from the fed eral government and seeks to encourage democracies worldwide the times said. The endowment consults with the state department on All Grants. Other Aid is channelled secretly through polish emigre groups in Paris Brussels and Lund Switzerland where Josef Lebenbaum s Independent polish Agency has organized Doz ens of truck shipments into Poland the times said. Lebenbaum the International coordinator of the conference of Solidarity support organizations uses a net work of couriers and Drivers to smuggle books printing presses Ink video equipment photographic equip ment microfiche and microfiche readers radios and electronic equip ment to opposition groups in Poland the times said. The electronic equipment included police band radio scanners to Monitor polish police communications and equipment to allow Solidarity Mem Bers to communicate among them selves when Telephone lines were Cut or police surrounded them