NEW CHAIRMAN OF INTELLIGENCE SUBCOMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000100110035-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: August 3, 1971
• Content Type: PREL

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SUBJECT: NEW CHAIRMAN) OF INTELLIGENCE SUBCOMMITTEE
SOURCE : UPI -034A
DTG : 030304 EDT
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BY: DANIEL.RAPOPORT
WASHINGTON (UPI) --ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE DOVES AND PENTAGON
CRITICS IN THE HOUSE HAS BEEN NAMED CHAIRMAN OF A SUPER-SECRET
SUBCOMMITTEE CHARGED WITH KEEPING TABS ON THE CIA AND OTHER
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES. AND HE WAS APPOINTED TO THE POST BY THE
PRO-MILITARY CHAIRMAN OF THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE.
REP.,LUCIEN NEDZI, D-MICH., SAID ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS
HE IS GOING TO DO'IN HIS NEW JOB IS VISIT'THEHEADQUARTERS OF THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY IN. LANGLEY, VA.
AFTER THAT, SAID NEDZI, HE HOPES TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS ON
S I E ~: AT RING A...
AN EIGHT-YEA 1 6r .: ` P'O1 E COMMITTEE, NEDZI HAS
ATTENDED BRIEFINGS BY CIA DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME.. BUT
HIS NEW POSITION WILL PROVIDE HIM WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAINTAIN
CLOSE AND CONSTANT OVERSIGHT OF THE'. AGENCY.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE NEDZI. IS TAKING OVER. WAS CONSIDERED SO VITAL
BY REP.L. MENDEL RIVERS' D-S.C,, THAT THE LATE CHAIRMAN OF
THE. ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ALWAYS RESERVED THAT, CHAIRMANSHIP
FOR HIMSELF: NOT ONLY DID RIVERS' SUCCESSOR, REP. F. EDWARD
HEBERT D-LA.., PASS UP THE POST, BUT HE EXPANDED ITS JURISDICTION.
"THE SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE IS DIRECTED TO MAKE
PERIODIC INQUIRIES INTO ALL PHASES OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES WITHIN
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND WITHIN THE AGENCIES ESTABLISHED
UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT AND TO MAKE LEGISLATIVE.
NZCOMMENDATIONS WHEN APPROPRIATi," HEBERT WROTE NEDZI IN A JULY
27TH LETTER OFFICIALLY DESIGNATING HIM CHAIRMAN.
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"SIDES THE CIA NEDZI WILL HAVE JURISDICTION OVER THE
DEFENSE INTELLIGEM E AGENCY AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY,
TWO HUSH-HUSH BRANCHES OF THE PENTAGON.
NEDZI SAID IN-AN INTERVIEW HEBERT HAD PLACED "NO
RESTRICTIONS QF ANY SORT" ON HIM, THOUGH HE ADDED IT REMAINED TO
BE SEEN WHAT THE FUTURE WOULD HOLD. ONE OF HIS GOALS, SAID NEDZI,
WOULD BE AN EFFORT "TO RECONCILE THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOW WITH
THE NATIONAL SECURITY."
DESPITE NEDZI'S CRITICISM OF THE. MILITARY AND? ADMINISTRATION
VIETNAM; POLICY, THE CIA MAY BE IN FOR A BETTER RECEPTION THAN
IT WOULD_IMAGINE. APPARENTLY ITS DIRECTOR, RICHARD HELMS,
SCORES' HIGH WITH THE MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT.
"I HAVE BEEN TREMENDOUSLY IMPRESSED WITH MR. HELMS FROM THE
FEW OCCASIONS HE HAS APPEARED BEFORE THE ARMED SERVICES
COMMITTEE " SAID NEDZI.
WHYDIl HEBERT PICK HIM?
"BECAUSE HE'S A GOOD MAN, SAID THE LOUISIANA DEMOCRAT WHEN
YME'QUESTION WAS ASKED. "EVEN THOUGH WE'RE OPPOSED PHILOSOPHICALLY,"
i DRT SAID, HE HAS COME TO RESPECT AEDZI'S ABILITY IN PRESSING
NIS CASE,
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