WEST GERMAN MAGAZINE SAYS IT HAS U.S. WAR PLAN

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• Publication Date: August 26, 1969
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est German Magazine days It Has
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Special to The New York Times
BONN, Aug. 25-The West
German magazine Stern report- E tional warfare in the area or
ed today that it had received I the United States command in
in the mail a photocopy of a~ Europe," Stern said.
top-secret United States plan- ~ e mAgazine said the plan,
e 'dintitled 1021 carne from-"the
Wing document for chemical,
biological and atomic warfare
in Europe.
United States sources, while
refusing to confirm or deny the
authenticity of the document,
said that other publications in
Italy and Britain had been sent
the same or similar papers
since last year.
They said that the document
appeared, to be intended to
drive a wedge between the
Western allies by discrediting
the ability of the West Ger-
mans to keep secrets.
Purpose of Document
was "to prepare the leadership
and to point out the responsi-
bility for_ the .beginning and
headquarters of the United
States Army in Europe, iriIfei-
aelber .
The 700-word article, in the
back of the magazine, gave no
further details on the content
of the document.. The article.
written by Peter Stahle, said
that the document had come in
a plain envelope from Italy. Mr.
Sthale, who did not say when,
was not available to discuss the
document,
said, that General Wendland
stole the document because he
opposed America's deadly arse-
nal in Europe and passed it on
before killing himself in anguish
over the horror of the weapons.
Qualified sources said, how-
ever, that no proof had come
to light that General Wendland
was involved in espionage. His
suicide has been officially laid
to severe depression.
the exchange of the Soviet spy,
Yuri N. Loginov, for the West
Germans are still a well-kept
secret here, with United States
and West German officials
denying all knowledge of the
case.
"The purported document is'
old stuff," one source said.
"An Italian paper received one
last year and several British
papers got it in June. The only l,
new angle is the tie to Wend-
land. It looks like someone is ~
trying to stir up things to make
it look like you can't trust the
Germans."
On another spy matter, l l
West German officials dis-
missed as hogwash a reports,
that the recent exchange of a
Soviet spy held by South Af-
rica for 10 West Garman agents
held in East Germany was
part of a deal in which South,
Africa would receive West
German weapons. Details of
companying the document 'said
that the sender was acting upon
the request of. a friend of Maj.
Gen. Horst Wendland, deputy
chief of West, Germany's top
intelligence gathering >. service;
who committed suicide last Oct.
8, the magazine said.
The letter suggested,. Stern
Stern said that the document
included tables on troop
strength and weaponry and de-
tails on the employment 'of
atomic weapons and "chemical
and biological mu$itidns."
it ?-also deibed . prep-
arations for psychological war-
fare and evasive and protective
tactics in case of,& crisis, the,
magazine said.
The document's purpos ;-as
described in an explanatory
note signed by a Colonel Bos
well and a Colonel Tayl,)r-
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Soldier Pass
Top Secret Data
Gets 3 Years
HEIDELBERG, German y
(UPI)-A U.S. Army sergeant
convicted of giving another
soldier "Cosmic Top Secret"
NATO defense plans has been
sentenced to three years in
prison, the Army European
Command headquarters said, to-
day.
Staff Sgt. Joseph B. Attardi,
29, of Windsor Locks, Conn.,
was convicted by a court-
martial July 23 of reproducing
a classified document without
authorization and "willfully de-
livering it" to an unauthorized
person.
Attardi was a librarian at
the European headquarters
classified documents center.
He was convicted of deliver.
ing to Spec. 5 William T. Pinks-
ton on March 24 a copy of a
four-page NATO document en-
t i t l e d "Emergency Defense
Planning," three pages of which
were stamped "Cosmic Top
Secret" and the fourth "NATO
Top Secret."
The document reportedly
dealt with NATO contingency
plans for U.S. forces in Europe
in case of war.
P i n k s t o n, court-martialed
earlier, received a three-month
sentence.
An Army spokesman said
there was no connection be-
tween the Attardi case and the
report earlier this week by the
West German magazine Stern
that it had received through the
mail copies of top secret U.S.
contingency plans for "uncon-
ventional" war in Europe.
The plans, Stern said, include
preparations for nuclear chem-
ical or biological warfare in
Western or Eastern Europe and
air and sea operations.
