Proposals put brakes on agency
The Rockefeller Commission urges tighter CIA controls with 30 recommendations. Proposals include a 10 year limit on the director’s term, budget disclosures, expanded oversight, and limits on domestic activities. It calls for a Joint Intelligence Committee and stronger internal watchdogs, plus declassification and constraints on mail and espionage tasks.
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Justice Department
House
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D-N.y
Rockefeller
John Kennedy
United States
Executive Intelligence Oversight Board
Executive Branch
Johnson
Nixon
CIA Finds CIA Spying Unlawful and Misuse of Power
Rockefeller Commission reports CIA engaged in lawful abuses of domestic spying over decades. It documents files on tens of thousands of Americans, illegal mail openings, phone taps, surveillance, and a death linked to LSD experiments. Most actions cited are Cold War era, with few recent findings. Chair Nelson Rockefeller led eight-member panel. Ford ordered inquiry. Levi to review for prosecution.
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San Francisco State College
Theodore Hesburgh
Notre Dame University
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New York Times
Bennington 1976 tax rates set by selectmen
Bennington voters faced a tightened budget as Selectman Paul Sheridan moved to raise the general fund and highway tax rates by one penny each to 1.52 and 0.63 dollars, yielding a 2.15 combined rate for 1976 from the prior 2.61. The two hour session covered parking meter, water, and sewer budgets, with a rebuff to the sewer plan and a plan to cap expenditures at 125,000 while staff evaluated equipment needs.
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Bennington
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Ralph G. Wright
Ronald G. Coltran
Sheridan
Gerald P. Morrissey
Richard B. Leake III
Donavan
Timothy Corcoran
Saunders
CIA Abuses Mail, Wiretaps, and Dissent Files Revealed
Findings from a long inquiry show the CIA illegally opened mail to and from the Soviet Union across several states between 1952 and 1973 and gathered 13 000 files exposing more than 300 000 persons and organizations. The report notes wiretaps buggings and 12 break ins, plus tax record probes and a defector held in solitary confinement. It also discusses suspected improper aid to Nixon, lack of Kennedy killing links, and calls for tighter oversight via a new Joint Committee and expanded advisory board functions.
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New York
Central Intelligence Agency
Soviet Union
San Francisco
New Orleans
Hawaii
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Houses of
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Rabin optimistic about new peace efforts
In Washington, President Ford and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin opened talks that could spark a fresh U.S. peace initiative in the Middle East. Rabin said the prime minister is optimistic, as Ford plans a broad peace package and a possible final settlement framework.
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UPI
Ford
Yitzhak Rabin
Middle East
Rabin
Oval Office
U.S. Middle East
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Salzburg
Austria
Dan Pattit
Henry A. Kissinger
Israel
Henry Kissinger
Sadat
Kissinger
Hostage death in prison assault ends 40 hour siege
In New Westminster British Columbia guards stormed a granite vault freeing 12 hostages after 40 hours with 3 inmates captured. One woman hostage Mary Steinhauser social worker was killed during the confrontation. Two inmates wounded one critically. A radio go-between reported a hostage used a tripod to strike inmate Douglas Lucas as the escape attempt failed.
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B.C
UPI
Mary Steinhauser
British Columbia
Gary Bannerman
CKNW
Officials feud over jail security in St Albans
Franklin County State's Attorney Ronald Kilburn accuses the Vermont Corrections Department of lax security at the St Albans facility and proposes guard dogs and electrified fences. Corrections Commissioner R Kent Stoneman calls the charges irresponsible and demands direct talks. Kilburn to probe escapes. two part time deputies to patrol fence line from 6 pm to 2 am.
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UPI
Franklin County
Ronald Kilburn
State
R. Kent Stoneman
Kilburn
Corrections Department
Stoneman
Ron Kilburn
Windsor
Inside Local Career Counselor Praised by Air Force
Rob Woolmington recalls U S Representative Barbara Jordan at Williams commencement and reacts. museum column notes on powder horns. Russell Baker updates Arm strong’s noble house of learning.
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Rob Woolmington
U.S
Barbara Jordan
Williams
Russell Baker
Jack Armstrong
Noble House of Learning
Manchester
Chamber of Commerce
New State Education Council
John Page
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