UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 29,1994
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Navy Secretary will expel 24 midshipmen from Academy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Navy Secretary John Dalton has decided to expel 24 midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy in the cheating scandal that
has rocked the prestigious school, service officials said yesterday. However, those expelled will not be required to repay the costs of their government-funded education, officials said. The costs have been estimated at about $57,000 per student.
Dalton, a graduate of the academy also has decided to allow two other midshipmen to return to the academy to face discipline "short of separation from the Navy, a Navy statement said.
The cheating scandal, and another incident in which a female midshipman was chained to a urinal and harassed by a group of male students, sullied the reputation of the academy
that produces about half of the Navy's officers.
Several weeks ago, the Pentagon concluded that 71 midshipmen were involved in cheating on a 1992 electrical engineering exam and decided that 29 should be dismissed. Those not dismissed were allowed to finish the school year and graduate, but faced disciplinary actions.
Last week, three of the 29 were spared expulsion, leaving 26 cases remaining for final determination by Dalton.
None of the midshipmen was identified by the Navy.
"This has been a very difficult decision to make, but in my judgment it is both fair and just. We must strive to maintain a spirit of honor and integrity within the naval service," Dalton said in a statement. "I am committed to fairness."
Dalton added that he had looked at each case separately, as had the former chief of naval operations, Adm. Frank Keloo, and a variety of other officials.
Russian spy receives life sentence
The Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Aldrich Anes, the highest-paid and highest-ranking Russian spy ever caught inside the Central Intelligence Agency, was sentenced to life in prison without parole yesterday in what a prosecutor called "the most damaging spy case in the history of this country."
Ames, 52, pleaded guilty without a trial and admitted being paid $2.5 million by the Soviet Union and then Russia since April 1985 for U.S. secrets. Once head of counterintelligence in the CIA's Soviet-East Europe section, Ames admitted disclosing the identities of 10 Russian officials and one East European who were spying for the United States or Great Britain.
Prosecutions said at least four Soviet KGB or GRU (military intelligence) agents among the 11 were
executed, U.S. Attorney Helen Fahey told a news conference, "He traded people's lives for $2.5 million."
Ames said he never learned the fate of those he betrayed. But reading his first public statement since his Feb. 21 arrest, Ames expressed "deepest sympathy" for those "who may have suffered from my actions."
Professing "profound shame and guilt" for "this betrayal of trust, done for the basest motives," money to pay debtals, Almes nevertheless said he did not believe he had "noticeably damaged" the United States or "noticeably aided" Moscow.
"These spy wars are a sideshow which have had no real impact on our significant security interests over the years," he told the court in a matter-of-fact tone.
But the prosecutors said in court papers, "Ames' compromise of
these penetrations of the Soviet military and intelligence services deprived the United States of extremely valuable intelligence material for years to come."
Ames' wife, Rosario, 41, also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit espionage and evade income taxes, but the government said she aided her husband's treachery without ever handling or transmitting secrets to the Russians.
U. S. District Judge Claude Hilton deferred her sentencing until Aug. 26 so the government had time to see whether Ames fulfills his agreement to tell investigators everything he disclosed, how he operated and any help he may have received.
"The results of his debriEFing will be very influential," in her sentencing, her attorney William Cummings said. As part of the plea bargain with the Ameses, prosecutors have agreed to recommend she be sentenced to 63 to 72 months, which Cummings said means she could be released, with time off for good behavior, in somewhat more than four-and-a-half years at the earliest.
The Ames accepted the deal in part so Mrs. Ames could be freed in time to help rear their 5-year-old son, Paul, who is staying with relatives in Colombia, her native land.
In another part of the deal, the Ameses agreed to give the government any future payments they might earn for the sale of their stories and all their assets. These include their $540,000 suburban home, Jaguar and Honda cars, Ames' pension for 31 years in the CIA, all domestic bank accounts and all foreign accounts, which Ames' attorney Plato Cacheris estimated hold less than $100,000 now.
"This plea agreement leaves Mr. Ames and his wife penniless," Fahey said.
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