DCI BRIEFING OF CIA SUBCOMMITTEES OF SENATE APPROPRIATIONS AND SENATE ARMED SERVICES - 21 FEBRUARY 1969

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• Publication Date: February 26, 1969
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: DCI Briefing of CIA Subcommittees of Senate Appropriations
and Senate Armed Services - 21 February 1969
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1. On 21 February 1969, the Director appeared before a joint session
of the CIA Subcommittees of the Senate Appropriations and Armed Services
sweep of the room, 212 Old Senate Office Building, was conducted and the
1 1. Discussions included
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transcript was made.
2. Subcommittee members present (in some cases not for the full
briefing) were:
Senator Richard B. Russell (D., Ga. ), Chairman
Senator John Stennis (D. , Miss. )
Senator Stuart Symington (D. , Mo. )
Senator John L. McClellan (D. , Ark. )
Senator Allen J. Ellender (D., La.)
Senator Milton R. Young (R. , N. Dak.)
Senator Karl Mundt (R., S. Dak. )
3. Invitees from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee :present
Senator J. W. Fulbright (D., Ark.)
Senator George D. Aiken (R. , Vt. )
4. Committee staff members present were:
Mr. T. Edward Braswell, Chief of Staff, Senate Armed
Services Committee
Mr. William Woodruff, Assistant Chief Clerk, Senate
Appropriations Committee
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5. Accompanying the Director ire:
Mr. Carl Duckett, Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Mr. Bruce Clarke, Director of Strategic Research
Chief, Presentations Staff, OCI
Mr. John M. Maury, Legislative Counsel
6. Senator Stennis opened by noting that Senators Peter Dominick and
George Murphy, new members of his Subcommittee, were out of town. He
said that a "loose" liaison between the two CIA Subcommittees was planned
and that, at least for the time being, they would meet jointly under Senator
Russell's chairmanship.
7. Senator Russell commented that "CIA gets a lot of blame even
for the Pueblo which was on an NSA operation" and he therefore thought that
in the "interest of obscurity" it might be better for the two Subcommittees to
work separately, but Senator Stennis had disagreed and therefore joint sessions
had been decided upon.
8. Senator Stennis commented that from time to time the CIA Armed
Services Subcommittee might meet separately but in general he thought the
joint meetings preferable.
9. The Director's briefing which ensued was based on portions of
the attached text covering Soviet strategic force options, ChiCom advanced
weapons, the Middle East, Arab terrorism, Berlin and Peru.
10. Significant questions and answers thereto were very roughly as
follows:
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Symington:
Symington:
Symington:
Director:
Symington:
Chairman:
How about the cultural revolution and Mao's position?
Mao is still in control. Apparently the Red Guards got out
of hand in doing what he originally wanted them to do and
now he is trying to slow them down.
If, as a result of the death of some of the leaders in Peiping
or Moscow, the Soviets and the ChiComs should be able to
get together, wouldn't it be hard for us to maintain our
number one position?
I had not thought of it just this way but certainly the
combination of Chinese manpower and resources and Soviet
technology would be formidable.
Therefore, wouldn't it be in our interest to limit the spread
of nuclear weapons ?
Certainly the less people who have them the better off the
world would be.
So are you in favor of the NPT ?
I am afraid this is a policy question.
But the President is for it and you work for him.
But he doesn't have to agree with him,
Fulbright: (to the Director) You said the right thing.
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13. Shortly after the briefing Carl Marcy, Staff Director of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, called to say Senator Fulbright had been so
impressed with the Director's "objectivity" that he hoped the Director would
appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week. Mr. Marcy
commented that Senator Fulbright had found the Director's briefing far more
useful than what he had been hearing from other agencies.
JOHN M. MAURY
egislative Counsel
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