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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.
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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. Block arrived in Moscow
Sunday with a team of American farmers on a week-Jong
visit to "explore possibilities for expanding tie-
s" Uganda's Prime Miniter Paulo Muwanga was
ousted Sunday by military leaders in an apparent ges
ture to rebels before today's crucial peace talks in Nai
robi, Kenya. Former Finance Minister Abraham Waligo
replaces Muwanga.
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