CIA PLIES WAR CRITICS WITH 'CLIPS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200240024-2
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: October 14, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA Plies
War Critics
With `clips
By George C. Wilson.
Washington Post Staff writer
Lawmakers speaking out
against the Administration's
Vietnam policies these days
often get ,back more press
clippings than they bargained
for, thanks to the Central In-
telligence Agency.
Sen. Clifford P. Case (R:
N.J.), for example, shortly af-
ter criticizing the Johnson Ad-
ministration's conduct of the
war, received a batch of tele-
type copy from the CIA. show-
ing how much hay the Com-
munist press made out of his
remarks.
The CIA runs what a spokes--
man there called a "`courtesy
clipping service,; not .a lobby-
ing operation" q,. tp keep law-.
makers posted' on , wiat the
_';.say?;,sabol;
Communist, Prep,
them.
The teletype transcripts arC,
accompanied by coveri>ig notes
saying the CIA., elieved'. the
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CIA `Clip Service` Goes
To War Critics on Hill
iot recall getting any CIA
,ogles of whatever the Com.
munists might have said about
its opposition to bombing
North Vietnam:
"I've had this position for-
ever," he said of his bombing
stand. He added that repriats
of foreign radio broadcasts
tive liaison officers decide on
their own who ; should. get it.
A member of Case's staff,
when queried,; .could not re,
translation "might be of in-
terest.".
A CIA spokesman said there
are no specific rule's for .thiss
service of several,. years stand.
ing, adding that some lawniak-
ers request it' while in' oth-
er cases the agency's iegisla-
Checks of the .offices Ofate's hawkiest - assailed his
series of speeches challenging direct talks with him?,,
Vietnam war policy. Stennis-a m o n g the Sen
tions or receiving them before would not change it, as the
the Senator made his recent Administration well knows
that they also have received
the CIA service.
But so have. such props
vents of heavier` bombing of
North Vietnam: as Sens. Stuart
Symington (D-Mo.)', and John
Stennis (D-Miss.).,
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eb llest,
One of the Senate's
doves, Sen. John -Sherman
Cooper (R-Icy.),. said he could
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largely on the Senate floor,
unfortunately, is definitely an
aid and encouragement to the
enemy . They'll hold out
all the longer and fight all
the harder."
Stennis's remarks come atop
attacks on war policy dissent
by President Johnson, Viet-
namcommander Gen. William
C. Westmoreland and-most
recently-Secretary of State
Dean Rusk.
In light of this, some law.
makers suspect there is more
than Just courtesy in the CIA's
special clipping service.
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