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Subject: Wackenhut data part 6
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 22:16:17 GMT

This is part 6 of a series on Wackenhut Corp.

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part 6 -- newspaper clippings from Associated Press
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 4/9/3     (Item 3 from file: 258) 
02575422    0757 
Workers At Nuclear Power Plant Disciplined for Watching TV  Football 
 
DATELINE: BAY CITY, Texas     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0224 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: December 19, 1991  18:21EST 
 
Five security workers at a nuclear power 
plant were fired and more than a dozen others were disciplined for 
watching football on TV while on call in case electronic 
surveillance broke down, officials said. 
 
Nineteen workers at Houston Power & Light's South Texas Nuclear 
Project were captured on videotape watching the game. They included 
17 security workers for Wackenhut Corp. and two employees of Ebasco 
Services Inc. 
 
Plant spokesman Glenn Walker said the security personnel were 
supposed to be on call in a waiting room at the main entrance, but 
were in a nearby building instead, watching the football game. 
 
''Watching TV on duty simply is not acceptable,'' Walker said, 
adding that security was never breached. 
Wackenhut's project manager and two shift supervisors were fired 
along with the Ebasco employees, who were assigned to the nearby 
building but were not doing their jobs, Walker said. 
 
The others were lower-ranking supervisors or security officers. 
They were suspended without pay for three to 10 days and put on 90 
days' probation. 
 
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees U.S. nuclear 
plant operations, was advised of the incident but took no action, 
Walker said. 
 
     SECTION HEADING: Domestic; 
 
       Copyright 1991 the Associated Press. -- All Rights Reserved 
  
 4/9/5     (Item 5 from file: 258) 
02570956    0407 
Injury Lawsuit 
 
BY: ANNE STUART 
DATELINE: BOSTON     PRIORITY: Urgent  WORD COUNT: 0411 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: December 13, 1991  18:29EST 
 
A Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded a Wakefield, 
Mass., man $3.25 million plus interest Friday for injuries he 
received in a bizarre accident after a New England Patriots game 
six years ago. 
 
Jon B. Pallazola, 32, received severe electrical burns from a 
torn-down goalpost that touched a live wire outside Foxboro Stadium 
on Dec. 22, 1985. Fans had carried the post out of the stadium in a 
rowdy celebration of the Patriots' 34-23 victory over the 
Cincinnati Bengals in a playoff-clinching game. 
 
Pallazola, a computer programmer and analyst, never regained the 
use of his left arm, said his attorney, George A. McLaughlin III. 
 
Pallazola's lawsuit claimed that Wackenhut Security and the town 
of Foxboro, which provided security for the game, were negligent in 
allowing fans to rip out the goalpost. 
 
''They let the fans carry it around the field and then out of 
the stadium,'' McLaughlin said Friday. In the parking lot, he said, 
''they took a portion of the goalpost and stuck it in a highway 
barrel,'' where it fell against a 13,800-volt electrical wire. 
 
Pallazola, who was coming from the game, but was not among the 
revelers, saw the post begin to topple, his attorney said. When he 
put his arm up to protect himself, he received an estimated 8,000 
volts of electricity. 
 
Four others were less seriously injured in the accident, 
McLaughlin said. One of them, Robert Abramson of Needham, 25, 
received $1.8 million Friday for injuries to his hands. His 
attorney, Edward Marlenga of Arlington, was not immediately 
available for comment. 
 
Attorney Leonard Kesten, who represented Foxboro, said he has 
asked Judge Barbara Rouse to dismiss the town's portion of the 
case. 
''The town of Foxboro has always felt badly that these young men 
were injured, but the town continues to feel that its police 
department did everything it could to prevent the tragedy,'' Kesten 
said. 
 
In any case, he said, state law limits the town's liability to 
$100,000, leaving Wackenhut responsible for the rest. 
 
''We're considering post-trial motions and appellate options,'' 
said Waltham attorney Roland Segalini, who represented the 
Florida-based private security company. 
 
Kesten said the original suit named the stadium's management and 
a realty trust, but added the town and the security company after 
the other entities filed for bankruptcy. 
 
     SECTION HEADING: Sports,Sports Scores; 
 
       Copyright 1991 the Associated Press. -- All Rights Reserved 
  
 4/9/7     (Item 7 from file: 258) 
02537058    0884 
Lawmakers Suddenly Tongue-Tied, Pipeline Spying Probe Ends Quietly 
 
BY: MATT YANCEY 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0739 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: November 06, 1991  20:22EST 
 
A House hearing on industrial spying against a 
former oil trader who leaked embarrassing pipeline documents to 
Congress came to an abrupt end Wednesday with lawmakers declining 
to ask him any questions. 
 
''Everybody felt that the focus of the hearing was the 
surveillance and that there was a potential to start down a whole 
series of other avenues,'' House Interior Committee Chairman George 
Miller, D-Calif., said afterwards. 
 
But pipeline company officials expressed dismay at the 
anti-climatic ending to two and a half days of hearings. Lawmakers 
had been hinting there would be fireworks when they questioned 
Charles Hamel, long a thorn in the side of the Alyeska Pipeline 
Service Co. 
The hearings were called to make public details of a Wackenhut 
Corp. undercover surveillance operation against Hamel on behalf of 
the pipeline company. 
 
But when Hamel finished reading his 14-page statement Wednesday 
afternoon, not one of the 46 members of the committee indicated 
that he had a question for the one-time oil trader portrayed as an 
''extortionist'' by his critics and a ''whistleblower'' by his 
supporters. 
 
Instead, Miller banged the gavel and the hearings came to a 
close. 
 
One avenue of questioning the lawmakers sought to avoid, 
according to sources close to the investigation, included whether 
the committee's staff encouraged Hamel to procure documents taken 
from the pipeline company. 
 
Another possible avenue some lawmakers sought to skirt would 
have involved a broadening of the scope of the hearing to include 
alleged violations of environmental and safety laws on the 
company's Trans-Alaska Pipeline. The allegations were addressed in 
the documents. 
 
Both issues were discussed extensively in 26 hours of video and 
audio tapes of Hamel made surreptitiously by Wackenhut 
investigators retained by Alyeska in the effort to ferret out those 
leaking the documents to him. 
 
Rep. Charles Taylor, R-N.C., had tried earlier to question oil 
company representatives on the pipeline's ownership committee about 
Hamel's comments on the tapes. The comments were contained in 
transcripts provided by industry lobbyists. 
 
But Miller said Taylor could use only the recordings subpoenaed 
by the committee for the questioning. Taylor said he would try to 
arrange that during a lunch break and question Hamel in the 
afternoon session. 
 
Earlier in the hearing, Taylor had quoted from a taped 
conversation in which Hamel told a Wackenhut agent posing as an 
environmentalist that he hoped that Alyeska recognized that he was 
the one funneling documents to Miller's staff. 
''When they know it's me that's done this, they are going to pay 
me quicker,'' said Hamel. 
 
