TURNER DENIES CIA BUGGING OF S. KOREA'S PARK

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• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
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• Publication Date: August 9, 1977
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S. Korea's Park .
By Jeremiah O'Leary
Via; hington StarStaU Writer
CIA Director Stansfield Turner
today denied that U.S. intelligence
agents bugged the South Korean gov-
ernment's "Blue House" or had tape
recordings of the conversations of
President Park.ChungHee. _' ? ?.
It was the first time-the new direc-
tor of central intelligence has spoken .
on the record about persistent re-:
ports that the CIA at one time had -
bugged the Korean presidential resi-
dence and found evidence of a'
scheme to influence U.S. legislators.
"There were no tapes, no bugs,":
Turner said. "I'm speaking for the.?
entire intelligence community, not:
pressed him as to whether the United
States had intercepted . messages
being sent over the airwaves betwegn
Seoul and Washington.
TURNER SAID the CIA has no
agreement- with the Korean Central
Intelligence Agency or other foreign
governments about how they operate
in the United States. There are-no
deals about what they do here. or
what U.S. agents do in foreign coun-
tries, he said, adding that any U.S.-
cret agency) and others are the prpv-
'Turner said that the CIA -has
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 over to
the committee. .
The implication of Turner's state-
ment today is that none of these
documents is the result of electronic
surveillance of the Blue House.
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?
plete and "sanitized" versions of all
documents related to the drugs-test-
ing project. Turner said the Ford
administration's Rockefeller Com-'s
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 unwitting.:
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 man
gifted with what he called "visio-per-
ception" of places he had never seen.
but added with a smile that the-man
died two years ago "and-.we haven't
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their unwitting association with the j MK-ULTRA were 'given both com heard from him since.' %-,
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9 August 1977
secret - MK-ULTRA ' drug-testing
project now coming to public atten-
tion. -But he complained.-that some
universities have been "unaca-
demic" in their treatment of individ-
uals who had even a small associa-
tionwith 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 clearing all secret intelli-
gence operations in advance with the-
Senate Intelligence Committee, al-
though the legislative branch is being
notified... :.. - .
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