December 26, 1974

White House concerned over Gallup Poll finding Ford's popularity with Amer people slumped to its lowest point in early Dec because poll was taken shortly after Ford returned from Vladivostok conf with Brezhnev, where he reached tentative arms limitation agreement; in past, foreign travel and meetings with other world leaders, particularly when major agreeement is reached, have resulted in improvement of Pres popularity at home (S)

25-yr-old Marshall H Fields, dressed like Arab and seemingly laden with explosives, crashes car through White House gates on morning of Dec 25 and then stands for 4 hrs a few ft away from exec mansion; surrenders to White House security police at 11 AM and is taken to hosp for psychiatric examination; Pres Ford and family were out of town; Secret Service spokesman says that Fields's only demand was to talk to Pakistani amb; he surrendered only after Howard Univ radio station met his demand to broadcast appeal to amb for talks; Secret Service had file on Fields as person who had made threat against Govt officials; he apparently sent packet of materials, including threat to 'do something' on Christmas Day, to Kenneth F Owen, newsman, who sent material to State Dept; packet contained some confidential Govt documents held by Fields's deceased father, Marshall L Fields, who was AID official until death; incident detailed; Fields illus; Secret Service man inspecting gate illus; map (L)

origins and activities of CIA discussed (L)

Article reviewing origins and operations of CIA, which got its start from intelligence failures surrounding Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in '41 and major impetus from need to counter Soviet expansionism following World War II (L)

William I Aronwald to be named on Dec 26 as new chief of Joint Strike Force on Organized Crime, succeeding Edward M Shaw, who is resigning to enter private law practice; agency is arm of Justice Dept that coordinates red, state and local investigations in its area and prosecutes cases of organized crime and racketeering activities; Aronwald's career; illus (M)