ANTI-DRUG OFFICER'S WIFE

Guilty In Heroin Case

NEW YORK - The wife of the former commander of the Army's anti-drug
operation in Colombia pleaded guilty yesterday to drug charges and said her
husband knew nothing of a plan to smuggle $700,000 worth of heroin.

"I never told him what I was doing," Laurie Hiett, 36, told reporters after
pleading guilty in federal court. Still free on bond, she faces up to nine
years in prison at sentencing on April 28. Hiett, whose husband, Col. James
Hiett, was head of U.S. anti-drug operations in Bogota, said she had been
addicted to drugs and was sorry her case made headlines while the United
States is waging a costly war on drugs.

"There are people dying every day to fight this, and then I did what I
did," she said. "I'm not proud of it. ... I just truly apologize."

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