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fOU TS iv ys 1 41 7, iin hi" HA TODAY, Friday. July lit Robert BenUcr P'T f. cte JV 4 jff 4'v Baddy Baker Nkk White iiiniiwrjiiiiMM EdFi ank tar 'No Secret Files' Acting FBI Director L. Patrick i. msmers ucueve lias a fl i 5 i IS' i i chance of becoming the Li permanent director if President IrS.Nlxon Is re elected, claims the agen does1 not maintain "secret files" flfm jWtHI 14 Avurnrrik Irs nn.i vestigative activity that does not fall specifically under its assigned 'responsibility.

Mr. Gray's comments, which appear in a copyrighted interview in "U.S; Newsr World Report" for 'July 10, would' seem to contradict TODAY syndicated columnist Jack the 1972 Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter. Gray 'was asked the question: "There have been charges that the FBI under Mr. Hoover kept secret dossiers on individuals who were not really under official investigation for any crime. Have you found any evidence of such dossiers?" Mr.

Gray replied: "No, sir. I have not found any evidence whatsoever of the existence of secret files or political dossiers, and I have looked for them specifically, and I am continuing to look for them specifically. "Further, I. think it should be pointed out that a continuing inquiry I have with regard to every bit of information that we acquire in whatever manner is the question of our jurisdiction to obtain that information. This will be a continung inquiry on my part so long as I remain here, because of the nature of the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and because of the manner in which we acquire and receive information with regards to all sorts of endeavors.

These are criminal endeavors, subversive endeavors and 'endeavors that might very well be characterized as conspiratorial endeavors with not only the thought and rhetoric but also the overt action that may be taken in furtherance of a conspiratorial endeavor. "I want to know: Are we carrying out our responsibilities in accordance with the authority invested in us? This Is a subject that I know is extremely Important to the American people, and it is extremely important, to me. It's one that I inquire into every single day with regard to every single item that comes across my desk." We suspect the apparent conflict' between Gray's statement about dossiers and columnist Anderson's reference to files on entertainment personalities and other prominent individuals turns on the term "secret." The files to which Anderson has frequently referred (even by FBI file number) are probably not considered "secret" by the FBI, meaning that those files are not more secret than the other files. We are afraid that Mr. Gray could not truthfully deny, if asked yery specifically, name by name, that the FBI has files on many prominent people from the entertainment, sports and political fields.

This would be perfectly ptoper, of course, if these people were seriously suspected of being involved in criminal activity or pose a serious threat to the life df the President. However, many people who have been known to be under FBI investigation, such as CBS Network newsman Daniel Schorr, are not serious suspects for criminal activity or a criminal type conspiracy. Even Jane Fonda, for whom we have no admiration outside the theater, is not known to be connected with any criminal activity. 'Some of the statements she makes are pretty, extreme and, we think, irresponsible. But the right to voice dissent, even extreme and irresponsible attacks on our government are not criminal in this country.

That's one aspect of our system that sets us apart from most other countries of the world and makes us the, envy of their citizens. If Gray follows through with actions that don't betray his words, the highly respected FBI will have the cloud lifted from over its headquarters. A Small Thing It was just a little scene, but one we all could have benefitted by observing. Especially those of us who sometimes' are too quick to decry the irresponsibility of youth. The time was the waning hours of July the Fourth, a little after dark.

The site was a remote spot on a Brevard beach. It was the end of a typical family holiday outing, with a beach party and, yes, a few illegal fireworks to celebrate the Fourth. A fun day. And now the crowd, which included four adults, was piling into the a tired but pleasant ride car for home. All but one.

Impatience was voiced as one member of the family, a pretty teenage girl lagged behind in the darkness of the beach. In a few minutes she showed up, carrying an armload of trash and litter the party had left behind. She dumped it into the trunk of the car, to be taken home for disposal. As we said, it was just a scene. But well worth seeing.

little A New Record Hal Holloway, 20, a Texas Tech student, has given us another reason to believe that this college generation is the hope of the future. He set new world record by taking a shower for 169 hours. This beat the old record by an hour. Right down the drain, if you will. The new champion says.

he didn't even come out of his shower for meals. And he slept on an air mattress in the shower. We thought for sure it would be a water bed. But enough of details. The feat is the.

thing. This is a persistent, durable and apparently shrink proof generation. And most of us over 30 old timers long ago gave up asking who in the hell used all the hot water. Charlotte (N.C.) Observer jfc 8 Bobby By JOE ALEX MORRIS JR. TODAY L.

'A. Tkm Dm ferric REYKJAVIK, Iceland "We like Americans here, not Russians," the pretty telephone operator said. "But we 'don't like your Mr. Fischer. We will be rooting for Spaasky." For many Icelanders, Bobby Fischer has become the latest version of the ugly American.

