European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes James j. Kilpatrick 200-year-old amendment could limit raise it is too late if i am not grievously mistaken to halt the unwarranted pay raise for members of Congress. Capi Tol Hill resounds with the Choo Choo noises of a freight train coming through. The 51 percent raise is virtually a done Deal but the people May be Able to derail another such express in 1993. The people could Amend the Constitution. Hah you say. Two thirds of the House and two thirds of the Senate never would submit a constitutional amendment that might adversely affect their paychecks. Getting two thirds of the state Legislatures to apply for a constitutional convention is an equally impossible task. But hold on. It has been almost forgot ten but a constitutional amendment Al ready is actively pending that might accomplish political wonders. The Story has received amazingly Little attention. Turn Back the pages of history to sep tember 1789. The first Congress then approved 12 constitutional amendments and sent them out to the states for ratification. Ten of them were swiftly approved. They became part of the Constitution in 1791. We know these 10, of course As the Bill of rights. The other two failed to be Rati fied. One of them proposed a formula for membership in the House. The other went to the matter at hand. This is the text no Law varying the compensation for the services of the senators and representatives shall take effect until an elec Tion of representatives shall have  unlike More recent proposals this amendment carried no seven year limitation on ratification by the states. After nearly 200 years it is still on the table. Back in 1790, six states ratified the amendment Maryland North Carolina. South Carolina Delaware Vermont and Virginia. Nothing More was heard of the matter until 1816, when a Public out cry arose against a raise in congressional pay from $6 a Day to $1,500 a year. There was talk of resurrecting the amendment but apparently it was talk Only. William Safire is this a picture of w a  -. From 1977 through 1987, from the time of Stansfield Turner through the heyday of William Casey our Cia was super secretly proud of ils network of cuban a cols in Havana and in Fidel Castro s embassies around the world. Here was the much needed Humins human intelligence from agents in the Field secretly work ing for the United sales. Our spy masters were delighted with the sources not Only because they were Cost eff civic $10,000 a year on average but also because they were considered Rock solid reliable. Why Agency polygraph operators had Given their Seal of approval to the key agents. Fidel Castro s officials working for us were fluttered and had been certified As truth tellers. Accordingly their reports especially when they had been specifically tasked by Cia control officers were Given great weight in evaluations of cuban nicaraguan and soviet strength. Then along came maj. Florentine Azpillaga who had been chief of intelligence in the cuban embassy in Czechoslovakia. He defected to us and established his Bona fides with a shocker an accurate list of the names of Many of the spies supposedly working for us who were actually Castro double agents. For More than a decade we had been duped by disinformation much of it selected by the Kab fed to us by cubans Loyal to Castro who had earned our trusty passing the vaunted polygraph tests. Small wonder thai our assessment of Panama s Gen. Noriega and our Low estimate of the percentage of soviet Gnu devoted to arms were so egregiously wrong. Our National Security was undermined by a crack rained Reliance on the infallibility of a machine thai measures Seal. In the Reagan administration George Shultz was the Man who valiantly resisted the use of the lie de  he threatened to resign if forced to submit to the engine of mistrust and privately cited the Azpillaga defection As proof of its danger to Security. The Secretary of state included these w9rds in his Farewell management through fear and intimidation is not the Way to promote honesty and protect  his last act in foggy Bottom dated Jan. 19 was to Issue what he thought was a policy to safeguard individual rights in the use of the polygraph at the state department. He intended to limit its use to Crim Inal investigations and to prevent its use in the screen ing of employees. But he was misled or ill served by disown bureaucracy. Background the polygraph virus begun at Cia and incubated at the Pentagon by Caspar Weinberger spread to the House foreign affairs committee where a Law was born directing the state department to poly graph the diplomatic Security service. That covered 1,700 guards and anti terrorist operatives who often work intimately with the Cia. But the parthian shot of Jan. 19 extended that threat to All 18,000 state employees plus 17,081 people who work for contractor Sand 15,153 foreign service nationals. Here is paragraph 2 which rapes the rights of americans who apply for top secret which is medium level not even sensitive clearance the use of the polygraph May be authorized. When credible derogatory information developed in connection with a personal Security investigation. Causes substantial doubt whether Access. Is clearly consistent with theme rests of National Security " thalis using the  to screen precisely what Shultz said he was against and what private employers have just been rightly prevented from doing. That has nothing to do with a criminal investigation. If you Are being considered for a diplomatic mis-s1 a. And any personal enemy says about you he s a Pinko or she s a fascism you can expect to come under Llense pressure to take a polygraph test or else. Never mind How High minded lawyers today in Errel credible derogatory  anybody who knows How bureaucracies work realizes that the flood Gates Are now open at state. Automatic mistrust of the individual is now institutionalized in the . Government. This Means that people of principle like Shultz who will not submit to the sweat merchants cannot serve their country. It also Means thai double agents like those on Azpillaga s list who regularly fool the poly Raphers will continue to be Given great credibility at Cia. This extreme interpretation was not the intern of Congress says rep. Mervyn Dymally of suitor a the new. Chairman of the House sub com Mateu at St red this outbreak of the virus. There   better yet Correct the Shult mistake. C new York times