SENATE WILL TRY AGAIN ON CIA RESOLUTION

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JIOill the office of
Senator HARRISON A. WILLIAMS Jr.
352 OLD SENATE OFFICE BUILDING - WASHINGTON 25, D. C. ? CAPITOL 4.3121 EXT. 4744
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SENATE WILL MY AGAIN
ON CIA RESOLUTION
Washington, July 15--U. S. Senator Harrison A, Williams, Jr., (D-NJ) sari today
that there will be another attempt, this year, to give the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee a_role in supervising the operations of the Central IntelligeaceAgency.
Senator Williams said: "We will certainly give the Armed Services ~e i it`ra time
to report out the resolution which was referred to it yesterday.
"But, if it gets late in the session and there is no indication that it is goir_G
to be brought out, we will attempt to use other parliamentary method: to obtain a vote
of the full Senate on the resolution."
Senator Williams said he has conferred with some of the supporters of the resolution
and they seem determined not to let it din without a vote on its substance.
Yesterday's 61-Z"v vote to refer the resolution to the Armed Services Coani ttee was
on procedure, rather than substance. The resolution would have created a nine-member
Senate Committee to oversee the operations of the CIS. Its effect would have been to
add three members of the Foreign Relations Committee to the existing committe,', made up
of members of the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees.
Senator Williams said today: "The Central Intelligence Agency has, in fact, made
foreign policy. In some cases"it has been good foreign policy. In some casei. for
instance, the Bay of Pigs, it has been disastrously bad.
"But, whether it is good or bad, by the very nature of its operations the CIA some-
times makes foreign policy. And it is the duty of the Senate Foreign Relaticns Committee
to be informed of and to guide this process."
Senator Williams added: "The CIA makes me--and others--uneasy chiefly for one
reason. The Agency has two functions: intelligence and operations.
"Properly, the operations should be t ilored to the intelligence. in f z.:, there
has been strong reason to suspect, in a nl? Baer of instances, that the +t:ell: rice hos
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