The 39 year old challenger for the world chess crown and his team of advisers have been collecting bad publicity ever since Fischer missed his first plane to Iceland a week ago. Fischer has done it with his obstinate and to some arrogant demands for more money. His helpers have done their bit with whimsy surliness and evasion. In contrast the Russian Boris Spaasky has been a real 'all American guy. He plays tennis, talks to the press and drives around in a Ford Bronco, a jeep type vehicle.

He built himself a sympathetic public here while Fischer sulked in New York. Monday night he received an enthusiastic ovation when he attended a soccer match and sat next to the Icelandic president. A great deal of this is gut reacUon, and perhaps unfair to Fischer. Four years ago, a chess world championship win was worth very little. The pot for this match is now $250,000, We 'r'T st Ugly American BOBBY FISCHER tarnished image plus 60 percent of television and film rights.

But, like the Olympic games, the Fischer challenge has made chess a quasi political affair. He is the first threat to Soviet domination in decades, and this championship match has taken on certain aspects of the big power struggle. Not that such considerations bother Bobby. "He doesn't worry about such things," said Fred Cramer, an executive of the American Chess Federation. Fischer doesn't say anything to anyone, except perhaps to Life Magazine which has a financial connection to the American challenger.

But Cramer, a retired lighting engineer from Milwaukee, more than makes up for Bobby's silence. In the, latest example, Cramer the newspaper Timinn Wednesday that 60 percent of the Icelanders want Fischer' to win. Nothing would appear to be further from the truth. In countless conversations since Bobby's first abortive attempt to fly here was beaten back by photographers in New York. This correspondent hag 'yet to find one Icelander sympathetic to him.

"I hope he stays home," said a businessman shortly before Fischer finally made the flight over. AH in all, the Americans add up to a great team for Spaasky. And he needs them, for his own people back in Moscow have been up to their usual heavy handed nonsense. After a fortnight In which he built up his nice guy image, Spaasky almost had it shot out from underneath him. The Soviet Chess Federation opened up its big guns against not only Fischer but Dr.

Max Euwe, the Dutch president of the International Chess Federation, and a man in way over his head in the current crisis. Spaasky himself put out a statement, considerably more restrainted than the' noises from Moscow. It appeared to some, including Dr. Fuwe, that Spaasky was simply going reH through the motions of protest after getting orders from Moscow. The Soviet champion is something of an outsider.

He is not a member of the Communist party, and drives about the streets of Moscow la a Volvo. Men at the top can get away with this in the Soviet Union. But Spaasky is under considerable pressure to beat Fischer, and his whole way of life could be influenced by whether he retains his crown or not. Spaasky has not played well recently, and his international rating Is now lower than Fischer's. Despite this, he Bas kept his courteous cool during trying days while Bobby Fischer remained closeted in New York and hit representatives here bumbled from one disaster to another.

Fischer may well emerge as the next world champion. His public image here may even improve during the 34 game compettton, but in the meantime, Its been rough going. He and Spaasky still haven't sat down to the chess board, and the Ugly American image is still predominant. EwyMyfw" twJJMmM; Holmes Alexander Dr. Edward Teller Discusses Moscow Pact Florida Tomato Growers Scheme tor Profit been barred from these factfinding sessions.

We have obtained the transcript, however, of a typical discussion. "Well," drawled one Florida tomato tycoon, "the thing we're looking at, we're trying to help the Florida growers in eliminating our competition. Let's (ace it, they're trying to eliminate our competition We're mainly eliminating it of Mexico." Agreed another tomato man: "We're not here to satisfy them. We're here to satisfy ourselves and get a litUe more money." Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department has reached a "recommended decision" to restrict tomato imports from Mexico. An Agriculture spokesman assured us that the "recommended decision" was based on thousands of pages of testimony and exhibits.

Competent sources say, however, that the department a press ana puoue nave out nopea appease we va 'Jts, rJfck WASHINGTON Florida tomato growers have been scheming behind closed doors, under the auspices of the Agriculture Department, to keep vine ripened Mexican tomatoes out of U.S. supermarkets. Instead of the Juicy red tomatoes from Mexico, the growers want to push off on the housewives low grade domestic tomatoes that are so green they have to be gassed with ethylene to make them look palatable. These "gassed greens," as they're called, actually cost more than tbe ripened Mexican tomatoes. The Agriculture Department is conspiring with tbe tomato growers, therefore, to restrict Mexican imports.

