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Page 8 THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1978 FBI sees plot in success possibility steal U.S. submarine United Press International ST. LOUIS — An FBI man has testified an undercover agent who posed as a potential buyer for the nuclear submarine Trepang be lieved the plot to steal the vessel from New London, Conn., had a chance of succeeding. “The undercover agent thought there was a possibility the plot could be workable,” said Michael Haggard, who headed the FBI’s handling of the case. Haggard Friday said the undercover agent, Bruce Mouw, was given written details of the plot to steal the 292-foot ship. Haggard said his own theory was that the three men charged in the case were trying to swindle a businessman of $300,000 in front money and never intended to heist the submarine. Lack of hard evidence to- support his theory caused the government to pursue the case as an actual threat to pirate the submarine. Haggard was the only witness to testify Friday at evidence hearings for two of the three men charged with conspiring to steal the sub marine. downtown hotel. The third suspect, James W. Cosgrove, 26, was arrested later that night at his Geneva, N.Y., home. In 1973 and 1974 Cosgrove served 14 months on the Trepan^ In his cross-examination of Haggard, Wolfl repeatedly asserted the alleged conspirators were only after front money. t “That alternative was supposed but the source never believed this was so,” Haggard said when questioned by Wolff'. Haggard was referring to an informant identified by Wolff Charles E.N. Rosene, a St. Louis businessman. Rosene told reporters he notified the FBI Aug. 9 that on July 26 Mendenhall called him from Rochester and asked him to find a buyer for the submarine. [d, na langl An FBI agent said his otvn theory was that the three men charged in the case were trying to swindle a businessman of $300,000 in front money and never intended to heist the sub- An FBI agent testified that another man was told they planned to steal the submarine from New London, kill its crew, possibly fire a nuclear missile at the city and then sell the submarine at sea for $150 million. ortionsl i $56 bi After the hearings, U.S. Magistrate David C. Noce transferred the cases of Edward J. Mendenhall, 24, of Rochester, N.Y., and Kurtis J. Schmidt, 22, of Kansas City, Kan., to a federal grand jury. Haggard testified Mouw was told at the meetings the men planned to steal the submarine from New London, kill its crew, possibly firea nuclear missile at the city and then sell the submarine at sea for $150 million. The two men were arrested Oct. 4 after meeting with Mouw at a Mendenhall and Schmidt remain in federal custody on bonds of $100,000 each. 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Roy Parker, manager of the test ing project with the AFT in Washington, said the tags will pro vide “very important leads to bomb investigators.” The tags could lead to more convictions and fewer ter rorist bombings, Parker said. Five bills are pending in Con gress to make manufacturers add microtaggants to explosives and file their identifying tags with the AFT. In a recent AFT test, an auto was loaded with explosives and deto nated, destroying the car. The fed eral agents magnetically swept the area and found the microtaggants. A closer look under a microscope revealed a sequence of colors on each layer of the tags. The color code then revealed the type explo sive used, where it was manufac tured, when it was made and who distributed it. The distributor could possibly lead police to the actual buyer of the explosives. a G Sun Theatres 333 University 84€ The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week Open 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Sat. 12 Noon - 12 Midnight Sun 846*9808 No one under 18 Escorted Ladies Free BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS Since each tag has nine layen, each one a different color, there® several million different color cod available. The coded microtaggat cost about $200 a pound. “A dynamite manufacturer woulf assign a code to every bath (ofexplj sives) he makes up,” said Donalc O'Brien of the 3M Co., which4 veloped the product. "It has tit same information on it the label# dynamite now has, but the labeli blown off after the explosion. “With this, a few minutes afia the explosion, investigators wool have a lead as to where the dy» mite came from while the trailisstil| hot,” O’Brien said. A simple pocket microscope ca: incent detect the tags, yet there wouldbt partme so many of them in one stick tMed dynamite it would be nearly impos ^ May, sible for someone to pick all of then ion is out. hin the Microtaggants can be boughtb Iamb consumers, who can mix them wit 1 Iswhoh paint and lacquer to cover private >r several property. Ultraviolet fight will |*J v ed in n veal the color code on the tajjiP const) under the paint if the property is ever stolen. “People can buy the tags andhavi their own code,” O’Brien said. 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