UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 29, 1994
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CIA officers punished in spy case
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Eleven senior CIA officers were reprimanded for failing to spot Aldrich Ames' eight years of spying for Moscow, but no one at the agency will be demoted or fired for the lapses, CIA Director R. James Woolsey said yesterday.
Woolsey disclosed that "approximately three dozen" U.S. intelligence operations were compromised by Ames, who sold secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia starting in 1985. Woolsey said 12 U.S.-paid agents were killed as a result.
"The consequences have been horrid," not only for the CIA and the American taxpayers but also for "those who helped us overseas and who in a number of cases were, in effect, murdered by Ames." Woolsey
told reporters at CIA headquarters.
The CIA chief also met in closed session with the House Intelligence Committee to explain his decisions on disciplinary action and to discuss the findings of a CIA inspector general's investigation of the Ames case. Some in Congress had called for strong penalties against those held to blame in the Ames case.
Woolsey disclosed that a junior officer in 1985 discovered that Ames had not reported some of his contacts with Soviet officials in the United States. Because officers in Ames' position are judged in part on the number and frequency of their contacts with potential Soviet sources, his failure to report these encounters should have been a warning signal.
The management official who failed to act on the 1985 sign reported by a
junior officer is one of the 11 senior officers whom Woolsey gave letters of reprimand.
Woolsey's disciplinary decisions broke down this way;
brought in.
—Four officers were given "very serious" letters of reprimand normally accompanied by reproms for early retirement or outright dismissal. Three of these four, however, already have retired, and the fourth is due to retire in a few days. None of the four will be permitted to work for the CIA in the future. Sometimes retired officers become paid consultants to the agency after they leave.
—Seven other officers were given lesser remitments.
—Of the seven given lesser reprimends, three already are retired. Woolsey said they retired for reasons unrelated to the Ames case.
Developments yesterday in the O.J. Simpson case;
Simpson trial's latest developments
The Associated Press
JURY SELECTION: The first phase of jury selection is nearly completed, with 257 having passed initial screening.
NO INTERRUPTION: Superior Court Judge Lance Ito refused to interrupt, jury selection for a hearing on the admissibility of DNA evidence. Prosecutors asked for the break, saying they feared a mistrial if jurors were exposed to publicity from the hearing. No date has been set for the hearing.
BRIEF BANTER: O.J. Simpson again spoke to pool reporters covering the hardship phase of jury selection. He indicated that he had
seen news reports about his singing of "Memory" and said: "I've got to watch what I say to you guys. If I say it, I know I'll read it tomorrow morning."
GRAND JURY: Simpson's assistant, Cathy Randa, was called for a third time to testify before a grand jury investigating Simpson's friend, Al Cowlings, who drove the white Bronco during the slow-speed chase. Also called to testify were a couple who first spotted the Bronco on the freeway.
O. J. VIDEO: Playboy next month will release a 68-minute workout videotape Simpson completed a week before the double-slayings. The $15 video includes a scene of Simpson playing basketball with Brian "Kato" Kaelin.
Mission to Haiti is approved
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian lawmaker casts aside years of fear to reunite yesterday under the protection of American soldiers—and try to build a democratic society.
But gunshots slowed the first few steps toward democracy, with proarmy militiamen firing on marchers who support the return of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. One man was critically wounded.
The shooting broke out just blocks from the seaside Legislative Palace, where politicians met under U.S. guard to begin work on an amnesty for the military leaders who ousted Aristide three years ago.
Amnesty for the coup and the human rights abuses that followed was part of a last-minute deal between the ruling junta and an American delegation led by former President Carter.
U. S. officials have strongly backed an amnesty to defuse violence by desperate Haitian soldiers, who fear retribution if Aristide returns.
liner from Miami.
As American troops wearing camouflage fatigues looked on, several of the returning lawmakers hugged friends who greeted them as they stepped off a Boeing 737 jet-
"We don't want (army chief Raoul) Cedras! It is Aristide we want!" the crowd sang as a band played.
"We are happy about the amnesty bill," said one well-wisher, Nene Dordilus, surveying the scene. "These guys can finally leave and we can go on."
Before they left Miami, several of the returning lawmakers said they opposed granting the military rulers amnesty, but would go along with it in order to restore the elected government to Haiti.
