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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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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United Press International
CHICAGO — A new product
being tested by federal authorities
will help police trace already deto
nated explosives to the distributor
and possibly even the buyer,
thereby curbing terrorism.
Called “microtaggants,” the pro
duct consists of microscopic multi
layered particles that can be incor
porated into almost any solid or
semi-solid matter and provide iden
tification similar to fingerprints.
The tags, about the size of a grain
of salt, can be used to mark migrat
ory animals, identify private prop
erty and disclose the amount of
medicine in livestock. However,
their most important use involves
the identification of dynamite. The
Treasury Department’s Bureau of
Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco is
testing the product.
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.
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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. Too
can consider this a fairly sophisti
cated label.” —
The tags also can be added to “ETHO
paint and sprayed on large groups a ^ a
migratory birds so the birds canle
tracked.
“The Food and Drug Administo
tion currently is concerned aboot joxville
the presence of medicine in fresll
slaughtered animals,” O Brien said
“Our intentions would be that at
medicine would bear a tag that
would move through the animal) ■
digestive system and come out ill
the manure.
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how long it had been in the animal ^
has sin
Right on the sight, he could makeJ
decision” on whether the animal
should be slaughtered.
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