The State - News from Aug. 7, 1987

A retired Navy radioman confessed to passing classified U. S. defense papers to Philippine intelligence officers after his arrest last December, a naval intelligence officer testified at the former sailor’s court martial in San Diego. Thomas Goodman, a naval intelligence agent, told a military judge that the confession from Michael H. Allen came after he viewed a videotape of himself hiding documents in his pockets while working as a civilian clerk at the Cubi Point U. S. Naval Telecommunications Station near Manilla. After watching a few minutes of the videotape, Allen told the agents to stop the tape, said Goodman, who conducted the interview. “He looked at the floor and said, ‘You’ve got me,”’ Goodman testified. Allen, 54, faces three charges of espionage supported by 13 specifications that occurred between July and December, 1986. A 22-year veteran, Allen faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.