Pentagon spied on White House?
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Navy
Yeoman Charles Radford
testified Wednesday he stole
secret White House documents on
the Vietnam peace talks and
other matters at the request of
two Pentagon admirals as soon
as he started White House clerk
duty in 1970.
Radford’s testimony before the
Senate Armed Services Com
mittee implied the Joint Chiefs of
Staff were kept in the dark about
some aspects of Vietnam
diplomacy, and it seemed to
contradict Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger’s assessments
of the scope and nature of the
alleged “Pentagon spy ring.”
Radford said the late Adm.
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Rembrandt Robinson, his first
boss as a Pentagon liaison clerk
at the National Security Council,
taught him from the outset how to
steal information the Joint Chiefs
wanted and cautioned him “not to
take any chances” of getting
caught.
Robinson was killed in a
helicopter crash in Vietnam but
Radford said his successor at the
White House, Adm. Robert
Welander, continued to pass his
information to the office of Adm.
Thomas Moorer, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Moorer and Kissinger have
both dismissed Radford’s
pilfering as the independent work
of an overzealous enlisted man —
“trying to get brownie points,” in
Kissinger’s phrase — that
produced only trivia.
Radford said his spy work
included funneling the secret
papers of Kissinger and Gen.
Alexander Haig back to the
Pentagon after working for them
as a stenographer on at least four
trips to Vietnam, China and other
Far East areas.
He said one of Moorer’s aides
walked up to him in the Pentagon
after he had delivered papers
from a 1971 Far East trip with
Haig and said: “Radford, you do
good work.”
Sen. Harold Hughes, (D-Iowa),
said Radford’s testimony should
trigger a deeper investigation of
the spy matter by the committee
and appeared to raise “direct
conflict” between Radford’s
description of events and those of
“his superiors.”
“We must track down the other
parties who were involved in this
and question them to verify
Radford’s testimony,” Hughes
said.
Sen. John Stennis, (D-Miss.),
the committee chairman,
described Radford as “a very
intelligent young man” but said
he had not yet drawn any con
clusions from his testimony.
Stennis said the committee might
recall Radford Thursday af
ternoon after it hears from
Welander in the morning.
As he departed the hearing
room, Radford said only that “it
was a cordial meeting.’’
As one of many examples of his
Vietnam spying, Radford
described how Robinson
allegedly briefed him on what to
look for prior to Haig’s
December, 1970, Southeast Asia
trip.
“One was a cut in troops
strength in Vietnam,” he said.
“Another was any agreement
that the White House might make
with President Thieu. He further
asked me to bring back any in
formation I might see that had to
do with talks between Haig and
Ambassador (Emory) Swank or
agreements with Gen. Lon Nol in
Phnom Penh.”
The yeoman said he brought
back much of Haig’s
correspondence from that trip,
some of it “eyes only” messages
to top Washington officials, and
drew Robinson’s praise for his
work.
His testimony was full of
references to the praise Robin
son, Welander, other Moorer
aides and officials allegedly
heaped upon him for keeping the
Pentagon abreast of what the
White House was doing.
Radford said when he ac
companied Kissinger on his
pivotal visit to Peking in July 1971
— the visit that set up President
Nixon’s subsequent trip —
Welander, who had by then
succeeded Robinson, “told me he
would be interested in anything I
could lay my hands on.
“I remember something
specifically, something about
dealings with China and that
anything I could gather in this
area would be of particular in
terest to him.”
He said he brought back
volumes of material, delivered
some of it to Welander at the
Western White House in San
Clemente and watched him take
it “into another room where
Admiral Moorer was...I naturally
assumed that the book
(Kissinger’s agenda for up
coming meetings with Moorer)
was given to him.”