Since the early 1980s Hamel has been battling Alyeska over a $12 
million refund he claims that the pipeline owes him because it 
delivered watered oil to a tanker shipment that he brokered. 
 
''It was abundantly clear to me that what was going on was 
extortion by Mr. Hamel,'' testified William Richey, a Miami 
attorney retained by Wackenhut and Alyeska. 
 
Hamel was quoted by Taylor as bragging in the tape transcripts 
that Miller had stayed in his home, that he had paid for a 
committee staffer's vacation in Alaska and that he once had 
''poured'' an intoxicated committee staffer into a taxi. 
 
Miller has acknowledged staying in Hamel's home during 1989 
hearings held in Alaska on the Exxon Valdiz oil spill. 
 
In the statement he read Wednesday, Hamel said he was 
''embarrassed at many of the things that I said'' and that he had 
''exaggerated'' his influence with Miller's committee to Wackenhut 
employees posing as environmentalists. 
 
After the hearing, Taylor said he was satisfied that, even 
without questioning Hamel directly, he had raised the issue of the 
committee's use of ''co-conspirators'' trafficking in stolen 
documents. 
 
Alyeska officials, however, said they were disappointed that 
Hamel was not questioned. 
 
''You can't imagine the disappointment to all the industry 
officials who testified,'' said Marnie Issacs, a pipeline 
spokeswoman. ''Some of the serious questions raised in these past 
three days needed to be answered by Mr. Hamel, such as whether the 
documents he had were stolen or not, and did he give them to the 
committee.'' 
 
     SECTION HEADING: Washington; 
 
       Copyright 1991 the Associated Press. -- All Rights Reserved 
 
 4/9/8     (Item 8 from file: 258) 
02536505    0658 
Alyeska Head Regrets Whistleblower Probe, But Says it Was Legal 
 
BY: MATT YANCEY 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0842 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: November 06, 1991  10:44EST 
 
The head of the Trans-Alaska pipeline says he 
regrets that the organization undertook an investigation of 
whistleblowers leaking sensitive documents and won't do it again. 
 
But James Hermiller, president of the Alyeska Pipeline Service 
Co., and the security company it hired to conduct the probe denied 
they had done anything illegal. 
 
''Private investigations conducted by companies involving third 
parties, particularly if those third parties are critics, just 
don't work,'' Hermiller told a House committee chairman who was 
using the probe's chief target as a source. ''The returns are not 
worth the damage.'' 
 
Hermiller offered that assessment Tuesday during the second day 
of hearings by the Interior Committee into what Chairman George 
Miller, D-Calif., has called possible ''criminal activities'' by 
Alyeska and its security contractor, the Wackenhut Corp. of Coral 
Gables, Fla. 
 
The pipeline's owners testified today they never authorized the 
investigation and ordered it shut down as soon as they learned of 
it. 
 
''The Wackenhut investigation relied on an investigative 
approach that, however legal and widely practiced, was inconsistent 
with standards that I consider to be appropriate,'' said William 
Rusnack, chairman of the pipeline's seven-member ownership 
committee. 
 
Rusnack, who also is president of ARCO's transportation 
subsidiary, said he and the other two majority owners of the 
pipeline, Exxon and British Petroleum, did not learn of the 
investigation until Sept. 25, 1990, seven months after Alyeska 
officials ordered it. 
 
''While we were told that what was done was legal, I did not 
think that the investigation was an acceptable course of action of 
Alyeska to pursue,'' said Darrell G. Warner, Exxon's representative 
as president of its pipeline subsidiary. 
 
Both Hermiller and Wackenhut Chairman George Wackenhut denied 
that Miller, whose named surfaced repeatedly during videotaped and 
tape-recorded surveillance as part of the sting, was ever one of 
its targets. 
 
''It was never my intention to interfere in any manner with the 
workings of this committee, with its chairman, or with any other 
committee or member of Congress,'' Hermiller said. 
 
They also denied any illegality in the tactics used by Wackenhut 
during its seven-month 1990 surveillance of Charles Hamel, a former 
oil broker who bragged about forwarding confidential Alyeska 
documents to Miller, government agencies, environmental groups and 
the press. 
 
Those tactics included starting a phony environmental group in 
an effort to persuade Hamel to reveal his sources and obtain 
software programs that investigators believed he was using to store 
the stolen documents. 
 
Wackenhut investigators, posing as environmental researchers, 
also surreptitiously tape-recorded and videotaped conversations 
with Hamel, obtained his long-distance telephone records, went 
through his trash and removed letters and documents from his home. 
 
''Whatever else may be said about the investigation, it 
confirmed the seriousness of the problem,'' Hermiller testified. 
''Mr. Hamel, in fact, had in his possession hundreds of pages of 
stolen or leaked Alyeska documents, including highly confidential 
legal documents.'' 
 
Miller was dubious. Throughout the day he and other committee 
members cited documents subpoenaed from Alyeska and Wackenhut to 
claim the string also was aimed at chilling the committee's 
oversight of the pipeline and the Alaska activities of the seven 
oil companies who own it. 
 
The 800-mile pipeline jointly owned by Exxon, ARCO, British 
Petroleum and three other oil companies transports from Alaska's 
North Slope to the port of Valdez about 1.8 millions of oil daily 
one-fourth of domestic U.S. production. 
 
In one document, Jonathan Goodman, a Miami attorney hired by 
Alyeska and Wackenhut to advise on the legality of the sting's 
tactics, hand-scribbled during a May 1990 meeting: ''best goal 
getting Miller and Hamel indicted for encouraging theft of 
property.'' 
 
In another, an ARCO attorney's notes of a September 1990 meeting 
of the pipeline's owners, was scribbled: ''... Aly (Alyeska) felt 
it had done well and really exposed some Hamil-Petrich conspiracy 
and gross motives.'' 
 
Miller said the reference ''is to the man on my right'' 
Jeffrey P. Petrich, chief counsel of the Interior Committee's 
offshore resources subcommittee that Miller also chairs. 
 
''You sat here and suggested all afternoon that a firewall was 
developed between the investigation and the committee,'' Miller 
said. ''Maybe they just wrote my name down because it came to their 
heads, but I don't think so.'' 
     SECTION HEADING: Washington; 
 
       Copyright 1991 the Associated Press. -- All Rights Reserved 
 
 4/9/9     (Item 9 from file: 258) 
02535560    0660 
Private Eyes Detail Snooping Efforts Against Pipeline  Whistleblower 
 
BY: MATT YANCEY 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0893 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: November 05, 1991  14:57EST 
 
The Alaska oil pipeline was told by its 
attorneys last January that both the company and the private 
investigator it hired to ferret out whistleblowers could face 
prosecution as a result of the way the inquiry was conducted. 
 
