20—The Dally Collegian Monday, Nov. 25,1985
Spy arrests:
By WILLIAM M. WELCH
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A former
CIA intellience analyst was charged
Saturday with selling U.S. secrets to
China for more than $140,000 since
1952 and giving the communists infor
mation on Chinese soldiers taken
prisoner during the Korean War.
In a complaint released Saturday,
the FBI said Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63,
was paid by the Chinese for informa
tion he obtained over more than 30
years while working for the U.S.
embassy in Hong Kong and ClA’s
Foreign Broadcast Information Serv
ice.
The Chin case was the latest in a
series of blows to U.S. intelligence
services, and the,, third espionage
arrest in the Washington area in
three days.
‘lt’s been going on a
long, long time.’
Federal law
enforcement official on
fhe latest spy scandals.
Chin, who retired from the Central
Intelligence Agency in 1981, was ar
rested at his Alexandria, Va., home
and was arraigned on charges of
espionage and conspiracy, the FBI
said.
“It’s been going on a long, long
time,” said one federal law enforce
ment source, who spoke only on con
dition he not be identified. He said
authorities are considering the possi
bility Chin was spying as far back as
the early 19405, before communist
forces won control of China.
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have been compromised were not
immediately available. At the time of
his retirement, Chin worked in the
Foreign Broadcast Information Serv
ice at the ClA’s heaquarters in Lang
ley, Va., where foreign government
radio services are monitored and
transcribed.
As a CIA employee, Chin would
have carried a “top secret” clear
ance, officials said.
Justice Department sources said
,Chin worked for the U.S. government
in various capacities since the early
1940 s and had worked for CIA for at
least 11 years. Chin also did work for
the agency as a translator, and had
been employed at the U.S. embassy in
China in the early early 19405, the
sources said.
In another espionage case, the wife
of a Navy intelligence officer charged
with selling U.S. military secrets was
arrested Friday night and was ar
raigned Saturday. Anne L. Hender
son-Pollard, 25, wife of Navy
intelligence analyst Jonathan J. Pol
lard, was ordered held without bail on
a federal charge of gathering or de
livering defense information.
Federal prosecutors said the
charge carried a maximum penalty
of 10 years imprisonment and a $lO,-
000 fine.
According to an affidavit filed by
prosecutors, Pollard called his wife
Monday while he was being interro
gated by federal agents and asked
her to remove “certain articles”
from their apartment.
The affidavit said later that day
Mrs. Pollard gave a friend a suitcase
she said contained classified docu
ments that “must be destroyed” be
cause “something had happened to
her husband.”
The affidavit said the suitcase
bearing the name tag J. Pollard and
containing classified documents was
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recovered by federal agents the next
day.
Officials said Jonathan Pollard ad
mitted selling U.S. secrets to Israel
and Pakistan and receiving nearly chin lives at a high-rise apartment
$50,000. But a Justice Department CO mplex in Alexandria, Va. He is
official said they were skeptical of his married an d has three children.
remarks about Pakistan. . , . ...
u * j An FBI official, insisting on ano-
FBI Director William Webster said said Chin has iven a
in f prepared statement that Chin, a s * ter £ ent to autho rities Friday night
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Israel tries to contain damage to U.S. ties in wake of Pollard arrest
By ALLYN FISHER
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM The Israeli government pledg
ed a thorough investigation and possible dismiss
als yesterday over a spy scandal that threatened
to damage its relations with the United States, its
closest ally.
The Foreign Ministry statement was the first
time Israel has conceded that it might be linked in
some way to the Jonathan J. Pollard case, al
though high-ranking officials said the government
had not been involved.
Previously, government officials have denied
any knowledge or involvement with Pollard, a
civilian U.S. Navy analyst arrested Friday and
accused of selling classified military documents to
Israel and Pakistan for $50,000 in the past two
years.
High-ranking officials stressed Sunday that if
Israel was involved, the government knew nothing
about it.
“The orders didn’t come from Jerusalem,” said
one official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“We are checking whether it was a local intitiative
... We are checking how something like that could
have happened without our knowledge.”
Said a second senior official: “What is clear
A Justice Department source said
it was believed Chin was paid a
substantial amount of money by the
Chinese over that period.
If convicted of espionage, Chin
today is that the political echelons knew nothing
about this incident.”
The ministry statement said Israel’s policy “is
to refrain from any intelligence activity in the
United States” because of the traditionally close
ties between the two countries.
“A thorough examination is being undertaken to
determine whether there has been a deviation of
any kind from this policy. Should such a deviation
be found to have occurred, the necessary conclu
sions will be drawn,” said the statement, using a
phrase indicating severe punishment.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres received a pre
liminary report on the investigation earlier Sun
day and consulted with his top Cabinet ministers.
“Actions of this kind against the. United States
stand in total contradiction to the policy of the
Israeli government,” said the statement, which
was coordinated between Peres and Foreign Min
ister Yitzhak Shamir.
An Israeli official, who insisted upon anonymity,
said he expected “heads to roll” if an unauthorized
intelligence operation was conducted in the United
States.
Secretary of State George Shultz, said in a
meeting Friday with visiting Cabinet member
Moshe Arens that he was shocked by the case,
which violates a gentleman’s agreement between
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could face a maximum penalty of life
in prison.
“This case probably parallels the
Walker case in duration,” said the
law-enforcement source. He was ref
erring to retired Navy communica
tions specialist John A. Walker Jr.,
who pleaded guilty late last month to
running a spy ring for the Soviet
Union in the U.S. Navy for 18 years
a ring that included his son, his broth
er, and allegedly a friend,
Pollard’s arrest, ironically, came
on the same day the Pentagon un
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cluding greater use of polygraph test
ing for people handling classified
documents —in light of the Walker
case.
The Oakland Tribune in a copyright
story published in Saturday editions
reported that Pollard boasted to col
lege friends at Stanford University 10
years ago that he was an Israeli
intelligence agent.
In October, the FBI issued a war
rant for another former CIA officer,
Edward Lee Howard, accused of con
spiring to deliver defense informa
tion.
Israel and the United States not to spy on each
other.
In wording apparently aimed at soothing anger
in the Reagan administration, the Foreign Min
istry statement said Israeli policy forbade spying
against the United States “because of the close
relations and the special and traditional friendship
between the two countries.”
Some Israeli officials suggested that Israel’s
intelligence agency may have hired an agent in the
United States without Cabinet-level approval.
Espionage against the Americans “would be a
breach of trust,” said Isser Harel, who created
Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
“The United States is the only major power that
supports us, all the way up the line from defense to
the president,” Harel said in a radio interview.
In a 1981 accord, the two nations agreed to share
intelligence. They have had an informal
agreement since the 1950 s not to spy on each other.
But Israel is known to have conducted covert
operations in the United States.
Last May a California businessman, Richard
Smyth, was indicted on charges of illegally export
ing 800 krytons to Israel since 1980. Krytons are
electronic switches used for lasers and to ignite
explosions. They could be used to detonate a
nuclear bomb.