CONGRESSMAN FACES DISCIPLINARY ACTION IN CIA-CHILE CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020028-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: September 28, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER L
28 Sep 1971+
STAT
~ngressma~~ Faces. Disciplinary Action in
From Inquirer Wire Services
WASHINGTON - A House
subcommittee Is studying
possible. disciplinary a-1-1 .
rington Colby's testimony came to be
against Rep. Michael Har-
(D., Mass.) as a re- publicly released, the 'accu-
sult of the disclosure of CIA racy of his recollection of. it
political activity in Chile, it and "my sanity."
was learned Friday. j "Illinois Republican Rep.
Asked specifically about' Leslie C. Arends keptshak-
shak-
such action, Rep. F.' Edward
Hegert, (D., La.) chairman ing his white mane and ;say-
of the House Armed Services ing, 'I just can't understand
Committee, refused to dis- lyou. 11M. trying to understand
cuss it. "The matter is be- you, but I can't, Harrignton
fore the subcommittee (on said.
said "It was consisterlh
intelligence)," he said. that the subcommittee was
The question of discipli- more interested in its rules
nary action centered on a
published story in the New than with the _substance_, of,
York Times quoting secret whether it maintains ade-
subcommittee testimony by quate oversight over the
CIA Director William E. CIA"
Colby detailing U. S. political
activities. before the over-
throw of Marxist Chilean
President Salvadore Allende
last year.
Subcommittee chairman
Lucien Nedzi (D., Mich.)
previously had given Har-
rington, who is not a mem-
ber of the Armed Services
Committee, permission to
read the testimony. Harring-
ton then wrote letters to
Nedzi and several other con-
gressmen urging an investi-
gaticn of the CIA operations
Chile.
Harrington denies he
leaked any of the letters to
the news media. But Nedzi
reportedly told him in closed
session earlier this week that
he apparently violated Those
rules by writing letters based
on secret testimony.
Harrignton said he was
called before the subcommit-
tee for questioning on how
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