EX-SPY FACES FULBRIGHT CALL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000200010053-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: February 8, 1958
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M TO N`I - DOUBT
By THOMAS B. ROSS
(C) 1968, Denver Post-Chicago Sun-Times
WASHINGTON - Senate
Foreign Relations COMMI e
new ead-
ministration, may soon cross-
examine the nation's chief elec-
tronic spy .at the time of the
Gulf of Tonkin incident.
It was learned that Sen. J.
William Fulbright, D-Ark., com-
mittee chairman, is considering
taking testimony from Eugene
G. Fubini, who was responsible
for the electronic intelligence
operations of the National Se-
curity Agency (NSA) from 1963
to 1965.
Fulbright apparently, believes
the testimony will challenge
the principal basis of the ad-
ministration's case.
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara told the committee
last. week that the administra-
tion had "incontrovertible evi-
dence . . . intelligence reports
of a highly classified and un-
impeachable nature" that the
North Vietnamese attacked U.S.
destroyers in the Gulf of Ton-
kin Aug. 4, 1964.
The reports were considered
so sensitive that President
Johnson is understood to have
given McNamara written in-
structions not to reveal them
to the committee staff investi-
gating the incident.
However, the censored trans-
cript of McNamara's testimony
made it clear that the reports
were based on intercepted mes-
sages between North Vietna-.
mese military units.
NETWORK MAINTAINED
The National Security Agen-
cy, which is under the jurisdic-
tion of the Defense Depart-
ment, maintains a worldwide
network to gather such mes-
sages electronically.
Fubinf;'' now a vice president
of International Business Ma-
chines, supervised NSA for
McNamara while serving as
deputy director of defense re-
search and engineering. He
was supposed to have full ac-
cess to all NSA's intelligence.
Fulbright and other commit-
tee members have challenged
whether the Aug. 4 attack, the
second of two incidents in the
Gulf of Tonkin, actually took
place or if it did whether it
I was unprovoked and sufficient
ground for retaliatory air
1 strikes.
BOMBINGS FOLLOWED
-The President started the
bombing of North Vietnam Aug.
5 and cited the Aug. 4 incident'
in securing. congressional ap-
proval of the Gulf of Tonkin
resolution,. which gave him , a
free hand to escalate the war.
Fulbright has called for a
complete review of the Viet-
nam situation, contending Con.
gress was misled by admini-
stration testimony at the time
of the incident.
The senator reportedly in-
tends to see whether the ad-
ministration sends more U. S.
troops to Vietnam and other-
wise intensifies the war before
deciding whether to continue
the Tonkin investigation.
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