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THE BATTALION Page 9 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1975 'omsanj liv esfed s opera- "•ogram, throngl o35. £],. s 2,98?), increasf olasses iar com. CIA, busing, Israel, price controls, Rockefeller Ford proposes CIA political powers transfer .m. .m. .m. i I i i I! : i : i Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Ford said Tuesday he will ask for administrative changes in the Cent ral Intelligence Agency but that he will not rule out political activities in other countries if American security is involved. | The President did not spell out what the changes might he. But in an earlier interview with the Chicago Sun-Times he was quoted as saying he may strip the CIA of its authority to conduct covert political Operations overseas and transfer those responsibilities to another agency. | Ford said the White House now is studying proposals about the CIA, [but I don’t want to make any com mitment one way or another until ve actually submit the legislative Proposals to the Congress and de- :kle to do whatever we want to do idministratively. Responding to a question of whether he woidd ban activity by any American agency, or just the CIA, Ford said: “I wouldn’t rule out necessary political activities by the United States if it involves our security.’’ The President also said federal courts apparently have not taken sufficient notice of 1974 legislation that would make forced busing of school children a last resort. And he said the United States has made no firm commitment to sup ply F16 fighter bombers and Persh ing Missiles to Israel as part of the new Sinai agreement. “They are on the shopping list,” he said, and they will be discussed “with representatives of the Israeli government. The President, seated on the front edge of his big desk, held his first news conference in the Oval Office. The conference was called on short notice. Published reports Tuesday said that there were secret accords in the Sinai agreement under which Israel would receive the newest weapon ry, including missiles that could be armed with nuclear warheads. “We have for a long, long time supplied Israel with very substantial amounts of military hardware,’ Ford said. “We have always felt that the survival of Israel in the Middle East was very important and the military hardware that we have pro vided in the past and will in the future provides for that survival.” The President declined to call the defense relationship as a “security treaty.” “There is no firm commit ment on any of the weapons,” he said. Ford said also: • He is disappointed in the House Intelligence Committee’s re lease last week of classified docu ments relating to events preceding the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Such a breach by a private citizen would represent “serious criminal of fenses,” he said. • Stationing of American monitoring technicians in the Sinai buffer zone between Israel and Egypt “is a good contribution to the establishment and permanency of peace in the Middle East. He said “utmost caution” will be taken for their protection and he did not anticipate their being captured or killed by Palestine guerrillas. • He still opposes wage and price controls as a means of fighting infla tion. On the issue of school busing, he said he is bothered by the facts that the courts apparently have not taken into consideration a law that he signed in August 1974 which he said “sets forth seven specific prop osals that the court should follow before they actually use the busing remedy. He noted the bill provides for such steps as assigning students to schools closest to their homes, per mitting students to transfer from a school in which a majority of the students are of their race to one in which a minority are of their race, revising attendance zones without requiring transportation, and con struction of new schools or closing of inferior schools. Asked whether the United States would consider stationing American technicians on the Jordanian or Sy rian fronts. Ford replied, T don’t think I should speculate about any negotiations or agreements that have not yet begun. ” The President said the United States has assured Israel of secure supplies of oil to replace the oil it will lose by giving up the Abu Rudeis fields to the Egyptians as part of the interim agreement. He defended this as being part of the over-all military, economic pac kage the United States is providing Israel as part of the agreement. He noted that several months ago 76 senators urged him to recommend that more money be approved by Congress for Israel. “So we not only now have peace and a step toward a broader peace, but it is also at a lesser cost than what the 76 senators promoted,” he said. Ford again said that Vice Presi dent Rockefeller is doing an excel lent job, but “as a tradition, it is too early at this stage of a political cam paign to endorse him as a running mate in 1976.” Director Colby says CIA ignored executive order Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency maintained a secret poison arsenal and developed sophisticated hardware to deliver the toxins despite a presidential order to eliminate the poison stockpile, according to CIA Direc tor William E. Colby. He told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that records from the $3-million CIA-Army poison project later were obliter ated on orders of then-CIA Director Richard Helms. 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College Monday thru Saturday 8 AM- 12 PM Sunday 9 AM- 1U PM and that no records were destroyed. But committee counsel Frederick A. O. Schwartz Jr., said, “We have evidence that there are memos which one would think should exist which no longer exist. He said Helms will he questioned about the matter when he testifies Wednes day. In dramatic testimony on the first day of the committee s public hear ings, Colby displayed a poison dart gun which can use a tiny amount of poison to kill a person silently, in stantly and without a trace. Colby said 37 lethal poisons were discovered in an agency inventory of its laboratories, but that some were not subject to orders by Presi dent Nixon that the agency and the Pentagon destroy poison stockpiles. However, shortly after Colby tes tified that Helms ordered the files destroyed in November 1972, CIA chief counsel Mitchell Rogovin told reporters Colby had mispoken him self entirely. He said not only is there no memo tying Helms to the destruction of documents, as Colby testified, there also is no reason to believe that any documents relating to the poison project were ever destroyed. He gave no reason for the discre pancy and would only say that Colby woidd clarify the matter in a letter to the committee. In another memo released to the committee Tuesday, written in 1967, a high CIA official discussed aspects of code-named “E.M. Naomi” poison projects which in cluded development of a means of sending' poi'sc/nous ehehii'caT iViVd '' biological agents through a subway system. Another plan was for crop warfare. Colby said subway tests were ac tually conducted in New York City, but hazardous materials were not used. The memo discussed testing of three methods of “carrying out a covert attack against crops and caus ing severe crop loss.” Brandishing a jet-black, dart gun which he said could deliver a lethal dose of shellfish .toxin instantane ously from 100 meters away, Colby said two teaspoons of the shellfish poison were hidden away in 1970 to save them from being destroyed. He said the volume retained by the CIA was enough to kill several thousand persons. Colby said the shellfish poison was developed as a successor to cyanide “suicide pills. He told the committee a shellfish tab was car ried by Gary Francis Powers on his ill-fated 1960 U-2 mission over the Soviet Union. But Powers said in Los Angeles Tuesday he carried another poison — curare. A CIA memo described the pistol-like gun as a “nondiscernable microbionoeulator. ” Colby told the committee it is a “very serious weapon and the poison once in jected would take effect im mediately and could not be traced in an autopsy. 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