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., "Iowa's alternative newspaper" Iowa City, low .~ 522_4_2__ ,-- __10_( _V_o_I_. _1O_8...:...,_N_o_._2....:..8--'- __:!.....:-:-..:..!......--;- __-----'=-=--..!:....-7....:...-:_~ ~--.:~-Th urs~ay, July 19 ,JJ?5 ---~i _ ______ RePQrt shows Nixon years . most active for CIA spying WASHINGTON (AP)-The Select House been stalemated by pel'SOnality conflicts, "There has been no reason not to release InteUigence Committee has evidence that and replacing it with a new one. that report for some long period of time." the CentrallntelJigence Agency Infiltrated Dellums said it was clear the CIA in The report contains no mention of the White House and at least two federal filtration of the White House and other alleged CIA Involvement In assassination agencies. two members said Wednesday. agencies came during former President plots against foreign leaders although re Rep. Robert W. Kasten Jr., R-Wis., said Richard M. Nixon's administration. liable sources have said that Ute original CIA documents indicate the agency con But Kasten sa Id the evidence he had seen report drafted at the insistence of Defense tacts reported back to the CIA from their indicated it was an agency practice "over Secretary James R. Schlesinger during his positions in the White House and its Oence I long period of time" and was not brief tenure in 1973 as head of CIA, con of Management and Budget, and the predominant in any one administration. tained information on assassinations. Treasury and Commerce departments. "II may sWl be going on," Kasten said. The Senate Intelligence Committee "I'm nOt sure spying is the right word," Meanwhile, a CIA report made to continued its probe of the controversial Kasten told newsmen, "but it looks like President Ford last December showed that assassination issue Wednesday by there was infiltration by the CIA." the major buildup of CIA's domestic apy questioning high level officials from the Kasten and Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, D operation came during the early years of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson ad Calif., said the select committee also has the Nixon administration ministrations. Among witnesses were Walt evidence of CIA infiltration of the news The secret report released by the CIA for 'Rostow, national security adviser to media. both broadcasting and print the fint time Tuesday night also states President Johnson, 'Maxwell D. Taylor, agencies. that quick replacements were requested in military adviser to President KeMedy and Kasten said he had no specific names but the agency's "Operation CHAOS" Gordon Gray, national security adviser to had seen documents indicating there were program in the summer of 1972. It said the President Eisenhower. CIA contacts in broadcasting companies volume of material was causing a According to a June I, 1972, and press companies. "physical drain on the health of the memorandum contained in the Colby He said he undentood a small European group's officen trying to keep up with the report, the agency's "Operation CHAOS" news service was operated almost entirely enormous continuing volume of work." began in 1967 with only one officer but in by the CIA . "Operation CHAOS" was the code name mid-l969 "a total of 36 positions was Both Kasten aftd Dellums said they had for a program to uncover any foreign in authorized with the understanding that, if few details on the CIA infiltration and were fluence behind domestic unrest but later this should prove insufficient, additional leIJing what they knew pubIJcly in an effort turned to reporting on domestic activities personnel would be authorized. " Fifty-lour Photo by Lawrence Frank to show a need for keeping the select of U.S. citizens, according to the Rockefel intelligence officers ultimately were in committee alive. \ ler Commission. volved, according to the memo. By BILL McAULIFFE ru? the marathon at the Drake Relays; he the bronze medal walking 50 km at the They made the disclosure as the House The report, consisting of a six-page The Rockefeller report also documented SPOrts Editor saId he found "1 couldn't run but I could Munich OlympiC$ in 1972. Rules Committee considered proposals to letter from CIA Director William E. Colby the buildup of "Operation CHAOS" during Everyone in Hills, la. knows that Mike walk." He suggested that one relson people u abolish the select committee, which hu to Ford plus 56 pages of documents, con the Nixon years, but the Colby report of Rummelhart walks fast and looks funny So making the best of that predicament, don't consider walking a worthwhile athletic pursuit is because compared to tains no major revelations of CIA activities fers the first detailed