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Show ?f , ' M2 The Salt I ako Tribune Thtirwlsv Novprnhf.f 22 )0"' . ' ( .I 1, 4 . , J-- " , . 4 l,f , f f 4 ')1 A ' r , M graffiti; Proposed FBI Charter Would Spell Out Authority By Nadine Cohoda telephone companies What restrictions should he placed on the FBIs recruitment and use of informers and undercover agents Perhaps the most difficult issues to be resolved is whether individuals injured as a result of charter violations should be allowed to file civil suits to recover damages As proposed by Carter, the charter provided no specific right for suits based on an FBI agents violation of the charter However, the charter would authorize the FBI director to impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 on any FBI employee who intentionally used investigative techniques the agent knew violated the charter A number of witnesses, including Mrs King and the ACLU, tpstifjpd that the charter would be almost Congressional Quarterly WASHINGTON Item To discredit acfre's Jean Seberg because of her political views, the Federal Bureau of Investigation spread false gossip in 1970 that she was pregnant by a member of the Black Panther Party Item To obtain the dismissal of a politically active New Jersey teacher, the FBI sent an anonymous letter to education officials accusing the "man of a sexual haison with his young stepdaughter Item To harass civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr , the FBI sent him an anonymous letter in November 1964 threatening to expose derogatory '.information unless King killed himself by late December not sanctioned Because of activities Like these President Carter and top Justice by any law Department officials have drafted a proposed charter for the FBI that would for the firct time xpell nut the agpnry's authority and responsibilities Subject of Intensive Hearings As proposed the charter generallv would write into law thp agency's existing authoritv It also would expand the FBI s present authority to investigate terrorism and to obtain information about suspects held by third parties like banks Carter this summer sent his proposed charter to Congress, where it has been the subje' of extensive hearings in both the Senate and House The hearings, which have included testimony from King's widow Coretta Scott King, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Attorney General Benjamin R Civiletti, have highlighted a number of ' sensitive issues that Congress must resolve These include Should the charter give persons injured as the result of an agent s violation of the charter the right to sue for civil damages? Should the charter explicitly ban FBI activities that are designed to discredit individuals and disrupt - organizations Question of Access , To what extent should the FBI have access to information about investigative targets that is held by third parties such as banks, insurance and meaningless unless civil lawsuits could he filed to enforce it Indefensibly Discriminatory But former agency officials testified that civil sanctions were not necessary and efforts to single out FBI agents for discipline were, as former FBI official John .1 McDermott put it "indefensibly discriminatory " The charter which is not expected to be acted upon before 1980 has so far drawn more criticism than praise Civiletti, w ho helped draft the charter with former Attorney General Griffin B Bell called it a "sound" document, and urged Congress not to load the charter wlth too much detail It should not be a rigid encyclopedia of dos and donts nor an exhaustive code of incomprehensible regulations," Civiletti said But ACLU spokesmen said the charter needed to have a clear prohibition on the kind of smear campaigns that were directed at King and Seberg and the disruptive tactics that were used to harass political groups the agency considered subversive Civilett) testified that because such tactics would not specifically be authorized by the charter they would be outside the scope of permitted FBI activities But the ACLU said a ban ' by implication" was not sufficient to prevent agency abuses m the future In their testimony, ACLU spokesmen also said that a warrant should be required before an FBI informant or undercover agent is allowed to infiltrate a political group that is exercising legitimate free speech rights (CopynghU , , ! i Funds Squabble Renewed in Farm Research w , , By Ward Sinclair ' Washington Post Writer WASHINGTON Congress may wrangle over how to cut the big federal money pie, but thpre are a few small, tasty shoes on which there is little disagreement. Mark 0 Hatfield's mint beds, for one Robert C. Byrd's fruit station, for another Jamie L. Whittens cotton program, to name a third. " Nor is there dispute over the greenhouses for Milton R Young and Henry Bellmen And theres no need to worry about Tip ONeiUs or Lloyd Bentsens nutrition centers theyll be all right These and scores of other agriculture-relate- d e research activities, each with a congressional patron, f will be m the fiscal 1980 appropriations bill that is ''Rearing approval ,, That really is not news, members of Congress, ; particularly those who sit on the key appropriations ! panels, have for decades channeled federal agricul- ture research money into their home districts. It is a side of the congressional spoils system often butter issues overshadowed by sexier bread-ansaving a military base from dosing, landing a dam, finding a federal contract for a business at home Conferees Deadlocked And with appropriate irony it is one of the reasons u. House and Senate conferees are deadlocked over differing approaches to research spending in their respective farm appropriations bills In a way, it boils down to a test of wills between chairman of the House , Rep. Whitten, Appnpnations Committee, and Sen Thomas F., who heads the Senate appropna-tEagleton, tlons agriculture subcommittee. r' , Caught m the middle is the Carter administration, which began making waves in 1977 by proposing that part of the Department of Agriculture's $600 .".tiny million-plu- s research budget be put out on competi- tive bid. t The traditional research done by universities, funded by direct grants, would continue But to inject new approaches and thinking, some of the work would be contracted to other institutions prestigious science centers not ordinarily known for agricultural work A Harvard or a Y ale, for example " Farm Overlord Whitten, a sort of congressional farm overlord by dint of his 25 years as agriculture subcommittee chairman, and others in Congress reacted skeptically. They saw the new approach undercutting the t century-ol- d program, complaining indiless congressional control would mean it that rectly over the research dollar - Whitten's subcommittee provided some funds for competitive research m 1977 but last year cut the funds off whena the administration proposed trimmoney The worst fear of the ming the land-grathat USDA was abanopponents competitive-bito be coming true seemed old the program doning But Eagleton's subcommittee, largely at his urging, agreed to fund the competitive program, and conferees compromised by providing less than the 1,1 Senate wanted but more than the House wanted , Similar Dispute A similar dispute is going on now between House and Senate conferees Figures produced by Eagleton suggest that the fears of the competitive-bi- d ' opponents were unfounded In two years about 70 " percent of the $30 million in competitive money has gone to land grant and public universities anyway And Congress has boosted spending on traditional schools research at the land-graand at USDA extension centers on many campuses I look upon the competitive grant program as an additional bonus for the land grant schools," Eagle-tosaid recently. "Some people think Harvard is competitive money, but kidnaping the it has not happened grant science Harvard, as a symbol of the center, in fiscal 1979 got only two competitive awards, totaling $275,000, out of USDA's $15 million kitty. 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