Page 14--Tuesday, June 13,1978-The Michigan Daily ELABORATE OPER Russians tie CI MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union, carrying out a threat to divulge details of American spy activities, accused the CIA yesterday of an elaborate under- cover operation involving caches of gold, secret dropoffs of instructions and a woman agent purveying poison. The government newspaper Izvestia leveled the charges in response to U.S. accusations that the Soviets are spying on the American Embassy in Moscow and to an espionage trial now under way in New Jersey. IT SAID the details of the U.S. ac- tivities had been kept quiet at Washington's request, but that the United States was now trying to build up a "scandal" over alleged Soviet spying and the time had come to respond. Izvestia said U.S. Embassy Third Secretary Martha Peterson, who left the U.S.S.R. last July, was in fact ex- pelled for espionage and that American Ambassador Malcolm Toon had requested at the time that the matter be kept quiet. The newspaper charged that poison supplied to a spy by Peterson was used to kill an "innocent" who stood in the way of the CIA. Neither the embassy nor the State Department in Washington had any comment yesterday. But informed sources in Washington who asked not to be identified said Peterson was a CIA employee who had been working in a cover job in the embassy's consular section. The Izvestia article appeared just over a week after the United States reported the discovery in its Moscow Embassy of secret Soviet electronic equipment believed to be listening devices. Yesterday, a ranking Western diplomatic source here said the equip- ment was of a kind never before seen by security specialists and that it needed further analysis. In response to these allegations of eavesdropping on the embassy, the Soviets had warned they might reveal documentary proof of U.S. espionage here. Izvestia described in detail Peter- son's case and said it was just one of a network of cases "uncovered by the Soviet counter-intelligence service." On the evening of July 15, it said ATION CHARGED [Ato sp Peterson parked her car in a poorly lit place, changed her dress and took a series of buses to a bridge over the Moscow River, where she put "an or- dinary-looking stone" into an archway. She was detained there, the "stone" was opened, and it "proved to be a cache containing cameras, gold, money and instructions, as well as am- pules with a poison," Izvestia said. "The Soviet counter-intelligence ser- vice established beyond a doubt that the poisons taken from the cache had been sent to Moscow by the Central In- telligence Agency not for the first, time," it said. "It was discovered in the process of investigation that the poison that was given to the spy earlier was used by him against an innocent person who stood in his way," Izvestia said. By "the spy," plot Izvestia apparently was referring to the intended recipient of Peterson's material. After Peterson was seized, Izvestia said, Ambassador Toon was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and told she must leave the country. Western sour- ces said, however, that Peterson was declared "persona non grata" only af- ter her departure last summer. Izvestia described the Newark, N.J., espionage trial of Soviet United Nations employees Valdik Enger, 39, and Rudolf Chernyayev, 43, as "theatrical buffoonery." The two pleaded innocent last Tuesday to charges they conspired to pass U.S. Navy national defense secrets to Moscow. Audienees West Bank settlers battle PLO MEKHOLA, Occupied West Bank Organization (PLO)-said its raiders sweltering fields in the Jordan Rift (AP)-Israeli farmers, blasted from attacked the settlement and left Fatah Valley. their beds by gunfire and explosions at flags flying from its barbed wire fence. The only problem, joked Moshe 2 a.m. yesterday, fought off an attack The army said the three guerrillas Hacarmi, "is the air conditioning is on this occupied West Bank settlement who escaped probably forded the Jor- shot out in one house." Coolers are vital by four Palestinian guerrillas and dan River border, two miles east of the in this steaming valley where midday killed one of the invaders. settlement, and returned to Jordan. summer temperatures soar over 100 No casualties were reported among The attack came hours before the degrees. the 30 families of this moshav, a collec- Israeli cabinet began the second in "I hear shooting and took the children tive farm run by the National Religious series of Jerusalem debates on and we crawled into the shelter," said Party. proposals for the future of the occupied Zippi Elias, 27, recounting the attack. IN BEIRUT, a spokespersonifor Al West Bank, captured from Jordan in WHILE SHE AND the children, aged Fatah-largest guerrilla army in the 1967 Mideast war. 2 and 4, kept their heads down, her Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation the 1967 Mideastwar. husband, Shlomo, 27, opened fire from a IT WAS THE first guerrilla raid into window at the infiltrators who had Israel or Israeli-occupied territory sin- reached the center of