SENATOR FULBRIGHT IS RIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100300027-5
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: May 26, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAY 2 6 1966
Seaator Fu/bright Is Right
Senator Fulbright is. right,;
Thatusiness of a .E ot~ficer writ-
ing a feature articlee April
issue of Foreign Affair magazine
entitled "The Faceless Viet Cong,"
without identification of the author
as a full-time CIA employee was im-
proper.
F;iA_Dixectpr .,}William F. Ra-
born's explanation< that the maga-
zine solicited, the article??from Geo-
rge .. A. Carver, Jr., who had once
served in Saigon, and that the text
had been cleared by the CIA for
security,As n'6t enough:' As a matter
of fact, that revelationcompounds
the impropriety, for it means that
the : CIA knowlingly, cooperated in
deceiving the public, the newspaper
editors who `study the publication,
college students who regularly use
it'in their classwork, and the long-
suffering taxpayer.. who foots the
CIA's bills.
` There comes to mind a famous
and expensive survey of our coun-
try's Far East policy which the
United States Senate contracted
out to a California group a while
back. The firm which did the study
was headed by a man known- to'
Washington newsmen as a CIA em-
ployee.
Bally, most newsmen were
suprised to learn that he was no
longer physically in the Washington
offices. It isn't recorded that any
member of the Senate Foreign Re-
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
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 couple -of years, and ask
them ?
That would be a good starting
place, wouldn't it? .
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