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{{#Wiki_filter:AFFIDAVIT CF TI:4 JOHNSON, Executive Director Campaign for a Prosperous Georgia Cn numerous occasions, business supporters of Campaign for i a Prosperous Georgia and the issues on which it works have told ma that they fear reprisal if they are identified as supporters of our work. Specifically, they have stated that they will be pushed into a higher rate bracket if they are identified with Campaign for a Prosperous Georgia. More than one have stated they would be put out of business if they were ide'ntified as cur supporters. I hereby affirm that the information contained in this affidavit is true. MMS { , /T'5 C _ j/-h gw Date Tim Johnson
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" Commercial nuclear power is viable only under social conditions of absolute stability and predictability. Yet the nere existence of fissionable materials undermines the security that nuclear technology requires. Increased deployment of nuclear power must lead to a more authoritarian society. Reliance on nuclear pouer as the principal source of energy is probably possible only in a totalitarian state. "
-- Denis Hayes, author Nuclear Pover: The Fifth Horseman I. Georgia:
February 1973: Concern about diminishing energy resources is mounting among members of the American public. A dire scarcity is in sight. Around the country, citizen organizations are forming to ad,4ress the issue and to challenge the uti-lities. One such group, the Georgia FJwer Project, sponsors an " Energy Crisis Convention" in Atlanta and begins a legal intervention against the local nuclear power plant. A Texas police investigator issues a secret report on the Conven-tion which is rapidly dispensed to law enforcement officials and private security departments around the country. The Georgia Power Project is described in the report as a " bolshevik brain trust set up to wreck the electric business". The four-billion dollar Georgia Power Company quickly moves into action against the newly-formed citizens' group. Within three months of the Convention, the south-ern utility opens elaborate secret offices in Atlanta to conduct " security" oper-ations, intelligence, surveillance, a'nd harassment of the activists. The plain-clothes division is modeled after those at Southern California Edison Pacific Gas 6 Electric, and the Alabama Power Company. It is carefully stocked with profes-sional investigators and intelligence operatives from the nation's most effec-tive units: Army intelligence, the FBI, the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 6 Firearms, and Georgia's own Bureau of Investigation. The utility spy unit quickly went into operation, collecting files and photo-graphing demonstrations by the Georgia Power Project. Roger Allen Grigg worked l ! around the clock one evening in the spring of 1974 to process a rush film order from the secret unit. The subject of the photos was a protest march in front of the Georgia Power Building at 270 Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Grigg remembers l m'aking prints of six or seven rolls of film; "What really made it humorous is it was the same group of people walking around in a circle in every shot. Al-though security department representatives contend there was nothing secret about the photography, it is known that cameras employing telephoto lenses for close-ups of individuals were set up next door to the Georgia Power Building during demonstrations because its copper-tinted wi'ndows did a better job of concealing the surveillance equipment. In fact, during one march, an entire department was temporarily displaced so that the cameras could be moved into the strategic site. On at least one occasion, a local law enforcement agency
. also joined the Georgia Power Company in its covert survelliance operations.
f Richard D. Clark Jr. is the head intelligence officer covering the eight-member Emory University detail for the DeKalb County Police. (The DeKalb County
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.; e* Police are members of a national police spy network called the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit). In August 1974, Art Benson telephone Sergent Clark at his office on the Emory campus. Benson, who attended a number of law enforcement schools, was seasoned in his knowledge of the field. After completing his Army duty in 1963, he joined the police force in Boynton Beach, Florida. lie later became an intelligence officer for Florida's state beverage department until he was offered and accepted a position as a special agent with the U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. In June 1973, he joined the Georgia Power Company as chief of its investi-gative section with some eighty employees under his supervision. Benson des-cribes himself as a " quasi" police officer registered with the Secretary of State's private detective, private security act. Accordingly, he and other mem-bers of the utility's spy unit (all of whom are required to be registered) have full arrest powers in the state for violations of any state law against Georgia Power including , for example, criminal trespass. It was in the context of his position at Georgia Power that Benson placed his call to Cl*k, inviting the Sergent to join him at a talk being sponsored by the Revolutionary Union on August 17 at Emory University. lie explained that a demonstration was being planned at Georgia Power's l{atch Nuclear Power Plant and the Revolutionary Union, a self-avowed communist organization, might be partici-pating in it. Sergent Clark agreed to go with Benson. Arme,d with a tape recorder and a camera, Sergent Clark and another police officer joined Benson the night of the meeting. Clark took them to the library, where he used his own key to unlock the projector room booth which overlooked the auditorium where the speech was being give. From their privileged vantage point, they could observe the meeting without being seen by those in the auditorium be-low. The keynote speaker mentioned the nuclear power plant demonstration being planned by the Georgia Power Project at the beginning of his talk but made no further references. Reporter Steve Galyon subsequently reported that he ran into Clark that . evening and says that the intelligence officer told him that he was there " attempting to find a connection between the Georgia Power Project and the Revolutionary Union." Clark denies having made this statement. The events surrounding the evening at Emory University were outlined by !!cn-son and Clark in depositions connected with a lawsuit brought by the Georgia Pow-er Project in 1974 to block the utility from increasing customer rates. But it was not until September 9,1977 that the extent of the utility's elaborate intel-ligence operations were made public in an outstanding expose by reporters Tom Baxter and blike Christensen of The Atlanta Journal /' For months, the two reporters carefully gathered documentation and cultivated their own " Deep Throats" within the company. Their efforts marked the first in-depth look at intelligence oper-ations by a utility against anti-nuclear activists. They revcated that the utility's spy unit has an annual budget of over $30,000. (Since the Atlanta Journal story, at least one inside source has states that the budget, in fact l was much higher; perhaps over a million annually, lie has des-cribed a large slush fund -- virtually any amount of cash needed was available. In one week alone,.'he withdrew $10,000 from the fund. ) The Journal cited some as having described the security unit as " equal to or better than that used by any police detective unit in the state."*'According to Washington Post reporter Bill IQ
a . . Richards, FBI agents complained that Georgia Power was way ahead of them in its surveillance ability. The Atlanta Journal also reported:
"Each investigator, it is said, receives a company car (painted to disguise its identity), a pistol, a shotgun, radios, and a camera.
The section has sophisiticated camera equipment (including a night-time photography telescope), fingerprint kits, drug analysis kits, and a videotape unit.
"The department has defended its use of such equipment including changeable headlights and taillights on their cars, saying it is nece-ssary in certain investigations.
"(At the flip of a switch, an investigator who is tailing some-one or who feels he is being tailed can alter the configuration of his car lights, thus confusing the other party.)" '
William Lovin, a former member of the security unit, told reporters that he had seen the company's wiretapping equipment. The use of such equipment in the state of Georgia is illegal. Georgia Power was apparently not above going undercover to gather informa-tion. Benson himself has been caught at pulling a disguise from his bag of dirty tricks. He told Georgia Power Project activist Neil Herring that he was a short orddr fry cook while the two sipped beer in a tavern. Benson apparently attemp-ted to entrap Herring by reveal,ing that he was skilled in the use of explosives.
"I have never wanted to blow up anything," Herring later said, "and tried to explain to him that-I was not against electricity, only against the people who made it." It wasn't until later, after the incident, that Herring discovered his companion's true identity. .
According to Herring, the company "did succeed in stealing information al-though such efforts were of dubious value given the generally open nature of the , organization and its offices." Lovin claimed that Georgia Power investigators had access to police informa-tioh, explaining, "I'd give a sheriff a list of names and he'd tell me if there was anything on them anywhere, no matter who they were." (The DeKalb County Po-lice are members of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit, which enables them to freely exchange intelligence with 224 other law enforcement agencies around the country.) Captain Howard Baugh of the intelligence Division of the Atlanta Po-lice Department has refused, though, to release any documents about such matters. 4 Georgia' Power also gets information from the FBI's National Crime Information Center, a national computer linking police departments. They were told to burn the information after transcribing it."Lovins reported that he has been told by others that Georgia Power's P.R. department used the derogatory information gath-ered to discredit the company's opponents as " commies and queers". And, in fact , a member of the Georgia Power Project has reported that the Company stages or placed several articles attacking his group in right-wing publications, including American Opinion Magazine.
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"I would have felt no qualms about checking this man out had he have actually communicated the threat that I was led to believe that he had actually communicated. Only later did I learn that the only thing he had communicated was a dissatisfaction with the commercial rates of Georgia Power."
