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THE RECORD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1986 Family rallies around Dumont murder suspect A-20 FROM PAGE A-l Corporal punishment was not used in the family, she said. "My children never had a hand put on them. We don't believe in hitting children. If there's a problem, we sit down and talk about it Anything can be talked out" She said she had met her husband through friends when she was 19 and he was 26 and a worker in a film-processing laboratory.

"He was extremely good-looking," she said. Asked about his family background, she retreated into her chair and her voice be "He would put the children who were very sick on his lap, giving them lollipops and wiping their noses." Father deserted him Mrs. Kuklinski said her husband, who weighs 270 pounds and is 6-foot-4, had never been violent "He gets angry. Things don't always go right He reacts like anyone else better than most people. He goes into his room and closes his door.

He comes out, and his son sits in his lap." came distant "I have no idea about his family," she said. When pressed, she said, "His parents were elderly, and he wasn't especially close to them. His father deserted him many, many years ago when he was a young boy." For 10 years, she said, her husband ran a wholesale distributing business out of their house at 169 Sunset St in Dumont. He acted as a middleman for firms going bankrupt. That business went bankrupt two years ago, she said, and her husband went into curren- father.

We have always been his first concern, and his love for us shows through. He gets on his hands and knees to kiss as hello and goodbye. I'm 22, and I wouldn't think of coming in the house without kissing and hugging him." When she had been in a hospital 10 years ago for bladder surgery, she said, her father bought gifts for all the children on the floor. Agent describes the Kuklinski probe his brains out" She said that she was thrown over the back of the car and searched, then was thrown to the ground, and police stood en her. Last night one of Kuklinski's creditors who knew the family well said: "They were the typical Bergen County family they took care of their kids royally.

They were very concerned that their kids have the best." Authorities yesterday cob-firmed that Kuklinski's younger brother, Joseph Michael Kuklinski, has been in state prisons since 1973 for the 1970 rape asd murder of a 12-year-old Jersey City girl, Pamela DiaL Officials said that after Joseph Kuklinski raped and strangled the girl, he dragged her body over two adjoining rooftops and threw her and her dog to the street 40 feet below. Described by Hudson County Prosecutor Paul M. DePascale as a psychopath, Joseph Kuklinski is a resident of the maximum-security psychiatric unit at Trenton State Hospital. When Mrs. Kuklinski was asked about her husband's brother in prison, Lucianna, the attorney, interjected and said that it wasn't relevant to the case.

"It's not relevant to my husband, that's right," she repeated emphatically. cy exchange. State documents show that Richard Kuklinski filed for personal bankruptcy on June 16, 1984, listing debts of $160,697.46 and assets of $300 in personal possessions such as clothes and jewelry. Feeding the ducks Asked about an airplane ticket to Switzerland that her husband had purchased, she said, "He's had a ticket now that we have constantly changed the reservations on for two months. He is going there only to finalize a transaction in currency exchange." She said of her husband: "We're together, always together." on a typical day they would go out for breakfast or lunch, go home and make business calls, watch television or work around the house, and often watch movie videos at night, she said.

The only television sport he enjoyed was wrestling, she said. Every Sunday morning, she said, her husband and she went out to feed ducks. "It isn't Christmas without Richard. If nothing else, the ducks in Demarest will miss him terribly." She also tearfully described his arrest He was in a car with her, outside their home, and none of the police identified themselves, she said, before shoving guns into their faces. She said "they were using a lot of four-letter words and telling my husband they were going to blow By Betsy August Staff Writer The undercover agent who set up Richard Kuklinski said the two had a "strictly business" relationship in which the agent spent seven months cultivating Kuklinski's trust and staying "one step ahead" of his target.

The agent said yesterday that he got to know Kuklinski by hanging around a North Jersey establishment that Kuklinski frequented. He posed as an illegal weapons dealer, a middleman who was interested in buying large quantities of firearms and explosives, and says Kuklinski soon became his supplier. The two started negotiating sales, and in October, the agent said he purchased from Kuklinski an $1,100 "hit kit," a package he described as an assassin's kit with a pistol and silencer. That deal led to additional negotiations for weapons sales and eventually to a bogus murder plan that culminated in Kuklinski's arrest this week. "The only thing we both had in common was money," said the agent, an employee of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms who asked not to be identified because he works undercover.

"He's looking to earn money, and I'm looking to earn money. It's part of the bad-guy syndrome." The agent describes Kuklinski, a 51-year-old Dumont resident who police have dubbed "The Iceman," as a sharp businessman who smokes cigars and is known as "I can't afford to make a mistake. This is for real. You have to know the target better than he knows himself." During his work on the case, he wore hidden microphones, monitored Kuklinski's telephone conversations, and had the suspect under surveillance. Deputy Attorney-General Robert Carroll said Wednesday that those tapes portray graphic discussions of murder techniques using cyanide, lead, steel and "other tools of the killing trade." Authorities say that one victim ate a poisoned hamburger and was stuffed under a North Bergen motel bed, another was frozen for two years before being dumped in New York State, a third was found JVJLi UjWbiJ lAJZJ 1 Levin family refuses to give diary to judge packed in a 55-gallon drum, and a fourth was discovered buried in a shallow grave in West Milford.

