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ak tient Seieeeeaeesteanes aanceeanareceee ee "ae aoe win tec meets anette cei ee meen mentee Eh ge eee a EOD Ml oe oak ‘ote rennin Boetiscnlntetc knit trina tn tect an. - ~ WS bee, ae rte i ‘fsurprised and dis. * “mayed” at reports of Mo » Cord’s arrest. . “The person involved is * fhe proprictor of a private : : seeurity agency who was - ‘ employed by our committee . ; Months ago to assist with the Installation of our seeur- . ity system.” said Mitchell. - { “He has, as we understand “it, a number of business *“ elients and Interests and we : have no knowledge of these é@relationships” °° i Referring ta the allered 7 attempt ta bug the appaal- ? flon's headquarters, Mitchell , $ald: “There is no place in * our campaign, or in the elee toral process, for this type tof activity and we will not * permit it nor condone it.” *, About twe hours after fitchell issued hig state- ent, GOP National Chair- Zqnan Dole said, “I under- » tand that Jim MeCord ... is the owner of a firm with which the Republican Na- - Yonal Committee contracts «for. security services... If ‘our understanding of the facts ig accurate,” added Dole, “we will of course dis- .econtinue our relationship 2 With the firm.” © Tom Wilck, deputy chair- + man of communications for ‘ the GOP National Commit- * tee, said late yesterday that ; Republican officials stilt ; were checking to find out when MeCord was hired, how much he was paid and texactly what his responsibil- were, + -MeCord lives with his ‘wife in a two-story, $45,000 , Bouse in Rockville. . , After being’ contacted by” * The Washingtem Post yester- , day, Harlan A. Westretl, who said he was a friend of . MeCord’s, gave the fallow- . ing background on McCord: 2 He ts from Texas, where “he and his wife graduated rom Bayler University. f ey have three children, a who ig in his third year 1G the Alr Force Academy, : twodaughtera. “> T ‘a —— & 04. Ts MeCords have tern a active in the First Maptist Church of Washington. , Other neichhors said that _MeCord is a colonel in the “Air Foree Reserve, and also “has faucht courses in geeu- rity at Montcomery Commu- nity College. This could not be confirmed yesterday, : MeCord’s previous em- ‘ployment by the CIA was confirmed hy the intelli- ence agcney. but a spokes- man there said further data cabout McCord was not avail- {able yesterday, . : , Several address books | selzed from the suspects | peentained = omastly Spanish | {fames with Miami address. , +@8, Police snurres said all of | the names in the books were |: being checked. H © In Miami, Washington '' “Host Staff Writer Kirk; ‘ Scharferberg reported tha , (wo of the other suspee : ! Sturgis and Barker — are ' | Well known among Cuban + exiles there. Both are known ‘to have had extensive con : tacts with the Central In - telligence Agency, exile; . Sources reported, and Rar.” «ker avas closely associated with Frank Bender, the CLA . operative who reeruited Many members of Brigade 2508: the Bay of Pigs inva , Sion force. “4 Barker, 55, and Sturgis ‘3, reportedly showed up Anvited at a Cuban exil meeting in May and claimed : nee. ce entiecete meme eo represent an anist orzanization ‘of ref. Ugees from “captive fia- tions.” The purpose of the meeting, at which both meg Feportedly spoke, wag te. plan a Miami demonstration in support of: President: Nix.’ . on to mine _ harbor of Haiphong. we 1 Barker, a native of Ha. : Yana who lived both in the . US. and Cuba during his | » youth, is a US, Army vet. - , eran who was Imprisoned ia - : & German POW camp dur- ing World Wer Il. He later‘. * herved in the Cuban Buro de Rea een xg eae ticom-~ * Yiee—under Fide! Castrof _ and fled to Miami tn 1958,", : He reportedly was one of, : the principal leaders of thes i Cuban Revolutionary Coun. ; eH, the exile orranization : established with CLA help to organize the Bay of Pigs In- vasion. : , | Sturgis, an American sol.’ idler of fortune who joined Castro In.the hills of Oriente Province In 1958, left Cuba . i in 1959 with his close friend, 1 Pedro Diaz Lanz, then chief i of the Cuban air foree. Diaz : Lang, once active in Cuban xilo activities in Miami :. , More recently has been ra. | g ‘ported involved in suc! . Flaht-wing movements as th dohn Birch Society and the .: Rev. Billy James Hargis’ . Christian Crusade. ;. Sturgis, more commonly * “known as Frank Fiorini, just. ,his American citizenship in 11960 for serving in a foreign - : military force—Castro’s army vo—but, with the aid of then- ! Florida Sen, George Smath- | | ers, regained it. ‘ ' Conts .wuting to this story * were Washington Post Staff | Writers E. J. Bachinski, ome le Bill Gold, Claudia Levy, Kirk Scharfenberg, J. Y. Smith end Mortin Wet Biagiese #2 e wweme ree CA Laat
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