| Judge asks czar, oil barons to court
WASHINGTON — A federal judge Wednesday ordered
energy director William Simon and representatives of major
oil companies to appear in court this week to defend his
gasoline allocation plan against an attack by Gov. Marvin
$ Mandel of Maryland. U.S. District Judge Dorsey Watkins
signed a show-cause order against Simon in Baltimore and
ordered him to appear Friday. Simon’s Federal Energy
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| for Maryland Tuesday, prompting Mandel’s press
spokesman, Frank DeFiUppo, to say Maryland had been
“screwed again.” The increase in gasoline allocations af
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charged in a suit filed Wednesday that Maryland was getting
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Israel forms minority government
I JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Golda Meir announced
■£ Wednesday night the formation of a new Israeli government
excluding the hawkish Likud bloc demanded by Defense
:£ Minister Moshe Dayan, and presumably without Dayan
*: himself. The new government, which also will operate
without the National Religious Party, will be Israel’s first
iij: minority regime. Its makeup was unacceptable to Dayan,
S who said previously he would not serve in such a minority
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| Filipino troops corner rebels
£ JOLO, Philippines — Government troops have a Moslem
rebel force on Jolo island surrounded but cannot mount a full
£ scale attack because the insurgents are holding hostages,
£ possibly including priests and nuns, military sources said
£ Wednesday. The sources said the hostages are believed to
include Roman Catholic priests, nuns and businessmen. They
£ were said to have been captured by the rebels in bloody
fighting Feb. 7 and 8 that left about 90 per cent of this
£ southern Philippine provincial capital in charred ruins.
£ Kissinger in Mexico for regional talks
MEXICO CITY — Mobbed by a friendly airport crowd
shouting “Henry! Henry!,” U.S. Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger arrived Wednesday for a crucial meeting of 24
:• foreign ministers from the Western Hemisphere. He pledged
a “new start and a new spirit” between the United States and
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Elections set for February 28
Heavy campaigning underway in UK
LONDON (UPI)
Paraphrasing the late Sir Win
ston Churchill, Prime Minister
Edward Heath appealed to
Britain’s voters Wednesday to
“give us your strength and we
will finish the job.”
“We have launched a mighty
social experiment,” Heath told
an election campaign rally at
Manchester. “If we succeed we
shall influence the free world for
decades. So, I say to you, give us
your strength and we will finish
the job.”
Churchill told President
Franklin Roosevelt on Feb. 9,
1941, “Give us the tools and we
will finish the job.”
At Presgon, Labor party leader
Harold Wilson said rocketing
prices are the main issue in the
campaign for the Feb. 28 general
elections.
“This single word ‘prices’ now
takes in all the issues facing
Britain today,” he said. “This
election is about prices. The
price of not voting Labor next
week is too high. We cannot
afford another Tory (Con
servative) government.”
Both Heath and Wilson carried
their campaigns to Britain’s
industrial heartland, where the
election could be won or lost.
A poll conducted by Opinion
Research Center, published in
the London Evening Standard,
showed Heath’s Conservatives
six per cent ahead, with 41 per
cent to 35 per cent for Wilson’s
Labor party.
The poll showed Heath had
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gained four percentage points in
ten days. It also indicated the
third-ranking Liberals were
gaining fast, with 21 per cent
compared with 16 per cent ten
days ago.
Before leaving London, Heath
charged at his daily campaign
news conference that Wilson’s
Labor party has moved
“distinctly to the left” and that
its policies would lead to still
higher prices and add to
Bridain’s inflation woes.
In an aside, Heath told a
questioner his relations with the
United States are “close, warm
and satisfactory” and that his
exchanges with President Nixon
are“the same as usual.”
Heath added that “major
formations” of Britain’s armed
forces would have to be
disbanded if a Labor government
carried out the party’s pledge to
log hundreds of millions off the
r
country’s $7.7 billion defense
budget.
Wilson denouced Heath’s
Conservatives for what he
described as “squalid” elec
tioneering and “spreading bogey
man scares.”
Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal
leader, sidestepped a question
whether he would join a coalition
government with the Con
servatives or Labor if either
major party failed to win a
majority in the House of Com
mons.
"Our objective is to hit the
jackpot,” Thorpe said.
Heath dissolved parliament
and ordered the snap election to
seek a mandate for dealing with a
national coal mine strike blamed
by the government for Britain’s
worst industrial crisis since
World War II. Industry has been
on a three-day week since Dec. 31
to save fuel.
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