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Korean CIA planned U.S, manipulation
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N.Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON A House subcommittee
released Tuesday a 1976 South Korean in-telligence
plan to overtly and covertly
manipulate the Ford administration, the
Congress, American news organizations,
acadcmitiarg.airickrgy tea bid to shape U.S.
policy to Seoul's advantage.
It was the most comprehensive, specific and
detailed document yet seen in the investigation
into Korean influence peddling here and in-dteat- ed
a scope and a sophistication beyond that
disclosed so far.
Just how much of the plan was carried out,
however, was not disclosed. A spokesman tor
the House subcommittee on international
organisations, which released the document
during a hearing Tuesday, suggested the suc-cess
of the plan would become clearer in later
testimony.
The subcommittee, which Is headed by Rep.
Donald M. Fraser, D-Min- n,, also did not reveal
how it had obtained the document But the
subcommittee heard testimony Tuesday from
South Korean Central Intelligence Agency
defector Sohn Ho Young, who attested to its
authenticity. Sohn, who formerly headed the
KCIA in NewYork, said that he had been shown
a copy of the plan by Major General Kim Yung
Hwan,theKCIA station chief mWashiiujton.
Among actions the plan outlined were:
Implanting "an intelligence network in the
White House," during the final year of the Ford
administration.
v Winning over the Democratic Party's
policy research committee in Congress. The
KCIA reported mat it had "firmed up"
cooperation with a similar Republican com-mittee
in 19!$.
It was not dear to which committees the plan,
translated from Korean, was referring. There
are separate Democratic and Republican policy
committees in both the House and Senate.
Creating American public opinion that
favored South Korea with a variety of lures,
including inviting "influential U.S. journalists to
visit Korea and convert mem." Among the news
organitations targeted were the Washington
Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the
American Broadcasting Company and The New
York Times.
Converting academic critics with in-vitations
to Korea, financing seminars, and
publishing materials not identified as coming
from the KOA.
Encouraging supporters of the Korean
government among Korean residents of the
United States and frustrating activities of anti-governm- ent
organitations. A newspaper
secretly funded by the KCIA was to be
established in New York. There was no in-dication
that this referred to News World, a New
York newspaper affiliated with the Reverend
Moon Sun Myung's Unification Church. Moon
has denied being an agent for the KCIA.
The 1976 plan, which called for spending
$730,000 on about 170 different operations, was
evidently the latest in a series of yearly plans
dating back to the early 1970s. It was yet another
piece of evidence of the Korean government's
effort to sway American policy in favor of South
Korea.
Fraser said that the names of administration
officials, congressmen, newsmen,
academicians, and clergymen were deleted to
protect their privacy until they had been given
the chance to testify on their possible con-nections
with the KOA.
The plan, which was drafted in Washington
and approved at KCIA headquarters in Seoul in
late 1975, was drawn up just after the fall of
(See KOREAN, Page 16A)
Insight
University's
old houses:
sad reality
ByJaaGardaer
BSsseurian staff writer
University officials reluctantly have
found themselves companions of
Columbia property owners faced with
deteriorating housing. The University
owns about SO aging houses, but
thorough restoration is not likely.
Attention was focused on the physical
condition of the houses after a recent
fire destroyed years of anthropology
research at 601 Turner Ave. A furnace
malfunction caused the two-alar- m fire.
Fire Investigator Don Christian said.
The main interest is "the use of the
sites for further expansion of the
University," said James Oglesby, the
University's facilities coordinator.
Many of the houses are located on
Kuhhnan Court, Hitt Street and Watson
Place.
The houses temporarily are assigned
for office, research or storage use
based on the needs of particular
dt&ar&oents. About 21 cf the houseWre.;
usedbyme CbBege of Arts and Science,
five by the University Extension
Drrisson, six by the College of
Agriculture and six by the College of
Education.
"Unfortunately they become more
(See AGING, Page ISA)
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Melting snow created designs on the University's cattle bam
I JS: aawaMaa 8.W8(J Tuesday as temperatures climbed above freezing for the first
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time since the weekend. The weather is expected to be even
warmer today. (Weather details on Page HA).
Health groups fight
on-jo-b hypertension
NEW YORK (UPI) Blue Cross
Association and the National Heart,
Long and Blood Institute are joining
forces in a new attack on high blood
pressure at a place where it might
be most easily found on the job.
The aim is to cut deeply into the
toll of early death from strokes and
heart attacks triggered by hyper-tension
suffered by 3 million
'Americans.
Walter J. McNerney, Blue Cross
president, announced Tuesday that
me focus of the test program will be
on offices and factories.
"The question to be answered
during this experimental program
now being bunched," he said, "is
mis: can the nation's No. 1 killer
high Mood pressure, hypertension
be brought under control by having
people screened and possibly
treated for it at their place of
work?"
1 If the answer is "yes" it could
. mark a dramatic new direction in
the nation's attack on high blood
pressure.
"Some 20 percent of Americans
have hypertension; 70 percent know
it Of the 70 percent who know, only
30 percent are in effective therapy,"
McNerney said.
The study, funded by a $500,000
grant from the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute will devise a
prototype "work site --hypertension
program, which will include an
education, screening, treatment and
follow-u- p program, as well as the
, methods needed to market it to
employers and other groups, he
said.
"This will be done in cooperation
with health organizations in the
firm's area, as weH as assistance
from doctors, hospitals and medical
societies," McNerney said.
