DCI APPEARANCE BEFORE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, 10 OCTOBER 1963

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• Publication Date: October 11, 1963
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11 October 1963
SUBJECT: DCI Appearance Before Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, 10 October 1963
1. Mr. McCone, accompanied by Messrs. Helms, Cline,
Colby, and Houston, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, 10 October 1963. All the members appeared to be in
complete sympathy with the situation of CIA and John Richardson
in the light of the recent newspaper attacks, particularly the
Starnes article, the Freedman article, and some of the accompany-
ing editorials. They expressed understanding of the inability of
the Director to fight back directly and gratification for the Presi-
dent's statement the day before.
2. Since the Committee had already heard testimony from
Secretary McNamara, General Taylor, and Secretary Rusk, their
attitude was pretty well established from the beginning, and most
of the questioning was to make a complete record. Senators
Hickenlooper and Symington particularly were interested in
complete refutation of the Starnes and Freedman articles. Senator
Morse's remarks and questions about congressional checks on CIA
and possible joint committee supervision were in no wise hostile,
and in fact he supported the intelligence function as necessary under
present world circumstances. The Chairman, Senator Fulbright,
raised, as he has in the past, the question of whether the Agency
should perform some of the nonintelligence functions assigned to it,
but this he made clear was not a criticism of the Agency but a
criticism of the decision that the Agency should be given such
assignments. The Committee seemed impressed by the record
of the Agency's intelligence reporting leading up to the military
coups in the Dominican Republic and Honduras. For complete
details the official transcript is available in the Office of Legislative
C ounsel.
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LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
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