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 troversy over the expensive water
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 "I note that this bill contains fund-
 'ing for 10 projects for which I recom-
 mended deletion of funds," he. said.
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 these projects."
 WHEN HE INITIALLY raised the
 issue of the  waterways  several
 months ago, the President sought to
 kill 31 of the projects,' and he later
 trimmed the list to '19. He succeeded
 in halting funds for nine projects and
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 According to. Carter; the elimina-
 tion  of  some  waterways- was  "a
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 ming              spending on unnecessary,
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 damaging construction projects .. .
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 resources policy," he said. "My ad-
 ministration              is - developing  water
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 tinue to scrutinize carefully. all ongo-
 ing and proposed water projects."
 Whatever broad action he - might
 take to curb the construction of water
 projects, it is.certain to be met with
 howls in Congress. Many senators
 and House members appear to re
 gard the waterways as a necessary
 pork barrel, and thus Carter's first
 foray against the projects cooled his
 relations with Congress.
 In his statement yesterday, issued
 as he vacationed in his hometown,
 Carter noted that the appropriations
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 See CARTER, A-7
 By Jeremiah O'Leary
 Washington StarSta'!  ritrr
 CIA Director Stansfield Turner
 today denied that U.S. intelligence
 agents bugged the South Korean gov-
 ernment's "Blue House" or had tap
 recordings of the conversations of
 President Park Chung Hee.
 It'was the first time the new . i. ee-
 for of central intelligence has spoken
 on the record about persistent re-
 ports that the CIA at one time had
 bugged the Korean presidentia` resi-
 dence and  found  evidence of
 scheme to influence U.S. le'giss ;teas.
 "There wer no tapes, no bugs,"
 Turner said. " 'm speaking for the
 entire intelligence community, net
 just CIA.'But he declined to expand
 on  his  answer  when  reporters
 pressed him as to whether the United
 .States had     intercepted  messages
 being sent over the airwaves
 Seoul and Washiington.
 TURNER SAID the CIA LP F nc,
 agreement with the Korean Centre'
 Intelligence Agency or other foreign
 governments about how they operate
 in the united States. There afire no
 deals about What they do :.ere or
 what U.S. agents. do in foreign coun-
 tries, he said, a=dding that any U.S.
 activities of Savak (the Iranian se-
 cret police), DINA (the Chilean se-
 cret agency) and others are the prov-
 ince of the FBI.
 Turn- said  that the CIA has
 turned over to Sen. Adlai E. Steven-
 son,, D-I11., and chairman of the
 Senate Ethics Committee, all docu-
 ments in the CIA's possession re-
 garding the committee's prospective
 investigation of Korean influence-
 peddling. But Turner refused to go
 beyond the mere acknowledgment
 that these  sensitive  documents,
 which might implicate senators in
 the scandal, had been handed over to,
 the committee.
 The implication of Turner's sttate-
 ment today is that none of these
 documents *S the result of electronic
 surveillance of the Blue House.
 ON OTHER matters, Turner
 de-
 clared:
 0 He has taken the advice of Sen. Ed-
 ward M. Kennedy, D-Mass, and is
 notifying all involved universities, of
 their unwitting association with. the
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 senators.                            early press accounts of his activities
 Among. the documents apparently involving members of Congress and
 made available was a' list containing is believed to be, living in England.
 the, names of a, number of federal   As part of the effort to obtain
 officials who allegedly received pay- Park's testimony, Bell said, high acl-
 ments from Tongsun Park, the fugi-. ministration officials have sought
 tive Korean businessman whose ac- help from the Korean government in
 tivities  prompted  the.  Justice Seoul.`He confirmed that President
 Department's.investigation.          Carter "has had some role" in these
 THE LIST; which also.was made        communications, as has Secretary of
 -available to the House Ethics (Stand- State Cyrus Vance.
 ards `of Official Conduct) Committee   Although the attorney. generai's
 last week, reportedly. was obtained statements seemed to underscore
 b federal agents from D Jay Shin Rye,! Park's importance to both the crimi
 At his news conference, Stevenson
 declined to say whether the list con-
 tained the names of any current or
 past members of the Senate. In fact,
 TURNER.
 Continued FromA-i
 secret .MK-ULTRA ';drug-testing
 project now coming to public atten-
 tidn. But he complained that some
 universities  have been  "unaca-
 demic" in their treatment of individ-
 uals who had even a small associa-
 iy Gene tion with the CIA in the past.    ?'
 fitted, ' it ? He has ordered new moves to
 ;ey and reduce, the CIA Operations Division
 saying by about 800 employes, largely from
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 actions
 jury?on
 ins.
 an overstaffing that grew during the
 war in Vietnam. He also has ordered
 new screening and exercise pro-
 grams so that the agency will get
 "lean and mean."
 ? He. is not clearing all secret intelli-
 gence operations in advance with the
 Senate Intelligence Committee, al-
 attor-          though the legislative branch is being
 ,ss had ' notified.
 .d corn- ? The Senate committees working on
 a country
 nal and congressional investigations,
 he told reporters that some prosecu-
 tions still could be brought without
 the Korean's testimony.
 plete and "sanitized" versions of all
 documents related to the drugs-test-
 ing project. Turner said the ford
 administration's  Rockefeller  Corn-
 mission, which investigated aileg--
 tions of CIA abuses, had all this ma-
 terial, too, well before the recent dis-
 closures of experiments on mind con-
 trol. Turner said --120 of the 14D
 projects were the kind "you wouldn't
 mind having your children involved
 in." The CIA is trying - so far w th-
 out success --- to find the unwitbn
 victims of the tests.
 All documents on INIK-ULTRA also
 have gone to the justice Department,
 which must determine whether aev-
 one connected with the tests shoo'
 b'e prosecuted.
 Turner said the CIA also , had
 undertaken tests on parapsychoi:ogy
 several years ago. The intelligence
 director said the agency had a man
 gifted with what he called "visio-per-
 ception" of places he had never seer.
 but added with a smile that the man
 died two years ago "and we haven't
 heard from him since."
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