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Page 2 Monday, August 26, 1935 'NewsPiggsft Reagan jPTSI T -r Til 01 JHLOll d. it1 jiSJL nanae . ji q j provide yWOOdH. COMIIElllll WASHINGTON (Reuter) -The White House acknowledged Sunday that President Reagan was an FBI informant in Hollywood in the late 1940s when he headed the Screen Actors Guild. The White House, however, insisted Reagan played "a very minor role" in providing the FBI with names of Hollywood fig ures with pro-communist leanings. The White House was commenting on a report of Reagan's activities in Sunday's San Jose Mercury News in California, which cited FBI documents obtained under a Freedom of Informa tion Act request. The newspaper said Reagan reported m communist leanings of Hollywood organizations after World War II when the FBI was scrutinizing the film world for pro-communist influences. That period preceded Sen. Joseph McCar thy's accusations of widespread com munist links in Washington and Holly wood. A White House spokesman did not deny the report, but said that Reagan's role with the FBI was a minor one. "That's basically my understanding, that he had a very minor role," White House spokesman Ed Djerejian said. In Santa Barbara, Calif., where Rea gan is holidaying at his ranch, White House officials took a low-key approach to the report, dismissing it as of little consequence. The newspaper said Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, pro vided the FBI with names of actors they believed were members of a pro-com munist clique. The information supp lied by Reagan included names of Screen Actors Guild members believed to have pro-communist leanings, the newspaper said. But the documents also showed that Reagan disagreed with tactics of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was seek ing to root out communists in the film industry, the newspaper added. Reagan testified before the panel on Oct. 23, 1947. The newspaper said Reagan's first recorded contact with the FBI came Nov. 18, 1943, when Reagan, who was then assigned to an Army Air Corps' motion picture unit, told of nearly "coming to blows" with a German sym pathizer who made an anti-Semitic remark at a cocktail party. Man shot, girlfriend assaulted 'Night Stalker' strikes again MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) A man dubbed the "Night Stalker," who is blamed for 14 slayings, is thought to be responsible for shooting a man and sexually attacking a woman Sunday, the 35th and 36th assaults attributed to the serial killer, police said. "We do believe it is the work of the 'Night Stalker,' " said Orange County Sheriffs Lt. Richard Olson. A distraught woman called at 2:40 a.m. Sunday to say her boyfriend had been shot by a man in their Mission Viejo home, 55 miles southeast of Los Angeles, Olson said. The 29-year-old man suffered a bullet wound to the head and the woman had been sexually attacked, said Olson. The shooting victim, William Cams, was listed in extremely critical condition after surgery, according to a nursing supervisor. The "Night Stalker" usually strikes in suburban homes at night, entering through unlocked windows or open sliding glass doors. He has been linked to slayings from southern California to San Francisco, 600 miles away. Survivors of the killer's attacks have described him as having curly black hair and badly stained and gapped teeth. Detective Frank Salerno of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, which is spearheading the "Night Stalker" investigation, joined Orange County authorities at the home but declined comment on the case. Until recently, the slayings blamed on the serial killer occurred only in Los Angeles County from Northridge, 27 miles northwest of downtown, to Dia mond Bar, about 30 miles to the east. But ballistics tests linked him to the Aug. 17 slaying of San Francisco resi dent Peter Pan, 66, and the attempted killing of his wife Barbara, 64. In San Francisco, where police appealed to the public for information , more than 500 telephone tips had come in by Saturday night. "We're getting a call every 10 seconds," said Officer Jack Smoot. A reward fund for information lead ing to the capture of the attacker now stands at $35,010. The first assault in the case was reported Feb. 8 and the first slaying March 17. W. Germans arrest suspected spy BONN, (Reuter) West German investigators Sunday announced the arrest of a woman secretary in the pres ident's office on suspicion of spying, and security sources said the woman had had access to highly sensitive information. A spokesman for the Federal Pro secutor's Office said the woman had been seized Saturday and an arrest warrant issued earlier Sunday on the grounds that she was a suspected East German ageut. The arrest followed the defection of top spy-hunter Hans Joachin Tiedge to East Berlin last week and the disap pearance of three other spy suspects, including two other women secretaries. Bild Newspaper said security offi cials believed Tiedge might have been behind the arrest of more than 160 West German agents in East Germany during the past 18 months, a triumph announced by East Berlin three days after he vanished from his home in Cologne. Security sources named the arrested woman as Margarete Hoeke, 51, an unmarried secretary in President Richard von Weizsaecker's office, who had worked for the head of the foreign affairs department for 20 years. Suspicions against Hoeke hardened after she met an East German agent in Denmark two weeks ago and received a large sum of money, some of which had been found in her apartment. In her post she would have seen all communications from West German embassies abroad and reports on all the president's discussions with for eign leaders and politicians, they said. The sources said Hoeke had been under surveillance for some time as a spy suspect and was known to have had contacts with an East German agent. They added that counter-espionage agents had moved in on her for fear she would be tipped off by East Berlin fol lowing Tiedge's defection. Hoeke was unmarried and the sour ces described her as a "typical secre tary case," implying she was similar to more than a dozen lonely, single women in similar jobs known to have been recruited by the East Germans with offers of male affection during the past 10 years. Hoeke's arrest marked the first suc cess for Bonn's spy-hunters since the country's worst espionage scandal in decades erupted three weeks ago with the significant disappearance of Sonja Lueneburg, secretary to Economics Minister Martin Bangemann. L s manors Released prisoner Gary Dotson, 28, says Cathleen Crowell Webb, 23, the woman he was accused of raping in 1977 "laid a Bible in my lap" and tried to convert him to Christian fundamentalism when they met May 14 after she recanted her rape accusation Former U.S. astronaut James Irwin began a fresh ascent of Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey on Sunday in search of the remains of Noah's Ark Ailing film star Rock Hud son, 59, suffering from AIDS, left UCLA hospital late Saturday for his home in Malibu. A hospital spokesper son described Hudson's condition as "fair". . . . Attor ney General Edwin Meese, often the target of criticism by civil rights groups, in a television interview on Sun day called himself a "champion of minorities and of all citizens". . . . Wanted: Very bright, ambitious men and women to run the U.S. government as presidential appointees. Pay $68,000 a year and up. Long hours, lots of frustration, no privacy. G. Calvin Mackenzie is wind ing up a study that recommends some stringent solu tions to attracting the best and brightest to work for Uncle Sam. ... In New York, protestors offended by the Chinese-gang movie "Year of the Dragon," say they'll continue harassing people going to see the film because they think it is racist and unrealistically violent. . A New Orleans woman who was stuck alone in a pitch black skyscraper's elevator for four hours during a power outage said she passed the time doing aerobic exercises An exhibition on vampires got under way m Padua, Italy, at midnight Saturday with a feast of dishes described as "blood and bones." The exhibition commemorates the day in 1460 when Vlad Tepes better known as Count Dracula, is said to have impaled 2 000 people in Transylvania. ' U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block opens talks today with Soviet Agriculture Minister Valentin Mesyats aimed at increasing trade. 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