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pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana, Friday, January 27, 1995 Page A9 Garbage Raid Clinched Case Against Ames (3 FBI officials give reporters and inside look at how they caught the man who turned lout to be the most damaging jspy ever caught inside U.S. Intelligence WASHINGTON (AP) Under because Aldrich Ames had jeluded his surveillance teams, FBI (supervisor Les Wiser ignored his iboss's order and sent agents on a jrisky midnight raid of the garbage 'outside the Ames home. They found seven tiny yellow iscraps of paper a torn-up Post-It 'note that convinced them they ihad found Russia's agent inside the JCIA. i "It was a marvelous pierce of (insubordination," said Robert Bryant, assistant FBI direc- jtor for national security. Not long before, Bryant had jended the FBI's secret collection of jAmes' trash for fear neighbors jmight spot the agents and warn iAmes of the snooping.

Bryant jadmitted Thursday that he would 'have denied permission for the Sept. 15, 1993, trash pickup if Wiser had asked. The note reassembled from the trash container outside Ames' $500,000 Northern Virginia home contained a draft message from Ames to the Russians. In traditional spy language, he offered to meet in Bogota, Colombia, and told them how to signal their approval or set a different time or place. "We knew he was the guy when we found that note," Wiser said.

Bryant, his deputy John Lewis and Wiser gave reporters an inside look Thursday at their 2 hunt for the man who turned out to be the most damaging spy ever Caught inside U.S. intelligence. Ames caused the death of 10 Western agents and compromised dozens of operations. He is serving life in prison without parole; his wife, Rosario, is serving a five years. 130917045 ZU Q4 Associated Press This photo released by the FBI shows a torn note found during an unauthorized raid of former CIA agent Aldrich Arties' garbage calling for a meeting with the Russians in Bogota, Colombia.

The FBI officials disclosed that: US One Russian diplomat, not named, was expelled from this country for supervising Ames. II In prison, Ames volunteered information the FBI would never have known but for his cooperation, but still had problems on a polygraph when asked whether he had told everything. The CIA failed to answer FBI questions about Ames' activities as early as 1986. Allies heoi'iiie Soviet spy in 1985. By August 1991, a joint FBI-' CIA analysis team, tipped by a CIA employee to Ames' lavish spending, had noticed a correlation between Ames' meetings with a Soviet diplomat and his cash deposits.

Ames was assigned to meet Soviets in Washington in the 1980s; the CIA was supposed to inform the FBI about his reports on each meeting. But Lewis said FBI surveillance picked up meetings for which there no report. Ames was transferred to Rome in 1986. "We asked CIA to go to Rome and get the reports," Lewis "Unfortunately, that was not done." 9, 1993, was a black day in the investigation. Because of a misunderstanding, FBI agents missed Ames when heleft home to leave a chalk signal on a mailbox for the Russians, they later learned.

Still worse, Ames left the CIA at 4 p.m. in his car and was gone for 70 minutes. He lost the FBI teams trailing him. Ames was leaving his final draft of the Post-It message and documents under a footbridge in Washington's Rock Creek Park. "We didn't know how skilled he was, but he was a CIA officer who had received counter-surveillance training," Wiser said.

"I told them I'd rather he get lost than they get burned." Nevertheless, "we were getting beat up pretty good" from FBI superiors and colleagues for losing the surveillance, Bryant said. Everyone remembered ex-CIA 'agent Edward Howard slipped past the FBI in 1985 en route to Moscow. Wiser knew Bryant had halted the "trash cover," but "I took the view that he had merely suspended the trash cover, so I unsuspended it." Ames later told the FBI he never knew they had tailed him, picked up his trash, bugged his telephones and home, or searched his house while he was away in October 1993. "He was overconfident," Wiser said. When arrested, Ames was taken to a fake FBI squad room with his meeting sites listed on blackboards, large photos of his home, and lots of unfinished coffee cups "that FBI lived-in look," Wiser said.

The subtle message: We're on to you; you better talk. It had worked that way in other cases. "He looked around wide-eyed and saw and his head sank," Wiser said. He told us, 'I'm sure you have a good case so I better not say Aides Claim King Had No Affair With Former Senator ATLANTA (AP) Former Kentucky state Sen. Georgia Powers is lying about having an affair with Martin Luther King two close associates of the slain civil rights leader said Thursday.

"I hope God will forgive her," said the Rev. Hosea Williams, accusing Powers of seeking prestige and money. Powers' new autobiography, "I Shared the Dream," claims that she and King had an affair for a year before he died in 1968. She says that King was in her room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the night before his assassination. "I'm willing and ready to stake my life that Ms.

Powers is telling a bald-faced lie," Williams said at a news conference. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, whom Ms. Powers says had firsthand knowledge of her relationship with King, said he had no recollection of it. Young said he was acquainted with Ms. Powers but "I was not aware of her familiarity" with King.

