Soccer snub The men's soccer team—last year's runner-up—was left out of this year's THE CHRONICLE NCAA tournament. See Sports, p. 14. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1996 ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 92. NO. 55 Burgess Officials arrest CIA commits agent for espionage By DAVID JOHNSTON Lumpur, Malaysia, where to Duke M.Y. Times News Service Nicholson was stationed. The WASHINGTON — Federal meetings occurred at a time By MICHAEL KING authorities said Monday that when the intelligence agency In a press conference Mon­ a CIA career officer charged was reeling from the arrest of day evening, 6-foot-10 Wood- with spying for Moscow of­ another career officer, Aldrich bridge High School senior Chris fered himself to Russian intel­ Ames. Burgess announced that he had ligence officials two years ago "He betrayed his country signed a letter of intent to play at the height of the furor over for money," said Helen Fahey, basketball for Duke University the CIA's last major espionage the U.S. attorney for the East­ next fall. Burgess, widely con­ case. ern District of Virginia, after sidered the nation's top recruit­ The officials said their in­ Nicholson appeared briefly ing prospect, announced his de­ vestigation showed that Monday before a U.S. magis­ cision, which had come down to Harold Nicholson, the highest- trate in Alexandria, Va. "He Duke and Brigham Young, at ranking CIA employee ever to was not motivated by ideology, 9:30 p.m. eastern time at his be charged with espionage, de­ but by greed." high school in Irvine, Cal. KERRY GARLAND/THE CHRONICLE posited the first installment of Court documents unsealed Burgess, who is a member of the nearly $120,000 that they Monday traced a wealth of ev­ the Mormon Church, made his In remembrance suspect he was paid by idence amassed during the decision after extensive deliber­ Durham resident Jessie Hardin lights a candle for victims Moscow shortly after meetings nearly year-long investigation. ation in what came down to a of drunk driving accidents at Monday's vigil in the Chapel. with the Russians in Kuala See SPY on page 2 • choice between "religion and competition." "My decision was made after a lot of thought, prayer and pon­ dering," Burgess said. "My Officials respond to rash of computer thefts goals... were to play college bas­ ketball with and against the By JENNIFER LIU computers in a room at about body," Dean said. He added measures as a result of the best players, and I wanted to A three-month trend of 12:15 p.m., said Maj. Robert that students, employees, visi­ crimes. Colleen Tjalma, build­ win a National Championship, computer thefts at various lo­ Dean of the Duke University tors and outsiders could all ing manager at Fuqua, said and maybe, one day, play in the cations on campus, ranging Police Department, and re­ possibly be responsible for the that the school has submitted NBA. That is why I chose Duke from the Medical Center to turned at about 1:15 p.m. to computer theft. a proposal that would provide University." various libraries, have led offi­ find that the laptops had been Although the majority of for the installation of more Burgess' decision broke the cials to consider new security stolen. the stolen computers have key-card access entrances and hearts of many Cougar basket­ measures. He said the monetary value been laptops, Dean said that additional security devices. ball fans who had dubbed him Two laptop computers were of the 25 computers that have desktop computers have also "The computer thefts are on as the program's savior. stolen Nov. 12 from the Fuqua been stolen since September been taken. "It's been a combi­ the top of our mind," Tjalma "I feel like Fve really let some School of Business in the lat­ total about $70,000. nation of both," he said. said, adding that approximate­ people down at BYU," Burgess est in the string of thefts. Two "This is a case where you Some buildings are under­ ly four laptops have been stolen See BURGESS on page 14 • visitors to the school left their don't want to overlook any­ taking additional security See THEFTS on page 13 • Inside the criminal mind Former FBI agent discusses his pursuit of serial killers By ALEX GORDON the author of the recently mind. During his 25 years as an published "Mindhunter"—the Born and raised in Long agent with the FBI, John New York Times bestseller Island, N.Y., Douglas received Douglas probed the minds of that provides insights into a master's degree in educa­ many of society's most notori­ the country's most notorious tional psychological guidance ous and gruesome crimi­ serial killer cases. He will dis­ counseling from the Universi­ nals—among them, Charles cuss his