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al O@id, to roved For Release ake Oy eho Lantagiesesnoossoosepi ran Vetoed Deal for German Captive, Militia Official Says rem f By Nora Boustany Speclal to The Washington Post —— BEIRUT, Jan, 19—Church of pland envoy Terry Waite, who B kidnaped one year ago, and oth- estern hostages are now in the ds of Iranian Revolutionary rds based here, and the Tehran rnment has banned further ine , rement by Lebanese groups in Negotiations for their release, ding to a senior Shiite militia. aa ite and some of the 23 other mn hostages are believed to €en seized by pro-Iranian =m fundamentalists here, But Sources said the captors were ed three weeks ago after Teh- ecided to halt any more med- in the hostage crisis by local emen and armed groups, ac- g to the Moslem militia offi- official, usually well-in- D its operatives in Beirut, ex.’ that all future handling of E affairs would be carried out n states—that is, between d the governments of the 8 the start of the year, most aptives have been held in 7 - 3400580003-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R00 . FH on Tehran’s latest direc. aor 7 the custody of Iranian Revolution- ary Guards to Preyent Lebanege groups, families oy" interlocutors from reaching agreements that are not strictly bencfictal to Tran, ac- cording to Druze and Shiite Moslem mifitia sources, - - ee < In the final week of December, the sources said, Iran stepped in at the last minute and thwarted “Lhe envoy in charge of the hegotiations left for Bonn and that was the end of it,” —~a Shiite militia source chances for a Possible release of West . German hostage Rudolf and American journalist erry Anderson, - “ge deal had been set to. free Chrdes in exchange for TWA hijack- ing suspect Mohammed Ali Ha- madei, a ransom of $3 million and Proof to the captors that 17 Shiite activists held in Kuwait on bombing © re still alive and in good | charges w nat ofan ¢ ; bodyguards health, according to the sources, Anderson, the Beirut bureau chief of The Associated Press, was re- Portedly next in fine to be released, the sources added, On learning about the deal to free ordes, Iran contacted its men heré and said there would be no deal un- - less Bonn supplied it with material for manufacturing chemical _ Weap- ons, arms and other technology, “The envoy in charge of the nego- tiations left for Bonn and that was the end of it,” the militia source said, ; Cordes, 53, a representative for the Frankfurt-based Hoechst chem- icals company, was abducted by gunmen on the road to Beirut In- ternational Airport on Jan. 17 fast year, a few days after arriving in Lebanon, -. Ss Three days later, Waite, 48, dis. appeared after leaving his Druze: outside the offices of.a Shiite Lebanese doctor before head-- ing for a meeting with the captors of two Americang, , Druzé chieftain Walid Jumblatt said in an interview last weekend that he was still trying to find out whether it was Possible to release Waite, ne . Since his kidnaping one year ago,- Waite has been accused by his pur- | CPYRGHT FY ey! TERRY WAITE «+s kidnaped a year ago ported captors to have been work- ing for the U.S, government, de- spite denials by Washington and by aite’s employer Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, To those who remember him at the Riviera Hotel where he stayed, Waite was a strange mixture of a humanitarian and a risk-taker who seemed bound to get into trouble, “He wanted to show off, taking walks along the Corniche ... and parading in convoys of cars bristling with guns, He was really saying, ‘ am Terry Waite, If you want me, you know where [| am, coming and going,’ ” recalled the manager of a seafront hotel. ¥ Hee