In a document released today by the House Interior Committee, 
attorneys told the pipeline's ownership committee that ''elements 
may be present'' to support criminal charges against the Alyeska 
Pipeline Service Co. and the Wackenhut Corp. of Coral Gables, Fla. 
 
The committee's release of the 95-page document during a hearing 
on Wackenhut's six-month investigation into leaks of confidential 
Alyeska documents to oil industry gadfly Charles Hamel was 
vehemently opposed by an Alyeska attorney. 
Nonetheless, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the committee 
chairman who has acknowledged obtaining Alyeska documents through 
Hamel, allowed the ''privileged and confidential attorney-client 
work product prepared in anticipation of litigation'' to be 
distributed to reporters. 
 
In the partially deleted document, the law firm of Paul, 
Hastings, Janofsky & Walker said both Alyeska and Wackenhut were 
vulnerable in connection with Wackenhut's use of a phony 
environmental group to obtain a computer software program used by 
Hamel. 
 
''The required elements may be present to support a prosecution 
against Wackenhut for mail fraud, wire fraud, interstate 
transportation of stolen property and (remainder deleted),'' the 
lawyers advised Alyeska. 
 
''Moreover, although Alyeska retained Wackenhut as an 
independent contractor, a prosecutor might contend that Wackenhut 
was an agent of Alyeska and that, as a result, Alyeska was 
criminally responsible for all of Wackenhut's acts,'' the document 
said. 
However, it said, because Alyeska was seeking to find only the 
source of the leaks and had minor direct involvement in the 
investigation, it was doubtful that a prosecutor would press 
criminal charges against Alyeska ''unless influenced by a desire 
for the publicity in a high-visibility case.'' 
 
Top officials of Wackenhut and Alyeska a consortium of Exxon, 
British Petroleum, ARCO and four other oil companies have denied 
any illegality in the investigation. 
 
They have said its only purpose was to find who was leaking 
confidential Alyeska documents to Hamel. 
 
Miller said during a hearing Monday that the investigation had 
''much more sinister ... motives of silencing environmental critics 
and intimidating whistleblowers.'' 
 
Three former Wackenhut investigators told the committee Monday 
that they has posed as environmentalists, videotaped conversations 
with Hamel, went through his garbage and obtained his phone records 
to learn the source of the Alyeska leaks. 
Miller said Hamel, a former oil broker who has a $12 million 
suit pending against Alyeska, was an ''important source'' to his 
committee in its investigations of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and 
the 800-mile Alyeska pipeline, which carries about 1.8 million 
barrels of oil daily from Alaska's North Slope. 
 
Documents Hamel has forwarded to the committee, the 
Environmental Protection Agency and others include disclosures of 
corrosion in the pipeline and its storage tanks and benzene 
emissions exceeding EPA standards. 
 
An attorney for Wackenhut, William Richey, as well as Wackenhut 
chairman George R. Wackenhut were scheduled to testify today. 
 
Monday's hearing was closed after attorneys for the two 
Wackenhut officials in charge of its investigation invoked House 
rules to have their clients, Wayne Black and Richard Lund, as well 
as the three female investigators testify out of earshot of 
reporters. 
 
''It is our position any testimony from the entire hearing may 
lead to defame, degrade or incriminate Mr. Black,'' said his the 
attorney, John Sale. 
 
While on Wackenhut's payroll, Sherree Rich of Tampa, Fla., and 
Ricki Sue Jacobson of Miami testified that they were told by Black 
to pose as researchers for a phony environmental group, Ecolit, 
that Wackenhut established. 
 
Rich said she was ''wired'' on one occasion to record Hamel's 
conversation when she visited his home to give him a $2,000 check 
as ''part of the plan to 'hook' him into working with Wackenhut's 
undercover operations.'' 
 
While Monday's questioning of Black, Lund, Rich, Jacobson and 
Mercedes Cruz was all in closed session, the three women's written 
testimony was supplied to reporters beforehand. All refused to 
discuss details of their testimony afterwards. 
 
But Richey, an outside attorney for Alyeska during Wackenhut's 
probe, said going through Hamel's trash, recording encounters with 
him and purchasing records of his phone calls were ''legally 
undertaken practices.'' 
''These techniques may seem intrusive, but the fact is that they 
are common investigative practices in cases involving fraud and 
criminal wrongdoing,'' Richey said in prepared testimony. 
 
''You simply cannot rely on traditional investigative techniques 
... to obtain information from individuals who, like Mr. Hamel, are 
known to be trafficking in stolen goods or information,'' he said. 
 
     SECTION HEADING: Washington; 
 
       Copyright 1991 the Associated Press. -- All Rights Reserved 
 
 4/9/10     (Item 10 from file: 258) 
02535143    0452 
Private Eyes Detail Snooping Efforts Against Pipeline  Whistle-Blower 
 
BY: MATT YANCEY 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0603 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: November 05, 1991  03:10EST 
 
Former private investigators told a House 
committee they posed as environmentalists, videotaped conversations 
with a committee source and went through his garbage trying to 
learn who was leaking confidential Alaska pipeline documents. 
 
Testifying in a closed hearing before the House Interior 
Committee, the three former female employees of the Wackenhut Corp. 
of Coral Gables, Fla., described their roles in what became a 
$288,000 undercover surveillance of oil industry gadfly Charles 
Hamel. 
 
Top officials of Wackenhut and Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. a 
consortium of Exxon, British Petroleum, ARCO and four other oil 
companies said the investigation's only purpose was to find who 
was leaking confidential Alyeska documents to Hamel. 
But committee chairman George Miller, D-Calif., said ''criminal 
activities'' may have occurred in the probe and that it had ''much 
more sinister ... motives of silencing environmental critics and 
intimidating whistle-blowers.'' 
 
Miller said Hamel, a former oil broker who has a $12 million 
suit pending against Alyeska, was an ''important source'' to his 
committee in its investigations of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and 
the 800-mile Alyeska pipeline, which carries about 1.8 million 
barrels of oil daily from Alaska's North Slope. 
 
Documents Hamel has forwarded to the committee, the 
Environmental Protection Agency and others include disclosures of 
corrosion in the pipeline and its storage tanks and benzene 
emissions exceeding EPA standards. 
 
An attorney for Wackenhut, William Richey, as well as Wackenhut 
chairman George R. Wackenhut were scheduled to testify today. 
 
Monday's hearing was closed after attorneys for the two 
Wackenhut officials in charge of its investigation invoked House 
rules to have their clients, Wayne Black and Richard Lund, as well 
as the three female investigators testify out of earshot of 
reporters. 
 
''It is our position any testimony from the entire hearing may 
lead to defame, degrade or incriminate Mr. Black,'' said his the 
attorney, John Sale. 
 
While on Wackenhut's payroll, Sherree Rich of Tampa, Fla., and 
Ricki Sue Jacobson of Miami testified that they were told by Black 
to pose as researchers for a phony environmental group, Ecolit, 
that Wackenhut established. 
 