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Ian Reported by Stern Magazine Appears Old
By RALPH BLU'MENTHAL Stern -as well as Der Spiegel,
Specal to The New York Times the leading West German news
rint further
i
lan to
p
ne, p
BONN, Aug. 27-A purported magaz
United States military details of the plans in their
docu-
Monday issues.
meat, received mysteriously by Several Assumptions Lasted
the Wok German magazine
Stern and envisioning subver- The plans listed several "as-
sion and sabotage behind So- sumptions," including this one:
viet-~bl c lines in the event of "During the chaos and disrup-
major hostilities, appears upon tions attending the outbreak of
examination to be several war, scattered indigenous in-
years old. dividuals and groups will be
The document, marked "Top disposed to take active meas-
Secret " was received by Stern ures against Soviet bl 4^*ces."
in the mail in June with an To this end, the plan listed
anonymous letter. It is identi- scores of units that would be
fied as an operation plan in- dropped behind Communist
volving the deployment of lines to engage in subversion
atomic, chemical and biological or escape and evasion and
weapons and guerrilla opera- guerrilla warfare. The targets
tions in Europe. were classified as Priority 1
The papers, 33 pages with or 2.
tables and appendices, were Twenty such missions, five
examined by correspondents of subversion and the rest escape
The New York Times here. and evaluation and euerrilla
Stern, which unveiled the warfare. were planned for the
papers'on Mopday, says it has Soviet Union. The sites for the
verified their authenticity. Oth- drops were listed with map
er publications in Italy, Britain coordinates. Many of the drops
and the United States have also were planned for mountainous
received copies. areas.
High American officials here Rumania was sch&duled for
have neither confirmed nor two missions, Albania for two,
denied the validity of the Stern Bulgaria for three and Yugo-
documents. One official sug- slavia-"if occupied by enemy
gested that they may have been forces"-for one.
circulated by Communist Local Help Envisioned
sources to undermine allied The planners clearly envi-
morale and to cause dissension sioned help from local anti-
between Bonn and Washington. Communist elements hostile to
Because the United -States
military has been aware since
at least last year that the se-
crecy of the plans was violated,
it can be assumed that the
conception has been altered, if
indeed the purported plans
were accurately described.
The anonymous letter ac-
companying the documents sent
to Stern suggested that the late
Maj. Gen. Horst Wendland, dep-
uty chief of the leading West
Germany intelligence agency,
had stolen the plans before
committing suicide Oct. 8, be-
cause-the writer asserted-he
was horrified by American in-
tentions.
The typed letter, with an
illegible signature, displays
some irregularities. It is written
in English but awkward trans-
lations from the German come
through, although the sender
apparently tried to make it
sound as colloquial as possible.
In another development, the
Army officially confirmed today
that a 29-year-old staff sergeant
at Heidelberg, Joseph B. At-
tardi, was sentenced to three
years in press on July 23 for
copying "cosmic" - highest
secrecy classification - plans
from the documents section.
However, the Army said the
case was "not connected to any
other case" and, specifically,
not to the disclosure of the
documents mailed to the publi-
cations.
Sergeant Attardi was ar-
rested April 11 after an ac-
quaintance to whom he had
given one of the copied secret
documents went to the Army
authorities. The four-page docu-
ment dealt with defense mea-
sures in Europe.
The sergeant, who comes
from Windsor Locks, Conn., and
joined the Army in 1963, is
confined in the stockade, at
Mannheim. No motive for the
theft has been disclosed.
The copies did not bear a the Soviet forces. Within the
date. Notations placing key first month of the operation,
signatories to the plans in Paris it was estimated, 14,000 such
Fontaninebleau and Orleans, friendly people would emerge
France, indicate that the docu- in Communist-held areas -
ments had been composed in which were presumed to in-
France before the North At- clude Italy, Greece and Turkey
lantic Treaty. Organization and and other nations near or in
United States units moved out the Communist bloc.
of that country in 1966-67 at By six months after "D" or
the request, of President de the start of operations, the
Gaulle., planners figured on 112,500
The pages, which were paper allied local forces. Proportion-
back size, bore the heading, ately. East Germany, Rumania,
"Headquarters Support Opera- Turkey and Czechoslovakia
tions' Task Force Europe A.P.O. were envisioned as the main
163, U.S. Forces." The plans sources of such anti-Commun- I pentagon Declines Comment,
were numbered 10-1. ist reaction. speciu to Tw New York Tim"
Three Officers Named The documents said: "Activi- WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -
ties conducted by indigenous The Pentagon declined again
The documents carry the
of Col. Charles. B. Bos- elements will be characterize
names e`
well, Col. Royal R. Taylor and nature initially and d the fact in cl that
t
Maj. Robert R. Dickey 3d. ne e their act operations
will
Army sources said that the of- be many conducted these in urban r areas.
ficers were no longer in Eu- " u
rope, but declined to say when "Included in these activities
or why they had left. In codovert the following: sabotage,
Washington, the Pentagon de- c propaganda infiltration
dined again to comment on the planned civil enemy installations
llnStern documents or on their disobedience a
age. However, one officer said formation of g groups as s actin
that his personal knowledge nuclei for fnt?ro Colonel Boswell and Colonel
Taylor had been in Europe in
1962, in a telephone conversa-
tion, Col. Dickey said that he
had been in Germany from
1960 to 1963 and had been
promoted from major since
then; he refused to make any
other comment.)
