CIA solicited U.S. firms for secret NATO Soviet transport study
A confidential CIA letter revealed the agency began soliciting U.S. companies last fall to conduct a covert study of transportation systems developed by NATO allies and the Soviet Union. Senator Schweiker called for a Watergate style probe into the CIA’s power. An administration source said the CIA told the Justice Department it destroyed a 1970 list of 9,000 to 10,000 American dissidents in March 1974 and did not use it to boost surveillance abroad.
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CIA
Justice Department
Department
Administration
Justice List
James Devine
Intelligence Agency
U.S
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United States
Devine
UPI
Schweiker
Congressional
John C. Dougherty
America
Dugherty
Britain
France
West Germany
Japan
Canada
Soviet Union
Ereca
Ocmeel
CIA spy program probes widen as Meany case surfaces
Washington reports say the CIA read AFL CIO President George Meany and two aides mail in the 1950s while Justice Department officials linked a separate domestic radical list to CIA files. Ford commission and Schweiker push probe into CIA excesses and possible destruction of domestic files.
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Washington
The
Washington Post
CIA
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Wreckage from air disaster floods Whittier neighborhood
Debris from a midair collision rained over a 22 block area near Katherine Edwards Junior High School in Whittier. Deputies controlled crowds as residents and news crews gathered, while families waited for word at home.
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Katherine Edwards
Whittier
Airplanes Collide Over Los Angeles Area Killing and Injury
Deputies reported a Golden West de Havilland Twin Otter crash near homes as one wing sheared off and witnesses heard explosions. Rescue crews sealed the area while the FAA opened an inquiry into the collision, marking the worst local air disaster since 1971 with casualties and missing identifications.
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Iff
Golden West
Claude Aguirre
Aguirre
Los Angeles
Hughes Airwest
San Gabriel Mountains
Ford aides expect State of the Union tax cut and windfall plan
Ford will outline programs in the State of the Union as Democrats prep their tax cut and windfall profits tax on oil. The plan envisions a broad tax cut with rebates three to four times in 1975 and funding from higher oil taxes. Simon says focus remains on the unemployed and low income amid inflation. no quick fix is anticipated.
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Ford
The
Tribune
U.S. Treasury
Carl Albert
House
Ways and Means Committee
al Ullman
D-Ore
Ullman
Simon
University of Michigan Business Conference
Treasury
Ford Administration
Detroit
Mansfield fights Indo aid boost
President Ford presses Congress for more military aid to South Vietnam and Cambodia as Indo Chinese resistance eyes a Communist takeover. Senate leader Mansfield opposes new emergency aid, warning more aid means more killing and urging settlement without U.S. escalation. Nessen described Ford’s concern while noting aid levels remain in question.
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Ford
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South Vietnam
Cambodia
White House
Senate
Democratic
Mike Mansfield
Asia
Indochina
Ronald Nessen
U.S
Nessen
Phuoc Binh
Saigon
Nelsen
Marine Corps
Tokyo
Mainichi
3Rd Marine Division
Okinawa
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Pico Rivera
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Veronica
Javier Ramos
Arnold R. Pate
Federal Aviation Administration
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Thailand
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Gulf of Thailand
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Council On Wage and Price Stability
Bal Harbour
Fla
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House Democratic Caucus
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