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CIA, busing, Israel, price controls, Rockefeller
Ford proposes CIA political powers transfer
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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. Just hours later, a
CIA counsel said Colby was in error
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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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