There have been other mysterious cases of harassment in Georgia. Helen Mills of Atlanta has been actively working to stop nuclear power for years. Until the middle of 1977, when she became identified as a prominent friend of Jimmy Carter, she had been the target of a concerted harassment effort. Her mail was opened on a regular basis with letters arriving torn in the upper right hand corner near the stamp. At times, it was crumpled or thrown about the street. For a period close to a year, she would receive late night phone calls running from 2:30 a.m. and continuing until 8 a.m. The calls arrived with such regularity, despite switching telephone numbers, that Helen was finally forced to .begin her day at their onset. She felt that her phone may have been tapped because it made many
" strange" noises. Often, while talking with people long distance, the phone would be disconnected through no fault of either party. This continued until she was forced to abandon the phone for more reliable means of. communication. " Ralph Nader" would sometimes call Helen to ask what she was up to. She'd tell him; but later discover it was not Nader. Helen, an avid birdwatcher, would regularly find dead birds in her front yard.
Another Georgian anti-nuclear activist, Tim Johnson, has reported:
"I began receiving telephone calls at all hours; the pattern was always the same -- I'd answer, then a brief pause; I'd start to repeat
" Hello" but they'd hang up. This went on for months.
"On one occasion, I was followed by a station wagon with wood pan-el-painting on the side and one burned-out headlight; upon noticing the car, I followed a strange path, which seemed to have lost it. A few minutes later, however, I noticed the same car. Becoming frighten-ed, I again took a strange path, with many turns, doubling-back, etc.
and then pulled into a drive-in theatre. I assumed I had lost the car but between ten and thirty minutes later, the same car pulled slowly through the drive-in parking lot and parked out of sight." Former members of the utility's investicative unit has reported that Georgia Power conducted a " background investigation" of Ralph Nader's operation and sent a company investigator to attend a Nader conference in Washington. John H. Taylor, a former senior member of the Georgia Power spy unit, des-cribed the company's efforts as "a dirt-gathering operation." The utility security section uses cross-indexed files and issues monthly re-ports on its operations. Reporters Baxter and Christensen obtained lists of cases with the following among the headings: " Management Request for Investiga-tion Outside GPC", " Miscellaneous", and "Open-S", (they were told that the last is the most sensitive classification and is used for subversives. " Subversive" was defined by one source as "anyone who spoke out against Georgia Power."
[ , a F l-4- The documents specifically revealed that Georgia Power had investigated o Ralph Nader's Congress Project, Interpeace, news media, and unnamed individuals. In ~ addition to the sampling of dccuments obtained by the Atlanta Journal re-porters, sour'ces also told them some other Georgia Power targets, among whom ? - was Gene Guerrero, a former Georgia Power Project activist, who is now Director
. of the Georgia ACLU.
I In addition to its own agents, Georgia Power also found use for the services of John Rees, who Art Benson says is a personal friend. Along with his wife Louise, Rees published a right-wing intelligence report called Information Digest; subscribers.to the publication include top intelligence agencies at all govern-ment levels, law enforcement types, security firms, and private industry. Georgia Power puts names and data obtained from Information Digest into the company's in-vestigative files. On November 3, 1972, some five months prior to the Georgia Power Project.'s " Energy Crisis Convention", the pu-lication reported:
"the Georgia Power Company has come under attack from a small
'. active coalition of radicals operating under the name, Georgia Pow-er Project."
Louise Rees is employed as a researcher by Georgia Congressman Larry Mcdonald. A spokesperson for Mcdonald's office has said that Louise Rees is " researching ter-rorism" and " supports the defense of American freedom". (Perhaps by coincidence, Mcdonald, under the cloak of Congressional immunity, regularly uses his access to the Congressional Record to bring red-baiting attacks on citizen groups, among whom of course is the Georgia Power Project.) The Atlanta Journal was told that Georgia Power provided John Rees with a van and a credit card in late 1973 or early 1974 which enabled him to operate out of Washington, D.C. and to keep an eye on other groups as well. According to Georgia Power Project members, Rees joined them in their Atlanta activities and would pass out leaflets for them. Rees himself told the Journal reporters that he and the company "have a mutuality of interest" in the Georgia Power Project, the National Lawyers Guild, the Southern Conference Education Fund, and the October League because, according to Rees, these groups "have been an-tagonistic towards Georgia Power." The Institute for Policy Studies, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Na-tional Lawyers Build have all filed civil liberties lawsuits against John and Louise Rees. And guess who is representing the Rees's? The Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice! On the suggestion of the Pacific Gas 6 Electric Company, Georgia Power has also employed the California firm Research West to conduct background investi-gations of employees and dissidents. According to the Journal reporters; "A Californian named Jerry Ducote admitted -- after the criminal statute of limitations pertinent to his activities ran out -- that he perfomed 17 break-ins at offices of liberal leaders such as Cesar Chavez in the mid-1960's, pbtaining information which was funneled into Western eResearch's (now Research West) files." Georgia Power President Robert W. Scherer told reporters: "We ... don't run a Gestapo." The company states that is " security department investigates
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Instances of violence of threatened violence towards the company, its facilities, and employees." Although Georgia Power cites a number of events that justify the existence of the extensive security operation, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has records of only one threat to the flatch Nuclear Power Plant. While it avidly pursues activists, Georgia Power apparently avoids embaras-sing security investigations. In December 1976, a Georgia senate subcommittee heard testimony that the company ordered its investigator William Lovin to close an investigation of a theft case. Lovin, .who was subsequently fired, says that the company was afraid that corporate executives might be implicated in the theft and they wanted the case out of the way in time for a stockholders' meeting. According .to Tim Johnson of Georgians for Clean Energy:
"The company has, according to a follow-up article in the Journal-Constitution (September 11, 1977) claimed that if the company ever kept such files, they have been destroyed. This contradicts earlier state-ments on Channel S's news the night the story broke; a Georgia Power spokesperson said that anyone whose file contained non-criminal infor-mation could see the files; and in the original Journal article, it was reported that Georgia Power President Robert Scherer ' declined to say whether the files might be opened to anyone about whom derogatory in-formation may have been collected'; the article also states, 'While not admitting the existence of such files, Georgia Power officials, on the advice of attorneys, have refused to release the contents of files log-ged on monthly case reports obtained by the Atlanta Journal.' Such pub-lic contradictions suggest the possibility of a cover-up."
Johnson's suspicions were well-based. Security officials at Georgia Power plowed through their files for twelve hours the night the Atlanta Journal arti-cle was released, so that sensitive reports could be removed, according to Terry Leedom, a spokesperson for the utility. . Larry Thomason of the Georgia Consumer Center has successfully called on the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to investigate the Georgia Power spying with the explanation:
"The PSC certainly has the authority to eliminate from the rate-making process money for what I maintain to be illegal activities."
Thomason wants Georgia Power to eliminate funds for intelligence-gathering and refund rate-payer money spent in the past for such activities. Georgians for Clean Energy asked the PSC to reopen hearings on the $97.6 mil-lion rate increase granted the utility in September 1977 because of " improper use of funds listed in the rate base." (Twenty-five thousand Georgia citizens have signed petitions protesting the rate increase.) Although Ge,orgia Power's Security Department's avowed purpose is to protect the company and to fulfill nuclear safeguard obligations, the nuclear threat has become a convenient excuse for the surveillance and harassment of citi ens who are attempting to exercise their constitutional rights. Thanks to the Atlanta Journal, more is now known about Georgia Power's spy unit than any other firm in the nuclear industry. But it is clear from a glimpse at events around the
a , . . country that Georgia Power is not alone in the kind of operations it conducts against anti-nuclear activists. At this point, one can still only speculate about the amount of resources allocated to such civil liberty violations. But if each utility operating a nuclear facility spent as much as Georgia Power, a conservative estimate would be about $6 billion. II. California In the fall of 1976, the authors received a letter from a member of Friends of the Future who reported that some members of the group " definitely felt harassed" (though specifics of this harassment were left vague). It wouldn't have been the first time anti-nuclear activists in California were being tar-geted. The year prior, it was learned that Standard Oil was compiling files on the Peoples Lobby. Then, in 1977, the Abalone Alliance, which consists of Friends of the Fu-ture and a number of other organizations working against nuclear power in the state, was infiltrated by police informants. The Abalone Alliance occupied the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant on August 7,1977 and had thirty-one of its members arrested for the action. Charles Smith and Richard James Lee, both sheriff's deputies, were among those arrested. While incarcerated, the occupiers got word that " Smith's wife had been in an auto accident." Smith was released by the authorities and never heard from again. Alliance members were suspicious and told a local investigative reporter Pete Dunan. Dunan looked into the mat-ter and discovered the infiltration. Abalone Alliance attorne'y Richard Frishman filed a motion to dismiss the protestors' charges of crimina, trespass because the informants had violated the attorney-client relationship. He argued that the informants had undermined the ability of the group to trust one another and to work together. Since the Sheriff Department's officials admitted that they had already satisfied themselves that there was no evidence of violence or terrorism, the defense contended that the ostensible purpose of Lee's work was to discover the group's legal defense stategy. Lee swore under oath that he had attended a number of meetings with the group's attorney to plan strategy and future events. Lee drew a map of the site for the attorneys which contained significant errors that have resulted in the Alliance losing its first round in court. Also, Lee admitted being the only mem-ber of the group to espouse violence as a possible response to any police provo-cation that might have occured on the day of the occupation. The motion to dis-miss the charges was denied by the municipal and Superior Courts and the Court' of Appeals, but the California State Supreme Court blocked the trial pending determination. Another incident of note took place in Los Angeles. There, in February 1977, the City Council held hearings about the proposed Sundesert "uclear Power Plant. In the middle of the hearings, the L.A. Police showed up with movie cameras and proceeded to film the testimony of those who opposed the plant. One policeman told a reporter it,was for " identification purposes." The City Council kicked the police out of the hearing and confiscated the film. In order to decide what legal action to pursue, the nucle'ar opponents requested a copy of the City Coun-cil's tape recording of the proceedings. To their surprise, they were told that
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Plhy Power ,- . e .r , Georgia Power officials admitted this - week that secret files and security police are - part of their operations.The company said it. investigated private citizens and groups in Atlanta which might be " opponents of utility interests." The information was kept in se-cret Georgia Power files, but the company said it destroyed the files because of press .. publicity. .
