European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 stars and stripes june 2007 Cia ready to reveal some of the skeletons hidden in its closets by Jennifer Kerr the associated press Washington lit to known documents now being made Public detail illegal and scandalous activities by the Cia More than 30 years ago wiretap pings of warrant less searches and the documents provide a glimpse of nearly 700 pages of materials that the Agency plans to de classify next a six Page summary memo that was declassified in 2000 and released by the National Security Archive at George Washington University on thursday outlines 18 activities by the Cia that presented Legal questions and were discussed with president Ford in among them the two year physical confinement in the mid1960s of a soviet assassination plots of foreign including Fidel Cia wiretapping in 1963 of two Robert Allen and Paul following a newspaper column in which National Security information was the wiretapping revealed Calls from 12 senators and six representatives but did not indicate the source of the the personal surveillance in 1972 of muckraking columnist Jack Anderson and staff Mem including Les Whitten and Brit the surveillance involved watching the targets but no the memo said it a photos Jack Anderson Fidel Castro along with several the columnist was under personal surveillance in 1972 after a series of tilt toward Pakistan followed a series of tilt toward Pakistan stories by the personal surveillance of Washington Post reporter Mike Getler Over three months begin Ning in late no specific Sto Ries Are mentioned in the Cia screening be ginning in the Early 1950s and lasting until in which mail coming into the United states was reviewed and in some cases opened from the soviet Union and much of the decade sold activities have been known for but Tom head of the one of the foreign leaders who was the subject of an assassination plot National Security said the 1975 summary memo pre pared by Justice department Law yers had never been publicly re it Sheds Light on meetings in the top Echelon of government that were Little known by the pub he Cia director Michael Hayden on thursday called the Docu ments being released next week but he added that it is Cias the documents provide a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Hay Den told a conference of history Bush wants Domestic spying lawsuits tossed by Paul Elias the associated press san Francisco the Bush administration on thursday asked a Federal judge to toss out lawsuits seeking to unearth information about the telecommunications Industry alleged participation in a warrant less govern ment eavesdropping five states want consumer records the telecommunications companies allegedly turned Over to the National Security administration As part of a Domestic eaves dropping program president Bush authorized after lawyers for new ver Missouri and Connecticut argued that they Are Pur suing complaints by Consumers that their privacy rights May have been violated if phone records were turned Over to the Asa without their department of Justice lawyers argued thursday in District court that such disclosures would harm National Security and for eign its Plain what they Are seek ing is information about the Intelli Genc gathering of the Deputy assistant attorney Gener Al Carl Nichols told judge Vaughn Nichols also argued that the states consumer privacy con Cerns conflicted with National Security which take Prece new Jersey assistant attorney general Patrick Dealmeida argued that state officials Are Sim ply investigating whether any local privacy Laws or Utility regu lations were violated by the Tele phone he said the governments National Security claims Are too Broad and general As to preclude All state Marine vet kills Bear with a log the associated press a 300pound Black Bear raided a family Camp and the father saved his sons from harm by throwing a log at the killing it with a single Chris Everhart and his three sons were camping in the Chattahoochee National Forest in North Ern Georgia when the encounter happened the Bear took the family cooler and was heading Back to the Woods when the youngest 6yearold hurled a shovel at the Bear then dropped the cooler and started coming at the said his fearing what might happen a former grabbed the Clos est thing he could find a log from their stash of threw it at it and it happened to hit the Bear in the Everhart i thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the Everhart was Given a ticket for failing to secure his Camp said Ken a Region supervisor for game management with the Georgia department of natural weve not had an attack in Riddleberger the key thing to learn from this is if theres a Bear do not have your garbage or food Avail if we manage our we wont have bears the attack happened the same weekend that an 11yearold boy was killed by a Black Bear while camping in a Forest in company apologizes for firing guardsman company that sent a termination letter to an Indiana National guardsman serving in Iraq has retracted it and apologized to his a human resources manager at the Delta faucet Plant in Greensburg sent the letter last week saving David Veerkamp was being fired because he had not returned from a yearlong leave of a he was called to Active duty in june 2006 and remains deployed to Rob Palmer of the employer support of the guard and re serve Agency said managers at deltas corporate office in Indianapolis overrode the termination letter after he talked to Cheney office balks at classified data rules Washington vice president Dick Cheney office has re fused to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information for the past four years and recently tried to abolish the office that sought to enforce those according to documents released by a congressional committee since the vice presidents staff has not cooperated with an office at the National archives and records administration charged with making sure the executive Branch protects classified Cheney aides have not filed reports on their Possession of classified data and at one Point blocked an inspection of their of after the archives office pressed the the documents Cheney staff this year proposed eliminating vietnamese president makes historic visit to Bush pointedly emphasized human rights and democracy Friday during die first visit by a vietnamese president to the White House since the Vietnam As dozens of protesters outside the White House waved president Nguyen Minn Triet has attempted to keep the focus on the countries Trade ties said the two presidents had a direct and open conversation about human from the associated press unique historic Archive shop online at have stars stripes your Hometown newspaper