August 19, 1973

Freelance writer L Goldberg says on Aug 18 that Nixon pol adviser M M Chotiner recruited and paid her $1,000 a wk to travel with press corps accompanying Sen G McGovern during '72 Pres campaign, and that she made daily repts on McGovern's personal and pol activities; says she used code name 'Chapman's friend' in calls to Chotiner over special telephone line in his Washington law office; says Chotiner paid her directly by personal check; says she had no connection with Com for Re‐Election of Pres and does not know if Chotiner gave her repts to com; says 'implication was very strong' that Pres Nixon knew and approved of her activities, but that Chotiner never explicitly told her this was so; says she heard that other 'Chapman's friends' were planted in press corps traveling with Dem Vice Pres candidate S Shriver, and with Vice Pres Agnew; says Chotiner was especially interested in 'sexy' details such as 'who is sleeping with whom,' but that she never had access to that kind of information; says she saw job as opportunity to have unusual experience at nobody's expense; says she planned to write book about it; notes she told Chotiner she was going to reveal her spying activity and that Chotiner told her to tell 'the whole truth'; says she did nothing wrong and would do it again; illus of Goldberg and Chotiner

Chilean Pres Allende on Aug 18 announces resignation of Gen C Ruiz Danyau, Comdr of Air Force, who had been brought into Cabinet last wk as Min of Public Works and Transport; says Ruiz Danyau, in his lr of resignation, contends that he did not have means to solve truckers' strike; Ruiz Danyau por

GSA records show that prominent Md Dems who supported Pres Nixon in '68 and '72 elections were awarded contracts totaling $50‐to $60‐million, or 75% of all rent paid by Fed Govt for space leased in Baltimore area since Jan '69; Dems operated through different partnerships, and received lucrative leases from GSA during last 2 yrs of Johnson Adm as well; members of group, all of whom profess loyalty to Md Dem Gov M Mandel, include H W Rodgers 3d, top Dem fund‐raiser and member of Gov Mandel's 'kitchen cabinet,' his brother W A Rodgers, W D Hess, Mandel adviser, and millionaire developer and builder E H Dickinson; Md Dems for Nixon collected over $100,000 for Pres's re‐election campaign at same time GSA was negotiating for 2 floors of bldg for Army induction station; they were subsequently awarded contract; man thought to have brought together Md Dems with Nixon‐Agnew camp is J W Jones, wealthy Md banker and long‐time friend and adviser of Agnew who has been implicated in probe of Agnew

Indiana Univ team of archeologists, headed by Dr T W Jacobsen, has dug up evidence of world's earliest seafaring, dating from about 7500‐7000 BC, at Franchthi cave in Koilada, Greece; cave, which experts regard as most important prehistoric site in Eur and Middle East, was used as home by humans almost without interruption from at least 20,000 BC to 3000 BC; Jacobsen says that discovery by 6‐yr‐old expedition, which has uncovered successive layers of habitation from upper Paleolithic through Neolithic periods, of volcanic rock obsidian and fish bones at levels below 7000 BC 1st raised issue of navigation; traces probable history of Franchthi cave and discusses theory that its inhabitants in 7500 BC were fishermen; describes team's work methods; map

US relief agencies' operations will be abandoned or drastically cut back in coming wks because they will no longer have food available to continue helping 80‐to 100‐million needy people in 100 countries; Washington officials have recently informed agencies that US Agr Dept will not be able to purchase food during Aug and possibly Sept; agencies reptdly have been told that current food situation is so unsettled that it is uncertain when they could get supplies of basic foodstuffs on which they have based their free distribution of relief overseas for almost 20 yrs; agencies' administrators say that effect will be calamitous; CARE official F W Devine holds that situation is 'disastrous'; Catholic Relief Agency exec dir Bishop E S Swanstrom says that agency cares for 10‐million of the 'poorest of the poor'; says that activities in more than 50 countries will have to be terminated by end of '73, unless Agr Dept resumes buying and distributing foodstuffs; Food for Peace office coordinator D E Shaughnessy says that Agr Dept has made no purchases in July or Aug and only small quantities will be procured in Sept; some agencies claim they do not want to divert any food from Amers but ask that 1% be held back from allocations for sales abroad and be earmarked for Food for Peace; Agr and State Depts assert that extensive rev of foodstuffs situation is currently under way and decisions will be made at 'highest level'; agencies' dirs stress that delay of even 3 mos in shipments risks collapse of distribution services