"The work site was selected as the
focal point of the pilot study because
it has been shown that screening,
treatment and any necessary fofiow-u-p
procedures can be carried out
conveniently and efficiently at the
work site with a minimal loss of
work time."
Carter accepts invitation
Soviets won't join Cairo talks
From our wire services
WASHINGTON The Soviet Union
told the United States Tuesday that it
would not participate in Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat's upcoming
Middle East summit in Cairo.
Moscow's response to Sadat's in-vitation
to attend the conference came
at the same time the Carter ad-ministration
announced it would
support the informal talks aimed at
reconvening the Geneva peace con-ference.
The dffiering decisions by the two co-chair- men
of the Geneva conference
were expected, given Washington's
strong support for Sadat, who
originated the idea of the Cairo talks,
and the Kremlin's backing of Syria and
the Palestine Liberation Organization
both of whom already bad rejected
the Egyptian invitation.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Gromyko, in announcing the decision,
said the Soviet Union is
"systematically working to promote
the solution" of the Middle East
problem.
"But," Gromyko added, "if one
country demonstratively departs from
the common Arab front and sacrifices
the interests of the Arab states as a
whole . . . this then is quite another
matter."
In formally announcing its ac-ceptance
of Egypt's invitation, the
United States said it was going because
"it is an initiative we believe we should
support" and because it holds out an
outside possibility of making progress
toward an eventual overall accord.
As a result of Tuesday's decision, the
United States found itself in the
somewhat awkward position of at-tending
the Cairo meeting together with
only Egypt, Israel and the United
Nations. Finnish general Ensio
Siilasvuo, leader of the U.N.
peacekeeping force in the Middle East
was selected as the U.N. representative
Tuesday by Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim.
Waldheim proposed also an expanded
meeting be held at the United Nations,
following the forthcoming Cairo talks,
to help pave the way for reconvening a
full-fledg- ed Middle East peace con-ference
in Geneva.
The secretary general admitted his
statement was a "trial balloon" and
said he had discussed the plan with the
(See SOVIETS, Page 16A)
Local Macks appalled by council appointees
By Lisa Robinson and Keith Morse
Misscnriaa staff writers
City Council members say they didnt
consider race last week when they
appointed three whites to replace the
only blacks on the Columbia Human
Bights Commission. Two of the blacks
who weren't reappointed are saying
otherwise.
"I didnt realize there were no blacks
on the (xmunission until it was brought
to my attention a day or two later,"
Mayor Les Proctor said Tuesday.
But Mary Batliff, one of the black
commission members not reappointed,
said, "I'm appaned that in 1977 a city
council would appoint a commission in
human rights to represent the com-munity
without placing a black
member on it"
The council does plan to try to ap-pease
the blacks.
Proctor said no other person can be
appointed to the commission until there
is a vacancy, but he wUl propose that
the president of the NAACP be added as
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an ex-offic- io member. Proctor added
that the ex-offic- io member would not
have voting privileges.
The Bev. JeweU Jones, NAACP
chapter president and another com-mission
member not reappointed, said
he is not impressed by that prospect He
(See COUNCIL, Page 16A)
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Burglaries
in Colombia
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By Larry King
Missourian staff writer
Fact: The number of burglaries in
Columbia has decreased substantially
since last year.
Fact: Burglars are meeting only
token resistance when they do dedde to
loot a bouse or business.
A contradiction?
Not at all, insists Sgt Bob Vemer of
the Ortwnhfa Police Department's
community relations division.
What those facts mean, Vemer says,
is that a community effort to increase
residents' security consciousness has
been somewhat, but not completely,
successful. More people are bring more
careful with their belongings;1 but the
bad guys stifl are picking on those who
are not
And as long as there are easy
pickings, the burglars win continue to
pick mem. "Before you see the force
factor go up, you're going to have to see
the number of burglaries go down," he
says. "Burglars are not violent,
aggressive type people."
In October mere were only 42
burglaries, compared with 63 for Oc-tober
1976. Overall, there have been 628
burglaries reported in the first 10
months of 1977. At the same point in
1976, 704 had been reported.
Dollar losses have fallen even more
dramatically from $342,967 by mis
time last year to only $196,116 through
October mis year.
'.'Dollar losses for October decreased
to $1309, down from $21,293 a year
ago.
, However, reaching through a broken
window to unlock a door was the only
force required in most burglaries last
month.
Vemer attributes the drop in the
number of burglaries to a growing
realisation among people "who care
about their property" mat crime "is
costing them dearly. They're the ones
who have got to stop burglaries," he --
said.
Vemer says people are making their
homes more secure against burglars
and are cooperating mere in reporting
suspicious activities. "We all share
people's losses when it comes to
crime," he said, because of higher
home and business insurance rate.
"Then there are still people who win
say, 'Well, we lock the front door but
not the back door,' or vice versa," said
Vemer.
He warned mat burglaries probably
wfll increase next month as vacationing
students leave Columbia.
Burglary losses
in Columbia
iTboucudi of drilant
Oct lift Oct 1977
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today
7 pjn. Public bearing on
violence and vandalism in
schools, Columbia Board of
Education conference room, 1002
Range Line St
7:M pjn. Common Cause of
Missouri meeting, Columbia
Public Library.
7: pjn. Boone County Board
of Adjustment meeting, County-Cit- y
Building.
7:28 pan. Rock Bridge High
School presents "Bye Bye Bir-die."
7:91 pjn. University Theater
presents "Friar Bacon and Friar
Bungay."
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