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- antiwar activists and " dissidents thought to be in Atlanta."'One of.these;.according.to Georgia Power, is Gene Guerrero, now director of the- Georgia branch ofithe American Civil. Liberties Union, based in Atlanta. One Gewgta Power official admitted that a :'s'ubversive" was "anyone who spoke' cu'.againstGeorgia Power." . , . , , , , . _ . . . ~
To keep watch over these "s.ubyersives," Georgia Power nas ar large, well+1uipped private security., department,-housed ic the' LaVista Perimeter Office Park, near De-r Kalb's Northlake MaH. The department is, headed by J.' Wyman Lamb; it has exper-ienced investigators who used disguised cars, expensive c' ameras, fingerprint kits and videotape units. The Georgia Power 'lGesta . po" is also equipped with pistokind shot? guns. '. . ..J %-% G Although Georgia Power President Ro-bert W. Scherer says he doesn't run a,
" Gestapo" and utility spokesmen say the files on " subversives" have been destroyed, the company wdl keep its security depart-ment running. It gets information forthe de-pa rtment at least partly from a man in Wash-ington. John Rees. ; .,
Q ' Rees is a right. wing " undercover agent", allegedly " watches" people and groups. His. wife,14uise. now works with ith District U.S? 11epresentative Larry Mcdonald, and it has been reported that Rees was subsidized in Atlanta by the Georgia Power Company.
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4 g. work of survrillance and suppression tha nuclear facility, where she had zocchi, a high official with the OCAW~ harassed, and probably !p 3 l Altmoa ~ been taken following her contamination union who has advocated stricter safety killed standards for nuclear workers, narrowly and that recently has been directed k
' one week before her death.. .
i l Other deaths and suspicious one-car escaped death recently, according to Dr. against others in the antinuke move- ',! highway accidents are beginning to char- Berteil, when his car was destroyed ment, according to Sheehan,"is in fact I acterize the fate of several antinuke acti- after he suddenly blacked out while driv- the same people-the same system-that !
. vists.On April 14,1979 Michael Eakin. . ing. "He doesn't remember what undertook illegal surveillance against {
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; 28. a.well-known writer.and.antinuks. . happened " Dr. Bertell says, yet she peopic who were opposed to the Vietnam 4 organizer, was, assassanated in Houstos., theortzen: "There's an invisible chemical War. All the methodologies that had }
t I [see "Earthwatch ". Wew.-Agr , July (ia==sance now that can be painted on a been developed to-try.
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1979); SherAan feelathat this killing hadMcar's steermg,wheelwhen the driver antiwar movement were in fact simply earmarka of a jolrperformed.by"prir-
- absorbe ite heor she passen out. Later, rolled into ple:s against the.antinuke i fessional-style biredpiiGneh'$Lately. 'fthe, chemical evaporates from the steer ; organizers in the 1970s. It's the canct other'antimuka orgmasaarris, Teams have ing wheel, leaving no clues." If this same people..using the same equipment; been beaten and har====d Several years theory seems incredibis, one need only-- the, same filing systems, and the same ago,n DaviCComey/as, award wimming,j consider the recent widely . published computers; it's just that the targetis dif-" '
c. physicist:who helped expose the dangers revelation.: that the CIA had pl.'n to ferent " . of rados gaAdiedin a one-cas acudent assasamate foreign leaders using an array iSheehan alludes to secret staff meet-as he was driving from Chicago to . of bizarre chemicals and techniques. irigs.which the NRC sponsored in 1972 Madison, Wisconsin. Anthony Mazi ' .The clandestine, quasi-official net- (confirmed in Donner's book) to ** find , 1 . i i ~ The Intelligence Agencies:."More than a Conduit" [ The intelligence network conducting Intelligence Academy in Ft. Lauder- 7,1978). Indeed, it, appears that the-I the surveillance of antinuks actihsts dale, a " private" facility established government has s lot to conceal, i defies a thumbnail sketch; it is a com- by a CI A agent. After Silkwood's death, an FBI , plex and clandestine grouping, and According to Sheehen, Risk Man- informer-agent, Jacque Stouji, whose 8, only recently have its bizarre outlines agement , sought information about cover was serving at a full-time i come into clearer focus., Silkwood before she died; this in- journalist for the Nashville Tennes- } While investigating the final year of formation was provided through scan, was dispatched to Ok.lahoma by Silkwood's life, attorney Daniel LEIU computers. The Law Enforce- the FBI to gather information on Sheehan learned that the Oklahoma ment Intelligence Unit is another Silkwood. Critical Mass (Aurora City police and Kerr-McGee security " private" organization, a sort of Publishers,1976), her book about agents had cooperated to spy on Silk- " fraternity" of 240 top intelligence Silkwood, attacks' the plutonium wood well beforii her death--tapping agents, " employed" according to worker as a sexually promiscuous her telephone.. stealing. and photo- Sheehan, "by large municipal and drug taker. While Srouji 'was copying her private documents, and state police departments. It has its researching the book, the FBI showed i physically following her. When con- own computer network, linking at her 1.000 pages of secret documents ' fronted with these allegations, the least 100 computers nationwide, for on the Siliwood case:later the agency police denied them, adding that they ,the purpose of exchanging dossiers on tried to withhold many of the same did not even pesscas the sophisticated political lefti,sts." According to papers from the Silkwood attorneys. surveillance equipment'needed for Sheehan, Operational Systems (OP), In' May 1976 Srouji's cover was-such activity, Through a secret a West Coast affiliate of LEIU, exposed when she was compelled to source, however, Sheehan had ob- helped to conduct the illegal surveil- testify before a congressional com-tained not only descriptions but the lance against Proposition 14's orga- mittee and admitted her twelve-year serial numbers of the bugging equip- nizers in 1978, and OP's director. FBI association. She was imme-l ment. , Paul Romelli, "formerly worked for diately fired from the Tennessean. Later the investigation led to Risk the Justice Department giving out whose publisher claimed to have been Management, an office within the LEAA [ Law Enforcement Assis- unaware of her dual role. Meanwhile; . d George Power Company that employs tance Administration] grants to local Timr(May 24,1976) described Srouji at least twelve full-time intelligence police to purchase equipment for sur- as "more than a conduit--even an agents to spy on antinuke organizers veillance. It's positively incestuous." agent prowcateur." 77mc quoted within the state. The agency, Sheehan Further attempts by the Silkwood Nashville antinuke columnist Dolph observes, "is a classic microcosm of investigators to dislodge more infor- Honicker as saying that Srouji had
.I what goes on nationally." The Risk mation were met with stonewalling once tried to encourage him to team employed former FBI, CI A, and tactics and pleas of " national destroy property in the Nashville military intelligence operatives, most security" and " state secrets" by an Federal Office Building as a supposed .
of them trained in espionage and Assistant Attorney General for the antinuke protest. -- counterintelligence techniques. Civil. Division of the U.S. Justice Sheehan learned. at the National Department (New York, Times. May I' 34 New Age J [
Caserie-Id __ RIPSAW Enemies List Includes Guess Who? Power Company of5cials and wri- have been absolutety forced to. some years later, playee of Seventh District Con-ters and cormpondents of this Nticlear Power Ciinch aiver is a b a. doggie acco, ding to the Je.ame. the gressmaa tarry ucoonaid and is newspaper have Riled the letter that should simpsy be dropped. It Power Company gave Rees a presumably carrying on from that columns with accusations and The other issues that the Com- is too expensive, too dangerous. truck and the use of a telephone august statesman's enclaves. It's countercharges whde the Adassa pany has t=een involved is con- and too little. tco late besides. credit car for his nefarious acttd- bad enough to learn that this kind Journal. in a rare piece of escel- cern a debate that has been car- ties. The Company denies that of activity is financed out of lent reporting, has broken the ried on is this paper between the / [gdQ3(7{3} charge. but its security boys, a electric rates but to learn that tas seal surtcunding the Company's Eaviressanat editor. Ron Mit- . Jack Webb paar named Lamb and money is paying for it is intolera. wcurity forces and published chell and Company V.P. Harold McKenne, over the issue of the
/ Espionage sens.. ad-t io having inown bie.