Rich said she was ''wired'' on one occasion to record Hamel's 
conversation when she visited his home to give him a $2,000 check 
as ''part of the plan to 'hook' him into working with Wackenhut's 
undercover operations.'' 
 
While Monday's questioning of Black, Lund, Rich, Jacobson and 
Mercedes Cruz was all in closed session, the three women's written 
testimony was supplied to reporters beforehand. All refused to 
discuss details of their testimony afterwards. 
But Richey, an outside attorney for Alyeska during Wackenhut's 
probe, said going through Hamel's trash, recording encounters with 
him and purchasing records of his phone calls were ''legally 
undertaken practices.'' 
 
''These techniques may seem intrusive, but the fact is that they 
are common investigative practices in cases involving fraud and 
criminal wrongdoing,'' Richey said in prepared testimony. 
 
''You simply cannot rely on traditional investigative techniques 
... to obtain information from individuals who, like Mr. Hamel, are 
known to be trafficking in stolen goods or information,'' he said. 
 
     SECTION HEADING: Washington; 
 
       Copyright 1991 the Associated Press. -- All Rights Reserved 
 
 4/9/11     (Item 11 from file: 258) 
02534709    0646 
Former Private Eyes Discloses Pipeline's Probe of Activists 
 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0663 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: November 04, 1991  16:09EST 
 
A former private investigator told a House 
committee Monday she posed as an environmental activist to find 
whistleblowers who were leaking damaging documents belonging to the 
Alaska oil pipeline. 
 
Sherree Rich of Tampa, Fla., said she was even ''wired'' by her 
employer, the Wackenhut Corp. of Coral Gables, Fla., on one 
occasion to record the conversation of oil industry maverick 
Charles Hamel when she visited his home to give him a $2,000 check 
from the phony environmental group. 
 
Rich was one of three female former Wackenhut employees who told 
of going through Hamel's garbage, obtaining his phone records and 
videotaping meetings with him all in an effort to discover who 
was leaking to him Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. documents. 
''My job was to appear to be researching environmental causes in 
and around the Washington, D.C., area, and to convince Mr. Hamel of 
the legitimacy of the operation,'' Rich said in written testimony 
prepared for the House Interior Committee. 
 
All three of the women testified behind closed doors as did the 
two Wackenhut supervisors, Wayne B. Black and Richard Lund, who 
headed the later-aborted $288,000 investigation commissioned by 
Alyeska. 
 
Black's and Lund's attorneys invoked the committee's rules to 
demand that their clients as well as Rich, Mercedes Cruz and Ricki 
Sue Jacobson be questioned out of the earshot of reporters because 
their testimony could ''defame, demean or incriminate'' Black and 
Lund. 
 
However, Rich's, Cruz' and Jacobsen's prepared testimony was 
distributed to reporters by the committee's staff before the 
attorneys invoked the panel's rules to close the session. 
 
Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., said criminal acts may have 
taken place in the course of Alyeska's and Wackenhut's covert 
surveillance of Hamel and other individuals'' including himself. 
 
Senior officials of Alyeska and Wackenhut both vehemently denied 
that. 
 
''The investigation was conducted legally,'' Alyeska's general 
counsel, David Marques, told reporters outside the hearing room 
after Miller's comments. ''No congressman was investigated and the 
only purpose of the investigation was to trace back the source of 
the illegally stolen documents.'' 
 
Wackenhut's chairman, George R. Wackenhut, said in written 
testimony prepared for the hearing that the only investigation of 
Miller involved sending Jacobsen to a Miami library ''to review 
various public records'' about him. 
 
Miller, however, charged that the investigation ''involved much 
more sinister and disturbing motives of silencing environmental 
critics and intimidating whistleblowers.'' 
 
Hamel, a former Alaskan oil trader who now lives Alexandria, 
Va., has publicly acknowledged getting confidential documents from 
employees of Alyeska and forwarding them to Miller's committee, 
environmental groups, the press and the Environmental Protection 
Agency. 
 
He said he became a conduit for the whistleblowers after Aleyska 
and the oil companies that own it refused to pay him a $12 million 
claim in a dispute over the quality of North Slope oil that he was 
brokering. 
 
Documents that Hamel has forwarded to congressional 
investigators, the EPA and others include disclosures of corrosion 
along the 800-mile pipeline and in its storage tanks at Valdez and 
benzene emissions exceeding EPA standards. 
 
Alyeska, a consortium that includes Exxon, British Petroleum, 
ARCO and four other oil companies as partners, operates the 
pipeline. About 1.8 million barrels of oil, or 24 percent of the 
nation's domestic oil production, moves through the pipeline each 
day. 
 
Exxon officials have said their company had nothing to do with 
the Wackenhut investigation of Hamel. And British Petroleum and 
ARCO, the other two major owners of the pipeline, said they ordered 
the probe shut down in September 1990 when they learned of it. 
 
     SECTION HEADING: Washington; 
 
       Copyright 1991 the Associated Press. -- All Rights Reserved 
 
 4/9/12     (Item 12 from file: 258) 
02534527    0574 
House Hearing Stalls Over Closed Testimony in Whistleblower Case 
 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0515 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: November 04, 1991  12:56EST 
 
A House committee hearing on the trans-Alaska 
oil pipeline's investigation of whistleblowers stalled today when 
members of the Republican minority outvoted Democrats and approved 
an important witness' demand to testify behind closed doors. 
 
The hearing by the House Interior Committee dealt with the 
pipeline's use of a private security firm to ferret out 
whistleblowers. 
 
After losing the 8-5 vote, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the 
chairman, ordered his commitee into executive session and then 
recessed the hearing. 
 
The result was that Wackenhut Corp. vice president Wayne B. 
Black was blocked from testifying privately. 
Democrats said Miller hoped to reconvene the hearing later today 
when more of the 29 Democratic members, who control the committee, 
might show up to outvote the Republicans and compel Black to 
testify at an open session. 
 
Wackenhut, one of the nation's largest private security firms, 
hired Black in 1990 to investigate leaks of private documents of 
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. to environmentalists, Miller and the 
Environmental Protection Agency. 
 
Alyeska, a partnership of eight oil companies including Exxon, 
British Petroleum and ARCO, operates the 800-mile pipleline from 
Alaska's North Slope to the port of Valdez. About 1.8 million 
barrels of oil, roughly 23 percent of domestic U.S. oil production, 
moves through the pipeline each day. 
 
The Wackenhut investigation, commissioned by Alyeska at a cost 
of $288,000 to the pipeline company, focused on Charles Hamel, a 
retired tanker broker and industry gadfly. 
 
Hamel has said that Wackenhut obtained his phone records, went 
through his garbage, taped phone conversations and set up a dummy 
environmental group in an effort to learn his sources. 
 
According to the House committee, Wackenhut's ''covert 
surveillance operation'' on Alyeska's behalf extended to Miller. 
 
