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 over 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
override 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.
"I note that this bill contains fund-
'ing for 10 projects for which I recom-
mended deletion of funds," he. said.
"I remain very concerned about
these projects."
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 to '19. He succeeded
in halting funds for nine projects and
reducing funding for four more.
According to. Carter; the elimina-
tion of some waterways- was "a
precedent-setting first step in trim-
ming spending on unnecessary,
expensive and environmentally
damaging construction projects .. .
this is unprecedented progress.
"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 - might
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 5500 million \" for re-
search and development on breeder
reactors and other advanced nuclear
power technologies."
See CARTER, A-7
By Jeremiah O'Leary
Washington StarSta'! ritrr
CIA Director Stansfield Turner
today denied that U.S. intelligence
agents bugged the South Korean gov-
ernment's "Blue House" or had tap
recordings of the conversations of
President Park Chung Hee.
It'was the first time the new . i. ee-
for of central intelligence has spoken
on the record about persistent re-
ports that the CIA at one time had
bugged the Korean presidentia` resi-
dence and found evidence of
scheme to influence U.S. le'giss ;teas.
"There wer no tapes, no bugs,"
Turner said. " 'm speaking for the
entire intelligence community, net
just CIA.'But he declined to expand
on his answer when reporters
pressed him as to whether the United
.States had intercepted messages
being sent over the airwaves
Seoul and Washiington.
TURNER SAID the CIA LP F nc,
agreement with the Korean Centre'
Intelligence Agency or other foreign
governments about how they operate
in the united States. There afire no
deals about What they do :.ere or
what U.S. agents. do in foreign coun-
tries, he said, a=dding that any U.S.
activities of Savak (the Iranian se-
cret police), DINA (the Chilean se-
cret agency) and others are the prov-
ince of the FBI.
Turn- said that the CIA has
turned over to Sen. Adlai E. Steven-
son,, D-I11., 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 over to,
the committee.
The implication of Turner's sttate-
ment today is that none of these
documents *S the result of electronic
surveillance of the Blue House.
ON OTHER matters, Turner
de-
clared:
0 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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senators. early press accounts of his activities
Among. the documents apparently involving members of Congress and
made available was a' list containing is believed to be, living in England.
the, names of a, number of federal As part of the effort to obtain
officials who allegedly received pay- Park's testimony, Bell said, high acl-
ments from Tongsun Park, the fugi-. ministration officials have sought
tive Korean businessman whose ac- help from the Korean government in
tivities prompted the. Justice Seoul.`He confirmed that President
Department's.investigation. Carter "has had some role" in these
THE LIST; which also.was made communications, as has Secretary of
-available to the House Ethics (Stand- State Cyrus Vance.
ards `of Official Conduct) Committee Although the attorney. generai's
last week, reportedly. was obtained statements seemed to underscore
b federal agents from D Jay Shin Rye,! Park's importance to both the crimi
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.
Continued FromA-i
secret .MK-ULTRA ';drug-testing
project now coming to public atten-
tidn. But he complained that some
universities have been "unaca-
demic" in their treatment of individ-
uals who had even a small associa-
iy Gene tion with the CIA in the past. ?'
fitted, ' it ? He has ordered new moves to
;ey and reduce, the CIA Operations Division
saying by about 800 employes, largely from
s argu-
;e Rob-
keys an,
actions
jury?on
ins.
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-
attor- though the legislative branch is being
,ss had ' notified.
.d corn- ? The Senate committees working on
a country
nal and congressional investigations,
he told reporters that some prosecu-
tions still could be brought without
the Korean's testimony.
plete and "sanitized" versions of all
documents related to the drugs-test-
ing project. Turner said the ford
administration's Rockefeller Corn-
mission, which investigated aileg--
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 14D
projects were the kind "you wouldn't
mind having your children involved
in." The CIA is trying - so far w th-
out success --- to find the unwitbn
victims of the tests.
All documents on INIK-ULTRA also
have gone to the justice Department,
which must determine whether aev-
one connected with the tests shoo'
b'e prosecuted.
Turner said the CIA also , had
undertaken tests on parapsychoi:ogy
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 seer.
but added with a smile that the man
died two years ago "and we haven't
heard from him since."
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