Show Jack Anderson Standard-Examin- Belfast pastor farms 'Protestant Army' to fight Who picked Abscam marks? WASHINGTON — The FBI’s performance under Director William Webster deserves high marks But I have been disturbed by evidence that the G-m- arbitrarily en “targeted” certain members of Congress and then tried to snare them in the ABSCAM bribery trap Both the FBI and the Justice Department deny there was any attempt to entrap innocent politicians into committing crimes But there is evidence that someone on high gave the ABSCAM investigators approval to go with a after Sen Strom Thurmond R-S- C bribe offer What makes this disturbing is that not even Thurmond’s most vehement opponents — and there are plenty — have ever questioned the old curmudgeon’s integrity There is no rational way he could have been on anyone’s list of political suspects who might sell their office for a satchelful of greenbacks Yet there he was on the Justice Department’s prospective hit list None other than Philip Heymann former head of the department’s criminal division has testified under oath that US Attorney Chuck Ruff asked him to authorize payment of a bribe to Thurmond Heymann said he made the decision to OK the bribe offer “within 15 minutes” of Ruff’s telephone call WTien asked how Ruff and the FBI proceeded against Thurmond Heymann said: “I don’t know exactly what they did but they proceeded and Thurmond 1 think did not respond” Ruff declined to say why Thurmond had been selected or whether a bribe had actually been offered to him But in a telephone interview Heymann told my associate Indy Badh-wa- r he stands by his account of the proposed bribe offer At the same time Heymann insisted that Thurmond was never a “target” He explained this apparent contradiction by saying who it was then-Re- p John Jenrette had boasted that Thurmond would take a bribe Jenrette who was convicted at his ABSCAM trial insists however that it was FBI undercover agent Anthony Amoroso and ABSCAM middleman Mel Weinberg who first brought up Thurmond’s name “Maybe I did wrong and I’ll pay for it” said Jenrette “but they first asked me about D-S- Friday July 3 1981 5 er C Thurmond” According to Jenrette Amoroso and Weinberg thought Thurmond was susceptible to bribery because of what they described as Thurmond’s questionable purchase of a Myrtle Beach condominium in his wife’s name Beyond their alleged suspicions there is not a shred of evidence that Thurmond’s condominium deal was less than aboveboard “They kept pressuring me to get to Thurmond” Jenrette said “They kept telling me ‘We know he’ll do it’” He said they used to call him early in the morning “when I was still in bed to talk about Thurmond” Jenrette said he never made an approach to Thurmond but admitted that he misled Amoroso and Weinberg into believing that he had he told them Thurmond was willing to cosponsor immigration legislation for the supposed ABSCAM Arab sheik After that he said they kept pressuring him to “produce” Thurmond for a meeting in a Washington hotel or in the Georgetown rowhouse that had been rigged with hidden videotape cameras Jenrette said he recommended a meeting in Thurmond’s office “but they told me it would be risky to carry a suitcase of money to the Hill” Heymann still insists Thurmond was not considered a target “We were trying to call Jenrette’s bluff” he said “As we now know he lied about Thurmond” The FBI supports Heymann’s version of the story and a spokesman said “Our policy in ABSCAM was never to suggest names or had better target individuals” The As chairman them believes Thurmond hope of the Senate Judiciary Committee the crusty South Carolinian is one of the last persons on Capitol Hill the FBI should antagonize BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) — The Rev Ian Paisley Northern Ireland’s most militant Protestant leader announced formation of a Protestant Army to fight the Catholic guerrillas of the Irish Northern Republican Army in strife-tor- n Ireland Paisley whose Democratic Unionist more Party ran a close second to therecent moderate Official Unionists in municipal elections also vowed to tor pedo a cautious new British proposal to give the Catholics a say in running the province The pastor of the Belfast Free Presbyterian Church told a rally of cheering supporters Thursday night that his army of “Protestants united in defense of their homes and heritage” would act to “root out terrorists” “Shall we allow ourselves to be killed and murdered by the IRA or shall we go 55-year-- out to kill the killers? That is the solemn choice” Paisley declared In a show of strength he marched 2000 men in military formation in a pouring rain through a valley to the village of Six-Mile-Cr- in County Tyrone 60 miles west of Belfast There are already armed Protestant organizations in Northern Ireland both legal and illegal but Paisley said there was need for another A “If we are going to have the situation continuing where people are being murdered then our people have got to do something about it” he said “They can only do it if they are properly disciplined and ordered” At least 2123 people have been killed in years of sectarian warfare in Northern 12 Ireland a British province with a million Protestants and half a million Catholics Soldiers 'alarmed' about political state MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet and Polish troops IE? £ 4 at a joint tactical exercise are alarmed about the political situation in Poland the Soviet Defense Ministry newspaper Red Star said today “The most urgent theme of conversations these days is a profound concern about the situation in Poland” the newspaper said “It doesn’t matter who conducted the conversations on this subject — the battalion commanders Capt C Yeleseyev and U Adamski other officers and soldiers — alarm is sounded in each conversation” the daily said A letter last month from the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee to the Polish Central Committee urged forceful actions against “counterrevolutionary intrigues” the paper noted The newspaper said Soviet and Polish soldiers “will do everything together with the soldiers of other countries of the socialist community to reliably defend the socialist gains and common property of mankind — peace on our planet” The latest round of military exercises following on the heels of intense Soviet bloc criticism of the reluctance of Polish authorities to crack down on reformers has stirred concern once more among Western observers that a military intervention might be in preparation The Red Star report praised cooperation in the exercises between the Soviet 10th battalion and a Polish mechanized unit supported by w-- V 025233: Si® USE ! 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