Company chairman George R. Wackenhut vehemently denied that 
allegation today. ''It did not happen,'' he said in written 
testimony. 
 
Wackenhut and Alyeska have denied any wrongdoing in the 
investigation, which ended abruptly last year when it was 
disclosed. 
 
Miller said today that the investigation ''involved much more 
sinister and disturbing motives of silencing environmental critics 
and intimidating whistleblowers.'' 
 
Black, a former undercover investigator for the Dade County, 
Fla., sheriff's department and state attorney's office, was 
summoned as the first witness at today's hearing. 
 
As soon as Black took an oath to tell the truth, his lawyer, 
John Sale, asked to have all cameras and microphones turned off. 
Then he asked Miller to allow Black to testify in executive 
session. 
 
''It is our position any testimony from the entire hearing may 
lead to defame, degrade or intimidate Mr. Black,'' Sale said. 
 
Miller refused. Republicans demanded a roll-call vote on Black's 
request, which was approved 8-5. 
 
     SECTION HEADING: Washington; 
 
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 4/9/13     (Item 13 from file: 258) 
02486010    0474 
Alaska Pipeline Operators Chase Down News Leaks 
 
BY: JOHN ENDERS 
DATELINE: ANCHORAGE, Alaska     PRIORITY: Urgent  WORD COUNT: 0679 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: September 11, 1991  03:41EDT 
 
Operators of the Alaska pipeline have 
been running after leaks in recent months and not all of them oil 
leaks. 
 
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. hired a security firm early last 
year to spy on an industry critic and find out which employees fed 
him inside information that got Alyeska in trouble with the 
Environmental Protection Agency. 
 
The man, retired tanker broker Charles Hamel, obtained 
information about corrosion in the 800-mile pipeline and in storage 
tanks at Valdez, as well as benzene emissions and ballast-water 
disposal problems. Hamel in turn passed the information on to 
environmental and safety regulators, the press and Congress. 
The Los Angeles Times said the security firm, Wackenhut Co. of 
Miami, also monitored Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of a 
subcommittee investigating alleged environmental wrongdoing by 
Alyeska, a consortium of seven oil companies. 
 
Citing court records and anonymous sources, the newspaper 
reported that: 
 
Wackenhut set up two offices for a phony company called Ecolit 
Group near Hamel's Alexandria, Va., home and in Florida. Operatives 
posing as environmentalists befriended him with the promise of 
financial and legal help. 
 
One female operative, posing as an environmental journalist, 
tried to befriend Hamel in a hotel bar and on an airline flight. 
The operative was trying to discover Hamel's sources and 
''compromise him.'' 
 
Ecolit operatives conducted electronic surveillance of Hamel's 
homes, his business and hotel rooms, reviewed his telephone logs 
and consumer credit reports and searched his garbage and home 
office. 
In court papers, former Wackenhut employees also said they 
searched Alyeska records hoping to figure out who Hamel's sources 
were. 
 
Wackenhut and Alyeska deny any wrongdoing in the seven-month 
probe, which is now under investigation by Miller, chairman of the 
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. Miller's committee 
was to meet today. 
 
Wackenhut denied that Miller was a target of the probe. 
 
''My instructions were explicit,'' Alyeska President James 
Hermiller said in a statement Friday. ''It was to trace the source 
of the leaks utilizing legal methods. I was not interested in 
interfering with Mr. Hamel's communications with members of 
Congress or their staff.'' 
 
Hamel called the tactics ''unconscionable.'' 
 
Alyeska spokeswoman Marnie Isaacs said the company acted because 
confidential papers about ongoing lawsuits were stolen by 
employees. She would not elaborate on the lawsuits. 
''We were strictly looking at how Hamel received those stolen 
documents in order to manage our internal leak,'' she said. ''We 
did not find the leak.'' 
 
However, a former Alyeska employee, Robert Scott, filed a 
complaint last week with the U.S. Labor Department claiming he was 
wrongly fired as a result of the Wackenhut investigation. Alyeska 
denied any connection. 
 
Hamel is a party in a lawsuit involving a business dispute with 
Exxon Corp., one of the Alyeska companies. British Petroleum and 
Arco are also members. 
 
Hamel has long claimed violations in both air and water 
pollution control systems at the Valdez oil terminal. Based on 
information from Hamel, the EPA proposed a $20,000 fine against 
Alyeska and two oil companies for improper tanker ballast water 
dumping, and Alyeska was forced to spend millions to upgrade its 
emission-control and other environmental systems. 
 
Miller led the House inquiry into the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil 
spill. 
Stan Stephen, a charter boat operator in Valdez and an Alyeska 
critic who said he has given Hamel information for years, worries 
that the Wackenhut investigation and Scott's firing could stifle 
the flow of information. 
 
''What about the rest of Alyeska employees? What about the 
people who have concerns about health hazards? ... Are they going 
to say anything?'' he asked. 
 
''You open your mouth, you lose your job.'' 
 
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02478930    0464 
Report: Alaska Pipeline Operator Spied on Whistle-blowers 
 
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0465 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: September 03, 1991  05:29EDT 
 
A security firm hired by the Alaska oil 
pipeline's operator paid a woman to ''compromise'' an industry 
critic and to set up a dummy environmental group to ferret out 
whistle-blowers, a newspaper reported. 
 
The Los Angeles Times on Monday also said the pipeline operator, 
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of seven oil companies, 
employed Florida-based Wackenhut Corp. to monitor Rep. George 
Miller, D-Calif., chairman of a House subcommittee investigating 
alleged environmental wrongdoing by Alyeska. 
 
Alyeska has acknowledged hiring Wackenhut for an investigation 
of possible leaks of documents by employees to retired tanker 
broker Charles Hamel. 
 
Hamel is a party in a lawsuit involving a business dispute with 
Exxon Corp., one of the Alyeska companies. 
 
Alyeska suspected Hamel, an industry gadfly, of providing 
embarrassing information on the company's environmental record to 
Miller, the Environmental Protection Agency and the news media, the 
Times reported. 
 
As a result of the information, the EPA last month proposed 
fining Alyeska $20,000 for illegal waste water dumping, the 
newspaper said. 
 
Wackenhut has provided security along the 800-mile pipeline 
since 1977, Wackenhut spokesman Patrick Cannan said. 
 
''Everything we did was perfectly legal and proper, and we look 
forward to a time when we can legally talk about it,'' said Wayne 
Black, Wackenhut vice president and executive director of 
investigations. 
 
Alyeska officials could not be reached for comment over the 
holiday weekend, the Times said. 
But in a memorandum sent two weeks ago to company employees, 
Alyeska president James B. Hermiller denied Alyeska or Wackenhut 
did anything illegal. 
 
Citing court records and unidentified sources, the Times said 
that: 
 
A woman operative posing as an environmental journalist tried 
to befriend Hamel in an Anchorage hotel bar in March 1990 and on an 
airline flight. The idea was to discover Hamel's sources and 
''compromise him,'' according to court documents. 
 
