European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Thursday april 21,1994 spy probes Unczer. By the new York times Washington the nation s to intelligence official said in an unusual disclosure tuesday that major espionage investigations Are under Way at the Cia and elsewhere in the government. James Woolsey director of Central intelligence Agency said the probes were prompted by information from archives and agents of defunct soviet and Eastern european spy services. The Case against Aldrich h. Ames the former Cia official suspected of spying for Moscow and betraying at least 10 so Viet and East bloc agents working for the United states is Only one among Many Woolsey said. His acknowledgement that Many potential cases of spying were under investigation was an extraordinary statement for an intelligence chief. Usually the exis tence of such cases is kept highly secret. Members of the congressional Intelli gence committees expressed fury and Dis May at Woolsey s remarks which we remade tuesday morning on the Abc news today program. I Don t know what got into him said sen. Dennis be Concini d-ariz., who is chairman of the Senate select committee on intelligence. It should t be disclosed. It s very very sensitive  a Cia spokesman declined to respond to the senator s remarks. In the last month current and former intelligence officials have said several people who have worked at the Cia Pentagon state department and White House in the last 15 years have come under suspicion in a spreading series of investigations. In addition intelligence officials said the Cia was wondering about the allegiances of agents whom it thought it had recruited from Eastern european nations Over the last 25 years. Many now appear to have been double agents pretending to work for the United states while actually working for mos cow the officials said. This has raised the question of whether a Good Deal of what the Cia thought it knew about events be Hind the Iron curtain was wrong they the doubts Are based on information from the files of the moribund Intelli gence services of former communist countries including Czechoslovakia an East Germany the officials said. The archives of the former East Ger Man ministry for state Security or Stasi Riovo under control of Bonn have been a particularly Rich source of information they said. J2 7% of convicted Ien came from p rep school by the Washington Post Annapolis my. More than one fourth of the88 midshipmen found guilty in the . Naval facade my s 1992 cheating scandal were graduates of its preparatory High school in Newport r.i., officials say. In releasing the first details about the midshipmen implicated in the cheating Academy commandant John a Padgett sought to squelch Long held rumours tha Academy athletes especially varsity football players were disproportionately involved in the cheating. Padgett in an address to the Academy s civilian Board of visitors said 28.5 percent of the Academy s midshipmen Are on varsity teams while 26 percent of the 88 midshipmen found guilty of cheating or lying were athletes. He did not detail the number or proportion who were football players. Of the rumours about a disproportionate number of varsity athletes being involved in the scandal i would say categorically it was not so he told the Board a influential 15-member advisory panel of Whites House appointees and members of Congress. The Board i headed by Frederick , a Texas investment banker and a former Bush administration staff assist ant. Vav -. \ the scandal the biggest in the institution s 149-Yearhistory, involved an electrical engineering examination Given to 663 juniors in december 1992.Padgett said the cheating Cut across All categories of midshipmen at the 4,000-student institution but he acknowledged that midshipmen who attended the facade my s one year prep school appeared to have been More heavily involved. The school is attended by enlisted Navy and Marine personnel who seek Entrance to the Academy ,.  " eighteen percent of the Academy s students Are prep school graduates Padgett said 27 percent of those found guilty of cheating or lying were prep school graduates. Padgett said that there was no evidence of Collu Sion among the prep schooners but that they formed Strong loyalties during their year of intense  la give them an extra dose of Honor training in the future he told reporters later. Padgett s comments came during the Board of visitors first meeting since a naval inspector general s report in january implicated134 students in the scandal. The midshipmen were accused of cheating buying and Selling Bootleg copies of the exam or lying about their knowledge of  incident touched off widespread criticism of the Academy in Congress and in the editorial pages of newspapers. Both the inspector general s findings and a separate report by a Board of visitors committee faulted the Academy for allowing an incident of such magnitude to occur in the first place and failing to investigate it adequately. International incident Eddie Tucker 10, of grand Junction colo., shows off the letter that s made him somewhat of an International celebrity. He found the letter in a package with a toy Glide that his father had purchased. It turned out to be a plea from the toy maker a taiwanese prison inmate. The inmate asked that the note be sent to the White House and that Taiwan be investigated. Taiwan defended the use of prison labor saying that it s absolutely , Eddie s fathered said that i Don t feel Amer Ica should be purchasing products like that Fri acts to improve crisis re Washington a the Fri has a new Field commander for hostage cases its hostage Rescue team is being expanded and top officials have been trained in crisis management All to prevent another disaster like the end of the Branch dividian siege a year ago  the Justice department s role in the 51-Day standoff outside Waco Texas still stirs controversy. And Fri director Louis Freeh announced monday that he has taken remedial Steps most recommended last october by a Justice department panel of specialists. Those actions have done Little to alleviate criticism by the american civil liberties Union and others who contend that Federal Law enforcement has done Little to prevent a similar situation from occurring. Members of the Branch Davidian religious sect set fire to their compound april 19, 1993, after tanks poked holes in the Walls and inserted tear Gas the jus Tice department panel concluded. A medical examiner has testified that 79 people died in the compound that Day. Freeh also created the Post of special agent in charge for critical incident response who will direct the on site command Post and the Fri s hostage Rescue team and other specialists at future hostage terrorist and other emergencies. " Robin l. Montgomery now head of the Fri s Field office in Portland Ore. Got the Job. Freeh and attorney general Janet Reno also have received the crisis management training. Grime Bill debate takes up rights of death Row inmates Washington a the rights of death Row inmates and suspects in capital cases have moved to the forefront of House debate on a proposed crime Bill. On tuesday lawmakers rejected a amendment that would have limited the. Federal appeals of inmates sentenced Todie. On wednesday the House was to consider language that would allow defendants in capital cases to introduce racial statistics on the death penalty As Evi Dence of discrimination. Liberals and members of the congressional Black and hispanic caucuses favor this measure. It just requires that these statistics be looked at by the judge if the defendant introduces them said rep. Don Edwards a California Democrat who chair the judiciary committee s civil and constitutional rights panel. This is an ugly vestige of slavery that Black lives Don t  the Justice department has taken nonpublic position but a Justice official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the department opposes the amendment be cause it could virtually eliminate the death penalty. On tuesday rep. Henry Hyde r-i11., led the push to remove the limit on Federal death penalty appeals. There is widespread support to limit seemingly endless and costly appeals. But Hyde suggested dealing with the Issue in a separate Bill so the Crim Bill in t torpedoed