COPY OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. ' TURNER DENIES CIA BUGGING OF S. KOREA'S PARK'

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• Publication Date: August 9, 1977
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waterways may not be over yet.
"I would- be surprised if we've seen
the last of the water projects ? even
this year," a Senior White House offi-
cial said yesterday.
At this point, .it is up to?the Presi-
dent to take the next step in the con-
troversy gver the expensive water
projects, ones that Congress wants to
have built and that Carter feels are
cost ineffective.
There seem to be two options for
the President, if he decides to take
.any action at. all. He could seek to
'defer funding for the 10 projects, and
his deferral would take effect auto-
matically unless Congress voted to
oveiride it'. ,
. Or he could attempt to rescind the
funding altogether. Should he choose
that option, he would need an affirm-
ative vote in Congress for the
projects to die and such,a vote is
an unlikely-prospect.
note that this bill contains fund-
? ing for 10 projects for which! recom-
mended deletion of funds," he. said.
"I remain very concerned about
these projects."
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' WHEN "HE INITIALLY raised the
issue of the waterways several
Months ago, the President sought to
kill 31 of the projects, and he later
trimmed the list 0.19. He succeeded
? in halting funds for nine projects and
reducing funding for four more.
According to Carter, the elim ina-
? tion of some waterways- was "a
precedent-setting first step in trim-
ming s ending on unnecessary
expensive and environmentally
/ damaging- construction projects . . .
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"Much remains to be done to
accomplish lasting reform in water
resOurces policy," he said. "My ad-
ministration is developing water
policy reform proposals and will con-
tinue to scrutinize carefully all ongo-
ing and proposed water projects."
Whatever broad action he fright
take to curb the construction of water
projects, it is certain to be met with
howls in Congress. Many senators
and House members appear to re-
?gard the waterways as a necessary
pork barrel, and thus Carter's first
foray against the projects cooled his
relations with Congress.
In his statement yesterday, issued
as he vacationed in his hometown,
Carter noted that the appropriations
bill provides $500 Million "for re-
search and development on breeder
reactors and other advanced nuclear
power technologies."
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CIA
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? - By Jeremiah O'Leary
? . Washington Star Stan Writer
' CIA Director Stansfield To
toda-Y,denied that U.S. intelli7,e
agents bugged the. South Korean ,
ernment's "Blue.House" cr had
recordings of of the. conversations ef
...President Park Chung Her.
. It'was the first time the new e;r
tor of 'central intelligence has
on the record about persist
ports that the tIA at n6 ti
bugged the Korean pre dent
dence . and found ev
scheme td influence U.S.
"There wee -eLo tape
? Turner Said., "I'm spea
'entire intelligence communi
just CIA.' But he declined to
on ,his answer when, repue,ers
pressed him as to whether the United
States had intercepted rness4:ops
being sent over the airwaves be': era
Seoul and Washington.
TURNER SAID the n D
agreement with the Korean (.7sl-
ieloJ
Intelligence Agency cr other Zoe,,c,
eel
governments about : how they ope's:ete
in the United States. There :7.7'^a no
deals about 'what they do here or
what U.S. agents do in foreign CMIT1-
tries, he said, adding that ,any
activities of Sayak (the Irania.ti
se-
cret .police), DINA (the Chilean se-
cret agency) and others are the prov-
ince of the FBI.
niffl th
Turn said that e CIA has
turned-over to Sen. Adlai E. Steven-
son,, and' chairman of the
Senate Ethics Committee, all docu-
ments in the CIA's possession re-
garding the committee's prospective
investigation of Korean influence-
peddling. But -Turner refused to go
-beyond the mere acknowledgment
'that these sensitive documents,
which might implicate senators in
the scandal, had been handed O'ler to.
the committee-.
The implication of Te:mer's state-
ment today is that none of tLese
documents is the result of electronic
surveillance of the Blue Eouse.
ON ?OTHER matters, Turner de-
clared: ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? - ?
He has taken the advice of Sen. Ed-
ward M. Kennedy, D-Mass, and is
notifying all involved universities of?
their unwitting association with the
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Among the documents apparently
made availabre was alist containing
the , names of it, 'number of federal
officials who allegedly received pay-
ments from Tongsun Park, the fugi-
tive Korean businessman whose ac-
tivities prompted the Justice
Department's.investigation.
? THE LIST, ,Which also was made
-available to the House Ethics (Stand-
ards 'of Official Conduct) Committee
last week, reportedly was obtained
IV federal agents from Jay Shin Rye,
a former associate of Park.
At his news conference, Stevenson
declined to say whether the list con-
tained the names of any current or
'past members of the Senate. In fact,
TURNER
(main earit's testimony in the crimi-
nal investigation Of the Justice De- .
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early press accounts of his activities
involving members of Congress and '
is believed to be living in England.
As part of the effort to obtain
Park's testimony, Bell said, high ad-
ministration officials have sought
help from the Korean government in
Seoul. He confirmed that President
Carter "has had some role" in these
communications, as has Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance.
Although the attorney, general's
statements seemed to underscore
Park's importance to both the crimi--
nal and congressional investigations,
he told reporters that some prosecu-
tions still could be brought without
the Korean's testimony.
Aurnsimmoz.dormomm.-...7.7.
plete and "sanitized" versions of _all
documents related to the drugs-test-
ing project. Turner said the Ford
administration's Rockefeller Com-
mission, which investigated allega-
tions of CIA abuses, had all this ma-
terial, too; well before the recent dis-
closures'of experiments on mind con-
trol. Turner , said -120 of the 149
projects .were the kind "you Wouldn't
mind having your children involved
in." The CIA is trying so far with-
out success. ? to find the unwittin7
victims of the tests.
* All documents on MK-ULTRA also
have gone to the Justice Department,
which must determine whether any-
one connected with the tests should
be prosecuted.
Turner- ,said the CIA also had
undertaken tests on parapsychology
several years ago. The. intelligence
director said the agency had a :nan
gifted with what he called "visie-per-
ception" otplaces he had never seen,
but added with a smile that the man
died two years ago "and we haven't'
heard from him since."
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secret _IVIK-ULTRA -* drug-testing
project now coming to public atten-
den. But he complained that some
universities have been "unaca-
demic" in their treatment of individ-
uals who had even a small associa-
tion with the CIA in the past.
? He has ordered new moves to
reduce. the CIA Operations Division
by about 800 employes, largely from
an overstaffing that grew during the
war in Vietnam,. He also has ordered
new screening and exercise pro-
grams so that the agency will get
"lean and mean."
? He is not cledring all secret intelli-
gence operations in advance with the
Senate Intelligence Committee, al-
though the legislative branch is being
notified. .
? The Senate committees working on
MK-ULTRA were given both corn-
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