European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 16, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 Here s a Chance to perform with real Rock stars san Francisco a Wanna be another Springsteen maybe Madonna ii Twenty five people this summer will get the Opportunity to learn How from those who have already made it in the music Biz during the first Rock n Roll fantasy Camp. It la be a total immersion into the world of Arock n Roll Star said the program s creator. Gilbert Klein. After getting coached by real life rockers campers will live the dream of everyone who Ever played in a garage band performing at Sanfrancisco s legendary Fillmore auditorium. Guitarist Craig Chaquico of the Sta ship willbe among the professional musicians instructing the aspirants who must Only be competent performers Klein said monday. While claiming that he could not yet release the names of other pro participants everyone we be spoken to has been enthusiastic about it he added. Klein said the Camp to be held aug. 20-27, i partly for musicians who want to break into the business but it s mainly aimed toward people who Are doing it for fun and have another profession they Klein fits the latter description himself. The owner of a combination nightclub Bowling Alley in the City s Haight Ashbury neighbourhood he Isa Rock n roller from Way Back. He played in a band on new York s Long Island 20 years ago and several years ago formed a group Buzzin the system with some of his employees. Would be campers must be 21, sing or play a instrument and submit an audition tape with five songs. Participants must at least be Able Tobang out the chords of such simple Rock songs As proud Mary said Klein. The chosen amateurs will be divided into five bands according to musical tastes and will spend three Days rehearsing two Days recording and putting the tracks together and a Day doing sound and Light checks at the Fillmore one of those less than glamorous but necessary routines of the music business. Klein who plans to expand the Camps nation ally and internationally figures there Are a lot of wannabes Happy to pay the $3,500 fee which includes lodging. Embassies hire hundreds without probes Gao says Washington a . Embassies abroad have hired Hundred of foreign nationals for Security posts and other jobs without background checks heightening the risk of espionage and terrorism a con Gressional report says. The general accounting office looking at Security for . Posts in nine countries found that employees at eight of them had not been adequately investigated. These shortcomings represent not Only noncompliance with. Regulations but More importantly a Gap in the . Efforts to reduce the risk of espionage an terrorism at overseas posts the Gao report said. The Gao found that of 328 local guards hired i Egypt at least 204 were not investigated by . Officials. It said there were no plans to investigate 48 guards who were hired for . Posts by egyptian com Mercial contractors. In Argentina the ambassador hired a Nanny and chauffeur at his own expense without telling the Amer ican Security officer according to the report. Later the Nanny was found to have both local and . Police records and the chauffeur was fired for helping to steal the ambassador s car it said. The report did not name the ambassador. It found that in Algeria like Egypt a neighbor of Libya Only 52 of the 229 foreign nationals employed were investigated and no member of the local guard Force of 94 was among them. In Morocco of 821 non american employees Secu Rity files were missing on 112, and the Security officer said 108 were probably never investigated. In Argentina 71 guards were investigated by a local contractor who hired them with no Check by Ameri cans. The . Security officer in Thailand had not investigated 183 local guards and the local contractor who supplied them was allowed to determine which ones to investigate. A state department official said tuesday it is re viewing each Post to see that investigations Are in compliance with its rules. But he added that the report does not seem to account for the various restrictions imposed by governments of the Host countries. In some countries no investigations Are possible said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Cia denies charge soviets bugged embassy code machines Washington not the Central intelligence Agency denied tuesday that the communications machines at the american embassy in Moscow had Bee subject to electronic eavesdropping by soviet agents an assertion made in a new Book on Security lapses atthe embassy. Bill Baker the chief spokesman for the Agency said tuesday that the intelligence Community s review of the evidence does not substantiate that the soviets were Able to Plant eavesdropping devices inside the equipment. Such a Security breach would be very damaging be cause the embassy routinely sends and receives huge amounts of classified information through the embassy s code machines. In particular soviet citizens work ing for american intelligence agencies would feel a risk because reports on their work Are sometimes sent to the United states by Way of cables from the Cia i Moscow. Baker s statement was nonetheless unusual the Agency normally declines comment on published allegations. American technical experts began studying the embassy s communications equipment in August 1987, after Navy investigators said at least one Marine guard at the embassy had confessed to allowing soviet agents into the building. The guard later retracted his statement saying it had been coerced and invented. All charges against the guard were later dropped. The new Book Moscow station by Ronald Kessler contends that american intelligence officials found evidence that soviet agents had succeeded in entering the ninth floor room where the embassy kept the main code machines called the communications programs unit. The agents were said to have planted highly sophisticated electronic equipment in the code machines allowing soviet intelligence to read embassy cables. Kessler quotes unnamed figures As saying Only about dozen officials including president Reagan were informed of the Security breach. This allegation could not be independently confirmed in interviews wit several other intelligence officials. Space probe readied anew for Jupiter journey i Oev
