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CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD - SENATE Ma? 16,' 1966
assistance, and Congress must maintain NATO members know whether we will re and to what their checltin};_committee
close surveillance over it. use and interpret the North Atlantic n
To get the ugly reality oat on the floor
I am not optimistic that even if he Treaty the same way?
wanted to the President could make a The trouble with us is we do not like of the Senate-for I think At is here, and
political settlement in Vietnam. I feel, to look at ourselves. The trouble with I think some of the facts )his afternoon
that the military and even'foreign policy us is that we think our Narcissus image skirted on the edges of it-? hose who are
agencies of our Government are so com- that we have painted for ourselves is ac- on the "in" with the CIA do not want the
mitted to a military solution in Vietnam cepted by millions of people elsewhere in Committee on Foreign Relations or
that, in the President's word the other the world. The trouble with Americans representatives of that committee to
night at the political banquet, they will these days is that we do not recognize have any checking voice in connection
presevere in Vietnam without a. local the fact that we are bitterly hated by with the affairs of the CL-i. My conclu-
government, if necessary, or by imposing millions of people in many places of the sion is that they run a pret+,y good chance
one on the people if possible. They will world, for they see all the difference be- that members of the Com nittee on For-
persevere until the north and south are tween our verbal statements and our eign Relations would not agree with
devastated; they will persevere until we actions, and condemn us for a growing many of the things That the CIA is doing
are involved irretrievably in a war with hyMr. President, would that my con- inI the field of yield to nooxon:nin poh rrry high regard
China. science and my convictions did not die- for the Senator from Georgia [Mr. Rus-
is deeply regret that President Johnson
is not interested in persevering with the tote that I must warn the American BELL], but I completely diaa?ree with his late
v the
e CIA.
position
for you to
Senator United Nations. I persevering that is not people: the check that the Constitut on from Georgia,hwhen he sA+ys that the CIA
ived that Inat he is not phe is not with seeking his to pper- gives you to stop this trend away from really did not determine foreign policy
offensive, einterested
sff
severe in obtaining a ceasefire and in ob- b- democracy in America and bring your in connection with the ~'&Y of Pigs, is
taining the help of the U.N. In policing it; Government back within the framework grossly mistaken. The act that John
Fitzgerald Kennedy late - assumed full
that he goes to Honolulu instead of the of _constitutional ndes oL a COMMITTEE responsibility for that fiasco does not
plea to session of them the calling United for a Nations cease- to fire makeorder r All one need do to learn about the dan- 'change the fact that the CIA misled him.
CIA both formulated and executed a for-
in Vietnam, with a pledge that we will gar is to read the RECORD made earlier sign policy at the Bay of Pigs and it
cooperate in carrying it out if the mem- this afternoon on the floor of the Senate continues doing se Bay Iconnte it
bers that are pledged by their signatures in regard to the CIA. It is hard to be- the executive seda--. I5 in degard
of e 'Cand I and
to the charter will likewise give assurance have that it would be seriously proposed t the executive session
.~ CIA, I that I say
that they will join in enforcing such a in the Senate that a small group of sen- to the Senate this of
cease-fire. I regret these things because for citizens should have a monopolistic to thesatisfied a enuo that am
ru the e"er would ha
ve
we have reached the stage in Vietnam right to have access to information deal- perfectly
where American disengagement on al- ing with the operation of a police state occurred the except pt for for the CIA_ The John Presi-
Fitz st any terms would be preferable to institution that has been allowed to grow dent Kennedy, United
never at es, h been
mo
abe, I
further sacrifice of American life for up in the body politic of this Republic, misled except for the Co11. have
nothing. for the CIA is a police institution that hold the CIA more resp? n::ible than the
Finally, on Saturday I took part in a has no place in democracy except under Joint Chiefs of Staff, alt=mugh they also
foreign policy forum sponsored by careful surveillance of our check-and- misled the President.
Ken-
is thaPresident Ken-
Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. balance system.
