European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes Friday. June 19, 1992 Iran Contra probes claim Reagan knew about it from Start Washington a Iran Contra special prosecutors have concluded that president Reagan knew about the arms for hostages Swap from the beginning and was repeatedly warned that the plan was illegal. That conclusion is in the indictment returned this week against former defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The indictment says the picture of Reagan a role was drawn from Weinberger a extensive notes from the period. The former presidents Washington attorney Theodore Olson would not comment wednesday on the indictments allegations on Reagan a role. The indictment obtained by Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh charges Weinberger with five felony counts of lying and covering up the Iran Contra affair. Weinberger who denies the charges is the highest ranking Reagan administration official charged in the affair. After tuesdays indictment the former president said he was sure Weinberger would be a fully  the Washington Post reported thursday that prosecutors Hope to use Weinberger a notes and other evidence to show that Reagan and other administration officials agreed in three 1986 meetings on a Story line that hid Reagan a role in the arms shipments. Reagan a statements on Iran Contra have varied widely. In March 1987, he acknowledged on nationwide television that the scheme was an arms for hostages Swap. Later he denied it. According to the indictment a National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane told Reagan Weinberger and Secretary of state George Shultz in August 1985 about an israeli proposal to sell arms to Iran to gain the release of . Hostages being held in the Middle East. A Weinberger told Mcfarlane on nov. 20, 1985, that he objected to the shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran in Exchange for hostages but Mcfarlane replied that Reagan had decided to do so through Israel. A Weinberger warned Reagan a few Days after the nov. 24, 1985, shipment of 18 Hawk missiles to Iran that such shipments were illegal. A Mcfarlane outlined a plan for additional arms sales to Iran at a dec. 7, 1985, White House meeting but Weinberger again argued that the sales were illegal. A president Reagan responded that he could answer charges of illegality but that he could not answer the charge that he had passed up a Chance to free the hostages a a the indictment said. A three Days later Mcfarlane told Reagan and others that he opposed additional arms sales but that the United states needed to replace Tow missiles that Israel had shipped to Iran in August 1985. A at a Jan. 7, 1986, White House meeting Quot the president favored the plan to sell missiles to Iran through Israel in Exchange for the release of american hostages a the indictment said. Then vice president Gcorge Bush attended the meeting the indictment said. Reagan signed a document authorizing the arms Sale plan 10 Days later. Former Fri director Likely deep Throat lbs says Washington a lbs to speculated wednesday night that l. Patrick Gray then the acting Fri director is the most Likely person to be a deep Throat a the mysterious source for watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. In a special telecast on the 20th anniversary of the watergate break in lbs correspondent Mike Wallace said Gray was the person Quot who Best fits the Given description Quot of the source. Wallace said Gray lived in a Bachelor apartment Only four blocks from Woodward and could have gone undetected As he descended into a parking garage in his apartment building to meet with the Washington Post reporter on numerous occasions. In addition lbs said Gray could easily have checked out signals that Woodward placed on his apartment Balcony while walking to work or taking a morning jog. Gray and Woodward had similar backgrounds in the Navy and shared a a Well known fascination with government a Wallace said. Quot in Gray a language and personal style he fits Woodward a description of deep Throat in detail after detail a he said. As to Gray a possible motive for helping provide leads for news stories that helped Lead to the resignation of president Nixon lbs theorized that As he was a dragged into the watergate scandal he became increasingly disgusted with the whole business and a came to loathe dealing with Alt the presidents  the 76-year-old Gray who now lives in the new London conn., area has an unlisted Telephone number and could not ice be reached wednesday night. A replica of the Santa Marfa Heads into Philadelphia on wednesday to celebrate Christopher Columbus voyage 500 Yean ago. Protests an planned by people who see the ships As rape setting exploitation of the americas by european replica ships sail into Columbus controversy Philadelphia a replicas of the Nina Pinta and Santa Marfa arrived in Philadelphia on wednesday for a controversial Celebration of Columbus voyage to America that so far has included a phony fax saying the ships would be late. No one had claimed responsibility by thursday for the fake fax sent tuesday evening and wednesday morning to the City a two daily newspapers and at least two to stations. Several groups called the committee to counter the myth of discovery Are planning a protest saturday of the five Day Celebration committee spokeswoman Carole Metellus said the ships represent Quot a racist exploitative injurious legacy of colonization. She said she doubted committee members pulled the stunt but added a i wish i was that  meanwhile in the Central Pennsylvania town of Boalsburg thieves stole artefacts from a museum honouring Columbus. The thieves took three 16th and 17th-Century paintings a 15th-Century conquistadors helmet and seven 19th-Century swords from the Columbus Chapel and Boal mansion sex Noriega aide gets prison for drug smuggling Miami Linn a no _ a a. Miami up1 a a former panamanian Diplomat whose testimony helped convict Manuel Noriega was sentenced on wednesday to four years in prison for cocaine smuggling. A i was tapped by crime on the shoulder and 1 looked its Way a Ricardo Bilonick told . District judge William Hoeveler. Bilonick who could have faced up to 20 years in prison also was fined j50. He was one of 15 men indicted in Miami in 1988 with Noriega the panamanian Leader who was deposed by a . Invasion. Bilonick a former panamanian ambassador at Large who helped negotiate the Panama canal treaties with the United states surrendered to . Drug enforcement administration agents in Panama in August. A unlike other defendants Ricardo Bilonick was not brought Here by an invasion by the . Military. He voluntarily surrendered Quot said defense attorney Dan i Ormun who asked for a 30-month sentence. Bilonick 44, pleaded guilty to one count of cocaine conspiracy and agreed to testify against Noriega in Exchange Tor a recommendation of leniency. Two other counts against him were dropped. Bilonick admitted that he bought part of the panamanian airline Nair with a loan from Medellin drug Cartel Leader Jorge Ochoa and that he used the Carrier to smuggle 22 tons of cocaine to Miami in the Early 1980s. J during Noriega a trial Bilonick testified that the deposed dictator was paid $500,000 per flight to give the cocaine filled planes Safe passage through Panama. The cocaine was hidden in refrigerators freezers and televisions. Bilonick read a lengthy speech to the court saying he became involved with the Cartel through Money laundering but never dreamed it would Lead to full scale drug smuggling. I was adrift in a sea of crime namely my own country Bilonick said