Oregon daily emerald., April 21, 1978, Page 5, Image 5

Says he started whole investigation’
Kissinger aware of Korean bribe
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Henry Kissinger
testified Thursday that he and Pres. Ford
overruled U.S. intelligence agents in 1975
ana launched the investigation of alleged
bribery and influence-buying by the South
Korean government.
The whole investigation was started be
cause I turned over a list of names to the
attorney general,” Kissinger said, “it was
information I did not think he possessed.”
Kissinger told the House International
Relations Committee that until 1975, he
had only been aware of lobbying by Korean
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agents on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in
Washington, not allegations of large scale
bribery.
However, he said he was aware of a 1971
letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
saying that a member of Congress had re
ceived payments from South Korean rice
dealer Tongsun Park.
The former secretary of state, who was
then Pres. Nixon’s national security ad
viser, said he had no recollection of having
read two other early warnings from Hoover
concerning other activities by Park and the
Korean government.
The letters were addressed to Kissinger,
then director of the National Security Coun
cil, and to Attorney General John Mitchell.
While Kissinger did not identify the
member of Congress, committee aides
identified him as former Rep. Cornelius Gal
lagher, D-N.J. Gallagher has declined to
talk about his dealings with Park other than
to say he did nothing wrong.
Kissinger said he had taken no action in
the matter because he assumed it was
being dealt with by the FBI, the Justice De
partment and the CIA. It was not in the
jurisdiction of the National Security Council
he added.
Kissinger said the situation changed in
February 1975 when Philip Habib, then an
undersecretary of state, “called my atten
tion to some sensitive intelligence reports
which indicated there might be some at
tempts being made to lobby or bribe con
gressmen.”
Kissinger said he took the information to
Ford, who asked whether it was conclusive
He said Ford was told that it was not and
that the president then issued instructions
that a watch be kept on the situation.
woria at a glance
From Associated Press reports
Photo of Moro surfaces
ROME After a frantic three-day hunt by divers, skiers and
soldiers for Aldo Moro’s body, a Rome newspaper Thursday
received a snapshot of the kidnapped former premier in apparent
good health. But with it was a communique vowing to kill him if the
government does not agree to free ‘‘communist prisoners” bv
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The Communist Party late Thursday called on the government
to reject the terrorists' demand, declaring the "state cannot com
promise on principles and laws on which the national community
and civilized living rest.”
Group asks for PGE firing
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public Citizen, an anti-nuclear
citizen s group, asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Thursday to fine Portland General Electric Co. and shut down for
remedial work on its Trojan nuclear power plant in Oregon, where
two workers were accidentally exposed to high radiation
An official of the commission’s West Coast regional office
confirmed the accident had occurred April 5. He said two techni
cians checking for suspected radiation leakage unwittinqly en
tered an unshielded area where radioactive spent fuel rods pas
sed within a few feet of them.
Dollar surges on market
LONDON The dollar had its best day in months on world
foreign exchanges Thursday, buoyed by the U.S. Treasury's
decision to support the dollar by selling gold from Fort Knox.
The announcement sent the price of gold bullion crashing by
as much as $6 an ounce, while the dollar exploded from its
year-long decline.
The American currency jumped more than five centime — or
2.8 percent of its value — against the Swiss franc.
La Pine women set
for sentencing today
SYDNEY', Australia (AP) —
Two elderly Oregon women were
scheduled to be sentenced today
for smuggling $1.5 million worth of
hashish into Australia under the
floorboards of their camping van.
Vera Todd Hays, 60, and Flor
ence May Bessire, 61, both of La
Pine, pleaded guilty March 15 to
smuggling nearly 2,200 pounds of
hashish. They said they were
tricked into the smuggling by a
nephew of Hays.
Police said it was the biggest
drug seizure in Australian history.
The women could be sentenced
to 25 years in jail and $100,000 in
fines.
During a court appearance last
week, both women wept as they
asked for leniency.
Bessire testified that Hays’
nephew, Vern Todd, had offered
them an all-expense-paid world
trip if they would drive a
Mercedes-Benz camper from
West Germany to Bombay, India.
Once there, she said, Todd asked
them to take the van to Australia.
Bessire testified that “Todd
mentioned grass’’ during their
talks, but she was unaware of the
van’s illegal contents until they
were arrested by narcotics agents
near Sydney.
Australian authorities have is
sued arrest warrants for Todd and
another man in connection with
the case.
Gray pleads ‘not auiltv’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five
blocks from where J. Edgar
Hoover reigned so long over the
FBI, his short-term successor
pleaded innocent Thursday to
charges of trampling the civil
rights of Americans while search
EPA orders
halt to Chrysler
car production
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Thursday ordered the
Chrysler Corp. to halt production
of nine car models by April 29
unless steps are taken to insure
that the vehicles meet auto emis
sion standards.
The EPA said it tested the
Chrysler Corp. vehicles and found
that some exceeded the allowable
level of carbon monoxide emis
sions by an average of 40 percent.
In addition, the agency ordered
Chrysler to recall the 77,000
1978-model cars already sold to
individuals or shipped to dealers
and to correct any exhaust de
ficiencies.
ing for radical bombers.
“Not guilty,” said L. Patrick
Gray III to the accusation that he
conspired with two other top FBI
officials to injure and oppress citi
zens of the United States.
“Not guilty,” said W. Mark Felt
a former acting associate director.
“Not guilty,” said Edward Miller,
former assistant director of the
domestic intelligence division.
Later, the former G-Men were
taken to the U.S. marshal’s office
for processing. Mug shots were
made, front and side, each man
was assigned a number and fing
erprints were taken to be sent later
to the FBI’s central files.
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As the three were arraigned be
fore U.S. District Judge Charles
Richey, about 500 current and
former FBI agents massed in front
of the courthouse to show support
for their former chieftains.
They displayed no signs and
there were only two short
speeches, but vigorous applause
greeted each of the defendants as
he entered and left the building.
Gray, Felt and Miller are
charged with unlawfully order:;,
break-ins of private homes w, ;
the bureau was trying to locate
members of the radical Weather
Underground between December
1972 and May 1973.
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Jpor volunteer positions
starving tins summer.
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