Personally I feel a sort of per-specific charges concerning Com- Rees for almost a decade and to pany spsing on its opponents breeder reactor. The matter of ;.'ompany spying recetving his liede information verse pride in having been the dur"ig rate increase fights. In The Clinch River plant's esti- on opponents is something I have sheet. Benson also admitted. to object of so much obviously es. addinon. the Public Service Com- mated cost has shot up from Il been personally involved with for my great surprise, to havtag met pensive foolishness. not unhke mission has granted a rate in- billion to $10 bdlion indhe Srst some time. One of their agents me on the occasica cithe ettempt- the reactions many people must crease that will net the Campany few years of its development and attempted to entrap me some ed entrapment although he denies have felt upon learning that they an additional 597 mdlion per year. has not yet left the drawing years ago by revealing that he having given himself a false ides- were on Niaon's enemies list. To New residential rate schedules boards. It is not a big g'ower plant =as skilled in the use of esplo- tity, a demal that is a flat lie. know that I have been that deep have also been ordered; whde the compared to many already in ser- sives. I have never wanted to This busmess of corporations in the crews of people 1 dislike is pcrticulars of those new rates vice and its only real recommen- blow up anything that belonged to spying on people they don't likel satisfying. have yet to be reveased. many dation is that it produces more the Power Company and tried to and trafficking la false leforma.1 But about otherwise unisvolved customers wi!! receive a rate re- fuel than it uses, esplain to him that I was not tion about them is serious and the; peop6e who supported the Power duction rather than an increase The fuel it produces is against electricity, only against PSC owes the public as investi . Protect as the best vehicle for op-because of this case. The most plutonium, a synthetic, weapons the people who made lt. gation d such activttles, posing rate increases by the dramatic reductions mil fa0 on grade nuclear material that has Others. apparently la the Coen. The cristence and use of free- Power Company? Hew many those customers who are using the macabre distta: tion of being pany's hire, attempted to ladl- lance right wing. spylag appa- names have been swept into this
' between 350 and 600 kilowatt the most toxic substance known. trate the Georgia Power Protect ratus is a threat toladividual free- dragnet anyway?
hours her month. y dom in this country, it is likely The Power Company has "de-It is plain that for some people , that Rees and the Power Com- stroyed" les Rles on the subject to get rate reductions and the Film Forum Hopes Look Dim pany are but ihe tip os sa icebers by its o-a pronouncement. sui what about the duplicate Ales that Company stin to make more of private enterprtie wischheat-meey somene mH have 2 pay On Friday. September 16. Fulton Superior Court Judge Charles ing. m seed to create the com-mm. 8e Peple who fan la o Weltner resetaded a 60-day court ceder which was keeping the I meall a carious unephone ca8 pany's in the Ant place? What tkt cmgary am the big psules. FHm Forum open. As of this writing, the Film Forum, as it I received at the Power Ptoject about the information that was dat asMnostag custamen. currently esists, will be open for the last dme Tuesday. Sept. 20. See some ame ago M as e circulated la h undergmund Decnic headng custamen mu The DHses are looking for a new building. line piWa Tnas. Na peer man N? How nesm is est also pay more but it is felt that had lost his job and was standered web? through judicious (slighti use of as a " communist" for the simple Does it include police agencies power in the summer those folks The company, along with other and did succeed in stealing infor* and aboveboard act aflatervening other than the one in Tesas that l can make the new schedules work electric utilides. has been toutlag mation although such efforts were before the Nuclear Regulatory was exposed? Why won't the in their favor over the whole year. the performance of some disky of dubious value given the gen. Commissaan la a nuclear plaat Adanta Police Department re-I Woe to the electric heating cus- little breeder (another expert- erally open nature of the orgasi- case. lease any information that it has tomer who also air-conditions. mental modell out west that was sation and its ofRces. He was also standered through about these matters? (A request This rate increase, while pro- pressed into service this summer One of their spies. a charming a acaevistent commection with the for sach files was denied by Capt. bably unjusnned, at least la the to provide power ductag the hy- fellow named John Rees, has power Project, which was de- Howard Baugh af the intelligence t amourt. does represent an impor. droelectric shortage la the North- made a career of spying on people scribed as a
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l tcnt step in the right direction by west. Comparing this plant to who advocate various changes la trust set up to wrect the electric The whole story of Power Com-the P5C. By eliminating the pro- Cllach River is like compartas a our society. He and his efe, business." He had never even pany spying is yet to corne out. meticaal aspacts of rate sche- lawamower wtth a combine her- f.muise, pubilah ledermastem Dl- heard of the Power Project and One hopes the exceDent story by dules for residential users, impor- vester but power companies have gaat a " newsletter" that features was caDing op to And ont who we Tom Santer and h4ike Christen-talt inequities have been abo- never troubled themselves over items like license plate sambers were. som in the Jessel wiH lead to ap. lic.hed. little details hke that until they from cars at some meeting that He later seed the local police propnate action by regulatory the Reeses deemed subversive.' and power company and was to- bodies and affected citizens. l'U One of their reports placed me at tally esonerated but not before bet you get to hear about some a rieeting in Tesas, a spot I have suffering incredible, stupid, and subpoenas on this business yet. If yet to see. I once handed out leaf- ennrely avondable indignities. you don't. you better think twice lets to Georgia Power employees This is free-lance McCarthyism about badmouthing the Power in the company of this Rees and and should be brought to a Company, was startfed to learn who he actu- screeching halt. any was from a magazine article Rees is presently a staK em- -N*E 88'E
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trora severst persons allegedly - iactuded la Georgia Power's in . teuigence tales. . According to snegations by ~. Former semor members of the utilaty's!lavestigauve anat and . . copies of documenta made avall- e able to he Washington Post, > Georgia Power revertly gath. I.. . eretintelugence os persons and E *" e - 3 groups behered to be opponents T l of the compasy begamag is . I 1971 . . .,us- % t- .
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vesugauen took place, two fm ; .., mer members of. the Georgia; 5 N- r Power invesdrante unat said ., M g they recaued thaa a company to.;. q vestigatnr was sent to Washings" toe to attend a Nader4ponsorey a ;
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e hm Other entries into the securit@ untra monthly case log, a parij.' d , tion of which was among copies ' g y of deraments made svalaois toj! De Post last week. showed am i; g star requests for investigaraonsH i C of " sews reedia and others appi ' [ parently entside
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uona. - Former company security of;;g . , neers who were part of the in4 vesnganve secues told De Posi-that among the sames inetuded*.; la Georgia Power's investtgative ? flies were one of the state's leado ing consumer attorneys. the head of the state ACLU chapter .- and several persons who op- - powd construenas of a Georgia i Pawer euclear plant. . . 1 Accordant to the former se . cunty offictals and Georgia i Power records on file here Mth - the Federal Power Commuren. I the utthty also maintained links ; s trh shadowy pnvate in'etik-gene? sathennt orgamzauons na Wasaington and on the %est Cwt. See CEORCLL Ali. Col 1 l 1 l l A i e
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Gl;(llM;l3, l'roin .\ l suenti munthly im estigalise case lugs Taylor uses fired by the company . Information on iasious lett wing groups and individuals. One person. i . whit h n.how what t> pes of investiga- wveral days after he gase his depos. i.t a cstent of the Grori;i.> l'uwer in
- 1 illon. A company spoliesman said Tay. t who has apparently supplied llescarth j 131J g iae op.aatbn was tint imde of ' lor was fired because of "a lack of ep. .; West with information is Jerome Du-l , plItt lx 't h r Atlanta Journal in Sep.
A cotty M In ra Cor. e thusiasm and Ipterest' and because he ; cote, an admitted burglar, [, ,y i ptwi . \tt r th
- Jouim.1 article 'ap- lesc wideli was snalnlained by tlM .' compromised accurity procedures in; , ' In a telephone Interview last week 1 Georgia Power security office, was the deposition. .
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MI J J fices of such organtrations as the uentge W. E.'waids denied in a letter shou tisat Georgia Power investiga, ber of the utility's investigative unit,j j United Farm Workers,Hampaits mag-i t p the paper that his company had Interview last week that the . arine and the late radical Chicago escr/ engaged in "sn31ng on innocent . tors looked into a number of standard . . said In ans investigators .were equip. T 1 community ; organizer, Saul Allu
,,,,,,y prYete atti: ens." ct1minal areas such as thefts from the , . ped with a number of expensive de.l.' u during.the 1960s. Information from u..h .3.,'-th.
