DATE= 10/6/97
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-220901
TITLE=U-S SPIES (L)
BYLINE=JIM MALONE
DATELINE=WASHINGTON
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: ECHOES OF THE COLD WAR HERE IN WASHINGTON MONDAY AS
THREE AMERICAN CITIZENS WERE CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE ON BEHALF OF
THE FORMER EAST GERMANY. U-S LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICIALS DESCRIBE
THE THREE SUSPECTED SPIES AS COMMITTED COMMUNISTS WHO KEPT TRYING
TO SELL U-S SECRETS EVEN AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL. V-O-A
CORRESPONDENT JIM MALONE HAS THE STORY.
TEXT: THE THREE ACCUSED SPIES HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY
TO COMMIT ESPIONAGE. THEY WERE ARRESTED OVER THE WEEKEND HERE IN
WASHINGTON AS PART OF AN EXTENSIVE F-B-I STING OPERATION.
THOSE ARRESTED INCLUDE FORMER DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL THERESA
SQUILLACOTE, HER HUSBAND, LABOR UNION OFFICIAL ALAN STAND AND
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR JAMES CLARK.
THE F-B-I SAYS ALL THREE BECAME SPIES FOR EAST GERMANY AT THE
HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR. THEY LATER TRIED TO SELL INFORMATION TO
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE REPUBLIC
OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THEY WERE ARRESTED ON SATURDAY AFTER PASSING CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION TO UNDERCOVER F-B-I AGENTS POSING AS INTELLIGENCE
AGENTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
HELEN FAHEY IS THE U-S ATTORNEY IN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, JUST
OUTSIDE WASHINGTON, WHERE THE THREE APPEARED IN COURT ON MONDAY.
/// FAHEY ACT. ///
(ALLEN) STAND BECAME AN AGENT OF THE FOREIGN
INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OF EAST GERMANY IN APPROXIMATELY
1972. HE RECRUITED (JAMES) CLARK IN 1976 AND (THERESA,
HIS WIFE) SQUILLACOTE BETWEEN 1979 AND 1981. CLARK,
STAND AND SQUILLACOTE REMAINED AGENTS OF EAST GERMANY
UNTIL THE COUNTRY WAS UNIFIED WITH WEST GERMANY IN
OCTOBER OF 1990. AND THEN THEY SUPPORTED THEIR EAST
GERMAN HANDLER'S EFFORT TO ESTABLISH A NEW ESPIONAGE
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SOVIET UNION AND THEN WITH THE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
/// END ACT. ///
THE F-B-I SAYS IT HAD HELP FROM SOME FORMER EAST GERMAN
INTELLIGENCE AGENTS IN GATHERING EVIDENCE AGAINST THE ACCUSED
TRIO. OFFICIALS SAY THERESA SQUILLACOTE, WHO USED TO WORK AT THE
PENTAGON, RECENTLY SOUGHT A JOB AT THE WHITE HOUSE AS A STEPPING
STONE TO WHAT SHE HOPED WOULD BE A POSITION AT THE NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNCIL.
F-B-I AGENT THOMAS PICARD DESCRIBES ALL THREE OF THE ACCUSED AS
COMMITTED COMMUNISTS WHO MET AS COLLEGE STUDENTS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN IN THE EARLY 1970'S.
/// PICARD ACT. ///
THEY LOOKED TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO SELL THEIR ALLEGIANCE
TO. THEY WANTED TO SELL THEIR EXPERTISE IN DOCUMENT
PHOTOGRAPHY, RADIO MESSAGES AND THE SMUGGLING OF
INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. FIRST, THEY
TRIED TO SELL IT TO RUSSIA. THEN TO SOUTH AFRICA. BUT
FINALLY, THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL IN SELLING THEIR SECRETS
TO AN UNDERCOVER AGENT OF THE F-B-I.
/// END ACT. ///
ALL THREE APPEARED IN COURT MONDAY AND WERE HELD ORDERED WITHOUT
BAIL UNTIL THEIR NEXT COURT APPEARANCE ON THURSDAY WHEN IT IS
EXPECTED THAT LAWYERS WILL BE APPOINTED TO REPRESENT THEM.
IF CONVICTED OF THE ESPIONAGE CHARGES, THEY FACE A MAXIMUM
PENALTY OF LIFE IN PRISON OR POSSIBLY EVEN THE DEATH PENALTY IF
CERTAIN CRITERIA UNDER THE LAW ARE MET. (SIGNED)
NEB/JBM/WFR
06-Oct-97 3:32 PM EDT (1932 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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