UN - AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100140018-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 1, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Mr ASHLEY -Mr. Speaker, I ant con-
strained to vote AKniiist this resolution
prdridirs for Additional funds fbr opera-
tion of the house Committee on On-
American Activities. r do no not be-
cause I question the purposes for which
the committee was established, but be-
cause I am drawn to the conclusion that
it freyuent,ly has exceeded its proper
scope of Authority, thereby trespustitnR
upon fundarner.ta: rights of individual
citiserts. And bveause I believe the com-
mitto.?e's legitintste business requires no
addittonal funds at this time.
All of us are keenly aware that the
forces of eorntnunsm are gnswtrvingly
dedicated to thr destruction of this and
otiirr free 'nstions. In the. 2 years I
spent with Radio Free Europe, I gained
-a firsthand t'-nuwirdce of the tactics
a :. c; to sulic't i Y' ' i rid czechosloyakia.
1-l inrary, avid of iici c.nt.ral European
countries. Nothu.q could be more clear ?
than our responsibility to be vigilant and
to expose the Comtnuinst conspiracy
.t?hich openly is pled.. d to our downfall.
But surely we air aware, too, that
cornniutlism is not the only threat cr our
liberty. The individual freedoms Kuat=
unteed in the hill -,t 1?i.?hts cap be lost
or diluted throat h our, own actibn or
inaction, and if this. is allowed to happen
by our own hand, the loss of liberty is
no less than 'if in?T sed by an alit a
adversary. - ,
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