SENATE PANEL BACKS HELMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100130022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: June 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

JUN 2 4 1966
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ISENATE . PANEL Meamithile, the Senate Coal-
.~~ \tp...m dee, meeting in and
other 'building , . completed hear.
BAOI(S FIEL11S ings cn three other presidential
_ nominations: ;
1. AMC" H. Hyde, 66, a Repuhll
Director-Designate Pledger an and an incumbent on the Fed.,
oral Communications comniittee,l
No, CIA Policy Role he .,__
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2. Nicholas Johnson, 31, former"
73y RODNEY Ctt0yT}E2 Lnrifim ~d?.:a:,.o.,..E.... e.. L
7as~lngton,,,Junb 23 After new member of the commission.
. Lawrence j
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V'
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]Helms as the.agency's director. roblems connected with -broad.
The 53-year-old Helms, who has asting by satellite and develop.
mittee today approved Richard ointees was directed entirely to
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DUF, Jr.4 a
hearing. strong assurances that exas r emocrat, reappointed as
the CIA will devote itself strictly member of the Federal Poweq'
to the business of intelligence and Commission, -
not try to make foreign policy, Questioning Restricted
the Senate Armed Services Com- Questioning of the , .FCC 'a
P ccee m tam C, a of n erved with the commission Since
as head of the' agency., is creation In 1939.'
During a brief ,and friendly in- He told the Commerce Com?
terrogation by the, senators, ittee that direct broadcasting
Helms pledged that he would not rom satellite to home receiving
only keep the ? agency out of poli- et Is technologically possible but
cy-making roles, but also under. 'ould require special recefvers.1
itake,to give, congressional corn- Moreover, satellites would have,
~iiiittees al the information possi- 13 be far more powerful, than:
-ble within the limits'. of presiden- qw, and a multitude of knotty,
eial directives. roblems would be Involved, he,
it 'Frosch Also Supported aid,
I nairman since a, William Henry
Saturday by President Johnson to
d Ad Will' R b esigned earlier this year; has
L iuderd0ek;rI+l deputy;; Senatot Saltonstall (R., Mass.),
lihe president's nomination of Dr. During the Senate committee's{
,Robert A. Frosch, 36, a specialist it:errogation of Helms, he said
tin underwater acoustics and un- iat the CIA's budget Is scruti-I
derseas warfare, to be Assistant ized not only "as carefully as
Secretary of the Navy for reseachi ny budget in Washington," but
and development; and of -.Myron' eobably more so by the Budget
?,R. Blee, 'president of the Junior ureau as well as by Mahon's
College' of Broward Count r-'! Dose committee
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elms whether the CIA;-as some
>" ` ve charged, "makes foreign
f hey abroad.
The CIA has ho' responsibility
hatsoever..
for, government
.
rp llcy," -Helms i'eplled. "To -the
1, st of my, knowledge.: It . has
he ver',attempted,.to make policy,".
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served. a. deputy director of the ant of ultra high frequency sta-