Wackenhut set up two offices for a phony company called Ecolit 
Group near Hamel's Virginia home and in Florida. Operatives posing 
as environmentalists befriended Hamel by promising legal and 
financial aid. Wackenhut's Black represented himself to Hamel as 
Ecolit's director, a Dr. Wayne Jenkins. 
 
Ecolit operatives conducted electronic surveillance of Hamel's 
homes, his business and hotel rooms, reviewed his telephone logs 
and consumer credit reports and searched his garbage and home 
office. 
Miller's House Interior and Insular Affairs panel is looking 
into Alyeska's probe and has asked Alyeska and Wackenhut for 
documents on the case by Friday. 
 
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02444766    0602 
Five Killed In Helicopter Crash At Nuclear Test Site 
 
DATELINE: LAS VEGAS, Nev.     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0291 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: July 25, 1991  13:54EDT 
 
A Department of Energy security 
helicopter crashed during a routine training mission at the Nevada 
Test Site, killing all 5 people aboard, a department official said 
today. 
 
The cause of the accident Wednesday evening has not been 
determined, DOE spokesman Chris West said. 
 
The two pilots aboard the Messerschmitt BO-105 helicopter, Glenn 
W. Ewton Jr. and Dennis J. Longman, were employees of EG&G-Energy 
Measurements, which works under contract to the federal agency, 
West said. 
 
The others killed were identified as employees of Wackenhut 
Security, a guard service also under contract with the department. 
They were identified as Richard Lowry, George Tolster and Robert 
Brooks. 
 
The security crews patrol the boundaries of the 
1,350-square-mile test site, West said. 
 
The helicopter took off about 9 p.m. for a routine surveillance 
flight, West said. The pilot checked in for a scheduled radio 
contact at 9:15, but did not make one at 9:30, West said. Burning 
wreckage was spotted by searchers about two hours later, said 
Darwin Morgan, another DOE spokesman. 
 
The cause of the crash about 110 miles northwest of Las Vegas 
would be investigated today, West said. 
 
The Nevada Test Site, the only active nuclear test site in the 
country, conducts about a dozen underground tests per year. The 
deaths were the worst single accident in the 40-year history of the 
facility. 
 
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 4/9/16     (Item 16 from file: 258) 
02435920    0296 
Belmont Horses 
 
DATELINE: ELMONT, N.Y.     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0229 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: July 15, 1991  19:39EDT 
 
A security guard at Belmont Park accused of 
bashing three horses in the face with a stick has been arrested on 
a charge of cruelty to animals, police said. 
 
Terrance Knight, 18, also allegedly damaged the eyes of one of 
the horses by throwing bleach in its face. But Knight told police 
at the time of his arrest Sunday he was petting the horses and they 
nipped at him, said Detective Dennis Aylward of Nassau County 
Police. 
 
The injured animals Slew's Ghost, West Texas Wind and Lord 
Charles were placed under the care of a veterinarian. The 
seriousness of the injuries was not immediately known, Aylward 
said. 
 
Each of the animals suffered injuries to its face as the result 
of being hit with a stick. Slew's Ghost also suffered chemical 
burns and damage to his eyes, Aylward said. 
 
Knight, of Ozone Park, N.Y., was employed by Wackenhut security 
company as a guard at the racetrack. 
 
The injuries were discovered after a groom noticed Knight 
raising a shovel, threatening to strike a horse, Aylward said. The 
groom called out and Knight dropped the shovel and returned to his 
post, police said. 
 
Knight was arraigned Monday in Nassau County First District 
Court in Hempstead before Judge John Galasso. He plead innocent to 
the charge of cruelty to animals and was ordered held on $15,000 
bail. 
 
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 4/9/18     (Item 18 from file: 258) 
02308724    0658 
Lawyers Talk With Chinese Puppeteer Seeking U.S. Asylum 
 
DATELINE: AURORA, Colo.     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0195 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: February 16, 1991  22:51EST 
 
Yang Feng, an internationally famed 
puppeteer, is among up to 14 Chinese citizens being detained while 
they seek political asylum in the United States, an immigration 
official and lawyers said Saturday. 
 
Yang and the others contacted Immigration and Naturalization 
Service officials more than a week ago about obtaining asylum and 
were taken to an INS processing center in this Denver suburb, INS 
spokesman Norman Schoss said. 
 
Yang and the others say they were involved in the pro-democracy 
movement that culminated in the June 1989 crackdown that left 
hundreds of demonstrators dead in Beijing's Tiananmen square, said 
Denver attorneys Woon Ki Lau and Margaret S. Choi, who interviewed 
three of the Chinese, including Yang. 
''We do have Chinese in custody,'' Schoss said. ''There were two 
groups that came down and were transferred to Wackenhut, and 
they're going through the regular proceedings.'' 
 
Yang has been a leading puppeteer for two decades. He and his 
group have performed in the United States, Australia and throughout 
the Far East. 
 
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 4/9/20     (Item 20 from file: 258) 
02298128    0794 
Precede LIMA 
 
PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0551 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: February 05, 1991  19:45EST 
 
In other terrorism attacks Tuesday, a bomb exploded outside a 
bank in Beirut in the 14th bombing in the Lebanese capital linked 
by police to the war. In Amman, Jordan, a U.S. military attache's 
car was set ablaze, apparently by a gasoline bomb, police said. No 
injuries were reported. 
 
Police in Saudi Arabia arrested an undisclosed number of 
suspects in a sniper attack on U.S. military personnel. 
 
Since the war began Jan. 17, Western interests have sustained 
more than 70 gulf-related terrorist attacks. 
 
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has called for terrorism against 
Western interests involved in the Gulf War to oust him from Kuwait. 
 
In Lima, a U.S. Embassy spokesman reached by telephone confirmed 
the attack was against the office of Pesevisa, the Peruvian 
subsidiary of the U.S. security company Wackenhut in Coral Gables, 
Fla. 
 
Pesevisa is under contract to provide security for both the U.S. 
and Canadian embassies, the spokesman said. 
 
Three security guards died when rebels driving by in a car fired 
machine guns and threw at least 22 pounds of dynamite at three 
diplomat's cars parked in front of Pesevisa, police said. Seven 
people were seriously injured, they said. 
 
Police said the explosion also blew out windows and destroyed 
several cars and a state bus outside the company office, located in 
the commercial district of Miraflores. 
 
It was unclear to which embassies the diplomats' cars belonged. 
 
Police said they found leaflets at the scene signed by the 
pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement condemning the United 
States for its role in the Gulf War. 
The Tupac Amaru group also attacked the U.S. Embassy twice last 
week and dynamited the North American Cultural Institute in 
November. 
 
The Beirut bombing occurred at the entrance to the Bank of Egypt 
and Lebanon. Police said it caused some damage but no casualties. 
 
