April 29, 1976

NYS Environmental Conservation Comr Ogden R Reid has decided to resign his post and probably will make formal announcement on Apr 29; his friends and associates say he has written lr of resignation to Gov Carey; Carey spokesman indicates his belief that dept is in ‘desparate condition because of a large, disloyal bureaucracy, disaffected from Reid': Carey staff sources say Reid was not regarded as ‘team player'; Carey's office is reptd to be considering several candidates to succeed Reid, among whom is former Assemblyman Peter A A Berle (M)

USSR buys 3.1‐million tons of corn and 300,000 tons of wheat in US mkt; sales are made in 3 separate deals by largest US grain trading houses, Cargill Co, Continental Grain Co and Cook Indus Inc; deals reptdly are worth about $400‐million; sales follow recent USSR purchases of 2‐million tons of wheat from Canada and 1‐million tons of wheat from Australia (M)

Humphrey appears ready to undertake ltd effort to halt Jimmy Carter short of Dem Pres nomination, but there are few in party who give him much chance of success (M)

Sen Select Intelligence Com rept discloses that FBI spent 25 yrs monitoring ‘wholly lawful pol activity’ of the NAACP on ground that it was conducting a search for Communist infiltration; com says FBI infiltrated feminist movement and made targets of such groups as Christian Front and the conservative Amer Christian Action Council, led by Rev Carl D McIntire; says Army domestic intelligence operations opened files on numerous groups seeking peaceful change, including John Birch Soc, Young Amers for Freedom, Natl Orgn for Women, Natl Urban League, Anti‐Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Business Execs to End the War in Vietnam and NAACP; rept says com found domestic intelligence activity, including operations by FBI, CIA, Army and IRS, were ‘overbroad’ because of ‘absence of precise standards for intelligence investigations'; traces erosion of these standards from ‘24 when Atty Gen Harlan Fiske Stone ltd FBI to criminal matters, through ‘76; rept says Pres, Cong and agencies themselves are guilty of creating vague standards; com says Army maintained intelligence files on 100,000 Amers including Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Maj Gen Edwin Walker, Julian S Bond, Joan Baez, Dr Benjamin Spock, Rev William Sloane Coffin, Sen A E Stevenson 3d and Repr Abner Mikva; com says all those in Army files got there ‘simply because of their participation in pol protests or their association with those who engaged in such pol activity'; says FBI maintains some 500,000 domestic intelligence files in its Washington hq and has others in its field offices; says from ‘55 to ‘75, FBI investigated 740,000 ‘subversive matters’ and 190,000 ‘extremist matters'; CIA, in its Operation Chaos against domestic dissidents from ‘67 to ‘73, amassed ‘index’ file on 300,000 Amers and full dossiers on 7,200 Amers and more than 100 orgns; IRS amassed files based upon pol criteria from ‘69 to 73 on 11,000 individuals and groups and later computerized 465,000 names for gen intelligence purposes; rept says CIA illegally opened some 250,000 1st‐class lrs from ‘53 to ‘73 producing ‘computerized index of nearly 1 and 1/2 million names'; says FBI opened 130,000 lrs in 8 projects from ‘40 to ‘66; says Natl Security Agency conducted wholesale scannings of cable traffic leaving and entering US as well as certain oveseas telephone calls; rept cites examples of how agencies were responsive to adms of Pres Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy; rept comments on FBI's cointelpro operation and its ‘targets'; rept says FBI still maintains 1/2‐million files on domestic intelligence cases and that Army Dept files have not been destroyed (L)

Indian Sup Ct, 4‐1, upholds right of Prime Min Gandhi's Govt to imprison pol opponents without ct hearings (M)