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St. Pttmburq Tlmei, Tuesday, May 11, 1971 7A A Strange Double Life With The FBI j. i ROGERS MORTON test flection. Surveys Show Demos Favored By New Voters ByR. W.APPLE JR.

Ntw Vtrk Tlmn ftrvk () WASHINGTON The lie-publican and Democratic Par-tics have begun preliminary effort! to recruit the new voters who will be between 18 and 21 years old in 1972 and the initial evidence suggests the Democrats will attract the larger share of them. The Voting Rights Act of 1970 gave the franchise to young people in federal elections. A proposed 26th amendment to the Constitution, extending the vote to state and local elections, may be ratified before November of next year. TO DATE, 26 states have ratified the amendment, and backers of the proposal report several legislatures now in -soEBlon arc on the-vergc of approving it. Approval of 38 By KEN W.

CLAW SON Wfihlmton Poll Strict WASHINGTON For eight years, John Henry Wilder straddled the line that separates lawful society and the underworld and capitalized on his dual association. On one he was an ace FBI informant responsible for solving a score of major federal crimes, including the capture of several most-wanted fugitives. ON THE OTHER SIDE, he was an ate of thieves and hoodlums with whom he plotted, planned and participated in crimes. The FBI winked at these transgressions. When the Secret Service eventually arrested Wilder trying to sell stolen government bonds, the FBI in this case stepped out of its self proclaimed role as a purely investigative agen.

cy and tried unsuccessfully to persuade a U.S. attorney not to prosecute their informer. In doing so, the FBI so angered the Secret Service that it "nearly precipitated a shooting war" between the two agencies, according to the Federal prosecutor. WILDER'S CAREER ENDED abruptly on a wintry night last January in Youngstown, Ohio. He was killed by a single shotgun blast.

The crime is unsolved. Some two years earlier, in July 1968, Wild-er's long association as an FBI informer was documented in the transcript of a largely unnoticed trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Illustrates that while lip service is paid to policies enunciated by J. Edgar Hoover, the reality Is sometimes different.

JOHN HENRY WILDER was strictly an informant on criminul matters. His contact man was special agent John B. Reynolds, now assigned to Washington, but who worked out of the Atlanta field office during the eight-year period In which Wilder operated. Wilder, whose code number was AT-1679-C, signed receipts for $9,000 in FBI payments from 1959 until his arrest by Secret Service in 1967, although the federal prosecutor and Wild-er's own lawyer said he actually received considerably more money from the government for his services. Wilder was better educated than his FBI contact man, Reynolds, or any of the criminals on whom he reported over the years.

He received a BA degree from Mercer University in 1951 and a Bachelor of Laws degree from John Marshall University in 1961. HE WAS ARRESTED with three other men in the parking lot of a Detroit hamburger stand on Aug. 8, 1967, by Secret Service agent Ronald V. Germain and charged with transporting and trying to sell about $86,000 in bonds and 346 postal money orders stolen earlier from banks in Falkner, Warren, and Sharon, S.C. Germain, posing as a Canadian underworld figure, had contacted one of the men in an Atlanta jail where he supposedly was charged Mclntyre said he and Burke both objected because Germain, by posing as a criminal and being thrown Into Jail, had taken great personal risk to bring about the arrests.

He said that despite the request, the FBI agents present said they were not willing to open up their files to substantiate their claim of Wilder's importance. "They had this guy as their ace informant, no question about that, and they were trying to take care of him," Mclntyre said. Wilder's court-appointed defense attorney, C. William Garratt of Detroit, said in an interview he did not know about the meeting, but he said the Secret Service made Wilder a scapegoat because of professional jealousy. He said the Secret Service was angry because the FBI had not notified them when Wilder's activities selling the bonds got him into the Secret Service's overlapping jurisdiction.

THE DAY AFTER THE meeting with FBI and Secret Service agents, Gubow gave Mclntyre approval to prosecute Wilder. On Aug. 11, 1967, the FBI in Washington notified field offices that Wilder had been dropped as an informant. Wilder disappeared, and prosecution and defense agreed that disclosures about his informant activities had endangered his life. In the subsequent trials, in which the other defendants were found guilty and sentenced to prison.

Wilder was sought as a witness. Thp i I ti irrm i ml nni The FBI so angered the Secret Ser-vice that it "nearly precipitated a shooting war" between the two agencies. told of events that followed the arrest: "As soon as he got to Jail, Wilder screamed, 'I'm an FBI Mclntyre said. "We checked the Detroit FBI office and they had never heard of him, but then they checked with Atlanta and things started to happen." WHAT HAPPENED was that Paul Stoddard, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit office, paid a call on Lawrence Gubow, then U.S. attorney and now a federal dishict judge in Detroit.

