SAUCE FOR THE GANDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030037-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
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Sauce
For
'i'~ie Gander
ABROAD AT HOME
that South Korea's Central Intelligence
'Agency (the K.C.I.A.) inspired 1974
demonstrations by Mr. Moon's follow-
ers against the impeachment of Rich-
ard Nixon.
The K.C.I.A. has also reportedly
been using its physical muscle inside
the United States. Its agents are said
to operate in a large Korean commu-
nity in Los Angeles, intimidating and
even beating individuals opposed to
President Park.
All .this offends ,the most basic
American sense of self-respect, far a
minor foreign power 'to treat the
United States as a target for bribery
and intimidation is humiliating.
And South Korea is not the only
country to have agents acting here
in a brazen way. Chile and Iran are
two other examples. The Chilean secret
police are believed to have connec-
tions with Cuban exiles suspected of
va~`ious acts of terrorism, including the
murder in `Washington of the former
Chilean Foreign Minister, Orlando
Letelier.
1Vlost Americans must find it repel-
lent to have such things happening
in our coun?ery. But how many have
stopped to think that what has been
done here is exactly whoa we have
done unto others? The American C.I.A.
has paid politicians and edit rs in
countries around the globe. It has
planned assassinations, waged secret
wars and encouraged military coups
against constitutional governments.
All that is. familiar stuff after the in-
teIligemce investigations of the. last
When President Ford was a~_ ced in
1974 whether it wah Ius policy to "d~e-
stabrlize" other goveraxnents, }3e re-
plied that every .country does t'ZLat
sort of thing. It was a cynical answer
-and one that. is self-defeating foa-
this country because it does not fist
our image of oti~se7V~s: ?
The Carter Administration sho~{ld
move Quickly to do what Mr.' Ford
refused: Limit covert operations by
law to situations that, in Clark Clif-
ford's phrase, threaten to have "a
profound impact on the continued
existence of this country." And the
Administration should underline its
commitment to law by bringing to
book, at last; those United States ln-
teiligence officials who lied under
oath and committed other crimes.
None of that is easy, but as a
matter of self-interest it is neces-
sary. And after all, it was Jimmy
Carter. who said, beginning as long
ago as last March, "Our. policies
should be open and honest and decent
as the American people themselves."
By Anthony Z.ewis
BOSTON, Nov. 10-One of the :early
problems to confront Jimmy Carter as
President will almost certainly be the
ripening scandal of South Korean
covert activities in this country. It is
a delicate problem with disturbing im-
plications, involving as i~t does both
foreign policy ?and domestic politics,
morals and law.
Agents of Park Chung Hee, the
South Korean dictator, have spent mil-
lions here in recent .years. trying to
buy influence: That, much is already
clear from newspaper investigations.
What makes it especially awkward
for Mr. Carter is than leading Demo-
cratic Congressmen have begn among
the mau~n recipietrts of the Korean
largesse.
Tl:e House Democratic w1~ip, Rgpre-
serctative Jahn J. McFall of California,
admitted after the electiorn'-an aide
had denied it tiefare-that he got
$3,000 from Tongs~in Park, a Korean
businessman and operator in Wash-
ingtan. The money was not a, cam-
paign contribution but went into gezv-
eral office ids for Mr. McFa(rl's use.
He also got an expensive digital watch
and silver tea service.
The retiring Speaker o! the House:
Carl Albert, has had warm. relations
with South . Korean representatives;
and he has on liis staff in an influ-
ential role a person of Korean birth,
Mrs. Sue Park Thomson, Last summer
the House International Relations
Committee, in a rare action, voted
unanimously for a resolution that
among other. things criticized the trial
in Seoul of eighteen opponents of
President Park. At the fast minute
Speaker Albert took the resolution off
the House calendar.
There are suspicions, too, about the
activities of the Korean evangelist Sun
Myung Moon. Recant reports suggest
two years:. '
The Ka:~an scandal`2~etnirbds us how
dangerous it ~'s fvr the United States
to act as if its cansti~tutional, legal
and ethical standards stopped alt the
water's edge. If we ;day foreign poli-
ticians as a matter of course, and
wiretap our nationals abroad and plat
violence; it is hard to object to other
countries behaving the same wax.
The first stop in dealing wiRh the
covert South Korean activities is to
have a tough official investigation arni
get the facts out in the open. The next
is to make clear that this country
will not tolerate . dirty tricks here ? by
rthe secret policemen. an~ agents of
other countries-whether, them gov--
ernments are Communist enemies" or
right wing "friends." But such acbions_
are not likely to be effective unless
we caavince the world that we are
prepaic+ed to abide . by sianPiar rules
ourselves. .~
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