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tice. He racing he Marl- bel "'de- of front 'o docu- Thormmation avanlavie in response to obtain Park's testimony in the crimi- the committee's blanket request to nal investigation of the Justice De- all federal agencies for that mightgyed FARRelease 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791-000200140002-0 senators. 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- Rodgers. tained the names of any current or past members of the Senate. In fact, Park left the United States after 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. CPYRGHT 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- tion with the CIA in the past. . He has ordered new moves to by and 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 Turner said the CIA also had undertaken tests on parapsychology several years ago. The intelligence director said the agency had a man Senate Intelligence Committee, al- gifted with what he called "visio-per- attor- s had com- 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. 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." % I didn't know Turner had such a sharp wit! a country morning SG11 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200140002-0 Uh led that Jan. 7, General gene B. million -- int and letter, le mail ifted by aries at of Tide- Inc., a the let- n con- and at t does gest to Cory , poor does- in life n, just Gene tted, it saying argu- 2 Rob- lys an ctions iry .on IS.
Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200140002-0 SG11 ORM 1395A UNCLASSIFIED ame- Cover? Yes No Request Date 7 June 1995 Library Use Only Due Date adge Number USERID SG1A Needed By 1 August 1995 Call No. ir/Off/Div ORD/LY Room/Bldg. 809 AMES Phone SG1A Black Secure 30134 SEP 19 4 07 AM '94 tle Of Publication (For A Journal: Include Vol., Issue, Page(s)) "Turner Denies CIA Bugging of South Korea's Park" The Washington Star, 9 August 1977 blication Date thor J. O' Leary blisher marks (ISSN, ISBN, Source of Citation, Etc.) (Questions? - Call Natalie at the above numbers) SG11 Sorry about the poor quality Copy- Our microfilm readers are having problems. Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200140002-0