Williams said the legislator was merely a casual friend of King. "She was friendly, but not as friendly as she referred to in the book," he said. Powers, now 71, denied Williams' accusa- feiiing a Hev. Hosea Williams King aid tions. "I have told the truth," Powers said from her home in Louisville, Ky.

"I can only speak for myself, and I know the truth. The truth will prevail as it always has." King's widow, Coretta Scott King, had no comment on Powers' claims, said Lynn Cothren, an aide traveling with Mrs. King in South Korea. Williams was at the motel when King was shot to death April 4, 1968. He acknowledged that Powers also stayed at the motel the night of April 3, but denied that she and King were together.

He said another close King aide, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy; stayed with King that ight and thre'e' guards' were' assigned to' watch King's room. No b'ne came or' went; he said. Abernathy, also a close King confidant, wrote in his memoirs five years ago that King had a liaison with "a black woman a member of the Kentucky legislature" the night before he was killed. Abernathy did not name the woman.

Williams said Abernathy, who died in 1990, was also lying. However, Abernathy's son, Georgia state Sen. Ralph Abernathy III, said Wednesday that his father had mentioned Powers to him. Abernathy's book was widely criticized by civil rights activists. Williams also disputed Powers' contention that she tried to accompany King in the ambulance after he was shot.

"Ms. Powers never showed her face" after the shooting, he said. Ms. Powers wrote that Young pulled her back from the ambulance, saying "No, Senator. I don't think you want to do "I don't remember those incidents at all," Young said Thursday.

"I've played through in my mind the incidents surrounding the assassination, and her picture never shows up." Researchers: Men, Women Use Thek Brains Differently Study does not answer question of whether the differences are genetic or cultural in origin By MARK BOWDEN Knight-Ridder Newspapers PHILADELPHIA Brain researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered strong evidence of what everybody already knew. In some important respects, men and women don't think alike. They literally use their brains differently. A study of brain use patterns in 61 Philadelphia-area subjects reported in the current issue of Science found a biological basis for long-noted behavioral differences between the sexes differences such as the fact that, for instance, men are far more prone to violence than women, or the fact that women tend to have a harder time with math. "Our findings do not answer the question of whether the differences are genetic or cultural in origin," said Ruben C.

Gur, the Penn neuropsychologist who authored the report. "After all, culture shapes the brain just as the brain shapes culture. I can tell you which came first if you can tell me if the chicken came before the egg." The evidence suggests that, on average, women are more inclined to exercise a portion of the lower brain that helps refine the way emotions are expressed, and are also more likely than men to ilex the side of the brain associated with abstract thinking, verbal memory and flexible problem-solving. Men, on the other hand, think like lizards. Also, they tend to be better at algebra and trig.

But let Gur explain: "If you peel off the outer cortex you get to the part of the brain we share with reptiles and beasts of prey, the limbic. system. It is made structures, some older and more primitive than others. The most complex portion of the limbic system is the singulate gyrus, which is thought to be involved in regulating emotion." The study concludes that women tend to use the singulate gyrus more than men do. In the case of aggression, this more recently evolved portion of the limbic system seems to afford a broader range of emotional options.

A chimpanzee can do more with aggression than, say, an alligator. Rile a gator and he's got one attack mode hard and fast, with his teeth forward. An angry chimp, on the other hand, can opt for something short of frontal assault. He can try, for instance, to scare away an enemy by baring his teeth or making threatening noises or gestures. "The study concludes that womem fend to use the singulate gyrus fthought to regulate emotion) more than men do." Ruben G.

Gur Neuropsychologist "The lower, older portion of the limbic system is what we share with reptiles," explained Gur, who directs Penn's Brain Behavior Laboratory. "The singu- late gyrus isn't there with reptiles. You do see it in apes and in man." Each of the 61 subjects (37 men and 24 women), who answered ads in area publications, were injected with a slightly radioactive glucose solution. Proton Emmission Tomography (PET) scans were then used to observe how their brains took up the glucose the brain feeds off of sugar in the blood. The more active portions of the brain absorb the most glucose.

Computers display the glucose uptake in the form of colorful brain images. Researchers can actually observe what portions of the or nt rest. B) coin) i they can observe even slight differences between subjects' brains in action. For the most part, the PET scans were "remarkably similar" for men and women, Gur said. The anatomy of the male and female were the same; the only differences came in a small number of functions.

The biggest difference was in the limbic system. Women tended to have a far more active singulate gyrus than men, who displayed much more activity in the lower, more primitive limbic regions. "If the singulate gyrus is responsible for modulating emotional response, it might help explain why women are far less likely than men to express emotion aggressively, or violently," said Gur. Gur and his associates found that women tended to have more active left hemispheres, which would correspond with the superior verbal memory talents of women. On the other hand, men routinely score higher than women on math tests and other measures of spatial problem-solving, or right-brain tasks.

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