THE PROBE OF THE PROBER

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
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• Publication Date: May 16, 1966
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SENATORS - EYE THE CIA
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By MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer
The Central Intelligence
Agency, the sacred cow of
j executive bureaus, is about to
be fenced in a little on Capitol
Hill.
The CIA has enjoyed almost
complete freedom since its
inception in 1947. Capitol Hill
has been sympathetic to its
plea that if too many people
knew what it is doing, it
would have to stop doing it.
The change in sentiment,
reflected in a Senate Foreign
Relations Committee vote last
week, is due, apparently,
more to CIA's recent hapless
interventions at home than itd
well-publicized misadventure.-
abroad.
Says Sen. Eugene J. Me
Carthy, D-Minn., author of s
resolution to put the agency
under the surveillance of a
new' and larger Senate com-
mittee: . i. I
"A lot of people who weren't
of Pigs are concerned about a been made public.
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rom a disinterested scholar. F
Fulbright is especially Ten years ago, when Sen.
oncerned that the CIA might Mike Mansfield of Montana,
now tse his famous student ex- vainly the majority
a n g e and scholarship proposed a ity a joint leader,
mittee to oversee CIA, he
CIA, he
rogram as a cover. warned of "a trend towards
Foreign Affairs quarterly." confirmation of former Atom
The disclosure that the is Energy Commission Chair
author of "The Faceless Viet man John McCone as directo
Cong," which appears in the 'of the CIA in 1962 on a poin
April issue of the magazine, of academic freedom.
was an employe of the agen-
cy, was 'ill-received by the
liberals and scholars on the ..who was confirmed, ha
Foreign Relations Committee. attempted to bring about th
George A. Carver Jr., the firing of 10 California Institute
writer, was identified in the of Technology professors wh
magazine as "a student of publicly supported A d 1 a
political theory and Asian
affairs, with degrees from Stevenson's 1956 appeal for
Yale and Oxford, a former nuclear test ban.
officer of the Agency for Retired Adm. William F.
International Development in Raborn is now the CIA direr
Saigon' and the author of tor.
'Aesthetics and the Problem The McCarthy resolution
of Meaning.' " which would create a new
McCarthy and committee body includng three member,
Chairman J. William Ful- of Foreign Relations, will
bright, D-Ark., both ex-profes- almost inevitably be viewed
sors, protested at the presen- as yet another confrontation
tation of the administration between the White House an
ine on Viet Nam as coming Ca itol will
The civil liberties communi-
y is exorcised over disclo-
ures that the agency is
evolved in a bizarre case now
n the Baltimore courts. One
Estonian nationalist leader
rho accused another Estonian
ationalist leader of being a
mmunity because he is a
131A agent.
more and more power in the
hands of the executive branch
of the government and less
and less power in the legisla-
ture."
"As time passes," said
Mansfield in 1956, "Conga
will be less of an equai
ommunist has claimed branch and more power will
rest in the hands of the execu-
tive."
"Why is the CIA mixed up Everyone agrees that if that
n Estonian groups?" asks Mc- were true in the Eisenhower
arthy. "If they are infiltrat- administration, It is 10 times
14 h, < as .true in the regime of
McCarthy, an outspoken
pponent of the late Sen.
oseph R. McCarthy of Wis-
onsin, says, "We more or
ss accept the fact that
orality and integrity stop at
e water's edge. But when
ou see the same rule apply-
g at home, it's time to call a
alt."
The CIA also has made a
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