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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, December 28, 1994

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Wednesday december 28,1994. Other moles Likely in Cla Ames says Washington a confessed spy Aldric Hames says there probably Are other moles inside the Cia but insists his own actions did not damage .National Security in any significant  the former Cia official is serving a life prison Ter for Selling secrets to Moscow for More than eight years until his arrest last february. His wife Maria Del Rosa Rio Casas Ames is serving a five year prison term. He was interviewed for one hour by a can team fora program that was to air tuesday night in the United  _. Ames said he Hopes to go free some Day despite his sentence to life imprisonment without parole. I Don t think you can live otherwise Ames said inthe interview taped at the Federal Penitentiary in Allen Wood a. Asked if he believed there were other moles still in Side the Cia Ames said  Cia director James Woolsey has called Ames a warped murdering  several of the soviet and East european double agents he unmasked were executed. But Ames sought to play Down the damage he inflicted. While i betrayed my Public Trust i Don t believe that that betrayal damaged our National Security in any significant Way Ames said. He said the United states historically had hardly any agents who Ever reported any valuable or significant political information on what was happening in the soviet Union v while some of the double agents were executed Ames said others have been released from jail or finished their jail terms and Are  and these double agents identified a lot of Ameri can or British agents of the Kab who Are now doing jail time in Britain and this country and elsewhere he.  a a " ". A. Ames said he passed Cia lie Detector tests by staying Calm and following the soviets advice to develop a Good rapport with the person administering the poly graph.  -%.,. A v  A Yva sked if he had anything to say to his russian handlers Ames said i have a lot of respect for Tjiema an gratitude. They worked real hard and they did everything they could. From their Point of View to take Good care of  his motivation for walking into the soviet embassy in Washington in april 1985 was greed weakness and fear Ames said. He got $50,000 for giving the soviets what he consid ered fake information a list of soviets who had volunteered to help the Cia but who were actually working for the Kab. He said he fully intended to Stop after pulling that  it was after that in a much less conscious sort of process that i took the deeper plunge and gave real agents up said Ames who bought a Jaguar Auto Mobile and fancy Home with the $2 million the soviets later paid him. I should have been much More careful said Ames. The russians credited me with a great Deal More care awareness and sensitivity than i showed. But you do have to remember that a $500,000 House in the Washington suburbs is not unusual for civil servants. Buying it for Cash  Ames cried when asked about his 6-year-old son Paul now living with his wife s parents in her native Colombia. -.,. There s a tremendous amount of grief and remorse that i have to.  said. There s a sense in which i have perhaps died for  in the stars and stripes 10 years ago dec. 28,1984 the government ran up another giant budget deficit in november $28.6 billion As the latest total of red Ink added to fears that the country was headed for its worst yearly deficit in history. 20 years ago dec. 28,1974 Jack Benny the make believe miser whose Deadpan humor broke up audiences from vaudeville Days to the age of television died of cancer at the age of 80. 30 years ago dec. 28,1964 president John son prodded the defense depart ment to wipe out racial discrimination in National guard units at Home and in facilities near bases abroad. 40 years ago dec. 28,1954 France approved the entry of West Germany into the North Atlantic treaty organization. 50 years ago dec. 28,1944 striking at sup ply channels feeding German forces More than 600 b-17s and b 24s of the . 8th air Force flying in favourable weather and unopposed by the Luftwaffe Ham mered Assembly areas and rail Bridges in Western Germany. World War ii 50 years ago today dec. 28 1944 Britain s 8th Indian div attached to the . 5th army pushes the germans Back North along the Serchio River Valley on the Western Side of the italian front. Fighting slows in the Battle of the bulge while the allies and germans regroup it. Gen. George s. Patton prepares to open a major offensive Between the Sauer and Wiltz Rivers in the Center of the collapsing nazi salient in Belgium. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 a v f. F " v s a Wax Tufts. Raf a f f St xxv a v a a v. Catching some rays people gather on the Beach at children s Cove in la Jolla the Sun. The High Winter surf regularly drives Many harborcalif., on monday to watch a group of Harbor seals basking in seals up onto the Beach. Airport said to endanger president Arlington a. A National Airport just three Miles South of the White House should be closed to protect the president from Aerial attack some airline Industry watchdogs Are warning. A september plane crash on the White House Lawn and shots fired just outside the residence recently showed the Nee for closing the Airport said David s. Ster Pler executive director of the inter National airline passengers association. It would t take Long for an airplay taking off from National to be up Over the White House Capitol or Pentagon and then Bam it s All Over Stern Ler said in an interview published Mon Day in the Washington Post. Ster Pler has urged the Federal aviation administration to shift National operations to Dulles and Baltimore Washington International airports As Well As Andrews fab in Prince George county my. National is the nation s 22nd busiest Airport with 45,000 passengers a Day. An Faa spokesman said the Agency had no comment on Stempler s proposal. James a. Wilding general manager of the metropolitan Washington airports authority which runs National an Dulles said a Pilot determined to attack the White House could do so from Al most anywhere. But Leo g. Janssens president of the Ohio based aviation safety Institute said the Airport is so close that a terrorist or Assassin could take off or approach National in Legal airspace and within seconds veer away to attack. As Long As National is there there Sno Way you  a Saboteur hellbent on an attack out of the White House area Janssens said. In september Frank Corder stole a single engine Cessna from an Airfield North of Baltimore. Under the influence of alcohol and cocaine he slammed into the South Lawn of the White House be fore the plane stopped below the presi Dent s living quarters. The unemployed truck Driver was killed. That and other recent incidents at the White House prompted a secret service Security review to be finished next month  
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