The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 62, No. 292, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1984 Page: 4 of 14
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issued its brief statement that it has
all but dropped its probe into the
matter.
The committee report laid little
blame directly on CIA Director
William Casey, but individual panel
flight school in San Angelo, Texas in
1956. He flew C-123s until 1960 when
he was assigned as a missile instruc-
tor in the Tactical Air Command in
Orlando, Fla.
In 1963, he was sent to Southeast
Asia on temporary duty, flying
C-123s and accumulated 78 combat
support missions.
Returning to Pope AFB, N.C. late
in 1963, he served as a squadron and
wing training officer and flew C-130s
until 1968.
Since then, the colonel has been
assigned to the Pentagon as a staff
officer, chief of Airlift Training, and
MAC liaison officer to TAC and the
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine
Command. He also served a tour of
duty overseas as an operations of-
ficer at Ching Chaun AB, Taiwan.
After retiring, Col. Grainger plans
to move to Hampton, Va., and
teaching high school math.
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Simmons was specifically charged
with oppression in office, gross par-
tiality in office and gross neglect of
duty.
Simmons has been an associate
district judge in Wagoner County for
six years.
Barnes requested District Judge
William J. Whistler of Vinita, the
presiding judge of the Court on the
Judiciary, to order Simmons to ap-
pear and show cause why he should
not be suspended immediately pen-
ding further hearing.
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CIA officials “learned about it from
news accounts.”
In a statement, the Nicaraguan
Embassy in Washington said
Managua was pleased with the
report.
“We hope that this will help to put
an end to these activites and set the
U.S. administration along the path
that leads to peace through dialogue
and mutual respect,” the statement
said.
The pamphlet - produced as part of
Casey’s decision in 1983 to help teach
the “contras" psychological warfare
- at one point suggested how to
“neutralize” local officials.
CIA critics argued that the word
could be interpreted as advocating
assassinations, which are against
U.S. law. They also complained that
the booklet itself violated the Boland
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Christmas projects
Dierdre Battista, a student in Helen Copes pre-
kindergarten class for 4-year-olds at Altus Air Force
Base, shows a reindeer she drew as part of the class
Christmas projects. Cope has planned several pro-
jects for the children to work on between now and
Christmas. (Air Force Photo)
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of the entire Nicaraguan covert
operation," the statement said.
/ The committee statement said the
book was “written, edited,
distributed and used without ade-
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tion said, “demonstrating with a
hand gun, as to how this should be ac-
complished, so that Broomfield
would be shot in the head. He further
told her that if she shot Broomfield,
that she would not spend one night in
jail.”
Barnes requested two proceedings
be held, one to suspend Simmons im-
mediately and the other to remove
him from office.
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Barnes said “great and ir-
reparable harm and injury will occur
if respondent is allowed to continue
in the capacity of associated district
judge.”
In one of 22 counts, Barnes’ peti-
tion stated that attorney Max
Watkins appeared in Simmons’s
court about March 1, 1984, with two
a clients, Marvin Boswell and Alan
Boswell, charged with misdemeanor
offenses. The petition said Simmons
criticized Watkins publicly and
without hearing evidence or pleas
told the Boswells they were going to
jail, lit a cigarette inside his mouth,
blew out fire and smoke and said he
could “fight fire, too.”
“As a result of the actions of Paul
E. Simmons,” the petition stated,
“Marvin Boswell became ill. He died
that night.”
The petition cited other cases in
which Simmons was accused of
berating attorneys, witnesses and
" defendants and one in which he call-
ed members of a grand jury “vile
. and obscene names."
It stated on several occasions Sim-
mons had pointed a gun at people in
his chambers.
The petition stated in one instance
a Simmons pointed a gun at attorney
Keith Whitley and told him, “Next to
H God, I am the most powerful man in
this county, and what I say is the
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In another instance, the petition
stated Simmons advised Carole
Mary Snelling in his chambers at the
Wagoner County Courthouse that she
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“He then instructed her,” the peti-
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (UPI)-City his inability to stop the stealing and ing,” Reardon said of Avants’
workers have been stealing so much inadequate management, Sheldon transfer.
money from a blind man who works said. Sheldon said the temporary hiring
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senemomarah last honstired in PaYhne thefts probably amounted to AnShedon Mid his office had observ- Sheldon said a visually impaired
. "0 , .. u between $400 and $500 a week, Robert ed customers stealing from Avants person would take over Avants posi-
The North Carolina native has Sheldon .business enterprises super- in the cafeteria for the last four tion in City Hall.
been in the Air Force for approx- visor for the Kansas Division of Ser- years.
imately 29 years. “It feels good to vicesforthe Blind, said. Mayor Jack Reardon said he In 1982, a U.S. Air Force B-52
retire. There s a place and time for The state decided to move Malvan believed the vast majority of the peo- bomber crashed in California, killing
everything and this is my time to Avants to a different building, to a pie dealt honestly with Avants when nine, and a chartered plane struck a
leave, the colonel said. job that pays about half what he was they bought food at the cafeteria. building in Cincinnati, killing six, in-
Col. Grainger entered the Air making at the cafeteria, because of “It’s unfortunate this is happen- eluding four FBI agents.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI I - State Wednesday of harrassing attorneys
Supreme Court Chief Justice Don and others, pointing a gun at parties
Barnes has asked that Wagoner in his courtroom and frightening a
County Associate District Judge defendant who became ill and died.
Paul E. Simmons be suspended from Barnes filed a petition with the
office immediately pending trial for Court on the Judiciary, a constitu-
alleged alleged misconduct. tional body which has the authority
Simmons was accused late to suspend or remove judges from of-
WASHINGTON (UPI I - A CIA members, including Chairman Ed-
booklet that instructs Nicaraguan ward Boland, D-Mass., said that as
rebels in guerrilla warfare broke a top man Casey shared some respon-
1982 law that forbids any U.S. aid for sibility for the pamphlet.
attempts to overthrow the Sandinista They conceded, however, that the
government in Managua, the House sheer size of the agency made it dif-
Intelligence Committee concluded. ficult for the director to keep track of
The committee also said Wednes- everything.
day the use of language in the The committee said its investiga-
manual that appeared to suggest tion of the pamphlet raised many of
how to assassinate political figures the controversial questions about
was the result of negligence by the U.S. support for the rebels that have
spy agency’s managers. been debated in Congress for more
It is theoretically possible that CIA than two years.
officials could be prosecuted for pro- “The incident of the manual il-
ducing and distributing the manual lustrates once again to a majority of
but such a step is highly unlikely, the committee that the CIA did not
The committee made clear when it have adequate command and control
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Mitchell, Keith. The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 62, No. 292, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1984, newspaper, December 6, 1984; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2116763/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.