Five local colleges joined in that forum, As I listened to the Senator from Mas- The racy came sad o thing re ,; that+ it and told -
in which Senator STENNrS and I were sachusetts [Mr. SALTONSTALL] seek to nedyideame number z us so, told ha
the speakers and the discussion was justify the type relationship that exists made a great miter when they sole
moderated by Max Frankel of the New between the CIA and the select few in made a bill of goods e e shhey not thp-t tie
York Times. I ask unanimous consent this body who can have access to some honsult Congress.
Imagino what would l aye happened if
that at the conclusion of my statement information of the CIA, I knew that my c
mY prepared remarks be printed in the case was proved. John Fitzgerald Kennedy had come back
RECORD followed by an article by Jean By what right-and I speak respect- to the Foreign Re~enned Committee and ion Lacouture from the May 12 New York fully of him-does the Senator from to thsed Foreign of the r: Commendations appri it ,,
Review of Books entitled: "Vietnam: Massachusetts think the American people being made for the Base of Pigs. Why,
The Turning Point," and various com- are protected because he has his meet- Mr. President, of one t. lug you can be
, t overwhelm-
he
munications I have received on this sub- lugs in various forums-and I think the
ject. record will show in his home and oth- ce cerrtain maja and nd that is the ttea t
at n Relations
The PRESIDING OFFICER. With- ere-with McCone or Allen Dulles or CIn of ommittee would have advised against
out objection, it is so ordered. Raborn? What kind of check is that on it, as the chairman of the committee did
(See exhibits 2, 3, and 4.) the CIA? when he was apprise:ai of it at the
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I am Of course, I have voted hundreds of eleventh hour, under a strict doctrine of
having inserted in the RECORD the state- millions of dollars for a spy system; but I pmerit that I made at Allentown, Pa., on have not voted for a spy system free from privilege.
v course, it is to t t 'e great historic
edit u e, ti i.i t e great that he
Saturday, because, interestingly enough, the check of the elected representatives co
it will contain an answer to the point of of the American people and of Congress. credit assumed the responsibility. side l eBut I have
say now,
view expressed by my good friend, the In my judgment, the security of no coun- been y fin, and But
Senator from Ohio [Mr. LAVSCHE] in re- try, in my judgment, is such that it is been heard rd to say nt about w, '
gard to our relationship with France, necessary to engage in that kind of po- Irrespective that the wrongdoers abo were
also setting forth my views in re- lice-state system. the and the the Chiefs Staff.
gard to the NATO crisis. So I join with the Senator from Ar- of Pigs Is one example of St St to
i wonder how many Americans, if kansas [Mr. FULBRIGHT], the Senator The which I Bay wish to invite Is the example to
they were Frenchmen, would be voting from Tennessee [Mr. GORE], the Senator the American to people inv e> ::upatt ti part
to leave thousands and thousands of from Minnesota [Mr. McCARTnY], and the American
fear of the grog :r:u power of the
American troops on French soil, in view other Senators when I say that the CIA Aof my merican military, rov l ;g p the C of t e
of the military record we are making should be checked, and that the Com- the formulation i :lu ding to foreign
elsewhere in the world. - mittee on Foreign Relations should have of ~
Why are we so surprised that there is the representation of a watchdog com- PoOfy course, CIA is a foreign policy
a growing concern and fear of American mittee to check it.
military power in France? We inter- Let me also say that_I do not acre t agency. whettie @it is. s Davis d ant ie
check us is
pret SEATO, of which France is a mem- thema or in.er~ se t`h-al te e ec o here. 11 ii! ter, entirely to suit ourselves and without 715 s of mrtuni an o eo i at Whetiher issue
the congres al issue
a~ee~nr ex
regard to ws o m~neadg~ is' of the ate y n to the Armed
other paA9PW nlZ%Ax a8W2 t -o =.0ft6VV 0 `9-e} only
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May 16, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 10175
Services and Appropriations committees, we have no business in Vietnam, that- been, as I have said previo is'Y, on the
but not to the Foreign Relations Com- nothing whatever justifies our being floor of the Senate and el=,where, one
mittee, when its activities In fact have as there militarily, that the American peo- of my teachers in the flei of foreign
much to do with foreign affairs as with ple have been constantly misled and mis- policy.
