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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000400080005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: MEMO

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OPERATIONAL IMM.
PERSONAL - EYES ONLY
TO:
FROM: HOUSTON AND WARNER
1. VOTE SEVENTY ONE AYES AND TWELVE NOES AS
FOLLOWS: BURDICK, N. D.; FRANCIS CASE, S. D.; FULBRIGHT;
GRUENING, ALASKA; LAUSCHE, OHIO; METCALF, MONT. ;
MARGARET CHASE SMITH; STEPHEN M. YOUNG, OHIO;
BYRD, W. VA.; MCCARTHY; NEUBERGER AND PROXMIRE.
PAIRS: HUMPHREY YES AND MORSE NO; PELL YES AND CLARK NO.
APPROXIMATELY TWO HOUR DEBATE TODAY BEFORE VOTE WHICH
WAS DELAYED FOR THIRTY MINUTES PER AGREEMENT.
. MARGARET CHASE SMITH SPOKE FIRST MAKING A VERY
SHORT STATEMENT SAYING SHE WAS VOTING NO BASED ON
NOMINEE'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN THE INTELLIGENCE FIELD.
3. JAVITS MADE SHORT STATEMENT COMMENTING ON HIS
COSPONSORSHIP OF MCCARTHY'S BILL FOR A JOINT COMMITTEE BUT
SAID THE ISSUE WAS NOT THE AGENCY BUT THE NOMINEE INFERRING
SUPPORT FOR THE NOMINEE.
4. CASE REHASHED FOREIGN FLAG SHIPPING INTERESTS
STATING IT RAISED QUESTION WHETHER NOMINEE COULD BE
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INVOLVED.
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5. GRUENING READ LOI+G PREPARED STATEMENT REPEATING
CLARK AND MCCARTHY ARGUMENTS ON LACK OF EXPERIENCE,
SUPERVISION BY CONGRESS, CONFLICT OF INTERESTS.
6. BYRD (WEST VIRGINIA) SHORTER VERSION OF THE SAME.
7. LAUSCHE OPPOSED ON POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF
INTEREST GROUNDS.
8. RUSSELL STRONG SUPPORT EMPHASIZING DUTY TO
SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT UNLESS THERE WAS REAL REASON TO
OPPOSE AND THAT NOMINEE'S RECORD. PRIOR LIFE. PRIVATE AND
GOVERNMENT SERVICE, AND CONSIDERATION BY COMMITTEES AND
SENATE ON PRIOR APPOINTMENTS ALL DEMONSTRATED FITNESS
FOR POSITION. STRONGLY EMPHASIZED ABSENCE OF POLICY
FUNCTION AND MEETING FULBRIGHT'S POINT THAT NOMINEE
SHOULD HAVE BEEN QUESTIONED ON FOREIGN POLICY VIEWS
STATED THAT IF THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE HAD
QUESTIONED IN THIS FIELD THE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
WOULD HAVE OBJECTED.
9. SALTONSTALL SUPPORTED BY SAYING IF NOMINEE
HAD EXPRESSED POLICY VIEWS IN THE FOREIGN FIELD HE MIGHT
HAVE BEEN COMPELLED TO OPPOSE HIM.
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10. PASTORE VOICED STRONG SUPPORT BASED UPON
INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE GAINED FROM RELATIONS WITH
NOMINEE WITH JCAE.
11. GORE HAD SHORT BUT STRONG SUPPORT.
12. MUSKIE QUERIED WHETHER THE COMMITTEE HAD
ADEQUATELY QUESTIONED THE NOMINEE BUT IN ABSENCE OF
REASON TO OPPOSE HE WOULD SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT.
13. FULBRIGHT STATED HE HAD NO OPPORTUNITY TO
PUT QUESTIONS TO NOMINEE AND IN ABSENCE OF INFORMATION
ON NOMINEE'S VIEWS IN FIELDS OF INTEREST TO FOREIGN
RELATIONS COMMITTEE HE FELT INSUFFICIENTLY INFORMED
TO SUPPORT THE NOMINATION. HE CLAIMED HE AND HIS
COMMITTEE HAD NOT BEEN CONSULTED ON APPOINTMENT.
STRONG IMPLICATION OF JURISDICTIONAL JEALOUSY.
14. McCARTHY REPEATED BASIC QUESTION OF
CONGRESSIONAL SUPERVISION IN FIELD OF FOREIGN RELATIONS
STATING HE WOULD VOTE TO CONFIRM FOR SEC DEF OR SEC
AIR FORCE BUT NOT FOR DCI.
15. KUCHEL SHORT BUT STRONG SUPPORT.
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16. RUSSELL MADE FINAL STATEMENT ON ROLE OF
DIRECTOR BEING TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE
AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND CARRY OUT HIS ORDERS CITING
PREVIOUS STATE DEPARTMENT PAPER ON ONE HUNDRED
EXAMPLES OF INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
ASSERTING FORCE IN CONDUCT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS. ON
CONFLICT OF INTEREST RUSSELL MADE DISTINCTION BETWEEN
HIS COMMITTEE' S POSITION ON SEC DEF WITH ITS LARGE
PROCUREMENT ACTIVITIES AND POSITION OF DCI WHICH DID
NOT INVOLVE SAME PROBLEM. EXPRESSED REGRET AT
CERTAIN INNUENDOES RAISED IN DEBATE. SALTONSTALL AND
SYMINGTON JOINED WITH RUSSELL IN THIS LINE OF ARGUMENT.
17. WE HAVE RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM MANY SENATORS
AND THEIR STAFFS BUT OUTSTANDING SUPPORT FROM RUSSELL.
SALTONSTALL, JACKSON AND SYMINGTON. EARLY THIS
MORNING RUSSELL, SALTONSTALL AND SYMINGTON APPROACHED
US TO ASK IF THERE WERE ANY WAY THEY COULD GIVE ANY
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.
END OF MESSAGE
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