fascinating life's ty of Wisconsin and earned Manson, the Son of Sam, Ted work of developing personali­ his doctorate in adult educa­ Bundy and the Unabomber. ty profiles to track down crim­ tion from Nova University in For Douglas, it was, quite inals tonight at 8 p.m. in Page Florida. He then served in the simply, the most essential Auditorium during a speech Air Force from 1966 to 1970 part of his job. sponsored by the University prior to joining the FBI. "To understand the artist, Union Major Speakers Com­ After settling in the FBI's you have to look at his work," mittee. behavioral science unit in said Douglas, 51, who has han­ Douglas' contribution to 1977, Douglas began inter­ dled more than 5,000 criminal law enforcement as a trail- viewing imprisoned serial cases during the course of his blazer in criminal profiling is killers to compile case study career. "As an FBI agent... I unquestionable. Police de­ research in order to formulate was always interested in un­ partments and criminal pros­ more accurate criminal pro- derstanding why these people ecutors, in addition to the files. To piece together such did what they did and why FBI, have benefited im­ profiles effectively, Douglas they did it how they did it." mensely from his expertise in explained, he had to synthe- SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Now retired, Douglas is understanding the criminal See DOUGLAS on page 6 *• John Douglas will speak In Page Auditorium tonight. THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1996 World and National Newsfile Flood of refugees to Rwanda dwindles N.Y. Times News Service Tapes released: The National By JAMES McKINLEY were trudging toward the border, a exodus to be finished by Tuesday. Archives made available Monday for N.Y. Times News Service long string of people marching single- The flood of returning refugees public listening audiotapes made GOMA, Zaire — The river of file carrying their belongings on their began three days ago, after Zairian covertly in the White House from refugees returning to Rwanda dwin­ heads. rebel forces with ties to Rwanda's 1971 to 1973 that show an unguard­ dled to a trickle Monday, but another In Rwanda, the head of the column Tutsi-led government encircled the ed President Richard Nixon veering half-million remained cut off from in­ had reached Ruhengeri, 30 miles from Mugunga camp and attacked it, quick­ abruptly from moments of maudlin ternational aid, somewhere in the hills here, and thousands were drifting off ly routing the Hutu guerrilla army self-pity to sometimes profane defi­ and valleys around Bukavu in the the main highway, down dirt roads and that the majority of refugees said had ance as he tried to contain the Wa­ south. tracks, to villages they had not seen in been essentially holding them hostage tergate scandal. In addition, hundreds of ragged two years. Aid workers expected this for months. people have begun to emerge from the U.N. Selects: The United States rain forests and volcano-studded stood defiantly alone Monday in its wilderness here, near this border town opposition to Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the north shore of Lake Kivu. They Agents point to polygraph as the Security Council began the tell of tens of thousands of other process of selecting the secretary- refugees in the woods, who are eating general who will lead the United grass and collecting rainwater in tests as evidence of crimes Nations into the next century. buckets to stay alive. • SPY from page 1 Russians, officials said. The once-teeming refugee camps Agents wove their case from strands that In recent weeks, investigators have Disease spreads: Argentina is around Goma—tent cities that had be­ included an examination of deceptive an­ searched Nicholson's house and office, struggling to control a deadly out­ come havens for Hutu guerrillas fo­ swers on polygraph tests, a pattern of ex­ his 1994 Chevrolet Lumina and mailbox­ break of the rodent-borne hanta menting violence in Rwanda—are now tensive overseas travel by Nicholson un­ es that they believe he used to send post­ virus that has killed seven people in empty fields of debris, left to scav­ related to his work assignments and cards with cryptic messages ta his Russ­ the last three months and left five engers and rats. * bank deposits that could not be ex­ ian contacts. One postcard recovered by others fighting for their lives. "They camps are empty. They will plained by Nicholson's annual salary of the FBI depicted the Washington Monu­ not be reopened," said Ray Wilkinson, $73,000. ment under a full moon; another had a a spokesman for the U.N. High Com­ In an affidavit made public Monday, photograph ofthe Capitol.