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s vute headquarf ers here int u cek categories under the headings . of night photography equipment and . supplied to llescarch West's predeces-Georgia Power offic,lats said no secret
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- management re. sor, called Western Research,.accor6-mielligence gathermg is now under company cars equipped with switches ', lng to Ducote. ,f quest for investigation outside Geor., to alter headlight and taillight;# con .. l ,
i way by the (nmpieny exept for files oss gla Power." It was in these categories, ~ figuration for night telling. . . ' l' Du' cote, who is writing a book on his -
; persms who miule threats. agaliis$ ,, according to former secupty. unit in. thefts' called "The Good Thief," *said Geor,;la property.
Puy cr cr.iployees or, con,npanf. E vestigators, that- covert intelligence intelligence specialist; said l..
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last week denied ever having such ?} and Research West officials could notbe re 4 opened by the Georgia Power security member of the Georgia Power secu. unit ** fur a fe w days in the past;. rity staff, said the files were ' keyed': equipment, which is illegal here. . Research Janew it was getting stolen l . Terr / Leedom, a spokesmati 'for . , into a set of indes cards in which Indl- 4 : Georgia Power investigators were ; Information from Ducote, w*: ' **, qs , Gourgia Power, said the opening of ..viduals and organizations were listede so wellequipped, said Lovin,' that Georgia Power investigators have. hics on persons normally outside the , Among the names in the files, he said, local FBI agents once complained that . ; also collected Information for the util-rans;e of cempany security interest. were persons who had opposed the the utility was way ahead of them la 'Ity's security files from John,II.Hees,- inay has e been omsidered necessary , utility's requests for rate increases. '. Its surveillance ability. , s n publisher of at small newsletter called l during ihe ycars of turbulence." Lee-l . In a sworn deposition given in Sepa .Iivin was also .fhed$ by.. Georgia f Infornestion Digest? The newslette@ ,' l e dom described this period as ranging'3. tember Taylor sald' the scop.e of the ? Power, Company officials said.he was &, supplies;c . handful of isubscribers-." from the late IDGOs through the early . utility's investigations was extremely . efired after conducting "an .unauthor. y mainly police departments-with in i IWos. Ile said any such files would have been destroyed some ihne ago, wide. "Any management person could .jized surveillance." Lovin said'the fir l formation'on alleged radical groups,. request ' an Investigation and, nor , ' ing was because he shadowed a com; .' l ncluding i Georgia Power opponents. j Ilowever, Leedom conth med , re- . mally, the investigation would be per. ' Georgiat Il oiive'r securttf 'directoE posts to TI.e Post by other informed ' formed," Taylor said. * 'pany Georgiaofficial . suspectedM'. Power equipment. of Istealingd.'pBenson
. last week called Rees an ol sources that on the evening o( the ap (: Taylor said in the deposition that . Lovin' who now lives In' Macon; said 'ipersonal,ftlend, and.said.he had re ', 0 pearance of the Journal article Geor- one senior Georgia Power ' manage .' in an interview that; ap a- GeorgiaNiceived, inforpistbn from illtes .afteG .-
gia l'ower security officials and a ,: ment official had requested a~nurgberftPowet.invesijgator.h4:hademoeess'.tanettended.meetingFof VGeoirsta- R
; company attorney spent 12 hours'com- of Investigation ('on~1ndividuals ' not police information. "I'd give a sheriff Power opponents in , Atlanta. Rees j bing through the security files and , connected with Georgia Power.- a list of names and he'd tell me if !!said he had attended as a reporter for j that a numt,cr of documepts were re. Company security department case, there was anything .on'. thess . any .j hls newsletter. Denson also 'said ,
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' . 1 . formation Digest ' had been ' entered -
j f Ppwer's security office, denied Jhat . " news media." The case files do'not.: . Feder'al Nw'er' Commission records : ginto Georgia Power's security files, s Rees ' declined to, say:whether he anf M the ti l e files haddocuments been destroyed remdved and sald t from
- non .was . Indentify the subject whicia of the organlaation request ori H.TF0 or last peryear'to
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, all of the papers were eventually re-j !wheinerit was carried out. ' " M. .# from an Oakland, Calif., private detec- , ttitned to the security officedBensorn agi nowledged, however, that;no.ree t P an " Individual Investigation" is favor" listed' Utility officials said l t .
.sonal to return to Washingtont J ord was made of which . files were
- on the case' logs under the category cred to Hesearch West several yearsd.!after h{s Atlanta trip. . .. ,
1 taken and the only way he could tell,' "open-s." Taylor said this categoryJ ago by officials of the Pacifle Gas and(19 A New York state legislative report', they were all back was that '1, haven't ' found anything missing." ,...,,',7, raw, unevaluated,' editoriallred - (,
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. Georgia Power has dec!!ned . rity department's to special investigations index-referred, of. persons,- . GeorglaiPower.used .a and1 toisupply frequentlyinformation derogatory prospective informa- g tai quests from reporters to be allowed to! . company . officlals , considered; ployees, according to its security offt., j tion?,The report said the newsletter's ,
examine the security files. The com- ' " subversives " . , ,. _ g , 9 . cials. ,. , , . Q... . (information .was a being used ..to ! pany has also refused to make avail- Taylor ealled Georgia Power's secu , ,, . Research , West has,.been .publiclyt. ." develop dossiers on thousands of pa-able copies of the security. departo - rity files "a dirt-gathering operation?g]dentitle( as specializing in providgggtriotle and decent Americans." .. j , i <,- , 9
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,4 The Georgia Power Co. seenrity depart-snent has Invesugated and kept files on pri- Robert W. Schere.r. But the. utility's .Es on individuals and
- Each inmugator, it is nid, necim a company car (pamted to disgmse its iden- }l groups considered. subvers.ive to the publicly regulated utility,s tityl, a pistol, a shotgun, radus and a ess '
7 h v eate cataens and groups considered _oppo-era The swuon has sophsueged enra N W.- . 8'"t8 'I 'Lihtf i"t**t' . -iriterests reportedy contain information gathered through private .
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g / widespread thefts and new federai rules on i 7 Accordsg to sources famihar with the company's Edwm L ~Hatch nuclear plant b" = , *Wyg
. G,f'T -p' / '. operation, the secunty department'snear investi-Baxley.
- nuclear power plant safeguards. Claims de-hghts a tailhghts on their cars, saymg it ,
was ancessary a certam investigauons 11,- : hL-Tba.h.Eh ^ ~ ** **" gauve secuan started files on individuals and groups considered " subversive" to the And, sources say, the secunty departi partment lawyer J. Wyman tamb, who had ment has handled pnvate invesugat%s for - done a report on the need for such a depart- (At the Ihp of a switch, an investigator
,its corporate officials. In one instance, ment, was picked to run it. .who is tailing someone or who feels he is htAYOR BEAME BITES BACK DtSAPPOINTMENT pubhcly regulated utihty's interests less than a month after the department was which the company has adrmtted, a futile bemg tatted can aster the configuration of H2 Finished Third in NYC Primary-Page sA . I,amb's department soon split into his car bghts, thus confusmg the oQer formed in June 1973. search was made by four men on foot and umfonned guards, te plantates, and a - '
Some of the information was gathered .by rented bebcopter for Southern Co. Presi- party ) dent Alvin W. Vogtle's missmg dogs (Soug, plain clothes section, l.amb kept his head-through pnvate and quesuonable national quartm in Atlanta with 2e mmugatws, Backed by such a
- The Journal has rem of such agenna . Army steui- .,.ed bmid l,uipment, coes on the insti-
,ouune InSide Today intelb,gence
,,,,, . ,. sourc.es, e,ra,,.is,the parent com, pany of Georgia ence, the Federal Bureau of Alcohof,
,at .
matters - thefts of copper, shots fired at I "We . . , don't run a Gestapo,' said - Commentirig 'on 'th's security depar obacco ,t. and Marms and me hgia Ba-ment's search for the dogs, Scherer g said. transf-es and ee hke. Georgia Power President Robert W. Scherer reas of Investigation. in an interview. He declined to say whether thmk their mouves were good. I thmk the . . While the security department was tah-the files might be opened to anyone about reacten was stupid." Housed in two anmarked suites in a ing hold aside Georgia Power, new forces
- whom derogatory inf rmati n may hav8 'It was hke any new department tryms corner of the LaVista Penmeter Office were gathenng outside the corporate gates.
{eg9gO g, beo esuuta. to u'suf, as custence. one f-me G.-gm Para. mr oexa C-ty s northiahe vaii. Power mvestigatur said of the department, ce plam< lanes secuon now has ame mves-Three months hefo,e the secuni, de. partment was formed, the Georgta Power The Journal also has obtamed a copy of TCCII NO - a letter wwch raises quesuons about ceor- .and mat always leads a excess." usam, a budga surpassms p50.000 and Georgia Power created the secunty de - equipment desenbed by some as equal to or Tara to Page IA,Columa I
..,6 c,.,a. . .m gi. Fwwer's statements regardmg a compli- l i
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l G, ,a,.. .R..oser Unit Said to Go Undercover for Inf.ormati.on
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come a center of contromsy . positiool to.SouSern's. par aroud the nation was pur- mr since last December.