account by the CIA of doing it. In fact, it's just kind of funny al\ he went out and beat Smith. He followed his victory with some rUMing, but came ruMing, "it takes a lot more time ; it takes beyond tho~e documented by the its own spy operation. A separate June I, by itself that Rummelhart is a race u.s., Soviet Rockefeller Commission . The Colby report 1972 , memo described "Operation walker. back to walking, apparently converted. longer to walk." was drafted in response to allegations CHAOS" as "a low-cost collection "I think the biggest entertainment in "A lot of people spend a lot of their lives Even so , a lot of walkers can cover a ambassa(Jors published by The New York Times that the program" although the same memo noted Hills right now Is laughing at me," walking ," Rummelhart observed. "It's mile faster than most people can jog it - CIA had conducted a massive, illegal do that the program had generated more than Rummelhart quipped. natural. It's a lot more efficient than the world record for the distance is 6 attend liftoffs mestic spy operation. One White House 14,000 cables and dispatches to and from LONG-LEGGED, HIS hips rumbling and running. minutes . 9 seconds - and In a recent race. official called the report a "historical fact agency field stations during a 21,1 year his shoulders rolling , Rummelhart hustles "But race walkers are really an objeot of Rummelhart and a fellow alker actually CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The ridicule, more so than runners," he ·said. of no particular ~w interest." He added : period. out down Main Street each day just as the passed a runner who was in a 4-mile rac~ Soviet Union and the United States ad screen doors start slamming for lunch. "I'm getting a lot of flack. It's really weird they were walking through . vanced space dipolomacy another step And when he re-appears at the east edge of to walk by women who think you're some "There's not that many people coming Wednesday, agreeing to have their am town, with the sweat dripping Qff the edge kind of pervert 'cause you move your hips Into walking," Rummelhart went on. "I'd bassadors be a t each other's launch site of his beard like a leaky faucet, he Is a lot." like to see that change. next week for the liftoff of Apollo and S0- Kissinge~ pursues moving as fast as any of the local kids and HIPS. OF COURSE, are every bit as "If some people got out and competed, yuz spacecraft. dogs can chase him . important to a race walker's stride as his they 'd do well, because there's 10 little "Irs a further demonstration of in • • He grimaces, three blocks, two, one arms, or for that matter, his legs. Strictly competition," he said, laughing. creased OpeMess," said Chester M. Lee, block from the street-level front door of his defined, the walking stride must maintain One problem he cited In keeping walking director of the American side of the Apollo new peace mlSSlon apartment where he started. An unbroken contact with the ground, and the from becoming popular is there's no Soyuz Test Project. "1 think it fits in with imaginary tape stretches from the door knee must be straightened as it passes competitive walking in Iowa high schools. the graduaJ opening of the window to the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was across the street to the barbershop. He under the body . And he went on to make a statement most Soviet working space operations." Secretary ol State Henry A. IUssinger flew to Paris on Wednesday to begin a four quoted Wednesday in an interview with the breaks it, falls into a stumble, then comes "Otherwise," Rummelhart said, "the Iowans would probably take exception to. Officials of the two countries never to a rest by the DX slation, his head fastest runner would ~the fastest walker. "PEOPLE IN IOWA wonder about before ha ve been presen t duri ng the day European trip that will focus on a new Hearst Newspapers as indicating basic terms of a new Sinai agreement have been hanging limp, his hands on his knees. "In walking you hive to totally con somebody they see doing something . Iaunching of the other's spacecraft. U setOement in the Sinai Desert between Egypt and Iarael. He disputed reports that worked out through the United States. But The noontime walk, something he has centrate on what you're doing," Rum healthy," he said, perhapl shaking up the \ preparations continue to go weU , two been doing for about three weeks now, melhart explained. "'I1le problem is image of Iowa as the place where the good, Soyuz cosmonauts will be launched the two sides were near agreement. Rabin said "key issues" remain to be covered 10 miles in roughly an hour and a holding good form. But that's what I like com-fed IJfe is lived to the hilt.