Show Standard-Examin- Sunday Marph 27 1988 er 5A National FBI agent alleges WASHINGTON (AP) — Black FBI agent Donald Rochon an alleged victim of racial discrimination at the hands of fellow agents was also victimized by bureaucratic and a possible cover-u- p by federal criminal investigators looking into the case his lawyer says Rochon Rochon’s story of ra- cial harassment — portions of w hich have been upheld by an administrative judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and an adjudication officer at the Justice Department — has been widely publicized Another part of his story that also could prove damaging for the government is how Rochon’s supervisors at the FBI and officials at the Justice Department allegedly failed to aggressively follow up his foot-draggi- foot-draggi- re-ent- ry A Justice Department spokesman Debo- rah Burstion-Wad- declined comment e Soviet rocket’s ‘amazing’ ng Sat- of Rochon’s urday on the specifics allegations saying the department is investigating the case But she did say that “it is not unusual for any thorough investigation to take" months to complete Rochon’s lawsuit against FBI and Justice Department officials says that in early 1986 he was unable to persuade his superiors at the FBI office in Chicago to investigate as a criminal matter death threats he had received from fellow agents The suit alleges that he received anonymous obscene letters threatening him with mutilation and death and threatening his wife with sexual assault The suit also charges that a fellow agent forged Rochon’s name on an application for an insurance policy covering death and mutilation Rochon also has said he received a picture of a badly beaten black man in his office mail and that a picture of a monkey or ape was pasted over the faces of his children in a photograph that he kept on his desk FBI Director William Sessions has characterized Rochon's complaints about harassment as “extremely serious" and said that racial discrimination “has absolutely no place in the FBI and will not be tolerated" Rochon alleges in his suit that he was assured at one point that his complaints were being followed up but that he soon found out otherwise In frustration in April 1986 Rochon went outside the FBI sending a packet of material concerning alleged racial harassment at the Chicago FBI office to the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility Two months later the office referred Rochon’s allegations to the Justice Department’s civil rights division To determine whether criminal action would be appropriate the division’s criminal section asked the FBI to launch a criminal investigation of Rochon’s claims The ensuing FBI probe was “a paper review" Rochon’s attorney David Kairys said in an interview DALLAS (AP) — Part of a rocket launched by the Soviet Union to resupply its manned the atmospace station sphere over San Antonio lighting up the sky with celestial fireworks seen in three states officials said The rocket 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