June 23, 1977

Former dir of Korean CIA Kim Hyung Wook, in testimony before HR Subcom on Internatl Orgns on Korean lobbying scandal, says he agrees with Maj Gen Singlaub on withdrawal of US troops; calls for resignation of Park Chung Hee for pursuing policies of repression, torture and corruption; says Pres Part fears Kim Dae Jung and power of US Cong to influence US-Korean relations; says 2 unnamed US Congressmen who went to Seoul with Park Tong Sun, '67 or '68, promised to be of help in getting modern weapons for Korean Army; Kim Hyung Wook illus (M)

HR Appropriations Com votes to limit amt of CIA's secret contingency fund, money used to pay for covert operations without prior Cong knowledge; action is compromise move following rejection of Repr Bill D Burlison's measure to eliminate fund entirely; fund reptdly ranges from $50- to $100-million; agency's total budget is about $6.2-billion (M)

Mitchell enters prison at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala, to serve his sentence; illus with US Marshal James T Lunsford (M)

Natl Research Council, in rept to Pres Carter, concludes that threat of chronic malnutrition and repeated widespread famines could be removed from world within generation if US and other countries mounted major mobilization of agr research (S)

Induction of Brezhnev as Pres and unveiling of new Const are viewed by top-ranking Carter Adm analysts as moves aimed at rooting out entrenched bureaucracies, curbing power of individual repubs and improving natl econ planning; believe Podgorny was ousted because he opposed Brezhnev's wish to curb obstructionist tendencies of overblown Mins Council and some of repubs; analysts remain puzzled by removal of Katushev from secretariat (M)