04/27/1993   LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former San Francisco police
officer accused of illegal spying says he worked for the CIA and
will expose the agency's alleged support for Central American death
squads if he is prosecuted, it was reported Tuesday.
   Tom Gerard, a police officer for 25 years, said he began working
for the CIA in 1982, then quit in late 1985 because he couldn't
tolerate what he saw, the Los Angeles Times reported.
   "This was not good guys versus bad guys," he said. "This was
evil. ... This was something the devil himself is involved in. And I
wanted no part of it."
   Gerard spoke to a Times reporter on the Philippine island of
Palawan, about 300 miles south of Manila. He retired from the force
and moved there last fall after police and the FBI questioned him in
connection with domestic spying.
   He and San Francisco art dealer Roy Bullock are suspected of
gathering confidential information from police and other government
files on thousands of individuals and groups.
   Gerard doesn't deny working with Bullock or "snooping and pooping
on people in the U.S."
   Their targets spanned a broad political spectrum, ranging from
neo-Nazis to Greenpeace. He collected information on the
"right-wing, left-wing and chicken-wing," Gerard said.
   The investigation is expected to last into June, San Francisco
District Attorney Arlo Smith said Tuesday. No charges have been
filed.
   Authorities suspect much illegally obtained information ended up
with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Bullock is a
longtime investigator for the ADL. The two also allegedly sold
information to the South African government.
   "I shouldn't say I did no wrong," Gerard told the Times. "I
should say I showed poor judgment. ... But as far as criminal acts,
no way."
  Gerard, 50, told the Times he was an undercover CIA agent from
1982 to 1985. The CIA, as is its usual practice, has refused to
confirm that Gerard was an agency employee.
   He told the newspaper there is proof the CIA was directly
involved in the training and support of torturers and death squads
operating in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala during the
mid-1980s. He said much of the proof is in a briefcase San Francisco
police seized from his department gym locker.
   The CIA has repeatedly denied directly supporting right-wing
death squads, which tortured and killed thousands of political
opponents and peasants.
   Gerard said several photos seized by police show CIA agents
attending interrogations, or posing with death squad members. He
denied working with the death squads.
   He said Bullock, who is cooperating with authorities, is trying
to make him the fall guy. He denied Bullock's statement to police
that they sold information about anti-apartheid groups to South
Africa and for $8,000 each.
   But Bullock's lawyer, Robert Breakstone, scoffed at Gerard's
version of events. "It's sad he has chosen to strike out at Roy,
because Roy really likes Tom," Breakstone said.