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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL 9 May 1984 Pg. 8 Assassinations not forgotten Security a fact of life in Washington ~ By WILLIAM JOHNSON Gtobe and Melt Correspondent Lincoin, William McKinley, John Kennedy — gives an immediacy to security procedures in Wash- ington that make them familiar Journalists,.employees and habit- wal visitors, such as lobbyists, must always display identifica- tion cards, which include a pic- ture. This is. true of most govern- ment office buildings in Washing- ton. Around the Capitol, the White House, the State Department and some .other buildings, ‘flower Dump trucks loaded with sand are parked near White House gate on earlier scare. boxes” of whitewashed concrete were installed so as to make it difficult to crash onto the grounds with a truck or car, possibly load- ed with explosives. - Asked yesterday about security ‘procedures for the White House, a special agent in the Secret Ser- vice’s Office of Public. Affairs declined to describe any whatso- ever. “If we discussed our proce- dures, they wouldn't be effective any more,” he said. Dut there have been published reports that ground-to-air mis- siles have been installed discreet- ly around the White House to Protect it from possible air at. tack. On the ground, marked or unmarked cars and. vans are always parked on the streets surrounding the White House. Some of them. contain German : rd dogs, which will some- times start to bark as one strolls past. Getting a highly coveted White House press pass requires secur- ity clearance by the Secret Ser- vice that takes months and, ac- cording to a press officer at the State Department, costs the Government $10,000 each time. A foreign journalist also requires also a security clearance by the State Department at a similar cost. According to the same press officer, one police body will not accept the security clearance of the other. [ Whenever the President — or even a presidential candidate — is travelling in public areas, the Secret Service can be rough and curt in ordering: le not to move, and closing off elevators and corridors which will be pas- sed by the person they are guard. - In the age of terrorism, anyone and everyone must be considered a potential assassin. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : cl&-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5