At least six amnesty proposals have been prepared, and there was no estimate when, or even if, the lawmakers would reach agreement.
In another move toward democracy, Port-au-Prince Mayor Evans Paul announced he would return to City Hall today after spending much of the past three years in hiding.
Aristide supporters planned huge demonstrations Friday to coincide with the third anniversary of Aristide's overthrow.
Fifty-four of 79 deputies and 11 of 17 senators attended yesterday's parliament session, giving both houses a quorum for the first time since fisticuffs broke up a session in January.
Cold War tests leave trail of mystery victims
Some people died as a result of secret tests that "sound like something out of a science fiction novel," Conyers, D-Mich., said at a hearing by the Government Operations subcommittee on legislation and national security.
WASHINGTON — Thousands of Americans were subjected to secret chemical and germ warfare tests during the Cold War era, but their names and fates remain largely unknown, a congressional panel was told yesterday.
The Associated Press
"Today individuals who were injured in these experiments are still trying to find out the truth about what happened," said Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Government Operations Committee.
Early this year, President Clinton created an advisory committee to uncover information about secret radiation tests, notify the people who were exposed and help them seek compensation.
Conyers urged the President to extend that committee's power to cover other types of Cold Wartests as well.
Between 1940 and 1974, experiments were performed on at least a half-million individuals, including 210,000 people exposed to radiation, according to research by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
inmates, hospital patients, mental patients, members of the military and others. Some had no idea they were subjects of experiments; others volunteered but weren't told of the risks involved.
It is difficult for those who believe they were harmed to seek compensation from the government because so few records are available.
The tests were conducted on prison
For example, the GAO found that some 100 people received LSD at five universities through tests financed by the Air Force, Frank C. Conahan, assistant comptroller general of the GAO, told the subcommittee.
It is unclear who the subjects were or whether they knew they were being given the drug, he said.
Time is running out for Congress to pass amendments
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congress shipped the 10th of its 13 annual spending bills to President Clinton yesterday, but began targeting a remaining measure for end-of-session amendments ranging from the baseball strike to Haiti.
little urgency to most members of Congress, though it is one that must be enacted.
"We don't have any more vehicles for our amendments," said Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine. "We don't have another chance to pass legislation."
With lawmakers hoping to go home for a month of campaigning starting Oct. 7, the eleventh-hour amendments were being aimed at the bill that controls the District of Columbia's budget. The measure is of
But some were more sympathetic to the district's government.
"It may be a bill of convenience to a handful of senators, but imagine the inconvenience to the city if we don't have public schools, or garbage collection, street cleaning," said Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont.
With fiscal 1959 ready to start Saturday, the Senate gave final approval to three bills: a $247 billion measure financing labor, health and education programs; a $13.6 billion bill for the Interior Department and cultural programs; and a $23.5 billion legislation for the Treasury, Postal Service and some smaller agencies.
And the House sent the Senate yet another measure, providing $88.3 billion measure for transportation programs.
Congress to alter campaign financing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House and Senate Democrats reached an agreement late yesterday on a bill to reform the way political campaigns are financed, but the accord may have come too late for passage this year.
Senate Republicans have been filibustering the bill, which still has not been sent to a formal House-Senate conference. A make-or-breake vote to end the filibuster was scheduled for tomorrow morning.
To succeed, Democrats would have to muster 60 votes, three more than they got when a similar vote was tried on Tuesday.
The bill's fate apparently hung on whether three of five Democrats who opposed it, could be persuaded to switch their votes.
The agreement came after the two chambers agreed on a new $6,000-per-election-cycle limit on the amount that a political action committee can give to a House or Senate candidate.
The Senate had called for a total ban on PAC money. House members, who depend more heavily on interest-group contributions, called for leaving the current $10,000 limit untouched.
GM strike creates strange car mix The Associated Press
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. slowed the spreading effects of a strike at a key parts-making complex yesterday by changing the mix of cars and trucks it builds.
By evening, parts shortages caused by the walkout by 11,500 workers at the Buick City complex in Flint had forced two other GM plants to shut down.
If the strike continues more than a week or so, shortages of those components could shut down most of GM's North American operations and force the layoff of hundreds of thousands of workers.
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