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PLAINS, Ga. -- Though President
Carter has signed a compromise bill
his battle with Congress over the
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.
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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 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 $500 million "for re-
search and development on breeder
reactors and other advanced nuclear
power technologies."
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Turner Denies
CIA Bugging of
S. Korea's Park
By Jeremiah O'Leary
Washington Star Staff 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 Chung Hee.
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
scheme to influence U.S. legislators.
"There wer no tapes, no bugs,"
Turner said. "I'm speaking for the
entire intelligence community, not
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 between
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.
activities of Savak (the Iranian se-
cret police), DINA (the Chilean se-
cret agency) and others are the prov-
ince of the FBI.
Turner said that the CIA has
turned over to Sen. Adlai E. Steven-
son, D-Ill., 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 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
their unwitting association with the
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Among the documents apparently
made available was a list containing
the names of a 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
by 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,
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.
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TURNER
Continued From A-1
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-
y Gene tion with the CIA in the past.
itted, it . He has ordered new moves to
jey and
saying
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
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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 com-
plete and "sanitized" versions of al!
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 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
heard from him since."
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