Previous Beirut bombings have occurred at embassies, banks and 
cultural centers of member states of the multinational force 
fighting to Iraq. By police count, one person has been killed and 
two wounded in the bombings. 
 
In the Jordanian incident, the diplomat's car was gutted, police 
said. 
 
 
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02147112    0523 
Evacuees Speak Of Chaos, Widespread Fighting In Liberia 
 
BY: PAUL VERSCHUUR 
DATELINE: AMSTERDAM, Netherlands     PRIORITY: Rush  WORD COUNT: 0431 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: August 07, 1990  09:54EDT 
 
American and European nationals 
evacuated from war-torn Liberia by the U.S. Marines told today of 
widespread fighting between government and rebel troops and rampant 
looting. 
 
About 40 people who were evacuated from the capital of Monrovia 
arrived in Amsterdam aboard a flight from Freetown in neighboring 
Sierra Leone. 
 
In all, 94 U.S. and other nationals have been evacuated since 
Monday from the Liberian capital amid fighting between government 
troops loyal to beleaguered President Samuel K. Doe and rival rebel 
armies led by Charles Taylor and Prince Johnson. 
 
''It looks as though the rebels are now fighting one another,'' 
said the Rev. Joe Brown, a Roman Catholic priest who ran the Arthur 
Barclay Business College in Monrovia. 
 
''We had to flee for our lives,'' he said. 
 
Brown, of Lancashire, England, said the evacuation was not 
blocked by the Liberians but: ''We could hear the shots in the city 
just nearby ... you could hear it going on all the time.'' 
 
U.S. Consul Penny McMurtry, of Alexandria, Va., said ''We've 
been basically confined to the (U.S. Embassy) compound for the last 
three weeks. 
 
''There's been a lot of heavy shooting in the vicinity, bullets 
(flying) across the compound,'' Ms. McMurtry said. 
 
During the weekend, U.S. Marines evacuated 62 Americans and 12 
other nationals to Sierra Leone. Another 20 people were taken out 
of Liberia on Monday. 
 
In Washington, the U.S. State Department said forces loyal to 
rebel leader Johnson seized 14 to 15 foreigners, including one 
American national, Monday. 
 
The rebel leader had threatened to take hostages to provoke 
outside intervention in the civil war. 
 
Before the actual evacuation started, said security specialist 
Michael Jaquish, 50 Marines landed and formed a defensive perimeter 
outside the U.S. Embassy on seaside Mamba Point because of threats 
from Johnson. 
 
''There were threats by Johnson to shoot at any aircraft or 
helicopters,'' said Jaquish, deputy general manager of the 
Wackenhut security company which guards U.S. government 
installations. 
 
He said there was apparently no attempt to shoot down the 
helicopters. 
 
Jaquish also said looting by government troops in rampant. 
 
''The AFL (Armed Forces of Liberia) are going from house to 
house, looting everything, and carrying it to the (presidential) 
mansion's grounds,'' he said. ''They are nothing but thieves.'' 
 
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 4/9/23     (Item 23 from file: 258) 
02043425 
Alleged Drug Kingpin, Two Others Escape from Private Texas Prison 
 
DATELINE: SAN ANTONIO     PRIORITY: URGENT  WORD COUNT: 713 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: April 16, 1990  12:50EST 
 
An  alleged drug kingpin and two other inmates escaped from a privately run 
prison  across  from the police station after one of them pulled a gun on a 
guard, authorities said. 
 
Five  federal  agencies  plus  Mexican,  Texas  and  local  officials  were 
searching  today for the men who escaped Sunday evening. They include Mario 
Alberto Salinas Trevino, who federal authorities allege masterminded one of 
the  largest  drug-smuggling  and  money-laundering rings between Texas and 
Mexico. 
 
Police said the three men may be heading to Mexico and are considered armed 
and dangerous. At its closest point, the border is about 100 miles away. 
 
Salinas, 37, was among 25 people arrested in March 1989 in a drug operation 
dubbed ''Operation Jet Set.'' 
U.S.  Marshal Bill Jonas said $10 million was seized from Salinas then, and 
he's  suspected  of  having  up  to  $10 million in drug money stashed in a 
hideaway either in Texas or Mexico. 
 
Prosecutors  charge  that between 1983 and 1989, a drug ring Salinas helped 
run  was  responsible for transporting more than 46,000 pounds of marijuana 
and  1,900  pounds  of  cocaine.  The  ring allegedly distributed the drugs 
throughout   Texas,   Pennsylvania,   California,   Illinois,  Florida  and 
Massachusetts. 
 
The  ring  also  is  accused of laundering of more than $7.6 million, using 
financial  institutions  in  San  Antonio  and  Roma, Texas and San Ysidro, 
Calif., to launder narcotics profits. 
 
Jonas  identified the other inmates as Charlie Edward Compton, 58, and Juan 
Chapa  Garza,  44.  Compton  was  awaiting  trial  on  federal  charges  of 
possession  of  cocaine  with  intent to distribute. Chapa was charged with 
possession  of  marijuana  with  intent to distribute. The charges were not 
related to the ''Jet Set'' probe. 
 
Compton  and  Salinas  are  U.S. citizens, Jonas said. He wasn't sure about 
Chapa's nationality. 
The  three were cellmates at the Central Texas Parole Violators Facility, a 
minimum- to medium-security prison in the old Bexar County jail operated by 
Wackenhut Corp. of Coral Gables, Fla. 
 
Compton  summoned a guard, claiming he was ill, and pulled a handgun on him 
shortly before 9 p.m., Jonas said. 
 
The  three  then locked up two guards in the closet and overpowered another 
guard  on  the  ground floor before seizing the security control panels and 
opening a door, Jonas said. They fled on foot. 
 
According  to  police  reports,  San Antonio police weren't notified of the 
jailbreak until nearly an hour after the three men had escaped. 
 
But  Wackenhut  spokesman  Pat  Cannan  said  police were notified 15 to 20 
minutes after the jail break by the guard on the ground floor, who was tied 
up outside. 
 
''It  took  him  about  15 to 20 minutes to get unloose and he ran straight 
across  the  street to the police department,'' Cannan said. ''That was the 
proper thing to do.'' 
Jonas  said  he  had no indication that Wackenhut had delayed the reporting 
unneccessarily. 
 
Wackenhut  officials  speculate  the  pistol  was  smuggled into the prison 
during  Easter  Day  visiting  hours,  Cannan said. He spoke in a telephone 
interview  from  Coral Gables. Jonas said the gun was believed to be a .25- 
caliber. 
 
''We  suspect  it  was  brought in by a visitor,'' he said. Cannan said the 
prison screens visitors, but he declined to give details. 
 
The  inmates were being held in the private facility for the U.S. Marshal's 
Service,  Cannan  said.  The  620-capacity  prison  was  housing 583 people 
Sunday,  about  100  of  them Marshal's Service prisoners, Cannan said. The 
prison has 125 guards, 20 to 25 per shift, he said. 
 
