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(Studio) Cuban Premier Fidel Castro says 50-80 assassination plots against him in last 15 years Says 12-15 serious. Says CIA behind most serious attempt. Reporter talks to reporter Tom Streithorst, who's in Cuba, by telephone.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Cuba has charged CIA with assassination plots for years; nobody listened until now. Would-be assassin rptdly. still alive. Castro says CIA had different degrees of control in various plots. CIA still gathering information there, but no more plots.
REPORTER: John Chancellor; Tom Streithorst
(Studio) Reporter Streithorst completed report on secret war against Cuba which followed Bay of Pigs incident.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Cuba) Film shows April 1961 invasion of Bay of Pigs. Big defeat for Americans John F. Kennedy role noted.
REPORTER: Tom Streithorst
(Miami, Florida) Covert campaign to topple Castro began. Training camps set up in American and Central American Cost $50 million per year Film shows Cuban exile camp in New York in 1963 and other camps. Camp known as Shark Quarium was jumping-off place for commando raids on Cuba. Watergate burglars Bernard Barker and Eugenio Rolando Martinez involved in secret war. Now working on book. Both spent 18 years together on CIA payroll. [MARTINEZ - says whole US government involved in bringing down Cuban government It had to be organized] [BARKER - says worked in counterintelligence and security after Bay of Pigs. Describes duties.] [MARTINEZ - describes his job.] Martinez says everyone closed eyes to illegal CIA acts in campaign against Castro.
REPORTER: Tom Streithorst
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(Studio) Press Secretary Ron Nessen says President Ford authorized him to say there are no undercover CIA agents at White House and never have been.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [CIA director William COLBY - calls report outrageous and vicious nonsense. Representatives sent there go with full White House knowledge. President may or may not know, depending on which office they're in. There are functions connected with support of White House from intelligence community.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Senator Frank Church's committee to look into charges of CIA agents in White House Says White House cooperating with study but FBI is not.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Rockefeller commission reported civilian killed self after being given LSD in CIA drug-testing program. Man's family to sue CIA.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Frederick, MD) Frank Olson working at Fort Detrick, MD, as biochemist when given LSD. Saw psychiatrist later and jumped from window in NYC. [Widow Alice OLSON - says one of Frank's colleague's told us truth.] [Daughter Lisa Olson HAYWARD - says family was lied to for 22 years] [Son Eric OLSON - cites intent to sue.] Children relieved and then angry.
REPORTER: Jim Upshaw
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(Studio) Agriculture Department reports wheat crop to be 22% higher than 1974 crop, and corn crop up 30%.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Waco, Nebraska) Harvest should slow down rising food prices. [Farmer Carrol KETELHUT - says will hold it in bins until we get more money.] Farmers hope some of surplus will be taken by exports.
REPORTER: Rebecca Bell
(Chicago, Illinois) Grain futures actively traded. Some speculators bet grain sale to USSR could drive prices up again. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz says he welcomes Soviet purchase since crop so huge. No guarantee.
REPORTER: Rebecca Bell
(Studio) USSR started negotiations for grain purchase, according to assistant Agriculture Secretary, Richard Bell.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Federal Energy Admin., Frank Zarb, says oil prices in United States to rise to worldwide level. Means 5-cent/gal. gasoline increases in 2 years
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on President and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's day. Campaign `76 noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) President and Vice President cozy at meeting with regard to government regulation. Both at meeting of mayors [FORD - says enough money for all essential programs to be funded. Important for mayors' support with regard to strong defense] [ROCKEFELLER - praises Ford.]
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Studio) Mayors meet at White House Say administration to re-exam. mayors' request for more money for cities hit hard by recession.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Socialist party threatens to paralyze country if military government bypasses pol. ptys. and sets up system called "peoples cncl."
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Astronauts pass physicals, Commander American part of American-Soviet mission, Tom Stafford,talked with Soviet leader Alexei Leonov by telephone. Launch set for Tuesday
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Colonel Ernest Morgan still in hands of Beirut kidnappers.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Secretary of State Kissinger and USSR For. Min. Andrei Gromyko meet in Geneva.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Geneva, Switzerland) 2 talk about stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) and Mideast. [GROMYKO - says let's hope for progress.] President Ford and Communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev to meet later. Israelis not satisfied with American assurance of aid. Kissinger feels Israel-Egypt agreement several weeks away.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
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(Studio) President Idi Amin pardons Denis Hills from execution.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Kampala, Uganda) British foreign secretary James Callaghan and Amin meet. Hills released.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(London, England) [HILLS - says happy to be back. Hopes to go back to Uganda 1 day.] 700 Britons still there.
REPORTER: No reporter given
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