.I Cset$ sed from..P."go. til E that 'he had information the*
^*"** Revolutionary Union was a-smco they were brought te,; chase of South Africas coal, chased,for him by a South when Wdham Levia, Ered.
mght this summer in the New Georgia Power security inves. Aincas interest aroup wort- from the security depart t. g Pre' ject, as aat stinty' group left.wms,- mihtaat organiza. , foCirl,', of.fhe Georgia power unef,s; "Itigators' carefully screened ing through a Washmgton law , told a , state Senate subcont.
.. . York legislative' report.
-rhe agene of Informa v enunceto nesue. -
fm
.'..snvestsgo*fors ss sor.d fo. reCefve a ds.sy .
Ceaume PageSA with1 self-avowed ;.sectahst tion which aimed to take over Aded by b Journal tr, u i.f hosted'a Energy .e mainos by aldaaung e . tion Digst han Dnd strange C On ne oGer bad, accord- that Crisis oavauca* ta Aunta indutry and auhty compa- ' guised Componf.. Car, O pisfoi, O sbOf *"* fantasy Eves? that report Ling to wou-placed sources, se-1 ( A secret report en the convene gjes, .-..,. .. mted -rw fact nat no i carity mi ==ged and . comment aus ta a chevon theJf",'ius tion by a Tes= pouce ==ti- Accordme to sourm famil- gun,. rods,os and . .. . .a Camerac. The .
- Information they suppDed en maid for a motel room for the in Lyons was picked up by h ESTATE t gator was cirentated to law lar with &as aspect of the see. seCfs. oft. bas. sopbisfs.Cofed CarnerG' innocent civihans was treated hev. taster Kinsolving, ' a Georgia Power. Kinsolving
- enforcement agencies and pri 7 tion's activities, investigators "'*'"'"""""""'*?""k"'""*""'""uw,b. aaid. -l nany det raiem.
ber. I thmk maybe it was." .
#' to byor seR.callNN
. nie 1 =cirtty deputmats
- ais. .. went . indamer 2 d.. rug analysis - .. '
ableja retrW t'u-M *: spoke at the meetag as asharehoider i=.oppositio i. ; noth iamb andR season nonet b
, len.se.s.;, fingerprinf Alfs,E fs/A'VideOlsipe unif Godno equipmenf,,1
. gather information om dhmb- .
A .mina, controversy has dissidentar 7er EL e aadmated soivags mei-ts JLEsTE,77477 %4 3, acrossBy thethe sauca, spring of 1974 d J. ,' dentsi when denied any kBowledge of Kin-J.'".*7 ' ; f the * -
- T ,. been surred;on the. Wesy iy. . the Kinseng . '*;;;-.m m ,
protesters ared before * - Nein Herringe/.ese the GeorgiaaTower o.m. Geo,,ia o - such. 'os Changeoble aufo headh.ghts.- Come ever a nr for h Wadhg4g Put nat or his bdr L -e m su. a. J l'o"v"e, move, .P,qect, ,eeans dm- - ^ ' ' k"""
- 8"=k" gmigt$ ggggT((q[3g a mP-*tr "*' and ao "w,ca*"u*e"d. Researck. h *is stoch for uus and several ' has been a sore Plant Hatch v a series of marches ce the 7ceanng the utility over beesi ~ and wfa.i.llights.*/ , . ,
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i West. lac'.O J t U *, pother,'J corpoptC meetlags ' subject,with Georgia Power
& company / security.isvestiga. , at a North ErMaad Avenue * "# 4 Cahfornias named Jerry tars were waitleg at office. tavera with a man who de . ., - .. , . . . i.
windows to estenstrely phated' scribed himself as a abort :' ^ * - *-'*- * * * * * ~ ~ * . ~ Ducate adantted - after the be kept en a group such as the Power Project la the Congres. crimi.=1 statute of limitations . ___._
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order fry cook just out of the pertment to his acuvines ran .. 5 , graph theirADen Roger activities.. Grigg, whel Army. , la, the dascassion, , Ralph Nader Congress Pre , sionalReco( York ' State g out - that he performed 17 ** 7 g r ~ which fouowed se evening < ject, Lamh sasd shoply, . The New. ,p
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- ; AmmMy's Office of Isgisla-t. break-tas at off ces of hberal
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worked for a local ending company, recaDsfum stay- p*t rate lacrease heartag, the. *1aformatiosL* - *". l* . .% . . ,, According to the case lists tive Oversight and Analysis r leaders such as Cesar Chaves oc . lag up au might after one ofimas critarined Georgia Poweg' . e ta the' ml&t960s, obtamlag *:= .
. .. s , _ . . . . ***g I .. u ,,,.g ,
those marches to handle a" rush order frem the Georgiai . Herring sald bolater r poucy. - -y.w g 'e' Jaly 23.1973 cog ;'.ebtained by The Journal, en f has concluded that Rees" pub -Benson d y n -W ,*, j ;t ,t. (M '.b"' was : Ilcatiam 'Wis flDed with " raw.7 N;'- nfor Power CsL . 4 .. -* nised the mas at a Georgia '. gives two ' management re-i unevaluated, editoriahard Grigg says he was told to Power function and discow* . questa for invesugations of. frequently derogatory infor. and . neled filet u .
- intoer*
Western Research's '-- 2 6**"**,'
.W7 ly' L1 u.s.N, , f.I' make a print of every frame a . s" news media" and as an- mauos" used by its subscrib- Ducote told h Journal the 4 d. g .',*:@y," f,',;,
g on.the six or seven sens of *ered he was Art BenscaLBenson confirms the meet. i named"trettvidual"De cases : era to " develop dossiers .. en ; first esists to provide'cBents
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y fust "What ready made iti lag with Herring, but demes 3, were closed Aug.,g,1973, two ; thousands y, of.patriotic andsigned de . anwith ad information
~ ', } ce"leftista." .
* "If yoe had to p hemorous is it was the same. he ne=nmad a falso identity: weeks later.i .. . . . . , ' ; cent Americans ~ . , ." ,. ,a 4g gg p The Georgia Power security'. stop the war la Vietate', thee . .,3 . ,y n
.. areemd
, group of in _ a people circle lawalking; "Heand never asked (whosignedBenson",, On "indsvidual Aug. 8, Benson was as-[t department, accordme t? . your name would be la those
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every was) I never. valua- another .' + .' .a "u f i shot " he says.~ - 3 o . .f j '. '.
- lavestigation" under the head- sources famihar' with its ides" he explained."If you . -
ing"Open-S." No cla, lag data . operations, not only received ., signed three ads, you would During one march, accordInformauca
- teered." - - gathered *
' Informauca Digest but helped, be described la the Ides as a g, lag to a person who took part through these and etber meth was shown on the lists. ',,,y~.
la the W ;M em ; ods, sources say, wag kept la ?
- Raaman said be did not re- subsidise Rees' activities. . s leftist.* . i
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- Dese sources say Reesi' Research West was used by . e, s.g 6. . .
of the Georgia Power 4 crossindexed files.- a, a s car any of these investiga.5e traveled to Georgia in lats' Gearsta Power security inves- *f 9; . tions. - 2 L . *
=---A~. p department were moved *
, out- of their offices la the *snonthly The lists of cases obtained by la thej' J One term'esedia discussing
- 1973 cr earp 1974 and re *' tigators,'a source said, to
, " ' " ,,q, g ,
show the'section thcae who drew ' attention". turned to washington la a" check em . whom.*they opponents etdidn't the
'**'N*f th=1 States Building, which"; The J s,,.,...
ad a the 270 Buudag, and ' camed .' cat- investigations i from the departmenf, accord freshly palatetvaa. suppliedT*
$ have a on,"la additica T. %.
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of cameras"was "
- moved . under several headings, tM Ing to two sources, was "sub , by the power companycA Washington area source " to graspective employes at
- Teluding '
- Management :- Re. + versive." A subversive, ac- - 4 . .+
*' "* *plant' * *s
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- According to two sources- quest for Investigation Out?