the settlement. ce the March 11 attack in which 35 The action lasted about 10 minutes. Israelis were killed on the Tel Aviv- Each of its concrete houses has its Haifa highway. That strike triggered own interior shelter and each family Israel's March 15 invasion of southern has an automatic rifle. The outpost is bd c a st Lebanon to drive guerrillas away from ringed by multiple wire fences and the border. watchtowers. tronic systems in recording floor The last major incursion from Jordan Thereare about 50 Jewish settlemen- proceedings. was in November 1974 when guerrillas ts in the West Bank, which Israel's con- NOW, TECHNICIANS employed by occupied an apartment house in the servative government sees as part of Congress sit inside the chamber and Israeli town of Beit Shean, eight miles the biblical Jewish homeland. man the equipment which feeds into the north of Mekhola. The three invaders Washington says they are obstacles to radio-television gallery. The killed four Israelis before being slain by peace. Mekhola is the northernmost of technicians decide what to give the troops who stormed the building. 15 West Bank enclaves along theJordan King Hussein ousted the guerrillas River. radioreporters in the gallery. from their bases in Jordan in 1971, Meanwhile, Prime Minister coalition, said a letter will be sent to halting a four year spatge of Menachem Begin's cabinet failed for coalitiosakid Tha s l r ill esn t Palestinian raids into Israel that often the second time in as many weeks to House Speaker Thomas O'Neill asking brought bloody reprisals. reach a decision in its critical West for the right to have private technicians SIX HOURS AFTER the latest at- Bank policy debate. Stack, Israeli farmers were hack in their D.. ntrnreals xprinc r live House WASHINGTON (AP)-For the first time in the history of the House of Representatives, the sound of a session's opening gavel was heard live yesterday by radio audiences throughout the United States. As Rep. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) said in a floor speech minutes later, "We are giving the American people a chance to hear exactly what is said in this cham- ber." About a dozen congressmen were in the chamber for the first historic moments. THE HAPPENINGS in the House chamber were piped to the House Radio-Television Gallery, and a monitor screen visually enabled correspondents to identify speakers. Correspondents can broadcast live from the gallery but not from the chamber itself. The Coalition for Professional Broad- cast Coverage of the House Floor, which consists of the three major net- works and other news organizations, has been pressing congressional leaders for the right to use their elec- Only 2 Major Sports at Michigan & we have them both Billiards Bowling at the UNION - (continued from Page3) congressman," explained Jean-Gilles. He said he liked reading about "current issues and what people think the congressman is really like. A lot of work is put into answering each and every letter." Jean-Gilles is not unfamiliar to foreign affairs. Born in Haiti, he has lived in the U.S. for 10 years and speaks fluent French. He also spent last sum- mer with a family in Japan as.a mem- ber of the Youth for Understanding program. Jean-Gilles called his trip to Japan "a fascinating- experience." He travelled throughout the country "from Tokyo to the countryside.". "THE PLACES I went they'd never seen a black before," said the local student. A friend of the Japanese- familynasked to touch 's hairhbecause, as Jean-Gilles explained, shehad never seen it before and wanted to find out what it felt like. "There were moments when I felt ignorant. Our culture doesn't prepare you for other cultures that you deal with frequently. When I say 'Japan,' it means more to me than when my frien- ds say 'Japan.' When I say 'Haiti,' " it means more to me than when my frien- ds say 'Haiti,' "Jean-Gilles said. "The whole western world has a very narrow idea of what's outside the Western world. We have it all here, we're the tops in everything," he com- mented.- "WE HAVE a ways to go before we can go to those countries and not be a typical ignorant American," claimed Jean-Gilles. Jean-Gilles plans to major in English at Michigan State University in the fall. "There's a- lot of writing com- munication in government," he ex- plained.,Jean-Gilles said he wants to improve his speaking abilities, too. "You can't get by on slogans only." - The recent graduate described Pur- sell asa "warm person. He took me out to lunch my first day. I was surprised and happy," he said. JEAN-GILLES got the internship by participating in Washington Workshop, a week-long excursion to the capital for high school students. He also attributes his opportunity to one of his teachers at Community High School, Herb Ellis. "My _relationship with that high school will never end, because it really did start me." In the fall, Jean-Gilles plans to work on elections. He believes in beginning at the bottom and working his way up. "You'll never make it to the top of the ladder," said Jean-Gilles, "if you don't start at the bottom."