European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Navy orders suspension for consultant by Norman Black a military writer Washington the Navy on Friday suspended a private consultant and his company from receiving or working on new Federal contracts in the latest action in connection with the investigation of Pentagon corruption. The suspension was ordered against William Galvi nand his consulting firm Athena associates. It will prevent Galvin and his company from contracting with any Agency within the executive Branch of the Federal government the Navy said in statement. The suspension order also has the practical effect of preventing Galvin and his firm from dealing with the Federal government on behalf of other defense contractors the Navy said. Friday s action had been expected since Jan. 10, when the Pentagon and Navy first announced that a Host of companies and individuals including Galvin were being considered for suspension As a result of the unseating of various affidavits Federal indictments and guilty pleas. The investigation which has been conducted Over the past two years under the code name operation 111 wind focuses on allegations that private consultants bribed government employees for information that gave client companies an Edge in winning contracts. Galvin has previously been identified As an associate of Melvyn Paisley a former assistant Secretary of the Navy and a Man alleged to be a key figure in the Justice department s probe. Also according to one affidavit that was unsealed on dec. 27, Galvin received help from Victor d. Cohen a Deputy assistant air Force Secretary in obtaining inside information for his clients which included such firms As the Uniss corp., Loral corp. And cubic corp. Cohen s participation has ranged from providing Galvin s clients with proprietary information to Struc Turing procurements in a manner that eliminates com petition the Federal affidavit said. Cohen s assistance to Galvin s clients can clearly be traced to illegal payments and gratuities provided to him by Galvin or the clients added the affidavit originally filed in court last june to support a search of Cohen s House in Potomac my. Cohen has not been charged in connection with the investigation. However the air Force has begun proceedings to suspend him without pay pending Resolution of the Case. William Nussbaum a Washington attorney for Gal Vin said Friday he had not been formally advised of the Navy s action and we simply have no comment at this  sunday february 19, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 withdrawal Celebration Robert Oakley . Ambassador to Pakistan presents War Pakistan after a mounted event celebrating the a Cash prize Friday to an afghan horseman at Pesha soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. . Reveals huge Effort of Supply afghan rebels with mules goods by the los Angeles times Peshawar Pakistan the . Government Friday took the wraps off the quieter Side of its role in the afghan War disclosing details of a $220 million program of supplying afghan rebels with everything from Tennessee pack mules and anti communist text books to Field rations and chickpeas. The disclosure came at a hastily arranged press con Ference with . Ambassador Robert Oakley and the Aid project s director Henry gushing during a visit to Peshawar. The pakistani Border City has been the sup ply Point for rebels. Gushing said the humanitarian Aid to the afghan rebels is the largest such project in recent . Experience. The Aid covered health educational and agricultural supplies As Well As general commodities. He said details of the project were never openly discussed in order to prevent attacks on Supply con Voys and the health centers and schools built with . Help in Afghanistan. Analysts speculated that disclosure of the program was a tactical move to dilute criticism of president Bush s decision to keep supplying arms to the afghan rebels de spite the soviet troop withdrawal. Over the years the United states has provided the rebels with arms valued at $2 billion. Washington has justified the action by pointing to the soviet military presence in Afghanistan. According to Bush the United states will continue to Arm the rebels because the Kremlin is still furnish ing arms including missiles to the communist government of president Najibullah. The last of the soviet forces which entered the country in december 1979, left Afghanistan on wednesday. Oakley and gushing told the press conference that Many customary bureaucratic requirements were waived along with regulations on competitive bidding and registration of the contractors who brought in the supplies. .-Japan Jet project splits Bush administration a file Brent scowcroft. His plan rejected by Commerce by the Washington Post Washington a deeply divided Bush administration has put off for at least a month a decision on whether to let Japan build a new fighter plane with . Help after lawmakers and officials expressed concern that the arrangement May be a Giveaway of american technology. Pentagon officials who negotiated the Deal have been pushing for Quick approval hoping Bush would sign the agreement while he is in Tokyo this week for the funeral of emperor Hirohito. But the proposal has turned into a test of whether the new president will continue to give the . Security relationship with Japan a pre eminent position Over economic Trade and technological considerations. The Issue pits the state and defense departments which favor the joint production arrangement against critics in the Commerce Treasury and Energy departments the White House office of Sci ence and technology and the office of the . Trade representative administration and congressional sources said. Japanese officials apparently making . Ratification of the agreement a mat Ter of National Honor have been saying they will produce the new generation fighter themselves if the Bush administration backs away from the Deal. The Pentagon negotiated the joint agreement to produce a new fighter called the fax after Japan refused to buy the .-made f-16, considered one of the world s Best warplanes. Under the arrangement general dynamics corp., maker of the f-16, would be subcontractor to Mitsubishi heavy industries getting 35 to 40 percent of the $1.2 billion Japan would spend. The fax would be an updated version of thef-16. Defense and state departments have argued that the arrangement would keep some of the work on the fighter in the United states and give this country a Cess to new japanese technology. But that View was disputed during an inter Agency meeting at the state depart ment several weeks ago the sources re ported. At that meeting representatives from the White House office of science and technology reportedly argued that Japan would contribute Little technology to the United states. However it would gain important information on composite materials used in making wings that could help in its commercial aviation Industry. The Issue has also become a Power struggle among the agencies. During their confirmation hearings both . Trade representative Carla Hills and Commerce Secretary Robert a. Mos Bacher complained that the defense department excluded their agencies from the original negotiations. As a result Mosbacher said in an interview last week that the defense department did t cover All the  he insisted that Commerce play a major role in the review rejecting a plan by nation Al Security adviser Brent scowcroft that would give defense the leading role. Japan also is pressing the administration for a Quick decision saying it would like to allocate Money in the current Fis Cal year which ends March 31. It is unclear what the administration s options Are. Sources said that if the re View rejects the plan the government is Likely to ask Japan for new negotiations in Hopes of getting a better Deal or the president might insist Tokyo buy f-16s from the United states. Former defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci said it is unlikely Japan will agree to buy a . Made plane off the shelf