- cording to one of them, was ' who was closelamb, investigators looked out over side GPC," " Miscellaneous *; "anyone ~ who spoke out told The Journal Rees did the aned, picking out indivie'. and "Open.S
- which a source 'agamst Georgia Power?
est protesters they wanted said was the most sensitive Sourcese-stressed to Rees who has make a trip to Georgia about } search West as a " news cup-
'the tsatch desmbed ping service," said the West Re- nuclear e, g y** * , ;p/. , A
*" that w -- ot,her this n- time to-.pick
. ~up- a.*
.- eavan, Cet firm was c'e.t to chert
Grigg says he tas told to Power 7 "and dd geests for invesugations of frequemuy eerogasary awar- Ducate w tou Th Journal the
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make a pnet of every fran* ered be was Art BensceL " news media
- and an un- matana" used by its subscrib-
*m the rz er seves rolls of Bensos confarms the meet. named "tadmduaL" The cases ers to
- develop dossiers os firm exists to provide clients l fanL "What ready made a ing with Herring, but den.es vers closed Aas g,1973, two thousands cent Ameracans . , . ." of patnotic andudde-
*If you signedtith aninformataan ad to en " leftists" I humorous ta it us the same he assumed a falso identaty- weeks later. ne Georgia Power secanty stop the var in Vietaant then I group of people walkmg "He never asked (who Benson On Aug. g, Benson tras as-
' areemd is a circle la emy was) and I never value. signed another "indavidual department, according to your name would be in those
- abst." k says- lavesugation" under the head- sources Iamniar w a its ides" he explainet "If you teered." , ,
[, During ese march, accord- Information gathered hg "Opeal" No closing date operations, not only received signed three ads, you would , Informauce Dgest but helped be desenbed la the Ides = a Ing to a perece who took part arough Gese and other meth. was shows on the hsts. leftast? ,, ; in the 7 7 . 1 em- eds, sources say, was kept la Benson said be did not re- sutedtze Rees' actavitaes. Research West was used by ca!I any of these investiga- These sources say Rees , of the Georgia Power crossindesed ides. . traveled to Georgia in late Georgia Power security inven-department were moved The hsts of cases la the tiondL One term usedis discussing ' IN3 or early Int and re- tigators, a source said, to est at their effaces in the monely reports obtained by t Coastal States n =Mae which' The Journal show the section those who drew attention turned to Washmgton la a check as opponents of the j adjosas the 273 Buddag, and carned out investigations from the department, accord- freshly palated wasL havesuppbed. a 4nMa on'*coropany la addados whom "they. didn't a bank of cameras was moed mader several headings, in- Ing to two sources, was "sub- by the power company.
- A Washmgton area source , to prospective employes at ., J,, '
imp - , cladmg * " Management Re , versive " A subversive, ac- - According to two sourtes quest for lavestigatace Out- cordag to one of thenk was who was close to Rees **-* hmb,has who 3the ttacch ancieer plaat.' _ desenbed Re- ' luestagators looked out our side CPC," " Mace!!ameous' *anyoos
- who spoke out told The Journal Rees did .
y* ' # r make a trip to Cecrgia about search-West as a " news chp- *
- f the crowd, picking out ladivid- and Open-5,* which a source agamst Georgia Power" peg service'" said the West '
mal protesters ney wanted sand was the most sensitsve. Sources stressed that other this time to pick up a van, , ' e .. *
~ security forces hold similar. The van, accordmg to Coast firm was used to check -* #'
[ " ~ . , [ .wnh sea.gh" classificaticsL , . out the first group of Ratch , 58E8N N ne targets of these lavesti. ' attatedes and that a national', soortee to Atlanta, later was job apphcants. "We felt;,like ,, 7., c, w.. . .W. . , w,,, U Ru-1 ' , , '
; tamb and" Art Benson, the : gations, according to the case network exists to circulate as ., retrieved by a Georgia Power - , , . . - .
chief of the instigattve sec# hsts, ranged from the " Ralph.* cret information os socaDed ' investigator, who had aice, flatsothey couldal we didat use de asfor theat any serr- ' - -AA j, .
. tire on the way home,
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taos, have admitted phote- Nader Congress Project" and dissidents. . 1 graphing protestars la front of the "Interpeace Organiza ." One bak is that network is : ne Washingtes area source that purpose any longer." , . p I.amb dad say, however, a pubhcatice caDed leforma-* also told The Journal that J the 374 Baume but say there tion" to "the news media." ~ w =amt souana m er - One -opear avmugauon tion aget, which = earty = : Rem a me time gno a tutResearch accoat Accordag to Lamb, was directed at as manamed .Nov. 3,1972, reported that triend a telephone credit card ws depart West ==ttousgather med OF THE NEW 197_8 W* , s BELL CATALO
.s ,
) protesters even waved at the " individual" *the Georgia Power Company 6 somber which he said was backgrenad informataco on W. Bell & Co , famous for over 25 years for Jewelry and 3 dissadents thought to be la photographert . .
Sources say the (Dee also has come ander attack from a that of Georgia Power, * '
- yme y 5. Ogers aWstasg semon ohW.
But The Journal's sources included such persons as Gene small, active coahtaca of radi ' As Atlanta source who Atlanta. "I remember one time say the d'a==tal States build- ' Guerrere, now the director of cals operating under. the' knew of the security depart- Watches, Clocks. Silver, Luggage and leather. Goods. , ~ j , Cameras. Appliarices and Stereo Eauiprnent . . . alt
. hg was jucked as a camera the Georgia Americas Civil name, Georgia Power Pre- ' ment's dealias with Rees , there was a problem here sine because its copper 4inted* labertnes Union and once ae ject." The report on the Geor . sand there was a discussana with a group called the Octo- '",', , avadab e every day, . . at LOW catatog *' pncest, . ,,;
windows checure , mtshty tive la .the, Georgia Power affalrs gia Power Project's toternal , withis the department about her league (a leftast organ- v -I ' ,- * . . , .,r : e r was labeled "senst supplying Rees with credat ' Ization), and we had some - from the outsult ' In atleast one laat nace, this Pro' 9 ~
. ['Investigat rs :, even tive." ..
. conversations me them (Re-y STOP .N' ' IN A'ND' P,1,CK UP,YOU R,' C'OPY TODAY g ,7 ,
khd of arvenanre was procm ed inte me fues d ' Informatka agest is pet ' cardsc '.. ,< While Rees, operated prl{ search Westi about that," ; g' s4 ., ,. carried out in conjunction from a membership bat of the out by a Washagtoo-based marily frors' Washingtonpie l, Lamh involved saul here "Some of the in Atlanta ' peo-;;l with a , law . enforcement John Barth Society, accordag.' man named John Rees, also three persons associated with had a history in Cahfornia or { ^
, agency. . . . . . , . to one sourcer"That was just known as Jaba OToonor and : the Georgia Power Project ; had come from California. . r .,.
< Seasonn according te depo. 'for the sake of having files,*1 Father Joha Seeley. .'
said .*It looked 4 Rees.. a beardeO portly, l have identafled him by photo-graph a9 having taken l
$ part la', And it turned out the ,
October.,",%*3 " f,
. itanes s he and emers filed in the souri I%' right-wlaf fWhas oper- r Project activities la' Atlanta; elmague
,,ggy,p didn'tp g botherf g[' eur : , "
A -a,' a' ,, .*/ ,
- connectke Power . Project mth a Georgia gang' interview, a g' ated undercover with his wife including passtng out anticom- company." . 6 ^ ./ y y- gg,. ,r; y 4, . . ' ATLANTA GC *h.f*Y g;, .gy F #
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. lawsuit. la lengthy ., . ,
A ~ 145 lath Street, N.W[# j', imited himself along wie a . lamb said the only acecrimi- Imuise for several years, pany leaflets at a Georgia.. _*' Asked if hisinformation;on investigators ' -
> Mart. Fat 9 to 6' - .x,,.,, - , ,
l ;.had seaght " D;Kalb County pohcemas mal case files his department spying on left-wag groups.' 1%wer si.bstatioo6
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- Saturday
-*~' " 9 to 5 ;'
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who wag gotag to ananator a . heeps contale "pathmg other louise Rees now works for , , Although Benson said he individuals ' withia
- such meeting of the Revolarinay" thaa maybe'something with 4 7th Dstrict US Rapu larry
- has naowa Reesany 'personau of them were
- groups, Lamb said. ."Yes, if in Atlanta, sacthatd who has inserted ' ' '
- 8eason said la anewspaper chpping la it.* .
.,, Umlen at Emory Universty. ,
deposition. - Asked why any Blas~ lamb'densed woeld"In!crmation abouttheGeorgta l for'mine years, both he an
, the department. Wedid."r J. ' ever supphed him with a vaa . Research West. he said, had .
3-l or credit card or =8eff=t ' been rece.nmeaded to Geor-lg. ! .'.'.w .7 ? - g-* him ia any way. ' gia Power investigators by " . ' '
' Or k' - said Rees us - es seco,iiy ,artmeni of a i r
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a guest at his home and both West Coast utihty. . N i g ,Q .
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' - he and Lamb have personaHy - "I have tried to set a tone eaae M LE 4 e-received Information Dgest within this business that we're .'
l '.. .' arough he mail
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going to be open and direct and forthright," said Georgia
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O II C D .. M . N b k hy lk. . -lam
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said be cou,ldi.not re. Pawer Prendent scherer dur- _ _ _
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s . - , .. en the cussing the stihty over beers l - A Cahfornian nained Jetry : avesug6 d a North IDghland Avenue e. .