The   Marshal's   Service  has  summoned  assistance  from  the  U.S.  Drug 
Enforcement   Adminstration,   FBI,   Customs   Service,   Immigration  and 
Naturalization  Service  and  Mexican  customs, Jonas said. State and local 
officials also were involved in the search. S-04-16-90 1250EST 
 
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00980741 
Guard Dies After Fitness Test 
 
DATELINE: MERCURY, Nev.     PRIORITY: RUSH  WORD COUNT: 168 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: December 15, 1989  12:10EST 
 
A  58-year-old security guard at the Nevada Test Site collapsed and died 30 
minutes after a physical fitness test. 
 
Authorities  say Clair Robinson died after completing a half-mile run and a 
40-yard dash Thursday. 
 
Test site officials say Robinson had no history of medical problems and had 
a  physical  examination  in  April.  He  was medically certified Dec. 4 as 
qualified for the fitness test. 
 
Guards  receive  six  chances  to  complete  the half-mile in 4 minutes, 40 
seconds, and the 40-yard dash in 8.5 seconds. 
 
The  test  site fitness test came under fire in 1985, two years after a 59- 
year-old  guard  died  of  a  heart attack after he ran a mile in 88-degree 
heat. Two guards died after testing at Energy Department facilities in Ohio 
and Washington. 
 
Robinson  was  a  guard  with Wackenhut Services, the private security firm 
used  at  the test site. The cause of death will be determined by the Clark 
County Coroner's Office. 
 
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00758968 
 
BY: MARCY GORDON 
DATELINE: NEW YORK     PRIORITY: RUSH  WORD COUNT: 887 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS       DATE: July 18, 1988  07:42EDT 
 
The  airlines  have  been  getting  tough on air piracy - with some outside 
help. 
 
The  rise  in  international  terrorism  in recent years and the heightened 
threat  of  hijacking  has spawned a cottage industry of security companies 
providing  passenger  screening  and other services under contract with the 
airlines. 
 
Security  in  the  air  has taken on a new sense of urgency in recent days, 
following  the shooting down of an Iran Air jetliner by a U.S. Navy warship 
in  the  Persian  Gulf.  The nation's big airlines that fly overseas aren't 
taking  any  chances  on  a  retaliatory hijacking and have beefed up their 
already tight security measures. 
 
Although the big carriers have their own security divisions, their mounting 
work  loads  have  prompted  them  to call on outside companies for help in 
stemming the rise in air violence. 
 
Airline  security  ''is an undertaking of great magnitude; it's a difficult 
assignment,'' said Dick Lally, assistant vice president for security at the 
Air  Transport  Association, a Washington-based trade group that represents 
the nation's major carriers. 
 
Since  the federal government mandated ''100 percent'' screening of airline 
passengers  at  the beginning of 1973, Lally noted, the major airlines have 
stepped  up their security and refined their techniques and equipment. Many 
carriers have security standards tougher than the government's. 
 
Each  year,  U.S.  airline  and  contract security agents uncover and seize 
3,000 to 4,000 firearms and make around 1,500 related arrests, according to 
the  air  transport  group. The metal detectors and X-ray equipment used in 
the screening are already into their fourth generation. 
 
It  has become more efficient and cost-effective in many cases for airlines 
to  farm  out  security  work, rather than train more of their own staff to 
handle  it.  In  departure  gate areas shared by several airlines, it makes 
sense  for  a  common  passenger  checkpoint to be located in the concourse 
leading  to  a  gate  area, instead of each airline having its own security 
setup at every gate. 
 
One  of the airlines using the gate area usually assumes responsibility for 
the  concourse checkpoint, contracting with an outside security company and 
splitting  the  costs  of  the  contract  with  the  other airlines in that 
section. 
 
The  ''granddaddy'' of security companies whose clients include airlines is 
Wackenhut Corp., which works for nearly all the major U.S. carriers. 
 
Wackenhut  has a high profile. Last February, armed guards from the company 
were  mobilized at Kennedy International Airport in New York by beleaguered 
Pan  Am  Corp.,  after  Teamsters union leaders vowed ''guerrilla warfare'' 
against the airline in a wage dispute. 
 
''We  do  get  called  by companies if there's labor unrest,'' said Patrick 
Cannan, a spokesman for Wackenhut at its headquarters in Coral Gables, Fla. 
 
Beefy  Wackenhut  guards  also  were in evidence at giant Texas Air Corp.'s 
annual  shareholders  meeting  last month in New York. Frank Lorenzo, Texas 
Air's  chairman, threatened publicly several times to have the guards eject 
angry  shareholders  if they persisted in asking him questions after he had 
requested they stop. 
 
Wackenhut,  a publicly owned company, has 28,000 full-time employees and is 
well-known  nationally. But the handful of other security firms catering to 
airlines - Globe Security Systems Inc., J.J. Security Inc. and Ogden Allied 
Services  Corp.  -  are  either  privately  held  or  subsidiaries of other 
companies. 
 
Some  of  the  big  U.S.  airlines that carry passengers overseas also hire 
local security firms in foreign nations. 
 
In  this  country,  many of the bigger, better-known security companies had 
unhappy  experiences  and got out of airline work, leaving the field to the 
smaller firms. 
 
''That  (airline  security) was a segment of business we weren't interested 
in  participating  in  any  longer,'' said Joe Allen, a spokesman for Baker 
Industries  Inc.,  parent  of  both  Wells  Fargo  and  Burns International 
Security Services. 
 
The two security subsidiaries stopped doing airline work about two or three 
years  ago,  Allen  said,  mainly  because of liability problems that could 
result  from hijackings being blamed on inadequate security provided by the 
companies. 
 
Allen  explained  that the decision to get out of airline security work was 
accelerated  by litigation arising from the crash of an Air India jumbo jet 
in June 1985. Burns, which provided the passenger screening for the flight, 
was  named as a defendant by families of the victims in a case still in the 
courts.  The  crash  off  the coast of Ireland, which killed all 329 people 
aboard, was blamed on a bomb planted by Sikh terrorists. 
 
CPP-Pinkerton's,  another  security giant, has shied away from airline work 
for the past four to five years. 
 
Wackenhut's  Cannan  conceded  that  liability  for  poor security can be a 
problem.  He  stressed,  however,  that  each  security  contract  with the 
airlines is different and many of them provide for joint liability. 
 
The  airlines  are  sensitive  about security. Many of them admit that they 
hire  outside  contractors but refuse to discuss any details or to disclose 
how much they spend on security. 
 
Four  of the nation's airlines - Pan Am, TWA, American and Northwest - levy 
a special security charge of $5 per ticket. Pan Am, like TWA, is one of the 
most security-conscious U.S. airlines. In addition to its internal security 
division  and  contracts with Wackenhut, Pan Am's World Services subsidiary 
sells  security,  maintenance and other services to government agencies and 
other airlines. 
 
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