A turning point in the case came when Kuklinski and the agent began discussing possible murder schemes after Kuklinski inquired about the agent's other business dealings. What they worked out was a murder plan in which the agent would supply cyanide and a cocaine dealer willing to buy drugs and weapons for $85,000, and Kuklinski would carry out the killing. The agent gave Kuklinski a package of fake cyanide, and Kuklinski was to return to his Dumont home, pick up some items he needed to carry out the murder, and meet the agent and the dealer later in the day. EVERY DAY XjLlULl-JiU EACI CHV tm 1 LT. tm no DEPOSIT no GCS nn 00 Authorities have charged Kuklinski with 19 crimes, including five murders between 1980 and 1983.

Attorney-General W. Cary Edwards plans to present the case to a state grand jury within a month and said additional charges may be forthcoming. Other law enforcement sources said yesterday that Kuklinski may be a suspect in several other murders. Authorities said three of the murder victims George Malli-band, Louis Masgay, and Paul Hoffman were business associates killed for the cash they carried to buy videotapes or prescription drugs from Kuklinski. They said the two other victims Gary Thomas Smith and Daniel Everett Deppner were accomplices killed so they could not implicate Kuklinski.

Kuklinski, who is being held at the Bergen County Jail on $2-mil- lion bail, denies the charges, said his attorney, Frank P. Lucianna of Hackensack. Kuklinski declined to be interviewed yesterday. The undercover agent said his role in the investigation, officially known as Operation Iceman, was as dangerous as they come, but said his experience put him at an advantage. "I know my business when it comes to the streets," the agent said during an interview at his Newark office.

"I'm not a super star. I just take the job and I do it, After 16 years, it's normal procedure for me. I had an idea about how he operated. I had to be very careful about doing a deal and having a lot of money. "to produce the diary to the court for this court's eye's only." But Newman refused.

"This diary is so sacred to the family that even the court should not see it these are the sacred, private thoughts of Jennifer Levin," he said. Bell then postponed the order to give the family a chance to appeal the ruling. He set another hearing for Jan. 30. The defense lawyer had subpoenaed Miss Levin's father to testify about the diary, saying prosecutors had told him it chronicled "kinky and aggressive sexual activity by Jennifer Levin with many lovers." Chambers a college dropout with a history of drug abuse, is free on $150,000 bail in the murder case.

He also is under indictment for allegedly stealing, about $70,000 in property during three penthouse apartment burglaries in iaoD. Assistant District Attorney Jean-Roland Coste said in court papers filed yesterday that Chambers was on a "shameless campaign to present himself to the public as some sort of mischievous but harmless Huckleberry Finn, rather than the chronic thief and inveterate liar that he was known to be." He said despite the young man's claim that his alleged accomplice threatened him with "physical violence" if he did not rob the apartments, "witnesses supplied evidence of Chambers's entirely voluntary indeed, principal participation in these burglaries." "Are we really to believe that Robert Chambers was forced to steal over $70,000, raped by a young woman that he accidentally killed, and subjected to such abuse by a grandmotherly detective, all in a single year?" Coste asked, referring to the youth's charge that his was tricked by police into making a confession in the burglary case. carat six players are seated around the table instead of 14, and only the dealer handles the cards. The betting minimum for the minibaccarat will start at $5 and increase with player demand, the casino said in a news release. The baccarat tables at Caesars, traditionally attracting high-stakes players, currently start with minimum bets of $20.

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W- i i ci. DOASu United Press International NEW YORK The family of a prep-school girl killed by her date in Central Park refused yesterday to turn over to a court a diary supposedly chronicling her sex life, calling it "sacred." State Supreme Court Justice Howard Bell agreed to give the family of Jennifer Dawn Levin, 18, a week to appeal his order. He demanded to see the diary so he can determine whether the. attorney of her killer may read it. The lawyer for suspect Robert E.

Chambers 20, a former altar boy, wants the diary to help prove that the girl was sexually aggressive. Chambers has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly strangling the teen-ager in Central Park on Aug. 26. He admits killing Miss Levin, but says he choked her accidentally during rough sex. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound Chambers claims that Miss Levin, who had dated him several times during the summer, tied his hands behind his back with her panties and "molested" him.

The judge yesterday ordered the young man to stand trial for murder, despite arguments by bis attorney, Jack Litman, that the Sept. 9 indictment should be dismissed because the prosecutor improperly gave his opinions about Chambers's story to the grand jury-In a stormy session in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Bell also ordered the Levin family to turn over her diary. Chambers did not attend the hearing. Outside the courthouse, a handful of placard-waving Guardian Angels demonstrated against the young man's attempt to get his victim's diary. Several members of a feminist group called the Justice for Jennifer Task Force also watched the proceedings.

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