DRURY SEES POSSIBILITY OF SETBACK FOR MCCARTHY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000401370026-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: July 14, 1953
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WATERLOO (Ia.) COURIER
' Circ.: e. 48,708
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Date: J U. L_ 141955 _
The Central Intelligence Agr is one of . the- weirdest
conglomerations of people ever charged with the security of a
Drury Sees Poslaty
great naL ii' and it badly needs investigation, but instead of
r approacl4ng the :natter soberly the Senator from Wiscons! has
of Setback for cvart lyehosen sensationalism and the ,resulting wave of opposition is going
to,, make it very' difficult to give CIA the sha-king-up it so
By ALLEN DRLRy desperately. needs: '
Courier tVnghlnaton Correspondent With all these negative accomplishments to his credit, it is
"I'm not planning to take it anywhere," said Arkansas' Johnsometimes a little puzzling to come up against the sort of all-
McClellan bluntly when somebody asked him where he planned forgiving, all-embracing hero worship which the Senator seems
he cottntry.
to take the issue which brought his resignation from Joe McCarthy'sto arouse in some areas of the'
investigating subcommittee; yet for the first time it appears there '
may be a situation developing which could result in some restraints
on the free-swinging Wisconsin Republican.
Confronted by the sudden resignation of his staff director, J.
B. Matthews, after that worthy said 7,000 members
of the Protestant clergy were aiding the Com-
munist apparatus, McCarthy at once followed his
familiar diversionary practice by launching two
new campaigns, one directed against the Central
InteI1iaE,,c ency and the other against Dr.
Robert Johnson, the outgoing head of the State
Department information program.
This did not, however, confuse his colleagues,
,whatever effect it may have been designed to
have in the headlines. The chairman's right to
hire and fire staff members at will became an
issue, which was upheld by his Republican
colleagues; and McClellan, along' with Stuart Allen Drury
.Symington of Missouri and Henry Jackson of Washington, left the
subcommittee.
Ike Enters Row.
Overshadowing that was the attack on' the clergy which
finally drew the President into the controversy ; 'and the end of
,that is not in sight either. Although the Senator from Wisconsin
is mighty fast on his feet, he may have gone too far in both.
matters.
become a major Democratic issue.in the next elections.
particularly if the subcommittee attempts, to- continue investigating'
the slighte4o pretense of objectively and fairne$s-ample ammuni-
tion will be at hand. And since all three of the resigrling commit-
tee members are men of stature and substance, the ammunition
Real Tragedy. . '
In all the" hullabaloo, the real tragedy of the situation is once
again being emphasized. There were Communists in government,
but instead of approaching the matter soberly, the Senator from
Wisconsin chose sensationalism and the resulting wave of opposi-
the overseas libraries, but instead of approaching the matter
soberly, the Senator from Wisconsin chose sensationalism and the
resulting wave of opposition to "book-burning" made the job,twice
as difficult.
There are undoubtedly- some members of 'the clergy who
are or have been allied with the Communist`. Ideology, but
Instead of approaching the matter soberly, the. Senator from
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP74-00297R000401370026-2