military affairs. informed, and that they are being led I am willing to stand shoul e- to shoul-
I know that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, down an ever-deepening pit to disaster. der with him as history juc_ es the his-
prior to his death, expressed the view No one has said these things more ef- toric debate of the last few years in re-
that he was also concerned about fectively, more frequently, and more gard to this subject.
whether he was being sucked into-and courageously than the Senator from RFIIDIT
that was his language-sucked into an- Oregon. It is my hope that the Ameri- ,[From the Washington (D.C.) Daily News,
other Bay of Pigs in Vietnam. That is can people, when they get the facts May 16,19661
why he sent his Ambassador to India, which have been so long concealed from CIVIL STRIFE DEEPENS AFT.R DA i:ANG SEIZURE:
Mr. Galbraith, to Vietnam to make a them, will rise in their wrath and KY's FORCES ALERTED FOR arrAcx FROM
study and to report to him. mobilize public opinion to do something , HUE
There is no doubt about the advice about it, and stop this utterly unjustified, DA NANG, May 16 (UPI)-F roes loyal to
that the Ambassador gave, and that the illegal, and immoral war. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky which .aized control
Ambasador in his findings supported the It is utterly inexcusable that we should of Da Nang yesterday with -whine guns,
position that I was taking at that time, be drafting American boys and sending tanks and fighter planes were carted today
the same position President Kennedy was them to be slaughtered in Vietnam, and for possible attack by antigovo. cement troops
from Hue.
tilting before his death. I had expressed to kill people against whom they have There was no immediate ir, _iication that
to him, before his death, my great con- no grievance whatsoever, against whom troops of the First Vietn:smese 1'iyision, com-
cern for the course of action he was for- we have no grievance as a Nation, whose manded by Gen. Phan Xuan Rhuan, had
.lowing in Vietnam because, as I said to actions do not in any way jeopardize the started an advance from Hue toward Da
the President, "What concerns me is the security of the United States. Nang, 60 miles to the southwe
military advisers being only a step away We, the United States, while charging At latest reports, a regin-rt of Gen.
from ground troops." Although the aggression to others, are actually the Nhuan's men was digging defer rre positions
President said it was not his intention, aggressor. We are the nation that went on the outskirts of Hue,
An appeal issued in the a:e:nes of Gen.
nevertheless, it was perfectly obvious halfway around the world to barge Into Nhuan and Maj. Gen. Hoeng Xuun Lam, com-
that that is what would happen unless a civil war between Vietnamese. We mander of the second Diviai ,n. called on
the President stopped the course of ac- were the outsider. We were the intruder. soldiers and civilians to -rise u,- and fight."
tion he was following. We are the aggressor. And we violated Buddhist leaders in saigol, meanwhile,
No one knows what he would have solemn treaty commitments in the proc- summoned antigovernment e cements to a
done had he lived, but I am satisfied that ess. mass meeting tonight which Could lead to a
the Galbraith report shook him. I. am Mr. MORSE. I completely agree with showdown with Premier Toy's gwwernment.
The Buddhists had declare', earlier that
also satisfied that, had the President the Senator from Alaska. Let me make Gen. Ky's attack in Da Nang hies brought the
lived, we would not be escalating the this closing comment about him. It has nation to the brink of "unai e?kiable" civil
war in Vietnam today. That war would been more than 2 years that the Senator war.
have been either settled on honorable and I stood together in the Senate on this Militant Buddhist youth leader Thich
`terms, or we would be out. question, most of the time almost alone. Thien Minh called the mass r.'-ay to tell the
Thus, as I -close my speech, this will This year we have been getting some people of the government, "betrayal."
be the first time I have ever said this, support-not many votes yet, but It is Buddhist youths urged monk to let them
because it is the first time that I have encouraging-at least receiving public stage eraab~orch-light parade thy; vie streets.
recognition from men who are expressing police and ai crag: paratrooper
come to this conclusion: If the United battalion were standing by in c ,s ? of trouble
Natons continues to refuse to live up grave doubts as to the soundness of pre- The mass rally could bee