SENATOR FULBRIGHT IS RIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
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• Publication Date: May 26, 1966
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""`'A&" iAlly, most newsmen were:
uprised to learn that he 'was
or covertly, in 'recent months or,
years. And certainly all : future
witnesses should be asked ' that
,.question immediately upon being
sworn.
The public ' and' the press is en=
titled to know if `it is hearing test-.
imony from a witness who benefits
from CIA largesse directly, or in-
directly through a University or a
tax-exempt foundation.
That would be very revealing,
Senator. Why don't you just call
back the witnesses you' have had
before your own ' Committee over '
the past , cou'nle off. cream. 'and n k .
That would be a good 'startinjd-
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Senator Fulbrigh-Vis Right
`1''WuuiilYi++eNaiih. , rn,T.r ,{,~aii',_r,?.-' .?.''rrgT
~ 'hat ous-ness of a A o 1C-cer writ- "
ag a ieature articie -n the aprii
ssue of Foreign Affair magazine
ntitled "The Faceless Viet Cong,"
ithout identification of the author
as a full-time CIA employee was im-
roper.
longer physically in the Washington:
offices. ,It isn't recorded that any,
lations Committee questioned how
recently the head of a study group
had been a CIA. official, nor did
anyone even ask if he might still be'
CIA-employed, covertly, as these
things are sometimes done.
We think Senator Fulbright
might pursue his campaign by re-
calling to Washington some of the
witnesses who have testified on our.
foreign policy before. his own Com
mittee' recently, to-, ask ,if they
have received CIA monies, -overtly,
orn's exptanationthat the ma'ga~ ..
} lice solicAte'd-.the art le""irom Ge"o
ge ..A. Carver, Jr., who"had once
erved in Saigon, and that the text . r
IA's bills, :. ,..,..,.r
Ther'e?~Cames to mind a famous
t'lin theirc'lasswork, and.: the long-~'
ollege students'"w o, ?regularly use
? eceiving the public, the newspaper
ditors "who"study?"'i he publication,
he impropriety, for -t means that
he"~CIA knoiylingly.;,,cooperated in
i? ad been cleared by the CIA for
ecurity; +is- nbt' enough: "Asa matter
f fact, that,jevela,tion compounds
ry's Far East policy which the
Jnited States Senate contracted
~. ut to a California group a while,
1, 1
r ack. 'he firm which. did the study
1Nashingtora newsmen? s a CIA !em'-