July 9, 1975

John H Drucker lr on plight of older workers who desire to work; drawing

CIA makes public a rept that CIA Dir William E Colby made to Pres Ford last Dec 24 disclosing that CIA made major build-up of its domestic intelligence operation during Nixon Adm; rept is portion of internal anaylsis of CIA's involvement in illegal domestic intelligence operations and other wrongdoing compiled at request of Colby's predecessor, James R Schlesinger in May '73; documents show Sen S Symington and Repr L N Nedzi were briefed on details more than 2 yrs ago; rept says that according to June 1 '72 memo, major increase in staff and facilities of Special Operations Group came after Nixon took office in '69; memo reveals that in mid-'69, 36 positions were authorized and another 18 positions were authorized in spring '71; operations, code-named CHAOS, began under Pres L B Johnson in '67 but developed under Nixon; documents disclose CIA recruited 'paid informants' among construction crews working on its hq in '60 and '61 in order to prevent foreign intelligence services from planting secret electronic listening devices; reveal Aug 15 '67 memo in which head of covert operations for CIA, Thomas H Karamessines, suggested to CIA officials that Harry Rositzke and Richard Ober head what later became known as CHAOS; documents include lr from Colby to Pres Ford dated Dec 24 '74 in which Colby says CIA 'inserted' spies into Amer antiwar movement and developed 9,994 'counterintelligence' files on Amer citizens; lr said CIA was not conducting activities comparable to those alleged in NY Times; documents note CIA had files on 14 past and present Cong members and that CIA had conducted burglaries and wiretappings; White House spokesman says Colby recd Ford's permission to release documents 3 wks ago (L)

Pres Ford formally announces his candidacy for Repub Pres nomination in '76 to 'finish the job I have begun,' July 8 news conf in Oval Office; pledges 'open and aboveboard campaign; seeks support of all who believe in values of 'duty, decency and constructive debate'; refers to campaign officials present during announcement as men of integrity; they are chmn Howard H Callaway, finance chmn David Packard, treas Robert C Moot and Dean Burch, head of advisory panel; says they are authorized to wage campaign for him with 3 qualifications; that candidacy be waged openly and lawfully, that it reflect his pledge to be Pres of all the people' and that it take into account his obligation to put statecraft before pol; says he will campaign with strong support of his family; Ford's brief, muted announcement seen as attempt to underline his promise 'never to neglect my first duty as Pres' and to distinguish him and his campaign from that of his predecessor, Richard Nixon; Ford campaign expected to focus on fending off any possible rivals in Repub party, retaining Vice Pres Rockefeller on ticket and persuading electorate that his conservative philosophy is attuned to nation's needs; Dem Natl Chmn Robert Strauss issues statement saying he looks forward to clean and vigorous campaign; text of Ford announcement; illus of Ford and campaign officials (L)

Premier Yitzhak Rabin on July 8 reads Jewish prayer for dead at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to memory of tens of thousands of Jews who perished there 30 yrs ago; in deference to history, Rabin came to Bergen-Belsen as his 1st act in 4-day visit to W Ger, 1st such visit by Israeli Premier in office; visit, in Israel view, symbolizes bridge between past and future in Israeli-Ger relations; Rabin will meet with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn on July 9; illus of Rabin at Bergen-Belsen (M)

NYS Assembly passes bill that removes dozens of legal prohibitions against employment of ex-convicts but includes provision that fire depts may continue, at their own discretion, to refuse to hire former felons (S)