"Stoddard said there were some facts about Wilder I should know," Gubow said in an interview. "He was the kind of man who talked a lot but didn't say much, although he kept repeating how valuable an informant Wilder had been." Gubow said he just did not get the point of Stoddard's visit then. But in a subsequent meeting on the case, he got the message. Present were Gubow, Mclntyre and another assistant U.S. attorney; Germain and his chief, James Burke, from Secret Service, and Stoddard, Douglus O'Neill and Robert Titzpat-rick from the FBI.

GUBOW SAID STODDARD talked vaguely of Wilder's importance as an informant, but later left "to attend a dinner or something." Then, according to Gubow and Mclntyre, one of the remaining FBI agents said, "What we are really asking you is a favor, to kill the case" against Wilder. LAWRENCE O'BRIEN changes mind. Bobby Fischer with counterfeiting. Playing IoWir7 Top Chess Title The story of how Wilder worked with the FBI is timely in view of revelations in documents stolen March 8 from the bureau's Media, Pa. office that show increased efforts to recruit informants from radical political groups.

The methods of payment and procedures in dealing with informants are generally standard throughout the FBI. The Wilder case also FBI testified that it could not find him. Former FBI agent Richard Harrison testified that Wilder pinpointed the location of an escaped convict, James Merriweather, enabling -the FBI to capture him. Harrison said Merriweather was "what we considered the Dillinger of the South." Harrison said Wilder was paid for his information, but that he did not know how much. A court transcript indicates that Wilder himself brought the bonds to Detroit from Youngstown, Ohio.

At the time of the arrest, Germain did not know that Wilder was an FBI informer, and the FBI did not know its informer was in Detroit, either. Kenneth G. Mclntyre, former assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit, who prosecuted the case, states is required for adoption of the amendment. Most political scientists and many politicians have assumed that the 11.4-mllllon potential new voters thus created would tend to vote very lightly, and that those who voted would split more or VANCOUVER, B.C.

(UPI) Bobby Fischer, the "bad boy" of world chess competi tion, faces what might be the most crucial period of his young career beginning this week. Fischer, the U.S. grand' master, meets the Soviet Union's Mark Taimanov Thursday at the University of British Columbia in one of four quarterfinal matches being played throughout the world. The quarterfinals lead to the candidates matches to determine who meets world champion Boris Spassky of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow in 1972.

Fischer wants the title and experts give him a good chance. IN OTHER quarterfinal matches, Denmark's Bent Larsen plays Wolfgang Uhl mann of East Germany in Las Palmas, Spain; former world champion Tigran Petrojan takes on Hans Huebner of less in the same proportion as the remainder of the electorate thus creating no great political shift. A few recent developments indicate that those assumptions may be incorrect. In the special primary election in Maryland's First Congressional District on April 12, for example, the registration was relatively low, mainly because the procedures were difficult and the timing of the election was unusual. Only 6 per cent of those between 18 and 21 signed up to take part in the voting for a successor to former representative Rogers C.

B. Morton about the same number who registered for a special election in South Carolina Jn March. OF THOSE who registered, however, 35.4 per cent voted, twice the percentage for the electorate taken as a whole. Willard Morris, Maryland's election law administrator, said the lesson of the balloting seemed to be "if you can find a way to register them, they'll vote." The corollary to Morris' comment would appear to be: where they register, they'll register heavily Democratic. The conservative newspaper Human Events reported earlier this month that in Orange County, one of whose congressional representatives is a member of the John Birch Society, the first 925 new registration affidavits showed 50 per cent Democratic, 30 Republican and 20 West Germany in Milan, Italy; and Victor Korchnoi and Efraim Geller, both So viets, match wits in Sotji, Georgia, in the U.S.S.R.

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IN VANCOUVER, he has stipulated that competition end at sundown Fridays and not resume until sundown Saturdays for religious reasons and that the public be excluded from the room where the match is played. At the University of British Columbia, the Canadian Chess Federation will transmit the moves to an adjacent room in the graduate centre for the public. Fischer regards this the most crucial period in his career. He is quoted by Kazic as saying: "I believe it will now be for the first time that both finalists in the candidates matches are not from the Soviet Union. I don't think that Taimanov in our group can defeat both me and Larsen." Taimanov reportedly i looking forward to his match against Fischer.

"TAIMANOV IS going into battle with Fischer with complete self-confidence," Kazic said. "He feels that after so much praise and glorification of Fischer's successes, the match with the American grandmaster will be an, extraordinary chance to become famous by defeating the hitherto unsurpassed player. The Soviet grandmaster is apparently not too worried about any threat from the 36-year-old Larsen. "Larsen has no chance in the forthcoming competition," Taimanov is quoted as saying. "Fischer certainly is a great danger and it is he who has the best chances.

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