'CIA WATCHDOG' BID TO FULBRIGHT MAY HERALD END OF LONG FEUD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200020082-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: January 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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By John A. Goldsmith - , ducted ? in an unusual elmorl
. unuoa I!PCBs roturnntlonnl '
Chairman J. William Ful.
bright (D-Ark.) and two other
Imembers of the Senate For.
eign , Relations Committee
j were Invited yesterday to
closed sessions of the CIA
(Watchdog subcommittee, ap-
1parently ending a long.squab-
j ble over supervision of the
spy agency,
Sen. Richard B. Russell
(D-Ga.), who heads the in-
formal intelligence. group,
.,aid the three foreign policy
.?x.perts are being invited to
a session Monday with Rich.
ardDI. Helms, director of the
.Central Intelligency Agency.
?In addition to Fulbright, - In-
vitations were extended to
! Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper,
Iowa, ? senior Republican on
the Foreign Relations Com
!mittee, and to Senate Demo.
.,cratic_ Leader Mike Mans
field, 112ont.
Enlargement Rejected
Last July, after considerablE
lontroversy, the Senate voted
down a Proposal which would
have enlarged the present
'.Watchdog subcommittee so as
to include Foreign policy
.Committee members. ? The
al-28 'Vote .followed. `a five.
;hguT debate,; most of it con=
session of the Senate.
At that time, members of
the Foreign 'Relations Com-
mittee contended that they
should have a role in over-
seeing intelligence operations
because they involved foreign
p e 11 c Y. Russell called the ex-
pansion proposal an attempt to
"muscle in" on- jurisdiction
of the Appropriations and the
Armed Services Committees.
The six-member CIA group
is drawn from the latter two
committees. .. .
Invitation to All
Russell said the representa
tives of the Foreign Relations
Committee will be Invited to
attend all watchdog subeom,'
mittee sessions-evert' t h o s e,
which deal. primarily with ap-;.
propriattons.:: j;..:.,
"My present purpose is too
invite them to all the mcetJ
ings-at least for this session'
of Congress," Russell said
when asked if the new ar
rangement would be perma.
nent. I
As to the role of the three'
Foreign Relations Committee!
m e m b e r s, Russell said they'
will be allowed full participa-
tion in the Committee sessions.!
The Monday sesssion with
Helms will- provide the sub-,
committee with a full briefing'
on world events Russell sal 1
Including the - intelligence as~
pects of the war in Vietnam,
the turmoil In Red China and,
the Rhodesia, situation.,::.
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