The stern reporter, Peter
Stahle, said he had showed
documents to an American of-
ficer in Stuttgart who con-
firmed their authenticity. West
German military sources, re-
ported that American intelli-
gence was "feverishly" trying
to find the leak, Mr. Stahles
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today to conitfie
officer said, ho
Boswell and Cornet. Tpt10,
were in Europe itfi 196X by t
telephone conve*1Dn, '
tenant Colonel D1Cl0!', 'who' hasp
major, said that he lied Wa
in Germany from 1960 to '1963,
He refused to Make any other
comment. -
A Defense D ~ a fl-
cial said that thik plape allimed
to in the docunia t>l mailed to
Stern sounded 'a jot lie the
original orders under which
the Special Forces had been
established.
"That was the mission spa
cial Forces was, on lnaHy , oe'
ganized to perform," he said
"They were created to .~"onien
insurgency."
He explained that the spe
cial Forces, popularly knoWR "a
the Green Berets, were doin;
an "about-face" in Vietnam b;
fighting guerrillas inst**d 0
leading them. But this was
natural reversal, he added
since the men must know a to
about insurgency- and .It
tactics.
The official idded,that then
was nothing new about plan
for Special Forces in Europe t
carry on their own bratld v
warfare in the event"of a -gev
eral ground war sad t>lt th
fact had bean eiaog:tl
on
in
final l unit, vkas In 13s
Tolz, Germany, around 1951.
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GJ have (hut tosmic Top secret' NATO Plan
ny-A U.S. Army ser-
geant has been convicted of
,giving another soldier
,,"Cosmic Top Secret" NATO
1;defense plans and has been
sentenced to three years in
prison, U.S. Army European
Headquarters said yester-
day.
S. Sgt._Joseoh_B. Attardi
29, of Windsor Locks, Conn.,
was convicted by a court-
martial July 23 of reproduc-
ing a four-page NATO docu-
ment entitled "Emergency
Defense Planning" and
"willfully delivering it" to
Sp. 5 William T. Pinkston,
34, of Kingfisher, Okla.
Pinkston said he was
drunk at the time he ac-
cepted it and took it because
he "just wanted to be a big
shot." He said he threw it
into his wall locker and for-
got about it.
An Army spokesman said
there was no connection be-
tween Attardi's case and
this week's revelation that
another top secret U.S. mili-
tary plan-reportedly giving
guidelines for nuclear,
chemical and biological war-
fare-had been mailed to
the West German magazine
Stern, the T.J.S. lmagazine
This conflicted with other
descriptions that the plane,
full with 112 persons, burst
into flame.
Zambia Shuffle
LUSAKA-Zambia's Vice
President Simon Kapwepwe
withdrew his two-day-old
resignation from President
Kenneth Kaunda's govern-
ment and said he would stay
until his term expires in Au-
gust, 1970.
Kapwepwe said he made
his decision after a two-hour
meeting with Kaunda who
reshuffled his cabinet and
reappointed him vice presi-
dent. He told newsmen one
reason he resigned was be-
cause of discrimination
against his fellow Bemba
tribesmen.
SIMON KAPWEPWE
... returns to fold
tions.
oviet Air Crash
MOSCOW-About 15 per-
sons died and at least as
many were injured when an
Ilyushin-18 turboprop air-
liner crash-landed at Vnu-
kovo Airport, a non-Russian
witness said. .
He said the plane appar-
ently couldn't get its nose
wheel down, belly-landed
and was immediately doused
by some 20 fire engines.be-
fore a fire could break out.
Swiss Planes
BERN - Switzerland nar-
rowed down its choices for
its next generation of fight-
ers to the U.S. A-7 Corsair
and the Italian Fiat G-91Y,
both lightweight, subsonic
jets.
Exhaustive tests and par-
liamentary debate will chose
one to replace Switzerland's
aging British Venoms. The
Swiss will reportedly seek li-
censes to build, the craft in
the country. i
Meanwhile t1Ee1 Svltes.:ge1~
ernment ordered a ban on
the export of the short-take-
off Pilatus Porter light
plane, made near Lucerne,
pending an investigation
whether they have been
used, in action in Southeast
Asia. This would violate
Swiss law. One newspaper
said U.S. Green Berets are
using the planes in Thailand
and Laos.
