SEEK CLOSER CHECK ON CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65B00383R000400340003-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 2, 1998
• Content Type: NSPR

Check on CIA
for closer congressional supervision over the Central.
Chicago Daily News Service
WASHINGTON-The Cuban fiasco has produced
Cuban Fiasco Brings Demand
For Joint Congress Committee
BY DON OBERDORF R AND DAVID KRASLOW
Agency.
Son. Eugene McCarthy (D-
Minn.) said he is reintroducing
his resolution calling for a joint
congressional watchdog corn-
mitfee over the CIA.
If there was a policy deci-
sion to overthrow the Cuban
go'VilMment, Congress had a
constitutional and m o r a l re-
sponsibjlfty to be informed,"
McCarthy said.
OTHER KEY members of
Congress also indicated concern
over whether the CIA is a
"riderless horse." '
But Congressional lead-
ers said they would -hold
their fire until the flurry
over Cuba subsides.
"The time is too serious to
engage in diversionary tactics
of this sort," said Senate Dem-
cratic leader Mike Mansfield
of Montana.
S e n ate Republican leader
Everett DirkNen of Illinois
agreed.
.1 HERE WERE indications
on both sides of Capitol Hill,
,however, that the question of
congressional control over CIA
will be exanpincd later.
"Ttb"re is not e n o u g h
screening of the activities
and the expenditures of the
CIA by the elected- repre-
sentadves of the people,"
said Rep. R a b e r t Sikes
(D-Fl.), a veteran member
of the House Appropria-
tions committee.
demands
Intelligence
establishing a joint committee
to oversee the CIA. It pointed
out that a similar joint commit-
tee supervises the secret Atomic
Energy Commission.
McCarthy, Mansfkld,
Sikes and others sought to
establish such a cmnm)ttee
but ran Into opposition
from the Eisenhower ad-
ministration and the CIA
Itself.
Mansfield's resolution was
defeated 27 to 59 in the Senate
on April 11, 1956. Eight of the
co-sponsors of the resolution
switched aides and voted against
i t.
Among the sponsors was Sen.
John F. Kennedy. The. future
president stuck with the plan on
the vote.
s ? ?
A TOTAL of 22 members of l
Congress on four sect sub-
committees now sham the re-
sponsibility for auditing CIA
activities.
Last year, according to CIA
officials, the ageicy.appeared a
total of four times before these
various groups to inform them
formally of CIA activities. This
year to far there have been five
such appearancea.
In addition, agency officials
appeared 14-other times before
other congrenlonal units last
year, principally the Foreign
Relations conunittee , accordin
to the CIA.
Some sources have laid the
otdminist ation's embarrassment
over failure of the anti-Custro J
expedition to faulty intelligence
work by the CIA.
THE HOOVER C:ommissionl
in 1955 recommended after u
study that Congress consider'
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