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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
Confessed spy Joseph George
Helmich Jr. says the Army was the
only family he knew and he
“knowingly and willingly” bet
rayed its secrets to the Soviets to
I keep from being court martialed
over a few hundred dollars in bad
checks.
In a surprise move, the 44-
year-old ex-Army warrant officer
stood up Monday at the outset of
the second week of his espionage
trial and pleaded guilty to a single
count of conspiring to peddle
military code information to the
Russians.
In return, the government
dropped three charges of actual
espionage against him.
Defense attorney Peter M.
Dearing said Helmich wanted to
“terminate” the trial “because of
the pressure on his wife and 10-
year-old son.”
Helmich was accused of selling
— for $131,000 — a maintenance
manual, technical information and
key lists for the KL-7 Cryptosy
stem, a coding machine still used
by the Army today.
As a result of his plea deal, Hel
mich will be eligible for parole in
10 years at the most, while convic
tion on all four counts would have
meant up to 40 years in prison.
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He also pledged to submit to
further questioning by the FBI —
“anything the government wants
to do to him short of putting him
on the rack,” his attorney said.
U.S. Attorney Gary Betz said:
“Justice is served and completely
served by accepting this plea. This
man is an absolute traitor to this
country. He caused serious harm
to our country at a time when we
had servicemen fighting in Viet
nam.”
U.S. District Judge Susan H.
Black, who quizzed Helmich at
length about his plea, set sentenc
ing for Nov. 5.
Exactly what harm Helmich did
by selling the military code infor
mation has never been defined.
Betz referred to testimony from
military officials that the informa
tion would have allowed the Viet
namese to know “our war plans, to
read our mail.”
But Helmich — who has an IQ
of 147 — told Black that “the de
gree of injury to the United States
would have to be limited at this
point in the history of our com
munications.”
Helmich was the second-
incommand of an Army communi
cations relay station called “the
blockhouse” in Paris in the mid-
1960s. Later, he was assigned to
Fort Bragg, N.C., where he was
the “crypto custodian” for the 50th
Signal Battalion.
In testimony Friday, FBI agent
James K. Murphy quoted Hel
mich as saying in a sworn state
ment last February that he went to
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the Soviet Embassy in Paris when
he got into financial difficulties
and his commanding officer
threatened him with a court-
martial if he didn’t clear up his
debts in 24 hours.
“I’d been in the Army since I
was 17 and it was the only family I
had known,” Helmich told the
judge Monday. “I got into some
financial problems and I was about
to be thrown out by a court-
martial.”
He admitted he went to the
Russians to peddle information
“knowingly and willingly. No one
held a gun to my head,” he said,
but “there was a lot of psychologic
al pressure.”
Money, in the long run, proved
his undoing. He spent the
$131,000 the Russians gave him so
lavishly and swiftly that it drew
suspicion, but nothing was
proven.
But last year, long after he had
left the service, he was seen going
into the Soviet Embassy in Otta
wa, Canada, to find out about
matching funds he was told were
set aside for him in a Swiss bank
account.
He was penniless.
The FBI reopened the case and
Helmich gave them the details of
his dealings.
Black asked him about the Swiss
funds.
“There were none, your hon
or,” Helmich said in a low voice.
Dearing, standing beside him,
added, “They had bed to him,
your honor.”
Almanac keeps
traditions alive
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CONCORD, N.H. — The
190th Old Farmer’s Almanac is
predicting a snowy but warmer
than usual winter for much of
the country.
Abe Weatherwise, the alma
nac’s fictional forecaster, claims
he has been 80 percent accurate
since his yellow-jacketed alma
nac was first printed in 1792.
Unlike the forecasts of colo
nial days, the data are now put
into a computer along with
“Time-honored weather trend
observations.” Weatherwise
takes that information and con
verts it into the time-honored
verse that makes up his long-
range forecasts.
normal and summer and earl; J
fall will be dry, Weatherwisj
says.
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erwise alive, the almanac main
tains other traditions. A sma!
hole is still punched in tlie uf
per left comer so farmers can
put it on a hook nexttothestiM
or in the bathroom for readin;
on cold winter’s nights. Ik
usual charts on the stars, tic
tides and the gestation tablefc
animals are also included.
The almanac predicts a major
cold wave and snowstorm will
move into the East and extend
into the Southern states during
late December and early Janu
ary. Above average snowfalls
are predicted for parts of New
England, the Midwest, the
Ohio Valley and the northern
Rocky Mountain region during
the 1981-82 winter.
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article on folklore cures forth
common cold.
Milder-than-normal temper
atures will occur throughout
most of the country during the
winter. The Western and Great
Plains states will enjoy a war
mer and drier winter despite a
wet February and March east of
the Rockies.
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the article maintains.
Water pollution in cities
may pose future problem
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The En
vironmental Protection Agency
says preliminary data show 23 of
the nation’s urban areas may have
water pollution problems that will
be hard to solve.
In releasing the information
Monday, the EPA emphasized the
data are sketchy and in some cases
outdated. In no case, it said, is the
water unsafe to drink.
“These documents were not
prepared for public release but for
use by the EPA regional offices in
conjunction with the states in fol
low-up field studies to determine
if these areas have toxic pollutant
problems,” EPA Administrator
Ann Gorsuch said in letters to the
mayors of cities served by the wa
terways.
Gorsuch said the agency was
required to release the data under
a Freedom of Information Act re
quest from an environmental
group, the Natural Resources De
fense Council.
The information was “based on
many assumptions, including sev
eral critical assumptions now
known to be incorrect,” Gorsuch
said. “In addition, the agency has
recently become aware of errors in
the water quality data used in the
ambient analysis.”
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