U.S. Envoy to Australia Gree,tplby CIA Uproar By Peter Costigan Special to The Washington Post named by Agee are CIA employees. CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, May 19 Peacock has a U.S. list of intelligence —The identification of four diplomats agents working in Australia under attached to the U.S. embassy in Can- diplomatic cover. -- berra as alleged CIA agents has posed At a news conference, Peacock was unplanned problems for Philip Al- asked: "The people named by Mr. Agee—you already were aware that ston, an Atlanta lawyer and close claimed that the foreign Minister was friend of President Carter. they were CIA?" Peacock answered, "Yes". not confirming the names of the Alston is the new U.S. ambassador Later, Peacock's private secretary agents but merely trying to convey to Australia. He arrived here this the information that Australia main- week, after being delayed in Honolulu tains liaison with intelligence agen- by a strike of Australian air traffic cies throughout the world. controllers that closed Australian air Peacock's original statement was ports to all incoming international major news in the Australian press. traffic. Prime Minister con- The new ambassador arrived the tinued to reject a proposal by the op- day former CIA agent Philip Agee position and former Prime Minister named the four American diplomats that he call a Royal in an interview In London with the Commission {the Australian equiva- government-owned Australian Broad- lent of a full-scale U.S. congressional casting Commission. inquiry) into foreign intelligence ac- Agee said that M. C. Wonus is the tivity in Australia. CIA station chief In Canberra, and Ambassador Alston, meanwhile, has that Gerald L. Jacoby and Burton L. been in touch several times' with both Hutchings are CIA agents. Agee also the White House and Fraser over the said that Peter Himmelberger is a. issue and is preparing a detailed re- possible agent and that another diplo- port for Washington. . mat, C. E. Allen, who recently left All four American diplomats named Australia, is a CIA agent. All five men earlier by Agee are still working at are formally listed with the Austra- Ike U.S, embassy here, but diplomatic lian Department of Foreign Affairs as sources said it is now inevitable that "attaches" working in the United the men would be returned to Wash- Slates embassy in Canberra. ington. their effectiveness here over (In a news conference in London to- regardless of whether their work is day, Agee alleged that three addi-• ;: diplomatic or intelligence. tional diplomats serving in Australia Earlier this month, Whitlam told are CIA agents, Reuter reported. He the Australian Parliament that two lamed them as William Headrick, a American intelligence activities in- communications officer in the volving Australia had not been re- embassy; John Hedley, listed as an vealed to him when he was Prime attache; and Warren S. West Jr., a po- Minister from 1972-75, litical economics officer at the U.S. Whitlam said that he discovered as consulate in Sydney. In Canberra, Prime Minister that Australian intelli- Headrick denied Agee's allegation. gence agents in Chile were acting as The others could not be reached for "proxies" for the CIA during the comment.) American agency's attempts to under- (Agee also said that the CIA had In- mine the Allende government there. filtrated the Australian labor move- Whitiam also alleged that Richard ment and had funneled $11,900 into an Stallings, now retired in Hawaii, was Australian Catholic studies movement not on a List supplied by the United in the 1950s.) States of American intelligence Agee is under a deportation order agents working under diplomatic or to leave Britain by the end of next defense cover in Australia. week. A leading left-wing official in the and mem- Whitlam said he discovered that ber of the party's national executive, Stallings was in fact an American in- Bill Hartley, said today he bad invited telligence official supervising the con• Agee to come to Australia. struction of an American space re- search and satellite receiving station The Agee allegations follow a series at Pine Gap in central Australia In of other recent allegations concerning the late 1960's. United States intelligence activity in The new ambassador has been so Australia. busy preparing a report on CIA activi- They were given added credence to- ties in Australia that he has had to day when Australian Minister for For- postpone until next week presenting eign Affairs Andrew Peacock ap- his credentials to the government. peared to confirm that the Australian government knew that the five men

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