SENATORS PRESS 'WATCHDOG' ISSUE

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• Publication Date: May 4, 1966
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SENATORS PRESS
`WATCHDOG' ISSUE
Floor Debate Likely or% Plan
to Expand C.I.A. Panel
ICs lal to 7%* Now reef Tzar
WASHIP4GToN, May 3 - A
Renate debate appeared likely
today on the question of ex.
parading the "watchdog" com.
Witten that provides surveil-
lanee over the activities of the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Knowledgeable Senate sources
were pessimistic, however, about
the prospect of rounding up
enough votes to foroe an expan-
sion of the watchdog group over
its own objections.
\It became known yesterday
tRat Senator Richard B. Rua q*11,
Georgia Democrat who t/ the
group's senior member, had re-
jected a proposal by the Foreign
Relations Committee that three
of Its"members be added to I'm
"watchdogs."
Mr. Russell wrote Senator J,
W. Fulbright, Arkansas Demo-
crat who Is chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee, to
that effect
meeting of his committee, which
Is scheduled for next week.
There was some doubt whether
he had enough votes in the com-
mittee to take the proposal to
the floor of the Senate with
committee backing.
If the Issue develops through
formal action of the Foreign
Relations Committee, It will In-
sure floor debate.
If It does not, Senator Eugene
McCarthy, Democrat of Min.
nesota, who has been a persist-
ent critic of Congress's method
of supervising C.I.A. activitiea,
I. prepared to move on the Sen-
ate floor to expand the "watch-
R4seell Seen Confident
Experienced Senate head-
counters considered It unlikely
that, In either case, the Senate
ILLEGIBwould hardly-have re-
change the situation. For one
thing, the Lienate in always re-
luelant to overnile one of Its
senior rhairinen, end this would
be particularly no in the case of
tampering with "security mat.
tern."
Also, the present "watchdog"
THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY
MAY 4
,
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`Victims' Reeled Aloft by Plane PHONE PE 6-5100 TODAY. ALL ,9 6u
One of three men in test of new pilot- recaps technique Is
reeled Into plane over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif., May 8 (AP)- -
A cargo plane snatched three
men from the desert by cable
today in daring tests of a new
technique of rescuing downed
fliers and astronauts.
Capt. Gerald T. LyVere, ?8-
year-old Air Force man, was
the first to be subjected to a
jerk of six C's--vex times the
normal pull of gravity-as a
four en lne cargo plane
swooped low and snagged a
nylon line running from a
balloon down to a harness
stitched into his flight sult.
He was then reeled in to
warty.
The plane circled and then
swooped again to snatch
simultaneous y two other men
- -Col. Allison Brooks, 49,
commander ol; the Aerospace
Rescue and Recovery Service,
and Airman 3/C Ronald Doll,
22.
participation in the secret I which he head
Powell mans Inquiry circles.
WASHINGTON, May 3 (AP)
Lion of the relationship/betweenl STANFOR
the rr ? -_~ _ _--?
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group is composed entirely of
senior mernix?rs of the Armed
Services Cnmmittc'e of which
Mr. Russell is chairman, and of
the appropriation) Committee.
'These committees form a
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WJIUtl a.
Russell wrote Senator J.
W. Fylbright, Arkansas Demo-
crat who is chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee, to
that effect.
Mr. Fulbright will probably
bring up the matter in the next
meeting of his committee, which
is scheduled for next week.
There was some doubt whether
he had enough votes in the com-
mittee to take the proposal to
the floor of the Senate with
committee backing.
If the taus develops through
formal action of the Foreign
Relations Committee, It w ll In-
sure floor debate.
If it does not, Senator Eugene
McCarthy, Democrat of 'Min-
nesota, who has been a persist
ent critic of Congress's method
of supervising C.I.A. activities,
is prepared to move on the Sen-
ate floor to expand the "watch-
dog" committee.
REtseeli Seen Confident
nxperlenced' - Senate head-
SQUnters considered It unlikely
that, in either case, the Senate
would overrule the Russell
group and add members of the
Foreign Relations Committee to
They said Mr. Russell, one of
the most expert of Senate strat-
sglsts, would hardly have re-
jected the opportunity to neggo-
tiate the matter with Mr. Ful-
bright If he had not been confi-
dent that he could win in a vote
of the entire Senate,
Moreover, It was su gested, a
debate would be unlikely to
change the situation. For one
thing, the Senate is always re-
luctant to overrule one, of its
senior chairmen, and this would
be particularly so in the case of
the C.I.A. supervisory group,
sfhce its work is secret and
many Senators are chary, of
tempering with "security mat.
let
Also, the present "watchdog
group Is composed entirely of
se er members of the Armed
Services Committee, of which
Mr. Russell is chairman, and of
tb* appropriations Committee.
These committees form a
power center in the Senate,
since virtually every Senator at
one time or another needs the
approval of one or both for mlil-
-ta
tr)' or civilian projects in his
Nevertheless, there appears
to be in the Senate more open
discontent about C.I.A. surveil-
lance than usual. Foreign Re.
latlons Committee members
complain, for instance, that
When C.I.A. officials _ testify,
even In executive session, they
? constantly invoke ''security"
And refuse to answer searching
questions.
Some members of the Foreign
Relations Committee, In Par-
ticular, believe they need to
know more about the offset of
C.I.A. activities and about re-
ports on foreign policy making
within the Administration.
They also think that memlfers
whose particular concern .15 for-
eign pollcy rather than defense
policy, might exert a useful in.I
fluence on the C.I.A. through
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One of three men in test of new pilot-rescpe technignia b
reeled into plane over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif., May 3 (AP)-
A cargo plane snatched three
men from the desert by cable
today in daring tests of a new
technique of rescuing,
escuing downed
fliers and astronauts.
Capt. Gerald T. LyVere, ?8-
Year-old Alr Force man, was
the first to be subjected to a
jerk of six G's-.six times the
normal pull of gravity-as a
four-engine cargo plane
swooped low and snagged a
nylon line running from, a
balloon down to a harness
stitched Into his flight suit.
He was then reeled in to
safety.
The plane circled and then
swoo it~sin to, snatch
slmu taneously two other men
--Col. Allison Brooks, 49,
commander . the Aerospace
Rescue and Recovery Service,
and Airnusn~ 3/C Ronald Doll,
22.
participation in the secret I which he he
"watchdog" committee. the general
Powell Pons Inquiry
WASHINGTON, May 3 (AP)
A Congressional tnveetlga.
lion of the relationship between
the C.I.A. and the nation's col-
leges was announced today by
Poowe anh
P tattan Democrlst.n
Mr. Powell said he was dis-
turbed by recent reports that
C.I.A. agents took part in a
Michigan University project in
south Vietnam several years
ago. He said the House Educa-
tion and Labor Committee,
activities in
c 1rcles.
said: "Stanfo
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