Venezuela Plot?
CARACAS - The Vene.
zuelan Defense Ministry said
It had detained two highly
placed generals and a colo-
nel. The announcement
touched off speculation in
this nation with a long his-
tory of coup d'etats and
army rule.
Defense Minister Martin
Garcia Villasmil said the
detention had no connec-
tion with any army uprising.
He revealed no charges
against the officers. But the
newspaper "El Mundo" said
the officers were detained
in a "presumed c nspiracy"
pte d govern-
against the ele
ment of P ident Rafael
Calder
of Gteece's 1922-24 prime
minister, was sentenced by a
court nartial to four years
in prison for saying that po-
lice had tortured her hus-
band, a university professor
who is being held for inter-
rogation on an island. She
was convicted of insulting
authorities and spreading
false rumors.
For the Record
? The man charged with
murdering Kenyan Eco-
nomic Minister Tom Mboya
will be tried Monday in
Nabrobi'p High Court, the
defense counsel said.
? Hungarian Communist
Seek Sentence
A"1}HENS-Mrs. Agheliki
Magh$k!fs, 45, the daughter
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Party chief Janos Kadar re-
turned from a "vacation" in
the Soviet Crimea where he
held talks with the top So-
viet leaders, the official
Hungarian news agency said.
? The West German air
force lost its 98th Starfight-
er in a crash which also
killed the pilot, the fifty
third so far lost from the
Starfighter crashes.
? Cambodia said two U.S.
helicopters attacked and
wounded 27 Cambodian vil-
lagers Aug. 19. The Phnom
Penh government asked the
U .S. embassy-reopened
only a week ago-for rep-
arations and U.S. inspection
of the damages.
From staff reports and news disnateh-
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The Washington Merry-Go-Round
THE WASHINGTON l POST Wednesday, Sept. 3, I969 B 13
A-Material Available to black Market
By Jack Anderson Several months can pass be-
I fore a theft is discovered-
Despite strenuous world ef-
much too late to stop delivery
forts to prevent the spread of
nuclear weapons it has now
become possible for any na-
tion to possess the atomic
ground group. Two mysterious
disappearances have already
shaken the scientific world to
such. as the Black Panthers or ` VIn September, 1966, enough
Minutemen could piece to material to build six A-bombs
gether a nuclear warhead and
a missile to launch it. from a processing
.
All it would take is a little plant run by the Nuclear Ma-
cash and an unscrupulous sci- 'terials and Equipment ment Corp.
at Apollo
entist. Indeed, a dropout from Apollo, Pa. Officials later
claimed that most of the mate-
.
a high school science class rial was recovered. Insidersiare enforced over nuclear
I
could probably construct a have told this column, how- shipments. Truck drivers
crude atomic bomb in a base- ever
that some of the ma aren't required to follow any
,
ment or backyard garage. All terial could have been di- prescribed route. They are not He could have saved himself
the instructions for a home-1verted for weapons manufac- armed. There is no checking the trouble by contacting sal-
made bomb, complete with . m
, are available ture. ( ! in. The priceless nuclear loads wage dealer Frank Fink, owner
scale in a number drawings,
scientific pub-!the ~Bradwell Atomic rl~Plant sent all , than baby food or thorrne, Mass., whoetold bthis
lications. near London stole $25,000 bottled beer. Parenthetically, column: "Seitz was wasting
With such a weapon, Wash-(worth of combustible fuell truck thefts cost the industry, his time buying the rockets
ington could be blown right elements. Fortunately, he was I $600 million last year, almost piecemeal. They are available
out of the Potomac Valley. caught in the act of tossing double the losses in 1967. whole. I have an invitation
;Guerrilla forces could para-11them over the security fence.; Risk No. 3-As for the air now from the Defense Logis-
lyze the government. Hate Until a few years ago, the shipments, anyone familiar tics Services Center in Battle
groups could pull off mass,
,I federal government main- with current events is aware Creek, Mich., to bid on a
slaughter. tamed a careful monopoly on that airline hijacking has be- group of Titan II-C missiles."