- As = . -, t . '.Decote
. admitted - after the g at office tavera with a man who de- ,- " ' * '*Ws*U. <
criminal statute of limitauons ly photo
- scribed himself as a short. .!be kept on a group amen as the Power Project b the Omgree- pertinent to k's actt:tties raa .
'..** g order fry cook just out of thediscussion, tamb amid 'simpty, Ralph Nader J The New Congress T Pro. siona! Record.g. dk '3 tate
- out -Dat he per <
gg, 'h* Army. la . the break-Ins at offices of liberal '- am proc
- which followed an evening ~)*ect,latormataan " ,
, Assembirs Ofuee of 1sstsla. Ileaders such as Cesar Chaves aus stay
- rate lacrease hearing, the According to the case !!sts tive Oversight and Analysis la the~ mid-Is60s, obtaining tr one of man ertucised Georgia Power . tbtained by The Journal, lleauce en is has concluded filled with *rse,that Rees' pub- informados which was fun-handle a poucy. July 23,1973, Besson was teled into Western Resenters-p Georgte Herring sald bolater recog- gives two management re
- anevaluated,editorialised and files, u .
nised the mas et a Georgia Decott told b Journal the as told to Power fuscuan and N" sews discoe. media" . quests and at ge for matace" inveaugauons med by its subscrth. of -firm frequently exists to provide derogatorycitent lafor-ery frame ered be was Art Beesca, ers to *denlop densiers on with knfonnation on" leftists.* ' thousands of patrione and de-a rolls of Benson confw m s ne were meet. closedVAsg.asmed g,1973, "inevidual" two De cases .* If you had signed an ad to made it lag with Berring, but denies , cent Americans . . . ." De Georgia Power security ' stop the war la Vatnam, then the same he assumed a false idenuty: . weekslater.On Aag. 8, Denson was as- your name would be in those
**lM88 department, according to fdes* be etplained. "!! you i la every was) "He sever asked (who Bennom 'and I never volus familiar d sources 1 signed with another its signed ."individaat three ads, you would 1
- h, accord-teered."
laformation gathered ..'lavesugation"* Informados under Dgest the bst hea helped-ing "Opears." Ne closing date op leftist."
- a took part through these and other meth T was shown on the battBenson said beResearth did actWest re-wassubsidize used by Rees' activtues
'hing. en> eds, sources say, was kept la Dese.saareas say Rees Georgia Power security inves- *gia Power crossladened fues. . - JcaH cons.
any of thsee tapesuga . traveled to Georgia is late tigators,-a source said, to 1974 sad re-m m ed De hsts of cases la the One tarm asedla discussing' 1973 or earJ!attenuan . taraed to waskugten ' - in a ' c ces la the monthly reports obtained by those ** di88 *Ch. De Journal show the sectice fromwho thedrew department, accord ' freshly palated
- have a handle van on," supplied.*
la addition company
- whom adding, and carried - out investigations was med ander several headings, to- : lag to two sources, was "astr : by the power the natch anclear plant. company,A e. WaeWagten
a
- Management Re. - versive." A pabwersive, ae-'cordmg to one of Gem, was ' who was cicae to Rees h wo sources 'cludinggeest for Investigauce who Out-spoke out
- told The Joernal Rees did. make a trip to Georgia abou ed out over plag service," said the West I out indmd- side GPC.", "Mascellaneous* . "anyoneand *0 pea-S* wheb a source 1 against Geersi hy aanted said was the most sensiuve,,. security forces hold similar. De vaa, accoreng first group of Ratch Lk telePhoto The targets of theselavesu-M atutades classificauce- . retrieved and by tlat a Georgta a national'.
Power jobldn't searcos appucants. la Atlanta,later "We felt .Itke. w h de us any serv Benson, the network exists b etreulate se. lee, so we didn't use thent for egatin sec* gations, according to the casehata, ranged ' tire on se way frornhome,the "Ralpk that purpose ' cretanyinformation longer." p en e> cal ltted photo. Nader Congress Project" and dissidents. . The Waahington area source Lamb did say, however es in front of ne *Interpeace Organiza , . a publication One link callee la that astwork is also told The Journal that that his department.has used Informa : g het say thre Research West to . gather etin in meir tion" to "the news mess."One 't) pen 5" investigatlos' friend a telepaone credit tioncard Dgest, which as early as : Rees at on ng to hmb. was directed at an annamed..Nov. 3,1972, reported that*the Georgia , dissidents Power thought".* Company to be.in 4 aumber asved at the "tnavidual."
;4-Sources say the files' also 7has come under Asattack from a who Atlanta anarce Adanta
' thatof .
Georgia Power, one time small, active conhties of radM knew of the security depart-"I- f rememberthere was a problem here wafs sources included such persons as Gene cals . operating . ender. the # Inent's dealfags with States build- Guerrero, now the director of same, Georgia Power Pro- ' ll d the Rees Octo , as a camera the Georgia American Ovit laberties Union and once ac - ject."The report on the Geor .said there was a dise her league (a leftist organ. ( copper-tinted re visibdity tive in the Georgia Power aff airs was labeled "sensi- gia Power rroject's cards. internat , within i. (6e department abouts search West) about that," c, Project. ,
'e instance,this The : Investigators evea, tive"InformaBon Dgest la put ' Whde Rees. operated prl-from
- Washington, i Lamb said. "Some of the pea i tillance was p' rocessed inte the fdes sames ,'cet by a Washington-based marMy _
a conjunction frein a membership ifst of the ttrce persons associated with . ple involved here in Atlanta ' enforcement John Birch Society, accor$ng maa named Joba Rees, also the Georgia Power Project;, had a history *, in to one source. "That was just. known as John han O'Connor idennfled and him by photo . eding to depo- for the sake of having files,"' Father John Seeley.','.' portly, graph aa having taken part in ,And it turned out the 4er October e2ers filed in the source said l'22 looked right
- Rees, wing' a bearded figure,'has operpassing
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(*, ; = league y did > th a Georgia good."
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In a lengthy toterview, ated endercover for several years, pany leaflets at 4, Georgia . Asked if his investigators '" ' with his wife met lawsuit. 3'. id tie.4 had . sought ' within "inft,rmaticej en s. I along with a tamb said the only noncrimi . lAcisespylag eo ,left-wing, groept Powersubstaden utndividuata such - sty pohceman mal case files his department ps, Lamb said,'*Ves, if' M 3 to monitor e RevolouonaryN thaa maybea Mkeeps something with t eentata "tiothmg other,' teuise Rees.,now work tamb demed the department we did."Research West, he said, ha y Universtty. in a depositloa. newspaper clipping init? Asked why any fues would
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a tmproper to either confirm or information had been gath-deny anything of that sort" ered,parucularly if there was i E Rees said be and the Geor. a possittlity it was gathered < l
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Power Project, the Nauenal. "Ithought about it." , . . l, ,i lawyers Guild, the Southern One of the occas'ons when Conference Education Fund ! and the October league be. *there wastmacen a posrwhty the : of a r iy flS OO canse, he said, these organlaa. . confrontauon s f tions "have been antagonistle udhty and its jopponents towards Georgia Power." For that reance, Rees said,, the Hatch Catnuclear stockholdersplant . . receting l at e be has sent and continues to Amid remors that dissi-On OSt *# *
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- l UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of ) Docket Nos. 50-424
) 50-425 (Vogtle Electric Generating )
Plant, Units 1 and 2) )
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE This is to certify that copies of "Internors' Motion For A Protective Order In Opposition To Applicants' Motion To Compel Answers" and "Intervenors' Brief In Support Of Motion For Protective Order And Response To Applicants' Motion To Compel Answers" were served to all parties in this proceeding by deposit with the United States Postal Service in the City of Atlanta for delivery by first class mail this first day of April, 1985. euAu. h k aurie Fowler l l l
e-y' UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the' Matter of )
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY., et al. ) Docket Nos. 59-424
) 59-425 (Vogtle Electric Generating )
Plant, Units 1 and 1!) ) SERVICE LIST Atomic Safety & Licensing AnFab Morton B. Margulies, Chairman Atomic _ Safety & Licensing Board Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com. Washington, D.C. 29555 Washington, D.C. 29555 Dr. Oscar H. Paris Docketing and Service Section Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com. Washington, D.C. 29555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger Bernard M. Bordenick, esq. Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Office of the Executive Legal U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Director Washington, D.C. 29555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com. 29555 Washington, D.C. Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel Ruble A. Thomas l 'U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Southern Company Services, Inc. !- Washington, D.C. 20555 P.O. Box 2625 Birmingham, AL 35292 Bruce Churchill & David Lewis Bradley Jones, esq. Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Regional Counsel 1899 R Street, N.W. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com. Washington, D.C. 29936 191 Mariettu Street, Suite 3190 Atlanta, GA 39393 Jim Joiner Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore 127 Peachtree Street, Suite 1499 Atlanta, GA 39943
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