Fact finding committees nave been established to study the proUem 'The Wtch that Atf culture Department hat appointed tomato growers a tbe fan nnoers. Jack Anderson tomato growers at the expense of the tomato eaters. Footnote: Senate Consumer Chairman Frank Moss, Utah, will conduct a investigation. In a confidential memo to his staff, he claimed it's commonplace for "Agriculture to ignore the interest of consumers in order to serve its agribusiness clients, but this situation seems on the face of it a more than routine outrage." TRAVEL LOOPHOLE With Republican cloth coat frugality, President Nixon last year sternly ordered everyone in his Administration to refrain from first class travel. But the nlghly publicized 'stern order was so ambiguously worded by the White Bouse bureaucracy that not even the President's loyalest cabinet members are paying any attention to it.

Every cabinet officer we checked on uses first class, often taking along various staff members. Even such lesser potentates as assistant agriculture secretaries and the Bureau of Mines director invariably travel op front. President Nixon's order was translated into a regulation by the White House's place of Management and Budget It starts off well' enough with a who use commercial air carriers for transportation should use less than first class accommodations But then comes the fatal qualifying phrase, "with due regard to efficient conduct of government business and tbe travelers convenience, safety and comfort." These final words, of course, nullify the regulation. It means everyone should travel tourist unless it's inconvenient or uncomfortable. Six foot eight inch Roger Morton, the Interior secretary, immediately seized upon the comfort loop hole to justify riding up front with the rich folks.

"He's big," laid a sympathizing spokesman. "He doesn't fit in a coach seat." But a spokesman pointed proudly to the fact that Peterson had flown tourist coming back from Philadelphia the other day. We checked with the airline and learned it was as all tourist flight. Agriculture Secretary Carl Buti, the former cereal executive who is accustomed to the comforts of life, always flies first class. His aides, who usually fly up front with him, invoke the claim that it's necessary "for efficient conduct of government business." All tbe assistant secretaries fly first class, too.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Dr. Edward Teller, foremost among nuclear physicists, was good enough to give me a personal interview, and he answered all major questions except one, perhaps the one which would tell the American people what they most need to know about the Moscow Treaty and Interim Agreement. He is a man of utmost honor, and he did not feel free to respond to this: "Would you have advised the President, in advance of his Moscow trip, to Sake the pact that he did ake there?" We must presume that Dr. Teller, directly or otherwise, was consulted in advance by tbe President.

Further, we must presume, considering how knowledgeable and outspoken Dr. Teller is, that he did offer this ultimate advice to the President, or to his deputies. For the present, we do not have the advantage of knowing whether Mr. Nixon 'accepted or rejected the counsel of this noted scientist. That is Important to know, mainly because Dr.

Teller approved the ratifying of this pact, only with evident misgivings. In public testimony he said: "Though the SALT agreements signed in Moscow put us at a great disadvantage, I recommend ratification For a mad who weighs his words "great disadvantage" says very much indeed. He was speaking of the finished product which came out of Moscow, and for Congress to refuse ratification would send psychological tremors throughout the world. But would we be better off if this finished product had never been undertaken? Did Mr. Nixon make a mistake? We would be wiser, even if sadder, to have Edward Teller's opinion on that.

But he did make a comment on the Russo Amerkan cohabitation of the globe which is the central purpose of the Pact. "It will require a lot of optimism," he told me. "But then optimism is sometimes necessary." I the Pact has bad points and good points, and we must make the best of both. Bad. pointst' These agreements on ABM end "Strategic offensive missiles incites us to avoid what Teller calls the greatest immediate danger "unjustified euphoria." If we realize from the debate and discussion that we are facing a multibillion dollar missile gap, probably impossible to close, we may summon the resolution to do what can be done.

One thug we can do, he said, is to Invest boldly In research. We can do this in non nuclear fields, and he mentioned the Laser weapon, antisubmarine warfare, Space and Oceanography. The costs need not be extravagant, and basic knowledge is so open ended that the results could bring us untold rewards of infinite significance'. Another thing we can do from our position of disadvantage is to call upon our allies for a collective effort. Nothing In the Pact forbids us to organize the Free World nations "especially Japan," he said into a common defense.

Good points: To a great extent, we have agreed not Jo do anyhow. And to some extent, Russian power will not grow at the rate that it might have grown in the absence of the agreements. This provides something of a breather. It gives us to fix attention on our weaknesses, which are already becoming apparent. Teller opposed both the Test Ban Treaty and the non ProUferaUon Treaty.

In each Instance, he says, "we gave away what we should have kept," the right to test a while longer in the atmosphere, and the right to leave the door open for nuclear allies. He has given approval tp the finished product of the Moscow Pact because the USA no longer had any superiority to eive away. A Moment ForPrayer decree that Ay "persons The cost of this luxury travel isn't immense? by today's staggering standards nf 0nvrnment WsstA. But this question, is raised: 'If these "freeze" the US in a disad men cant be trusted to carry vantaeeous DOikion. but th aides admit that; out the President's small, free USSR to catch up and Secretary Peterson files economies, ibow can they be go.

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