Enough nuclear material to nuclear production. However, come distressingly frequent. The Defense Department
build 3,000 atomic bombs is fissionable materials have now Processed uraniLm is 60 does a big surplus business.
now floating around unpro come into great demand for times more valuable than The hardware that is sold to
tected. The Atomic Energy ?peaceful purposes"-chiefly gold, temptation enough to at- the public is supposed to be
Commission is doing its des-
for use in nuclear reactors to tract professional smugglers. I "demilitarized." But many perate best to keep track of
these dangerous ingredients. generate electricity. As a re As yet, there is no evidence of tremely dangerous military
Its methods, however, con- suit, an entirely new nuclear) an organized black market in items apparently slip by with
sist primarily of accounting manufacturing Industry has fissionable materials. But a minimum of demilitariza-
procedures. The AEC keeps! sprung up, completely private given the high stakes and the tion.
watch over the total nuclear and competitive. inadequate controls, the Urgent action is needed to
mass by taking periodic inven- emergence of a black market keep bootleg nuclear missiles
! tortes. But the results depend Routine is almost inevitable. from falling into the hands of
largely on figures submitted Every day, fissionable mate- Once fissionable materials some tinhorn tyrant.
o
by private manufacturers. rials are processed in these are obtained, the rest is easy. C 1969. Bell-McClure Syndicate inc.
plants and shippec.i by truck
and plane to all parts of the
country. About on( -.e a month,
nuclear materials, are flown
overseas on commercial airlin-
ers. The routine is fraught
with risk.
Risk No. 1-These private
plants are poorly guarded and
loosely staffed. Only in rare
cases are employees given
more than the most perfunc-
tory security check.
2-Few controls
Risk No
For a bomb the size that de-
stroyed Nagasaki, all the hard-
ware needed is an old bomb
casing, a tube the size of a
155-mm artillery barrel, "and
some dynamite or TNT for a
trigger.
It would be almost as simple
for mercenary scientists to put
together a missile. The ease of
such an operation was demon-
strated only last month when
Joseph Seitz, a student at the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, constructed an
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V CA- G
ABOVE-GROUND SNOT
China A-Test Is Reported
United Press International
Red China exploded a
3-megaton nuclear device in
the atmosphere today, accord-
ing to Sen. George D. Aiken,
R-Vt.
Aiken said he had no details
other than that the test explo-
sion occurred at 8 a.m. EDT.
It followed a report of a nu-
clear test by Red China sev-
eral days ago.
Aiken is ranking Republican
on the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. He an-
nounced the e*ploslon at a
hearing by the committee con-
cerning underground nuclear
tests in Alaska by the United
States.
The Atomic Energy Com-
mission reported over the
weekend it had picked up
seismic signals indicating an
underground "nuclear test in
the low intermediate range" in
northwest china.
It also reported similar si-
nals emanating from the Sovi-
et Union. The AEC did not
identify the signals ashaving
been caused by underground
nuclear tests, but that was the
presumption.
Earlier Chinese tests of nu-
clear weapons were conducted
in the atmosphere. The Soviet
Union signed the 1963 nuclear
test-ban treaty;',Red China
did not.
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Russians Got
Polaris Data,
Briton Says
LONDON (AP) - Spies work-
ing in Britain eight years ago
gave the Russians information
that could enable them to track
down and destroy Polaris sub-
marines, a British defense ex-
pert claims.
rT~he information was passed to
AVioscow by the British spy ring
led by American-born spies Mor-
ris and Lola Cohen, says, Dr.
Geoffrey Williams, an adviser to
the Ministry of Defense.
The Cohens, who operated in
Britain under the names Peter
and Ethel Kroger, are being re-
leased to the Russians Oct. 24 in
exchange for British lecturer
Gerald Brooke.
Williams dramatically dis-
putes the widely held belief that
nothing of importance was
gained by the spy ring. "The
Russians should, at any rate, by
1972 have a really formidable
array of undersea weapon sys-
tems as well as having the
means of tracking down and per-
haps destroying the Polaris sub-
marine," Williams says.
Williams' claims, to be aired
today in a pre-taped television
program entitled "The Portland
Spy Story," were released to the
press.
He says information enabling
the Russians to track and de-
stroy Polaris submarines would
have been gained through the
activities of the British spies
Harry Houghton and Ethel Gee,
members of the Cohen ring. They
are serving 15 years' imprison-
ment for their part in the ring,
which was broken up in 1981.
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Telephone message from George Murphy: gs - 26 August 1969
Mr. George Murphy, on the staff of the Joint Committee on Atomic
Emergy called to ask you if you would kindly give him a report on the United
States war plans including atomic energy matters which have been allegedly
stolen and given to the German magazine STERN. This plan entitled 10-1
and allegedly came from the Headquarters US Army Europe, Heidleburg.
A typed letter accompanying the document said the sender was acting
upon the request of a friend of Major General Horst Wendland, Deputy Chief
of West Germany's top intelligence gathering service who committed suicide
last October 8 -- the magazine said.
George.
A
ILLEGIB
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