AP ARTICLE REPORTING THAT FRANK CHURCH PLANS TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP TOWARD ENTERING THE RACE FOR THE 1976 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2002
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WITH .SCHEDULED punic HEARINGS5 LHAIRMAN tRARK E,HURCH PLANS TO TAKE
THE FIRST STEP TOWARD ENTERING THE "RACE FOR THE 1.4(b UEMOCRATIC
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1HURCH5 A UEMOCRAT FROM IDAHO PLANS TO FILE PAPERS WITH THE FEDERAL
LLECTION COMMISSION TODAY SETTING-UP A COMMITTEE TO RAISE FUNDS AND
EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
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NATOR SAID THAT P. ALL GOES
ACCORDING TO PLAN HE WILL ANNOUNCE HIS CANDIDACY SHORTLY AFTER THE
FIRST OF THE YEAR.
CHURCH WILL BE JOINING A FIELD OF 10 OTHER ANNOUNCED DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATES AND HAS SAID THAT BECAUSE OF HIS LATE START HE PROBABLY
RILL NOT ENTER ANY OF THE EARLY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES.
'WHEN THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE BEGAN ITS WORK A YEAR AGO
MURCH ANNOUNCED HE WOULD ENGAGE IN NO POLITICAL ACTIVITIES UNTIL THE
COMMITTEE'S WORK WAS ENDED.
ALTHOUGH THE COMMITTEE STILL HAS TO WRITE AND PUBLISH ITS FINAL
REPORT CHURCH HAS DECIDED THAT FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES THAT MOMENT
HAS COME.
ALTHOUGH COMMITEE SPOKESMEN SAID THERE MAY-BE ONE OR TWO DAYS OF
PUBLIC HEARINGS SOMETIME NEXT MONTFWTHE LAST SCHEDULED WITNESS WAS
ATTY. GEN. EDWARD H. LEVI, WHO TESTIFIED THURSDAY THAT THE JUSTICE
:PEPARTMENT HAS DRAFTED GUIDELINES BARRING THE FBI FROM INVESTIGATING
PERSONS WHO DISAGREE WITH GOVERNMENT POLICIES UNLESS THERE IS A REAL
LIKELIHOOD THEY ARE INVOLVED IN VIOLENT AND UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES.
LEVI ALSO OUTLINED GUIDELINES THAT WOULD FORBID THE FBI FROM ACTING
TO DISCREDIT AND DISRUPT MEMBERS OF DOMESTIC ORGANIZATIONS UNLESS
SUCH "PREVENTIVE ACTION" WAS ESSENTIAL TO SAVE HUMAN LIFE AND THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL APPROVES IT.
LEVI TOLD THE COMMITTEE THAT WHILE HE WAS DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
,HICAGO LAW SCHOOL HE RECEIVED AN ANONYMOUS LETTER HE NOW KNOWS WAS
PREPARED BY THE FBI UNDER ITS COINTELPRO OPERATION.
HE LETTER SAID A MEMBER OF. THE SCHOOLSS FACULTY WAS A MEMBER OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY.
HHE PROPOSED GUIDELINES SETTING UP REGULAR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVIEW
DF FBI DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS WERE DESCRIBED BY LEVI AS
"TOUGH AND MAYBE TOO TOUGH."
2UT CHURCH WHO HAS SAID THERE IS A NEED TO CURB THE FBI3S POWER AND
LIMIT ITS ACTIVITIES, CALLED THE GUIDELINES 'VERY VAGUE."
SEN. WALTER F. MONDALE D-MINN. TOLD LEVI THE GUIDELINS HOULE! MEAN
NOTHING IN THE FACE OF A DIRECT ORDER FROM THE PRESIDENT.
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DTHER PRESENT OR FORMER TOP U'OFFICIALS5 ACCORDING TO SEN. GARY
HART.
HART5 A DEMOCRAT FROM COLDRADDI-STOPPED SHORT OF CALLING ANY OF THEM
A LIARS, iNSTEAD3 HE CITED EXAMPLES -OF THEIR STATEMENTS TO OTHER
EONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES "WHICH APPEAR TO SE MISLEADING AT BEST3 OR5
RERHAPS3 PERJURIOUS."
THE OTHER THREE MENTIONED EY ARD APE FORMER' CIR DIRECTOR RICHARD K.
.4ELMS5 FORMER U.S. AM c, t, Tn CHILE tOWARD KORRY AND .1-1ARLEZ-s,
CRETARY OF STATE INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
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(:::ARCH BEFOR 'DREIGN-RELATIONS OMMITTEE WHEN HELMS ELMS' TESTIMONY
RESPONDED "NO3 SIRA" TO THE-UESTION:-:"DID THE CIA ATTEMPT AT ANY
TIME TO PREVENT SALVADOR ALLENDE "GOSSENS-FROM BEING ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF CHILE IN 1970?"
MART NOTED THFCP' A 1970 Ui MEMO STATED THAT THE DIRECTOR (HELMS)
TOLD THE GROUP THAT PRESIDENT ti..174.14-HAD :DECIDED THAT AN ALLENDE REGIME
34 CHILE WAS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE'JNITED'STATES-THE PRESIDENT ASKED
STATINTEE AGENCY TO PREVENT ALLENDE-FROM.COMING TO POWER OR TO UNSEAT HIM.
THE PRESIDENT AUTHORIZED $10?MILLION'FOR THIS'PURPOSE3'IF NEEDED."
HART ALSO CITED A SEPTEMBER /97a -STATEMENT BY KISSINGER BEFORE THE
FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE THAT""TRE'CIft . WAS IN A'VERY MINOR
NAY INVOLVED IN THE 1970 ELECTION AND SINCETHEN WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY
STAYED AWAY FROM COUPS?J'
ACCORDING TO HART5.THE'RECDRO'C0MPILED BY THE INTELLIGENCECOMMITTEE
SHOWED THAT THE CIA SPENT $1 MILLION ON A""SPOILING OPERATION
AGAINST ALLENDE PRIOR TO HIS SEPTEMBER i976 ELECTION. AFTER THAT
EFFORT FAILED3 U.S. AGENTS ATTEMPTED TOPREVENT HIM FROM TAKING OFFICE
EY PROMOTING A MILITARY COUP 3' HRT SAID.
WOULD NOT CALL THIS KIND OF INVOLVEMENT'?MINOR1'''' HE DECLARED.
HART ALSO CITED CONFLICTS IN THE CONGRESSIONAL'TESTIKONT OF KORRY
AND MEYER5 BUT HE HELD OUT THE POSSIBILITY -THAT KORRY AND -MEYER MAY
MOT HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE FULL-EXTENT?OFii.S. COVERT OPERATIONS IN
CHILE.
HART SAID HE MADE HIS'SPEECH'IN-AN'IFFORT -TD-SPUR TWE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT TO ACTION.
"THIS CONFLICT HAS BEEN EVIDENT FOR TWO YEARS AND NOTHING HAS
HAPPENED5" HE SAID.
THE JUSTICE DEPART11ENT3 WHICH IS KNOWN TO BE INVESTIGATING A NUMBER
OF CIA ACTIVITIES INVOLVING HELMS!' HAS. ASKED THE COMMITTEE 70 TURN
OVER THE TESTIMONY TAKEN FROM VARIOUS 'WITNESSES CONCERNING CHILE.
H7 A PUBLIC HEARING THURSDAY! COMMITTEE -CHAIRMAN FRANK CHURCH!
D-IDAH05 ASSURED ATTY. GEN. i'DNAFT*.'11' THAT THE COMMITTEE ? ?
3S FULLY WILLING TO COOPERATE 'IN 'ANY WRY.'"
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