Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 July 1973 — Page 9

Wednesday, July 18, 1973

Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

Care Advised To Those Representing Themselves As Agents

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Ever been so mad you could bite nails? I’m about that mad. Yesterday we received two phone calls which indicate there may be people in the community misrepresenting themselves as social security employees. If not actually saying they are social security employees, they leave that impression. Then today the manager of one of our neighboring offices phoned me about a scheme apparently being worked in his area. First, let me tell you about a report we received from a Putnam County man. He told us a young male called at is home. He wanted to discuss Medicare. He even produced apiece of paper with eagles around the edge and used this to identifyhimself. Our informant sensed something was amiss, so told the young man he was planning to go to the social security office the following day and would discuss Medicare at that time. The person who reported this to us described the caller and it didn’t fit the description of anyone working for us in either our Lafayette or Crawfordsville ottices. Further, we didn’t have anyone imakingoutside 1 calls that day. The other call we received was from a woman. She received a telehone call in the evening. She was asked questions about her receiving a check and as to what day it ordinarily arrived. She was then asked questions about where she saved her money. While the person who called this woman never made a flat statement that she was a social security employee, she apparently gave that impression. Then there's the incident which occured in a neighboring rural area. It is so weird you may not think it happened, but it did. A man called at the home of an elderly person and told him he might get a little more social security if he were disabled. He was asked to submit to a physical examination so the extent of his disability could be

determined. The man agreed. The gimmick is that when he removed some of his clothing for the examination another member of the group rifled his pockets. After the men left the older man’s home he realized what had happened and attempted to use the phone to report it to the proper officials. He couldn't because his phone line had been rnt About a year ago there was a team of people pulling this same trick in Southern Illinois as well as in neighboring southern states. They pulled this stunt on older people and some fell for it. During the past couple of years we’ve been getting calls from people reporting incidents similar to the first two mentioned above. We try to track them down, but usually run into a stone wall as the person who has been visited, or phoned, rarely can identify the caller. Some are embarrassed about having been taken in and are reluctant to talk about it. These incidents apparently occur because of the aggressiveness of some salesmen. I’m not knocking their trying to sell health insurance to supplement Medicare. 1 have no quarrel with the salesman who eamestlv offers his product based on its merit and who properly identifies himself and his company. I believe that some people, if they can afford it and have such a need, may want to supplement their Medicare protection. Many people I know have such insurance with reputable companies. But I’ve talked to enough people to reach the conclusion that some of the people calling at homes must leave the impression they are social security employees. I don’t approve of this. The Federal Government is not in the business of selling any type of insurance to supplement Medicare. So if someone approaches you and tries to leave the impression he is from social security or Medicare, don’t be taken in. Social security emloyees do not collect premiums. Some people do pay their Medicare medical insurance premium

Dispute Claims On Phone Bugs

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By LEE BYRD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service and old White House friends of Lyndon B. Johnson have disputed claims by the Nixon administration that LBJ used secret tape recorders in his official duties. Both groups say the Nixon administration simply got its wires crossed Monday when it tried to lay at Johnson’s feet the precedent for the wholesale and surreptitious taping of presidential conversations. The exchanges were triggered by the surprise testimony before the Senate Watergate committee of former Nixon aide Alexander P. Butterfield. He disclosed that since early 1971, virtually all of Nixon’s White House calls, as well as face-to-face conversations, were recorded automatically—and without warning to the other party. Thanks to the complicated electronic gadgetry controlled by the Secret Service, even the Ptesident’s conversations in his Executive Office Building hideaway and the retreat at Camp David, Md., were monitored, ‘tor historical purposes,” Butterfield said. The Secret Service quickly acknowledged that it had installed and operates the network. Another confirmation came from presidential counsel J. Fred Buzhardt, who added: “This system ... is similar to that employed by the last administration.” But at the reference to Johnson, the Secret Service suddenly declared itself at odds with Nixon. ‘All I can say is that it was not done,” a spokesman

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While the spokesman emphasized that he could speak only for the Secret Service, a number of White House associates of Johnson insisted that no one dse had done it either. While tape recorders were sometimes used for presidential or other high-level conversations, “they were equipped with beepers and we always told the

party on the other end he was being recorded,” Rep. James R. Jones, D-Okla., said. Jones, a one-time appointments secretary to Johnson, also said, “they were seldom used at all.” Joseph A. Califano Jr., Johnson's domestic affairs counsel, said “Johnson was so wild on the subject of bugging and eavesdropping, I just don’t believe he’d do it. “Certainly there were no bugs around the offices. And as for phone conversations, I know of only one case in which the President turned on a recorder, and that was during the Six Day War of 1967. He made a call to one of the embassies—I don’t remember which one— and wanted to make certain there was no misunderstanding of the U.S. position.” Califano said. Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ library in Austin, Tex., confirmed through a spokesman that some recorded telephone conversations were on file at the library, as well as transcripts of others, which had been taken in shorthand by a secretary who came in on the line. Spokesman Says Rumor Is Not So WASH INGTON (AP) — Suggestions that White House adviser Henry A. Kissinger is trying to ease Secretary of State William P. Rogers out of office have been denied by a presidential spokesman. “Every time he has been asked about the future. Dr. Kissinger has said he is very happy with his job. I am certain that he still is," said the spokesman. Asked to comment on a Chicago Daily News story that Kissinger is the source of reports that he will replace Rogers, the spokesman said: “It just isn’t true.”

by calling at social security Nor will any social security In our work we do have security and Medicare pro- and many similar things too tative of our office, they can offices, but we never call at representative ever call at a representatives who call at gram. numerous to mention. How- identify themselves. Further, people’s homes asking for person’s home asking him to homes in outlying counties. They help people with their ever, they never ask for a pre- ifyou have anv doubt, call the payment. We would never submit to a physical examina- They do so in comnection claims, with proof of age, mium payment. If you are CCrawfordsville Social ask for cash. tion on thespot. with all parts of the social with disability applications ever visited by a represen- Security Office at 362-5040.

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